Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-06-18
TEE CONFERENCE CONVENTION
THIRD EHy's PrcceedtBgs-An Es-
say by Eov. DF, Caldwell ON th Q
Relations Of tho 90 fer n o
Acaa SSny 10 the N. E. Church.
DOVER, Del, June 18th, 1886


Relations of tho 90 fer u o
AcaaeEay 10 the IN. e. Church. .
DOVER, Del, June 18th, 1850.
The committee appointed at the pre-
cedlDg session to report resolution
relatiys to the essay of G. +. Richards,
on Sunday school Lyoeums, reported a
resolution ins:rueting the pastors of
the various churches in the Conferegcs ca
to enforce what the discipline on that
subjsct. Ths Committee was not pre-
pared to report plea Of organization OF
church lycsums, but would soon do 80
aud publish the plan in the Conference
Worker.
Rsv. DR.. Caldwell read very min
ute and carefully prepared article on
"The relation Of the Conference Acad
emy TO the interest OF Methodist Epi5-
copal church" DR.. Caldwell took oc-
casion to refer in his opening to the
great extent of tho "a. Il. church aud
cited ths late General Conference 10
which he was delegate as proof OF
its growth. The delegates he said
numbered nearly four hundred and
they came from nearly every part Of
the world-from 80 annual conferences,
and six embryo conferences, making
95 in all. They represented church
whose circuit extends around ths globe
on some part OF which the sun psrpet
uaily shines, symboliziDg that eternal
city where It is s2id there shall be-. no
mors night. They came he said fom
all parts Of cur own country, and from
Europe, Asia, Africa and the isles OF
the sea.
They cams from Scandinavia and
Germany, from Italy and Switzerland,
frl m Turkey and Asia-minor, from In
da, China and Japan, from Mexico and
Liberia, and from every quarter of the
globe wherever Msthodism las planted
the standard OF her God. They repre-
ssnted many tongues but spoke only
one-anr own blessed English. DR..
Caldwell said ne was expected to
speak OF the intsrests Of the church
a. they related to the Conference
Academy. Can this institution here
Ia Dover, he asked, have any ap-
probable effsot upon interests which
are SO vast as those Of the great Metho-
dist Episcopal Churchf l answer, yes.
As the smallest river swells the bulk Of
the expansive sea, as tbs world We in
habit would exert an influence on the
solar system and upon sister planets,
that are many hundreds Of times larger.
Mr.. Caldwell wanted the audience to
consider what education In America
did for India, for China and Japan.
Hundreds Of millions Of heather people
he said, inhabit those countries, and
those people have been affected by
American institutes Of learning. Schools
had been established there to train up
their children. There seemed he said,
to be three living tongues which were
destined to oapture all the babbling
tongues and dialects Of the earth, and
they wore the English, the French and
the German. When these tongues
shall bs expurgated from the Popsborn
Romanism and 5kspticism which now
dsform them the conquest will be made
with great rapidity.
One Of the chief agencies to accom-
plish this work is American iu1titutions
OF learning. Prom this point be said
we could ses the influence the Con-
fersnces Academy could exert in the
work. In Showing what education had
done. he said, 1893 on she door OF our
General Conference y dark featured
man in an oriental garb. 1t is Rain
Chandra- Bose, local preacher and lay
lslsgs 10 from the North India Confer
9ncs. He Il q converted Heathen, al
Hindoo, won by Method
ism from ons of the Oldest and most
supsrStitioas in the world.
lie WAS converted through the inatru-
mentality OF onr celebrated MtSsionarigs.
At the mseting hold in bshalf Of the
BucuminiCal Council Of all |
the Methodisms in the world No Tade |
IN enthusiasts speech and displayed
great acutensss OF intellect breadth OF
.hought and culture and sound ortho- |
loxy. He said: II bsva been picked |
lp from hsRthenism. In nay boyhood
bowed down to 5tookB a1a stones, bat
low worship tbs Lord Jesus Christ."
Ir. Caldwell then at considerable
ength and with great clearness 81 owed
he bearing such institutions as the
Conference academy must have on
Isthodism especially in its missionary
7ork. The whole essay would be in
eresting literature ;or the readers of
he RBprsIIcAH but 1t ID 100 long and
paos too precious for further notice at
his tims,
A. this lime IL was agreed shat the
elsgates werS thinning ont, that when
he Conference adjourned In the after
oon it adjourned "sine de-"
Rsv. Mr. Haiues, Of Smyrna, read q ,
N minute paper on the same subject
lat DR.. Caldwell so ably treated. He
leasantly all hum0Uusly traced the !,
Of the Conference Acads-
y to tho Methodist Episcopal Church.
i referring to the troubles 1t had a. =
,aly passed through, he said it had !,
cen baptized in ere, and being come =
hat Of a punstsr, he said it then fell "
ito the hands Of q "aki1ner," who did :
more good taan harm. lie looked
pom the Conference Academy as 4