The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-01
THE METHODIST ECUMENICAL CONGRESS.
DR.. Henry Tuckley's Letter from London
Tells of the Coming Meeting.

TO crow over between selling seats. as
Americans might do and git.ng them out In
part payment for beard or as bonus 10
those who have guaranteed the expenses
as the English are preparing to do.
The first session Of this great corner.
cnee win begin az 10 A. m wednesday. II
will be called "a order by Rev. Dr. w. T..
Davidson, the newly elected president OF
the British Wesleyan church. After a
sermon by Bishop u. Galloway Of Jack
son. Miss. the sacrament will be admin
isiered. Then. In the afternoon, will ca-
eur the addresses of welcome 10y prominent
men from This, side. TO which responses
ington. Dr. Potts uf Canada, Bishop Wal
tiers of the African Methodist Episcopal
Zion church, and the Hon. w. {. Adamson.
q Methodist Protestant from Georgia. ThG
next day viii he devoted TO The Present
Position Of McthodiSm'' IN the two hemis-
pheres, and on the American side the speak
crs will be pr G0ucher Of Baltimore and
nr Hammond Of Nashville. Here nr. II.
X. Carruo VIII bring in the report Of a
special committee on the statistics or
EcumenlCal Mcthodlsm, from the figures
SO rcVcl IN figures and take such pardon.
able pride in their hlgness VIII learn Just
precisely how big they are, and how much
they have grown since similar commit
tee took their exact statistical measure a
decade aCo
''Mcthodism and international Peace" WIN
be the next topic, and the conference VIII
at thic point, from having just taken the
measure Of Mcthodism, proceed to take the
ordtoGic measure Of X. W. Perks, NJ. p,
cue OF the most gifted and useful of the
British Methodist lBymeu ON the same
topic Bishop Goodscll OF Chattanooga and
Hon, ). b. Adams Of savannah will be
beard. Then "Methodlsm and the Free
Ghurch Movement will be considered.
Thls j. live topic In Englund for il re-
lates 10 the banding together OF the non
conforulist bodies of this country into what
a great annual meeting and with plans for
co,orcration and self-help as against the
Privileged state church. English Method
Ism mas been the sloweSt OF all the de-
nomlnations to take up this movement. IL
Is always more tolerant toward the state
church than such hodies rs the Congrega
t'onallsts aud BaptiSts are, ana many thlnE
that In showing SO soft side for the es-
tablishnient IL has stood In the way of Its
own progress. But there has been change
OF latC II happens that next year
Methodist will be chairman OF the Free
ChUrcl Council and IL happens also that
this same honorcd minister DR.. w. j.
Townsend OF the new Connection church,
win bc the chief speaker on this subject
ut tie coming ecumcnical.
Sulh topics as Christian Unity and
"lutcrct n0minatiouul Fellowship Among
Methcdlsts" are sure to awaken great in
teres on the day assigned TO them and
are certain TO call mp memories OF the two
former ccumcnical conferences. In the urSt
the cltn'r was occupied on the opening DAY
by one OF the wheels horses of British Yves
leyap,Sm who. thirty years before, mad 50
bitter. disputed with another man In that
body that Methodist split was the result,
and that other man was present leading
the delegation of the new Methodist church
- winch that split gave rise. IheSe Two
Alcthodist leaders had not spoken In tloSe
thirty years nor sat In conference together
yhody wondered how they would act,
and ii j. pleasant 70 recall that they acted
admirably. So much SO that in some clos
ing remarks Rev. William Griffith, prcsl
dent of the Free Methodist churches. said
with his reconcled eye specially upon Rey.
George Osborn. president OF the Blusl
Wesleyan church Il did not want to at
tend TIL. conference; | could see no good III
II. Bur I'm glad now mat ] came ana
want To say that there ism t man mere
to whom / can not give tho hand of fellow
snip II was a disgruutled Methudlst
giant who was speaking, and mis- ploiered
hand OF fellowship was grasped later ny
another Methodist giant of the same KIND.
Aud somewhat similar to this scene was
still another that was enacted IN mat hrst
II these Methodist ecuEencalS. II there
hau been STRIFE and division In England, 80
lad there likewise heer In America II
WAS u knotty point twenty years ago as TO
how thr white and colored Methcllsts or
tho South would blend Ga ecclesiastical con
claVc, not Ia speak of how the white hosts
~ thu North and South would get on TO.
gethCr But here again djd the noble Il
sentiments prevail, and who that saw the
sight WI ever forget how that conference
WAS moved when, after an eloquent speech
by Colorcd delegate, Dr. {. x. Marshall,
one Of the most striking figures in the
delegation from the church SOUTH sprarS
from his seat aud reaching over seve al
IcWS gBsped the black mans hand, say
Ing. with an JUNCTION that thrilled evc~y.
body: ~ greet You as a brother and
thank God that your people are free.
Undoubtedly the continuance OF theSS
Methodist ecumcncials viii eliminate hnal.
~ all bad feelings IN both countries ana
for all practical purposes VIII make the
various Methodist churches one. Al the
last eclmencial the subject Of Methodist
union did not seem SO popular MS Mt the
htst, the chief reason for this probably be
ing that from having ten years before
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