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

She was full OF this revealing. illumin-
ing power, and almost every full breath
since her first has spoken some Institution for
advanced education into being. With her
hundreds Of universities and colleges and
| theological schools, and with her
thousands Of professors and instructors,
and with her tens Of thousands Of
vestigation. with no one TO limit or embarrass
the search for truth. with her text books re-
ceived into the best universities and translated
into scores Of languages, she at least has right
to stand in the first class Of the worlds educa-
| tors.
Thus born and bred, working in every de-
partment OF scholarship from her youth
up, it is only natural that she should
scatter sea he. printed pages yearly by
libraries literally everywhere. The greatest
religious publishing house in New York and in
America Il the Methodist Book Concern. The
greatest in the sunny south is the Methodist
dist Publishing House Of Toronto.
Out of these great brain centers are projected
scores Of ganglions Of nerve power in
periodicals extend into every civilized
master il the service Of the govern
ment that does not handle some Of her papers
There il hardly hamlet inside the outermost
are no. circulated and read. with
her great and inexhxustible treasures
OF knowledge such as McClintock 4
Strong's Cycl ip@dia, with her great arguments,
such IS Fosters Objections to Calvanism and
and Bic isoe's Theoclasm and Whedon on the
WILL that have driven fatalism out of the
Christian church, and with her Bowne's
Metaphysics, that have gone as text books
into the leading universities, and with her
Chautauqua literary circles reading transla-
tons of the ancient classics. and volumes Of
modern science in tens Of thousands of COM
munities. Methodism has a right to general re-
spect in the field vi letters. Surely this uear-
nation of the Lambs bride is clothed and in
her right mind
AGENCIES OF THE CHURCH.
Bishop Fowler referred eloquently to tho
great benevolent organization of the church
and to the vast extent of her missionary enter
prises. to the work Of the church extern
sion societies building a new church every
two hours of each working day;
| the Freedman's Aid Society, the Sunday
School Union, the tract societies, the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society, the Woman's Home
Missionary Society, the city mission societies,
the deaconesses' homes and other active agen-
cies in church work. The vast overflow of
Methodism in the life of England, he said, had
| its counter part il America.
Speaking Of the wants of the church, he said
her highest want is a firm grip upon the super
| natural, sharp and full hold upon miraculous
power to make ever the sinner into a new crea-
| ture in the instant of faith.
They had need Of ideas. They must reach
! in all directions with the appliances necessary
for varied success. They should capture
| and utilize every secret that brings
| success to any other church. "Romarl-
ism, he said, with pretence to converting
grace does large business by the power of
her organization and Of her architecture. The
| Protestant Episcopal church achieves COM
Mendable success by her social forces.
| Congregationalism makes itself fairly
useful By her emphasis upon ed I'd,
| her family following aad family training. The
great Baptist church pushes foi ward by her i'm
! mense energy and definite ceremony
ard arc; by souItiIg as good fish fish every very
sea net The Salvation Army is rolling up a
| great army of workers by abandoning
| her pride and respectability to start
| with and by providing no ambuiances and
making no provision tor drones. 1t is
! work or die Methodism needs the courage
to seize and utilize all these ideas from the
| cathedral to the rescue mission, from the uni
versity to the family, from the organ to the
| tombstone. from the great preacher to the
weeping tramp. There must be 10 power too
great for us to master and nc instrument to
humble for us to utilize"
He urged that they must fight for the GEN.
| tiers of population and must reach all classes.
After rapid and eloquent historical review
DlsuOp rOWler clOSeu by saying: luere Is Dut
| one law woven into the history of all peoples
| and filtered into the blood of all races and
molding the craftsmanship of all ages, and that
| is this: The enduring nations nave been: great
nations and unity is strength.
This law holds with undated power over
every branch of the Christian church.
1t holds over the power of Methodism.
You and l may nurse our petty politics
and cayii about the size Of q button or
| the cut Of garment and amuse ourselves
IL
the common enemies OF our evangelism march
| through the breaks in our ranks leaving
| us in our weakness to mourn over our
| defeats. But there is wiser and a
| wider statesmanship within our reach.
| which shall close up all breaks in the ranks of
Methodism, economize all power in her vast
| expenditures. utilize the helpfulness OF
kindly friends and compel the respect
Of the skeptical classes. You and
may first 60 with our littleness and
| orr preiudices to our little and forgotten
graves. but the craftsmanship will come 1 see
| it borne on the mighty current that sweeps
| through all the great ages of history. 1t viii
| come. 1t is in the trend of civilization.
II win come. 1t has the spirit Of
| Christianity. Patient within the shadow
| stands the Prince Of Peace offering us the
crown of the salvation of this great continent,
which we may wear when we are one in Him,
Lord Jesus. give us time and we will come to
! oneness in Thy great spiritual kingdom; and we
will lift this great nation up into Thy right
eousness.
OTHER ADDRESSES.
At the conclusion Of Bishop FowleIs essay
| addresses were delivered by Bishop Galloway.
Rev. VIM. Briggs of Canada, Bishop B. W. Ar
nett of the A, NJ. Z. church and others.
NOTES OF THE CONFERENCE.
DR.. Corey's study has had more people than
! chairs in it all the morning. Pastors of
| all denominations were there making applica-
! ton for the temp orary assignment to their re-
! spective churches of eminent visitors. Some Of
| the applicants came from distant towns, but
| none Of these went away satisfied, because the
| local demand Gncluding Baltimore and Rich
mond) Is fully as large as the supply.
Two great autograph albums are being
| rapidly filed with the names of prominent
| Methodists. One OF these will be taken to
England. the other will remain here. Mr. S. J.