The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-16
METHODIST CONFERENCE
Methodist Texas Ministers Meet at
Fort Worth Next Year.
TRUSTEES FOR EPISCOPAL RESIDENCE
At Dallas Were Appointed BY Bishop
Hendrix--5la Collection Tor the
Preachers Endowment Fund.

7emnle. TEXAS, November i5-Irhe fourth
day Of the Methodist conference opened
with q misty rain, but cleared on after
dinner. The attendance was Eood. Fur
ther reports from churches were heard
mud II. A. Boaz. president Of Polytechnic
college reported the Institution In e1-
cellent condition. Fort Worth was select
ed as the next place Of meeting me
bishop appointed trustees for the episcopal
residence at Dallas, as follows: North
west Texas conference. G.. w. Owens, j.
NJ. Robertson; West Texas conference,
Thomas Gregory, @. G. Johnson; German
mission. A, e. Rector.
DR.. Watkins, agent Of the preachers
endowment fund, addressed the conference
on the merits Of the cause. after which
! gubscrIptlou OF $500 was raised. Al
converted Chinaman Of this city gave 500
TO the cause. DR.. Watkins was more
than pleased and states it IL the largest
subscription raised anywhere In Dehan OF
special cause,
Bishop Hendricks preached TO an over
crowded house last night, while DR.. e,
z. Rector spoke on missions TO-DAY; Or.
Tigert will MI the pulpit tonight, the oe-
casion being church extension ami
yersary.
Northeast Texas A. NJ. E. Conference.
Corsicana, Texas, November b.-The
work OF the Northeast Texas conference,
which has been IN session in this city since
Wednesday. is drawing to a close. Bishop
Salter has taken up the greater part OF
the day reviewing the statistical tables.
The committee appointed TO rearrange
the work made their report this morning
aud made new presiding elders district,
known as Marshall district. The territory
embraced within the new work takes In
sherman aud Marshall.
The committee on admission recommend
cd that j. ID, Davis, Il. Grumpy, steve
Cole, w. Il. A Richardson, II. q. gull
Ter, o. w. Bradshaw, J. II, Hodge. Tyler
David, W. b. Booker and villa Allen
be received into the conference on proDa-
tion.
~ here shall the next annual conference
he heldf" Bethel aud st. James churches
or Dallas were nominated, also Terrell ana
Denlson. After the usual speeches were
made Bethel church Of Dallas was elect
ed.
The bishop held memorial services dur
ing the morning in respect Of Revs. y, r.
Gerado, w. Nichols and j #. Forbes,
three members OF the conference who died
since the last conference,
Bishop Salter viii deliver the ordina-
ton sermon Sunday morning and ordain
class of young men as deacOns. In the
evening he Will close the conference work
and announce the appointments for the
Tonight the educational sermon was de-
llyered by Rev. W. I. Il. Hardwood, y
r. D. who is a pure African educated ID
Kings college, London, England. and Cod
Ington Divinity school. st. Johns Barba
does, B. w. /.
bic and incomprehensible wisdom Of thu
Creator In forming the universe, revealed
in nature and in His Holy Scripture
IL part ne said that man was spiritna
htatu cd "A n I'M Un Of
tor. A microcosm In the limitless macro
cosm, an atom in the universe of God
continued the speaker connected with tn
subject OF natural science grand an
stupendous as the laws of attraction. Lon
before the sublime tHt, Let there be light
amid the cxpansc of universal emptiness
calling matter into existence and subject
voice OF its Creator matter sprang fror
primeval nothingness, and in atomic en-
bryos, !. prepared to cluster into sOciu
After the speaker finished his remarb,
as to the creation OF the earth he dis
cussed the doctrine OF Theism, ana In par
theory OF the universe. It belongs to ma
ture and revealed theology to unfold full
the argument Of the being Of God. II
Is sufficient" said the speaker that
be seen that the doctrine OF Theism. or
personal God, the infinite author an
moral government OF the world, is the onl
one tnHI meets Ine wants OF mans nature
MS personal spiritual agent. ThelsT
alone furnishes mnn the God on whom /
his helplessness and dependence he ca
rest Neither fatalsm, mateTialism no
panthelsm is a solution OF the problem q
the universe or of man; they alike gnor
the Erandest OF all facts. the facts Of spiri
with Its free moral action, and reject thos
cearest intuitions OF the soul, and the e1
istence Of spirit and the principles OF CAUSE
tIon and design"
In referring to man occupying the cart
he said that he was the temple OF eartl
wholly wonder or Divine architecture Ii
Is here, and along with earth Is nm epoc
.ar more momentous than any which he
served to make the progression Of cart
from a gaseous sphere to q solid habit
able globe. He is a man, fun of move
and pride different from all other animate.
vet may after all be only n step In IN
ascending and progressive scale Of animal
ld beings.
Man Ia not only essentially eeIf.actiy,
pnt development and progress are the la
OF his activity. His powers Of actio
unfold and increase In the variety n tho
uses and In their capabilities by exercise
God has opened the way FOR man I
large influence and exalted nosItion In 4,
clety 50 that IN these free Christian land
the lowest and last NAV become the higf
est ana foremost, and mould the destin
Of nations and ages, but the nrice N ~
Influence and position ia the noble purpoF
and the high endesvor. with mans ow
consent and cooperation everything wi
combine TO elevate and give mower an
At him for a higher future destiny IN
world 4 thus fnanifestiy a training Mac
for higher work.
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