The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06
KANSAS NEWS.
MethOdistS at Manhattan Vote
to Admit Women
To General Conference By a
Vote of "a to 80.
DECREASE IN YEAS
From Last Year-Next Session
at Seneca.
Conference Benevolent Collec-
ton Aggregated $18.453.
John ID. Knox Expelled From
Church and Ministry
John ID. Knox Expelled From
Church and Ministry.

Yesterdays session of the Kansas
conference was full of business and in
| terest.
The devotional meeting from to 9
a. m. was again conducted by DR.. Nc
Kaig After the reading of the minutes
the bishop read the proposed amend
ments to the constitution of the church
which We're submitted to the annual
conferences.
The first was on the admission of wo-
men, and the vote stood: Yeas, "a; nays
80
Several were absent. This is a de-
crease in the yea vote over last year.
The other amendment proposed to give
the laymen as many delegates in the
general conference as the clergy. Some
objection was made to this because the
representation was not at the same time
reduced, as this would make the body
too large. The vote resulted: Yeas, 81 ;
nays, 81.
An invitation was extended to the
conference by President Fairchild of the
State Agricultural college to visit that
school. The citizens offered to provide
cOnveyances. The invitation was ac-
cepted and Monday at 3 o'clock settled
upon the time for the visit A num-
Der of visitors were introduced at this
time, Rev. H. w. Jennings of Chicago,
H. W. Rees of New York and Homer c.
Stuntz of Iowa, former editor of the
Indian Witness, Bombay and others.
Invitations were received from Seneca
and Olathe for the next session. The
former offered invitations from all the
churches, the city council, etc. 1t was
decided to meet in Seneca.
Presiding Elder w. H. Zimmerman of
the Kansas City district submitted his
report. He said there were 5,0O2 Sun
day school scholars in the district.
There had been 700 conversions, nearly
all of whom were probationers. Law
renee First church had cleared a debt
of 400. Bethany hospital, Kansas City.
had paid all expenses and wiped out ST.
900 of debt.
Presiding Elder r. E. Mcbride of the
Manhattan district reported 4.063 Sun
day school scholars There are 40
churches and go parsOnages in the dis
trict. The financial str1ngency had been
severely felt, but yet SO, 900 had been ex-
pended in church improvements.
The bishop is very careful in his ap-
pointments. He referred to the fact that
presiding elders We're like bishops of
the Episcopal church. There are $50
in the church and they make all the ap-
pointmentS He therefore asked them
to retire and carefully questioned the
preachers as to their ability and faith
fulness.
DIR. Charles Payne of New York, sec
retary of the Educational society, ad-
! dressed the conference. He said among
other things that the society last year
! had aided 1881 students of Is n6tiOnai
! ties Sc students have been aided in
| Kansas, the collections of the Kansas
/ churches amounted to 81, 1913, while they
had loaned to students in the state So
/ 0S1.75. He urged the conference to be
| careful in receiving ministers on trial
| who were untitled by education and
! abilities to preach. There are Is appli-
cants for admission on trial 1t is ex-
| pected that half of them will be disap-
| pointed.
a collection amounting to over 500
was taken up to pay for the publication
/ of the minutes.
| Rev. Calvin Holman who came to
/ Kansas % years ago in the last stages
of consumption but was cured by this
/ splendid climate though he preached
constantly until a few years ago, was
I introduced. Rev A. P. George, state
superintendent of Sunday schools, ad-
dressed the conference. He claimed
that there are 211, 900 children in this
state who attend no Sunday school.
Rev. j. r. Gettys appeared in behalf
of a Topical Bible Index, being pub
Used in the interests of Nebraska
Wesleyan university. Chaplain (of the
L. S. army)) o. G. Nave the author
has donated it to the school. The bish-
op said it was much better book than
"HitchcOck'S Analysis" which had
brought to the publishers one million
dollars.
The conference benevolent collections
are now all reported and aggregate SIS
453 OF this amount 81. 600 goes to Ba-
ker university and Sc, SO6 goes to home
and foreign missions. The Kansas City
Ond.
The Womans foreign missionary an
niversary was addressed by Mrs. Free
man, corresponding secrtary, Kansas
CiCT.
Rev. H. c. Stuntz told of the condi-
ton of woman in India. He described
the struggle to Danish legal prostitu-
ton there which set free 10000 women.
The effort to raise the marriagea bic age
of girls from 10 to II years of age, in
spite of the awful moral and physical
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practice, was long without result he
said, but its final success means the
eventual Punishment of child marriage.
At $50 the alumni of Baker university
held a reunion.
At o'clock DrMcKaig again preach
ed on the amounting of the Holy Spirit.
DR.. c. Fl. Payne and DR.. H. w. H.
Rees. The first spoke on Education.
Among other things he said the Sun
day school needed to hold the adults.
There were too much ''babyism' in it's
plans. In 1896 the Methodist church
owned $2S coo 900 worth of school prop
/ erty- UNCONVENTIONAL schools are de-
! handed % For the individual. Only
! the new birth can perform the alchemy
which will transform ''leaden Instincts
! into golden conduct (2) For the per-
/ petulty of the nation we must have Chris
tan educated men, A quiet man few
! years ago matriculated at the Method
| list Allegheny college. who yesterday
/ was inaugurated president of the Uni
I ted States CD For the sake of the
! church. sectarian schools furnish but
| " or 10 per cent of our ministers while
Methodist schools last year sent "a per
cent of her students into the ministry.
! We need men with all the culture of the
| Spirit
Dr. H W: H. Rees, held the closest
| attention with his witty, earnest and
/ obstructive address on the work of the
| church in the south He recalled the
fact that while the north has only one