The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-03
ACTIONS OF
THE CONFERENCE
They Were in Some Instances De-
cidedly Radical.
WILL PREVENT sTAGNATloN.
Growing Episcopal Jurisdictions vii,
be Div.ded-The McAll Mission
In France-GcncraI Re
Iisious News.
WILL PREVENT sTAGNATloN.

lisious News.
Since the adjournment OF the Methodist
General Conference reports have been
received from Methodist pastors and lead
ers in all principal cities from Boston
west 10 and including Minneapolis. Oma-
la and Kansas City. The feeling IN ali
directions Is hopeful, and the expectation
is that the action of the Conference, while
IN places radical, Viii arrest stagnauon,
and in some instances loss, which had
been the fate of American Methodisnl
during the last few years. These leaders
say that not so much as this has been
accomplished by what the Conference
has done; merely that conditions have
been made such that with hard work
progress IS now possible. There is some
soreness over non-appointmenfs, chief
among them the leaving behind Of the
Rev DR.. J. L. Huriburt for twenty years
identified with the Sunday-school work
of the denomination. Leaders say these
hurts will soon heal
Most is expected from the abolition OF
the pastoral time limit, and greatest re-
gret is felt that the rule on amusements
was left unchanged. The prediction is
made that during the next two or three
years a great number of pastoral changes
will be made. in the task of adjusting
Methodist congregations to new copdi-
TONS Already official boards in thous
ands Of churches are at work Tastorates
in the largest cities will be least affected,
and ministers of the first grade, now I'M
placed or placed not to their liking, are
going to find greatest difficulty in meet
ing new methods.
Men left out are taking their fate phi
osophically. Ali are members Of annual
conferences. and SO, then, they will look
for positions, being granted one-half their
last salaries until their respective confer
ences meet. The Rev. DR.. Hurlburt, left
out Of the Sunday-school Board has been
offered the passionate OF the Orange Church
the pulpit Of which was made vacant by
the new Chancellor of Denver University
The Rev. DR.. ". 7. Smith, left out OF the
Secretaryship of the Missionary Society,
goes back TO Iowa, where he viii proha-
bly become presiding elder of his old dis
trict long famous for being the banner
one in American Methodism in per capita
missionary contributions. The Rev DR.
Curtis, left out of the Cincinnati BOOK
Agency. and the Rev. Dr. A j Palmer,
no longer a Missionary Society Secretary,
bon, men OF the first grade. are two who
VIII, il is predicted, be hardest hit by The
new rule as 10 pastorates-
CHANGE IN CONFESSION.
Prebysterian opinion, gathered, from
widely separated sources is that changes
10 be made in the Westminster Confession
S~Ai''---NNeS
pointed at the recent General Assembly
has the confidence of the entire denomi-
nation It Will, so it is said, recommend
next year no new creed. but simply
changes in the wording of four or I'VE
parts of the Confession. These are phrases
which admit Of misconstructlon, N
tiouaI or otherwise. The most liberal men
In the denomination have been seen since
the adjournment Of the ST. Louis Assem-
blv, and without exception they nave de-
c!arsd that the Presbyterian Chufcn Is
Calvinistic. and that there Is no thouGAt
that 1t shall ever be otherwise. Nlth
few exceptions they desire nothing done
that shall impair .Calvinism as a system.
These exceptions are only such minority
as would in a deliberative meeting, be
permitted to east their votes and thereaf-
ter ignored
Two jurisdictions in which the growth
of the Protestant Episcopal Church of late
years has been marked are TO be divided
and additional bishops chosen Ihey are
Central PENNSYLVANIA, where for several
decades The growth has been the largest
in the country, and Massachusetts, Where
the increase has been next largest see
cities have not in their case been selected,
hut the new dioceses will, under the new
ruling, be named for cities rather than
for localities or parts of States. The
77rgposition to divide South Carolina was
defeated at HE recent convention IN that
State.
sunday-School Auxiliary 10 the Protes-
tant Episcopal Board of Missions We're
$1,000 in advance of the same date last
wear with I50 additional schools contlibu-
ting This auxiliary is made up OF pupils
in Episcopal schools Of the whole country,
who during Lent save their pennies for
missions. They set out some years since
10 raise S1o1.0po. The first year they gave
not quite half that sum. Last year they
reached $S4vj9 and. as this year they are
at an early date $4,000 ahead, the eX3ec-
tation is that they may reach their stunt
when a celebration of their attainment
Is to be had The money Is for no special
purpose, simply for general work, the
effort being made on the high lines Of
giving for the benefit of giving
AT NORTHF1ELD.
The principal figures at Mortified this
wear. not alone at The General Conference
in August, but also during me stnoehI
and women conferences in July, are the
four lannon's 1nissionarieS-the Rex. DR..
Tnbn G Patton. of the New Hebrides; the
Roy. ] Hudson Taylor, founder OF the
China Inland Mission; the Rev. Dr. JACOB
Chamberlain, the weli-lSuoWn Reformed
Church worker IN India, and the Nener-
able Dr.. William AShmore. q pioneer Zap
fist ial.orer- in China The chief speak
ers In August are TO be the Rev. Z. D.
Never and the Rev. @. Campbell dor-
gan. both Of London, and the two men
VINO. apart from Mr.. Moody himself, have
done most to make Noflhileic famous
The Rev. C. II. McGregor, of London
at Sortllfield two years ago, has just died
Of brain-feyer. In some quarters The sea
san anproa ching is regarded as the
,,i,-otal one but q straw concerning it is
the fact that 10 date more rooms have been
engaged for August than on any previous
year.
The endowment fund for the support
,1 -ha NTonax educational enterprises Is
growing slowly. but figures concerning it
are rot given out save as the fund
reaches round dgares. Offerings are re-
on 7,arts Of the world chiefly from people
who write that they have been helped by
something Mr.. MOODY said or. wrots ,
FUNDS for the support Of the regular work
Of the schools are all in hand for this
school year save a very few thousands
The sum of $1,000 year is required for
,,fal,5tenanCe, above buttons and hymn