The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-19


times. His pet Ideals the Christianizing
OF heathendom on the self.supporting
plan. On this plan he established a
great mission in India and another in
South Africa. Owing to the prestige
of these achievements the last
conference elected him by an al
most unanimous vote, missionary
bishop to Africa, and in the very
heart OF the dark continent he has
planted missions on the same plan. He
has disdained TO use missionary money,
excepting as he could use it without
dictation from headquarters, and has re-
fused TO draw his salary from the
missionary treasury, though 5000 a
year have been offered him. His con-
tention is that he is as much a bishop as
the rest Of the fellows, and that he
ought to get his pay from the same
fund. He also objects to having his
self.supporting missionary work con-
trolled BY the regular Missionary Board,
his reason for this being, as he character
istically expressed it in his report, that
'their methods and his would no more
harmonic than coal yard and milli-
merry store would work in harmony"
Echoes from the great debate on the
admission OF women are still heard oc-
casionally. It is said that a great genius
once observed to his wife, "Woman,
with all thy faults 1 love thee STILL" but
the trouble is here, as it was there, that
woman won't be still; nor will the
knights Grant who have entered the
lists Us her champions. It is now al-
legged that the contest ON this question
was secret fight for third party Prohi-
bition, in which, by the defeat OF Miss
Willard and her fellow delegates of W.
@. T. U. fame, that cause came TO grief.
It is also alleged, on the other side, that
personal spite and official jealousy had
much to do with keeping the women
out, some who worked against them
doing so in settlement of old scores cher
ished against the fair applicants, and
others laboring to keep them out for fear
that If they would get in they would
run off with some OF the offices, as for
instance, so these people aver. the edit
orship OF the New York Christian Aduo-
cate.
The question OF Methodist Union is
commanding attention. Great strides
have been made in this direction in re-
cent years. The Methodist bodies OF the
world, after long period OF separation,
marked by various degrees OF hostility, |
first looked into one another's faces and |
felt the throb OF common Methodistic
heartbeat, in 1881, at the great Ecumen-
iCal Conference held in London. Shortly |
after that gathering union OF all the
Methodist churches OF Canada was an
nounced. Then in 1884 came the Cen |
tennial Methodist Conference in Balti- |
more, atFording the American brethren
another favorable opportunity OF shak-
ing hands and exchanging greetings.
Since then there has been strong move |
ment towards organic union in Great |
Britain; in fact the Irish Methodists
have effected such a union. And now
come two or three propositions before the
present Conference for union OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church with the
body which went off on the slavery |
question forty-four years ago when the
General Conference was last held in this
city, body which now has fully half us
many members as this church. These
resolutions, which are referred to the
Committee on the State Of the Church,
call for the appointment Of a committee
OF thirteen, consisting Of five laymen
and five ministers, with three bishops,
to confer and act on this great question
with similar committee which it is
hoped the Church South will appoint.
What the immediate outcome will be
is not yet apparent. 1t is settled, how
ever, that a second Ecumenical Confer
ence will be held three years hence, and
that it will convene on this side the At
lantic. 1t goes without saying, too, that
such gathering will help along this
holy cause Of Methodist Union. I.T.