The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-14
METHODISTS TALK
 CHANCE IN GREED
THE COMMITTEE ON REVlSALS MAKES A RADICAL REPORT
 WHICH WILL CAUSE DEBATE.
Creation of Missionary Bishops Is Another Question Brought Before the Conference.

Oklahoma City, May l3-The cen ter Of interest today at the confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, south, was centered around the disposition of the report from the committee on Icyisals, recon mcndius the elimination of the phrase Holy Catholic Church from the apostles creed and the major portion of the sessiop was devoted to it's discussion.
 The board of missions came to the conference with a plan for closer SuperlutcndeuCy of the mission field, which is resarded under the present plan ol Episcopacy a. lmpracucabe. The third restrictive rule specifically prohibits the election of a missionary bishop or a designation of Episcopal districts. The board, however finds that an occasional visit ol bishops to the mission fields is inadequate, and 1t thinks that d bishop should be elected Tor, or assigned to resi- dcuce in the fields for at least a pc riod of four years, and proposed that three Episcopal districts be desis mated. one for the American I-atu countries and Africa, one for MeNiso and Cuba, and one for the Far East, including Japan and China, and that Wahop be assigned to the reapUC- Wc usulcls However, the auonorl- ues hO.d that this cannot be done uu- der the present law, which makes a beuDp supernJendeuJ Tor lnU ouole church, and the rc5oluuon ol u. cannon and Dr. cook Is de5Isneu lo meet Jms cmeI- -ncy by proWmg for the amendment ol uae tnrd ro- aUlcuve rue by adding paragraph which would make the rule read a. follows:
 "lAey shall not change or alter any part Of Iuie of our government 50 as ,o do away with che Lpiscopacy or destroy the plan ol our itinerant general supcrIntendency; but may dl- vide the church into Episcopal dIs- uIcJs, dysi nate Episcopal residences tbeleu, assigned to the several resi- dences the effective bishops and de- termine the method of assignment ol tne bishops to the presidency of tne various annual conferences and the conferences over which the bishops shall have residential supervision.'
 Drs Cannon and Cook also intro duced another resolution amending the disciplinary law touching the re- urement of bishops which provides that "a bishop at any age and for any reason deemed sufficient by the general conference may be released by that body from obligation 10 travel through the connection at large and from duties of administra- ton and supervision"
 Both resolutions are radical in their purport and if recommended for concurrence by the committee on Emscopacy to which they were re- ferred are likely to create a lively discussion on the floor of the confer ence.
 Dr. William Bradfield, fraternal delegate from the British Wesleyan church, delivered his fraternal mes sage to the general conference to- night at a special session held for that purpose.
 The doctor opened his address with felicitations and gratitude for the fa- yorable occasion afforded him to dis charge the pleasant and important duty imposed upon him by the church. He said he brought greetings from the Methodist people of Great Britain and Ireland They come from John o. Groats to the lands end, from Galway to East Anglia
 The doctor noted as a significant fact that there had been 100 years of peace between England and Amer