Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-22

NESS eAoAtetn ~ nation, put SIN Is a
reproach to any people. The report
| strongly condemns Sunday railroad
travelling and deprecated the fact that
some ministers ride to their appoint
ments on trains on the Sabbath day.
MI. Royal made Il forceful argument
in favor of the passage of the report.
Blshop Duncan said that the minis
ters were committing a grievous wrong
| in patronizing Sunday transportation
| lines.
Rev. Is. l.. Lipscomb said that the
most important and sacred truth can
be overstated and thereby injured. He
strongly protested against the Sugges-
ton IN the report that ministers are re-
sponsible for the running of Sunday
trains Ii every minister in the land
should stop riding on Sunday the trains
would still run. He said il was Il diff
CUT problem to find out where the right
use OF the Sabbath ends and where the
wrong use of it begins. He was of the
opinion that presiding elders and
preachers, now and then, had duties of
and imperative nature to perform that
justified them in travelling on the trains
that day. 1t is a matter for every man
TO decide for himself.
Il stand up for the sanctty of the
Sabbath and ever will. but L am op-
posed to putting stigma upon minis
ters for doing what they consider to be
their duty in the service of their Mas
ter said the speaker.
Rev w. III. Edwards said he was
glad that his brother, I.ipscsHfb. was
I not u presiding elder. He is not pre-
pared for it. Il have been a presiding
| elder for eighteen months and 1 have
not used a train to get to one of my
| appointments during that time. and
| have not rode on a Sunday street car
for ten years. do not consider it nee
! essary for presiding elders TO use sun
| day trains
| Dr. Whitehead asked. why is it
/ pous to ride n horse forty miles on
| Sunday and not pious to use a train on
| that day?"
/ Mr. Edwards horse has no soul"
r Rev. Jas. Cannon, Jr.. Rev. w. p.
/ Wright and Rev. r. S. Baushan spoke
/ against riding on cars on Sunday.
Rev. Edward Thompson. d. D.. gene
raj secretary of the American Sunday
/ League, spoke in advocacy of u better
| Sunday observance. and referred to the
| fact that President Mckinley refused
10 travel on Sunday, and that Bryan
| and Roosevelt. during the late cam
| paign, sidetracked their trains on sat
/ urday night.
DR.. Lafrerty said he was opposed to
/ Sunday trains.
| Layman Davis made a strong speech
in behalf of the report.
| The report was amended by striking
| out the statement that "the homes are
| becoming deserted and churches
| empticd" by Sunday travel. and then
the report was adopted.
EPISCOPAL DECISION.
DR.. y. Coke Smith, ID. d., submitted
the following question of law Tuesday
for the Bishops decision:
The Southern Seminary. located ut
Bowling Green. Va, which for the past
twenty years has been under the
charge OF the church. having been
decided to a Board of Trustees for the
Methodist Episcopal Church. South,
and for school purposes, and the deed
having been signed and accepted by
said Board OF Trustees. the following
question OF law is propounded for Epis-
copal dccision
Does such acceptance of the said
Southern Seminary by the said Board
of Trustees. to be used for the pur-
poses designated. make the Southern
Seminary the property of the church,
TO be used as designated without first
being recommended to the Conference
by the Board OF Education"
Yesterday Bishop Duncan decided
said question of law in the negative.
AN EXCITING SCENE.
Almost on the eve of the adjourn
that has transpired in the Virginia
Conference for many years was
brought on by the introduction of the
following resolutions by Rev. DR. ~
Coke Smith:
Whereas, the appended report of the
proceedings OF this Conference in it's
session of Monday, November 18th, in
slant. appeared in the Richmond Times
of Tuesday, November 10Th rejecting
upon the character OF member OF
| this Conference and upon the conduct
of a majority of this body in covering
as IS alleged by expert parliamentary
tactics" the conduct of the member re-
ferred 10; therefore,
Resolved. LIST, That we declare this
publication TO be an dispersion upon the
character Of this body and an assault
upon the member of this body named
in the correspondence. which is false
as to fact and malicious in it's spirit
Resolved, I'd, That we regard this
publication as an abuse OF the privi-
legeS OF this floor granted to reprcsen-
tatives of the press, and that we de-
mand of the Richmond Times the pub
lication of these resolutions as a vindi-
cation of the character of this Confer
ence, which has been so gratuitously
| and violently attacked.
y. COKE SMITH,
II. f. LIPSCOMB.
WNI. Il. PROCTOR,
X. II. BENNETT
y. NJ HALL,
w. ASBURY CHRISTIAN,
j. Il. WYNN.
JOHN o. MOSS.
w. @. BOGGS.
Dir. Smith. who read the resolutions
read also the article in question from
the Richmond Times. The headlines
and body of the article had given Of
! Tense to the ministers who had signed
Z the resolutions After he had finished
reading the resolutions. Rev. r. n
Wilson. whose name had appeared in
the article. arose to q question OF per-
sonal privilege.
! IL