The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-01
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LennaFy AddFeAg Iagt Sunday EVens
tne--InterestintE Sfaf fistIes Coneetn.
Ing Methodism I'm the, ,United states.
Bishop simp son delivered d cehten.
nary address ut Harrisburg ON Sunday
evening last. wetclip the following 1I',, re- )
port of it from tli6 TeIseraph of that
place: A very large audience Assem-.
Pled in the Locust Street Methsodist
Episcopal Church last night, to hear a
centenary discourse by Bishop sim3lp-
son. His audience wasf not composed
wholly OF Methodists,l but various 9TH
er denominati ions werte epresennted and
quite a number OF. ministers were pres
ent. y iiaY -
The exercises wera opened Iby{ Rev
DR.: Johnson. of Johnson ColieSe. who
read aspOrtlon of Scripture and u HYMN.
and offered an lump prayer. AZ!
Ter pthe singing q OFF, another hymn
Bishop Simpson asGended the pulpit,
and commenced his remarks BY refar.
stating thatit was q family gathering
and, he would address it as such, vet he
did not intend to disparhge any other
Christian adenominations. An had
done g noble work, and he hon
ored them for 1t. But # was his
n
progress ofMethodism in America. One
hundred years ago the first Methodist
Church In the United States was n6fI
ganizeds in New York, by q few oefs5ilk
from Ireland, and one Of their number
was appointed a local preacher to take
care of the little flock. To-day there
are a million OF members of the MetIiJI-
dist Episcopal Church. In the United
States, to say nothing of other branch
es of the Methodist family, secedeFs
from the original, numbering about
seven hundred til housand ;ad ddiHonR1. al
comparison was made with two other
denominations the Oldest In the codn-
try. One hundred yea ago The Enisa
copal Church was well esta bliHhed In
America, and had several institutions
OF learning, Besides numerous congre-
ttons. Now that denomination NUM-
bers but about itwoA hundred and
hfty thousand members in this cnun-
try. When MeEhod dism was Ffoundeh
here, Ptesbyte ism had a sure foot.
hood. Now in both the Old and New
SCHOOL, branches there are abOuti six
hundred thousand members. 3 Metho-
dtsm was blessed of God, aud had out
stripped all other religious ass66iat ati6nS.
One OF the principal causes of success
had been the preaching of free gospel
that Christ had not died for q certain
portion of kind, and heaven was
not intended as the final home of
but few. AU were invited, and
there was salvation. for all. The
Meth odists had the name of being
poor. The speaker aclSnowle edged this
to be a fact, as thousands,of the poor
and flowly had. been gathered into the
folds of the church, The good old
Methodist songs also had q. great effect
upon the ople and had fbeenisung by
thousands now in glory. The Method
lst Book Concern, with capital of a
million, had alsQ been the means. of
disseminating the truth. No gden6fni-
nation IN the world fsSuesnow SO many
pages of reading matter as Is sent forth
from this Book Concern. IfMethodism
had fncreased 80 rapidly in. the past,
what might be. expected In the futhfef
For this success Methodists had great
cause TO be thankfu ful. The Bishop then
stated that it was designedsto raise i've
millions of dollars this year, for educa-
donal purposes This would be an
average of five dollars per member.
An appeal was then made to the con-
gfeRatfont TO aid this senterpriseI and d
number of liberal contributors else
whore were referred to as having dona-
ted immense sums of9money to the
cause.
At the close of the address subscrip-
ton was taken up and several hundred
dollars Contributed S.gEi9l ffno'E
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