The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-02

pies a position of equal honor and
 power in the Southern and in some ot
 the Western States, but the three large
 African divisions of this American
 Methodist army will have place il
 this Conference, and the smaller ye
 no less respectable bodies of which the
 chief is the Methodist Protestant Church.
 It seems pity that a Conference SC
 large should have a place so small tc
 meet in. This is another instance of convenience sacrificed to sentiment
 The entire ground floor of Wesley
 Church is pre-empted for the 800 dele
 gates and the press. Dr. Bond is in formed that there will be hundreds of American visitors, exclusive of the regular delegates from that side. Most
 of the Methodists who are abroad this summer are lengthening out their trip
 so as to take in this gathering in the
 early fall. Many indeed are making the European trip this year with special reference to this Conference, for it only occurs once in decade and it's unique importance is in the fact that it is the | only Conference in which British Methodism comes into deliberation with the American type and the only one in which there is a real coming together
 of the Northern and Southern wings of
 American Methodism. But with so
 much to make the gathering attractive
 and so many planning to attend from
 both sides of the Atlantic, the query
 becomes acute, how can such a multi l t,,l 1f -;e;t tn Sn small a place of meeting?
 The gallery of Wesley's Church is all | that is offered to the outside public. For admission to this 600 tickets are to l be issued each day. Of this number, one each will be given to all of the 800 1 delegates, with one special proviso that in disposing of these tickets con- siderat tion must first be shown to the family in which the delegate Is getting
 his free entertainment. After that sub- scribers to the guarantee fund are to be specially considered both by dele gates and by the Local Committee.
 This Committee will have hundred tickets at it's disposal daily, that num4
 Der, with what the delegates get, mak-
 ing the full quota of the six hundred
 that are to be issued for each days session.
 None of the seats are to be sold.
 NO, indeed they're not" said pr.
 Bond, when I questioned him upon this point But seats were sold" I re- minded him, lat the Washington Ecu menical." "Yes, of course, you Ameri- cans would sell anything" was ths quick reply. This response was quite redeemed from offensiveness by the good natured smile that attended it, and coming from a source so child-like and bland, it seemed to possess a pe- culiar value, showing, as 1t did how we are sized up over here on the money question by even our best friends. But all the same this writer could see hard ly enough difference to crow over be- tween selling the seats, as Americans might do and giving them out in part payment for board or as bonus to those who have guaranteed the ex- penses, as the English are preparing to do. e
 The first session of this great Confer ence will begin at 10 a. m. Wednesday, It will be called to order by Rev. pr. w. T. Davidson, the newly-elected I IGSlQtul ol lIc DlIliSl NcSitSbli Church. After a sermon by Bishop c. B. Galloway, of Jackson, Miss, the sa- craments will be administered. Then, in the afternoon, will occur the ad- dresses of welcome by prominent men from this side, to which responses will be made by Bishop Hurst of Washing l ton, Dr. Potts of Canada, Bishop Wal | ters of the African M. F. Zion Church, | and the Hon. w. c. Adamson a Methodist Protestant from Georgia. | The next day will be devoted to "The Present Position of Methodism'' in the | two hemispheres, and on the American ] side the speakers will be pr. Boucher 1f Baltimore and Dr. Hammond of Nashville. Here Dr. H. K. Carroll will bring in the report of a special committee on the Statistics of Ecu nenical Methodism, from the figures of which these Methodist worthies, who ;o revel in figures and take such par 1onable pride in their bigness, will earn just precisely how big they are, md how much they have grown since similar committee took their exact statistical measure a decade ago.
 "Methodism and International 1GdC6 WILL De lHe IlexL lUplC, anu lle l Conference will at this point, from laving just taken the measure of proceed to take the orato cal measure of R. W. Perks, M. P, me of the most gifted and useful of he British Methodist laymen. On the anne topic Bishop Goodsell, of Chat anooga, and the Hon. s. B. Adams, of ,avannah, will be heard Then Meth dism and the Free Church Movement" will be considered. This is a live topic n England, for it relates to the band 1 ng together of the -Conformist odies of this country into what is nown as Free Church Council with
 great annual meeting and with plans or cooperation and self help as gainst the privileged State Church. ,nglish Methodism has been the slow , st of all denomina tions to take up this, lovement. It is always more tolerant , oward the State Church than such odies as the Congregationalists and , ,aptists are, and many think that in lowing so scft side for the Estab- shment it has stood in the way of it's ( Wn progress. But there has been a . hange of late. It happens that next e ear Methodist will be Chairman of :. ems also that this same honored min ter, Dr. w. J. Townsend, of the New ee onnexion Church, will be the chief i. ,eaker on this subject at the coming