The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-08
COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER
VANDERBILT SITUATION
Hearings Will BE Held Each Day to
Receive Suggestions as to
Course.
DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER
Memorinls Proposing Change In Name
of Church, Revising ApostIcs' Greed
and Granting Lnity Rights Referred.

oklahoma City, Okla, May RE
ports We're received, committees ap-
pointed, memorials presented and con-
sideration begun OF the status of Van
derbilt University in It's present rela-
ton to the church to-day by the Gen
eral Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, meeting In quad
renn!al session here.
One memorial proposed changing
the name of the church from the
Methodist Episcopal Church. South"
10 the Methodist Church." or "the
Methodist Church in America" An
other suggested dropping the word
catholic" and substituting "holy
church" In the Apostles Creed. and
others were for and against the grant
ing of laity rights to the women OF
the church. Various amendments to
church laws and customs were pro-
posed. All OF the proposals. were re-
ferred to committees.
That "the educational program has
come so prominently to tho forefront
nat there is tendency to neglect ir
not dispargc evangelistic methods was
declared by the Epworth League
board. which reported to-day.
SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
RADICALLY DEFECTIVE
THE wcll-nigh universal admission
by educators that our whole system OF
education, lacking as in tho nature
of the case II must. the religious ele-
ment, is radically defective. points
to the Sunday school as the necessary
complement OF the public school
SYSTEM" said the report. unless the
Sunday school be seriously considered
in connection with our public school,
not as a mere adjunct or elective to
our public school education. but as
an essential part Of the educational
program, we are confronted with the
amazing situation of a country OF
100,000,000 Inhabitants proceeding
upon it's course OF self-perpetuation
upon the theory that man has no soul"
Figures submitted by Rev. Edward
T.. Cook. secretary of the foreign de-
partment of board of missions show
ed that in 1913 contributions to mis-
sions totaled s1,299, ,G13.59.
OF this amount s924.?65.47 was con-
tributed to foreign missions and s374.-
CSi,i2 to home missions. The board
OF education reported the npproprln-
ton OF s6S,O00 10 various Methodist
schools throughout tho country dur
ing the quadrenniaI.
DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER
SET APART BY CONFERENCE
resolution setting apart to-mor-
row as IL day Of fasting and prayer. in
view OF the great problems which to-
day face the church, was adopted.
The resolution provides that the first
hour and half OF to-morrows session
shall he devoted to prayer and other
devotional services.
Before relinquishing tho gavel to-
day to Bishop Il. II. Hendrix. of Kan
sas city. Bishop w. Wilson. senior
bishop. named II committee OF fifteen
TO consider the Vanderbilt situation,
caused by tho recent decision OF the
Tennessee Supreme Court. which held
that the church was without direct
jurisdiction over the university The
committee held its first mcctins to-
night. Hearings Will be held each day
to receive suggestions. a report viii
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