The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-22
JOURNAL AUGUSTA s

fore, and the approaching Ecumenical,
 found was casting a shadow of cer-
 tain kind, if one might call it a shadow
 without offence, over the congregation | in John Wesley's Church that very Sunday morning when l happened to
 be WOrshipping there. One contracts here after a few months the English
 habit of getting to church in good time.
 Hence it was that on this occasion Il had leisure before service began to
 look around a little and read the signs,
 both printed and human, in the vesti- bule. One of the printed signs inform 1 ed me that if I desired l could rent
 sitting on the ground floor of that his l toric Church for as low a sum as from two to four dollars year. It also in 1 formed me that if that exorbitant
 amount was beyond my means l could ! find good accommoation in the gallery | for a dollar a year. This was a re-
 hinder that City Road Chapel has to
 make it's appeal to-day to the class who | havn't much money to waste and that 1 it has long ceased to be self-supporting, | being kept up now at the expense of 1 the Wesleyan Connection at large. It was while l was looking at this statement and reAecting upon it's signi- fieance, that the coming Eeumenleal cast its shadow over the place, and to me it was a very comedy and welcome shadow, for it consisted of about dozen as fine looking. well-groomed colored men as one ever sees at home or abroad. They were part of the dele- gation from the African M. F, Church ,,,l~x toIv0 I>,, tIa fpI,n1nn1y and like myself had come round to see that this dear old Church of Wesley's was in spic and span order for the gReat gathering that was to be held in it a month from that time. In the ser mon that morning I had little interest. What l eagerly awaited was the bene- diction for I was sure that after that there was a great religious treat in store for me. The result showed that there was. and it consisted in the rare enjoyment of witnessing the still more rare enjoyment of those dozen or more 1 honored representatives of a race which l owes so much to John Wesley and his followers as they went around, under 1 competent guides, to examine for the ] first time the various busts and memor- 1 ials in that time -honored shrine, and then at last, one by one, climbed the circular stairway and stood in Wes- 1 ley's own pulpit, each of them evident | ly feeling as he did so that the moment ! occupied in this new and high experi- ence was the proudest of his life. As l we'll they might, for thel ate Dean | Stanley said once that he would give | hundred pounds to preach from the [ pulpit, and pr. Joseph Parker, in r preaching the re-opening sermon of ! Wesley's church two years ago, said | that Wesey's pulpit was one of the most illustrious in the world,
 What will be the chief feature in the | of this third Ecumenical ! Conference, in what points it will differ { from the two Conferences which have preceded it, what is thought over here as to the probable results of it, what the arrangements are for taking care of so large and representative a gath ering, and in particular what the King and Queen may possible do to show their interest in so important a body these are matters which I cannot treat fully until next week.
 HENRY TUCKLEY.