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the part OF Don Ernesto, and was watched appre-
ciatively by q large audience
A CALL FOR COOPERATION.
CHRISTIAN UNITY DISCUSSED BY THE ECU
MENCAL COUNCIL.
SPEAKERS FROM MANY QUARTERS UNITE IN
ADVOCATING MORE HARMONIOUS WORK
BY CHRISTIANS.

BY CHRISTIANS.
Washington. oct. 9-The third days session OF the
Ecumenlcal Methodist Council opened with the Rev.
II. 7. Marshall. Of the Methodist New Connection
England, occupying the presiding officers chair The
topic Of the morning session Christian Unity
The essay delivered by the Rev. DR.. 7. O.
selby Wesleyan Methodist Church. Greenock. Scot
land. Dr. selby began By saying that N the more
spiritual ages that before the human race IL
will incredible that there should have been
centuries in which il the custom 10 measure
unity by Identity OF ecclesiastical order and poty,
by submission rites for the due administration Of
which one caste only had letters patent Milennial
unity Is TO be created by the free spirit OF
God, and the New Testament asserts that
unity is to find It's type fI the Feeipro-
cal relation OF the Father and the son.
Divine unity he said, Is the uprising Of the sap Of
Divine life in man, and not the triumph OF coercive or
diaectc force Is IL gerry or our reproach that
within recent years nave had comparatively few
controversial writer's who have been forcing our posi-
tons upon the other Churches9 For more than haf
century we have the Quakers of theology. And
have We not our reward? For other Churches are
approx!mating TO our positions with singular unan-
Unity Mr.. Selby closed his essay with a strong
plct for a reunited Mcthodsm.
The Rev. Dr. A. 5 Hunt of the Methodist Epis
copa Church Of New York, followed. lie said great
future opened before Methodsm, and it behooved Meth
Odsts % pray TO Goa Inat IL might DC better IMAM tho
past The Rev. Thomas Mitchell, OF the Primitive
Methodist Church Of Hull England, said that Christ
I'D not desire absolute uniformity in the Church but
unity Could not the British Mehodsts unite The or
game union of their churches desirable (Appause
The Rev. c. F. Reid of Florence KY. representing
III. Methodist Episcopal Church, South. told Of the
birth Of the Methodist Union CT China. The Rev Dr.
William Nicholas Of Dublin, representing the Irish
Methodist Church. maintained that there was real
b.f-t h,tt bapa tuoe for
its manifestation good deal Of Hberaty and freedom
of thought must be allowed. In Ireland where there
was a great deal Of strife, there practically but
one Methodist Church, and the union had worked bet
ter than its most enthusiastic advocates had expected
The Rev. Dr. Ralph Abercrombie. Of the United
Methodist Free Church Of England; the Rev.
Dr. William Arthur Of London; the Rev.
W. p Lark Of the Bible Christian Church, Isle
Of Wight the Rev J. Swarm Wilmington, Of the United
Methodist Free Church. Bristol, England; the Rev.
E. F. Hoes OF the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
from Nashville Tenn; the Rev. william Gibson Of
the British Methodist Church Of Paris, and Thomas
Lawrence Primitive Methodist, Of Leicester. England
also spoke At the conclusion Of the debate recess
was taken.
After the recess Bishop Warren, Of Colorado, took
the chair The Rev. DR.. \. Coke Smith. Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. South, Of Nashville Tenn,
read the first paper Of the afternoon session. His sub
ject was Christian Cooperation" The call for closer
unity and cooperation among the churches he said,
comes I'D from all directions. In order to effect CO.
operation the spirit Of intolerance must be cast aside
and the equal rights privileges Of all Gods people
recognized Without respect for each other, at
tempts at cooperation must fail; without con-
suItatOn there viii be confusion and conflict
There are stupendous evils for tho Gospel to de-
stroy Tile dissertation OF the Christian sabbath :;
the loose divorce laws strike the sacredness
Of the marital relations and destroy the family the
unholv passion for GAIN which tramples on right and
virtue and CANDLES with the bread 81 the poor; and
above ALL that bncIest the catalogue Of evilscrue
and remorscless a. hell-the lesauzed traffic in in
toxicatiug liquors. All thes. and their accompanying
evils must be destroyed. And for this work the
world must look to the church Cooperation is
needed in phanthropic and educational work. Com
bnatlon here means strength; division, weakness.
In the work Of foreign missions there should be
Christian comfy and hearty hepfulness.
The Rev ". Redferd, Of the United Methodist Free
Church. Bristol, England, the next speaker, treated
Of Christian cooperation in the Old country. lie
said that in England the time ripe for the final
movement.
The Rev T. J. Ogbum, OF the Methodist Protestant
Church Of Henderson y. c.; the Rev. James Le
Huray. Methodist New Connection Church Of South
port England the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes Of Lon
don and the Rev DR.. f. e.. Williams OF Montreal, fol
lowed Bishop Fitzgerald Of Minnesota, said that tue
most important question before the council was Ins
in the vein .
As the council about to adjourn a noteworthy
scene occurred. President, Myers, OF the British
Methodist Free Church, rose 10 say that he was in
structed bv his lOw-Churchmen here t. say that
they responded to the offer 10 unite. Many Other
presidents Of the English branches followed, and me
scene one OF great enthusiasm