Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-06

peared, had been used in the Sunday. school
publications Of the Church. The Confer
ence was prepared to vote almost unani.
mously that such use must be discontinued,
but was relieved from the necessity for
such action by the assurance of the Sun
day.school Secretary that he had already
discontinued it of his own accord. Thus
is this invaluable help to Bible study, the
triumph and glory of the Christian scholar
ship of the century, wounded again in the
house of its friends. An effort was made
to amend the discipline so as to give
Stewards
THE POWER To ASSESS
The members of the church for the sup
port Of the gospel, with the alternative, if
the assessments should not be paid, of pro.
ceeding against delinquents under charge
of immoral conduct. This effort, OF course,
failed, as also did all efforts to change or
modify the Presiding Eldership. PROPOSE
tions toward the enlargement of the
church's work were, however, received
with favor and acted upon enthusiastically,
for the delegates seemed to think that the
need of the hour was not change in the
structure of the machinery, but move
toward its more thorough operation not
experiments in church government, but
grand effort to take possession of this
whole country in the name of Christ. This
feeling seemed to pervade all minds, and
was constantly asserting itself in the dis
cussions and votes. Its practical fruits are
seen in the provision made for the organ
ization Of Boards of Church Extension and
Education, and in the number and quality
of the additions made to the episcopal
force of the church. Another fact which
shows the Conference to have been alive to
the progressive spirit of the age, is the &C.
tion it took in providing for the appoint
ment of Commissioner to travel through
the church to collect money for the aid of
colored men aspiring to be ministers Of the
gospel. These movements reflect great
credit on the Conference, and are the things
which will cause it to be ever held in crate
full remembrance. In concluding to ask
the church to celebrate
THE CENTENNIAL
OF Episcopal Methodism, which occurs in
1884, by giving s., 900. 600 as thank offer.
ing, to be applied jointly to missions, edu-
cation and church extension, the Confer.
ence marked at once its lofty sense of the
needs of the work and its high estimate of
the literally of the people, while the ap.
pointments of delegates to the great Ameri-
can Methodist Centennial Conference, to
be held in Baltimore in December Of the
same year, is in the line of practical frater.
nifty and may lead to something more, for,
as the fraternal delegate from the NJ. E.
Church, DIR. Ridgway, suggested "Who
knows but that old Santa Claus may drop.
into the stockings of the ecelesiastics as
sembled in that Christmas conclave the
ripe apple of organic union Whether or
not the Conference showed as much good
sense in the steps it took toward changing
the name of the church, as in some other
matters, is questionable. Why not wait
tilt the reunion takes place, when the two
united bodies could have the one grand,
simple, original name, of which all the new
ones proposed are only ridiculous paro-
dies %
In the election for Bishops, 81 different
persons were balloted for. Who will say
after that that Methodist preachers are
wanting in appreciation Of one anothers
merits In his peremptory declination
DIR. Haygood had only one predecessor.
That was Wilbur Fiske, who refused to be
Bishop for similar reasons to those OF
Dr. Haygood. Joshua Soule declined the
honor temporarily, but when the law was
changed so as to give the Bishops all the
power he thought they should have, he
( sracefully consented to take his place ON
the bench. 1t is also said that DR.. John
NJ. Reid, the present Missionary Secretary
of the NJ. E. Church, declined on one &C.
casion to be made Bishop of the Canada
Methodist Episcopal Church. Whether
DIR. Reid would decline to serve as one of
the Bishops of his own church is another
question. III. L.