Evening star., 1924-05-11
METHODISTS URGED
TO PUT ASIDE WAR
Seek New World in Own Souls,
Not Battlefelds, Bishop
Tells Laymen.
BY the Associa ated Press


gathered here today for the
Methodist mems convention, held
in conjunction with the gen.
eral conference by the educational
center This afternoon Bishop Fran |
els Mcconnell of Pittsburg. ad.
Christian Experience" and Sherwood
EDDY. the lecturer and writer, spoke
on The Present Challenge of the
World Situation" Tonight they heard
some old fashioned religion from DR..
george Elliott of Detroit and Bishop
Edwin IL. Hughes of Maiden.
The Methodist today must cast his
thoughts outward to the conditions of
society around him." said Bishop Nc
Conheli. we are trying, or ought
10 De, 10 make over modern life so
of way.
The world won't be very far to-
ward being fit for human souls until
we get away from this war business
ihere mas been too much of the mill
tary hero. We must make a place for
new Kind of hero, and the thoughts
3ron r our youth must be turned away
from war into another direction"
Things have gone ahead faster
tnan. folks. said DR.. Elliott, whose
Nnde SNun}ec1 Vas, Vas The Minister and the
progress to humanity as we'll as we
nave 10 machinery. The great gov
ernment of the world is not the one
we We Vote TOT on election day. but a
to an seneR unseen RinpSdm ShTistiads ian belong
are written on human hearts"
Religion of Fatherhood.
Bishop Hughes, speaking on "Re-
llglon and Home Life" told the lay
men that parenthood was a reyeIa-
ton OF the religious experience
fc . l.
the minute a minister begins to give
reIlglon in terms of fatherhood peo-
PIE suck up their noses and saw he
is heritical? God Almighty comes to
tne nome In the experience Of father
true religious experience"
tomorrow, the second and last day
OF the convention, United States SEN
ator simeon d. Fess of Ohio will
War' and Bishop Robert T. Jones Of
New Orleans on "Inter-Racial Ad-
}ustments." Gov. Clifford Pinchot of
PeInnsylvania at the evening session
will discuss Making America DIV"
Cigarettes and tobacco also came
before the conference today for
censure. John c. Craig of the north
ern Minnesota delegation proposed
tnat the conference express its dis
cigarettes, and to ask legislation in
the matter from every state in the
Union-also to debar from the
faculties of the churchs institutions
them. The resolution. and an amend
ment by Edwin r. Redhead of New
York adding the word tobacco" were
referred TO the temperance com
mittee.
The first period of the conference
ended by adoption of a resolution to
end the call of the conferences"
This means that no new business
may be introduced on the floor for
the remainder OF the conference,
which will now devote itself to the
memorials reported by the standing
committees.
Greeting to Mrs. Harding.
message of greeting and SYM
pathy to Mrs. Warren G.. Harding,
framed by Bishop William F. Ander-
son of Cincinnati, was approved by
a unanimous vote of the delegates.
The conference records It's ever
deepening gratitude for the valued
services rendered by President Hard
ing to our country and to the world"
the letter read in part Your fellow
Methodists share with you the
sense of a deep sorrow in the death
of your honored and greatly beloved
husband. and pray that there may
abide with you an ever deepening fell
lowship with the Father of Mercies
and the God of all comfort"
A cablegram of thanks from the
Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox
Church for the work Of the church
and it's bishops in that country was
read at the close of the morning ses-
Our church will never forget the
samaritan service which Bishops
Blake and Nuelson, DR.. Hartman and
Hecker and your whole church have
unselfishly rendered us. May this be
the beginning of closer fellowship
of our churches and nations
A resolution. whose preamble con-
demned the practice of lynching as
to democratic government, was also
passed by the conference introduced
by Rev. r G. Morris of North Caro-
lima and indorsed by several negro
delegates, the resolution called for
the appointment by the board of
bishops of a committee to present
the conferences attitude on the Dyer
anti-lynching bill, now before Con-
gress, to President Coolidge, the
President of the Senate and the
tives-
Prohibition again received the at
tention of the delegates, who passed
a resolution asking Congress to de-
feat the hfty-nine beer bills now
pending, to place prohibition agents
under the civil service, to deport
aliens twice convicted of violating
the prohibition and narcotic laws
ana TO eStaDllSh federal enforce
ment bureau.
Letter From Coolidge.
A letter from President Coolidge to
]. B. Hingley. secretary emeritus of
the general conference, was made
public at the conference today. 1t
reads as follows:
Il am glad to express to YOU and
through you to the general conference,
my cordial sympathy with the work
carried on by the board of confer
ence claimants for pensioning re-
tired preachers, their widows and or
phan children.
THE churches of America have rem
dered generaus aid to distressed hu-
manity in every part of the world,
and I am sure that it needs no word
of mine to call attention to the quiet
and unselfish devotion of the min
listers of the church, often under diff
ficult circumstances and in the face
of real privation. The work which
you are doing is one which must en-
list the sympathetic interest of all.
CALVIN COOLIDGE"