Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-07-01
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ward and welcomed us to the city. and
gave us many historical facts regarding
Methodism in Baltimore and said that
the only apology he had to offer was
that he took "A Methodist girl and made
a splendid PRESBYTERIAN of her Then
Bishop Warren. he by far. the. leader of
the whole conference. thanked the Gov
ernor and Mayor for their cordial well
come. He said that after rehearsing
the hardships of the early Christians.
how different our reception. brother,
than those who have gone before us
We expected much but all has been
surpassed Next morning came the re-
ports of the Missionary Bishops. Bish.
op Bashford came first and gave an ac-
count of his work in China and the far
East. AS he gave that thrilling ad-
dress il seemed like Waterman an
nouncing the morning cometh. He
made us feel that the poets of hope
we're right. and that the old Hebrew
Prophets were right and true That
the harbinger's voice of Calvary can be
trusted That the Day Star Is in the
sky
Nineteen centuries have gone since
Christ died to establish the kingdom of
love and peace in all the world but
surely the morning now dawns Bish-
op Bashford told us how the church
was becoming the good Samaritan in
all this great sin oppressed and pain
racking world. abolishing wrong and
destroying the stupenduous evils which
through the long night of ages have
tortured men with terrible agonies.
He made us see the light of new and
glorious morning.
sAuother strong address was given by
Bishop Oldham, of India. His report
was of great interest and as he related
the story of Bishop Fitzgerald loosing
his daughter, Cornelia, and then in a
very few days the Bishop himself laid
him down to die. 1t was very
touching story and caused many wet
ewes. And then came the report of
Bishop Hurst, of his work in Japan
and Korea. He told how grateful
those people were. not only for our aid
in sending the Gospel to them but for
the thousands and even millions of
prayers which were sent up for their
good. as they had experienced in the
last year the best and most successful
one they had ever had Bishop Hart
cells report of Africa followed He
said that a few years ago it was
thought best TO take up the work there
but since then new Africa had sprung
up. With this years accom- plishment
they were far ahead of ANYTHING they
ever had done before or even dreamed
of. Then came Bishop Scott's report
of Liberia and Africa He reported
good gains, both numerically and also
in church property Bishop Nicely
esve very iattering report of the
work in South America.
Then came the report from the fra
ternal delegates of the British and Irish
Methodists. given by Rev. j. Good
man, ID. ID. of England. He spoke
very feelingly of the good that Metho-
dists had done for the brethren across
the sea. The next was the address of
Rev. J. Henderson, d. D., of Canada
He said in part as follows "Sirs
bring to you today the greetings of a
church which has before it great flu
ture for there is opening up before us
in the land north of you such heri-
tage as we ourselves had never
dreamed of. The greatest discovery of
the twenty centuries for us is the re-
discovery of Canada. Hitherto some
of you dear people have thought and
taught of Canada as fit were small
circle, for the most part of snow, near
the North Pole. More than once it
has been described as land .of ice pal
aces. toboggan slides. billiards. bears
and wild Indians 1t has been spoken
of quite POLITICALLY too as land of the
North Star and our Lady of Snow.
The Londoners fairly shiver as they
think OF Canada stretching so far to.
ward the North Star He forgets that
the city he most boasts of as me-
tropolis. lies on line SEQ miles north
of Toronto. The Scotchmen pity us
because of our proximity to the pole
but forgets that the city he most
boasts of as the Athens of the North is
one thousand miles nearer the pole
than is our town of Windsor. wonder
in the province of Ontario. Paris.
the ssvest capital of Europe is nealry
200 miles farther north than Ottawa,
now known as the Washington of the
movement afo)t in Canada today is
the effort now being made to bring
about the organic union of some of
the leading churches of Professionalism.
Not long ago such suggestion would
have been regarded as outside the pale
of the possible. but today there are
not few of our most practical men
who are dreaming of the dsy when
this dream of the golden age will
be partially realized in Canada and
when new church shall arise in our
country, known as the United Pro-
testant Church of Canada, in which
Methodism and Presbyterianism will
no atn bod Tod into oua This may