Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-15

| to labor. We have more people under our
| control, except the Baptist brethren; and
| the men that come out of the Presbyterian
| and Episcopal churches are always teaching
| theories and doctrines at variance with
| our creed. When the Presbyterian comes
i'll he tells the people from year to year
about the perseverance of the saints. When
| the Episcopalian comes he is always telling
where he came from instead of telling
where he is going to. Loud laughter and
| applause. What we want is to train our
| men for our pulpits; and let US have an ed
ucated Methodist ministry all over this
country, trained up in the class meetings;
| and then there would be no power on earth
| that could stand before US. Loud ap-
| plause. God help US to bring about
this result. l am getting very tired of be-
| ing bothered with tramp dudes coming to
our church from other denominations, only
| to fail, as they have done in every other
pulpit. i could take an old local preacher,
| with his hymn book and Bible, and he
would do better in governing the church
| than any of this wandering class. What
we want is to see to it that the conference
put young men in the theological depart
ment at Wherefore, where they would De
thoroughly indoctrinated with our system
of government, trained in our polity, spend
ing the early part of their lives in our
church and under our intience; and then
We conld trust our pulpits to them with
confidence. When these wandering preach
ers get hold of the people they generally
prove detriment TO their religious inter-
ests. When everything does not suit them
and they cannot have everything their own
way, they are ready to create confusion in
the church, and they furnish the evidence
by their conduct that they have never
been called to the ministry. Men
who have been trained up by men for the
ministry cannot do the work that men can
do who are called by God 1t does not
make as much difference about their COM
ing from other Methodist churches, as they
understand Methodist rules. and they soon
fall into line with thesusages and customs
of the African Methodist Episcopal church.
l do not want to leave this work of educa-
ton without deeply impressing you with its
Importance. want, as this is my last year
with you, to ask that you double your inter-
est on this line so as to advance Paul Quinn
college. Applause. just as sure as
stand upon this floor, in less than ten years
from to-day you will be building up an in
stitution for fifty or ninety thousand dol
lars, one part of the ground at Waco paying
for the same. Redouble your interest. Feel
that there is something for you to do. 1
have thought if l had four more years in
Texas as your presiding officer, but that is
out of the question, l feel that l could do
something more for education. l do not
know where | am going next year, and you
do not know where you are. going now; so
we are about alike in this respect
We teach that men must be born again.
Ritualism does not sanctify mems hearts.
FormalitieS cannot save souls but a change
of heart and sanctifed life is what brings
men to heaven. The old Methodist church
is like Gods word, never changing. A few
weeks ago at st. Louis the Presbyterian
synod decided to change its creed as To the
election of saints so far as children were
aI do
sight of the world when we have been
teaching doctrine, and then feel it is
necessary to change it, Our doctrines are
just what they were when Wesley declared
them. Notwithstanding there are twenty
nine different denominations of Methodists,
we are all preaching the same gospel, as
was demonstrated at the ecumenical coun-
Gil that convened recently in Washington
City. / had the honor of being delegate
to that august body, but could not be pres
ent. Methodists may have different names,
but they are all founded upon the same |
principle. There may be divisions, but |
they can easily unite when circumstances |
require. The signs of the time are favor |
able for the future. Fifty years hence they |
will not only meet in one hall, but they will |
convene under one roof and preach to one |
1t was gratifying also to learn that the |
delegates to the ecumenical council from |
the African Methodist Episcopal church, |
the African Methodist Episcopal Zion |
church, from the Colored Methodist Episco- |
pal church, and portion of the colored |
of the Methodist Episcopal |
of whom sits before me this |
in the person of my old friend j. |
B. Scott--met in Washington and decided to !,
lay the basis for organic union for their re- |
spective bodies. Loud applause Tell |
me what this world can do before US when |
we shall become united body, with all our |
respective institutions of learning, and our
powerful influences And then |
the Methodist preacher, trained in the
Methodist schools. brought up under Meth
odist influences, indoctrinated by Methodist |
teachings. each one going through the
with a torch of fire lighting up the |
world with the gospel, would be an irresist-
able power. o, what will we do when that
time comes! l am in favor of the union of
all the negro Methodists in America l do
not know but what some persons say with
force that when we are divided into separ-
ate bodies that our antagonisms make US
work more arlently than we otherwise
would do but in union there is strength A
man once said to his two boys when he was
growing old, throw a rope across the
house, and he asked them to pull it back
again, and they easily did so. as they both
had hold of the same end He then told
them to throw it across the house again,
and he directed each one to take hold of the
two separate ends Of the rope and pull;
they did so and neither could pull the other
over. The old man said. l am going 20
leave you soon, and I wish to say to you
that il you are united you will make life