served his Professorship until 1908. He was elected a delegate to the M.E. General Conferences in 1904 and 1908. He also attended the Ecumenical Conferences of 1901 and 1911. Episcopal ministry Bishop Nuelsen was elected to the episcopacy by the General Conference of 1908. His election came primarily as a result of a rather strong insistence upon the part of the German constituency of the M.E. Church that they should be represented in the Board of Bishops. This election was thus an early manifestation of the conviction, registered often in more recent years, that minority groups in the Church should furnish a part of the Episcopacy. Once elected, however, Bishop Nuelsen was assigned, not to preside over German Conferences, but to a regular Area of the Church in the United States. He was assigned to the Omaha episcopal area (Nebraska) until 1912. Then he was assigned all the work in Europe, with his residence in Zürich. He was associated with the work of the Church in Europe for the rest of his active episcopacy (until 1940). At first his Episcopal Area covered all annual conferences in Switzerland, Germany, Scandinavia, Russia, France, Spain, Italy and Austro-Hungary. In 1920 the European work was divided into three Episcopal Areas: the Stockholm Area, the Paris Area, and the Zürich Area (to which Bishop Nuelsen was assigned). Bishop Nuelsen also served as a trustee of Drew Theological Seminary. Honorary Degrees The Rev. John Louis Nuelsen was honored with the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1903 by the University of Denver. Nebraska University awarded him the LL.D. in 1907. Nuelsen, the man Bishop Nuelsen is remembered by fellow-Methodist Bishop Roy H. Short as: an impressive man. He looked the scholar that he was. His library, which can still be seen in the Methodist Publishing House in Zurich, bears silent testimony to the wide range of his interests and the eagerness of his mind for acquiring knowledge. He wrote constantly and was the author of a number of books and of a multitude of articles. He was an indefatigable traveler, and much of his study and writing was done on the road. Wartime World War I was especially difficult for Bishop Nuelsen. He loved the German Methodists and the German People, and hastened to defend them in the early years of the war. When the United States entered the war, however, matters became further complicated for