The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-12
NEW STATEMENT OF FAITH
 PREQPITATES DEBATE

mittee approves the proposed change l and recommends that paragraph 99 of 1 the, discipline be amended by the sub
 stitution of six for four In line I four, page 51, so that the paragraph will read thus: TO fix the appoint
 ments of the preacher in the annual l conference, provided he shall not allow any preacher to remain in the same cir | cult or station more than six years | successively, except. etc. the rest of l the paragraph remaining unchanged. | A minority report was submitted with the report of the itinerancy commit tee. It was signed by fourteen mem-
 bers of the committee and said they
 demanded the extension of the pasto-
 ral limit to six years as unwise. Both reports went to the calendar. | The committee on church extensions
 reported favorably on memorials from Mount Vernon Church, Washington, D. C., said memorials having been en- dorsed by the board of church exten- sion. bearing upon the necessity for | the erection of d representative church building in Washington. The commit | tee presented it's report in the shape
 of resolution, calling on the church at
 large to agree to raise s200,000 if the
 Mount Vernon Church VIII become re- | sponsible for s75.0o0, the committee be-
 lieving that such a building can not be l erected for less than $z75,00O. The direction of the campaign look ing to the raising of the $20o,000 shall
 be committed to the Corresponding Sec- retary of the Board of Church Exten-
 sions and to two bishops to be selected | by the college of bishops, according to the plan proposed in the resolution. | which went to the calendar.
 | The Committee on Sunday Schools submitted a lengthy report suggesting numerous changes in the discipline. | Provisions are made for the endow- ment of chair of religious pedagogy and Sunday schools in the Vanderbilt University, and 1t is suggested that the third Sunday of May, or as near there 1 to as practicable. shall be observed as
 Children's Day throughout the church. l MT. wadsworth vindicated. | The first report of tho Committee on | Appeals was submitted this morning and reversed the decision of the North Georgia Conference that suspended | Rev. w. W. wadsworth on the charge ! of immortality, the specific charge be- | ing kissing a woman. The report was
 signed by Bishop Charles B. Galloway
 chairman. and Rev. c. H. Briggs, Secre- l tary..
 l MT. Wadsworth was pastor of the suspended for one years by the annual conference. The report of the Com
 mittee on Appeals was placed on the
 calendar.
 | Bishop Hoss announced that Rev. | W. J. Startling, fraternal delegate from | the Methodist Church of Canada, had to leave Birmingham this afternoon and that he would address the confer ence briefly at this juncture. | He commenced his talk by saying that he realized how busy that body | was. Before I came South," he said ! T heard much Of Southern hospitality from other fraternai delegates. ]
 doubted the glowing pictures. but since my royal reception I am fully overdrawn.
 T like your climate and country and should I receive call I might consent | to leave Canada. I believe" he said, l that the Anglo-Saxon race should rule
 the world" This was loudly cheered.
 His tribute to the Southern bishops and Methodist Church was warmly re- ceived. He spoke of the high standard | of the Episcopal College of the South | ern Methodists
 l He closed by saying he would never | forget his reception by the conference. | T love you for it," he said, and If
 ever have an opportunity to come your | way again I shall gladly take advant- | age of it."
 | Bishop Hoss, in responding. assured | Dr. Startling that the conference was proud of the opportunity to entertain | him as representative of the great
 country of Canada.
 | He spoke humorously of his visit | to Canada and of his reception. He | brought down the house when he told l of an incident between Dr. Staring
 and Bishop Key. in which the former ! had attempted to interest the latter in the doctrine of sanctihcation. | The Rev. Dr. Kilgo, fraternal dele | gate to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in May, | 1902. made his report today. He visited | that assembly in Los Angeles, Cal, and | among other things Dr. Kilgo said he was deeply impressed with the evangel- istic faith and zeal of their great church and their marvellous prosperity | in all parts of the earth.
 When the report of the special com | mittee on a new statement of faith was taken up today, the sentiment of the conference was manifested when 1t voted down motion of pr. Andrews, of the Alabama Conferences. to lay
 the report upon the table. Discussion
 was then begun.
 Dr, G. W. Wilson, of the Memphis Conference, spoke against the adoption
 of the report. He wanted the commit
 too to show wherein the present doc Urine was lacking.
 Dr. W. F. Tillet, of Texas. a member of the committee on statement of faith, delivered an eloquent address, giving
 history of the present doctrine of the Methodist Church. He recounted the conditions under which the thirty-nin original articles of faith of the church
 were adopted. He declared that at the
 time of their adoption the articles fit
 ted the conditions of the day.
 He. spoke of the anti -Romanist scnti-
 ment of the original articles. He re-
 counted how John Wesley had revised
 the old articles of faith. reducing the
 number to twenty-five and amending
 them to meet the existing conditions
 of his time. He appealed to the con
 ference to follow the example of John
 Wesley one hundred and twenty years
 ago by altering the articles of the
 He declared that the articles of the
 religion had served a good work and
 he wee of the opinion that the time had come to place them on the superan-
 nuated list He then took up the sepa-
 rate articles. A
 At this iuncturei shop Hoss jn-
 formed Dr. T:llet. fl his time had cx
 pired. By unanimous consent Dr. Til let's time was extended indedniteIv
 In reading the articles Dr Ti1Iat stated that they teemed with anti-Ro- nIanism.
 pr Tillet in continuing his speech in
 favor of a new statement of faith. de- clared that revision was the ofder of the day.
 1T beliefe," he said. that the Metho dist creed is as strong as any church of today but | am of the opinion that