Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22
GREETINGS TO BISHOP
METHoDIsTs OF WASHINGTON
TENDER HIM A RECEPTION.
Distinguished Churchman Becomes .
Resident Of the City-Function
at Foundry Church.

Bishop Earl Cranston, the new resident
bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in this city, successor to the late Bishop
Hurst. was given a cordial reception last
evening in Foundry NJ E. Church. corner
Of 18th and Madison streets northwest, by
hundreds of his fellow churchmen Of the
city. He arrived In Washington this week
accompanied by his two daughters He will
make this his home and headquarters for
the next four years.
Impressive services. In which the spirit
Of good will and earnest endeavor was
paramount opened the program. which was
closed with an hour or more OF hand
shaking. when the people personally greeted
the bishop and his family.
The presiding officer Of the evening was
Rev. DR.. H. r. Naylor. presiding elder Of
this district. Prayer was offered by Rev.
DR.. Ferguson of Wesley Chapel. Rev DIR.
Nicholson of the southeast section Of the
city. representing the ministry, delivered an
address of welcome.
Adds B. Browne spoke briefly on behalf
of the laty. Others who took part in the
service were: Rev. DR.. J. A Price and
Rev. DR.. ]. F.. Smith.
Bishop Cranston's Response.
In a humorous and yet earnest speech,
Bishop Cranston responded to the hearty
welcome accorded him. In the course of his
remarks he sounded again the call for
national Methodist Episcopal university in
this city
He said in part:
1.-The cordially Of this welcome you have
extended me calls to mind my visit to
Washington more than forty years ago. and
comparing the welcome I received then
with this one tonight. 1 must give the
preference to this That time one asked
| me to stop over night. don't believe any
| body spoke to me. Mr.. Lincoln had issued
an invitation at that time for a great
many men to travel south with Gen. Grant.
when I reached Washington. with 9TH
ers. 1 found the general had gone on
ahead of us and left word for us to hurry
up. We spent the night in Alexandria, and
the Virginians gave us a much warmer
welcome than the Washingtonians. Ny
mothers mother was born in Georgetown.
The mother of my daughters. whose loss
we are mourning today as always was
born over on the shores of Maryland.
myself was born in Ohio. Though 1 come
to you from the west. 1 feel that antece-
dents give me right to feel that belong
to Washington.
I'm welcoming me thus cordially I am
afraid you realize you are facing the In
evitable. You are right. l am here by
order of the general conference, and the
general conference is dead. I am enlisted
| in the service here for four years, or it
may be during the war. The city of WASH
ington knows no north. no south, no east.
L
Other cities may be provincial. may culti-
vate state and municipal pride. but not so
the capital city Here is the throne of the
nations will; here you count the pulse beats
of the nations heart.
Under the dome Of the Capitol yonder
are rendered the judgments of the great
est court In the land. Should a reform be
needed here 1t must have its birth IF
there is an abuse to be cured. here we must
look for the remedy. From here went forth
the decree that Cuba must be free: From
here Is sounded the sentiment that the
rights Of all other suffering nations, OF all
humanity, must be protected.
Lincoln and Hay.
Here is the seat of the new diplomacy,
that despises subterfuge and indirection.
and that has astonished the disciples OF
old-time intrigue by its openness and
frankness and forced old world diplomacy
to unmask. Lincoln is dead. but the spirit
that ruled his actions fingers on in the
person of John Hay"
Bishop Cranston has been located for
the past eight years at Portland. Ore. snd
his experiences there and the circumstances
Of his transfer he dwelt upon at some
length.
During the bishops residence in Portland
the University of Puget Sound, the only
Methodist school in the state of Wash
ington. was organized in Tacoma. Its first
year was one of considerable financial diff
sible by the action of Bishop Cranston in
paying the salary of its president. DR.. Ed
win M. Randall, now general secretary of
the Epworth League.
Committees in Charge.
The committee in charge of the reception
were:
| Ministerial-Rev. Dr. H. R. Naylor Rev.
| DIR. J. c. Nicholson, Rev Dr. w. NJ. Fergu-
son. Rev. George E. Maydwell and Pew.
| DIR. Joseph Dawson.
General reception-G. w. f. Swartzell.
| chairman James l.. Ewin Isaac R. HIT
| 5r.; w. F. Rodrick. w. c. Eldridge, Edward
Hall. ]. H. Entwisle. r. v. Belt. ]. L.
Nuber. r. e. FAIR. F. H. Goodrich, R. P.
| Evans, NJ. F. Shelton. B. K. Gibson. J.
| Nicholson. r. L. Middleton. w. F. Reed. o.
| c. Boteler, w. H. Yost, Lewis Otterback
John F. O'Neal, Arson s. Taylor, G. w.
Littleford. Lewis Jackson. D. D. Thomp-
| son. Edwin Williamson. ]. H. Doney, W.
| r. Hunt. E. 1. Booraem. A. B. Suit, S.
| Scrivener and G. w. King, jr.
Committee Of Foundry Church-Rev. Rob-
| ert M. Moore. T. A. Harding. Irving O.
Ball. F. w. Bolgiano and w. F. Roe