Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
HOT AGAINST WHISKY.
The Temperance Committee of the
Ii. E. Conference Will Report
FOR LEGISLATIVE PROHIBITION.
Political Parties to Be Notified They Must
Not Favor License
A FEW MORE OFFICERS ARE ELECTED

dI VIC VuctuOulsb IplSCOpdl OcucIdl Noh-
ference to-day. About the first thing that
was sprung was question Of finance.
Amos Shrinkle, Treasurer of the funds to
pay the travelling expenses of the delegates,
announced that the funds had not been paid
in from the annual conference treasurers In
sufficient amount to pay all the travelling
expenses of the delegates.
Some one suggested that the amount be
borrowed from the Book Concern. Some
very vigorous remarks were offered in re-
ply. One delegate declared it was nonsense
to talk about borrowing the money from
the Book Concern, because the amount
would never be paid back. The General
Conferences had borrowed from the Book
Concern time and again, but had rarely, if
ever, repaid, the money. The Conference
ought to be honest, and simply make an ap-
preparation.
The Book Concern Bears the Burden.
DR. Maxfeld moved that the amount
needed, about s., 900, be borrowed from the
Book Concern, and that the amount be as
sessed against those Annual Conferences
which had failed to pay their assessments
for the travelling expenses fund.
"You might just as we'll apportion the
deficit to the sun, moon and stars as to the
Annual Conferences" said DR.. Lanahan. II
move that the amount be drawn from the
Book Concern, and that the agents of the
Book Concern be authorized to charge the
amount to profit and loss Laughter.
After much wrangling the Conference did
what General Conferences have done before
decided to draw the amount from the
Book Concern.
Rev. Mr.. Beardshire, Fraternal Delegate
from the United Brethren Church, was pre-
done by his Church during the last quad
rennium He said the United Brethren
had reached the point where the holy right
of women to preach the gospel when they
felt called from God to enter the ministry
would not be refused them. He hoped the
great Methodist Church would soon come
to a proper light on the question.
Out and Out for Prohibition.
The delegates who clamored for the cleo
tion of more Bishops at the present session
made frantic effort to'open the question
again. A motion for reconsideration was
laid on the table in a twinkling
Some red-hot reports will soon be
launched upon the Conference from the
standing and special committees. The Com
mittee on Temperance and Prohibition of
the Liquor Traffic has report yard long
that will be presented soon. The report re-
affirms the well-known attitude of the Church
upon the saloon question, and declares that
the Church is in harmony with every organi-
zation that seeks to promote total abstin-
ence and the overthrow of the liquor trafics.
The report says:
pal address of 1885, which said: "The liquor
traffic is so pernicious in all its bearings, so
inimical to the interests of honest trade,
so repugnant to the moral sense, so injurious
to the peace and order of society, that the
only proper attitude toward it for Christians
is that of relentless hostility. 1t can never
be legRlized without SIM"
The report further declares that men en-
gagged in the manufacture or sale of intoxi-
eating liquors ought not to receive the COM
mercial patronage of Christians
A Threat to Political Parties.
The traffic is stoutly condemned, and the
whole licensing plan for liquor saloons
is declared to be means to foster and sus-
tain the damaging traffic Closing, the re-
port says that while it is not the province
of the Conference to suggest or dictate as to
the political proclivities of any man, yet
the committee declare that no political
party has a right to expect, neither ought
any party to receive, the support of Chris
tian men so long as that party stands COM
mitted to the license policy or refuses to
put itself on record in an attitude of open
hostility to the saloon.
The Committee on Lay Delegations has
prepared a report, which will recommend
equal lay representation in the Conference
Of 1896.
During the proceedings to-day it was de-
cided to instruct the Central Conference in
India not to make the changes recently de-
cided upon by that Conference, and to await
the adoption of changes to be made by the
General Conference looking to the estab- |
of five conferences instead of
three. Red-hot resolutions, introduced by
Dr. Hamilton, were adopted declaring that
the iniquitous opium habit is making dread
full headway on those coasts, and vigorous
steps should be taken to stamp it out.
Movement for Methodist Unity.
Judge Lawrence offered resolution to |
have commission appointed to ascertain |
what steps can be taken to have the Metho- |
dist Churches united under one organiza- |
ton. Referred to committee.
Mr. Shaw, of Iowa, introduced a resolu- |
ton to call a constitutional conference in |
Chicago in 1893. Though a long list of |
well-known names are appended in approval |
of the Conference, the resolution was re- |
ferred to the next General Conferences |
mild way of strangling the project.
1t required two ballots to elect Dr. c. H |
Payne Secretary of the Board of Education. |
1t was officially reported after adjournment |
that Drs. Kynett and Spencer had been |
elected Secretaries of the Church Extension
Society,"