Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1912 — Methodist Episcopal Conference Puts Age Limit on Bishops. [ARTICLE]

Methodist Episcopal Conference Puts Age Limit on Bishops.

The M. E. conference, held a£ Minneapolis for the past month, has placed an age limit on the effectiveness of bishops in the M. E. church. In the future the law of the church will provide: First, that a bishop may retire from service at the age of 70. Second, he must retire at the general conference-nearest his 73rd birthday.