New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-20
roRK OF THE METHoDISTS.
-,orrEpINGs OF THE ELEVENTH DAYS
SESSION.
CHURCH AND PUBLIC MORALITY - THE
CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR CHRISTIANS
GAMBLING AND SPECULATION.
nENouNCED-AN Address 10
pENoUNCED-AN ADDRESS TO
THE CHURCHES,

pENoUNCED-AN ADDRESS TO
THE CHURCHES.
washington oct ls.-The eleventh days session
, .ns Fcumenieal Methodist Council opened WIN
,uvau Marden, Wesleyan Reform Union. England III
~. ehssr A report made upon the suoIeo' Va
= ~ prayer recommending thai the week beginning
,.user l5 be set aside for that purpose Inc report
- adopted. The Committee on Methodist sta~s0'cs
-. report some OF the details OF which were
..,,ors. Eastern secton-Europe. ministers, 443l
.nhers 9l5.2S4; sdherents, 4,2Os SOL AsiS-NllI-
...rs 533: members, 34,334 adherents' ll4'"oo'
.sses-Ministers. 2e4; members I,l4'' aoaereh.s' !
80 ore Australasia and Polynesia-Ministers 'oo'
-.rbers. 9s14O; adherents, 4ss,1s2 Totals TOT
s.s,srp section-Mnisters. 6,o94; members LIS
COS. adherents, 5Oo6l2s.
u...rn section-Mlnisters, 36,6ol members, $780,
az. oshe-entk 20 os1 e76; grand totals ministers
- sos members 8 494 300; adherents. 25,378, lO4
- s..phenson suggested that footnote be attached
- anh item of the report stating the basis OF estimate
"a nth an amendment in this respect the report was
adopted 49,. ..oo,,. =,
. memorial concerning the recognition OF 1ie WISH VI
49, PRESIDENT Of the United states to the Conference
A resolution was adopted MAKING Vo-horrV" s'SSi0A
,h. last Of the Conference.
rr Hamilton presented the report Of the committee
=. a, executive commission The report was as
follows 49,, ...,ons
The committee whom was referred the aSe ar1ODs
,nnsrning a third Ecumencsl Methodist Conference
.seonnend that such conference be held IN tne "a al
TOOL subject to the approval and direction OF a.. a..
tne .Sts1IIv recommends the appointment Of an eh
scItive Commission which shall be constitutea on &
bass ssS and which shall consist of eighty member member
Tbe Commission shall be divided into two SCI s Sffy
called respectively the Western, to conss tbirty
srbars ard the Eastern section, TO consist OF uI
eTnSsrS The executive commission Of the Encbes
Section Shall Be distributed among the various sooWs
20 Wshodlsm represented in that section a. .hSst
W.sieysn ii members Irish Methodstsi :; Rible
Css q United Methodist Free Church wss
Aastrsan Methodist French Met aob. charches
'i soaiS African Meihodists, /; West INDIA Ne''OO
H IN. w.s.rn section shall be distributed as follows
among the various branches Of Methodism Tns m
in that section Methodist BPiscgpaL. ,ee Methodist
ssrs Net9Sdlst ER SS african Methodist Episcopal
Church, three; African MethodlSI me Methodist
Protestant one United BTethreR, IN C S5,ctSdist
American Wesleyan one nlon ,1s4bodst EPISCOPAL
o1s Free Methodist one Congregational Met6Sds
one Primitive Methodsts, one Brtsa $500 j
Christ fod constitution one Eyangelcal Assocau0u,
Among other duties he or tbe next executive
conference subject to the approval OF the several
churches represented
Ater some discussion the consideration Of the re-
mort went over until tomorrow and the topic OF 'he
say-@The Church and Public Morahty7-was taken up.
7, the unavoidable absence Of f. W. T. Ill., oil
Nocon Ga his ESSAY on legal restraint on me wees
o, society was read by the Rev DR.. W. v Tudor OF
pichmond Va I've are sometimes tod he began
aby those who admit that legal restraint on the vices
Of society Is within the jurisdiction Of the state thst
such legislation is nugsOry. You cannot make men
mi nv act Of Parliament 50 runs the threadbare
pathos OF this wornOut pastoral Now. II this means
thai Jaw cannot generate inward righteousness It Is
true but those who saw the air With this old saw very
well know that the friends Of moral legislation DO not
propose to accomplish by It any such result for
statutes of every kind TO deal only with mems
ads-net with intentions or motives. The rules OF tie
churches never created inward holiness that is not
their function In church economy. But they serve as
an inerenia and wholesome discipline Of conduct ana
thus they help 70 make men moral by law. The truth
Is that there very hte danger O. tie enactment OF
law under representative government in advance Of
the working beliefs Of ut least majority OF the com
munity.7
The Rev. Joseph Posnett. Of the Wesleyan Methodist
Church, HUI. England delivered address on Legal
Restraint the Vices Of society Betting and
gambling, he said is present day question, and Is OF
sHeynoerniag importance. There Is no evil Of our
tines which is 50 widespread rapid in ts develop
uenr 80 colossal In It's proportions and so prophetic
~ r1n " personal social and natnal character 2no
morals wherever IT is INDUCED. The turf says The
Pal Man Gazette hes degeneTated into dlShoneS 81
sambi he'll The late Lori Btac1n.h Id de-c1ba q
as vast engine Of national generalization Inc
evil consists in the degree or excess In which The
pracce is INDUCED but in the Indulgence Of 1t at ALL
gambling be essentially wrong wrong in principle, 1t
cannot pos bly, be right IN degree. Possibly one OF
The worst forms Il sambing-gamblng practised on a
colossal scale and gambling INDUCED in by not fe"
Christ AL pTofessors-is the gambling Of the stock TX
shange Talk Of frantic, fanstical, uproarious ell
thusAsms he said on matters religious a. someihns
to b eoneemned-for part, have never seen OF
heard anything in connection with the widest religious
excitement at all comparable with what saw for the
spsce Of half all hour about fortnight since in Wall
Street In New-York- As England and America have
desh with the slave dragon curse, 50 we must deal
with the drink demon And so We must deal with tho
dragons Of lust cruelty TO women ard little children,
AID more especially the hydra-headed monster Of
gambling and betting. No half measures viii avail.
We must vanquish or be vanqulshed.'
Judge H. l. slbley, of Marietta, Ohio, had as topic
Marriage and Divorce Laws The speakers PROPOSE
ton was that right divorce is cOmpemental to and
demanded BY the right 10 marriage, not only in cases
Of adultery. but also Of desertion. Marriage was a
means, not al end. A primal law Of the relation is
mutual society and helpfuness. This desertion wick
eoly violated Christ gives ground Of divorce and
St. Paul srother wholly different Consequently.
neither both stated the law Of divorce though each
gave case within and which illustrates that law
Hence follows that the law itself Is not matter OF
senptursl statement In substance, think II IS
this: Adultery desertion, and other acts which, like
the first destroy the sexual purity Of the relation,
Or, IKE the second, operate 70 deny 70 an in
nooen party and TO society the substantial benefits,
and 30 what essential the right ti.e relation if
Its bond be held mdissoube are valid for an
nulhng II.
The Rev Dr. Simon Of England. said that the spirit
OF the English delegates coming here had been stirred
al the prevalence Of gambling and betting on the trans
AuAnae steamers The steamship officers refused 10
answer any question about the ships course and prog
res, OF the ground that pool had been formed.
1hoinss kuddle, D. A, head master OF the Bible
snlsuAh College shebbear, Devon, England spoke on
lug AU"uoe Oh ths Church toward Amusements."
He said that whatever NAV be the au+ - ,,e ,brrcb
toward smusements, is obviously not her outv TO be
hosrle toward them. On The other hand il IS not
hef mission 70 provide smusemeau Let her use
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