Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-15
NORTHERN METHODISTS.

at Saturdays session of the Virginia
Northern Methodist Conference, at
Roanoke, Revs. ]. M. Newton and E. j.
Hutchinson were elected to elders or
ders. P. NJ. Pippin, NJ. N. Davenport,
n. B. Fleenor and j. +. Giles were
elected to deacons' orders.
DR.. G.. T. Newcomb, dean Of Grant
University, of Chattanooga, made an
address in the interest of his school,
and the work done by the church in
the South.
DR.. M. S. Hard, of the church extern
sion board, made speech on the work,
in which he stated that the Virginia
Conference had received from the
board S16,310 as loans and $2S,679 as
actual donations, total of S44 $3.50. The
total amount asked for by the board
was $500, of which 1901 was given. OF
the forty seven charges in the confer
ence only three failed to take up a
church extension collection. The to-
tai membership of the conference, he
said, was 9,S5S.
A vote on the eligibility of women to
membership in the General Conference
resulted in II in favor and Is against.
On the question of admitting ministers
and laymen to equal representation in
the General Conference, all the minis
tiers voted against the proposition and
to let the representation remain as it
was.
DR.. Cooke, of Chattanooga, editor OF
the Methodist Advocate Journal, deliv
cred a short address in behalf Of his
publication.
Evangelistic services were held in the
afternoon conducted by Drs. Boswell
and Reed, of Philadelphia, and at night
Rev. DR.. Hard, of Philadelphia, deliv-
cred an address on "Church Extension"
at the Academy of Music.
Yesterday at $3.50 a. m. the confer
ence held love feast, followed by the
ordination of deacons and sermon by
Bishop Mallalieu. In the afternoon at
3 o'clock there was an ordination of
elders and a sermon by Rev. DIR. Bos-
well, of Philadelphia. At night there
WAS a song service, conducted by DR..
Reed, and sermon by DR.. Boswell.
Some of Roanoke's ex-Confederates
took occasion yesterday to mildly re-
mind Bishop Mallalieu, of Boston, that
his utterances condemning the CoDfed-
ercy will not be tolerated in the South
without protest. In sermon in Balti-
more on Sunday week, the bishop, who
presided over the Baltimore conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, re-
ferred to the Confederate flag as "dis-
graceful, abominable, and Infamous
rag"
While presiding, yesterday, over
missionary meeting in the Academy of
Music, in Roanoke, the bishop received
from an unknown source q neat little
package. When opened the parcel was
found to contain a Confederate flag,
placarded, 1.-THE abomiDable rag which
foated over the Confederacy." A type
written note was also inclosed which
read as follows
1.-THE emblem under which fought the
noblest band of heroes the world ever
produced. The followers of Lee, and
Jackson, and others equally gallant,
contended for four years with four
times their number, wrestling victory
from them on more than one hundred
fields, yielding only when starvation
and disease had thinned their ranks to
such an extent that less than 5000 sur
rendered to 10000, and these in line of
battle ready to die at their leaders
word.
iWhose was the glory?"
Bishop Mallalieu made himself &C.
quainted with the contents ofthe pack
age, but did not refer to the incident
from the platform. Afterward he said
be had consigned the contents of the
flames and hoped that the matter
would end there. "If the agitators de-
sire to go farther" he said, 'they may
hear from me again.