St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-08
one BIG Revival.
That Is What Bishop Fowler
Would Like to See the
World.
No One Like Wesley, He Tells
the Twin City Methodist
Union.
Mayor Eustis Thinks a Munie-
ipality Is But Morals
Applied.
Doings Of the Methodist
Union at It's West Side
Meeting.

The Twin City Methodist Social union
held its quarterly meeting at Clinton
Avenue M. E. church. corner Of Isabel
street and Clinton avenue, last night at
5 o'clock. The hour from $50 to $3.50
O'Clock was spent in social intercourse
in the auditorium of the church. At6:30
the audience adjourned to the parlors,
where dinner was served by the wom-
en- of the church, such as Methodist
women are celebrated for, under the
charge of Mrs. Hare, Mrs. A. M. Law
ton and others. At the close of the
dinner Judge Brill. president of the
union. introduced Bishop Fowler in
very clever speech. The bishop began
his remarks by saying that he was dis
appointed. as be expected to see Mayor
Eustis there and listen to him speak.
81 am like an old pump" he said,
''that used to be at my fathers house.
1t was good pump in its day. but it
had its idiosyneracies, and one was that
it required the use of great deal of
water before it would pump. Now, [
expected to have the water from Mayor
Eustis, but as he is not here, l will do
the best can to speak on The Future
of Methodism,' and if get stuck will
quit. Experience is our only lamp, and
if we let it shine on our paths we shall
never stumble. [ once had friend
who was a wonderful scientist. He
conld tell the simplest fact in such a
way. clothe it in such wonderful words
that no man could recognize it; and he
had decided that he had found out all
about the creation; he had beaten Hulk
ley and Tyndall and all the rest, and
had decided that he had been
Evolved From a TadpOle.
and he wrote a book to prove his theo-
ries. He sent me that book to read.
Now, had the charge OF church with
1,1O0 members, and was paid to take
care of them, SO | did not have much
time for reading; but one day opened
the book and saw this sentence:. 'Ihe
time when men inferred the existence
of designer from design is now past
l did not read any further. l did not
need that sort of a book, because am q
prime doubter without any such help;
When my friend asked if L had read
the book, it was given me in that
hour to say to him That is not
what ails me, what l need is proofs on
the other side.' Some years after [ was
in Hoboken institute, one of the largest
of the kind in the country, and saw
there that wonderful magnet, the lar
gest in the world. The professor who
was my guide asked if knew the sci
enlist who had sprung from the tad
pole. | said that / did. We'll, he is a
fraud. Don't read his book. He don't
know the first principles of science, for
do you know he did not know enough to
put his watch out of the way before he
~meddled with that magnet, and the con-
sequence was that the watch was spoiled
by being polarized and ruined So
much for my learned friend. | believe
that the church of the future will
BE Largely Methodist.
"We have a good supply of doctrine.
and it's the style of doctrine that we
can defend. John Wesley started with
the simple statement that he did not ask
what had been mans beliefs or his
creed, but only that he should desire
to be saved, that he should in holiness
of life, and have the evidence of the
spirit to his conversion to be suitable for
membership. Some churches claim to
be broad, but my experience is that the
churches that talk the most about
being broad are really the narrowest
in the world. 1t is like what the old
woman said of the reason for naming
the Rocky mountains, after she mad
crossed them in the cars. She said that
the reason they were called Rocky
mountains was that they were not rocky
and not mountains at all. | like man
with creed; man without creed is
like an empty bag. but l don't want a
man to come at me with his skeleton in
the street.
want that creed padded with good
cushion OF the love of God. | used to
get anxious about a mans creeds, and
like to have him show little horns OH it
so could knock them off, but now | am
not so anxious. [ find that the world up
to the time of Luther was