Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-07-01

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restless energy of spirit. all tend to
make IL peculiarly congenial to a hardy
and virile folk. democratic to the core,
pricing individual Independence above
all earthly possessions. and engaged
in the rough and stern work of con-
quering a continent Methodism
spread even among the old communi-
ties and the long settled districts of
the Atlantic tide water; but its phe-
nomenal growth was from these regions
westward. The. whole countrv-is un-
der debt of gratitude to the Metho
dist ircuit.riders. the Methodists pio-
neer preachers. whose movement west
ward kept pace with the movement OF
the frontier. who shared all the hard.
ships in the life of the frontiersman.
while at the same. time ministering to
that frontiersman' spiritual needs land
seeing that his pressing material cares
and the hard and grinding poverty of
his life did not wholly extinguish the
divine fire within the soul. Such was
your work in the past; and your work
in the present is as great. and even
greater; for the need and opportunity
for service widens as the field of ma
tional interest widens And now
brethren where we were made to real
ize that with all the unnumbered cares
and responsibilities which press upon
the President and. Mrs. Roosevelt that
out of the kindness of their hearts.
have found time to meet with us and
to make that occasion one of far
reaching national interest and historic
importance. together with the kind
and encouraing words he had spoken.
made us feel as though we wanted to
go out and do better work and more
of 1t until the principles of the king
dom of our God was thoroughly estab-
lished in all the earth.
1 My wife ana myself stayed over
Sunday with some friends and saw
many of the beauty spots of the capt.
tai city, and it has MANY; and l be-
lieve it is one of the most beautiful
cities in the world with all its shade
and beautiful parks and situated right
on the banks of the Potomac River
and with all is it's monuments. Ii has
one So feet square and 500 feet high
and with all of the government build
ings. and with two more beautiful
white marble buildings that are now
being built and with the finest Union
depot in the world. make il very
interesting city for anyone TO visit.
We rode TO Arlington and visited Gen.
Lees old home. and | sat in one of
the chairs in the old mansion on the
hill The farm is now one of the
finest national cemeteries in the world.
We enjoyed our stay in Washington
very much but Back back TO Balti-
more" we had to 60 to finish the
task we were sent to do.
The standing committees had by
this time begun to bring in their
reports and were ready to have them
threshed out before the conference
and from this time on such men as
DR.. Buckley of the New York Advo-
cate and DR.. Boyle of Pittsburg, the
''Watchdogs'' of the conference. were
kept very busy. as their knowledge of
church law was almost perfect as for
many quadrenniums they had helped to
make nearly every change that was
made in our discipline for many years.
Their voices we're heard to ring out.
"Mr. President. l rise to privileged
question, and the Chair would reply,
Estate your question. or mir.
President. | Use TO a point of order -
state your point of order please -
Sometimes they were out of order but
nearly always they were right.
The Committee on Episc opacv was
then ready to report. DR.. Buckley
read the report and recommended the
election of ten new Bishops. which
report was not very satisfactory and
after an hour or two of good warm
discussion it was decided TO elect eight
and almost Immediately we set our
selves at the great task of electing the
Bishops and few realized what it
really meant. On the first ballot there
was no election bat there were about
one hundred and thirty-eight names
voted for. so YOU see..we were not
lacking for Bishop timber. On the
second ballot we elected two Dr.
Anderson and DR.. Nuelsen. Bishop
Anderson was secretary of the Board
of Education. Bishop Nuelsen was a
professor of theology in University
in Ohio. and being a German, il was
very satisfactory to his race that he
should be elected Bishop. Then for ten
ballots we waited before we could
elect another. Inch ny inch the res I
of these worked their way into the
Episconacv DR. Quayle was the
third man elected. The election was
accompanied with great deal of ex-
Z citement and anxiety. There was a
lot of choice. men and it made one
feel as though he would like TO see
them all elected, but that was impos-
sibe. But feel that there was no
mistake made in the elections and
that we have strong Episcopacv
and we should be-proud of il. 1t
might be interesting TO know where