The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-21
METHODIST CONFERENCE.
Money borrowed from tho Book Concern
to Fay Mileage Tho business of the

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OMAHA, NEE, May 2o.-Dlshop Foss
presided over the NJ. L. conference to.
day. About tho first thing that was
sprung was q question OF finances. Mr..
Amos Shinklo, treasurer Of tho funds
to pay tho travelling expenses Of the
delegates, arose and said that tho funds
had not been paid in from tho annual
conference treasurcrs in n sufficient
amount to pay all tho travelling expenses
Of tho delegates. ~
DR.. Maxtiold moved that tho amount
needed, about 81 900, be borrowed from
tho book concern, and that the amount
bc assessed against those annual con.
fercnccs which had failed to pay their
assessments for tho travelling expenses
fund.
After much wransling the conference
did what general conferences have done
before, decided TO draw the amount
from tho book concern. The second
ballot for secretary OF tho board OF odu-
cation showed that Dr.. G. ii. Payne 70.
ceiyed 2GE votes and was elected. Some
red hot reports will soon be launched
upon the conference from tho standing
and special commission. The commit
tee on temperance and prohibition OF
tho liquor traffic has report yard
long that will be presented soon. The
report reaflirms tho well known attitude
OF the church upon the saloon question,
and declared that the church Is in har-
mony with every organization that
seeks to promote total abstinence and
the overthrow Of the liquor traffic. The
report says:
I'VE reiterato the language OF the
episcopal address Of 1855 which said
tho liquor traffic Is SO pernicious in all
its bearings, 30 inimical TO the interests
OF. honest trade, so rcpugnant to the
moral sense. so injurious to the peace
and order OF ofsocicly that the only proper
attitude toward it for Christmas is that
OF relentless hostility. 1t can never be
legalized without sin"
The report further declares that men
engaged in tho manufacture or sale OF
Intoxicating liquors ought not to receive
the commercial patronage OF Christians.
The traffic is stoutly condemned and the
whole licensing plan for liquor saloons
is declared to be means to foster and
sustain tho damaging traffic. Closing
the report says that while it is not the
province OF the conference to suggest or
dictate rs to the political proclivities OF
any man, yet the committee declares
that 10 political party has q right to
expect, neither ought any party to re-
ceive, the support OF Christian men so
long as that party stands committed to
the license policy.
Dr.W. II. spier, OF Detroit conference.
succeededin having resolution adopted
requiring tho missionary bishops to re-
port all money received from private
sources for the help OF the missionary
work in foreign lands.
Bishop Taylor, it was said, as an illus
tration, has been getting about $4,000
per year.
That patriarch Of ;Mcthodism, DR..
William Mast, OF Cincinnati, was intro
duced to the conference just before ad-
journment. His remarks were mostly
OF thanksgiving nature.
1t was officially reported after ad-
lournment that Drs. Kynett and Spencer
had been elected as secretaries OF the
church extension society.