Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
MODERN METHODS
OF PREACHING ARE
URGED BY BISHOP
Methodist Ministers Told New
Generation Cannot Be
Reached as Was Old.
ORDINATION OF II
ARRANGED FOR TODAY
Conference Delegates to Deliver
Sermons in Pulpits in and
Near City Today.

Ministers of the Methodist Episcopal
Church were urged to learn how to
preach to the modern generation and
reach them for the Kingdom of God, "
in an address by Presiding Bishop Will
liam B. Beauchamp of the Baltimore
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, meeting in the third day
Of its one-hundred and forty-sixth an
nual convention in the Mount Vernon
Place M. E. Church South Yesterday.
The final business sessions of the con-
ference will be held in Mount Vernon
Place NJ. e. Church South, tomorrow
when the report of the budget commits
sion OF the conference will be acted
upon and ministerial appointments will
he announced. Features of today In
connection with the conference will be
the ordaining of II ministers promoted
from the third to the fourth year in
the conference course of study this
morning and the ordaining of elders
at services tonight. Conference dele
gates are to deliver sermons in various
Methodist Episcopal churches in and
near Washington this morning and
evening.
hCdEu ny MhHlSbeESs
The bishops remarks yesterday were
addressed to groups of elders and min
listers recently promoted, after having
completed required phases of the con-
ference course of study. Yesterday aft
ernoon the delegates visited the Home
for the Aged at Gaithersburg, Md.
Bishop Beauchamp developed the
thought that the same kind of preach
ing that reached past or older genera
ttons will not reach the younger gen.
Grafton of today Accordingly, he
stressed the point that preachers should
so modernize their methods of deliver
ing sermons as to reach the younger
generation.
Toward the close Of yesterdays ses-
sion, a motion to authorize the bishop
to appoint committee to arrange foI
change in the meeting date of the
conference next year to october caused
much interest among the delegates.
A rising vote was called for and II
was at first announced that the motion
to have the committee appointed was
defeated SO to So, but later anoher vote
was counted. making the vote on the
motion a tie, at SO. Subsequently, q
motion to reconsider the resolution was
lost by vote of So to so.
The Budget Commission of the con-
! ference held a meeting yesterday after
noon. A number of budget recon-
mendations of considerable Importance
to the conference are to be presented
tomorrow, it was indicated yesterday
afternoon.
Appropriation Proposed.
Among them will be recommendations
regarding sum Of $4,000 made by the
conferences new Board of Christian
Education at the ea-ly part of the ses-
sion yesterday. The question of app-o-
priating the sum, covering several diff
ferent items, the leading ones for ed
ucational institutions, was referred to
the Budget Commission upon motion of
DR.. H. M. Canter of Staunton, Va, the
conference secretary. who asserted there
is a ''revolt" In the conference among
the people regarding the matter of as
sessments, which he said were too
large.
DR.. e. L. Wolf of winchester, Va,
had urged the adoption in fun of the
recommendation of the Board of
Christian Education when they were
made, declaring:
"The crux Of our financial situation
is In the church." He then asserted
that the church members should be
educated to realize their financial re-
sponsibility to the church.
An appropriation of $4,000 to cover
the operating expenses Of the new
Board of Christian Education was APP
proved yesterday, together with gen.
eral approval of the entire report Of the
board with the exception of the $4,000
budget proposal, which was referred to
the commission.
In an address before the conference
yesterday afternoon, shortly before 1t
a n pRrl1a
of Nashville, Tenn, speaking on the
general subject of Christian Educa-
ton" urged the development of faith
with intelligence" saying that faith
without intelligence develops into SUI
perstition." He also asserted that edu-
cational systems must not degenerate
into a mechanical routine"