The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-21
END OF THE CONFERENCE.
THE OUTLOOK" THE TOPIC FOR
THE DAYS DEBATE.

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| WASHINGTON. Oct. 2O.--The twelfth and
last day'Ssession OF the ecumenical Metho-
dist conference opened this morning with
Rev. DIR. Thomas Allen of the Wesleyan
Methodist church of England in the chair.
| Through Secretary King the business
committee reported a resolution looking to
the appointment of a deputation of repre-
sentatives of the congress to visit the pan
Presbyterian council to be held at
Toronto next year. The committee
also reported amendments to the
resolution presented yesterday relative
to the creation OF ali executive commission
| to make the necessary arrangements for the
next ecumencial conference. The reports
were adopted without division.
| The topic of the day was, THE Outlook. ~
| The first essay of the session was on the sub
| Ject of the Christian resources of the old
| world by Rev. John S. Simon of the Wes-
| leyan Methodist church OF Kent.
CHRISTIAN RESOURCES OF AMERICA.
In the discussion which followed Chan
| cellor Edward Mayes of the Methodist
| Episcopal church south of Oxford, Miss,
| spoke OF the christian Resources of the
| New World.n 1t appears from well authen-
ticated statistics that the actual commune
cants in the various churches number about
| I1,OO0,000, which is about one-fourth of
the entire population. This enormous
| statement must arrest attention. Before its
hunters the massed armies of all Europe
| dwindle. The total is four times as great as
was that of our entire population one cent
ury ago. The invested values In church
edifices, parsonages, manses, rectories,
| schools, colleges, publishing houses, religious
| periodicals, orphanages, hospitals and
| refugees are enormous in total. We may
note vast missionary enterprises expending
annually more than $13 100000. Forty-five
| religious publishing houses are maintained
in the United States and Canada. Over 500
colleges and universities of a denomina-
tional character are to be found in the
United s ates alone, exclusive of the semi
naries. academies and institutes. The
Methodist Episcopal church, and the Meth
odist Episcopal church south, have, alone
$40. .OO0, 600 invested in higher school prop
erty, with Sl5, 600, 900 of endowments. The
foregoing statement of Christian resources
in the new world fills us with thankful
ness for the advancement made
and with hope for the future
Let sgnostics and atheists sneer as they will
Let pessiuism rear its gloomy front as it
will yet the glorious fact remains and the
hard. cold facts of statistics demonstrate it
to be fact that Gods truth" is marching
on.
A PLEA FOR CONTRIBUTIONS.
Rev. DIR. w. V. Tudor Of the Methodist
, Episcopal church south, Richmond, Va.
quoted the late DIR. Curry as saying thai
the greatest need for the church to-day
was that the pockets Of the church million.
aires should be empted in the service OF
Christ's missions. He would go a step
further and say, thar not only the rich in
the church dedicate their wealth
to church work, but rich and
poor alike should be willing to dedicate
themselves and their possessions to the serv-
ice OF God. That service demands greater
sacrifices than mere wealth. Christians
must give themselves, all they are and all
they have, to the work of the Savior.
The Rev. DIR. J. c. Price of the
African Methodist Episcopal Zion
church of North Carolina, told of the
resources of the church in all the natural
manifestations in Gods energy. Every
man. woman and child living representa-
immediate forces that should be used in
Chrtst's cause. The church should 20
to those people outlide of the church
and demand of hem their help, for they
owed their being and welfare to Christ de-
mand Of them by authority OF the king
that they come into the church. Tbe church
had bright outlook because 1t had in it the
! vitality and personality Of Jesus Christ.
THE ASHLEY BEDS.
Bishop Keener of the Methodist Episcopal
church south had, he said, been much dis
turbed at the spirit of criticism shown, and
particularly by the British Weslsyans.
They may believe that they were in advance
of the Americans. Within twelve hours of
the conference were deposits of the fossil
remains of every known animal In enor-
nous quantity-the Ashley beds Prof.
Agassiz had visited these beds and they had
presented to him tray of horses teeth. He
had gone down on the floor and studied them
all night, and in the morning had exclaimed:
"These old bones have set me crazy; they
have destroyed the work OF a lifetime.
The bishop then adiured the brethren TO
take the problem Of evolution home with
them, get down and look at it. The doc
trine of evolution was watch
under 3 steam hammer, and the steam
hammer was the wonderful deposit of the
Ashley beds. There was nothing in the
Darwinian theory if you took the time ont
Of it: and these beds took the time out of il.
The greatest thing about Wesley was that
be knew what to get rid Of. Applause
. He admired greatly his English friends
now in conference, but he had a word of
advice for them: 500 home, get rid of this
doctrine OF evolution that puts a bomb at
| the bottom of the Pentateuch ard Moses
} that will blow you up, if you don't get out
of it. If you can't get rid Of
the doctrine. get rid of men and institutions
that teach it, no matter how dear they are
to you. They will blow you up il you don't.
/ must confess that this is the first great
fissure in the Methodist faith. There have
been schisms, but this is the first fissure.
This is not speculation. Knock the time
ont of Darwinism and there is nothing left
, Of it; and these Ashley beds knock it out. .
[Applause
LAST OF TIE SESSIONS
Bishop Hurst called the conference to
order this afternoon for the last Of the
twenty-seven sessions it has held during the
past two weeks.
Through Secretary King. the business
committee presented tho following resolu-
tion. which was adopted
That this conference views with desp concern
the subtle and persistent efforts OF the Roman
hierarchy TO make It's power felt outside its own
proper sphere In many lands to the detrimeni
and danger Of the civil and religious liberties
Of tie people. This conference
recognizes, with satisfaction, the fact
that the Roman Catholic laity have
in notable Instances lad the courage and wisdom
to withstand the unwarrantable pretensions Of
their ecclesiastical supsnors aud the confer
snce further diselaims any intentions TO seek
| for itself or for the chnrekss ii represents /.
singls privilege which 10 would not readily con
eeGe 70 others; but u feels bound 70 remind the
| members Of the churches Of the
sacred rghia and privileges they enjoy w0u
, for them by the eacrifice aud fidelity OF their
/ fDfefathers and 10 call on Them 20 unite witl
tbs nembsrs Of other Protestant cIuFcacs Ia
maintaining their great Inheritance % Freedom
I i a. I.