The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-27
DR. WEST ENTERS PROTEST
Vigorously Inveighs Against
 Order of Deac0nnesses.
Gavel Made from Beam of Epworth Church, Where Methodism Was Born, is Presented by
 Dr. Buttrick.

Ddlds -IeA. Mdy .So-AHe louEteeHtu quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, after being in session since May ', adjourned sine die at 1:i5 o'clock today. Delegates -began leaving for their homes yesterday. and at one point in today's session there was scurry to gather up a quorum.
 The most important matter disposed of was the resembling 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 of missionary societies into partnership in joint publishing house at Shanghai. China. Another unusually inn portant matter was the adoption of re- port from the Committee on Church Ex- tension, creating a church insurance board. The date of the next quadren- nial general conference was fixed for the first Thursday in May 1906. The enter tainment committee will name the place one year from now. The candidates are Louisville, Birmingham. Nashville and New Orleans
 The proceedngs- of the last day of the conference were begun with devotional exercises by Dr. J. w.. Tarboux. Bishop Duncan resigned the chair to Bishop E.. E. Hoss, the senior of the new bishops. who was greeted with applause.
 j Denny's Motion Tabled.
 Dr. Collins Denny moved a re-consider- alton of part of Nthe report of the Com rnittee on Missions that gave at least partial control of the publishing house to the Board of Missions. A motion te put pr. Dennys motion on the table was carried by a vote of 50 to 5. Dr. Denny earnestly warned the conference against leaving the matter as it had been adopt ed on the. ground that the church were liable to forfeit the charter of it's publish ing house at N&shviile, Tenn. and loss perhaps sl,oso.oo0 in money through litiga- ton. ,-. ,- j. ..,,-4 > ,s Later in the session on an appeal from pr: Denny and others the conference took the motion from the table and recon sidered the portion of the mission report which, it was argued, would be danger ous for the. church to permit to become effective The mission work in China, therefore. will remain, so far as publish ing interests are concerned, in the hand of the Book Committee as heretofore.
 pr. Ar1son West, of the North Alabama Conference entered a protest against the action of the general conference in insti- tuting the order of deaconesses. This protest most vigorously attacked the order of deaconesses as being at war with the history of protestantism general ly and nowhere in the Bible could justi- hcation for the creation of the order be found.
 Dr. Vests Protest.
 One of the sentences in Dr. Vests pro- test said: Departure from Divine order leads to infidelity. anarchy and ruin. Many of the delegates were opposed to permitting the protest to become part of the record of the proceedings of the general conference, but finally 1t was de- cided to include 1t In the record on the ground of the long and honorable ser vice" of Dr. West in the church.
 pr. Buttrick present a conference with a gavel made from beam in thea old Epworth Church in England. where Methodism was born. Bishop Hoss ac- cepted the gavel' with thanks
 Standing and special committees were discharged with vote orr thanks
 A resolution declaring that no new leg islation passed by the general conference shall take place earlier than September l next was adopted.
 Report No 6 of the Finance Committee making charges in the manner or as- easements, provoked much discussion and was adopted. Threats to s,ise the point of mo quorum were made. but the point was not insisted upon until Dr. Anson West forced the issue. There was a hurrving to and fro at once and by dint of the work of all the messengers 142 delegates. three more than a quorum were gotten together.
 The conference refused to reduce the salary of the corresponding secretary O. the Board of Education from S'Ooo to $500
 Resolutions thanking the secular press and the press representatives present were offered by Dr. J. s. Hutchinson Of the Baltimore conference and adopted unanimously. The conference tooK up the matter of fire insurance board. A board of fire managers was nominated by the church extension board as fol- lows: J. NJ, Kirkland. J. E. kilgo' 5 NJ Hosner, w. S. Baker, P. N. Wlsner P. McGuier. R. R. Gilbert. C. M. Phil lips. Samuel Ourbacker, F. II. Tapps anc T. B. Wharton.
 The whole matter was adopted and the headquarters of the board will be il Louisville, Ky. The board will have thu management of the insurance of al church property and the proposition me with some vigorous opposition partisularl! from Dr .Anson West. who declared tha 1t was the organization of a church In surance company. The ten bishops present signed appeal to the churcl throughout the South to exte nd aid to tn, Methodist sufferers from the Golad hur ricane. Contributions were ordered sen to r. H. Wisner. corresponding secretar! of the Church Extension Board, Louis vile Ky.
 The minutes of the session were req, and approved and formal adiournmen came after the singing of hymn 239. "Ant Let Our Bodies Part" and prayer b! Rev. w. Mshon Bishop Wilson pro rounced the berediction and the confer ence was over.