New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-20

Fort Edward. " Y, and in the progress of his
work has registered thirteen thousand students
IN His muster rolls He is member of the Troy
Annual Conference and was a delegate to the Cen
eral Conferences held in 1856 1861 and 1913. lie Is
an a,umnus and trustee OF Wesleyan University ana
for forty-eigh years has been absent from the an
nuaI meetings of the Board only once and that while
on a vacation abroad. on Sunday last he occupied
the pulpit of his brother, the Rev. Or. james NJ.
King pastor OF the Union Methodist Episcopal
Church in West Fortyeghth-st.
When asked by a Tribune reporter his opinion as
10 the admission Of women to the General CONFER
ence of 1896 he replied II do not regard that as
n burning question of the time In the circles OF
Methodsm but only mildly interesting and exploited
nv conparatlvely a small number Of elect ladies,
and now conspicuously by certain more or less
learned doctors who are pleased TO pose as the
chivalrous champions OF women In general ana OF
Methodist women in particular ana insist mat the
women are being TOO much caoined. cribbed ana
confined because denied admission to the General
Conferences of 1855 and 1892.
"A majority of the small minority of the laity OF
the Church who had cared to vote on that ques-
ton had declared in favor of admitting women TO
the lay electoral conference, but the million ana
considerably more of the women OF Methodism, our
mothers wives and daughters, more truly typical
and representative members of the great Church.
have not cared TO all yet, being contented
with the fact that their wise and gody fathers ana
brothers shall do all the voting and all the legs-
lating both in Church and State
These more typical Methodist women do not at
all feel the need apologzIrg for being so delight
fully old-fashioned as to be unwilling to push or
c,amor for any new enfranchisement and because
they do not encourage their daughters TO aspire to
the primacy in the household the State or the
Church but rather by awaiting themselves OF every
advantage afforded them within churches and In
the schools that by the development of every wom-
AMY virtue and grace, each may become Soou sec
ond to her brother or her husbani-a worthy help-
meet to manly man WHO snaii 90 lor nrr ni me
no .,Neanwhile the educated women of Methodism
are 6ndng ample room for exercising their gifts,
graces and accomplishments. first at home and
the social meetings the Sunday school. the home
Giving incidentally and often her welcome person
g'i aSora and special social circles AS to the So
called new woman she Is regarded as an abnormal
freak from whom, in her litany, she prays Good
"As TO the reception of two. five twenty women
delegates into the General Conference. nobody, not
the obvious implication such radical new departure
would suggest. VIZ in the near future the ordina
administer the sacraments would follow as logi-
cal sequence
with all its implications. can agtate within the
Church and conduct this campaign of education
constitutional majority which shall vote explicitly
such delegates may be men or women No one
sion movement. The judiciary Committee OF 1892
declared that the constitution as 1t Is does not
eral Conference OF 1896 Will probably stand by the
constitution as it it,. In the interest OF those con-
servatiye millions In MethCdism who are content
with their present rights, privileges and RESPONSE
bilIties ,,
agitate the coming General Conference are the
abrogation of the time limit "a rev definition OF
the relations OF MetHous'n ~ d d anu
the Church shall be made bishops