The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-05
IN SESSION IN LONDON
THE METHODIST ECUMENICAL
 CONFERENCE CONFINES.
Eloquent Sermon Setting Forth Aims of Church Delivered by Bishop
 Galloway-Prayers For King :,
 and President. ["

London. Sept. 1.-The Ecumenieal Meth ocist conference opened In Wesley Chapel with devotional exercises, and King Ed prayed for President J. C. HartseIi, Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Epis- copal Church in Africa, made the opening prayer, and Bishop Galloway of Jackson, Miss, preached an eloquent sermon, set ung forth the a:ms of the Methodists throughout the world, and emphasizing the value of the tents of John Wesley.
 The ArchbisSop Of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Frederick Temple, D.D., and the Bishop of the London, the Rt. Rev. messages. m the Archbishop of Canterbury praying that Gods blessing may rest on the deliberations. The Bishop of London sent a similar message, but adding the be reunited with the Episcopalians
 The Ecumenical Methodist Conference is meeting in the City Road Chapel, built eG ey sGhn the wsssy n s S 1t s an Is filled with memorials of all denemi- nations tracing their oligin<to Wesley. Marble columns representing Methodist united States and Canada are among those holding up the gallery. They were presented after the first conference that assembled here exactly twenty-five years ago today.
 The representation. which is on a basis Of about one delegate to 20,000 members, gives the United States and Canada 300 out of the 500 delegates composing the council. The chairman will he changed daily. so that nearly all the divisions rep resented will have chairmanship For conI enience in arranging business the conference is divided into eastern and western sections.
 The eastern section, which takes in all branches Of English Methodists together South Africa and the West Indies con sists of 2es members. apportisned ds fol- lows:
 W esIcyan Methodists. ss: New Connec- ton Methodists, 10; Primitive Methodists, 34: United Methodists free churches, 20; Bible Christians. 1o Irish Mstholists, 10; minor Methodist bodies. 8; French Meth. xnstralasian saistrs as mF wesisyan % c Metsodist ; Church. 12; South African Methodist Church, 10. The Western section includes because of its relatively greater strength having 3o0 delegates.
 The Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States sent 129 representatives, among them Bishops Hurst, Vincent, Hamilton and Hartsell. The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is represented by seventy delegates, including bishops Fitzgerald, Galloway. Granbery and Mor- rison. The methodist Church of CanGda. among its twersy representatives. has Dr. Briggs, Dr. Potts, Prof. J. c. Antliif and Chancellor Brownash of Toronto. The colored Methodist churches of Amer lea are represented by ffty-eight dcie- gates, including twenty colored bishops.
 Though the conference does not have leg islative and administrative power ovel the churches represented, their policy will probably be effected both directly and indirectly by the discussions on the religious and social problems that vii come before it.
 Among the subjects that will be consid cred " Il he: "The Present Position oi Methodism,' ''The Influence of Method ism in the Promotion of TnternatiOna Peace" Biblical Criticism and the Christian Faith" Principles of Protest antism versus Sacerdotalism." Method ism and Education" Christianity ant Modern Unbelief" Modern Indifferent ism" Methodist Literature and Journal ism" and Practical Methods of Dealing With the Liquor Traffic."
 A public meeting will be held at wficf the ''Moral Unity of the English Speak ing Peoples will be the subject dis cussed,