Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-09-24
IN THE CHI RCHE S

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| Methodist Protestants in Washington and
| elsewhere throughout what is termed by
| members Of the denomination the Maryland
district are looking forward with much
| pleasure to a coming reunion to be celebra-
| ted in all their churches. Seventy years
ago the Methodist Protestant Church of the
United States was established by members
| of the Methodist Episcopal Church who
| had separated from that church because of
| the refusal of the governing body to allow
| equal representation in church affairs to
| lay as well as to clerical delegates The de-
| clsive step was taken in Baltimore at a
| convention held November II, 1928 On the
second Sunday Of November the anniver-
! sary of the event will be celebrated in all
| the Methodist Protestant churches in the
Maryland district The celebration will be
in accordance with the sugges ion made at
| the last annual conference of the church
AT that time special program committee
composed of Rev d. + H. Lewis, Rev. w
| NJ. Poiscl and Mr.. Daniel Baker, was ap-
| pointed by the president OF the conference
| Rev. A. d. Melvin 49,
The Maryland annual confe ,ence of the
| Methodist Protestant Church was organ
| lied in April, 1879, i've lnontls after the
! separation from the Method st EPISCOPAL
| Church, with ten preachers, 10 members
10 property, Dut much enthusiasm. The
| Maryland district now includes all of Mary
! land, Delaware and the Distr It of Column
| Tia. In the district there are 1870 pastor-
| ates, 145 preachers, $50 churches and par
| sonaSes, more than - 900 members and
| nearly 3o.Vo0 Sunday school scholars ard
| oHcers. In the seventy years of its exist
| ehce the conference has. employed 30
| preachers in its ltincrant mini itery has te-
celVed into church FELLOWSHIP. more than
| o.,o'' persons and has raised for evangeli-
| cal purposes still Pa During the last ten
years, winch have been the most prosperous
| IN the history of the denomination there
| membership.
A meeting of all the Catholic archbisbons
| IN the United States will be hold in Wash
J ilstoh october II. During the session i'm
| portant resolutions looking to the further
spread OF the Catholic Church IN the United
| states and it's recently ACQUIRED possessions
| VIII De introduced, ann, it is expected. ac-
cepted. The resolutions We're prepared by
Goliim m composed of Right Rev. Ig-
| iiatus r. HoItsmann, d. D., bishop of Cleve-
,aha' ONO: Right Rev. William c. McClos-
| Key, ID, bishop of Louisville, XIV; Right
E Eey; Sa an p Macs, D.n. bishop of
1erson, DID. bishop of Columbus, Ohio:
Right Rev: John S. Foley. d. D., bishop of
Detroit, Mich; Right Rev Joseph Rade-
ItaGi~T, %, bishop of Fort Wayne, Ind:
Right Rev. Henry j. Richter, d. b. bfshon
| OF GTand RAPIDS. Mich: Right Rev Francis
,. Chatard, ID, bishop of Indianapolis,
md, and Right Rev. Thomas S. Byrne, ID
D.: bishop of Nashville Tenn
~ letter received here contains an official
statement from Bishop Galloway of The
southern Methodist Church in reference to
me much-talked-of payment by Congress
Oh almost s5WO,Nc for damage of property
OF the denomination in Nashville Tenn
during the civil war Blshop GaIloway,s
words are: In response to many inquiries
ana IN order to remove some possible mis-
aoprehenisons, l feel constrained to make
brief statement about the publishing
house war claim:
i. The bishops of the church, at their
own instance and with perfect unanimity,
nave proposed, on stated conditions to
take proper steps to have rendered back
10 the United States government the money
appropriated in payment Of that claim
WINE realnrmng its righteousness beliey-
ing IL Il oebt of honor that should have
peen paid years ago, we could not con-
sent, SO lar as our responsibility extends
Tor the church to retain the money if
either house of Congress affirmed it was
appropriated on the misleading statements
OF our representatives. We felt as much
assured then as now that in making this
formal tender We represented not our
selves alone, but the overwhelming senti-
ment of the entire church.
~ nat action of the bishops has been
lormaily and officially communicated to
the Vice President of the United States
with tue respectful request that he lay it
before the Senate and invite prompt action
thereon.
g. The further steps promised in re-
Spouse to that solicited action on the part
OF the Senate, and bishops are voluntarily
and sacred1y pledged to take. To the
absolute fulfillment of that promise that
church has no occasion for additional as
surance.
y Whatever may be necessary to pre-
serve the stainless honor of the church will
be assuredly and promptly done. But
every step must be taken legally u I'd con-
sutCuonaliy. Precipitate action w uld al
most certainly produce complications that
would delay final and heRorable adjust
meut
% Personally, 1 cannot commend the
wisdom of an Immediate session of the
general ao conference on thissmatter. Stu. it
the call will be PROMPTLY issued
IS Apart from lafhented personalities
that may have been |indrAged in earnest
discussion, the widespreadss constituencies to
any criticism to the staial&ss name of our
church is occasion for great qualification.
such cody jealousy vii preserve her per-
There has never sbeena the slightest
possibility of the chairch's failure to do
absolutely right in the whole matter. The
question of money issGothipg when a vital
moral principle is involveds''
Rev. DR.. j. G. Butler, pastor OF Luther
Place Memorial Church. has just returned
from Cumberland, Nd, where he went to
"'tSiih tiS iuiiekii OI His piOtHei, MI Nell
nedy H. Butler, a prominent resident of
that city, who was killed by falling from
building one of his farms near Fred
erick. Md. The late Mr.. Butler was one
of the leading business men of Cumberland
during the nast fifty years, and was one
of the most extensive manufacturers of
furniture in the state. He was widely
known and universally respected, and his
funeral was the most largely attended of
any that has occurred in Cumberland in
many years.
Sister Keturah the well-known Lutheran
deaconness, who has been engaged at work
in several of the churches of that denom-