The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 5, 1884, Page 6

_by the world’s leading minds, and 1s CENTENNIAL. During the Centenary year, with a} membership of 749,316 members, luding colored members and In- i the Centenary | including j iis png pier o i dians, the Methodist church any hes dee 3 America raised $600,000 for mis- | sions, educational purposes, and for | ol Ue Case Bont: eos | the support of the wornout preach- to Celebrate the Great | eae = The Wes- THODI ME geen ers, and the widows, |orphans of preachers. Methodists of Great Britian Thisevear, 1884. is a ereat /and re over one million dollars for notable one in the annals of Ameri- | similar objects. | can Methodism. [twill witness the! pe next Metodist centennial celebration of the one hundredth an- cugne waeuniS6b. Ik was in com: niversary of the Methodist Episco- memoration of the first Methodist pal Church on this continent, and is Episcopal church a. 866. Educa certain to prove a year of unusual tion and church extension were the active and profound interest through- great objects of their benevolence, out the wide-extended borders ot and $2,000,000 was suggested as that powerful denomination Ot | 4. amount to be raised. The re- Christians. Thewrand nistoric facts EE ae a miamaneent the relating to the beneficient character thank-offerings ammounting to $8,- and wonderful achievements o 709,498.39: or more than four times Christianity through the organized the amount proposed at the outset. plans and the doctrins of Methodism The successful celebration of these during its pathway through this cen— two tormer centenary events should tury of its existence in. America, are certainly encourage our Southern truly phenomenal, as acknowledged Methadist fiends to the lishment of the noble deeds they have essayed. Such a past ought to be an inspiration. Able and competent committees have this work in hand, and will spare no etfort to successfully con— summate it. The Central Centena- ry committee, with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn., 1s composed as follows: E.R. Hendnx. D. D., of Missouri, chairman: W. P.. Harri- son, D. D, secretary; Wils. Wil- liams, assistant secretary: Judge James Whitworth, treasurer; Bish- p H. N. McTveire, L. D. Palmer, Esq., of Nashville and James G. Carter, Esq., of Louisville, Ky. In 1784. the year when the Meth-| The following is the centenary com- odist church was organized in Bal- | mittee the Kansas City District. —C. timorey® when: Coke and Ashbury | ¢, Woods, P. E., Rev. Wm. were acknowiedged and set apart as Holmes, Nathan Scart, D. D., Superintendents, or Bishops, there | Kansas City. were only 14,983 members, 83 one, accom- one of the grandest problems of the ages. With more communicants than any other religious body in America, 1t is 4 matter of interest to briefly review some of the facts of general interest connected with the history of the church. Beginning 1n of scurity and feebleness, it has achiev- ed for itself everywhere a most won- dertul success. This great religious movement has, immediately or re- motely, so givep’ an impulse to’ Christian feeling and profession, on all sides. that 1t has come to present itself as the starting-point of our modern religious history. { preachers, 64 chureh—buildings, no Unwelcome History. i institution of } eee Eee ee From the La Platte Home Press. learning within the bounds of the : denomination. But from that time There is a great ado made about | Frank James and his mad, reckless | until the present the growth of Meth- True it has been bad and} odism has been almost incalculable. | C&™eet- at This result was achieved by men bold, but cease your censure until | who can well be denominated heroes | You hear of other men and their | crimes and subsequent elevation. the word. Accepting the motto of John Wes- There is Jack Mosby, ley—their church’s founder—The | guetla chiet of Virginia and ot the World 1s my Parish.’’ these men of Potomac valley—the man who or- ‘ : Ter- dered his men to take no prisoners— vitory of our great country, preach- and when they did tally ing the gospel with power cure a prisoner he was disarmed and iz s t shot down hke a dog—Mosby, the worst of American bandits. is to-day in the loftiest sense of the tamous | God traversed every State and accide se- and in demonstration of the Spirit—ould— ing up the church ‘Their entire oe ase singleness of purpose in spreading io uses pe pany. or powted by Grant, a Republican the gospel has been their promiment characteristic, and to-day American Methodism numbers within her va— rious branches 3,993.724 members ; 25,839 traveling preachers ; and 34,- 714 local preachers ; 32,000 church- President, and re-appomted by Re- turning Board Hayes. Mosby, for policy, hecame « Republican and re- ceived his laurels. So does every other influential policy adherent. If Frank James should become a poh- | edifices valued at. $100,000,000; e oes < 4 > 2 uF a y a a s eclar 1 s : 255 institutiens of learning, embrac— cy mans. Hh Eee ee would find sweet repose and wel-— | ing universities, colleges, seminaries and high schools; 1m 1882 had 433 missionaries in toreign fields sent from America, besides 1,906 native helpers; and during that vear éon- tributed tor the cause of foreign mis- sions the sum of $551,447.44. come in leading Republicaa circles. We are not pested ia regard to Frank James’ politics, but let it be what it may, tt he desires te be an otfice-holder-—without repenting of his past bad conduct—let him fo! low the foot-prints of Mosby, and The M. E. Church South, has > P a 5 5 he’ll get there, provided ‘‘the party } prepared to jom im the celebra- is zZ i ‘ . of great moral ideas’’ continues to} tion of **the Centenmal Anniversary ist. Wel _ 1 ; H of the Organization of the Methodist ae eee ee Mr. James, neither have we for! ” Episcopal Church in) America, which will occur in Baltimore on Dec..27, and propose: to commem- orate the great event throughout its entire bounds with suttable Mosby or the Republican party, or its vascilating policy. The Bible in Peru. | services and by raising tunds tor educational Mr. Milne, the Agent of the | purposes, church extension, and} American Binle Society who has | missions—three noble objects to / passed trom the Atlanticto the Pa- | which the tiberality ot the church | cific, across the continent ot South- + gives most interresting re— | On the | he was at Two amount nul: | Amer | ports of his work in Puru. 26th of last November will certairly respond. hhons of dollars is the pro- posed to be raised for these objects. | Iquique, meaning ina few days to and that this purpose can be accoiw- phsned there should be no boubt; ; take a steamer tor Talparaiso. ta it will certainly not exhaust the / consignment of 3,000 volumes he treasury of this strong church with! had remaming onivseventy Tes- its nearly nine hundred thousand | taments and 309 portions, which members. j would soon be disposed cf. At It may be interesting to our read- | Tacuo notwithstanding the poverty ers to recount what American | 2nd distress caused by the war. Methodism has hitherto accomplish- there were sold in eighteen days 163 ed on her Centenary oc We | Bibles, seventy-nine Testaments. first revert to the Centeanial ot 1839. | 2nd 185 portions, for $193,g0. As the first Methodist Society was Many persons were found who had formed in London in the menth ot | !ong wished to ovtain the Scriptures November, £739, so 1839 became but had not known where to procure properly the one hundreth year ot them. No opposition was encounter- Methodism. It was accordingly ed either from civil authorities or celebrated mm Europe and America. | 'he clergy, and not an instance oc- i tons. | advent in Washington retting h purchaser r curred 0 book. In Africa, atown of 2,000 inhabit ed volumes of the ants, several hund: iin a single week were solc ripture —not in quantities, but by canvas- ing from house to house—the largest | purchase by one person being four and Gospels ; were Testaments twelve there his receipts trom sales $1121n gold. This was even better than the work accomplished in Tac- The commencement thus made upon the Pacific coast is every way gratitying. Mr. Milne reached Monte Video in safety betore Christmas. MEN OF NOTE. Bismarck’s return of the Lasker resolutions makes it appear as if the German, as well as the American hog, needs looking a‘ter. Senator Brown of Georgia four iron mines in the northern part ot that state, in which he employs nearly one thousand hands. Mr. Andrew McLean, for many years managing editor of the Brook- lyn Eagle, will succeed the late Thomas Kinsella as editor-in-chief. Bradlaugh has a brother who is actively engaged in evangelical work and who hopes for the would-be M. P.’s conversion to Christianity. has Lionel ‘l'ennyson, the son ot the poet, has written a humorous poem, callea **Mutatia Mutandis,’’ for The Current, a new literary weekly of Chicago. Lorenzo Nightingale, whose real name the wniter of ‘Cape Cod Folks” put in her novel, has recov- ered $1,025 damages from the pub- lisher of ne book. George W. Peck, Jr., son ot editor of Peck’s Sun and the original of **Peck’s Bad Boy.’’ will be mar- ried in April to Miss Annie Fritz- geraid of New York. the United States Minister Sargent has Americans reside : invited all the in Berlin, or temporarily there to his house and help to ceiebrate Wash- ton’s birthday. P. E. Wilson ot Bethel, Vt., bh in bis possession the ivory head of a cane broken head of a us over the i soldier by Benedict. Arnold in a fit ot passion at West Point just before the exposure of his treason. Assistant Bishop Potter objects to the trice phrase *tpoor but honest.’” “Rich but honest’’ unusual would express a much more combination, what is reported ot ging from me of the wealthy capita Kirkland of paid s0 poorly by his congration that sawmill A Reév..Mz: Texas is he works in a during the A tew preach wish that he would work in week. who have heard the saw-mill Sunday. Sir Lepei Griffin seems to delight in attacking all He foliows up his recent attact on American society bv an article in things Awwerican. him | the March Fortnightly, in which he is very severe on American institu- tions, especially State and munici- pal. Edward Simms, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of Washington, who died recently at the age ot go, was a native of Mont- gomery county, Md., and made _ his when a lad upon a Icad of the President’s about 12 years old, eats destined tor stable’s. 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