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Methodist Union Forms After Voted Merger Plan
Kansas City May 11 Nine hundred delegates from three Methodist branches approved union to form a single church with nearly eight million members. The plan preserves branch names, creates six jurisdictions plus a Negro-church group, elects new bishops, harmonizes disciplines, and sets a general conference for next April. The Laymen’s Organization for Preservation of the Southern Methodist Church threatened legal action in several states.
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Kansas City
Methodist Church
John M. Moore
Dallas
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Methodist Protestant Church
Uniting Conference
South Church
Laymen’s Organization For
Southern Methodist Church
Atlanta
Suth Carolina
Georgia
Mississippi
Tennessee
Missions Board
Church “Supreme Court