The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
Continuation of Appropriations by
the Conference of the Mil.
lion-Dollar Fund.
WORK IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH
Mere PittanceS Paid to Some of the
Missionary LaborerS in Sew.
eral States.


dollar fund among the conferences of the
United States Representatives of the differ
ent sections of the country pleaded for re-
lief, for exceptions from the per cent re-
duction of the sums set aside last year
and for lesser cut, but arguments and
pleadings for the poor ministers working
on mere pittances were met by the lneXor-
able condition that the reduction must be
made. The delegates generally took the
cut stoicaIly and laughed at the pleadlngs
of others, but occasionally the righteous in
dignation of some of the ministers, and
even Bishops, could not be subdued, and
some sharp talks were heard on the floor.
Because OF the drought of last year, Ne
braska Jared better than any other section,
getting an increase of allowance. Wyo-
ming was made happy by getting no cut.
The white-church movement of this
church. organization in the South OBJ
tanned no comfort. Many members of this
conference stated frankly that they had
little sympathy with the movement, as the
NJ. E. church South was covering that
field well enough. The work among the
colored people was more faYorabIy con-
sidered.
In the afternoon the Bishops and dele
gates were lunched at University Park,
where the Methodist College has estab-
lished itself amid beautiful surroundings,
Bishop Warren and wife, who reside there,
giving the luncheon. After refreshments
the conference resumed work in the chapel
on the college campus, and in the evening
were shown through the observatory.
Bishops Goodsell and Leonard addressed
public meeting at Trinity Church in the
evening upon missionary subjects.
IIBishop Goodsell occupied the chair to-
day. DR.. Wilding of the Columbia River
Conference spoke forcibly in favor of a
liberal appropriation for the Pacific North
west. He had been in the South in early
days, and thought then that no section in
the United States could ever need greater
missionary work. but since going to the
Northwest his mind has changed. He
asked that the appropriations for Column
bia, Oregon and Puget Sound be left as
last year and that $500 special be given the
.Nez Perce Indian reservation.
DR.. Hunt called attention to the fact that
few years ago this conference had been
given an increase of 80 per cent. The
Columbia River Conference was given an
appropriation of S6045. DR.. Goucher by an v
effective plea secured a special additional
sum of $500 for the Nez Perce Indian reser-
vation. Oregon got $2790 ana Puget Sound
$3.50.
DR.. Huntington for Nebraska made a
most eloquent plea, showing the terrible
hardships there because of crop failures.
His motion that the appropriation be in
creased from $2255 last year to $4,000, with
,TnIl 1o1 Hx,o
dozen voices. Bishop Newman gave
figures which showed that some of the
preachers in Nebraska received as little as
$2O1 for the year for the support of tn cir
families.
Mr.. French, for forty years member of
the board, wanted to know what other
money besides missionary aid the preach
ers have received, and Bishop Fitzgerald
showed that the salaries ranged from $22S
to $404 per year. The appropriation was
placed at $4,000, with $3.50 available at once.
Northern Nebraska was given 5000, with
$1,000 available at once. Northwest
Nebraska got $4,000, with $500 available at
once. West Nebraska was increased from
$500 to $4,000, with $500 available at once
Wyoming escaped the cut. In spite of the
pleadings of DR.. Scott, Texas stood the
usual cut, Fort Worth being excepted.
Bishop Mallalieu spoke for a liberal ap-
preparation for the Blue Ridge conference,
and told of a preacher who had converted
100 people in three weeks, and did not have
clothes fit to be seen in public. "But
clothes or no Clothes" the Bishop con-
tinued, 'he will go on converting" Up
in that country, the Bishop contended, the
people were not converted by card or bap-
tized by telegraph. They are all Christians
when they join the church. He gave
figures showing the salaries, less mission
money, to be from $1S to 1858 per year.
The wives and children of the preachers
had to work to keep the family.
Bishop Foster said that the country was
poor, the people were poor, the preachers
were poor and the salaries were poor, SO
everything seemed to be harmonious. He
was supported in his position by Bishop
Foss, who thought Bishop Mallalieu had
overstated the necessities. The per cent
cut was made.
1t was during this discussion that the
feeling against missionary work among
the whites of the South by the Northern
wing Ct Methodism cropped out. When
delegate asserted that there were seven
counties in Kentucky without Methodist
church, another delegate cried out There
ought not to be any," Bishop Foster in
response to statement made on the floor
that the Methodist Episcopal church South
was establishing churches in Colorado and
the far Northwest wherever Southern
people had gone, said, 1--WE have a sus-
picion that we can furnish them with
enough gospel to save them if they are
worth saving and he opposed following
the people of the North into the South
with missionary aid. He thought the
money could be better used in aiding the
colored people there. "Some of the min.
listers we send to those white churches"
said he, "go to improve their health, their
wealth and some their morals, and L hope
they will be successful"
Bishop Goodsell did not look with pleas
ure upon two Methodist churches starving
in one community Just to satisfy the preju-
dices of certain people. but he was forced
TO admit the conditions, and until the
Lord should bring about a change he
waited the work to go on. 1t was useless
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