Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-08

uOu VINO nau so OIL ana under SO many cir
cumstsnces answered his prayer.
| The address OF welcome that Bishop Hurst
| made WAS III every way up to his usual stand
\ ard and was received with the closest attention
and frequently interrupted with applause. 10
each of the branches of the church we'll as
| of the nationalities they represented he adj
| dressed words OF special Welcome and IN each
| case his remarks were peculiarly happy ard ap-
propriate. His reference to Queen Victoria az
| queen and empress, bit best of all as mother
| Of her people, was received with great en.hu-
siasm by the representatives, OF her people.
| As he came to the Frencr and the Germans
| in welcoming the various rationslities, Bishop
Hurst spoke first in French and then few words
| OK German, and as these representative Meth
odists from the two great continental nations
heard themselves welcomed to the capital city
| of the new country IL. their nativ. tongue and
from bishop of the younger nation, the pleas
ant compliment Was highly appreciated and
loudly applauded.
MR.. CAELIsIF's REMARKS.
Bishop Hurst was followed by James II. Carlisle
Id, of the Methodist Episcopal church south
DR.. Carlisle began by referring to an incident in
| the beginning of Methodism when the Metho-
| dist conference Of England sent out missionaries
| TO the new land with $50 in their pocket in ad
| dltion to their passage money. Now his hear
| ers, he said, had come over to this country to
| look after the investment of their money. The
$50 at compound interest would be difficult
| matter to repay, though the debt is admitted.
| Speaking of the vast extent of this country,
DR.. Carlisle said that the visitors frcm foreign
! shores might travel in comfortable coaches as
| far west as from London to Jerusalem and vet
never see city or village in which there
is not a church of their denomination.
| One hundred thousand pulpits we're open
| to them. In neighboring city is
library Of 300 volumes, all written to prove
that Methodism could not live, ought not
| to live and In fact was already dying. The
| delegates to the conference might spend sew
| eral weeks among these books, or. better still,
they could travel over the country and study
| facts.
DIR. Carlisle spoke at some length of the vast
| ness of Methodism. not in boastful way but
| more in a statistical way, and he babe his hear
| ers hearty welcome to the shores of the new
/ land, the las. continent that was reserved by a
| far-seeing God for the occupation OF His chill
/ dren. He asked his hearers to visit the people
! of the states i'll their own home and become &C.
| quainted with their brothers on this side CT the
| Atlantic.
Come to South Carolina" said the speaker,
| where the cotton blossoms are but the SYM
| bols of the vast harvest of souls ready to the
| hand. In South Carolina it is tradition that
the cotton and the Methodist minister came to-
| gether and that both came to stay. After a
meeting like this should speak more of our
concord than our discords. There a time
when the Methodists in this country wrote to
| their brethren in England that the only diyi-
| sion in the church was the Atlantic ocean. To-
day even this is not division, and there should
| be no other"
| DIR. Carlisle closed his address with an earnest
! appeal for more of unity i'll the church. ana then
| the great congregation joined in the singing Of
| the hymn Rock OF Ages.
| REV. GEORGE DOUGLASS ORATOR.
Rev. George Douglass, DID,, Ii. D., the blind
preacher OF Montreal, was the last of the speak
| ers of welcome. His Grafton was an unusually
| eloquent one and his words followed each
other with rapidity aud grace that fairly cleo
| tritied his hearers. and he carried them back at
| will through the history OF Methodisnl follow
| ing it down to the present and speaking most
| delightfully."- of the many great men Of the creed
| with whom he had been SO fortunate as to come
| in contact. In fervid, earnest words he added
his share Of welcome to that which had been
| already said.
| In the course of his speech Dr. Douglass re-
called the fact that it had been twenty years
| since he had occupied place Washing ton
| platform on the occasion of a Christian gather
/ ing. He remembered that President Grant,
| with several members OF his cabinet was pres
1 ent on that occasion, ana the former had well
| coined the delegates 1t the evening of
the day following the ratification by the United
| States Senate OF the treaty in Washington in
| which was laid the foundation of universal
| arbitration. He had ventured to tell Gen.
/ Grant that the ages would revere his memory
| not as a soldier but as a NAL who had welded
| a potent influence In iuaugurating an err, when
| international differences would be settled not
| by the blood-red testament of war but by the
/ counsels of peace.
| able He welcomed the delegates to America
| and TO Canada, where there was but one Meth
| odism-a united Methodism. He said that the
last ecumenical council held in London had re-
suited in bringing about that glorious con-
| summation. All differences had been adj
| justed and today there was only one Methodist
/ church in the dominion. He hoped that the
present meeting would bring about as glorious
| result for the Methodist church in the great
American republic.
REV. Oh. srEaAENsoN's RESPONSE.
Rev. T. B. Stephenson, d. d., IL D.. Of
England, president of the Wesleyan Methodist
Episcopal conference, was the first Of the for
| eiguers who was down on the program to speak
| in response TO the words of friendly greeting.
DIR. Stephenson began by establishing himself
! fairly u bright and witty speaker. He had
preached for AN hour and half this morning.
he said, and now he was called upon again to
speak. Some people, he understood found il
very easy to preach other peoples sermons, but
he could hardly say the same of himself He
had prepared a very pretty little speech that he
had intended to get OFF this afternoon and then
sit down with that feeling of satisfaction thai
comes rarely &c himself but so frequently to
his brethren. Now he found all his good points
stolen One speaker had placed his hand in his
puddiag and taken out = plum, another
one more plum, and 50 until he
had nothing left and mus. perforce speal
as the occasion demanded. As on
exiemporGnoous speaker the presiden,
Of the Wesleyan NJ. Z. conference proved him,
self great success He spoke most kindly OF
the hearty welcome that had met them all
upon their arrival here. though. he said, the
foreigners did not need the eloquent words
they had heard to convince them that they
came welcome guests in Washington. They
had been sure of it before they left their owl
country, and if they had not been they never
would have come. Washington was a most de
lightful city, though hardly as large as London
! Yet he did not know that that was anything
against the younger city, inasmuch rs thu
speaker said he knew Of lots Of things tina,
would be great deal better If they we're moi
nearly SO big.
!. There was a very charm about the name O
Washington that appeals to the hearts of ever,
one. The day had long passed when the namt
OF George Washington had in it anything O
bitterness for an Euglishman. great mar
| belonged to no one time nor place. and Americ,
cannot claim Washington for her own alone
With this a. mis- starting point. Dr. Stephen