The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-27
METHODISTS DEPART
QUADRENNIAL CONFERENCE AT
DALLAS ENDS.
A SUCCESSFUL GATHERING.
MUCH IMPORTANT BUSINESS WAS
Transacted.

House at Shanghai Abandoned he
cause II Endangered Charter az
Publishing House OF Church-Dr.
Anson West Made Vigorous Attack
on Order of DencOnnesses as TN
scripturnI, hut Met with No SYM
pnthy.
Dallas, Tex, May 26.-The fourteenth
quadrennial general conference of the
NJ E. Church, South. after being in
session since May Z, adjourned sine die
at las O'Clock to-day. Delegates began
leaving for Their homes yesterday and
at one point in to-day's session it was
difficult to secure a quorum.
The most important matter disposed
Of during the days session was the res
scinding of part of the report of the
Committee on Missions adopted last
! Saturday, the tendency of which was to
bring the Northern and Southern
churches missionary societies, into
! partnership in a joint publishing house
at Shanghai, China. Another unusual
| ly important matter was the adoption
of report from the Committee on
Church Extension, creating a church
! insurance board.
The date of the next quadrennial gem
eral conference was fixed for the first
Thursday in May, 1906. The entertain
/ ment Committee will name the place
/ one year from now. Candidates are
/ Louisville, Birmingham, Nashville and
! New Orleans.
The proceedings of the last day of
the conference were begun with de-
votional exercises by DR.. ]. w. Tar
/ bouX. Bishop Duncan resigned the
chair to Bishop E. e. Hoss, the senior
of the new bishops, who was greeted
with applause.
DR.. Collins Denny moved a reconsid-
Grafton of part of the report of the
| Committee on Missions that gave at
least partial control of the publishing
house to the board of missions. A mo-
ton to put DR.. Denny's motion on the
table was carried by a vote of 60 to
( 50.
Might Forfeit Charter.
DR.. Denny earnestly warned the
conference against leaving the matter
as it had been adopted on the ground
that the church was liable to forfeit
the character of its publishing house
| at Nashville, Tenn, and lose perhaps
| $1,000.000 in money through litigation.
Later in the session on an appeal
/ from DIR. Denny and others the con-
! ference took the motion from the table
/ and reconsidered the portion of the
mission report which, it was argued,
would be dangerous for the church to
/. permit to become effective. The mis-
sion work in China therefore will re-
main so far as publishing interests
are concerned, in the hands of the Book
/ Committee as heretofore.
Order of DeacOnneSsrS Attacked.
Dr. Arson West, of the North Ala
| hama conference, entered a protest
against the action of the general con-
! ference in instituting the order Of dea-
connesses. His protest attacked the or
der of deaconnesses as being at war
with the history of PrOtestarism gen.
orally and nowhere in the bible could
| justification for the creation IF the or
der be found One Of the sentences in
DR.. Vests protest said
Departure from divine order lea is to
| intdelity, anarchy and ruin
Many of the delegates were opposed
| to permitting the protest to become a
part of the record of the proceedings CT
/ the general conference, but it was
! finally decided to include it in the
record on the ground Of the long and
honorable service of DR.. West in the
| church.
Where MethOdism Was Born.
| Dr. Juttrick presented the conference
with a gavel made from a beam of
the old Powerful Church n England,
where Methodism vas born. Bishop
Hoss accepted the gavel with thanks.
The standing and special committees
were discharged with vote of thanks.
| A resolution declaring that no new
! legislation passed by the general con-
ference shall take effect earlier than
Sept. 1, next, was adopted.
Report No. 6 of the finance COM
/ mittee, making changes in the man
rer of assessments provoked much dis
| cussion and was adopted Threats to
raise the point of mo quorum were
| made, but the point was not insisted
upon until DR. Arson West forced the
issue. BY the efforts of the messen-
gers 142 delegates, three more than a
quorum, were cotton together.
The conference refused to reduce the
salary of the corresponding secretary
of the board of education from SO 900
to $500.
Resolutions thanking the secular
press and the press representatives.
present were offered by DR.. ]. S. Hut
Crimson of the Baltimore conference
and adopted unanimously.
Church Insurance Roard.
The conference took up the matter
of fire insurance board A board of
fire managers was nominated by the
Church Extension Board, as follows:
]. NJ. Kirkland, j. B. Kilgo, S. NJ
Hosner. w S. Baker, P. n. Wisner, P.
McGuier, R. r. Gilbert. c. NJ. Phillips,
Samuel Ourbacker, P. H. Taps and T.
B. Wharton.
The whole matter was adopted and
the headquarters Of the board will be
in Louisville.
The board will have the manage
ment of the insurance of all church
property and the proposition met with
some vigorous opposition, particularly
from DR.. Arson West, who declared
that IL was the organization of a
church insurance company.
Help for GoIIaI Asked.
The ten bishops present signed an ap-
peal 10 the church throughout the
South to aid the sufferers from the
Goiad disaster Contributions were
ordered 10 be sent 70 r. u Wisner, ccr-
responding secretary Of the church ex-
tension board, Louisville.
The minutes OF the session we're read
and approved and formal adjournment
came after the singing OF the hymn,
And Let our Bodies Part, ana prayer
by Rev. w. Mahon. Bishop " ilsOn
pronounced the farewell Lenediction.