Evening star., 1926-05-11
ME- B|SHOPSPLAN
GREATER SERVICE
World Program Expansion Is
Voted at Closing Session
of Conference.

Plans for an extension of the world
service program OF the Methools-
Episcopal Church throughout its for
eign apd home fields were adopted by
the Board of Bishops of the church
this afternoon in the final meeting o.
its Semi-annual conference.
The program includes a guard
against any notification of the Vol
stead act or prohibition enforcement.
extensive campaigns of education
among colleges and universities, the
making more positively Christian the
MEMBERSHIP in this and foreign ma
tionS and development OF native lead
ership in mission fields.
The program was placed in the
hands Of a world service commission.
to which three Methodist bishops OF
the United States and four from
foreign fields were appointed. The
bishops named to the commission are:
Bishop Lauress j. Birney of China.
Bishop Edgar Blake of Paris, Bishop
George A. Miller Of Mexico, Bisb1p
Frederick B. Fisher of India. Bishop
Edwin Holt Hughes of Detroit.
Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Detroit.
who is president of the Anti-Saloon
League, and Bishop Thomas Hender-
son Of Cincinnati.
Has $4,000, 900 Fund.
This commission has at its disposal
about $s,000,000 for use in carrying
out it's program. II was stated today
by a representative of the commission.
II is hoped by those connected with
the commission, however, that this
amount may be increased.
A number of resolutions affecting
the general policies OF the church also
were under consideration today. The
Il Ii Ivnnw oNf
ture consideration OF the matter, not
TO take any official action In the case
of Bishop Anton Bast OF Copenhagen.
Denmark, who is under a sentence OF
three months for an alleged misrep'
resentation made in his church paper,
the Lighthouse, through which he col
lected funds for charitable purposes.
Bishop Bast last week was granted
a stay of sentence pending a ruling OF
an appeal he has made for a new
trial in the Copenhagen civil court
Fearing that any action by the board
Of bishops might prejudice his oppor-
tunity for complete generation. the
bishops decided against any formal
action.
Gratitude Voiced.
A number of resolutions of thanks
for their entertainment in Washing
ION, III NllCH blSiiOp W imam ~A'
Doweu was lauded in eloquent terms,
were adopted today. President and
Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Mcdowell, DR..
Frederick Brown Harris. pastor OF the
Foundry Methodist Church, where the
board held its meetings; the Metho-
dist Social Union of Washington,
which gave the visiting prelates a
banquet; members of the Metropolitan
NJ. +. Church, who took the bishops
sightseeing: the press and other as
sisting bodies were named in the reso-
lutionS.
The board of bishops this morning
adopted the assignment OF bishops OF
the Methodist Church throughout the
world to annual conferences which
will be held next Fan and Winter. As
signments for the annual conferences
TO be held next Spring. including that
OF the Baltimore conference, of which
Washington is a part, will be made a.
the next meeting of the board.
Bishop Mcdowell of Washington
will preside over the Des Moines con
ference on September % at Perry,
Iowa, and over the Northwest Iowa
conference September 20, at Sioux
City, Iowa.