Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-08

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of his hymns, the beginning of that great
minstrelsy which the world will never grow
tired of singing until the Gates of Pearls
are reached and the discords of earth are
lost in the song of Moses and the Lamb.
Brethren from the Northern States, from
the Central West, and from the far-ott
Pacific coast, We congratulate you because
of the great commonwealth you represent,
because of the incalculable service you
have rendered to the world. and because of
the faith and heroism which have distin-
guished your work from the beginning to
the present.
FOREIGN DELEGATES GREETED.
Brethren from Canada, we welcome you
with the true spirit of Christian reciprocity.
We rejoice in the union of the Methodisms
which you have effected, and your heroic
efforts to build up your great educational
system.
Brethren from the West Indies. we bid
you welcome. 1t was your home which,
just four centuries ago, gladdened the eyes
of Columbus and added another continent
to the globe.
eve bid ireland welcome here What
would American Methodism to-day be
the Exegesis of Adam Clark? We bid
Huntington. We welcome Scotland, with
its undying record of the labors of John
Knox
ENGLAND, our common home, we well
come. From her we have derived the Wes
leyan name and the Wesleyan example.
Her Epworth is our Epworth, her preachers
are our preachers, her literary achievements
are our inheritance, her Milton, her Shake
speare, her Hampden, her Cromwell, her
Wesley are our teachers. And when we
think of the worlds great rulers of the dis
tant past and of to-day, who sway with
easy scepter and even scale of justice, none
stand higher in our esteem than Victoria,
Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and
Empress of India.
TO FRANCE AND GERMANY.
"France we welcome with her precious
memories of heroic Huguenots. The Prot
estant remnant is still distributed over her
fair fields, and grow it must if it is still
true that Beza said to the apostate, Antony
of Navarro: The anvil hath worn out the
hammer
Germany we welcome here. The
position which American Methodism takes
on the Sabbath question, on the advancing
cause of temperance, on all great questions
of moral reform, is precisely that which
Martin Luther took on the question of justi-
fcation by faith in the presence of Charles
V. at Worms: Here stand; cannot do
otherwise.
"Honored guests from the far-off lands of
the South Seas, from New South Wales,
New Zealand and Australia, we know the
work that you have been doing and the faith
which has inspired it. All the sweeter shall
be our communion here because of the great
spaces over which you have travelled on land
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come after your tossings on tide and wave,
and no presence shall we remember with
greater pleasure than you, brethren,
who have come from the most distant lands
In the temple of Diana in Ephesus, there
were 127 pillars, and each was the gift of a
King. In this Ecumenical temple there
are 800 pillars, and each one is to our Meth
odism in Washington and our Methodism
throughout the world, the gift of Him who
is King of Kings and Lord of Lords
OTHER ADDRESSES AND RESPONSES.
Rev. j. H. Carlisle, of Spartansburg, S. c.,
delivered the second address of welcome.
The 656th hymn, "Jesus, Lover of My
Soul" was then sung, and DR.. George
Douglass, of Montreal, delivered the third
address of welcome.
Rev. T. B. Stephenson, President of the
Wesleyan Connection of London, was
greeueu enthusiastically " ne Sdlu IIdG WHeu
an Englishman came here he felt as if he
had shaken off some of the shackles-
stepped out into the light, as it were. They
had gotten into country where it made lit
tie difference what church a man belonged
to; where he did not meet s'people who are
too highly cultured" He was glad to see
what Methodism could do in country
where it had fair field and favor. This
conference ought to be a great spiritual
power.
George Green, of Glasgow, representing
the Primitive Methodist Church of Eng
land, was the next speaker. He hoped the
channels of difference between the Method
lists would be worn, down some as a result of
this council.
Rev. R. Abercombie, of Shrewsbury,
England, delivered the last address of the
day. At the close of Mr.. Abercombie's s re-
marks the doxology was sung, and the first =.
days session closed with prayer by Rev.
DR.. Stephenson.