The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-22
Rev. Drs. e. w. Parker and F. w.
lot Taken by the Conference.
REV. DIR. BERRY wITKDRAws
WAS A PROMINENT CANDIDATE FOR
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT.
Hamilton and Moore Within q Few
Votes of the Coveted Prixe-Pres-
byterian General Assembly.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
CHICAGO, May 21.-The Methodist Epis-
copal General Conference to-day elected
DR.. F. w. Warne and DIR. Z. w. Parker
missionary bishops for India 1t is be-
lieved the two general superintendent will
be elected tomorrow. On the sixteenth
ballot to-day DR.. Moore lacked only thir-
teen votes and DR.. Hamilton twenty-five.
DR.. Berry has withdrawn from the contest.
That DIR. Day, successor to DR.. c. N.
Sims in the chancellorship of the Syracuse
University, did not shoot to the front in
the race for bishop this morning was not
for the want of a charming write-up in
the local Sunday paper. Possibly some Of
the members of the General Conference
who do not read Sunday papers failed to
see it; the more is the pity. His forceful
speech in favor of removing the time limit
entirely has not been excelled by any plat
form speech since the conference began.
and 'twould certainly have told In the
election Saturday If ballot had been taken
after 1t was delivered. On its merits 1t
was much more deserving such a compli-
ment and Endorsement than the speech Of
DR.. Nicely on the life-tenure question, yet
there are these facts that may prevent
such recognition: First, the conference,
both the laymen and the ministers, con-
siders the life tenure by odds the more i'm
portant question, and DR.. Nicely is the only
minister that has even indirectly alluded
to it in words of disapproval. except DR..
Lanahan, who vigorously attacked it last
week in the unusual method of printing
and circulating, as his speech. extracts
from Bishop Merrill when he was candi-
date for bishop in 1871, while several lay
men and ministers were heard on the same
side of the time-limit question, thus rem
dering his great speech less conspicuous.
A common remark on Sunday was wish
that by some strategem he might be drawn
out on the direct issue before another vote
was taken, but no one would dare venture
to propose such thing to him as polit-
ical measure. He is not that kind Of a
man.
Whether the self-imposed kicking the
conference gave itself Saturday and to-day
in the tumult 1t raised over the proposition
to indefinitely postpone the election OF
bishop will avail anything remains to be
seen. 1t seems now that one or more of
the leading candidates are at the bottom
of the movement assuming that four years
hence, when a half dozen or more bishops
must be elected, the large votes they have
now received will be good starter then.
DR.. Nicely is not now to be included In
these.
Every matter to be legislated upon is
now before the conference or in the hands
Of the appropriate committees, and most
Of the committees are ready to report. OF
course, very much that seems very dear
to the masses will necessarily be reported
back, with recommendation that II lie
on the table. The discussion of the pro-
posed new constitution will be resumed at
an early date. The question of allowing
women to be voted for will come up again
on the report of the committee to which IT
and other proposed amendments have been
referred. / predict that, after ALL the
whole thing will be indefinitely postponed.
as 1t has twice been already. The differ
ence between this and the former abor-
lions cannot save ii.
I went again to the Wabash-avenue
Church yesterday, partly drawn by the in
terest / feel In the enterprise of maintain
ing church in the midst of the residences
of the row, and partly to hear Dr. Cad
man, a young man from New York, who
promises to be the Mother Simpson Of the
immediate future. His work in New York
city is substantially the same as that I'M
undertaken by this in wealthy Wabash
avenue church. He is certainly remarka-
BILE man, about thirty-five years of age
His theme was THE Open Door," which
no man can shut, which led him to consider
the value of faith in Christ as a personal
Savior. One of his Illustrations was a
cross, who, in his extremity, appealed to
the Christ and was accepted by Him. add
ing in a most thrilling and eloquent man
ner: What could prohibition do for a
man In such an extremity? None but Je-
sus can do helpless sinners good" The
climax was most forceful, but this appar-
ent belittling of prohibition as a reform or
saving agent gave great offense to some
prohibitionists who heard 1t, though no
disparagement of prohibition, in its appro-
pirate sphere, was intended.
Bishop Warren preached his excellent
sermon on THE Fullness OF God" to a
crowded house in the Auditorium at 3
o'clock. 1t seems to be one of those rare
things that do not perish with the using.
One minister said he heard 1t more than
twenty years ago. when he. the minister.
was student in the Boston University
and he had heard ii more than half dozen
times since. One from the Pacific coast
told how often he had heard il I'm Cali
fornia, and that it was disable not only at
conferences, but ii was good on less noted
occasions, for he. the bishop, had preached
1t in his pulpit. 1t is one of the chestnuts
that Bishop McCabe says is older than his
Libby Prison lecture, and is vet worth
hearing. One of the strongest arguments
that has yet been used in favor of remoy-
Ing the time limit is that some preachers
perish with the dry rot by using their
old sermons in their new stations never
evolving new one. Whether abolishine
the life tenure will make bishops deliver
fresh sermons is not known II was a
good sermon, all the same and well de-
livered. r A q