The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-07
BISMARCK WANTS
TO Be EPISCOPAL
RESIDENT CITY
Is Serious Contender in the
Fight Before the Meth
odist Conference.

TEN BISHOPS WILL PROBABLY
Be ELECTED At this SESSION
Will be One Hundred and Fifty Can.
didates Voted for on First Ballot,
but Two.thiris of These Will be
Dropped on Second Ballot.
Minneapolis. May THAT Helena.
Mont. Los Angeles. Cal. Pittsburg.
probably are places where Episcopal
residences will be established at this
session of the general conferences of
the Methodist Episcopal church Is the
belief Of a number of delegates high
in the councils Of the church. The re-
port Of the committee on Episcopal
residences will he made to the con-
ference tomorrow. Others making a
close race for the residence of bishops
The dropping of New Orleans as a
residence city is also being discussed
by the delegates
With the establishment of four of
the five new episcopales it is said the
conference at the present session Will
be forced to elect at least ten bishops.
One hundred and fifty, it is estimated.
will be balloted upon at the first vote
on the bishops. which number prob
ably be dropped on the second ballot.
Whether there shall be formed
another body of the Methodist Epis-
copal church to be known as the
court of appeals. will be decided late
today. Practically the entire morn
ing session was given over to dis
cussion of the report of the commits
sion on judicial procedure, appointed
four years ago. The question of the es-
|tablishment of such an orga nizatfon
has been before the general confer
ence of the church for practically a
century.
The commission in it's report rec
commended the establishment OF such
a body with power to hear and deter
mine all appeals. AS planned the
court consists of three bishops. six
ministers and six laymen chosen by
the general conference. The confer
ence now has power TO pass on all
cases.
Heard Mission Reports.
After a day of business in which
numerous resolutions came before the
conference many of which were killed
on the floor. the conference last night
heard addresses upon the work OF the
board of home mission and church ex-
tension. Among the speakers at the
session tonight were DR.. Robert
Forbes, DR.. G. M. Boswell and Ward
Platt, all of Philadelphia.
american cities make the battle
field on which the perpetuation of
protestant Christianity will be deter
mined" was the keynote of the ad-
dress of Mr.. Boswell. who told of the
work which is being done among the
foreign population in the cities of
America.
Among the resolutions which were
presented to the conference today
were:
Commencing action of Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers in settling
disputes by arbitration.
Memorializing congress to pass a
law giving the federal government
supervision in the cases of negro
lynching and mob violence.
Censuring the american press" for
printing Exaggerated reports" in rev.
olutionary conditions in Mexico. and
commencing the government of the
United States upon it's method of non
Intervention.
Calling for an immediate report
from the committee on state of the
church on the proposal to withdraw
paragraph 26o, which places the ban
on certain amusements.
All of these resolutions, except the
first, were disposed of at least tenn
porarily by the mo consideration" vote
Of the conference.
The last resolution presented before
the close of the business session, how
ever, brought out one of the warmest
debates of the entire session. The
resolution, which was presented by
the Rev. w. F. Rice. missionary of
action of the ecumenical missionary
conference in Edinburgh in declaring
not proper the missionary enterprises
conducted in so-called Roman Catho-
lie countries. In fiery speech in
which he told Of the alleged opposition
of the Catholics of the countries of
South America to the work of Protest
ant missionaries, he asked that the
resolution be passed Immediately.
Speaker after speaker. among whom
were some of the prominent men Of
the church. took the floor. to oppose
or advocate the adoption of the reso-
luton, but finally substitute was
adopted which placed the resolution
before a committee of five, headed by
DR.. Rice, to be reported out Wednes-
day. The conference then voted pract-
ically unanimously that the text of the
Rice resolution be kept from the
church and secular press, until the re-
port be completed.
The Revolution in China.
Bishop j. w. Bashford delivered an
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Bishop Bashford reviewed in detail
conditions as he had found them in
China and declared that the Chi
riese people have caught q glimpse
of Canaan; they are on the road; they
will not rest finally until they have
reached the Promised Land"
Bishop Bashford disclaimed the
report that he represents the Chi
nese government or brought a per-
President Taft or the American peo-
pie. Bishop Bashford said in part:
1.-The enemies of China declare. and
with some truth that the whole
movement throughout the empire is
due-not at all to Chinese initiative.
but that foreign missionaries awoke
the Chinese giant and the irresistible
pressure of foreign nations pushed
him into his present progressive pace.
How far. therefore. will the giant
travel. they cynically ask. without
foreign prodding? And we who main-
tain that the giant is at last awake,
and that he has leaped the chasm
which separates oriental despotism
from modern institutions must recog-
nize that he has still before him a
long and perilous journey.
with the almost universal ignor-
ance of the masses. with the almost
universal corruption of the Chinese as
we'll as the Manchu officials. with the
narrowness and bitterness of clan
feuds. with the professed selfishness