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What others Say.
DR.. q. g.. ROss in arkansas Methodist.

neSSee conference has Just closed. 1t
met at Murfreesboro, thirty miles from
Nashville. should have been glad to
have been there. but my duties would
not let ME 90. Judging from all can
read and hear, the session was a nota-
BILE one. The Nashville ADVOCATE of
this week gives pretty full account of
what was said and done. It does not,
however, mention the fact that the re-
port of the committee on temperance,
which was adopted by large majority,
was the most radical one yet brought
before an ecclesiastical body in our
church. 1t calls for National Prohibi-
lion, and constru-tively endorses the
third party movement. AS it came
from the committee, it also included q
recommendation TO the pastors and
stewards to use "unfermented wine"
After some debate, this feature of the
report was withdrawn. Whether it
would have been defeated, if il had
come to vote, is uncertain. Of the
clerical delegates elected to the Gener-
al Conference, a very large majority,
including the chairman, DR.. D. G.
Kelley, are pronounced advocates of
the third party.
Commenting on the above, the edi-
tor of the Arkansas Methodist says,
editorially:
The letter from Rev. DR.. Hoss will
be read with more than usual interest,
and will beget desire to see the report
on temperance adopted by the Tennes-
see Conference. AS DR.. Hoss had not
read ii himself and was not present at
the election of delegates to the General
Conference, we want to entertain the
wish that the inference easily drawn
| from his remarks is not wholly correct.
The ensuing General Conference will
not commit the NJ. E. Church, South,
to any policy or movement, even of u
politico- moral character, inconsistent
with its past unimpeachable attitude
towards questions of public concern
and political nature, which are to be
acted upon by the citizen in his rela-
ton to the State rather than in his re-
lation to the church. In other words,
our General Conference will not, by
resolution or otherwise. seek to enforce
or even designate the political party
relation to be assumed by any member
in respect for and obedience to the
great moral and religious principles it
may promulgate.
Personal journalism subserves very
we'll the purposes of those editors who
are more ambitious to make fame for
themselves than anxious to give their
readers the very best matter obtaina-
BILE. An editor who runs his paper on
the personal style cannot publish as
editorial the productions of another
without, becoming guilty of literary
theft. With the impersonal style the
journal, and not the man or writer,
gets the credit, and consequently the
editor is at liberty to give his readers
the very best he can lay his hands on.
Of course the man who is conceited
enough to think his own stuff the best
will have no trouble on that line, as he
knows his readers get the best and he
deserves more praise than he gets. 1T
must be little embarrassing, howev-
er, to the conscientious editor to know
that in his effort to do the best for his
readers he gets credit for articles which
he does not write.-Er.
Aduocate of Peace.
We can hardly credit the newspaper
report that Iale College is to have
United States military instructor who
is to teach "tactics" and drill the stu
dents as soldiers.
Still more incredible lis the report
that the Yale Faculty are highly elat-
ed at this new departure. Prof. Sar-
gent has proved that for purposes of
health, the exercise of a gymnasium is
far preferable to the set military drill.
AS to evangelical piety united with
sound learning, for which We had sup
posed Yale stood, we cannot see how
the new drill will help that. Give US
instead instruction in Arbitration as a
part of international law.
Sunday School Times.
A man of God is worth more than a
man of means, if the choice must be
made between the two. A godly poor
man is ten times the treasure to q
church, as a means of support, that a
goddess rich man would prove to be.
And the truth is just as true in the
case of a woman as of man. Yet
how much more is ordinarily thought
of gaining or losing one rich person,
than one poor one, in the average con-
gregation.
Methodist Rccoraer.
Bishop Marvin said he could grade
The preachers of conference by look
ing over the mailing lists of the Con-
ference Organ. The congregations
that have reading members will not
have any but successful preachers, and
the successful preachers will not be
satisfied with their congregations until
they have among them good proper
ton of patrons for the church paper.
II is not rule that will apply to every
case without exceptions, but there is
enough in it to give it significance.
Pacific Methodist.
The man that is afraid to reprove 6
man or woman privately for known
sins is unfit to be pastor; the man
who cannot receive in meekness such
a reproof when it is given in the spirit
of Christ is not tit to be member OF
the Church.
The man who shuts himself up
from the world, and lives in solitude
in communion with his thoughts, is
very likely to grow gloomy and pessi-
mistic. He is disposed to agree with
Schopenhauer in believing that every
thing in this world is as bad as it can
he, and that this is the worst possible
world. Most pessimists arc recluses
who have but little fellowship with