The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-09-19
THE CONFERENCE.

morning was conducted Dy Rev. b. +.
w. Cozier.
Bishop Joyce called conference to
order at $50 O'Clock. After the read
ing of the minutes the three remaining
P. E. reported, which were as follows:
The names of all the preachers were
called, their characters were PASSED and
they reported their work.
On motion of DR.. e.. L. Eaton of Des
Moines a special committee for the
Iowa Protestant HOSPITAL was ordered.
The committee are j. F. st. Clair. E. w.
McDade, S. c. Brown, F. l. Haywood,
A. II. Collins, E. L. Eaton.
Transfers Of L. K. Billingsley to this
Conference from the Kansas. and of A.
B. Buckner from this Conference to the
Kansas, were announced.
Thepaper delivered by T. NICK. Stuart
on Higher Criticism was ordered pub
lished by the Conference.
The following young men were adj
mitted into full connection into this
Conference: G.. w. Ladd, C. S. Burnett,
Frank Colwell, E. G. Holiday, w. H.
Larrick, C. w. Proctor, w. r. Brown.
BISHOPS ADDRESS.
makes it the duty of the Bishop to adj
dress he class. It has become a habit
for the President of the Conference in
addressing the young ministers to inn
press a few remarks before asking the
questions.
The Church has been very careful of
the men h has received into the min
istry, n Of h many. thousand who
have come in 1t iS amazing SO few have
brought disgrace IN her. The more I
know Of nan naturally the more l see
the Church is under the power of the
Holy Ghost. If the Church had not been
under the Holy Ghost there Is power
enough in the world to have wrecked it
long ago. In addressing you I desire,
first, to call attention to your own
lives.
Churches do o differ so much in
government; there is not SO much diff
ference in doctrine; all men preach that
Jesus Christ died to save sinners. This
is tnground in the minds of the people
and no other doctrine would be tol-
Terated. You, to be a successful preach
er, must first OF all be thoroughly con-
verified. No man can preach unless he
is converted. He can talk, but he can
not preach. To be thoroughly converted
a man u be sick OF sin, must feel
it's appalling sin and what it is to have
the depths of his soul plowed up with
the burrows of sin and then know God
has fully cleansed him from his sins.
wv " We xkO EOkls
scious OF a call to the ministry. The
ministry Is not like a secular profess
sion. God calls men to the ministry.
l can see how a man could get into the
Methodist ministry without being called
OF God to preach, but u economy is SO
adjusted that he will not stay there
long unless he is converted. The heavy
circuits n hard punches the young
men are compelled to begin on will soon
punch him out unless he is filled with
the grace of Cod. The call to the
Methodist ministry is two fold. First,
the Holy Ghost calls a man to preach.
Second, the Church calls him into her
work. A young man feels called of
Cod to preach; some Cody sister SAYS
she believes God wants him to preach;
then a brother notices his peculiar gifts
and after being fully impressed of God
and assured by man he presents him
self to the Church for admission, and
after his examinations, If he has gifts
n graces proper, he is admitted into
n ministry. Why do you want to
preach? If in your souls you want to
preach because God wants you to. God
Will bless you. Do you mean to be
pure! DO o mean to be abandoned
to God? If SO we want YOU; if not. we
DO not. Are you clean men before God?
He calls men to get ready to preach
as much as he calls them to preach.
SNASp1SAOAA 40 lllpOIldHI. AnV
young man a get an education. I
adm1re a man that digs his way
through school and then through col
lege. He may sweep the college. ring
the bell, or do any rough work, but he
Will succeed. I used to wonder why SO
rev sons OF rich men never amount to
much. I have since learned it is for
two reasons: First, SO few men know
what q dollar is worth and they waste
their talents and their money. Second,
no man can move a people until he has
shared their sufferings and s~ympathizes
with them in their sorrows.
A majority Of the people in his world
go 70 be hungry The great men in
the Church began in the dinner bucket
brigade. How could you. II you could
not sympathize with men, win them?
n man that moves men Is the man
VINO ma a touch now and then with
them. This was true Of Paul. Jesus
put MS great heart alongside of power
ty and blessed it. Get a college training
y you can, II not. learn how to think.
me minister ought to be the best man
IN n community. Sometimes we talk
OF the men of forty or fifty years ago.
There was a college whose campus was
n United States. The students used
to ride horseback, ride bitches and con-
5ugate verbs. Woe be to the man who
In That day said that Jesus died for
lHc WOIlu duQ UOL the Otler.
You live up to you age, as they
did for theirs, and you will be a success
for God. 1 fancy I can see the circuit
rider of old: Bay horse, green leggings.
saddle-bags. Books of the Methodist
leaders these men were taught in Brush
college. After the training then comes
theological schools. I believe in the
illogical schools. Some Of them thank
God for the good old men. 1 would
v let a man teach in a theological
school until he has preached ten years.
I would put him through a big drill
IN a big circuit. Wouldn't you? THE
best lawyers we have had a good prac-
tice before they became great. our
General Conference gives credit for
work done in college, but the Annual