The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-08

| yard, much less au historical
abbey which may tell the story and emhalm
the memory Of our illustrious dead. Our
edifices are few, and have grown out of the
simple necessities of the nation; but given a
few centuries more, when electricity or
compressed air will be the worlds motive
power on land and SEA, when two days will
be ample for Atlantic ferryage and the
common railway speed will be at least 100
miles an hour, there will be different
scene, far more TO satisfy the
taste for art and architecture in
the year OF grace 5000, when the delegates
of the ecumenical Methodist conference
shall meet in Washington to hold its Tooth
session. but no century can ever come
when the welcome will be more cordial,
presence more highly appreciated or re ,
membrance more grateful. The hour will
never strike when the representatives of
the great Methodist family will be received
with deeper love than we now give with
open hands and rejoicing hearts"
| A SKETCH OF METHoDIsM.
The bishop then gave a scholarly and in
tensely Interesting and entertaining histor-
ical sketch of the origin and growth Of
Methodism, and this was his peroration
Brethren of the south, we greet you with
loving hearts. In your Virginia, our COM
mon Francis Asbury established the first
| Sunday school on the American continent
In y our Georgia, the Wesleys learned how
| to labor for the poor, in your Charleston,
John Wesley published his first vol-
! une OF his hymns, the beginning
OF that great minstrelsy which
the world will never grow tired Of
singing until the gates of pearl are reached
and the dIScords of the earth are lost in the
song OF Moses and the lamb
Brethren from the northern states, from
the central west and from the farof Pa
cltic coast, we congratulate you because of
the great commemorative which you repre-
| tent, 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.
Brethren from Canada, we welcome you
with the spirit of true Christian reciprocity.
| We rejoice IN the union Of Msthodisns
which you have effected, and your heroic
| efforts TO build up your great educational
system.
BRETHREN FROM THE WEST INDIES.
''Brethren from the West Indies, we bid
you welcome. 1t was your home Which,
Just four centuries ago. gladdened the eye
of Colu ubus and ndded another continent
to the gl0b'. We bid Ireland welcome here.
What would American Methodism to -dav
be without the vision Of Philip Embury and
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welcome here. the home Of Lady Hunting>
ton. We welcome Scotland with its un-
| dying record Of the labors OF John Knox.
"Eagland, our common home, we vel
| come. From her we have derived the Wes-
leyan name and Wesleyan example: her
| Epworth Is our Epworth; her preachers
are our preachers; her literary achieve
ments are cue Inheritance; her Mil
ton, her Shakespeare, her Hampden,
| a oil har any
teachers And when we think Of the worlds
great rulers Of the distant past and of O.
day. who sway with easy sceptor and even
scales OF Justic', none stands higher in our
es eem and love than Victoria. Queen Of
Great Britain and Ireland and Empress Of
India.
France we welcome, with her precious
memories of heroic Huguenots; the Protes-
| tant remnant Is still distributed over her
fair fields, and grow it must if it is still true
W at was said TO apOstate Anthony Of
Navarro, the anvil hath worn out the ham,
mer.'
LAND OF MARTIN LUTHER
"Germauy we welcome here The position
which American Metbodlsm takes on the
| Standardization on the advancing cause
OF temperance, On all the great questions Of
moral reform, is precisely that which Mar
tin Luther took on the question OF justfica.
|
at w orms Here | ,tand; cannot DO other
wise No song sing ii preference t. his
battle hymn, A Strong Tower is Oar God
! ''HOnored guests from the far cff lands
OF the South seas, from New South Wales,
New Zealand and Australia, we know the
work that you have been doing, and faith
! which has inspired it. All the sweeter
| shall be our conImnnion here because of
| the great spaces over VIII ch you have
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! We bill you welcome after your tos'ings on
tide and wave. and no presence shall we
remember with greater pleasure than yours,
| bre hren, who have come from most
| distant lands In the temple Of
! Dana in Ephesus, there were z pillars,
and each was the gift of a king. In this
| ecumenical temple there are 500 pillars, and
each one is To our Me'hodi9n In Washing
ton and our MethodisIn Throughout the
world, the gift Of him, who is King OF kings
and Lord of lords"
The bishop spoke to the German delegates
| in German and the French delegates in
! Frerch. A reference t) President Harrison
| uy Bishop Hurst called forth applause, and
al allusiou to Victoria, the widow in her
sable robes, caused the Euglish delegates to
clap their hands and applaud.
TIE SECOND ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
Rev. Dr. J. H. Carlisle of Sparta burg,
| S. c., delivered the second address OF vel
| cone. He said Methodism and the cotton
| plant had made their appearance in the
south at the same time. He invited his
| hearers TO come aud look upon those cotton
| fields and come spe K from the southern
| pulpits. After a meeting like this Metho-
dists must speak more Of their concordS than
/ their dscords and fall together upon the
| Philistines, whether they come from that
great little island TO which all in America,
in church and state, looked up as the
mother coun try and from the countries Of
| Europe or those under the southern cross.
lot the spirit OF Wesley give the keynote to
this meeting and to their future lives.
THE THIRD WELCOME.
The hymn, Jesus, Lover OF Ny Soul"
was then sung by the delegates aud specta-
tors, and Rev. DR., George Douglass Of
Montreal delivered the third addre OF vel
come. He recalled the fact thai it had been
twenty years since he mad occupied a place
on Washington platform. He remembered
that Gen. Grant, with several members Of
his cabinet, was present on that occasion.
IL was the evening Of the day following the
ratification by the United States Senate Of
the treaty Ia Washington ia which was
laid the foundation Of universal
arbitration as a means of settling national
differences His second visit would be
equally as memorable. He welcomed the
delegates 10 America and Canada, where
there was but one hetbodism. united
Methodism. He said that the
don had resulted In bringing
about that generous consummation. All
differences had been adjusted, AMI to-day
fhere Vrag ouly one Methodfsf churoh fgs t,,a