The sun., 1901-04-17
WOMAN NOT FOR COUNCIL.
METHODIST EAST CONFERENCE VOTES
TO KEEP RER or.
Disapproyes Of Church Constitution Admitting
Her S a Delegate 60 the General Con-
ference Pats Her on the Back, but
Thinks Woman suffrage IL a Dcluslon.

\ question which has been agitatine the
Methodist Church for many years, namely.
whether women should have tho right to be
heard and to vote IN tho councils OF the Ihurch,
was discussed nearly all day yesterday AZ
the New York East Conference in the Han
son Place Church IN Brooklyn II arose
over the constitution proposed for the Chhrch
at the General Conference last May, which
must be approved by tWo-thirdS OF the
annual conference, before II can be- adopted
10y th" next General Conference" The
Methodist Church has had no cpnsth ution
heretofore H. has been governed by rules
pissed from time to time by the General Con-
ference The proposed constitution pro-
vides for the admission Of women delegates
into the General conference and the annual
conferences which have voted on 10 have with
few exceptions approved OF It
When Bishop Fitzgerald laid the con-
stitution before the East Conference yetcr-
day the church was filed with women They
heard many compliments paid the sex. but
these We're generally PREDATORY to an arGu-
mtht against it, right To snare with IN" men
IN the church government The Rev. l)r.
II q DoNnHy of Brooklyn -ald that the move
fnent for the raising Of women was based
on the assumption that she was inferior TO
man lhl- was wrong her position was
entirely different IN the home rs N tho Church
We have been told" he said, that the move
mcnt for the Advancement OF women Is IN
the air. and cannot be stopped | am IN.
Clined tO think that this movement has reached
hgh tide. that II has spent - force
pr Buckley, editor ot the hrist,Gn A.
the head>hip woman for influence. p"rSua,
sion When she j. pushed into debates and
gwen legislative iun,'ion- she Is unable 70
take blows, rs wa shown at the tOunClI OF
Women AT the Worlds Fair which was It's
greatest scandal and In the strange war
Hut West that allows woman 10 take
Dr Mains -std he didn't believe tho women
wanted 10 go to General Conference anyway
why sd.d he. i have the best wife thtl
eyer llved and she doesn't want 10 10 ana n
| were unmarried wouldn't conrt tho KIND
ur a glrl who wanted to 20 to II General
Conference Women exercise an influence
| IN the home t-nioid greater than they ever
Dr Is p Raymond, President OF Wesleyan
University, in favorng the constitution, SAID
this w'- az age Of indiyiduaIl-n J was f
no longer the family, IT was tho lndlEluuaI
GS moral bcins whO.o duties We" COM
mon Iurate with lts nights The NN'u'tn
woman IL not going To- keep on saying N'h'
50" ike the German woman to everything
her husband say. DR. John Ray thompson
attacked pr Raymond for his indlvitulh.m
III, ~p,rCh got the greatest applause ~ the
discussion and many Vi the women joined
These arguments for iniividuali-m.' he
Sliu, "p'tr'raIIN dupa"d WuIi9 overthrow
ton col all the divorce We have had and
all that We ever wal h.yc. III" woman
and the man az" par lhey a." not To oe
divided bv the law of GOD ] have married
many couples Iu my prr.onugr. hut never
| have married o woman lhtl made p'uinl-"
"u"dlcnr" t" th" man II "H- =" 10y" ana -
| Toss is going so fl-' 'n. ~ have :" cal a
| hH.t and mt on h"w iHr liU tak" my wlie
! iruu. ".r 'rN"r" women
They are the uuh,"-' h"ings on this earth
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