Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-09
REV. WIN. BRIGGS, DID.

Rev. DR.. VIM. Briggs in commencing his ad-
dress spoke at some length and interestingly of
the oneness of the church in Canada. Dr.
Briggs IL from Toronto and is book steward Of
the Canadian conference, in charge of the
Methodist book and publishing house. He said
that he represented the Methodist church with
out prefix or suffix. He described the enor-
nous boundaries Of the dominion, paid trib-
ute to the energy of its people and predicted
that when the north pole was discovered a
Canadian would be found upon it waving the
union jack. In Canada the church needed no
distinguishing appellation such as Wesleyan, or
Episcopal, or Bible, anything else. for it
was known by that grand old and generic term
the Methodist church. He described the growth
OF the church in Canada. saving that ii was
the largest in membership of any Protestant
church and included one-third of the Protes-
tant communicates.
The temperance question was one that re-
celved great attention. As a church the Meth
odists of Canada were the first and foremost in
fighting the great evil OF intemperance. In
this new land with its strength and VITALITY
Methodism seemed to be of larger enterprise
and greater facility and with greater capacity
for success than in any land under the sun.
BISHOP ARNErTs ADDRESS.
Bishop Arnett, the eminent colored divine.
in his address, the third on tho program for
the afternoon, said that he spoke for the west
ern section. with 10000, 600 population, and
of these he represented 100000 people.
There was dark side well as light side to
every question. He. recalled that in wesley
Chronicles" it was shown that in 1853 Wesley
baptized one white man and two colored men
that with Philip Embrey and Barbara Heck
was Betty. the cOlored servant
I'VE are equal in origin, equal in RESPONSE
bility and in destiny" said the bishop. 1--WE
are connected with the British and American
Methodism-no matter where they found their
source--and by the grace of God we are going
to stay there"
Continuing the speaker recalled that the COL
ored people had participated in every step of
the growth of Methodism. They had sat up
high in the south and behind the door up
north, but they had the grace OF God in their
hearts all the time. Now there were 8, 752 trav-
cling preachers in the African church. Then
biz Protestant Episcopal bhDthers had some,
too. They married their sons to the others
daughters, ana II there was q good thing in
either church they were sure to get it. Alto
gether there were more than half of the ne
grOes in the United States influenced by the
African Methodist pulpits' There we're pecu-
liar missions for the African church. It had to
show the negro not only how to wear the golden
slippers over there, but to get and wear his
| shoes on Pennsylvania avenue; that he should
be educated and that he should earn and keep
money. for by fat pocket book would he find
the way to the Anglo-Saxon heart.
OTHER AppREssEs.
In one OF the brief supplementary addresses
that were permitted after the conclusion Of the
regular program DR.. Buckley of New York
spoke Of the value Of statistics in dealing with
church matters, and declared that they were
| often misleading. II was not always safe to
multiply the number Of members Of church
by a large number to ascertain the church con-
stituency.
DIR. Leonard Of New York Of the Methodist
Episcopal church described briefly the work Of
the missionary society. By the 3lst Of this
| month the yearly income Of the society would
aggregate q, $50 600, and taking into account
| the receipts from the Womens Mission and
other sources the grand total would be nearly
q. SOO, 0OO So OF church building, he said that
| every two years the Methodist church was
building a. many churches - the Roman Gath
olics had in all the land. Surely II this good
| work went on there would be no danger OF the
| country falling into Roman Catholic hands.
] Rev. DR.. J. 9. simmons Of California de-