The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-15
BREEZE FROM BISHOP QUAYLE
CHRIST. NOR JErFERsON. MADE
orr "DECLaRATTON."
The Thlnx for Any Man 70 DO. Finding
Himself Anywhere Else. u 70 Pack
Ills Grip and Come 20 America
Meth8siism q Maker OF Americans.

Meth0dlsm q Maker OF Americans.
The Christian cause in America was
the topic at the Methodist preachers
meeting yesterday. and the chief speaker
was Bishop Quayle. who lives when At
home. which he said was not often. In
Oklahoma, The Bishop said he was a
Manxman born.
Presiding at a recent conference out
West said he. -one leader was a German
another was a Dane. a third was a
Frenchman and a fourth was an Irishman
and said that having 80 much good
yeast from so many where's We ought 90
be able To bake bread enough for the
nations. good Christlike. honest weight
bread
In spite OF all its badness. America
has become a world spiritual power.
observed the Bishop. and then he added
We are not in the business Of making
Me'hodists. desirable products A. they
are. We ars making Americans. and
YOU can't make a really valuable Amer
lean unless you make him a Christ man.
Methodism is merely the Workshop
So great was the enthusiasm and SO
vast the crowd that the conclusion was
the singing Of America The Oklahoma
Bishop. breeze from the West. kept
the company in a roar twenty OF the
twenty five minute s he had the plat form.
Christians must take America in hand
and keep it from going TO the devil" he
said. When they do 90. then We must
take the whole world. America included.
to Christ. Nobody Is to blame for having
been born in the Isle of Man ia Germany
in Ireland. but the thing for any man To
do. finding himself there, Is to pack his
grip and come TO America.
Thomas jefferson did no, write the
Declaration OF Independence. II 10 a
mist AXE to say hs did. Jesus Christ
wrote it | preached 30 many times yes
terday | cannot remember all the places
or all l said. But wherever l preach
whether in New York or New Mexico.
end just folks. New Workers put on
more style and use more big words than
folks do out West. but we ought TO quit
foolIng around about our State and our
city and their problems and begin to
fool with America. We ought not to
talk Japanese even 3! we were born ia
Japan. or Spanishese II we We're bora IN
Spain. nut all Of us. the whole kit ought
to learn to talk Amerlcanese. The sooner
Greeks learn American and speak 1t the
sOon.r HungarIans do the same. the
better for them and for us.
What race ~e are making, I'd like
10 hive 500 years TO see what II will do
" ouldn't II be fun q be mi aed mp IN such
a fracas' And isn't it fun 10 be here now
now. when everybody from everywhersrs
il going into IN. nat ional KETTLE where
Brother Jonathan. who Is a Met hodI>t .
IL making American Inush,
When You 90 into crowd don't wear
Il Methodist Year Book On your shir,
front lie serves the Met hodist Episcopal
Church best who gery es Jesus { hrist best
Another speaker was the Rev. Dr
Arthur Forbes. corresponding secretary
II he Board of Home Missions and Church
Extension. lie asked that a. much he
gwen. dollar for dollar, to missions AT
home as Is sent To missions abroad and
declared he could not unCisrst and how
rnt husIasm could be worked up for ChI.
nes. IN China when il could not be for
Chinese in san Francisco. II was glorious
he said. to raise tyDO. OG for Africans IN
Africa as American Meth odists had just
done, but there are many millions OF
Africans III America and the same Amer
ICan M.thOdIs's are doing little for hem
~. believed ~ missions abroad he, said
h'I' he also believed IN missions at home