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Evening star., 1916-07-09
Unite Six Million Members Of Methodist Church

African and a slave in North Carolina,
went to New York and was licensed
to preach by the Methodist Episcopal
Church In time he was elected a bish
op. He believed in the separation of
white and colored Methodists. A bishop.
he had nothing to gain by his advo-
cacy of a race division in Methodism.
Indeed. he left the church and with
all-founded the African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church, which has now,
as 1 told you, 100000 members. That
our colored problem will be settled
satisfactorily I feel certain"
Bishop Cranston was seventy-six
years old on June 27 just past. Orators
and writer's refer to him as a venera-
BILE man. He is venerable IN the die
tionary sense. being worthy of honor
and respect. but he is not aged in his
manner. mind or looks. All Methodists
say that he is the one great character
In their church. He has been a bishop
for twenty years. He told the writer
that he went to the mourners' bench
at Piketon. Ohio. when he was twelve
years old. His real conversion. how
ever occurred. he says. when he was
nineteen and a college student At Ath-
ems. in his native state.
David Hastings Moore and Earl
Cranston. college students together,
went through their Transforming ex-
perience" the same night and at the
same place. Both became soldiers In
bishops.
II was out Of the church for siE
years" Bishop Cranston said. After
the close of the war, however. re-
turned to my former convictions, truly
heard the call Of the Lord. Gavs up
my plans to read law and entered the
ministry. I have been preaching for
forty-ntne years here in the United
States. in China. Japan. Chosen. Mexico.
the Philippines. Hawaii and Europe"
Copyright 1915. By james B. Morrow.)
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HOME OF BISHOP cRANsroN IN WASHINGTON.

and preachers in the body that had
cast him out.
The two main armies of Methodists
overlap along the territorial line that
divides the north and south In Wash
ington, for instance, there are churches
of both sects Hundreds of Methodists
in the south refused to join the rebel
lion Of 1S45. They opposed slavery. and
during the civil war were Union men.
1--WE have $4,000 communicates in
Alabama" Bishop Cranston told the
writer of this article; 100000 in
Florida and large numbers in Tennes-
see and Texas. After the unification
has been brought about the larger and
stronger church in community will
doubtless absorb the smaller and
weaker one. Such local problems can
be easily solved. l think.
There are a Methodist Episcopal
Church and a Methodist Episcopal
Church South in an Oklahoma city
When the pastor of one Is ill or alb
sent the pastor of the other looks
after his congregation. We shall meet
with no dificulties in that town. At
another place, however, Northern
Methodists are building a fne church
near the church Of the Southern
Methodists. There will have to be some
negotiations, consequently. in that
town.
The duplication Of church buildings
and congregations. however. is not a
serious matter on the whole. Nor will
anx of tia mi1iatares North % South
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op. At the general conference of the
Methodist Church, held in Philadelphia,
in 1874. a vigorous discussion occurred
over the fact that Bishop Andrew was a
STAKEHOLDER. A resolution was adopted, by
vote Of III to SO. demanding that he
cease performing the functions of his
office SO long as he owned slaves
Andrew meant to resign his Office, but
the southern delegates to the convention
formally asked him not to do so. The
delegates represented thirteen confer
ences. They disputed the authority of
the general conference to meddle with the
episcopacy. or the government of the
church by its bishops, and avoided all
discussion OF the slavery question To
them. the action OF the general conference
was illegal. and on that ground alone they
made their contest
There was a belief" Bishop Cranston
said to the present interviewer, that
the division of 1874 in the Methodist
Church actually led to the division of
the states in 1861. but have never
thought So"
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South was organized in 1S45 Andrew
was promptly elected senior bishop and
held that ONCE until his death in 1871.
Attempts were made soon after the
civil war to reunite the denomination.
There were meetings OF the hishope
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gineers who exercises a mechanical
supervision over the house equipment
and appointments
Whenever next November's victor
and his family desire to go out for a
spin they will find two big automobiles
ready and waiting for them in the
executive garage. The head chauffeur
who will drive them about receives
800 a month and he has an assistant
also upon the government pay roll.
She who assumes or resumes her sta
ton as first lady of the land" next
spring will be relieved Of all petty de-
tails of housekeeping. The government
will give her her choice of d bonded
steward or housekeeper to take COM
mand of the domestic force and super
wise the marketing. The cards of her
guests will be brought to her by ushers
and buffers. paid out of the United
States Treasury. She will have to re-
turn no calls whatever. unless some
foreign ruler brings his wife to Wash
ington, and all of the details of her So
cial correspondence will be attended to
by her own private secretary.
When she goes upstairs she will be
carried by an electric elevator In mo-
ments of leisure she can sit at a golden
piano-a gift to the nation, which cost
$4,000.
AS she steps from room to room she
will inhale the perfume Of the rarest
of flowers daily renewed in the vases,
and her eye will fall upon articles Of
virtu presented to the government by
several generations Of the proud rulers
of the world.
At her entertainments the Marine
Band will discourse whatever music
she selects. And many of the great
musical geniuses of the world will vie
with one another to entertain her
guests, without cost. When she wishes
a box at theater one will usually be
provided for her and her guests with
out cost.
The family which assumes possession
of the White House next year will en-
joy far greater living space than Mr.
Roosevelt and his large family of chill
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A Hint.

MAYOR SMITH Of Utica~was ursins
4v1 a municipal reform.
''It will best be put througfSoy-gsutls
methods. by hints and suggestions" he
said. Hints and suggestions arc oftaH
more efficacious than heroic measures
"A man in a BARRIERS chair had u bid
claw on his watchchain-
Bears claw? said tho basoea !
Yep
81 suppose you killed It it-yUtuseh, orr
Yep
Was 1t q big bear?
About as big as q two-year-oad Steers
My goodness. sir. how many bulIst6
did it take to kill HIM?
None
my goodness. did you KIN him=sath
knife?'
NO.
'Then-then, err :
4 talked him to death,s SAID >zhesxura
in the chair significantly.
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On War Corresponding.

IT HE late Richard Harding Davis
was once congratulated at q din
ner in New York on his war CORE
spondence work.
Il pride myself most on my fiction"
he said. War correspondence is, after
all, good deal of n bluff.
The first editor who sent me to Cuba
as a war correspondent said:
"A war correspondent. Dick, must
be ubiquitous. That means
And he looked at me hard through
his spectacles
That means he explained. that the
war correspondent must always say he
was on the spot, whether he was or
not"
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Profits and Expenses With Americas Gra

century Until after the Mexican war
the mansion was lighted solely by can
dies and oil lamps. while there was no
central heating or ventilating system
until a few years before the civil war.
Water for use In the house was dipped
out of spring beneath what is now
the front portico. Today, however, the
most modern systems of electric light
ing, heating, ventilation and plumb
ing are installed and colonel of engi-
neers is intrusted with the task of
keeping these in repair. Whenever the
next mistress of the White House
wishes repairs made, new furniture or
Evening star., 1916-07-09
An Ineffective Speech.
MR. CHARLES e. PAGE, head Of

MR. CHARLES e. PAGE. head Of Z
~ Boston school, said to q reporters
ITO try to abolish kissing with gsSms
danger talk Is absurd. Such talk Win
have no more effect on kissing than the
spector.
"A policeman, one hot night. entare6
a saloon and tossed OF glass Of beer.
But as he came out he ran right into
the arms Of his inspector.
What do you meanr the inspector
Desertin' yer post Hike
that! Didn't you see mo comm down
the streetT
Yes, saw you. Inspector. said th0.
po11canan hut y nn1Su ~ = 1>okn2s2
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oficer detailed as his personal aid"
such as is always attached to the admiral
of the navy or commanding general Of
the army.
This officer Is at the Presidents right
hand day and evening. He is the guard
ian of the chief executives memory
string. the keeper of hfs privy purse
and the custodian of his engagement
calendar. The presidential household
is entitled also to the services, upon
state occasions, of a detail of young
officers who act in the capacity of
ushers at the Official Ievees. In COM
mand of this social STAFF Is a master
of ceremonies, the same colonel of en-
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WINNER Years
w That Washington Gould DawPerqu Allowances All Along
Presidency Now Safer Office Than Decade
wayC Car-Pesonal Service Fre-Whte House
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dren found there when they moved in.
Thomas Jefferson. hrst tenant OF the
finished building. had the use of an Of
fee upon the site where Mr.. Wilson's
now stands. and the White House prop
er was used for a residence. But later
Presidents allowed this to be removed.
encroached upon the upstairs portion of
the mansion for ONCE space until Col.
Roosevelt called a halt and moved the
Offices and cabinet room to the new
western annex. So the upstairs space
now includes eight bedrooms, with
private bath to each suite: a large IL
brary and a study-the former cabinet
room-whers the President may now
HE himself to escape fflce-seekers and
the daily delegations brought to the
executive offices by politicians.
The presidency is a safer once than
II was a decade ago. An attack upon
the life OF the chief magistrate 10 now
a federal offense. and even an unsuc-
cessful attempt to kill him 10 pun
ishable by death. To prevent. as far as
possible, a repetition of the Garfield
tragedy. a separate wing of the new
Union station Is set apart for the
Presidents use when he passes through
that structure, and instead OF minglinR
with the public throng while waiting
for his train or conveyance he now
has his elegantly furnished private
suite, including a reception room and
retiring rooms. Moreover, tho Nc
Kinley tragedy has resulted In
much more ingenious system of
President upon public or state occa-
sionE. The hands of every person ap-
proac ching the chief magistrate upon
these occasions are carefully watched
and near him IL stationed a guard who
insists that all hands be taken out OF
leave any package that is in evil
dence.
The presidency is. of course. an ex-
pensive Office. in spite OF the Increased
is generally supposed to hHre spent
his full salary Of $4,000 d year on
entertainment, and some think that
he went beyond 1t. The old state
dining room. as he found IT. held forty
guests. and by increasing its capacity
to over 100 he greatly Increased the
burden Of hospitality to fall upon
men possessed Of less personal wealth.
Each year there have always been
three three sta state dinners; rs and Mr. Taft
the expensive custom of serving a
supper at each Of the great state re-
ceptions. Unless he has country
home of his own at a distance con-
venient to Washington. each President
must go to the extraordinary expense
of renting summer estate that he
may escape the tropical heat of Wash
ington. The item of travel-money al
lowance when given to the CHIEF ex-
ecutive was by no means a compara-
tive gain. as for generations all of our
Presidents were hauled free by the
railroads. in luxurious private cars.
The only financial effect of the new
arrangement has been that felt by
the railroads and the federal Treas
ury.
It does not take much of a genius
to figure out that the profits entailed
by the presidency land we have not
gone into the items of everlasting
fame and enduring glory) more than
balance the losses. Thus II is that
the most enthusiastic contestants are
those who have already won this
grand prize, have heard the clink of
the winners purse in their pockets
and have worn the victor's laurel upon
their brows.
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- . j. Pierpont Morgan
The consolidation of many compet-
ing pig-iron furnaces and steel mills
into a colossal corporation is said to
have been a brilliant achievement in
diplomacy and finance. Owners of the
properties. however. gained fabulously
by the coalition. Millionaires were
created by companies and regiments.
There is no money in Bishop Gran
ston's plans-just women and men,
Nobody Is to make a dollar. Indeed,
there will be losses in many communi-
ties. Church buildings will be closed
Some preachers. possibly. may be turned
out Of their pulpits.
Bishops. ministers and laymen are
assisting Bishop Cranston. but he 10
lord over all. Each of his days is be-
ing given to the work. Il hope l may
1--we" he told the writer of this article,
ITO see a union of the Methodist
Episcopal churches north and south.
To that work ] mean to give the re-
mainder of my life" Such Is his task
and such has been his task between
other duties for many years past.
There were 3.s57.5s4 northern Meth
odists and 2.072,o35 southern Method
lists in 1915. The total is approximate
~ 100000 at present. Their doctrines
are alike. They sing the same hymns.
The government of one is the govern
ment of the other. But they are not
together.
The north has 1888 ministers. the
south. 1903. In the north there are
2s.42S churches; in the south. 1871.
Bishop Cranston and his colleagues,
along with a committee from the south
ern church. are TO bring the millions
of communicates and the thousands OF
ministers and churches into a har-
monious UNION of property. zeal and
endeavor. Methodist empire in the
United states is to be re-established.
Waste is to be halted. Ivy is to grow
on the grave of dead differences
Methodism is to have LOO mission
aries in foreign fields and $500 in the
deld at home. No protestant church in
the United States is to equal II in num-
bers. in wealth, or, perhaps. in stirring
energy.
But several delicate questions must
be settled satisfactorily. First among
them. undoubtedly. is the protection of
the minority Politically the south has
believed in the rights of the states
The north. in its opinions. has subordi-
mated the states to the strong and CEN
tralized government in Washington.
The same difference in doctrine now
divides the Methodists Of the two regions
There will be compromises and an agree
ment in the end, because church diplo-
mats and statesmen of the north will give
the south all OF the safeguards 1t de-
mands.
Bishop Cranston was a soldier in the
civil war. from 1861 TO 1864 He was a
private. sergeant, a corporal. a lieuten-
ant and captain. serving both in the in
fantry and the cavalry. The prejudices
he had were lost on the battlefield He
has respected the south and sympathi:ed
with 1t ever since he ceased to be a war
rtor and became a minister. Its Method
tst interests are safe in his guiding care
Both churches" he said stand face
TO face with beating hearts and extended
J hands. From this attitude there can be
no retreat without wickedness and shame.
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place OF meeting.
Embury always earned his way as
carpenter and preached without pay.
The first church was built in 1853. En-
bury did most of the construction work
himself His preaching filled the church,
also the steps and part of the street.
Thus he toiled and preached until he
died in 1775. A monument, many years
later. was placed at the head of his
grave.
Meanwhile, Robert Strawbridge,
native of County Leitrim. Ireland, was
establishing Methodism in Maryland.
He. also. began holding religious serv-
ices in his house. Then he built log
church. While he was travelling
through Maryland. organizing Method
list congregations, neighbors cultivat-
ed his farm. After sixteen years of
this kind Of work he moved to Balti-
more county. where farm had been
given him rent free during life. He died
while preaching away from home.
These two men, Embury and Straw
bridge, were Methodism's earliest or
ganizers of congregations and build
ers of churches in the United States.
After them came Peter Cartwright, the
camp meeting revivalist, who was con-
gan his ministry in New York. He had
owned a race horse and had often got
drunk. After a wedding at log cabin
in the woods, at which he was a guest,
out of his soul and heart. He wrestled
with Satan three months and then be-
gan to preach.
Andrew Jackson once entered the
wright was holding forth. Cartwright
saw him instantly and shouted: Who
is Gen. Jackson? If he doesn't get his
soul converted. God will damn him as
quick as He would Guinea niger"
Cartwright was presiding elder in
Illinois during period of forty-ive
years. He took 10000 persons into the
Methodist Church and baptized $4,000
men, women and children. He preached
four times a week for thirty three
years and wrote two books. Though a
Virginian, ''he praised the Lord" when
Bishop Andrew was suspended from
his office and the division occurred in
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The six Mehodists. including Embury
himself, who formed the first church
Of their denomination in this country,
have become 100000 in 1916. There
are other Methodists of various kinds
odist Protestants to the number of
$1,000. with 1,410 ministers and 2,40O
churches. They, too. may enter Bishop
Cranston's big merger.
conferences of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church was demanded by a consid-
erable number of active and oratorica1
men away back in the year 1928. Linn
itation of the episcopal prerogative,"
which meant a curbing of the rule of
the bishops. was attempted. Chief
among the agitators was Samuel Ken
nedy Jennings. a New Jersey man and
a graduate at Rutgers College.
r
Jennings studied and practiced medi-
cine in Pennsylvania and afterward
became an itinerant Methodist min
lister. His advocacy Of lay representa-
tion caused his expulsion from regular
Methodism. whereupon he organised
the Methodist Protestant Church. He
was a brilliant orator and a success
full evangelist. Eighteen years after
his death lay delegates were permit
ted To- elt side -Rx aide With DiehopR
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the White House linen and a corps of
domestfcs to dust. wait on the table.
wash windows, scrub the floor and pol
ish up the handle Of the big front door.
If he keeps riding horses he will. as
commander-in-chi of the army, be
provided with an orderly to fetch and
take his mount and accompany him
when indulging in equestrian pleasures.
mander-in-chief of both the land and
sea forces. he will be entitled to sew
eral perquisites not stipulated in the
Appropriation bills. Handsomest among
these. perhaps, Is the authority to use
at any time, for private pleasure, the
yachts Mayfiower and Sylph. The for
mer. of 1000 tons. was originally pur-
chased by Mrs. Ogden Goelet for $780,
ernment during the Spanish war. The
smaller yacht, Sylph, is more frequent
ly used by the presidential families, es-
pecia1ly to avoid the intense heat of
summer.
His military rank will also entitle
this years prize winner and his family
to the free medical attendance and free
medicines guaranteed to every officer
in either branch of the service. A
surgeon will be detailed to reside near
the executive household, wherever it
may happen to be. and protect its
health. When the successful candidate
travels. he will be entitled to the
services of this physician to treat his
throat after an ordeal of speech
making or to take his pulse and tenn
perature upon occasions of exposure or
overstrain. If, by any i'll fate, the vic
tor of this years contest should die
in the presidential office che govern
ment will pay for his state funeral,
and besides granting his widow a
pension of $1,000 a year. will carry her
letters in the mail free Of charge.
Wherever he goes he will be entitled
to the services of an army or naval
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so far as I can see, be turned adrift.
Work. I feel sure, will be found for
all, and yet waste will be stopped here
at home and in the missionary fields
abroad"
What is to become of the colored
MethodistsT' Bishop Cranston was
asked
Well there are some mild differ
ences of opinion in respect to them"
the bishop answered. Il think they
are competent, financially. spiritually
and intellectually, to take care Of
themselves. Many OF our leading men
in both sections are Of the same opin-
ion. Others. both in the north and in
the south. believe that the church
should continue to shelter them for
some time to come.
THE Methodist Episcopal Church, as
the northern body has always been
called, has 300. 900 colored members, the
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. a
separate organization. has 25O,OOO
members, the African Methodist Epis-
copal Church has 100000 members and
the African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church has 400 900 members. There are,
dare say. 1000. 900 colored Methodists
in the United States. They could come
together and organize a great church
OF their own.
.EhEietQRhak R0ah 4 faI1r rh2noda0
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officer and he will pay for the improve
ments out of an annual fund of $4,000
allowed him for care "refurnishing"
and repairs" 1t has ever been "a ira
dition of both political parties that
the Presidents abode shall look spick
and span, that none of the furniture
shall show scratch or worn spot,
that none of the draperies or decora-
tions in use shall be allowed to fade or
grow threadbare.
The government pays for all this, as
we'll as for all of the fuel, heat, light
and flowers used in the house, offices
priation for all of these items during
one year being enough to make you or
me independent for life. The White
House has a special greenhouse which
supplies flowers for public and private
entertainments as well as for family
use and the Identification of the ex-
tensive park surrounding the grounds
Out of the fat fund for care, repair
and refurnishing, past mistresses OF
the White House have made purchases
as they have seen fit. Thus Mrs. Grant
purchased for $1,000 a silver canoe.
which still contains flowers at state
functions. and Mrs. Hayes. for $4,000,
had painted the gaudily lowered china
set which was shelved when Mrs.
Roosevelt purchased the present serv-
ice for $4,000. And it may be added
that it was out of this annual fund
that Andrew Jackson bought, at sec
ond hand, the ancestral service of the
Russian Baron de Tuyll. All such arti-
cles. of course, become the property OF
the government and remain in the
White House when the purchaser
moves out.
So. taxpayers will take good care of
him who carries of the grand prize in
the presidential sweepstakes next sum-
mer. We will pay valet to shave
him. cut his hair and press his clothes;
a maid to wait upon his wife, groom
for his stables, la undresses to care for
Evening star., 1916-07-09
BY JAMES B. MORROW.

a Sa merger. Earl Cranston, for
M merly captain in the cavalry.
N\ but now a bishop. may outrank
y q J. Pierpont Morgan
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Both churches" he said stand face
TO face with beating hearts and extended
hands. From this attitude there can be
no retreat without wickedness and shame.