Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-11-16
METHOD|STS OF WEST
Need Help In Church Work.
Pleas Against Cutting
Appropriation,
NEGRO OPPOSED A MOTION,
At Meeting of General Missionary
Committee of M. e. Church, Which
Appeared to Tend to Organization
of Separate Denomination.

Pittsburg, Nov. 16.-Bishop Charles
G. McCabe stirred the conference OF
the general missionary committee az
Christ church yesterday morning WIN
his speech in behalf of the approprla-
lions to Nevada and Arizona Ne
vada asked for $1,000.
In behalf of this sum Bishop Nc
Cabe said: 81 held the conference
there. 1t was one of great zeal.
There are two big towns there with
nearly 10000 inhabitants without a
minister. There is no one to bury
their uead. Young women in that
town, members of the Epworth
league, conduct the funeral services.
l pledged $500 for church at Battle
Mountain. | am going to have a
church in that town, whether this
committee helps me or not. The sal
airy Of our ministers in that state
would be spurned by the hod-carrier
Of Pittsburg."
other Bishops Backed Him Up.
Other bishops backed him up and
the entire sum of $4,000 was given.
A number of the bishops supported
the request for $4,000 for the purpose
of building new churches. The con-
ference wanted per cent to come off
this. Bishop D. A. Goodsell and
Bishop j. R. Day asked for the full
appropriations.
Bishop McCabe followed by saying:
Arizona district built 10 churches
and four parsonages. and for this they
raised 100000 Not one of these
churches cost less than $500. In
that district there is a great forward
movement. New mines are being dis
| covered and new industries are being
quilt. We plead for the full amount. "
| Notwithstanding this plea the con-
| ference turned it down and gave
| 5000.
Bishop H. w. Warren presided in
the afternoon.
| Some discussion on the negro prob
lem was precipitated during yester-
days session by Bishop G. D. Foss.
| when the application Of the Alabama
| conference for aid was submitted.
| The gauntlet was at once taken up,
| as it was inferred that the object of
| the motion was to cut loose the negro
! members Of the Methodist Episcopal
| church, both north and south, and to
| help them start a denomination, the
membership of which should be con-
| fined wholly to the negro race.
Bishop FOsS moved that applica-
| lions for white work in the south,
| Meryland and Delaware excepted, and
| negro work, mostly south, be referred
| to a special committee for consider
alton. No sooner had the motion
been seconded than w. H. Nelson, a
negro presiding elder of the south,
seeming danger, secured the floor
| and made an eloquent plea against
| the motion.
| Rev. j. f. Goucher, of Baltimore,
| and DR.. Buckley spoke against the mo-
ton. DR.. Buckley thought negroes
develop intellectually much more rap
idly when associated with his white
| brothers. He characterized a confer
ence Of the A. M. E. Zion church as
a regular circus, too amusing for a
man with a sense of the ridiculous
to keep straight face while attend.
ing it.
| Bishops Hamilton and Walden
spoke also against the motion II
was then laid over until this morn.
ing's session.
| The session was presided over by
Bishop e. G. Andrews. After the
usual opening exercises, the appro.
priation OF funds for the maintenance
of home mission charges was con
| tinued. The western conferences en-
| gagged the attention of the committee
| The s per cent cut of all disburse-
ments is affecting some of these
charges very seriously. Through In
diana and other neighboring states
the people have suffered much from
drought and are not able to help
themselves much. Bishop Walden
said this section was very needy, and
he did not like to see the cut applied
there. He had Travelled much through
this country and knew the suffering
which many of the ministers were
called upon to endure.
Thought West Would Have to Suffer-
Others of the bishops thought that
the western country would have ia
suffer with all the rest They didn't
like it either, but could see no way out
| OF the dilemma. Bishop McCabe said
4 that the per cent cut, which Is be
ing applied on all distributions, was
4 made necessary not because the
amount Of money to be appropriated
i was so much less than heretofore, but
because there were so many new mis-
! sions requiring help. The Boxer up
rising in China last year was a very
unfortunate thing for the missionary
| movement, as it made necessary the
distribution of so much more than Is
usually given to that section. This
had in part to be taken from the incl
| dental fund, and greatly lowered the
state Of the finances. The foreign
missions, therefore, will also have t.
be cut this year, in order that part Of
the available funds may be applied tt
the liquidation Of the debt.
Every separate conference had its
champion, who pleaded in needy cases
that the cut might not be made on
their appropriation. Some of the
stories were heartrending, In some in
stances preachers and their families
almost starving to keep their church
alive
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