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he made rule to govern those societies, com.
| prlsed in a few points and after fifty years Of
active service, and IN my nfty,nrst year as an
itinerant, this book has got so big that don't,
| for one, comprehend half ~ II. LAUGHTER IL
| you have good tumbler Of milk, why take II to
Dis DscipIine Ii Wien Vie sioek people make four shares
| out OF one, they call IL watering. | don't want
the DISCIPLINE watered; Let us stand to the
posed to this fritterlng away the discipline. The
| game oin't worth the candle. and wise COM
| bring in something like that Let us stand to
| the book in all its fundamental PRINCIPLES for
hope To live and die Wesleyan Methodist
CLERGYMAN AsroNrsnED.
Dr. Goode Of Indiana, an elderly gentleman Of
austere countcnance, said: 81 am surprised
and grieyed that age aud experience should
| come In to cast weight into that scale to CON
demn, TO defeat, and to take or the force Of
such plain, practical, and nCedfH propositions
to meet the cmcrgcn les. The Ten Command
mcnts were cumpli.cd In few words, but they
any one Of these specifications. lie may do SO
elsewhere In his administration, but he dare not
what we need tAmen.1 We need it for the
ministry lamcnl, for have been under the palm
ful necessity " bringing them to bear on The
ministry. JAmon] II is time for the Church to
speak and not TO be carried away by a few words
Of ridicuc ard rutirc. II is time for us to speak
like men,
LEAVING IT TO THE cnuRcHwEN's coNscIENCLs
DIR. william Il. Clark Of New England, another
patriarch of the Church. said "1Sere Il no man
who looks with more solictudc on anj tendency
OF the Church to indulge In sinful amuse'uents
than myself. appreciate the feeling indicated
In the remarks Of Dr. Goode, and in the report
of the committee. The question Is, what IL the
y oper way to meet those exigcncies, and check
this tendency In our Church. II seems to me
confession OF our weakness when we resort to
special legislation in matters Of this kind.
Ihe spirit OF the Church Church Is already re-
tinctly and emphatlcally expresses her
condemnation OF any anus cmont which cannot
be taken in the name Of the Lord Something
laff AtNtsl
members in this matter The moment we begin
70 legislate specifically we cannot draw o line.
We adopt legislation which cannot be enforced,
will not be enforced In our Church, Mr.. Chair
man, I'm accordance with the spirit of that re-
port We are now understood as setting our
faco severely against sinful amusemcnts, ana
member can be brought to trial now for any thing
that In the Judgment Of a competent committee
Is interdicted by the Word Of God.
THE DIFFERENCE.
A delegate remarked that billiards should he
Included In the forbidden list, They did
much harm to young men "a dancing to young
women.
Another brother said that dancing wouldn't
hurt the young women If they only danced
First Delegate they don't care about
Dr. Moses Ilii Of Erie said that these specific
provisions were not pat In the Discipline by the
father, because they believed amusement OF
every Kind to be wrong. Now IL was beginning
wcro ri-ht. The fathers thought there no
more need Of putting in provision against
chr .tians did not dance when the present Dis
ca line was framed. But dancing had now got
reduced 60 SYSTEM and great many
9 iurch members danced, aud lac was aware
that 10 pnt Il IN the Discipline would
have come To the time when 1t is a question,
even among Methodists, whether a little genteel
dancing T. wrong. II IS uWo To fix II in some
way. our Young people think that IA other
Christian churches dance, so may the Methodist
Church dance. | ask ", a. legislators OF the
Church and ~ Minister'S IT would not be well
for Us, either 10y putting II In the Discipline or
10y strong resolution, to give a decided eX-
preston, So that the people outside may know
something Of the opinion OF the Church directly
Oh the subject.
ebony cane to DIR. John r. Durbin, the retiring
secretary of tho Missionary Society, on behalf
If the India Mission, of which DIR. Durbin is
the father.
The Conference adjourned without taking ac-
don on the proposed amendment relative to sim
ful amusCmcnt-.