The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-15

Bishop Earl Cranstor. OF the district
OF the Pacific Northwest Of the Methodist
Episcopal church arrived in Seattle at
noon yesterday from Spokane. where ne
presided over the conference of presiding
elders Of the Northwest, which closed
Friday Upon his arrival in this city he
went directly to the residence OF Rev.
DIR. Wifmot Whitfield. al Edgewater. where
he was later seen by Pcst-Intelhgencer
reporter. 10 whom he accorded an inter
view. Bishop Cranstons episcopal resi-
dence is at Portland, and he viii leave
for that city Tuesday morning. He has
been away since the middle of August.
since which time he mas held conferences
in Montana. Michigan and Ohio. and at
tended a bishops meeting in Baltimore
and a meeting of the general missionary
committee At Philadelphia. Incidental TO
his extensive trip East he delivered many
lectures and sermons. and il is in relation
TO one Of the latter that particular import
ance attaches, as Bishop Cransson states
that he was misquoted, and that what par
ported to be a report OF one of his SER
mons. delivered in Washington, D. c..
New York World invented a report out of
whole cloth that Bishop Cranston charac-
terizes as fake. in which he was quoted
as saying that he was opposed to Sunday
newspapers.
Opposed to Sunday Newspapers.
Upon principle Bishop Cranston states
that he is opposed TO the Sunday news
paper. but he did not say so at the time
The Fundamentals Of Christian Theology
without a single sensational feature in
in" said he. The only basis for the re-
port was in my comparison between Gods
way of telling things and mans way of
telling things, in which the grandeur of
the one was referred to as compared with
the other. and an instance was cited in
the way a newspaper reports a priZehght
ffor instance) using more words than are
in the first book of Genesis. | did rot
refer to a Sunday newspaper any more
than did to the issue of any other day.
Another instance in which I was mis-
quoted was in relation to a sermon that
I preached in Mr.. Johnson's church In
Washington d. c.. which is regularly at
tended by President Mckinley. On
Thanksgiving day Mr.. johnson preached
what the reporter tried TO make out was
full of things that would be embarrassing
to the president, in relation to liquor and
Romansm. The assumption was unjusti-
fed, and when I stood in Mr.. Johnsons
pulpit, at his request, some time later, it
was said that I turned to him and in
dorsed all that he had said in his Thanks
giving sermon. That was also untrue.
and President Mckinley, who was in at
tendance. invited me to call at the White
House. which did. and was shown mark
ed courtesies.
AT the general missionary meeting in
Philadelphia, held in August, mission
was created in Alaska. but the seat of the
mission has not yet been chosen. the mat
ter being In the hands OF Bishop McCabe.
In the spring another missionary will be
sent to Alaska in addition TO those already
there and the result OF his Investigations
will establish the place where the mission
will be located
In month Bishop Cranston will go 70
Kansas, where he will hold three confer
ences. and then he will proceed TO Maine.
where he will hold two more. In June
It is his intention TO go TO China. Japan
and Korea. where he is sent by the board
OF Bishops to preside for two years over
the conferences OF those countries. Port
land however. will remain the seat ot
Episcopal residence. Bishop Cranston
states that he heard a great deal in the
East regarding Seattle and the klondike.
When asked II he heard other places men
toned in connection with outfitting and
general business benefits from the excite
n1ent he stated that both Portland and
Tacoma were mentioned to him.
The bishops tsiatic Tour.
Rega riding the asiatic tour which viii
keep him absent for two years, Bishop
Cranston has not decided whether he will
take his family with him or not. Mrs.
Cranston who is now in Tacoma. accom-
nanied him from Baltimore. where his
daughters are in school. 10 the Coast. II
is stated that the bishop intends TO return
to this country at the end Of his mission
by way OF Europe. and he believes that
the travel and experience that the resi-
Cence abroad would afford would contri-
butte much toward rounding off his dausn-
tiers education.
II had been arranged that Bishop Grams
ton should lecture last night at Asburv
church In Fremont on prof. Satan" hut
the fatigue of his journey and the par
ticularly hard week that he has passed
through, lecturing and preaching six
times. besides presiding at the Spokane
conference. made rest necessary. To-
morrow morning and evening he will be
at the Madison street N. T.. church. and
tomorrow afternoon al Trinity NJ. r.
church. Monday morning he Will attend
,nn.sfyO r-.ra church after which