The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-11-14
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PHILADELPHIA, November 13.-At = NEST
ing Of the Board Of Church Extension Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church to-day the
COMMITTEES ON Foreign Correspondents re
ported that the committee had carefully
considered-the application for assistance
from Germany and Switzerland n rom
India, and respectfully report:
First-That it is as much as the Mission.
ary Society has heen able heretofore to
make provision Tor the procurement. OF
church property in our foreign mission
fields. Any aid from this country needsd
for such purposes should be furnished -
heretefore-by the Missionary Society-as
our mission authorities may determine.
Second-That inasmuch as our foreagu
conferences are organized u the same
PROVISIONS OF DISCIPLINE !
9Bqq those Of this country, we recommend
nun this general committee make the
amount asked for church extension and
appropriations authorized the same as
equal in some of the German conferences IN
this country, and that the Board OF Church
Extension authorize the vari rus conferences
boards to distribute such am ,unts as may
be collected within their boards, in accord
ance with their judgment, reporting their
action to the present board for recognition
in the annual reports.
This report gave rise to an extended dir
cussion, and was finally laid on the table.
The following telegram was rseeiyed y
DR.. Hynett, corresponding secretary: :.
CINCINNATI, November Ii, 1885.
ToA.J. Hynett, D. D., Phiadelphis:
The evening papers telephone US q sensa-
tional report about a defalcation in your
society: better wire US the exact condition
concerning it. CRANsroN & Srow.
THE ANSWER
DR.. f1yuett read the telegram to the gen.
eral committee and the following answerb by
telegraph was ordered to be made by a
unanimous vote:
Messrs. Granston q Stow, Cincinnati, 0.
Reports concerning a defalcation in the
church extension Office are utterly nm
founded. The accounts nave been audited
and found correct.
BISHOP s. NJ. MERRILL, Chairman.
s.. j. MCCONNELL, Secretary.
just before the adjournment Secretary
Mcconnell called the committees attention
to the fact that a communication rom
Thomas Price had been referred to a spec
ial committee yesterday and that the COM
mittee was now ready to report.
Bishop Harris called for the report. but
before it could be read a motion declaring
that lit was inexpedient to discuss the
matter at this time" was made. ia
DR.. Hynett, corresponding secretary, op,
posed this and said that the communities
ton contained
GRAvE CHARGES
Against him, and he was unwilling to rest
under such an imputation. He wanted the
matter discussed. but finally agreed to post
pone it for the present and finally the mo.
ton declaring that the discussion was at
| the present moment injuaicious, prevailed.
DR.. Hynett requested the members OF the
| press not to make any reference to the
Communication, but Mr.. Price after ad
! :,urn.;,ent distributed to the reporters
~; .tei a communication. Following are
some OF the chief extracts.
First. I will direct your attention to
some facts in regard to the German work.
| The large amounts received from and dona
ted to the several German Conferences led
me to inquire into the report Tor 1883
You claim to have given to the Germans
SIC. 500, making your total donations
| $94. 54S. when in fact your donations were
but S73, S55, as you had nothing whatever
to do with the $50, 693, which the Germans
| disposed of themselves. Excuse me II l
suggest that this method of swelling your
accounts
WOULD NOT BE THOUGHT HONEST
in the business OF the world. Is it the
province OF a great church board to lower
| the standard of business morals? Are you
! not misleading the church as to the msgni-
tude of your work? If you do not wish to
lose the confidence of all thoughtful people,
| beg you, in the future omit from your re-
ports what does not properly belong there.
| After calling attention to the heavy *
penses of the board and other matters he
| mentions several things which he regards
as the violations of faith by some of your
members. For an explanation, to my
great surprise, I learned that no money
was received from or donated to the Ger
ma ns; that the Germans were allowed to
collect and
DISTRIBUTE THEIR MONIES
without the Intervention OF your board, so
that when you claim as part OF your work
| the collection of $40, 952 in 1883 from the
| Germans, you swell your receipts to that
amount beyond the truth, and by 80 doing
swell your collections to $1OS,433, when in
fact you collected only $S8,841. In 1854
your claim to having collected sos, 759
must be reduced by deducting $19,l7l by
| the Germans, leaving your entire collec.
tions but $S9,5SS. He accuses the board
of being careless in it's management, and
refers in sarcastic terms to that part OF the
boards report which states that they ave
$40, 900 in mercantile securities, or, as he
understands it, stocks.
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