Evening journal., 1911-04-11
EPISCOPACY
BARS THE WAY
Methodist PrOteStantS BaIk
at Bishops After Talk on
Church Union
PRESIDENT SHERIDAN
AGAIN AT CONFERENCE

OulSt protestant Cnurcn opened WIN
devotional services conducted by the
Rev. Joseph Weigland Following the
reading Of the minutes and calling
of the roll, routine business, embrac-
ing reports of various committees and
statistics, were disposed of.
The report of the Committee on
Foreign Missions gave rise to a length
discussion on the advisability OF in
creasing the assessments of every con-
ference district. The committee rec
commended among other things, that
an assessment Of $4,000 be made. An
animated dicussion on teh amount OF
the assessment took place.
A substitute, providing that an as
sessment of $4,000 be made in addi-
tion to the $4,000 of regular children's
day collections, was adopted. The part
OF the report recommending that every
church paying 81 per member be plac-
ed upon an, n,honor roll was not adopted.
The report as amended was finally
ratified.
Facts bearing upon the proposed
union of the three great branches
of Methodism laid before the dele
gates to the Maryland Annual Con-
ference by the Rev. T. H. Lewis this
afternoon so aroused some of the
older ministers that they loudly
cheered the Rev J. Earl Maloy when
he told the president that DR.. Lewis
remarks we're very disappointing. The
Rev. Mr.. Maloy's disappointment,
which many of his colleagues seemed
to share. had its origin from the few
details which DR.. Lewis presented. In
long address the Rev. Mr.. Maloy
went into the proposal to amalgamate
the Methodist Episcopal the Method
ist Episcopal South and the Method
list Protestant Churches. His opposi-
tion to the report as presented by DR..
Lewis provoked no retort from the
president of Western Maryland Col
lege.
Or. Lewis had been requested sew
eral days ago, by unanimous resolu-
ton, to lay before the Conference his
conception, as a member Of the union
commission, OF the present status OF
the negotiations. He agreed to do
so, and the time was set for this af-
ternoon. Attracted by the report that
he was to speak on the subject large
crowd gathered in the auditorium and
galleries and scores were turned
away.
Or. Lewis began by reviewing the
progress of the movement since it's in
ception and its subsequent approval
in unmistakeable terms by the Gen.
eral Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church. He recalled the
three-day meeting in Cincinnati, lay
ing special emphasis upon the claim
that no union would be effected unit
every member of the church had al
opportunity to register his deliberate
judgment upon the proposition.
The day of delirium distraction il
past" he said I'VE are drawinl
ever closer to the era of eternal an,
universal peace We must get al
the families together The Lutheran,
will get their families together ans
SO will the Presbyterians, the Baptist.
and the Methodists. And, my brathren
my vision has been to see a greater
realization of this wonderful dream.
Then DR.. Lewis said that the consti
tuition constituency of the churcl
could not be taken unawares, 80
you can't unite people who don't wan
il. ] do want it, but not in any fac
tional way. The laymen are de
termined to have it. The concession
made at Cincinnati that amounted (
y most were made by our brethren @
the Methodist Episcopal Conference.
Against EpiscOpacy.
+ The Rev. Mr.. Maloy and those VIII
supported him wanted to know some
thing about those concessions. II
y said, and tears We're in his eyes whe
he said it, that his lifelong friend. ID
a Lewis, had proved to be a big disar
pointment in that particular address
Why" he said, che hasn't told us
" single thing about the terms of tn
agreement
st Then, facing DR. Lewis, after th
q conference had voted to allow him tim
TO speak, he rehearsed the basis an
r. essential factors of Methodist Pr,
n testantism with particular reference
l. its opposition to the episcopacy and il
bishops. Referring to a statemer
~ that Dr. Lewis might have been
"A bishop, he cried, mo bishop for me-
W not oven If the timber from whic
- they are built be grown and cut froi
our own forests" Shouts and cheer
of approval mingled with the laughtt
a that followed and the Rev. Mr.. Male
acentuated the fun when he sal
! when your suffix is Christian an
n your prefix is Methodist Protestar
e you've got religious appendicitis, an
that's all there is to It."
NJ President Sheridan tried TO restoI
m order, only to hear Mr.. Maloy say
n Now what. would you do with a
a old man like me? I'm too old fC
surgery"
The Rev. Mr.. Maloy said that /
: these negotiations there was dangC
n of bishops getting in. and he woul
not stand for that if he had to I
the only member Of the Methodii
II Protestant Church He said the diffe
ence between a bishop and a pres
dent was the same as between a cza
and a president or a Samson shor
and unshorn. He also referred to a r,
mark made 50 years ago by a prom
nent Methodist Episcopal ministe
that "the Methodist Protestant Churc
had failed and its preachers were
J. the market for hire" When Mr.. Malo
sat down the delegates sang, Blest E
i the Tie That Binds.
n President Sheridan Better.
The morning session began with
: sacred concert by the ministerial cho
. and devotion services conducted t
the Rev. ]. A. Wigand. President Shel
idan was in the chair when the bus
e nes session opened. although he ha
:, been quite i'll He is much improved
, New Members Received.
0 The new members Of the Conferenc
4 who had been recommended for ad