Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-10-10
THE ECUMENICAl METHODISTS.
What is Being Accomplished by the
Methodist Ecumenical Council Sit
'UBLIsuED SEMI MONTHLY,

ting in London.
Special Cable TO Chicago Times, Sept. lS
Whatever the Methodist ecumenica
council may do in the way of giving
the different branches of the grea
Wesleyan family better opinion o
each other, it is doubtful if it will &C
complish anything of that kind for the
members of the family who are sepa
rated by the Atlantic ocean. 1t ma,
bring closer together those who are SEP
arated by questions of church policy
but it is not likely to do anything t,
remove geographical barriers. Tn,
differences between the English anC
the American types of character wer,
never brought out more strikingly thar
in this council. The council is yet il
session, but the interest in the proceed
ings is beginning to drag, and at tht
same time a good deal of friction il
being developed in the working ma
chinery, although at the beginning
the London papers were compliment
ing the Methodists ON the absence o1
that friction between individuals ant
groups that has marred many sucl
gatherings. The American delegates
are getting very thoroughly tired OF
the English delegates, and 0ice 0ersa
The former are too rapid to suit the
latter. The English conservative and
obstinate delegates think the Ameri
cans are not sufficiently humble and
defferential to the old country repre-
sentatives. When American delegates
give statistics as to what is occurring
in the United States, it is invariably
thought by the English delegates that
they are exaggerating or actually lying
On Thursday G. X. Marshall, of Vicks.
burg, a representative Of the southern
church, read an essay on newspapers
and the use to be made of them by the
church. In the course of his remarks
he alluded twice to the Times, of Chi
cago, saying that it has just issued sep.
tuple editions, consisting of over TWEEN
ty-three tons of paper; that it had the
revised version of the Testament tele
graphed, and put in type almost with.
out fault, scattering its edition like
countless snow-flakes of winters day
all over the American continent before
the the church papers had read the
sermon on the mount. All was the
work Of single night. and thousands
would not have seen that version for
months had it not been for this mas
terly stroke of enterprise. The Lon
don Times reports his words, and fol.
lows them by pointing out that, by en-
dOwing newspaper interests, Metho-
dists could repeat miracles of modern
journalism, such as lightning edition
of the revised New Testament which
the Chicago Times had telegraphed one
night. The statement of Mr.. Marshall
was received by the English portion of
the delegates with murmurs of disap-
probation, indicating that they did not
believe any such thing was done, or
that there is any such paper as the
Chicago Times. In the estimate of
the English delegates, the colored mem
bers occupy first place; the southern
delegates come next, and the northern
ers, third and last. The negroes are
humble, and stand in proper awe of
the venerable old fogies of Methodism
on this side, which makes them all
right in the esteem of the Britishers.
The negroes did very we'll at first, but
do not seem to have staying qualities.
They do very fairly on matters on
which they are prepared, but 60 to
pieces on all cases demanding instant
action.
In the feeling of the English dele
gates toward those from the United
States there appears the same bias
that has cOlOred a great deal of English