St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-07
WARM WORDS TODAY,
They Are Expected in the
Methodist Annual Church
Conference.
Congregationalist Church
Federation Plan Will Be
UP for Action.
"Uncle Loren" Has Taken
Another Turn at the Ex-
PLANTATION Business.
j. Milton Turner Will Speak
Tonight--Other Matters
Of Import.

The first thing Bishop Goodsell did
yesterday morning after the Methodist
conference got down to business was to
announce the appointment of the conf
mittee to investigate the conference re-
lations OF Rev. Robert Forbes, of st.
Paul, as follows: Rev. j. b. Hing
eley, h. e. Bible. c. w. Lawson,
T. B. Cowgirl, d. j. Higgins, A. Davis,
E. z. Robertson, G. B. Brecount, L. A.
Jones. }. w. Cornish, Benjamin Loug-
ley. The committee was at work yes
terday afternoon, but none of the menu
DerS would say what was done until the
committee could report to the confer
ence this morning.
During the business session the re-
port of the Methodist Book Concern
was heard. The Methodists have
S5,000,Q00 invested i'll New York and
Chicago. Last year the sales were
S2.043,O00 and the profits $685. The
reports of the presiding elders came
next. All of these were fiattering as
showing that the work of MethodiSm is
not tagging. Rev. G. N. Showers, APP
pointed to the Forest Heights, Mime
apolis, church last year. is ill and cam
not attend to the duties of the pasto-
rate. He has been placed on the super
numerary list. The sum of 5000 was ap-
propriated to pay for publishing the
Louis Curtis called upon the ministers
to investin the Methodist Book Concern.
The Investment will enable a minister
to buy books at so per cent discount and
likely result in giving him a compet-
ency for his old age.
Rev. NJ. C.. B. Mason, of Atlanta. Ca,
presented to the conference an outline
of the work of the Freedmen's Aid and
Southern Educational society, and
asked for help for the society. The so
ciety has in its schools, twenty-three of
them, 10000 pupils. and has sent into
the world with good education no less
than II, 600 young men and women of
color. Rev. j. L. Evans, of Minneap-
oils, spoke for the American Bible SOci-
ETY..
In the afternoon the conference. hay
ing been incorporated last year, met as
a corporation. The following trustees
were elected: Revs. j. H. Dewert,
David Tice, w. w. Satterlee. j. w.
Powell and George r. Hair. Rev. J. B.
Hingeley was appointed a committee
on requests. Later, the trustees met
and elected the following officers:
President, Rev. j. F. Chatfee;
vice president, Rev. William Mckinley {;
secretary, Rev. H. G. Bible: treasurer,
Rev. G. NJ. Heard. The conference met
again at $50, and listened to sermon
by Rev. Peter Clare on missionary work.
The church. he thought, was, not doing
enough missionary work in the cities.
Its work lacks aggressiveness. Last
evening Rev. M. G. Mason, of Georgia,
spoke at Wesley church on the educa-
ton of the negro.
The business session today will prob
ably be the most interesting OF the con-
ference. The matter of church fedora
ton, acted upon favorably by the Con-
gregational Association of Minnesota
two weeks ago. will come up for dis
cussion. Revs. j. II. Chandler and j.
III. Morley, of the Congregational asso-
citation, will address the conference.
Their addresses will make the
point that the one Church of Christ
churches. aud that those churches. the
denominations, that is. are one in spirit.
Therefore, they should work together.
The conference will be asked to adopt
resolutions declaring in favor of church
federation. and authorizing the appoint
ment of committees to work for that end
with the state meetings of the other de-
nominational bodies. The debate on
this question promises to be warm. A
good deal of opposition to the federation
idea is to be found among the Metho-
diSts.
Rev. j. G. Kylett is working on this
conference in the interest of another
church federation plan. 1t is a fedora
ton along the line of temperance work.
He proposes that all the temperance
workers in all the various denomina-
tions unite for the furtherance of that
work. They would consider all phases
of the temperance movement. from the
enforcement of the laws against Sunday
liquor selling and the selling of liquor to
minors. up to absolute prohibition.