Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-31
BISHOP CRANSTON URGES
METHODIST MITIGATION
Advocates AmalgamatiOn of All Di-
visions in Address Before Lay
mans Association.
LIFE OF CHURCH Al STATE
Resolution Adopted Instructing Dele
gates tn General Conference TO
Vote for Old System Of Assigning
Preachers to Four-Eear Terms.
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WASHINGTON. March 3o-Dcclar-
Ing that tho very life of Methodism in
this country depended upon unacation
of all branches of the church, Bishop
cranston this afternoon at Foundry
Methodist Episcopal Church before tn.
I.aymau's Association Of the Baltimore
Conference, advocated an condemnation
of IL the divisions.
IF we cannot &c; above tho law Of
cNp"diency In our church poiity and
organization We had better let the
present church die he declared How
are We going To bring this about? Put
binders on people who never did see
and mutf'ers on editors who have no
outlook ne continued.
\ resolution was put 10 the Layman'g
Association to instruct the five dele
afternoon for the general conference
at Saratoga Springs to vote Cor tho
old system Of assigning preachers TO
four-year pastorates. Tho vote was
80 FOR the resolution, with % against.
While the laymen were lis ening to
Bishop Cranston's address. DR.. John
Is. Goucher founder OF Goucher College,
Baltimore. told the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society OF tho splendid
work being done in China by Methodist
women.
AWAKENING OF CHINA
BIG EVENT OF DECADE
THE greatest event in the past
decade Is not the great struggle of
mighty nations in Europe, but the
fast teaching China business. If we
SOW the seed of sclfshncss this way
among the Chinese, We Will reap tho
harvest" I've declared. lie predicted it
this country does not give China
Christian education. that the very bust
ness methods We are teaching her VIII
inculcatc in them Il spirit Of greed aud
that this greed will mean ,hat We will
reap the whirlwind, that China in her
great might TO come will oblitcrate
as from existence.
I'VE must either christian ize China
or conquer her. China can put 10000
600 soldiers in the feld, and not dis
turb ono economic condition. The popu-
Iation Of China doubles In every eight
years and to-day the awakened
chinese are making ~ big navy and a
big army With nothing but business
sense taught by us, and not enough
Christian education, they sooh Will he
come maddeneu In me desire To con-
Qucr and to extend their nation"
Or. Gouchcr WAS followed by Dr,
Crauston OH the list OF speakers be-
fore the society. Every woman in
the Methodist Church should join the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
or tho N-oman's Home Missionary So
cicty." declared the bishop.
What they are doing upon the hill
mcaniuS ConGrcss) the next fellow
will undo. The things that the Demo
Gratis are doing Will lie undUNe by tho
Republicans when they come in power
again, and so ON. But what YOU women
are doing Will be a permanent invest
ment. 1t Will live forever, not to he
torn down by politics and conditions"
lie declared. He told his hearers tina,
they could he no bigger than their out
look. and urged them on to greater
achievements.
MORE THAN $1,000 SPENT
UPON FOREIGN MISSIONS
The Womans Foreign Missionary So