Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-29
BISHOP NEWMAN TALKS.
His Views Up8n Christianity and the
Meth6dist Sect,

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At the First Metuudist church last night
there was q miesion union of the various
churches Of that determination, but there was
only a fair representation. After few pre-
liminaries, such as song and prayer service
and reading of the scripture by Rev. T.. c.
Clendenning, Bishop Newman was intro
duced. He stated that committee from the
Methodist churches had courteousiy re-
quested him to make q talk on mis-
sons. He supposed that the congre-
cation was fair representation of
the Methodist churches of the city. He
knew that all the ministers Of the church
were In attendance except one, and that one
could not be present. The bishop believed
that there was a class Of people who would
not attend missionary meeting for the
reason that they thought 1t meant a collection
would be taken. There was no contributions
asked. A man who wanted to 20 to heaven
In the cheapest possible way, thought the
bishop, should have cheap apartments when
he arrived at that destination.
The subject upon which Bishop Newman
preached was 1.-THE Christian Outlook Of the
World" Ele made very able and eloquent
address at length on his theme. He didn't
think there would ever be q time when there
would be no siuners. IL he, himself could
not comprehend religion, he could apprehend
1T. Christ was the only religions teacher who
had a lesson for tomorrow. Other religious
he thought, should not be estimated by
numbers, but by quality. If numbers
were adhered to and christianity
We're said to be a failure, then
everything else was failure. Adhering to
numbers commerce was a failure, as 93 per
cent of it did not succeed. But at the same
time it was success and was beneficial. The
same thing might be said of science, but
when the beneficient side of it to society, or
the condition of society, was looked upon,
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dict Thesconditon of society was estimated
and not numbered.
The bishop cited the increase of christians
in the old countries from one hundred years
To-day the central thought of the
world was upon man. A century
ago it was on the masses of men. He had
been in all lands and over the waters of all
seas during his travels, but had not counted
the converts of the missionaries by num-
bers, but looked at the general influence of
the foreign missions. While in China he
was told how the heathen was converted to
christianity, The: common expression in
this county was that the wretched China
man could not be converted. When he
sought one who had been induced to believe
in Christ he asked him how he felt when the
spirit worked within him. The converted
man replied that he felt like he was IN
was in much agony, and his impulse was to
appeal to Jesus Christ He did so and was
Immediately takepifrom the bag containing
the snakes.
The bishop recognized Roman Catholic
priests and would shoulder gun to fight for
them or any otherjwhO was in the right, but
Jesuit he was pfejudiced against. In
strong and emphatic words he denounced
them. and received great applause.
"We should get out of our UNCONVENTIONAL
bigotry and aspire to a greater church," said
the bishop; land that is the church of God
1t is greater than any denomination. We
must remember the larger spirit, and that
is what cheers the missionary. The happiest
people whom met while in foreign countries
were the missionary workers. They were
always cheerful. / Only met one Respondent
man and he was a BACHELOR. There was no
wonder that he was detected. Any man who
has not wife is only a half man. I am as
large giver to missions as any minister.
My precious wife, whom led to the bridal
alter years ago. is building missions in India
and has been working at this glorious cause
for years. We will see the time when the
Methodist church of this country will an
nually give 81, 900 for missions"