The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-12
EPwORTH LEAGUES INFLUENCE ON
METHODIST COLLEGES.
Several Meetings Held During the
Afternoon-A Big Evening Meet
ing at Roberts Park Church.


league futtered from the waists OF the
women and from the coat iapels of the men
present The church was cool and after
opening songs. led by John p. Hills. and
prayer by the Rev. c. E. Bacon, the routine
business was taken up.
President o. II. Palmer, OF Indianapolis,
appointed the chairmen of the committees
on nomination, next convention and reso-
lutions, and the delegates selected the
other members The first two committees
will report to-day, while the committee on
resolutions will not report until tomorrow.
The committees are as follows:
Nominations-The Rev. Il. b. Rawls, pre-
siding elder of the Indianapolis district;
DR.. j. S. Hoagland Greencastle; DR.. NJ. L.
Nethercott. Richmond: the Rev. L. s.
Shumaker, Williamsport; Miss Amber
DUNCAN, Franklin.
Resolutions-The Rev. George S. Hennin-
ger, president of the Indianapolis district;
the Rev d. NJ. Guild. Knightstown; Z. III.
Chisholm, Dunkirk.
Next Convention-The Rev. James c.
Campbell, South Bend: the Rev. NJ. B.
Hyde. Rushville; Mrs. Albert Schwarts
Jeffersonvlle.
The Rev. Horace NJ. ogden, of Frank
fort, and II. III. Dean, of Button, who
were to address the convention in the
morning, were unable to be present and
their places were filled by r. L. Diffen-
dorfer, of Chicago, who spoke on the
league work from the general secretary's
standpoint, and DIR. II. ID. Lee Aultman.
of Cincinnati, field agent for the Western
Methodist Book Concern. Mr.. Aultman
said he regretted that people read more
/ fiction now than they did religious ltera-
! ture, and alluded to the enormous sale of
/ David Harum' and other books of that
! class He said forty years ago a good
| Methodist father would throw such books
in the fireplace, but now fathers allow
! their children to read them. He called
/ attention TO the music in many churches
/ where singers appear the stage through
out the week and then sing in church on
Sunday. He said that it was not old-fash-
/ toned Methodsm.
The Rev George S. Henninger, of West
/ Indianapolis made brief address, in
which he said that he is proud he came
from southern Indiana, part of the State
/ that produces many ministers and Ep-
! worth Leaguers
CHANCELLOR HICKMAN HEARD.
The principal address of the morning
session was made by Chancellor w. II.
Hickman, of De PAW University, on the
subject THE Epworth League and the
Methodist College" He spoke in part as
follows:
The Epworth League represents the best
life of the church The church is larger
! than the league, but what the league is to-
! day will determine the church of to-mor-
! row. When Mr. Gladstone was asked what
would be the policy Of England tomorrow
| said: Go over to oxford and Cambridge
and listen to what those young men are
] discussing will tel VOL ybaf bo
| policy of England will be tomorrow
! The league enters into friendly rivalry
with all the young peoples societies of sis
| ter churches. They all aim for the same
ultimate end They provoke one another to
good works. Not only so. but the league
enters more directly into conflict with the
the church. 1t is the young man or the
young woman the world tries to take from
us: Life is tie most vulnerable at this
point and the most important The league
therefore should have all possible help
from the church, from the home and from
the school TO nit it for this combat. The
league is the skirmish line in the battle for
New Testament faith and life Some
statesmen think the day is coming when
deadly combat between nations will cease,
that when two nations clash i'm their eff
forts for national supremacy an inveStiga-
ton will be had. not so much as TO the
principles involved but to which nation
is best armed, best drilled best prepared
every way, and upon these things the issue
will be decided. The day is coming If not
! already here, when the church that has the
best drilled leadership in pulpit and pew,
plus conservation and spiritual life, will
hold the first place among churches if IL
does not crowd others out of the field. No
denomination can hold its place through
the twentieth century unless 1t is fortified
in its colleges and universities, the grill
ground of ats own leadership. Some of our
church statesmen are now asking what
will be the pOlity and spiritual life and
power of the Methodist Church tomorrow
Go TO the Methodist college and university
nd list IN nh n
I women are discussing. Take the measure
| of college equipment, the spiritual cOndi-
tons in recitation room and social contact;
these will tell you what the Methodist
/ Church Of tomorrow Will be-
when the Roman empire was in the
throes of death the historian tells that
the Goths and NisagOths fought so desper-
ately i'm one great battle that the dead lay
in heaps. and long after the battle you
could pass that way and hear the com
mands of war and the clash of swords in
the air. The diSemhodied spirits OF grim
warriors were yet in deadly strife. so to-
morrow's church battle will not be one OF
numbers and organization. but of ideas
ana right Interpretation OF the New Tesla.
ment life. This being true the college is
the nerve center, the drill ground. the
, workshop where soldiers and workmen are
|, made; the smithy that forms the instru.
: ments to cut through the corselets of un-
belief aud error. Mr.. Emerson was asked
? what il civilization. and said 'Civiiza tioi
p is the influence Of good women W.
would modify the definition Il little anC
= say CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION Is the 1nfluenC,
OF cultured womanhOod and trained man
, hood.
England made the great discovery il
the world of chemistry of coal tar bu
, she lost forever the unmeasured CONNER
cial blessings that have come from the de
I velopment and scientific uses Of coal tar
simply from the fact that she lacked scien
! thc laboratories to discover and develol
the marvellous uses OF coal tar. Germany
, I her old rival, ready and prepared I,
take up the new discovery. If the Meth
/ Odist Church fails to develop her college
; / and universities she will continue to dis
: cover beautiful gifted spirits among he
own children But they will go To othe
+, ! schools for larger advantages because the,
/ cannot have them in their own church. Tn
. + lOudest voice We hear to-day is the vote
"a Of missions. We hear the call for hospitals
freedmans aid. church extension an
others. but ] do not hesitate to say abov
them all is the call 10 provide for our own
They the calls for benevolence an
the church should heed them all more an
more. Giving doth not impoverish thee
but the duty We owe TO our colleges is IN
duty owe 10 our children. which il "A
deep as infinity and as sacred as life. W
cannot absolve ourselves from this duty
we would. The league to-day determine
the church of tomorrow. Eighty per cent