Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1891-10-09
Edgar B. HaymOnd's Writ of
Habeas Corpus.
The Matter Before the State Su-
preme Court.
Evidence Regarding the Legality of
the Grand Jury Admitted.
Greed Raymond Asks for Writ to Pre-.
vent stephen t. Gage from Beingi
Fined and Imprisoned.
No Decision.


ical Methodist conference, this morn
ing, Rev. DIR. Waller, of London, read
paper on the present status of Method
ism in the eastern section, which COM
prises Europe and the British depen-
denotes. He showed that the church is
making great progress in this territory.
Rev. John Medicraft, of Manchester,
representing the English Methodist new
connection, followed Waller. He said
the Methodists are performing a great
and good work outside of America.
Throughout vast regions of Europe,
Asia and Australia, Methodism is ex-
erting great influence.
Rev. James Donnelly, of Newry, Ire
land, vice president of the Irish Meth
odist conference, said the church is in
danger from the spirit of self-glory in
ireland.
DR.. Hugh Price Hughes, of the West
London mission, said the church of Eng
land itself was in a minority in Eng
land. A cruel law forced non-conformists
to send their children to church schools.
A mistake was made in not taking DIR.
dQflCC JWCAtJ JCdl6 dkO. anu
establishing non-sectarian schools. His
own church has inaugurated the move
ment.
Rev. J. Travis, Primitive Methodist
of England, spoke of the educational in
situations in that country, and congratu-
lated the church on its growth.
At the afternoon session Bishop Fow-
Ter, of San Francisco, read an essay
upon the present status OF Methodism
in the western (American) section. A
Methodist, he said, never whipped a
Quaker, nor burned witch, nor BAN
ished a Baptist. History tells us
that the present status of Amer
lean Methodism is the result OF
unnumbered forces of heart and brain,
tide and tempest, climate and tempera-
ture, transit and eclipse through count
less ages. A hundred years growth in
this soil, and in this free state, has pro-
duced condition of life dissimilar from
any other development among men. A
hundred years ago there was but one
Methodist denomination, one annual
conference, eighty-three travelling
preachers and 14,9SS members. Today
there are fifteen denominations of
Methodists. The one conference has
multiplied into about three hundred
have multiplied into 81 ,z65, besides
10000 local preachers; and the Ia, 98S
members, actual communicates, have
multiplied into over 100000, with
5000, 600 Sunday-school children, and a
following of over 20,000,000 souls in the
republic.
Methodism crossed into this CEN
fury leaning on a solitary staff
she will pass out of this CEN
fury with more than two bands,
besides focks, herds, camels and asses,
for she has over $4,000 churches and
about $1,000 parsonages, with church
property worth more than 5000, 1000, 900.
The first act of American Methodism
was to ordain college.
Public opinion, that is the power back
of the bench, of the pulpit. of ballots
and of bullets.
The great problem of governing these
millions of America is the simple ques-
ton of forming public opinion. Meth
odism, having nearly half the people Of
this country, has only to be worthy of
her inheritance and true to her God tc
make this land the land of promise fol
the ignorant and oppressed, and the ap
preaching century the golden age fol
the race.
Bishop Fowler spoke of the vigorous
work of the different branches of the
church, and said her highest want is a
firm grip upon the supernatural. Unless
Methodism is supernatural she is
nothing. In the chilling fog of higher
criticism, which is higher only
in name and assumption, all
the warmth and winsomeness OF
Christianity is destroyed. The great
center and secret of Methodism, the
reason of her existence, is to bear testi
mony, to acknowledge religion, to secure
and repeat the witness of the Holy
Spirit, with our spirit, to our present
state of grace. Our next need is ideas
We must reach out in all directions.
We ought to capture and utilize every
secret that brings success to any other
church. Methodism needs the courage
to seize and utilize all ideas. There
must be no power too great for us
to master. Again we must fight
cities are the fonts. Whomsoever holds
them, holds the future. The church
must settle the labor difficulty. If we
allow any other agency to settle it, we
must give place to that agency and SER
iously reduce our usefulness among
men. Another want is consecrated
money. Already all the great questions
of saving this world are reduced to ques-
tions of money.
The bishop, in closing, said: "Unity
is strength, and this law holds with UNI
abated power over every branch of
the Christian church."
Bishop Fowler was greeted with pro-
longed applause.
Bishop Galloway, of Mississippi, rep
resenting the M. E. church, South, de-
voted his remarks largely to the subject
of the status of Methodism in this coun-
try, and speaking for the south, said
il had rich Methodist heritage. There
had been a healthy growth in that
division. Rev. DR.. Briggs, of Toronto,
Ont, described the enormous bounda-
ries of the Dominion, the growth of the
church in Canada, etc., saying that it
was the largest in membership of any
Protestant church in Canada, and in
cluded one-third of the Protestant COM
mUnicants.
Bishop Arnstt, OF Ohio, representing
the Africo- Methodist Episcopal church,
reminded his hearers that there was a
dark as we'll as light side to every
question. He recalled that the colored
people had participated in every step of
the growth of Methodism. There were
peculiar missions for the African church.
II had shown the negro not only how to