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Bishop Hoss was a fraternal representative of his denomination to nearly every
Methodist Church in the world. His last great mission of this kind was to Australia in 1915. He was the presiding bishop of the M.E. South work in Brazil from 1905 to 1908 and in the Orient in 1910 and 1915.
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Holston Conference, besides his own, to being unanimously elected.
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