The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-04
The Growth of Mehodism.

st am on my way to take up resi-
dence in Chattanooga, said Bishop
Goodsen of the Methodist Episcopal
church, to a Washington Post reporter.
4 was assigned there some time ago,
but had to go to Europe in the inter-
est of the church. and so, during the
( last two years, my time has been spent
abroad. 1t may interest your readers
to know that the Methodist Episcopal
church has nearly $4,000 communicates
in Europe, 300 preachers, and over 3d.
0,000 worth OF property. We have
congregations from Bulgaria to Ham
merfest and support several churches
beyond the arctic circle. The church
is strongest in membership in Ger
many, and Sweden comes next. Its
growth in Europe started about go
years ago, and in these 80 years the
church has made a progress equal to
it's advancement in the first three dec
AIDES of it's existence in the United
States.
"On the continent it began to grow
chiefly through the efforts of those who
had migrated to America. learned to
like the church here, and, believing in
it, returned to their old homes to es-
tabliSh it over there It seems to meet
the needs of our friends across the
water, and is constantly growing and
prospering."
rs there any hope, bishop, for re-
union of the two wings of the church
in this country?"
Z sincerely believe that reunion will
take place in time. I know that the
Methodist Episcopal church will gladly
extend. the welcoming hand to our
brethren in the south, and that the
daily prayer of must of us is that the
coming together will speedily be eff
fected. That there are numerous diff
ficulties in the way must be adj
mitted, but in time, 1 think, all OBJ
stacles will be removed. One possible
bar to this contamination is that the
united church will be such a colossal
affair that single organization may be
difficult. Think of a church with
membership of 100000 and 5000
preachersi It would be almost too
huge for successful management"
a Poker Story From the Klondike.
From the New York Journal: Stories of
big poker games are beginning to come
out of the Klondike. They are built upon
a much larger scale than the California
poker legends of 1S49. Dawson City is the
theatre of the high play. The last story
Dresupposes that there are neither corns
nor chips" in the town, so dust and mug
gets were used instead. The players sat
around with gold dust heaped up on
sheets Of paper, and when a man put up
his ante he simply threw in a pinch of
the dust. The big game was thus de-
Scribed by an eyewitness:
Finally the break came. Sandy Nc
Leod. who had gone into the country as
sergeant of mounted police, was one of
the players. he was dealt a hand that
seemed to suit him. After a bet he turned
to his pack, and, lifting out a two-cuart
jar of gold. said: I viii raise you that
THE next man was Joe HOllingshead,
a Texan, the discoVerer of the Bonanza
creek camp Joe never moved a muscle,
but saw the bet and raised it another jar.
The next man was a Swede and he passed
O--t. The last man. the dealer hesitated
long, but finally tossed his cards in the
center also. The opener saw the raise,
and lifted it another jar. Then he lay
back complacently. Sandy hesitated not
a second. but reached for his outfit again
and produced q can of dust This he
calmly hoisted on the tabe. together with
the jar TO see the other raise, remarking
Raise you a can.
''Hollingshead promptly saw this bet
Nearly all the three men had was. on
the table. and we knew the end was
near.
IN the draw the first man took two
cards. Sandy took two also, ard Joe
took but one.
" Sandy had no more oil cans of gold.
but he had two jars full. and Joe had an
equal amount. A showdown was de-
manded. Sandy had three aces. a queen
and a jack, and Joe had four kings and
an ace.
After the game, the winner had his
dust weighed and it proved to be worth
a quarter of a million dollars"