The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-07-20
Correspondence of the Daven port Gazette.
METHODIST STATE CONVENTION

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Methodist Periodical Literature nj,
eussed- How Religious Papers ar
Supported Report Of Committee O
Education Remarks by Senator Hal
Ian Resolutions Adopted.
| Iowa CITY, July ID.
| After tho devotional exercises thi
morning, DR.. Corkhill made som
touching remarks in regard to th
neglected grave of James Jamison
who died here twenty years ago, an,
not stono marks his burial place
A collection of $3.50 was taken up
and a committee appointed to pro
cure stone for the grave.
Tho question of tho morning.
"How can our local wants as t,
Methodist Periodical Literature b,
Supplied ?" The discussion wa
opened by Rev. Emory Millcr, VIII,
proposed fewer Advocates and bette
ones in many respects. Every mem
Der of the Convention had receive,
a circular proposing to establish ,
Methodist paper at Abba, Iowa
under the management OF Rev
Haines, and this looked like an at
tempt to occupy tho ground.
DR.. Powers, of the Iowa Confer
ence, also spoke upon tho question
when resolution recommending
support ct tho Abba enterprise wal
| introduced.
| DR.. Kynett offered q substituted
that the next General Conference b.
memoralized TO unto the whole
church in tho support OF ono church
journal, which shall DO made the
first religious publication of the land
and to have all other organs depond
upon local patronage for support
Mr.. X. advocated his substitute with
much ability, and was followed by
Revs. Miller, Coles, Hainos, Bow
man, Teter, and DR.. Hammer Clay
mani, the last of whom ridiculcd the
idea of publishing Methodist paper
at Abba till the Convention roared
with laughter. The discussion was
further continued by Revs. Fellows
Simmons, Leo, DR.. Reid, editor of the
Northwestern Christian Advocate, anG
DR.. Walden, of tho Chicago Book
Concern. The latter said that whilt
there were over $1,000 English
spouking Methodists in Iowa, loss
than 1000 take Methodist papers
and there are 1000 German-speakine
Methodists, who take 900 copies O.
the Christian Apologist. Less than
one in ton of the Methodists IN the
patronizing districts of the St. Louis
Chicago and Cincinnati journals take
those papers. For the patronage o.
the German Methodist paper (Apolo
gist) there arc less than 10000
members, and yet these take $1,000
copies Of that paper.
DR.. Reid also made an interesting
address on tho conduct of Methodist
journals.
Rev. Mr.. Haines closed the dis
cussion with an effort in behalf O
the Abba project, he being tho pro
posed conductor of the enterprise
The whole question was then re
ferred to q special committee of TIVE
from each Conference.
The Committee on Education pre-
sented q report, which was of som,
length, and the jist of it was tn
presenting of the Methodist Acade
mics and Colleges in the State q
sufficient for the wants of the demon
ination in the commonwealth, re
commencing their support, and al
increase of their endowment. Adopt
cd.
| A resolution for holding the mex
State Convention at Des Moines il
1873, putting the matter in tn
bands of a committee of three lay
mea and three ministers to DO ~
pointed by each Conference, wa
adopted.
| Senator Harlan then addresse
the Convention on the subject Q
Labor and Capital-thcir relation
to Christianity" He mado state
mont as to tho meaning of the term
Of Capital and Labor, and the appli
cation Of both to the work Of tn
Church, labor being treated as tn
foundation of capital. Tho subiec
was discussed in all its relations will
education, support Of educationa
institutions, of the spread of Chris
tianity and its bearing upon civil
cation. His peroration was q mos
brilliant comparison Of the results 0
tho most recent great wars-the wa
Of the rebellion in America ant
the ranco-Prussian war, in which
he fairly electrified his hearers. TIL,
church was crowded, and the hea,
intense, but Mr.. II. held his audience ;,
attention closely from beginning Il
end.
A resolution from tho German
delegates recommending the ap
pointment of Bishop, by the mex
General Conference, who can speak
fuently the German language, was
adopted.
The Committee on Resolutions
presented the following:
RESOLVED, That we are profou ndly
thankful to Almighty God for the spiritual
and temporal prosperity He has granted
the Methodist Episcopal Church in Iowa
tor the numbers and character of her
membership, and the encouraging success
with which He has crowned the efforts OF
our fathers, and cheers us Oh to further
achievement
The second thanks Rows. N. p. Col.
liday, II. w. Keeler and Il. I'll. Warine
for the statistics of Methodism in
Iowa, and specially thanking Mr.
Waring for his work as a statistician
Resolved, That while we recognize il ar
the duty Of the Christian citizen to obey
and enforce existing laws on the subject
OF Temperance; and that moral sentiment
must proceed such enforcement, yet we
will not rest short of thorough prohib
itory law that will ultimately sweep from
our soil the accursed traffic.
Resolued, That among the elements OF
efficiency in the Christian ministry is an
adequate and comfortable support; and
while we compliment the Church in its
improvementjn this regard, we exhort
them to go ON 10 greater efficiency.
ResoIUed, That tho spirituality of the
church can be best promoted: LIST, by q
more thorough conservation I'd, by q
greater and more systematic knowledge
of the Word of God; Sd, by cheerful and
religious adherence to our doctrines and
discipline.
A resolution in effect condemning
croauet, offered by Rev. Mr.. Skinner
created the most excited and earnest
discussion of the convention. 1t was