The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-07
IT is COMING WEST
dETH0DIsM FOLLOWS TIE COURSE
OF EMPIRE
interesting Figures Brought Out by the
timore Conference Regarding the two
Publishing Concerns of the Denomina-
tion--Why the Western House is in Bet
ter Financial Condition Than the East
ern--Facts for the Politician and the
SOciologist as Well as the Churchman.

Baltimore. March 6.-After short
/ preliminary service of prayer and the
| administration of communion today,
| the Baltimore conference Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church settled down
| to work of its one hundred and
| eleventh annual session. A feature of
the conference this year is the pene-
costa1 service every morning and af-
| ternoon.
In telling of what the general board
OF education has done during the past
year, DIR. F. A. Payne said that it had
been largely instrumental in giving to
the Methodist Episcopal church the
best system of education put up by
any Protestant denomination in the
country. DR.. Payne urged the strict
observance of children's day and COM
piiance with the requiremtns of the
discipline in sending the children's day
collection early to the board of educa-
ton The money received by the board
goes to educate young people and 1T has
been doubled in the past six years. Not
cent OF 1T goes for the expenses of the
denomination demonstration. Last
year 1859 students were assisted
Most Of these could not have remained
in shool except for the money the board
lent them.
Dr. Sanford Hunt, senior agent of the
National Observation-Disclosures book con
Germ, called attention to the fact that
the appropriations made this year by
the concern Were S120.00U, an Increase
of $4,000, Notwithstanding the finan-
cial distress. The profits of the west
ern house at Cincinnati, he said, have
been greater than those OF the eastern
house at New York. What we have
pXnQcfinU
come to pass. The patronage of the
New York house has decreased. while
that at Cincinnati has increased. This
Will be made more apparent in the fu-
ture.'
THE west does not feel the pressure
of the times as does the eastern houses.
In the east, and particularly in New
England, where the people are engaged
in manufacture, hard times We're i'm
mediately felt. Then, again, the native
agrarians are driven from that section
TO the west and the employees of the
mills are composed almost entirely OF
foreigners who are Catholics. 1t is a
fact that there are scarcely any Ameri-
cans employed in the shoe factories of
New England, they having been driven
out by Canadians.
"Methodism is drifting westward.
There is no rivalry between the two
houses They work as one. The CEN
ter of population is now west of Gin
cinnau, and the center of Methodism
is even still further west. The net capt.
tai of the eastern house is s2,015, $40; that
of the western house 81 1881, 1l2, total
net capital of 03, 500, 322 The sales last
year of the New York house were $685.
1856 and Of the Cincinnati house $685., 1Se:
total $780, 49," The total profits i'm
the past two years has been Sail $50.
The report called attention to the
fact that the book concern has in the
last two years contributed So3S,570 for
the support of superannuated minis
tiers.
ty celebrated its anniversary in the
afternoon.
In the evening the Freedmen's bureau
and educational society held its ami
versary meeting, Rev. DIR. Hartzell of
Ohio making the address.