New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-12
SCORES OF RESOLUTIONS.
BUSY DAYS AT THE CONFERENCE
METHODIST VOICES HEARD FROM ALL PARTS or TIE
WORLD

mxruopIsr VOICES HEARD FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
WORLD
The wide and varied character OF tho WORK which
the Methodist Conference has before u was amply
shown I'm the mass Of details presented In the memo
RAILS and resolutions on Thursday and which con-
tinued TO occupy all OF yesterdays session In tho
opera House All the questions OF church manage
ment which have accumulated IN iour years arc
pushed forward for Conference legislation Enoush
material has been presented IN these TWO Gays 10
occupy the standing committees and their respective
nbcomm,tees during the remainder Of the session.
The least of these rarely falls TO DO OF I'M
portance TO thousands of persons not In the united
States I'm Africa Europe or Asia
A number of such measures are now occupying
The Committee Missions. One OF them provides
for connecting the series Of missions established by
the Church in Ida with those in China One OF
greater importance is the proposition on the part OF
tho Japanese Methodlsts to unite the various sects
OF McthodSts in Japan into an Independent japanese
Methodist Church. II is believed by the japanese
Methodists who number about 5000 that their work
VIII be greatly facilitated by such measure They
propose to retain the missionaries OF foreign countries
who keep up the connection with their own churches
rs honorary members OF the Japanese Church which
will be of itself as distinct and sefsupportlng as
the Canadian, Irish or British Wesleyan churches'
The subject will up later In the Conference IN
. report OF the committee
VI.
day report on the Denmark Mission, asking that
this mission be allowed by Conference to organize
nm Annual Conference. This was admitted ana pr.
Thoburn then called up the report relating 10 inc
mission In the Maayan Islands and tho peninsula
of Malacca asking that 1t should be organized as
mission field DR.. ]. NJ. Reid stated that the MIS-
sion Committee had full authority to organize this
field but It did not wish to do without the ap
proval OF the Church by the Conference. After
somo discussion the report referred to the CON-
nittee on Missions with the approval OF Conference
in favor of organizing the field under the Title OF tho
Malaysia Missions.
PROPOSED REUNION OF THE CHURCH.
The question Of the reunion of the Methodist
Church North and South was presented In rcsoiu-
tion by the Rev. Edgar o. Mclntlre, OF the AuStin
Texas Conference, which after brief discussion was
referred to tho Committee the State OF the Church
1t was at the last meeting OF the General CONFERENCE"
In New-York in 1884, that the separation took place
In the Church.
The committee to which referred the subject
of the Fcumenlca Conference Of Methodlsm proposed
10 DO held in ,thc United states of America In the
year 1891 reported that through the Rev Dr. stiers'
OF Syracuse conferred with the fratenai dele
gates from the British Wesleyan Conference the irish
wesleyan Conference and the Methodist Church in
Canada, and they recommended that an Ecumenicai
Conference OF Mehodists should DO held In tho United
States in 1891 that the basis Of membership ana
repscnaon shall be substantially the same as OF the
Conference held in London in 1881 that the range Oh
subjects presented for consideration shall DO deter
mined by the Joint committee Of the several Methodist
bodies participating, including questions Oh oo0lr'h0
md policy where national differences exist
After a discussion as TO whether the annual con-
ferences should elect tho representatives, the report
was referred back TO the committee for recommends
ton on this subject. The Rev. DIR. 6. N POWER oi
Iowa presented a memorial insisting that Civh Scr
vice should be recognized in the Church as IN .ho
Civil Government. The resolution cited that tho
Church permits members holding Offices under IL 10 si'
deoates and participate I'm legislation, act in COM
nittees and crtcise their work and airecs oHch
their own compensation. The RESOLUTIONS "ero 4"
ferred to the Committee on tho state OF the Chu0i.
Another resolution proposed that tho text DOORS uso
in all the colleges and educational INSTITUTIONS uhuef
tbe direction of the Methodist Church should DO
printed by tho Methodist publishing houses Inns
would mean the exclusion Of nearly all text poohs
royv used in the schools. The matter was sent W
tho Committee Education
A imposition before the Conference yesterday
which is likely TO be adopted Is to change inc na'
NJ Tho Frcedmans Aid Society TO the Southern Eduoa-
fional Society. The resolution also proVlaea .h"'
thirty per cent Of the funds shall be applied 10 "ni'c
schools I'm the South. The San Francisco delegation
Is anxious that the next General Conference IN 1857
shall meet I'm San Francisco and resolution 10 th's
effect was presented Next Wednesday was appointed
for memorial session of the Bishops and members OF
,he last General Conference who have since dleo'
THE TAYLOR CASE TO COME UP To-DAf'
Bishop Taylor has been present at the sessions
for two days He has prepared his report, wnich ne
Will read this morning. and the question VIII .hcn
couo M on its reference either TO special committee,
the Committee Missions, or the committee on inc
Episcopacy Several papers were received from oii-
fcren conferences in regard TO Bishop Taylors work
one of these, by The Rev. Or. Jackson OF ONO, pro-
posed that change should be made in the Discipline
of the Church, incorporating his system of selfsup
porting missions and the employment of non-salared
missionaries who shall be responsible to Confer
ence Another resolution, presented by the Rev. Dr.
George Leidy of Central Pennsylvania, which was
referred 10 the Committee Eplscopacy, reads:
whereas The heroic and devoted William Taylor,
Rbop OF Africa, four laboled Increasingly
and successfully to cultivate his great and peculiar Held;
and Whereas Book Committee at New-fork have not
recognized his be supported out OF the Episcopal
fund therefore,
Resolved BY members Of the Central Pennsylvania
Conference in Conference assembled that We deeply re-
greet the course which The Book judged it their
duty to pursue and that respectfully memora!ire the
give their earnest attention TO the
consideration question: and adopt such measures as
will Bishop Taylor the payment OF his full claim
the Episcopal Fund for the last quadennium and re-
move any existing difficulty 10 it's payment in future
. That we hereby delegates TO the General
Conference TO give unqualified support TO the object
proposed in the above resolution.
meeting Of the Grand Army mon held after tho
Adjournment decided that tho Grand Army dele
gates would call Mrs U. S. Grant on Tuesday even
Ing of next week Last night the Womans Foreign
Missionary Society held meeting at the Metroppitan
Opera House which addressed by prominent mis-
sionares of the Church from all parts OF the world
ARRESTINeA GERMAN SWINDLER
German about thirty years of age, who has called
himself Buckhardt, Berger Bochn, Miller and num-
Der Of other names, arrested and locked up at
Iclfc he