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Methodist Controversy Over Bishop Election

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 17, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 25.

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Methodist Controversy Over Bishop Election

The Methodists have been tremendously stirred over the refusal of the General Conference to elect Dr. Goodell, of New York, bishop, because he divorced his first wife. The story is that he did it for just and proper reasons. He is pastor of one of the very largest churches, is said to be a successful man; but politics ran high, rival candidates seemed, according to reports, to do all they could to disparage Mr. Goodell, and the result was that he was defeated. One of the first things that his congregation did was to pass a resolution of sympathy for him, and censure of the General Conference.