New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-07
VOTING AGAINST HEwOMEN
NETWORK CONFERENCE SPEAKS PLAINLY
nxr,y oNE.FoURTH OF THE MEMBERS FAVOR
THE PRoJEoT-THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS.

THE PRoJEoT-THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS.
=, N. feeling Of the New-York Conference voices
Az continent d, the Methodist Episcopal Church the
romen will not be represented in the Electoral and
General conferences In 1892. The question: Shall
vomen be admitted to the Electoral and General con-
~ was answered In the negative yesterday
Ne over tvohrds of the Conference in session at
Yonkers Every conference in the country is to vote
an the question either this spring next fall, and
hen the subject will be debated and settled In tho
General Conference in 1892.
The devotional exercises at the opening OF the sixth
s.,,s, session Of the New-Yor Conference yesterday
w.re led BY Che Rev. o. D. Ramsay. After the bishop
had called the meeting TO order the Rev. Dr. c. G.
WcCabe offered the following resolution, which was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved That the bishop be requested to appoint a
committee of three TO memoriaze tho senate Oh tne
~. ssafy Of the seventeen nations prohibiting the
nm firearms and slave traffic in Africa
The question of the admission of women to the
conferences then came up. The Rev. George H. smith
made the first speech. He demanded OF the men VINO
sad the admission Of women was contrary TO the
scsntures to tell him which part of the Bible was
against IT, He was sure that If ST. Paul were alive now
MIS- epistles would have been. quito different.
The Rev. Charles II. McAnney was the next TO
aexnort as he expressed IL. He said 1t was womans
right to do anything she wished but that he was op-
oosd 10 the admission Of to the conferences ON
the grounds OF expectancy.
aBut the women don't want this any way he con-
.nued "The brethren who advocate it rub their fat
sides and think they are the only ones who love the
roren That's all nonsense; we all love the women
INIT we don't want them to be politicians and leels
,,,ors or any thing Of the kind, because VIC can't
love them then. I'd soon think OF hugsihg
grizzly bear as embracing woman politician.
The Rev. william H. Mickle, who followed Mr.
NcAnney said he had been studying the Bible Tor
information on the subject, and that on going BACK
70 the time Of the Judges, he had found that men
ruled more than women. Woms? also ruled out "ero
exceptions Coming down to the Aposues' lihc ITO
found women working side by side with the 1ouhoers
~ the Church God wanted the work; the sex was
not the question.
TIL. Pev Ensign McChesney said they had heard
ood deal abcut tho rights Of TO be represented
Int they had not heard much about the advantages ~
vould be TO them. lie did not believe they "oulu
avail themselves Of the privilege II 1t was gwen 10
them. In conversation with woman VINO "anteo
women admitted asked her If she would Ike 10 go
A. .no Conference She lifted her hands in horror at
the idea.
The Rev J. s. Stone was the next speaker In favor
~ the women. He said: "Because woman can't
20 into smuggling match or engage In pursuits lhVoN
ing brute force don't that that Is any reason why
we should exclude her from the council chamber. IL
,sn,t a question of muscle it's question OF brains
Over half of the 5000 missionaries who are now IN
baathen lands are women. Methodism was born In
spte of the reasoning Of the great theoogans OF inc
dime and now this movement, which seems TO agltate
ihs learned brethren OF to-day, will be successful IN
spite OF their opposition"
The Rev. DR.. John J. Dean spoke against the ad-
mission OF women. He said that the brethren VINO
said that God created man and woman equal In all
respects had Interpreted the Bible to suit themselves
He asked II the Church should request woman to come
down from the high position which she held In tho
domestic life. That was tremendous thing to ask.
He was not willing that woman should throw away
her birthrght for such "paltry mess OF pottage''
even II she did want to. He said 1t was not night 10
make the Church the laughing stock Of the Christian
world by dividing the house-church against Itself ON
the question as it was now al the right OF women
10 rule in the Church existed in Paurs day. when did
they give up those rights? If they had those rights
why didn't they keep them?"
The Rev. J. r. Day said he thought that woman In
this case should be discussed wife and mother
rather than as a personality. The right Of woman
to be a wife and a mother the highest right on
earth. 1t was a greater thing to give noble men to
tl,e Church than to be a sister cebate doctor Of
divinity. A woman could not be LEGISLATOR and a
good wife and mother. lie didn't believe the asita-
ton the subject the voice Of the Church, but
that IL the question Of universal suffrage which
was being discussed in the country and the Methodist
Church had been made the battlefield OF the fight
The Rev. George II. McGrew sprang to his feet
almost before Mr. Day had finished, and soon as he
could be heard said, with emphasis: II the brother
says 1t is movement for universal suffrage deny 1t
II is nothing of the kind" The women did most Of
the work in the Church, and they should be repre-
sented. He did not think there anything in the
movement contrary TO Scripture. He was III favor Of
ii because the women majority in the Church
and gave their money to help support it, and accord
ing to American IDEAS taxation without representation
was tyranny.
The Rev. DR.. James NJ. King spoke against tie ad
mission Of lie believed that the proposed
action was one of the most serious things that had
ever come up. He was opposed TO the movement, not
because he jealous of women. but because he Was
Jealous for her. as he thought IL would be degradation
He chiefly opposed to 1t because Of the Scriptures
The Rev. j. b. IlCrmance said he should choose the
lesser two evils, and vote against the admission OF
women. The Rev. a. ii. Ferguson said that God
allowed women TO be evangess but not legislators.
The vote taken al IL 80 by yeas and nays.
The result was overwhelmingly against the admission
OF women, the vote standing according to the tally
Kept by several Of the members and the reporters 60
for and 1873 against. number Of the ministers We're
away and will be heard from later The result will be
officially announced to-day and the appointments for
the year will also be read