Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-21
HELP THE CAUSE.
All Who Battle for Purity Are
With Christians.
THEY MAKE WAR ON THE DEVIL.
Proceedings of the Methodist Ecumenicsl
Council Mt Washington Yesterday.
ACommittee tn Meet the Pres
byterians Next Year.
The Methodists.

| dist council opened this morning with DR..
| Thomas Allen of the Wesleyan Methodist
church of England, in the chair.
Through Secretary King the business
committee reported resolution looking to
| the appointment of I deputation representa-
| tive OF the conference, to visit the pam
| Presbyterian council to be held at Toronto
next year. The committee also reported
amendments TO the resolution presented
| yesterday relative tathe creation of an eN-
ecutlve committee to make arrangements
Tor the next ecumenlcal conference. The
effect of these amendments was TO leave
the selection of the commission TO the va
riouS conferences, the business committee
to undertake the conduct of the business of
tn" ecumenical conference until the COM
| missiouers are appointed. These reports
were adopted without division.
The topic of the day was The Outlook. "
The tirst essay OF the session WAS on the
subject of The Christian Resources of the
Old World'' by $. Simon of the Wesleyan
Methodist church, Kent.
He said: To some. tbs success of Christ
unity means the success OF their opinions
about religion or the success of the
particular church to which they belong.
We must emancipate our minds from this
mistake. We do not deny its value as 4
motive force. Those who only see their
own side of ii question are often splendidly
aggressive workers, more tit than
philosophers TO lead certain hopes. But IN
the end truth has proved Itself TO be greater
than force or than delusiOp.n
After stating that men who are in closest
touch with the masses of the English pco-
pie are impressed with the fact that while
theories about the Christian religion fail to
arouse interest, a living and personal Christ
Is regarded with increasing enthusiasm.
The speaker claimed that this condition of
the public mind was one of the greatest re-
m l..
The question then remained: Are the
ministers and workers of the English
churches prepared 10 avail themse,veXof
this condition of the public mind2" sIe
uttered warning against rash and unfavhy-
able decisions.
After dealing with the work of the Sal
walton Army. the speaker closed his paper
by referring to the influences outside of
the church which were telling against the
devil, and which were really on the side OF
Christ. He said: son our side fight the
intellectual. moral and social forces that
scatter the gloom of ignorance. that I'D vance.
purity and sobriety. that secure the
true rights of men. As Christians, we wei
come the assistance Of everyone who aims
blow at evil and shields that which is good.
After all, our confidence rests chiefly
in men who confess Christ rs their
master and who regard the gospel as true.
And when our fears becloud our faith
workers seem helpless il the battle. we re-
member the words which faded on the lips
of John Wesley, TO be treasured and re-
peated by his children throughout the
world, THE best OF all is, God IS with Us. -
Rev. DR.. Watts of London made the first
address. He said: .'Our financial resources
are augmenting greatly, yet Christian mil
lionaires should be an impossibi!lty. Our
intellectual resources are multiplying mar
velously. Old barriers are being broken
down. Commerce and science are combining. 4
The people in the lands of the Greek and
Latin churches are profoundly stirred up by
our modern thought and life and old super
stitions are passing away. Finally
we are gaining power by
our growing unity. What then
he said, may we not accomplish with our
ever accommodating resourcesl If men of
this generation are true 10 God then the
next generation will hail 4 united Method
ism"
Chancellor Edward Mays of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church. South, of Oxford
Miss, spoke of the Christian resources of
the New World. Let agnostiCs and atheists
sheer as they would, let pesSlmism
wear its gloomy front as it would. yet the
glorious fact remained, and the hard, cold
logic of histories demonstrated it to a fact
that Gods truth is marching on
Rev. ]. A. NJ. Champman of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church of Philadelphia said
that the facility with which this country J
could and did assimilate 4 half
million immigrants yearly was
marvellous, and we would hardly
be conscious of it. were it not for the pro-
fessional agitators. anarchists, hopeless
tuted too large a fraction of the
tide. The public school was the
bulwark of our liberties and free institu-
tons, most important agency of harmon
izing and unifying and welding together
the diverse elements o. our population.
Applause. Palsied TO ,ever be the hand
that is uplifted for lis overthrow. Zap
Rev DR.. W. V. Tu1or of the Methodist
Episcopal church, South, OF Richmond,
Va, quoted the late DR.. Curry
rs saying: The greatest need of
the church to-day was that the pockets
Of the church milli)naires should be
He would &c step fu Their and say that the |
rich and poor alike should dedicate them |
selves and their possessions to the service |
of God.
Bishop Keene of the Methodist Episcopal |
church. South, said :he had been much dis |
turbed at the spirit of higher criticism l
shown, and particularly by the
iured the brethren to take the problem |
of evolution home with them and get down |
and look at it. There was nothing in |
the Darwinian theory if you took time |
out of it. The greatest thing about |
MIR. Wesley was that he knew what |
to get rid of. [Applause.l He admired
greatly his English friends now in the con-
ference, but he had a word of advice for |
them. Go home, get rid of this doc !
trine. Evolution puts bomb at the |
bottom of the Pentateuch of Moses that |
will blow you up if you don't get rid !
of it. If you can't get rid of the |
doctrine get nd of the men and the institu- |
tons that teach it, no matter how dear they |
are to you. They will blow you up if you |
do not. / must confess this<i
is the first great issue in the !
Methodist faith. There have been schisms, |
but this is the first issure. This is not specu- |
lation. Knock the time out of Darwinism |
and there is nothing left oft