Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-21
CLOSE OF THE CONFERENCE.
Eloquent Addresses Made at the Final SEES
sion on the Work Accomplished.

THE CHURCH OF THE FUTURE ABLY DISCUSSED
RESOLUTIONS OF THANKS TO EVERYBODY
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. HOSPITALITY PRAISED
BISHOP HURsrs TOUCHING CLOSING REMARKS
1.-The Church of the Future'-the last topic
on the ecumenical conference prOgyam-was
connected with the church of Timothy Dwight s
day when Bishop Hurst. as presiding officer,
announced Dwights well-known hymn at the
opening OF the final session
81 love thy kingdom. Lord,
The house of Thine sboie;
The church dear ieieeIner saved
with his own precious blood"
sang the conference and the crowd Of visitors
in the galleries. There was only small num-
Der of delegates present when the devotional
exercises commenced. but they gathered around
the doorwsys while Bishop Cranberry of the
NJ Z. church south prayed for those things
which. to him. seemed to be most in need of
Divine guidance, and when the venerable Bishop
Bowman of the Methodist Episcopal church
commenced to read from the fourteenth chap
ter of ST. John a large number of the belated
delegates moved to their seats as uolselessly
possible
RESOLUTION on EoMAS.sx.
Secretary King followed Bishop Bowman,
and the secretary's communication differed
materially from that OF the bishop. 1t was a
resolution from the business committee ON the
subject of Romanism- IL to the effect
THAT this conference views with deep concern
the subtle and persistent efforts of the Roman
hierarchy TO make its power felt outside its
own proper sphere in many lands to the detri-
ment and danger of the civil and religious lib
critics Of the people. This conference recOg-
nizes with satisfaction the fact that the Roman
Catholic lalty have III notable instances had
the courage and the wisdom to withstand the
unwarTan5able pretensions of their eccles;as-
teal saperiors, and the conference further
disclaims any intentions to seek for itself or
the churches IL represents a single privilege
which il would not readily eoncede to ali
others: but IL feels bound tO remind the
members of these churches Of the sacred rights
and privileges they enjoy, won for them by
the sacrifice and fidelity OF their forefathers.
and to call on then 20 unite with the MEM
bers OF other Protestant churches in main
tanning their great inheritance of freedom and
handing down the same, intact TO the succeed
ing generations
There was also q resolution in which the con-
ference relieved itself from all responsibility
for sentiments expressed III the addresses which
will appear in the printed proceedings
When the resolutions had been adopted. and
there was no debate thereon. the Rev. Thos. G.
Selby of Greanock. Scotland. and of the Wes-
leyan Methodist church. wanted TO have it that
a speech made by Bishop heener IN the morn
ing was not relevant and was simply an attempt
on the part of that divine to complete a speech
which the presiding officer cut off on October
H. He moved tina: the morning speech be not
printed ic the record OF the morning proceed
ines, but in some more appropriate portion of
the volume. There was instantaneous and vO-
ciferous objection. Secretary King raised
point Of order that puncturcd iir. Selbys bub-
Die and that ended the incident.
TIE CHURCH OF THE FUTURE
The concluding paper-the last to be read to
the second eeumenical conference-wGs by the
Rev. J. NJ Buckley, D., his subject being
1.-The Church of the Future" The course of
his essay was that from the view. point of our
Lords ascension the church OF the immediate
future consisted of the churches named ana
charae terized in the New Testament. In more
extended view from the same point the church
of the future Is revealed in alliance with the
Roman empire under Cons tan tine-a little later
came the conflict between the cross and the
crescent; then the time of the reformation.
The future Of the church must
be elucidated by an analysis of what 1t
is with a proper allowance for what may
be called the cataclysinie interference of Divine
Providence This requires to estimate the
direction and force OF the CAUSES now at work
Of evil portents are noticed: Business honesty