Evening journal., 1908-05-26
ANTI.SALOON
LEAGUE INDORSED
MethOdiStS in Conference Also
Elect DrS. Quayle and
Smith Bishops
DR.. GOODELL SEEKS A REST

BALTIMORE. May 2s-Fonowing
one Of the stormiest sessions ever held
BY General Conference Of the Meth-
odist Church. the conference adopted
yesterday a resolution from a majority
Of the Temperance Committee indors-
ing the Anti-saloon League and local
option. Only nineteen Of the $50 dele
gates voted against the resolution. At
intervals during the discussion ballots
were taken for the seven Bishops yet
to be elected
The Rev. DIR. William A. Quavle.
pastor of St Jamess Church. Chicago.
a lecturer and author Of wide reputa
was elected on the tenth ballot. on
the twelfth ballot the Rev DR.. Charles
w. Smith. Of Pittsburg editor of the
Christian Advocate, chairman OF tho
Judiciary Committee Of the conference
and an eminent authority on the law
and history Of the Methodist Church,
was elected. The result of the thir-
teenth ballot will be announced to-
morrow.
OF the two Methodist clergvmen OF
Manhattan whose candidacy for bish-
oprics at the Baltimore General Con-
ference exposed them 10 attacks. the
Rev. Charles Leroy Cc.Gel. pastor Of
Calvary Church. at Olc Hundred and
Twenty-ninth street am Seventh ave-
nue., left the city yesterday for his
summer home at Dudley, Mass, ac-
| companied by his wife He has decided
not to have any more 60 say about tho
rabing up of the old scandal that came
! so near wrecking his life twenty years
ago-the divorce Of his first wife.
"Dr Goodell is not Frustrated by the
attack made upon him." said the as
4 sistant pastor of the church, the Rev
W. II. Vaughn. "He goes to the old
home at Dudley, where he was born,
| and reared, to rest. talked with his
wife this morning before he left, and
she was firm in her faith in him, as
we all are He is a much loved man
in his parish. He will he back the last
Of the week"
The congregation Of influential st.
Paurs Church. in West End avenue.
was stirred yesterday by the news that
their pastors chances for election to
the bishopric had been defeated by tho
raking up of another OLD scandal. The
Rev. DR.. George p. Eckman is the pas.
tor, ana his friends had hoped that he
might be elected a bishop. But at the
conference a scandal was rehashed
without the extenuating circumstances
that came uD and were thrashed out
at the recent annual conference Of the
Church in New York
At that time DIR. Eclsman was candi-
date for chairman Of the New Yorl
delegation to the General Conference
and . looked as If he ould be chosen
when 9 story was told Of his having
once been under the influence Of liquor
1t was as promptly denied that he hat
been intoxicated. and the explanation
was given that DR. Eckman had beer
i'll that his physician had prescribed q
stlmulant, which was given to hin
when he was too I'll - understand OF
to object The explanation was ac-
cepted. but he went only as the third
/ member.
The most interesting and important
report Of the Committee on Revision
to the General Conference will be the
elimination from the declaration in the
i baptismal service of the church ritual
Of the declaration of Original sim"
This. in effect. is practically a re-
nunciation of the old belief that the sin
Of Adam and Eve makes every infant
sinful. The change means that upon
everyone individually rests the re-
sDorsibility Of being pure or sinful