The Red Cloud chief., 1892-05-27
Me1AoDlsrs N CONFERENCE.
Proceedings OF the Tweuty-fourth Quad
renpiai Conference of the thodi
Church Mt Omaha, Neb.

Proceedings OF h Twenty fourth Quad
renpiai Conference of the Methodist
Church MT Omaha. Neb.
BISHOP GoopsELL presided at the Methodist
conference on the 18th. The delegate from
Italy arrived and was given q scat In the con-
ference. Rev. Thomas Hanlon. OF pennington
seminary, introduced u resolution declaring
that the Methodist Episcopal church should
come out squarely upon the great struggle be-
tween capital and labor being waged In this
country. He declared that the church had not
showns sufficient sympathy with the toiling mil.
lions. and said: 1.-The laboring classes are
drifting away from the church. Our church is
made up OF women TO n large extent The men
are drifting away from It, We must take .
stand on this great question Affecting capital
and labor. The church has been too much In.
clincd to lean toward the interests Of the cap
italisie." The resolution was referred. Adele-
gate from the Indiana conference introduced y
resolution 70 change the rules so as to admit
women as lay delegates In the general confer
encc and TO instruct the annual conferences mat
either men or women might be elected Us dele
gates Referred. Memorial services were then
commenced, with Bishop Bowman In the chair,
and occupied the remainder OF the session.
The quaddrennial conference had no formal
session on the ilth- The members went on an
excursion 70 Lincoln. where they were officially
entertained. and when they returned to Omaha
n mass meeting was held In Exposition hall Ut
night In the interest Of the educational work OF
Bisuop HuRsf presided over ne quadDs hnial
conference on the 10th Or. Swindel11 offered
: resolution declaring that the army and navy
OF the United States should be Instructed In re-
leion and good morals, and asking congress TO
provide q competent end suf1cicnt number OF
chaplain's for this purpose. Also that o board
Of three bishops be appointed To pass upon tho
| qualifications OF Methodists applying for chap
lainship in the army, and that the president be
| requested 10 refuse the application OF all who
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other clause was introduced, protesting against
| the proposed change In the army rules by which
the chaplains would be employed the same as
teamsters, cooks, etc DIR. Swindells declared,
that there were scvcnty-two posts In the United
States army without chaplains. The resolution
was referred. A resolution was adopted by
| which no resolutions or memorials will be re-
ccived from committees after May 10 Another
resolution to adjourn tho conference sine die
May 20 was defeated by q vote OF 2i 10 1913.
DIR. Ridgway, for the womcn's national
council. In session In Chicago. presented %
resolution asking the general conference to
come out ~squarely in favor OF the admission OF
women into the legislative, councils Of the
church and declare that there was no such
thing as sex In the church. Memorial services
were then concluded. A long wranglc then fol-
lowed over the report Of the committee on epis.
copscy. DR.. Nicely opposed the idea OF locat.
ing any episcopal residence in foreign lands,
and DR.. Burklcy said that Bishop Goodsell and
Dr. Ninde had convinced the committee that
the residences should not be removed from To-
peka and Fort Worth. The report was 10
amended as to provide for an episcopal resi-
dence At Detroit and one In the state OF Wash
inyton, cutting out the other part OF the report
II was then adopted. The report which was
adopted recommends that there be no colored
bishops elected for the reason that no more
bishops were needed at present, and when the
time should arrive to elect more bishops the
question OF color shoum not be considered In
the election. 90
BISHOP BOWMAN presided over the Method.
list conference on the 18th. The committee on
i~tincracy returned q report recommending tho
abolition Of the five. limit on the appoint
ment Of pastors. The report favored the idea
Of permitting bishops to appoint pastors every
year without reference to the place which the
ministers had been assigned the year previous.
As the church law has stood for many years. Q
pastor could not remain Ut one place longer
than tive years In succession. The
on the state Of the church was vehement In its
denuzciation Of the treatment Of the colored
race in the south. 1t called upon tho gov.
eminent, the state officials. the Methodist
Episcopal church and oil good citizens ia
arise and abolish the inthgniues and
outrages that are put upon the colored people
1t declared that the colored people were treated
shamcfully on the railway trains and ut hotels
and in every way. They were shot down like
dogs and the Law Of the land was trampled un.
race The resolution was adopted Dr. iSaS.
ford Hunt and DR.. Homer Eaton were elected
agents Of the New York book concern, and DIR.
Cranston and DR.. Curtis agents OF the Cincin'
natl concern Messrs. Peck, McCabc and Leon
ard were reelected missionary secretaries, the
eolored candidate. Or Hammond' got only two
pleting the election OF officers.
BISHOP FOSTER presided AZ the Methods,
conference on the 18th. The fraternal delegates
Of the Independent Methodist church were re
ceived by the conference. A resolution was
| fhan tutrolurad pynrpRsinp the gatigfactfOu nj
the conference upon the efforts Of the f~raterna
delegates from the Methodist Episcopal church
South and tho Independent Methodist church
and expressing q hope that In the near future
oil branches Of the Methodist church would be
come one body. 1t WAS adopted. The oficia
vote was announced for the second agent fol
the Cincinnati book concern. showing the elec
ton Of DR.. Curtis. of Chicago. j. w. Mcnden
hnll was re. elected editor Of the Methodist Re
view; ]. A. Hurlburt secretary Of the Sunda!
School and Tract society; Dr. =. N: buckle!
editor Of the New York Christian Advocate
! and Dr d. II. Moore editor Of the Cincinnati
! Christian Advocate. Tho report Of the com
mittee on itineracy was then taken up It pro
poses TO strike out that section In the discipline
providing for the nve-year limit on the pastor
ing q minister back to the same place year afte
year II expedient. Arthur Edwards, editor O
the Christian Advocate, favore,
nboiishing the hve.year limit. This would sim
plv enable the bishops and presiding elders .
: keen men In those places where they could b.
; Of the greatest benefit TO the church., and 1
would entirely remove the apparent claim O
: the pastors upon the right TO be kept In tn
, sam place for five years. The report was fuI
ther debated but NO final result reached
= BISHOP MRRRiL.L presided over the Method
list conference on the 10th. DIR. Jesse Bowma
Young, OF Kansas City. was elected editor 9
the St Louis Christian Advocate. A repor
from the committee on the consolidation Q
benevoiencies was presented. 1t recommends
that the Educational society and tho Freed
: mans Aid and Southern Educational s~ocietie
q be not consolidated. The report was adopted
. Then the regular order was taken up. It We
= the discussion OF the time limit resolutio
touching the itiperacy. Rev. u. J. Gray. {
Pennsylvania, was opposed to the abolishmer
OF the flve-year limit, 1t would be drifting 4
ward Congregationnlism, he said, and break u
!, the whole plan of itineracy. He said the abol
! ton OF the time limit n.ght help the bette
class OF the churches, but would be hard on tn
r weaker churches. 1t would create an oligarch
despotism, composed Of the bishops and presto
ing elders TO abolish the five.year limit. HI
therefore, offered q substitute for the minorit
report providing for the submission Of the que
r ton TO the annual conferences. The electio
OF more editors then came up. DR.. ]. T..
| Sawyer wns announced "A elected editor of III