The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-29

an tdlotic society, nor that all belong
ing to it We're of that character, He
simply applied this singing epithet to
the specific act of a certain number of
that body. II was strong language,
but what can you expect from q Meth
odist preacher when nature has or
dained that a sturdy, unflinching per-
sonality shall be topped off, as in DR..
Quayle's case, with an ample shock of
wiry and fiery hair? Many, however,
whose locks are of different hue alto
gether, think that DR.. Quayle called
that widely advertised act of the
Cleveland Christian Endeavorers by it's
true name. That is why the confer
ence, after hearing the doctors state
ment, declined to condemn him, and, it
is not in the least surprising, nor was
it discourteous, that the conference
should refuse, at the same time, to per-
form such an act of supererogation as
would necessarily have been involved
in the motion which asked it to fully
indorse that great society.
Naturally, however, there is sensi-
tiveness, and the conference proposes
no action which is likely to remove this.
1t will not commit itself to practical
utilization with the Christian Endeavor
movement, nor will it favor the addi-
ton to its Epworth Leagues of the
CHRISTIAN EndeaVor name. Where
Christian Endeavor societies still exist
In Methodist churches, they will not be
lntertered with, except as the trend to-
ward the Epworth League may cause
such interference. But the organiza-
ton within the Methodist fold of new
Christian Endeavor societies will not
be encouraged, nor will it, from this
time, be according to discipline; the
simple reason for this advanced atti-
tude of the conference being, that the
Methodist church has now young peo-
pies society of its own, and that the
opinion seems to prevail that it is bet
ter for Methodist young people to be
strict Methodists, rather than half
and half product. This is the straight
of the whole matter, and it is written
as your correspondent also believes it
was devised-'with malice toward none
and with charity for ALL
AS / write, the conference is conclu-
ding that deeply impressive service at
which its new bishops were consecra-
ted. Owing to the action of the day be-
fore in electing DR.. ]. C. Hartzell as a
missionary bishop to Africa, there were
three candidates instead of two. DR..
Hartzell is one of the most gentleman
Unlocking men in Methodism. His
bushy gray hair, not very thick upon
his ample crown, his distinguished,
chop-shaped whiskers, adjoining the
face of a typical Church of England
clergyman, and the air of dignity and
refinement which is always about him.
| make him marked man, and will I'M
doubtedly be great help to him in the
| administration of his great missionary
bishopric. At the moment of his cleo
ton there was touching scene. All
felt that he was making great sacrifices
and had undertaken great and haz-
ardous work. He was escorted to the
platform by Bishop Andrews, and all
the bishops pressed forward to offer
greetings. Bishop William Taylor, his
heroic predecessor, now retired, was
amongst these, and in response to loud
calls for a speech, remarked that he
merely wished to say, Amen; from
which it is inferred, however, that he is
pleased with the man chosen to succeed
him, and will put no obstacles in his
way.
The conservation service being fin
ished, the delegates and spectators, the
latter numbering several thousand, are
filing across the platform to give to the
three new bishops the warm hand of
Methodistic god-speed. There were no
incidents. The bishops are assisted in
consecrating their new colleagues by
ministers who are selected by the can
didates; presumably their special
friends, some of them very aged, like
DR.. Rust, for instance, who helped in
the setting apart of Bishop Cranston,
and Professor McCabe of Delaware,
who laid his hands on the head of his
distinguished relative, the chaplain
bishop of that name. The new bishops
kneel upon footstools Eight years
ago, when five were consecrated at
New York, Bishop Newman took his
| foot before kneeling, and, by a dignified
jerk, knocked the footstool away from
| him, preferring to put his marrow
| bones upon the hard floor. This, in
| penitentiaI memory, perhaps, of the
| long struggle it had cost his friends to
get him elected But there was no such
| incident this time.
| To speak of the new bishops makes
me think of their wives. What a
| strain these women were under during
| the four days deadlock! But they sat
bravely through every session. Mrs
Cranston, who is less than forty, a
| charming woman with a Madonnalike
| face, was an object of special interest
as she sat from day to day, in the front
row OF a private box, watching for the
| return of the tellers, and listening to
| the announcements which might doom
| her to disappointment or make her the
wife of q great Methodist bishop. At
| ter the election a beautiful basket of
| flowers adorned the front of the box
she occupied, placed there by warm adj
mirers from Cincinnati. Mrs. McCabe
went through the ups and downs of the
balloting as bravely as her soldier-hus-
band endured the vicissitudes of army
| life, and it is questionable if she was
any more pleased when the chaplain
was made bishop, than when, long
years ago, she welcomed him home
from Libby prison.
The new officials elected, other than
the bishops, are the two missionary
secretaries, Drs. A. ]. Palmer and w.
IT. Smith, the former one of the most
polished products of eastern Metho-
dism, priln and Observation-Disclosures
with features of the kind that seem