The vanguard of delegates to the send. quadrennial general conference fof the Methodist Episcopal Church arrived here to-day, in preparation for the sessions which will open May 1.
'The agenda for the conference includes consideration of the proposal fo merge the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Southern Methodist Church' and the Protestant Methodist Church, thereby uniting 9,000,000 members into one denomination.
Another item on the agenda is the retirement of bishops, including Bishop Herbert J. Welch, of China, who has reached the age limit for Some church leaders regarded the faction of the new Philippine Methodist Church in sending a delegate fo the conference as a move to heal a breach which occurred in 1932 when the Filipino group seceded from the general conference. The Island church withdrew because the confer-fence had ordered the reinstatement a Filipino minister who had been tunfrocked on charges of immorality. It was not known whether the Fill-ino. delegation will return to the fold or merely signalize a reconclli ton by a resumption of fraternal to the owners that the first step for the owners to ce-operate with Rickshaw Board in nominating 5,000 pullers whom the Boord agreed to license.
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