The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-13
He II Alleged to Have Called the Great
Band of Christian Endeavorers
Idiots for Doing So.
BREEZY DAYFOR METHODISTS
UTTERANCEs OF DIR. QUAYLE RE-
PUDIATED By THE CONFERENCE,
But All Action I'm Referee to the
Matter Finally Blotted @ Par
son" Goodwin's Daily Re. ew.
special to the Indianapolis journal.

CLEVELAND, O., May 1.-THE sensation
at to-day's session of the Methodist Epis-
copal quadrennial conference was an at
tempt to repndiate the utterances OF Rev.
DR.. Quayle, who is alleged to have called
the Y. p. s. C.>E.'s idiots because they
prayed for the salvation of Pope Bob"
The conference did repudiate the remarks
Of the good Methodist brother. but later
voted to blot the whole matter out OF the
records.
The battle opened yesterday afternoon In
real earnest in the committee on the epis-
copacy The first subcommittee prepared
to report was that to which the question of
episcopal residences in foreign mission fields
had been referred. It's Importance con-
sists not so much in what appears upon the
surface as in what is involved in II logic
ally. for it touches almost every feature
of the episcopapl question. The report
itself was a modest one, and purported to
settle only an incidental part OF the main
question. 1t was so harmless In its ap-
pearance that large majority of the COM
mittee seemed ready to adopt It without
word, but those who had made the ques-
ton study saw at once that II con-
tanned the marrow of the whole subject.
1t simply said there was no law against
fixing an episcopal residence In any mis-
sion field. but behind this came the ques-
ton Of missionary bishops as distinct from
general superintendent, and it involved
also the question of districting the bishops.
The discussion was able and protracted, but
no result was reached, indicating that there
Is wide difference of opinion on every
distinct feature of the complicated ques-
ton. 1t will be safe to predict. however.
that no change will be made as to epis-
copal supervision of the foreign field until
bishops are made diocesan instead Of gen.
eral, as now. The best thought of the dis
cussion favored the early autonomy of all
our foreign missions. This thought is
steadily gaining ground both among the
missions themselves and the friends of mis-
sions at home.
Dr. Sargent locked horns yesterday with
the bishops at long range quite effectually.
They had submitted paper to the commit
tee on revisals suggesting several amend
ments to the Discipline. One brother sug-
to be done, and at once moved a concur
rance, whereupon DR.. Sargent answered:
Not yet. So far as 1 have examined these
authority of the bishop The trend of Metho-
dist thought is in the other direction: am
not ready TO adopt them. The significance
| of this act Is the indicat ton 1t gives to the
prevailing atmosphere of the General Con-
| ference
Bishop Warren is telling story that cuts
other Wanting a wheel for his own use. he
sent to Indianapolis for il, being induced to
do so by, the national reputation of Indian;
promptly mounted and wheeled. After using
1t for weeks and riding; l am afraid to say
how many thousand miles, IKE wne s,,,r,al
| tons 1.-The same air is in II yet that was
| put into 1t at Indianapolis" he said. where
| upon a wretch who had evidently left In
Hon MI 10 whom
iousiy. said: Please. Bishop. don't puncture
here; It will fill t this WHOLE county with
| No paper has been listened to with hall
as much attention as one presented by Mr.
Swarthout, layman from Mlcnigan, ,s Sali-
| tiers and twenty-eight iaymen, to be elected
| by ballot by the respective orders, who shall
patiently revise and amend the constitution
| of the church and submit the result to a
| vote of the entire church at an election In
which any layman and laywoman shall
T, count as much as any minister. 1t was re-
| ferred to the committee on the constitution,
| where it may be buried, but probably not
| as some of the committee are in hearty ac-
| cord with the purpose of the p:oer. This Is
| emphatically a laymans movement, and its
| progress will be watched with Interest
Should it obtain the result Will not be
revolution, but a progress
Some clerical financier in 1892 devised a
| scheme for turning into the church Golfers
| a large income through the operations OF a
| posed to get lot of Methodist capitalists
| to put a million or so to organize a vast
| company in which Methodists were expected
| 10 insure at the usual rates charged by non-
religious companies, and to appropriate pei
| cent as their compensation and hand over
| to these financiers, but when they applied to
| capitalists they discovered that no one was
| willing to invest in business enterprise
which could never yield more than 6 pei
| cent and might very frequently not yield
| per cent, and hence the Methodist insur-
| ance company died in its borning. and 1t has
| been abandoned: so the church mas been
| srared the humiliation 1t suffered by the
| untimely death of its Asbury Life Insurance
| calling the conference for resolutions and
| memorials was broken by the Introduction OF
/ Amanda Smith, a colored woman of ma
| tional fame. Instead of a bow merely she
| stood a moment and then started in to sing
| THE Lord Will Provide" as the conference
| had never heard it, causing real old-fash-
| Toned Methodist shout. I. A q.