Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-12

Resolutions Adopted by the southern General
Conference.


Conference.
In the general conference oi the southern |
Methodists in session i'll Richmond, this |
week resolutions were offered aud referred |
which indicate plainly that the sentiment OF |
members of the southern church rs regards |
| the Methodist Episcopal church is changing, |
and that the church South desires that fra |
| ternity of feeling which will advance the |
cause of true religion, regardless of the past.
| Or. Chapman, OF the Missouri conference,
offered series of resolutions having for their
| object the appointment of special commit
| tee of seven who shall meet similar COM
mittee of the general conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church in the city OF New
York in lSSS to take measures for reunion
of the churches having common origin and
purpose. The resolution SAYS that it Is sin
and folly for the two churches to occupy
the same territory, and that the one was dying
| inch by inch while the other was in the as
| cendancy. The resolution caused a long de-
| bate and was referred to a committee, but
| atterward was reconsidered and sent to a
| special committee of one FROM each conference,
| to be appointed. Another resolution was
offered, but its reading wss refused, and that
| was sent to the same committee. The mover
| of the resolution is a delegate from the West
| Texas conference, and he explained that the
| resolution looked to the withdrawal of all
but one set of Methodist missionaries from
all foreign or home missions. He said that
| il was waste of time and money for the two
Methodist churches ot this country to have
two sets OF missionaries Ii seems apparent
| that these Western preachers are tired of the
southern sentiment ltls not probable that
the conference will go into the election OF
bishops to fill four vacancies this week.
| Discussing sam Jones.
| In the. Richmond conference Rev. pr
Rodgers called from the table the report Of
the committee on the itinerancy, recommend
ing concurrence of the memorials asking that
l no tnr int t,f
| evangelists,
| DIR. Adams, of Georgia, argued that such
| evangelists rs sam Jones aud others had
| better be provided for by the nominal ap
pointments in the church.
= Rev. r. NJ. Mes>iCk, of kentucky, said
that all Methodist preachers should be
evangelists They wanted no specialist
on this subject 1t demoralizeS the min
: | istry,
Rev. NJ. Il. Neeley. of Texas, said that
evsngehsts run upon the plan OF religion
made easy. People are asked to confess
5 | Christ by holding up their hands, and this
is called conversion, and the church is there.
) fore filled up with unconyerted men and
n | women.
4 Rev. Dr. \. Il. Wingdeld, OF Kansas, said:
= "Dratt this evangelist system and every
[ gum-los in the whole Methodist connection
" | will want to be eyangell,ts. Do yuu know
, | what a gum-log is? Well, il is a log that
y you can neither split or burn. The TACT
l. is, there is only one Sam Jones in the
world, and there is not going to be an
| other"
| \ Noice.-One Is enough"
Is DR.. Wingheld continued: "GOu ought no
"A | try to duplicate him. Boarding AT a hotel a
- per day and getting 800 "A week is a CRANE
81 | institution. Dr. Adams offered ~ suDsti
le | tute that the bishops appoint an eyangelis
+, whenever "A majority ot AN annual confer
~ ence ask for said action, such eVaugelsts no
ly to have liberty to labor in any pdstora
If charge unless invited to do 50 10y the regula
pastor, &c. DIR. Adams said As much as
L honor Sam Jones, and would throw up my
lr | cap Tor him, yet don't hesitate to say tina
al | Sam Jones is sailing under false v'1OTs Sen
~ sation, lie wa-, by appointment OF tn
Georgia conference, an agent for an orphans
home"
-v DR. McFerrin said "There were a grea
many evangelists Who were superficial WORK
ers. | tell you they convert people yer,
easy. They say to those in the congregation
es who are sorry for sin and want to lead new
>" lite, Hold up your hands. Laughter.
pr | Then he counts one two, three, tour, five
fifty, laughter, and it goes out in thu
papers that fifty persons were converted
To such men as Sam Jones he would say
Is God speed ~ but not to a parcel OF unquali
70 | fled, unauthorized and uneduCated men
l. whose efforts would be to overthrow Metho
& | dism."
h | Finally all the other propositions weT'
= | voted down, and the report submitted by DR.
Rodgers, to non-concur in the proposition
. that provision Toe made Tor the appointme Ell
1t of evangelists, was adopted, there being bu
1t four votes i'll the negative.
@ One OF Jones Last.
4 | From His Baltimore sermon.
j. During our last cruel war one of the GeOr
a | gia preachers had brother belonging to tn
If army under General Lee. That boy was I'm
ia | gOdly. At the second battle of Manassas h
a received six wounds. He was taken to
farmhouse and his brother was summone,
u from Georgia He saw his suffering, dyiny
brother, Goddess, Christless. After realizinj
his condition he said, MY brother I'm $
70 glad | came before you died, to point you T.
5 said, Brother, dedth-bed repentance is th
:, a man who will serve the devil all the day
,. | of his life and then on his dcath-bed vii
~ vince and groan before God, that maj
is not made of the grit that l am.
The boy continued : Brother, Pm in =
10 ! me- The next day when his brother al
4 | preached him again, he said Brother, In
lost and | won't whine about God in my las
moments Ten days he watched that bod
of his brother, and one night he fell asles
Of and dreamed that his brother had died wit
:, mouth wide open, and the devil entered an,
le lurked in his brothers mouth for the SOU
al The soul wss hid behind a wood pile, bu
or the devil scented il, and as he approaches
- the wood-pilei the soul ran out OF the doc
i screaming Lost lost! lost = until th
~ sounds OF bis voice were drowned by til
10 noise OF the Tapping of the devils wings
or The preacher awoke and there lay his brothe
Of dead with his mouth open. He ever bt
lieyed that God had closed his lips in dream
that sight. RrOthprs at, Taneu