The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-12
ELOQUENT WORDS BY BRITISH DELEGATE  First Church Crowded to the
 Doors
 - HEARERS ARE WELL REPAID Was One of the Most Forceful and Ef- fective Addresses Ever Heard In Birmineham-comes
 From London.-

Dinsdale T. Young. an eminent British minister and fraternai delegate from the Wesleyan Methodist church to the general conference of thd southern church now in session in Birmingham, delivered his fra ternal address at the First church last night to one of the largest crowds ever assembled in the edifice Indeed the crowd was so large that there was a technical violation of the law as every aisle in the church was packed with chairs and with listeners standing.
 All were willing to stand to hear such an address. It was regarded as one of the best specimens of pure, crisp, eloquent En- glish ever heard in Birmingham and stamped the speaker as a man who well deserves the reputation he has acquired in London of being capable of achieving whatever he undertakes He was introduced by Bishop E. E. floss and the speaker of the evening had not uttered half dozen words before every one in the audience was giving the closest attention. MT. Young said in part:
 Bishop Hoss, Bishops, and my good friends, for such I may be respectfully al- lowed to call you, they of Britain salute you. The Methodists of England, Scotland and of Ireland, salute you, in the Lord. It would be a strange thing if the hearts of the British Methodists did not go out towards their American brethren, and l am here tonight, the humble spokesman
 
 you in our hearts.
 ''rhe blood of comman ancestry, phys ica and spiritual, is in our veins, and best of all we are not only one in Christ Jesus, but we are all the sons of daughters of John Wesley His body sleeps in Lon don, but his soul is marching on, and it never marched on more triYmphantly than it does today. (Applause). We rejoice un- feignedly. enthusiastically in you, the Methodists of this southern church.
 A Marvel.
 I've know something of your history, and we are sacredly proud of it. We glorify God in you, and 1 venture to say that I have the honor and pleasure of reading a history of the Methodist church Ol tit Sputily anu II llidS Dts dlbht tu u say so the recovery of the Methodist church of the south after the war is one of the marvels of Christianity. You were left as it were, dull chrysalis, but how soon that chrysais put forth it's wings. We thank God for that marvellous work, and we are satisfied tonight that you are not living in the past.
 There are churches which live only on their reputation and ancestry. It reminds ,f rltct,, ..F his ancestry. He said l am descended from so and so, naming great parsonage. and against from so and so, naming an other great man, and yet again. l am de- scended from so and so, naming still an- other great man, when one old English man spoke up and said: And good heay ems man, how you have descended tLaughter). In the name of the Lord we congratulate you. The Methodists of Eng land have sent me to tell you that they love you. (Applause). They were anxious not only that you should guess it, but that you should know 1t. We love you my friends and We tell you so. The Meth odists of England have sent a working pastor: not an ex-president, not a presi- dent, not great dignatary of the church, not a professor of theology not even doctor of divinity, and indeed, I am al- most the only minister in America at this hour who is not doctor of divinity. Daughter and applause) I will try 10 bear my humiliation with becoming Christ ian resignation But If 1 don't come to you as bird of plumage l bring you an olive branch lately plucked and present 1t to you in the name of your brother Methodists of England"
 In Ireland.
 The speaker then stated that he also brought greeting from the Methodsts of Ireland; and spoke of the progress which Methodism is making in Ireland, and of the Methodist emigrants who were leav- ing Ireland every year for all parts of the world. and of the good they were doing in the cause of evangelisnh He said that there are 62000 Methodists in Ireland, POO ministers, 13O circuits and 700 lay preach- CTS The speaker said that the English Methodists rejoiced with the southern Methodists in the large increase in their church membership during the last four years. and stated that the English too had cause for rejoicing, the last cen- sus of their church showed the largest increase English Methodism has known for nineteen long years.
 English Methodism.
 T might say a great deal about our difficulties, about our disappointments, about our tragedy, but the English Meth