The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-11
ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE
METHODIsTs TO MEET IN CITY ROAD
CHAPEL, LONDON, NEXT MONTH.
FOL Wcslcy's Old Preaching Place
Rev. G.. s. Miner on the Killing
OF Converts by Boxers.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, Aug. 1O.-Methodists OF the
world. who are to meet in City Road
Chapel. John Wesley's old preaching place,
Sept. 4 to II, are already journeying toward
London. About two hundred delegates will
go from the United States and Canada.
Former Governor Atkinson, of West Vir-
ginia, was on the programme for an adj
dress on methods of dealing with the liquor
traffic, but fears he will be unable to go
abroad at this time. Bishop Galloway. of
the Methodist Church South, who is to
preach the opening sermon, is just leaving
Brazil for London. He has been in South
America on conference visitations. An in
cident illustrative of the good feeling be-
tween Methodists North and Methodists
South is the recent formal transfer of work
in Rio de Janeiro from the former to the
latter. The work was not small, and had
been many years in building. The transfer
from Methodists North to those of the
South included property and missionaries.
a new president of the Wesleyan Methodist
Conference, the mother Methodist body of
England, has just been chosen, and he will
be prominent in the forthcoming Ecumen-
ical Conference. He is the Rev. DR.. w. Z.
Dawson. a professor at Handsworth Insti-
tuition, Birmingham. The Rev. DIR. Dawson
is an author of note, and was the fraternal
delegate from Methodists of England to the
Methodist General Conference South, held
in Baltimore three years ago.
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The Rev. George S. Miner. just returned
from ten years service in China, where he
has been engaged in educational work, ex-
plains the reason why the present is UMPIRE
cedented as opportunity for forward work
In China Thirty thousand native Chris
tans persisted at the hands of the Boxers.
The fact that so many died for their faith
has gone through china like All electric
shock. While VIGOROUSLY careless of hu-
man life, Cinnamon realize that none
among them would die for Confucianisn,
Buddhism, ancestral worship or any form
of religion obtaining among them. That so
many died. often gladly. for Christianity has
impressed them markedly, and Cinnamon
are saying that there is something in the
new Western religion that they have not.
Mr.. Miner says they are far more intelli-
for being, and they are saying that if this
quality obtains in Christianity they must
have Christianity. Hence the opening for
missionary effort at this time.
speaking of the reports of looting, Mr..
Miner declares them to have been much
ovedrawn. There was stealing, but not
pudiates the Rev. Gilbert Reid, who has
written justifying looting, saying he rep
IesentS no missionary society, but is an in
dependent worker. trying to build, at Chi
nese expense, an international institute in
Peking. Other missionaries did not loot.
and have not sought to justify il. He be-
lieves the Catholic regulation. putting
prelates of that church upon political lew
els with various Chinese officials, to have
been one of the prime causes of the put
break. and expresses the belief that Catho-
lies so realize the fact when too late. Amer
lean soldiers. while in China. conducted
themselves better than he anticipated they
would do, and they should have been re-
tanned for a longer period, as Chinese Off
Gals of high grade advised
He has no faith UhnfnUor in Chfnaca 90
fetal promises. He points out that Chinese
people are as much in slavery as were the
blacks In this country before 1861. heir
queues are badges of serfdom, compelled to
wear them by their Tartar conquerors.
made by these mandarins are not
TO be taken seriously. Our government errs
when IL places confidence in such nrorn9
ises. As a government, we have had the
wool pulled over our eyes, as the saving
adroit and able Minister WI. He reports
missionaries In China TO be exceedingly in
diSnant al. the attentions shown here to
MIR. WI. The Chinese are, he says, amass-
ing implements of war in vast quantities..
and making smokeless gunpowder by the
thousands of tons. Dealings of the official
class where the powers are, he asserts.
marked by duplicity and meanness of the
basest kind. l. Hung Chang he character
ICES as a scoundrel, and is unable TO find
words sufficiently strong TO describe the
double-facedness of the average official
Chinese transaction.
some years ago CnllQren In Episcopal
Sunday schools of the country set out to
contribute for missions during the lenten
season 500. 900. They reached the first year
hardly half their stint. and not half of all
the schools contributed. In 1897 they
reached a total of s63, 1000. and since then
they have steadily increased. both in
amount and in the number of schools con-
tributing. In 1898 they gave $S1 600, in 1899
$4,000 and last year 8 1000. This year they
have passed their limit, the sum to date
being SOL. PAT. with the probabilities that the
total will reach sos, 600. About $500 schools
contributed. or one thousand more than
gave at the beginning. The receipts of the
general episcopal board do not. however,
make so favorable showing. During the
last five years the board of managers of
missions have increased the appropriations
by $3.50, O00, while the churches nave not in
years there happened to be legacies TO nelp
ont, but this year dead people have not
come to the rescue. and appearances now
are that there will be a debt of fully $780,
900.
The Synod OF Mexico. the Presbyterian
body which has just been organized, con-
tains four presbyteries with about forty
pastors. The Rev. Arcade Morales, who is
by some called the Moody of Mexico, was
elected moderator OF the new synod and
the standards of the Northern Church were
adopted. There are about six hundred Prot
estant churches of all bodies in Mexico.
and the progress making by Professionalism
in Mexico is rapid, as under the Diaz gov
eminent many of the influential educators
are selected from Protestant ranks. In
other ways the liberal policy of the Diaz
administration has helpel the Protestant
cause. although Mexico continues 10 be a
strong Catholic country.
The Nicely Case.