Bishop W. N. Ainsworth to Superintend Church Activities in Far East Among the distingu: shed passene gers aboard the str. President Grant_ when' this vessel arrived from Kobe, Saturday morning, was Bishop William N. Ainsworth Atlanta, Ga. He comes to superintend the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Souta, in China, Korea and Japan. Bishop Ains-worth is accompanied by Mrs, Ainsworth, and they are at present the guests of Dr, and Mrs, Ino, W, Cline, 9 Young Allen Court. Bishop Ainsworth will preside over the sessions of the China Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which conference is to convene on' November 10 at St. Johns Church, Soochow.
Bishop Airfsworth is a native' of Georgia where, before his lection to the Episcopacy, he held -with marked distinction and success, pastorates in Macon and Savannah, He graduated from Emory Univ sity in 1801 and until his elevation to the Episcopacy in 1918, he was continuously in the pastorate with the exception of a period of three years, during which he held the Presidency of Wesleyan College, the oldest college for women in' the world, at Macon, Ga. While in this position he raised $300,000 for this institution, Bishop Ainsworth has represented his church at many missionary and church conferences. He was a delegate to the Missionary Conference in New York in, 1901, and also at the World's Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1911, He also represented his church the Ecumenical Conference in London in 1921, He was also a member-of the Onssinfeation Conference the American Federation Churches in 1905 which was the parent body of the present Federal Councit of Churches of Christ in America. He was at Stockholm last summer at the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work and is to represent hie church. at the World Conference on Faith and Order at Lauzanne in 1927, Before his appointment superintend the work of the Me-thadist Episcopal Church, South, in the Far East, Bishop Ainsworta superintended conferences in Taxas, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida, He holds the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Emory University and from the University of Georgia, In 1920 the LL.D. degree was conferred upon him by Baylor University.
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