Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1891, Page 13

WORK OF MISSIONS. What the Methodist Church Has Done in This Field. TALES TO THE CONFERENCE. Eloquent Addresses by Many Able Speakers— Christian Work Among the Poor and Rich at Home, as Well as the Heathen of Foreign Lands. Yesterday was the second day of the ecumen- feal conference that was marked by three ses sions. The morning and afternoon sessions were given over to the discussion of social problems, the church in relation to labor and capital and the church in relation to the con- dition of the people. Missions occupied the attention of the conference during the e: ming | session, which began at 7:30. An unusually large number of invited addresses were de- | addresses in addition to the chief essays, which | were upon the two subjects, “Missions in | Heathen Lands” and “Missions in Christian Lands.” The afternoon session began at 2:30 o'clock with brief religious exercises. conducted by Re. Dr. W. V. Tudor, Riebinond, Va., of the Methodist Episcopal church south’ and Rev. L. | R Fiske, D.D., Albion, Mich.,of the M. E. church. As usual the delegates were very slow im getting together for business and not more | ‘than one m ten of them was present when th presiding officer, Bishop W. Spartanborg, S. C.. of the M. i called the meeting to order. Generally at these | sessions the delegates do not arrivein any con siderable numbers until after the devotional exercives. ‘Prominent among the visitors yesterday and among the first to arrive was Postmaster Gen- eral Wanamaker, who occupied a seat in the second row of pews. He remained through-| out most of the session and was one of the most | interested of ail the spectators of the proceed- | ings. | REV. PETER THOMPDOR. There are fow men who are as well qualified te speak of mission work among the poor in great cities as Rev. Peter Thompson of the London mission, Wesleyan Methodist church. For years he has lived and worked among the lowest classes in some of the lowest quarters of London, where, as he said himself yesterday, one house in every thirty-nine ia licensed sell liquor and wiere 45 per cent of the adult wpulation die in the work house. Rev. FiStapeon wan the first speaker yesterday afte noon. There was uo business session and im- mediately after the reading of the Scriptures he was introduced to deliver the essay upon “Obligations he Church in ion to the of the Peopie.” As he | form he was ioudly applaud is aadiones “eke wets monies 3s of work he has been called to do. He isa fine-iooking man with waving gray hair black beard that is only just | He has an air of great ‘im that attracts close atten- livered in the evening, there being four such | church. | portance to the salvation of the convtry and of The paper ¢ yesterday was one of | the most remarkab bas been presented | sofar before the conference. There was uo | gUesework or surmise about it, but it was filled With practical saggestiouslearped irom years of | exper in the atiempt tO ameliorate the | conditions of the clusses among the slums. In | the canse of most of the misery of | i il and the key of the sitmation lies i sof the chureh, and | there alone could be found the remedy tor the | esisting stote of aifirs. In his paper Me. Thomson, cmoug other things, said: THE LIQUOR TRAFTIC RESPONSIBLE. Imust repeat what has been said strongly | and repeatedly that the liquor trafiie is the | main and trathful cause of all this terrible | life. Many of our difficulties wonid at once be removed if this could be thoroughly and ef- feetaally dealt with. The church hoids the key ation. Let the church become united ardearnest for the destruction of the liquor ‘tWwailic and it will cease to exist. But all who t | | REY. WM. MORLEY. know the actaal conditions that obtain recog- nize that such unity is impossible, because so many within the church hold ‘their eapi- tal derive their income from the traffic, or by their use of strong drink directly support 1t. Until the chwech tex herself from that system of iniquity it will never be abolished. The same story is true with reference to the iniquitable and corrupt life of our commerce and the administration of the civil life of the country. Greed may be condemned, put so long as those who condemn it sanction the liquor trafic for the sake of revenue and are shareholders in companies and commercial and pleasure seeking Ife embody this spirit in their own life their utterances will be utterly ineffectual. We may denoance drunkenness, but if our espital and interests are involved with the seachtioa? We ‘ny. spesk' strongly is tacer ni joh? We may iy in favor of Sabbath observance and condemn Sabbath desecration and personally, perhaps, observe the Lord's day, but if, while we have been quiet tm our homes and at the house of God, our liquor bar has been open, our railroad or other company of which we are shareholders bas been earryin; uiring the work She dividend. what are our scriptural views on upports those very poverty and forcing people. low can @ worship conscientiously on the Sabbath for the help and protection of his fel- and yet by his capital and energy give credit and influence to the liquor of hus fellow citizens are than b; hen the railway ies and others of r are contributing by skillful arrangement and attractive announce- ments to the enormous Sunday traffic of pleas- ure seekers, dc., by which large m: involved im Sanday labor, their families de- Fring omnidas compan’ intuence of "ivine worship aad bose on ite traffic, | Heathen Lande.” of vast numbers of laborers, for the sake of | K Ths mabe alee ety ded oF “@: The liquor traffic ahould be abolished. CHRISTIAN WORK AMO¥O TUE POOR. Rev. William McKee of the United Brethren in Christ, of Dayton, Ohio, was the first invited speaker, his sub; being “Christian Work Zacog'the Pose in the bepieniog of his address he said that it was right to consider the condition of the whom we have with we not only all the tiene, but evecywhers, he. cording to Mr. Thompson there were in Lon- | of don today » million and a quarter of poor peo- . Wretchedly poor, and sceording to Sa tendent Porter's census there onris Ey supplying Christan Fistian og for homeless children’ Mt characterized the work house as the = for the poor and schools for chil- nas failures, but Mr. McKee tained that they were better than no home and better than no schools, though infinitely eee valuable than Christian hom es. ‘The work of caring for their bodies was but Part of the work that rested with the church in ite dealings with r. There re- tains the duty of caring for their souls, Dut this can be done better after their bodily ‘wel- fare bad been looked after. Poor people are more likely to caro for their moral standing when their stomachs have been filled and their REV. THOMAS ALLEN. “Christian Work Among the Rich” was the subject of an invited address by Rev. ‘Thomas Allen, Wesleyan Methodist church, of Shefii In it be said that the rich must go through the same spiritual experiences as the poor. re | was a time, twenty-five years ago, when it| looked as though Methodism would become the | religion of the middle class, bat by « wise change and broadening of ite methods it has renewed its hold upon the working classes. Mr. Allen then went on to point out a few of the reasons to account for tho fact that th church is iosing, or at any rate not increasing its popularity among the wealthier classe. He opoke of the desirability of the rich end the eeting in the church on an equality of ity. He said that Christ had gaticred about Him men narrow, ignorant and full of prejudice, and had borne with them and adv: cated them and broadened them. That w the function of the rich men in the Methodist They should go among the poor and the ignorant and the narrow minded und lead them in the right path. Perhaps the Methodists had been too self- | contained and had failed to go into the world. | Buta change hed come to pass. Methodists | were becoming used to freedom and were tak- ing a part in public life. 5 ‘ogrow the church must expand itself to meet the national growth. It must avoid the contracted life of a narrow sect and thus at- tract the various classes of society. Tue rich need the poor and the poor need the rich. If the church was to attract the rich and the eul- tured and was to retsin its cultured young people it must be up to date in church ‘archi- tecture and church practices and doctrines. IN THE AGRICULTURE DISTRICTS. ‘Christian Work in the Agriculture Districts” was the subject assigned Kev. J. C. Hartzell, M. E. eburch, of Cincinnati. He gave statistics to show that at least one-third of oar people | of the United States iive in the smaller towns and agricultural sections. ‘That third section, he was of vital im- the world. The majority of the world’s popu- lation must in the end live in the country. REY. J. R. CLAPHAM. Already the reflex wave had set inand the pop- ulation of the towns of New Engiand was flow- ing back upon the country. In the south the average negro cabin church was a buriesque upon Christianity, and the best of the race were praying for the opening in the land of the plans of the Christian church. He had uo faith in any agency but te aggres- ve force and working power and consecrated spirit of the church of Jesus Christ. if the Methodists of Canada would go further than they had and pick up the few fragments of negro Methodist churches in their country they would do much for the cause of unity. Rev. Dr. E. J. Brailsford of Scotian? said it was posgble to fo-get the claims of the vil- lages. Tow to purify the moral aspects of the cesxpools in the cities was the question. If the streams pouring into the cities were purified so would the cesspools be cleared. Rev. W. T. Anderson of the A. M. E. church, Vicksburg, Misa, suid that some ministers were afraid to go out and help up the fallen. The negro did not care so much for social equality, but he did look for Christian help in trying to wipe out existing immorality and vice amongst his race. Every minister should hold out hand and help them. HON. H. L. SIBLEY. Hon. H. L. Sibley of the M. E. church, Marietta, Ohio, declared that the church should become the leader in the solution of the social and economic questions of the day. The poorer classes did not need the money of the rich as mach as they needed their belp and intelligent advice. Rey. J. E. Clapham of London held that the roblems presented in today’s program were Bret in importance. | He despaired almost of the church directly solving those questions. ‘The state must. The church, however, might stir the state and it would never stir otherwise. Rev. Lloyd Jones of Wales said it was not really true that we were a Christian country. Certain things Christianity had not touched. Money making had not been touched by it. It showed sometimes in the distribution of money, but not in its making made money made it by wi aying the work- man, (Cries of “Ob, no”]. Wealth making con- sisted in getting ae much money as possible for as little wages. Rev. D. H. Tribou declared that he was a chaplain in the navy and “an old-fashioned, red-hot, repent- or - you'll-be-damned Metho- dist (Ass poor man and a workingman he objected against being put over to one side and heving the rich look ‘apon ‘them as wild aut mala, ‘THE EVENING 8Z88I0N. Rev. Wm. Morley, Australasian Methodist church, of Christ Church, New Zealand, was the presiding officer at theevening session, and devotional exereises were conducted by Joseph Spence of New South Wales and Kev. C. Hill of Adelaide, South Australia, at which the delegates, who were late in arriving, began to file inand take their seats. There ‘was no business to come before the conference ‘and the first essay was taken up immediately After the reading of Scriptures, MISSIONS IX HEATHEN LAXDS. Rev. W. J. Townsend of the Methodist New Connection was the first speaker of the evening, the subject of his being “Miseions in os cor be geen Mr. Townsend said that Methodism was from the first » creed of evangelical aggression. It mission was to save souls from the surrounding Every man who v. F | centers. The work done must bu ie dl THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 17, 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES. tert yon saking for saci aon Sone Mab pereaeae force lor tance govern- ment, but he was informed that it was against the pohey of the government to aid non-con- jormists. He agrecd to join the established church if by this means he might gain his point. In 1813 be wou over the Irsh confer- ence and he aud seven others were sent out to Ceylon as missionaries. A few years later missions were sent out to Africa and to the Friendly Islands, where the king was con- Torted and became’ the firey royal preacher Methodism. Dr. Townsend went on give an idea of how the work has grown in China, Japan, Cevlon, Africa, South Americ: diane present b of others. In India and Ceylon publishing houses have been establithedstor the purpose of furnishing a free circulation of Christian literature and schools for advanced training as well as intermediate schools and_ boarding schoo!s too numerous to recount. The speaker said that much might be told of the good work that is heing done. A Methodism that has done 80 much in the way of bringing light into the darkness of heathendom may well be expected to contend successfully with the powers of Buddhism, Brahminieni and Fetichism. He made an earnest appeal for more generous con- tributions to mission work and asked that the sums donated be more in consonance with th to} demand that wealth of tke church. Not all of the divisions of the church repreeented in the conference maintain missions to the heathen,and Mr. ‘Town- send suggested if those who are not so engaged at present are unable to sustain a mission b: themselves they should co-operate in the work. He urged more co-operation in the mia- sion field, to the end that a greater amount of good might be accomplished with the same amount of energy and money. Hoe asked for the foundation of'a great Methodist journal de- voted to the interest of «ll the mission work of the church and pointed ont how much more could be accomplished if there were mrenewed interest in the matter of missions and if an in- creased amount of money were given out of the Vast wealth of the churc! NEW FIELDS EXTRRED StNCE 1881. The first invited address was by Kev. C. H. Kiracoff, United Brethren in Christ (old con- stitution), on the subject, “New Ficlds Entered Since 1831.” Mr. Kiracoff said that he had been asked to deliver an address, but that the subject assigned to kim was such as to suit it better toa written paper. Iu the form in which he presented it to the conference it was a carefully prepared and detailed account of the new missions that had been founded by the Methodist church and others in all parts of | the world since the first ecumenical confer- ence held m the City Road Chapel, London, ten years ago. Among the other miseions to | which he referred were those in North America, | among the Indians on the Omsha reservation, in British Colambia, among the Chinese aud in the southwest among the Mexicans. Thos. Lawrence, esq., of the Primitive Meth- odist church was to have delivered the second invited address, but he was abvent, und at the request of the delegation from the Primit: Alethodist his place was taken by Rev. Thos, Mitchell, a preacher of the smo denomination from Hull, England. Mr. Mitchell said that thechurch he represented had ei mission field twen plired by the church in the course of thes years. ile said thatin the discussion of mis- sions the conference had reached the table and in the importance of ite work. Subjects treated at theother sessions had becn important, it was true. but their chief value lay in sharpening the wits \d the tongues of the delegates to work upon © more important problem of mission work. He was unwilling to monopolize the attention conference for nny considerable time, ing as he did how much more worth whils it would be to listen to the remarks of inis- sionaries who had returned to tell of their work. REY. DR. A. B, LEONARD. Rev. Dr. A. B. Leonard of New York deliv- ere’t the second exsay of the evening upon the subject, “Missions in Christian Lands.” Dr. Leonard's essay wasalongand rather rambling | Ba, discourse, in which he touched upon almost ail of the matters that are of interest to Meth- odism from church federation to wsthetics in the church ritual. In the main it was an in- teresting paper, though only a small share of it was devoted to missiuns in Christian lands. In his paper Dr. Leonard said that in coun- tries where Methodism is strongest there is great need of aggressive missionary effort. If Gen. Booth tells tue truth about “Darkest Eng- land” there are still large fieids to cultivate in the British Isles. The vast influx of immi- grants into the United States and Cannda mekes these countries in particula? missionary ground. So rapidly do they come that our ca- pacity for assimiation is greatly overstrained and there is decided danger of:congestion. Nor is there any hope of relief from stringent im- migrant laws. No political party is likely to adopt such a policy, xs it would lead to certain defeat. Then the outery against the for is in bad taste, for we are all foreigners either by birth or ancestors. It is a fact that many of - REV. C. H. PHILLIPS. these foreigners are almost untouched by evan- gelical influences. Protestant chnrches are in Many instances abandoning foreignized city centers. ‘This policy should be ut once ar- rested and a couuter policy adopted. The time has come for evangelical churches to take up their line of march for the foreignized city regard to the life that now is as weil as to the life that is to come. REV. WM. GIBSON. Rey. Wm. Gibson, B.A., of Paris followed Dr. that could accomplish all this was was worth spreading to the world. A JAPANESE s0NG, A most break in the monotony of th ing was &rnished by the next volun- teer speaker, Rev. J. C. Davison of Hacketts- town, issionary to Japan. As he came “¢ relling be carciol ih Mis Rando wu book. He #1 ‘that if his Japanese ears he would sing them . At this there was a general should sing anyhow, and be did. The song was in no ie often heard in this city, ant sirams were listened to with great in Dr. Davison concladed his five minutes with afew remarks as to the necessity for oe and trained men and women into the ary fields. The time bas long passed when one could maintain that anybody would do for a missic . hore is the greatest necessity for est Hectually e Uy this tase of work. ‘There er Sgoops tat up to Japanese bearers ‘8 Jupanese 501 men of physically to David A Inst of whom spoke interestingly of the status of Methodism in his country. Dr. King. secretary of the business commit- tee, made » few announcements, including one to the effect that President Harrison had ex prewsed the desire to attend the sossions of the conference. Upon motion of Secretary King 11 o'clock Saturday was set apart for the rece tion of the President, the time being ei appropriate, inasmuch as “War nnd Peace” was the eubject for the morning. with the sub- Ject of the chief essay, “International Arbitra- vion.” The conference last night adjourned at 10 o'clock, with the singing ot the doxology and the benediction by Dr. Morley. Rev. J. Berry of the Australasian Methodist church read a paper before the conference yes terday on “The Moral Aspects of Labor Com- As our fathers were so generally en about the moral tendency of the Chartest movement, he said, we may be mi taken about the Inbor movement now. “Yea, he went on, “this question must be faced and mastered. The position of Methodism in the tweutieth century will depend very largely upon her attitude teward the labor movement in the last decade of the nineteenth. We lost & great opportunity half a century ago because we did not adopt and lead the great temperance movement, and I often fear that danger of repeating this foliy now | her great opportunity lies at our door ‘The church exists for the people, not the people forthe church. Among our constituency of 30,000,000 there are multitudes of workingimen and their children. They are defined as the army of the discontented. This discontent rests upon the belief that they are the victims of social and economic injustice. Are they mistaken? Then it is our duty to tell them ro and, if we can, to bring them to a better min Have they good reason for this dixcontent? ‘Then we ought to espouse their caave and to smite their oppr thongh these op- ressors be our richest pewholders and our largest contributors. “In considering the morality of a strike there two questions at least which must be an- ed: Is the cause eufficient? “2. Is the method justifiable? THE CAUSE. “As to the cause, the speaker said, there ix duty of meekness, forbearance, forgiveness and long suffering that seems to forbid a strike and even to discountenance the organi- ion which mukes a strike pos-ible. t these very texts used to be quoted in support of slavery. ‘hey supplicd am- munition to the party against emancipation. das war is, a cowardly —conni at wrong may be still worse. Are strikes necessary and always wrong? I point for answer to one of the wost recent and no- torious of these, the dock strike. Oh, there was a cruel and shametul wrong in conuection with that strike—it was that in the heart of Cla England men should have found it imy in any other way to wring more than 6 cents an hour for laborious and intermittent and un- certain work from the selfish grasp of capi ‘The time will come, as Mr. Arnold White pu it, when the lion of capital and the lamb of lubor will he down together, but Holy Serip- ture does not mean that the iamb shall be in- side the lion. It is necessary for labor to or- ganize and fight, because capital organizes and ighte and is generally the strouger of the two. He referred to th but wid we had not yet reached the ‘point srhere the working einives havo economic jut- ble PROFIT SHARIXG. “There ean,” he said, “be no peace between the employer and employed until the principle of profit sharing is recognized as the oquitable sortlement of the wages question and adopted wherever practicable. There are difficulties of detail, I know, in the way of its adoption, but such difficulties bave a wonderful way of making themselves scarce when we —_ want todo a thi The greatest difficulty 1 know futhe fixed idea in many employers’ minds which finds expression in such phrases as ‘my business,’ ‘my shop.’ No, my Srothe if you are « Christian your business is God's. You manage it for him and you must take care not to steal any part of the wages the work people have earned and that God means them to have. ‘The busbandman that laboreth must be first partaker of the {ruits’'—partaker of the fruiteand first partaker. ‘Lom Mann or Ben Tiliet did not put that :nto the New Testament, and no ts Tanuical capitalists, thank God! can put it out. Your own Mr. Pillsbury has set 8 good example in profit sharing, and § en the clearest ‘testimony that io the Washburn Company flour milis the plan answers perfectly. ‘Our system,’ he says, ‘not only makes our men more happy and contented, but resulis in more and Detter work, to such au extent that the amount distributed to the men probably costs us noth- ing at all. We have been able to run witha profit during times of great depression when uo email percentage of other mills have gone to the wali.” I quote Mr. Pilisbury because be Jeuds in the right direction, but not as a co! piete example of equity, Leonard inan earnest addross upon the same subject. In defining a Christian land as a land where the laws of God are obeyed, Mr. Gibson remarked that such a land Yr erties be fouad upon the face of the earth,and thet inspeaking to the subject these words would bay in a modified veuse. Hot Christianized? By the si blessed news of the How is this to be given to jot by formal state es profess- ing Protestantism. Protestantism in many so-called J for the i : He 8 4 i I rf CS ia! i i Hi ok 2 ‘3 Q 32, F if 1 i that that 7 i ‘WHaT THE DISCONTENT MEAXS: “The discontent of the working clasees,” said tho speaker, “is not to mea withered leaf wit- nessing that our civilization is in the autumn and thas winter is near; it is rather a suowdrop, of summer. A great historian abundance of teaching in the Bible about the | * I] the indigent and secured educational to re of | snpport the schools. Sissseced vous et lenders of now tho dissenters in Wales constitute more | pace tie thee Sareea por pom pe that them to sympathize 7m, to champion | ca! uy support a church which does not thelr cause when they are. in ibe right, and | minister to them? 2 ee i when they are in the |* | ““By the fail of prices, corn, need | the farmers in Wales had in wrong, as they often are. Just now they times, and it to be taught to think less about their ‘rights’ | was ouly when times had become so hard that and more about their duties. they really could not afford to pay that they reminded that formed themselves intoa league for the pur- more upon their own Pose of resisting the collection. The farmers upon improved physical and of Wales, upon the whole, are poor, very poor. and to that y use when of never been 8 farm is: ‘Is there a living to be made out dom of things th ea Th of t was too tough tobe sent to the : & old sow tha: jish mat general understanding among farmers that they would not pay.” THE CONTEST WITH THE CLEROY. “Did the clergy give up their daily bread without a struggle?” “Oh, no. - When a farmer refused to pay hie tithes legal processes were entered into and an auctioncer was sent to sell either cattle or pro- duce, or indeed any property, to recover the amoint, with coste. "Then tho tithe war begine to look interesting. ._ “What does it look like? I will tell you of an instance that is one of many in thy own experi- ence. A tithe sale had been properly adver- tixed, ‘and on the days in question hundreds of farmers, with their servants, came from miles around. Bonfires had been prepared on the tops of the mountains, and when the car- riage containing the auctioneer and the super- intendent of police came in sight the tres An English Delegate Makes Some Remarks | Were lighted, horns were blown in every direction, and the crowd swooped down on About Newspzpers. A sturdy Englishman is Jobn H. Lile, one of | or° am ard. (At first the sceno was one the delegates to the conference. His home is farmers and their assistants hooted and shouted in St. Leouards, where Harold was slain by the | at the officers and frequently threw at conquerors from Normandy, but his business | them. Then blows were exchanged and for center is in London, of the corporation of This aie which he is an active and honored member. Mr. Lilie ought to know a good deal abcut the Englich religious press, for he is a big advertis- ing contractor. Toa Stax reporter Mr. Lile said: “The re- ligious press in England keeps itself clear of Politics, as it ought to, but it does not prosper sitshould. ‘The denominational newspapers, especially those of Methodism, have buta emali circulation when we remember the strength of the bodv represented. There are in the united kingdom 700,000 Methodists, and yet the total circulation of the Methodi | Papers combined is not more than 70,000 ‘weekly, and even this support does not all come from Methodists. The Methodist Times (Hugh Price Hughes’ paper) circalates largely among the general public because of its outspoken- ‘MR. JOHN H. LILE. WANTS A RELIGIOUS DAILY. awhile things looked quite stormy. turbance was Inrgelydue to the appearance of | thepolice, but on the condition that the police retire the public guaranteed to keep the peace. metime In this instance the auctioneer had, before the sale, mar than suflicie 5 well that iden- at preceding the ¢ servants rubbed the mark off, and on the following morning there was much conia- sion while the auctioneer tried to identity the animal he had selected. There was an under- standing among the farmers thut only a certain price should be offered for the anix course, the sum desir auctioncer wa not realized. The wuctio ading te eondi- tions of the sale, invariably 2 hat the highest bidder ‘would be the purchaser and quite frequently he bad to be content with a geod deal joss than his claim. ‘Ihe gathering the nigi et : togetier of su wd affords the bert porsi- ness on the social questions of the day. le opportunity for a public meeting there and ‘But very few religious papers of any kind—| then to denounce the pi quity of tithing. The denominational or otherwise—would see the light of day again were it not for the large ad- vertivers whose announcements appear in | their pages week by week. ‘The daily press, as a rule, do not devote a great deal of space to Teligious news of avy sort. Wien our Methodist contcreuce meets, as it does every year, if it is given halfa column in any of ‘the leading London dailies itis quiteus much as we may expect. ‘The same papers, on the great race of the year—the Derby—will give columas of kpaco to descriptions of the road to Epsom and the precise and minute particulars of the vari- ous races, ‘My own opinion is that the day is fast ap- proaching, if it has not already arrived, whe the Christians of $ nations should assis religioga del) from its pages everyting sporting and gambiiug newe triais in our police aud criminal courts; would report as it should be reported the | religious news of the country. ‘The religious | people of the land should, asa inatter of con- | seience, purchase such a paper in preterence to auy other daily. 1 know that attempts have been made in the past; large sums or money have not been wanting, but the support of i inns has been found wanting. u the next ecumenical con- ference mects we may Le able to report the ex- istence of a successful religious daily paper. ‘The large advertisers, who continuously spend enormous sums of money, wouid aid such anen- 5 5 j terprise. ‘ney would come in as a matter of | “Will not the incoming of Gladstone bring vat We onve esiablisued such « paper and | about some reformation as to this matter + the circulation it deserv a | e enterprise of ‘Tuk Stam in connection ret place, the Insh qu all-ab with the conterence has been most picasing. ‘and, eccouill { Very much space hns been devoted Irom day to Secectl DEMNNEEY eatin cot eee day to our proceecinzwand the result compares in | favorably with anything that would be done in our own country by any caily paper. Such work pays. It cannot do otherwise. When you devote so many columus to the interests of Methodisin, why, Methodism eannot be ungrate- fui. Your is being circulated to the ends of the eurth by delegates, and it deserves to meeting Thave im my mind was addressed by me half dozen of the most powertul speakers in the neighborhood, and the anti-tithe senti- ment was 0% lessened by the oratory.” CHANGES IN TUE LAW. “Has not the tithe law been changed re- cent!, es; the tory government, which finds ite best supporters in the cler that the tithe should be collected by the iand- lord as part of the rent, and paid by the land- lord to the clergyman, the reason for this being the belief that tie iarmers would not resist tire landlord, as resistance might lose them their farms. ‘lhe fear of iandi is ever betore the Welsh farmers’ eyes. So tyrannical are the landlords that even now, when the law has declared that the hares and rabbits belong as much io the tenant as to the landlord, there are thousands of instances w! shot a rabbit (or especiu cost him his farm. A rup lord and tenant is imminent. The rents are too high, and the tenants, aside from the prin. ciple involved, cannot afford to pay them. Ihe result will be war between the landlord and the arson. ‘the landlord would never consent to lower his rent unless the pu would lower his tithe, so there is much to hove tor. When | thieves fall out, you know, honest men get their due. The remedy is duscstublishment and dis endowment,” GLADSTONE AND DISESTABLISUMENT. ou must understand that Mr. Gladstone, above and beyond all other other things, is a churchman— a high churebman—and he wii be yery reluctant to touch the church. ot a few who have studied the situation be- lieve that if disestablishment should come during Mr. Gladstone's life that the financial results would be #0 unjustly benficial to the clergy that it would really be better for thone Who advocate disestablishment to wait awhile.” “Whence docs the church in Wales derive ngth it has in spite of non-conformist and entirely from its social P ristocracy in every instance | are churchien; the magistracy, in nine cases | out of ten, is com of churchmen. ‘The | rength of the church in Wales is due not to its being © Ciristian institution, but to the fact that it is a vestibule into what is called ‘good society.’ In thousands of instances men who have me wealthy in England and who during the making of ‘their wealth were staunch dissenters, are almost invariably perverted into churct- men when they come to live in Wales, xs many of the wealthy now do. Unless they join the established church they are in every case no- cially boycotted. ean safely say that almost half the strength of toryism and cburchism in Waics ie owing to the importation of these dis- wouting renegades.” TUE BOUSE OF LORDA, “What do you think of the principle which is involved in the existence of the house of lords?” think that the pee of Great Britain have long ago ceased, in @ philosophical sense, to believe im the ‘upper’ house. That a man should be a islator simply as an accident, without reference to his moral character or his intellectual attainments, is condemned by the common seuse of the Lritish public. There is uo strong agitation against it, because the bo- lief is 80 prevalent that it will die of its own absurdity. There can be no doubt that the SS with which the lords will o) ome rule for Ireland and the turmoil and ex- ponse ot two or throe general elections owing the lords’ obstructive conduct will, if it doos not abolish the house, bring about radical re- forms. Indeed, introduced a eweeping measure of reform. “A word as to emigration. ren from Wales to America of those who belong to the farming claxees will, owing to the growth of population, be greater than ever before. ‘There are two things aud only two things that binder the people irom giving up their farms: ‘The REV. LLOYD J0xEs, THE WELSHMAN AND THE TITHE A Talk With Rev. Lioyd Jonos—The Ques- tion of Disertablishment. ‘The Rev. E. Lloyd Jones, one of the promi- nent delegates to the ecumenical conference, was born in Wales in 1845 and has been for twenty-one years in the Wesleyan ministry. He was for two yearsa student in Didsbury College and has since held appointments in several towns. The state of his heaith has made it impossible for him for some time pxst to take the regular work of a circuit, though he has not ceased to preach and lectare. Mr. Jones has many oratorical gifte which have given him a wide popularity in the pulpit and on the platform. He is an impassioned advocate of whet are commonly called ad- vanced views. While himself holding the essence of the evangelical he ix in fi vor of the uimoxt freedom of thought which a ebureh can possibly allow. AM that tends to Lord Roseberry has already | e0cy love of their langu the love of their chapels; but in the run sentiment must obliterate the distinction of ministers and lay- described give way to the necessity of living.” is grateful to him. He once imself minister and half layman, the latter the better half. olitical views of Mz. Jonce are pronounced. He isan ardent ax, vooate of the disestablishment of the Church of England, the abolition of the house of iords, the extension of the franchise to women, and Ci beppoenle tending to alleciate the let of the man. He has sodistinguished himseif a8. political speaker that he bas been invited Sonmituoncion "In eptnot bang difercce sa cos as to his views and the manner in which he advo- See Shoe Be, Jones in hichiy eetectand his sympathies and the brotherly onspicuons element of hic TOE WELSH TITRE Aorratiox. “Can you tell Tax Stan something about the Tecent tithe agitation in Wales?” asked » 3 COVERS 4 BIG TERRITORY. ‘Big Field Kepresented In the Conter- ence by Rev. James Weodworth. z ih fi tn e Hoe 4 ‘i of the age with which gray hairs sre aneocinted. Five years ago Mr. Woods Was appointed to his ut position and his Industry commenced to. bear fruit imme: diately. “My district,” said Mr. Woodsworth to » Stan “tertitorially epcakine. includes about 25 per cent of the British empire. It ex- tends from the head of Lake Superior to the sam- Mit of the Rockies,from the interna’ bonn- line on the south to the limit of settlement on warh—sihich of enuree tnctades the Hed- son ‘Twenty-three years ago. O17 of the ‘alesion 3 there were only two families in the country; now there ith «mem roll vangelistic effort. “What of the Christian Indian? He ie an in- dustrious and respectable member of society. He works whenever there is an opportunity, fishing and farming doing the favorite occu, many of the men, however, labor in mills and lumber camps. The Cans’ vernment is doing very well by the Indians; Skilled men who really know how to farm—are struction wit ‘that are trained is resulta and promissory results | quite promisin, e Indian is being a the mee artaand when be knows enough to work uj opportunity is afforded | him to earn his living honestly and honorably. | Our Indian effort is principally among the Crees and the Stonits; we find them | Teligiously attentive. The Jilackicet are bard | to approach as vet,and we have no mission | among them. Educationally Manitobs odiamt hae reason to be proud: Wesley College with the on. located in Winnipeg and affiliated Manitoba University—is a very fine ins Most of my traveling is done by rail the more important points Leing : steam and «tel. The day of the prairie chooner and the Red river cart is rapidly passin ’ “Manitoba will this year export 23,000,000 bushels of whest, and Len Tey Manitoba I simply mean the one province of that name. After making due allowance for the portions under water there are still 20,000,000 acros of arable laud in Munitoba. Cattle business is growing wondrously, the exports showing tre- tnendous recent increase. Much of the devel- opment of the fer northwest is due to the tivity of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co: pany; thousands of immigrants from eastern Canada and from Enropo are arriving and tak- ing up possession of farms of their own.” REV. HUGH PRICE HUGHES. The Distinguished Divine Talks Entertatn- ingly Upon # Number of Current Topics. NOT £0 MUCH DRUNKENNESS WERE AS IX EXO- EAND—TOTAL ABSTINENCE 18 MAKING OREAT | PROOMERS THERE—MS VIEWS OX FREE TRADE— | EPPECT OF PARXELL'S DEATH—A LIBERAL | wioToRY ExXrecrED. “You have less apparent intemperance in this country than we have in England,” said the Rey. Hugh Price Hughes to a Stan re-| porter. The active apostle of the “forward | movement” is greatly interested in the temper- ance question, has been prominent as an advo- cate of toiat abstinence and is one of the vico | presidents of that great organization for good, | the United Kingdom Aliinnce. “Indeed, now that I think of it, { believe I have only seen two men drunk in America, and I am sorry to say both of those were custom house officers at New York. Since thea | Thave never secn any one drunk. I have been | in Portland, Me.. and wes gratified beyond ex- pression, Ifound that a week before I went there an old offender hud been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for selling liquor, and the proprietor of the hotel at wnich I stopped nd be dare not sell me sicants; be did not mind the fine, but he was afraid of the impr. oument. If any citizen shouid visit that lovely | city and see the health and prosperity and uni- | versal happiness everywhere apparent he would | feel that @ great blessing bad been bonght | cheaply. Portland is now in that social coudi- tion which in our highest hopex we might dare ree © reach « hundred years “Then temperance in England has not mnd such advances as it has in the United States?’ TEMPERANCE PROGRESS IX ENGLAND. “No, but within the last twenty-five years it has made important progress. It las captured the churches. Some of its earliest advocates were skeptics and infidels, and that excited «| strong prejudice in many: Christians against | the whole movement, but in my own church now that is all changed. We occupy an ad- vanced position. ‘Ihe great majority of our | ministers are total abstainers, and all those connected with our mission are necessarily 0. We average a thousand adult converts to ieeto- talism every year ut the West London mission services. A very prominent part of our work has been on the line of intemperance, but. while there bas been a marked advance in ali religions there is still an awful amount | of intemy everybody ad- | in our country, mits that we have far too many public houses. } ly would like to reduce the number, but ‘the vested interests are so great that each ty is afraid that anything it might do inimical to those interests would help the other. In spite of this fear we bave defeated two efforts upon the part of the present gov- ernment to compensate those liquor dealers whove licensee were not renewed; and there has beens very :mportaut decision of the court of appeal this very year by which it is now finally determined that the holder of 2 liquor license has no legal clnim whatever to compensstion. There is no doubt that before | long e1 locality will be allowed to deter- mine for iteelf whether the liquor trade shall re- main in existence or not. The temperance sentiment in religious circles is growing #0 | rapidiy that no Christian man would deliber- | y ately onter the liquor trade. ‘Those who by inheritance have come into the possession of breweries and distilleries would gladly be rid of them. There was a striking instance of the Xtent to which this feeling zoes. One of the most prominent und enlightened liberals in England, who wasa candidate for a coustitu- stating as a reason that he bad inherited from his fathers was inconsistent with the liberal policy. “The Wesleyan church does not demand total abstinence as a prerequisite to member- edie E F' fi alirt i ! i E a | vice. The other has a kind | Rottses are not nearly so, subsiantinl ae fortable cirew appear quite in the task of practical in- | my | Ratural advantages. Protection line deste 13 of incapectty “Have you had any opportuaity ing the American bome with @lsh homer i AMFRICAN AXD ENGLIBH ‘most of your smaller houses are made Ours ere made of brick and stone, il idences in ont country districts, Peasants ate compelled to live in Buch towns as f i H i 5 ify} occupied by the middle class—people in com- le, but once you go tn filth and degradation there are generaily ten side you can see Soho, for e: | rooms in » house and ten families, a family in every room. House rents are one room ranges from €1.50 to which is quite half of what most are able to carn.” “Did you have any acquaintance can mea or women before couing here” “Yes, a great many visit me at Hall and elsewhere. I have been quainted with men from the northern from the soutbern states. I have al: impressed with the int aler “sof the American, and especially watility. 1 think the one impression been very much wince J came, to the great kindliness of the week, Til 4 t HIF “Do you not think that free trade bas much to do with the condition of the lower cissses im Englanay” Views ON FREE TRADE. “No, not in the least,” replied Mr. Hughes, with 8 good deal of uumistakabie empbans ia bie tones. “That is an absolute delusion, ‘The so- called pauper Labor is the direct result of» false system of land tenure. 1 understand thatsomeof Our millionaires are buying up land in different sections of your country,and you will be is just the sume fix unless you tem. Since free tr & fertile, well- *atered country has been yours from the giunicg, but protection limite many of your your mercantile iarine and the exported dlucts ot yous soil travel to foreiyn tuarbeke in British bottoms If wo were selfish we would encourage your protective policy, because it prevents ycu irom competing with ua in the inarkets of the world, with overwhelming dds in your favor. ‘TRE CHUBCH AND PoLrTicy. ‘As to the church and polities the feeling is rapidly growing in England that while it would be suicidal for any church to ddontify iseelf | with any political party it is the imperstive duty of the Christian church, which Jesus Christ himself has taught us, that we aust preach social as wellas individual salvation, We alla e that the church should atmok Grankeuness, gambling, lust, war. Byrond oll that it is ourduty to teach our mel they are citizensas well as Christians. Tou need tome of that gospel over here; some of it more than we do. Let jue give you» ibstle testimony on that point. ] was driving through Ceniral Park on rt way toa church in one of the suburbs of New York, and when I notieed the crowd of idie people lying around I said to my companion, “1 should lke to preach to those people.’ He at once informed me that I should hot be allowed to doit; that if I tried I should be arrested ! “but youallow open-air political meetings to 1 exclaimed. as true. be held on Sum “What,” said I, cum I in the “He said that Y apple iy to. sbominaple jaw would not be mouasctlical England for ope moment.” “sinew you have left England some evewle bave taken place which will change the cal cinatien How will the aocie af j sflect the fature of the liberal party?” EFFECT OF PARNELL'S DEATE. “Well, I don't think Mr. Parnell’s death will make much difference, because be wasa de- the Atlantic ® reporter came on board at .censtown to interview me and among other Linge he told me that even in Cork—his own constitueney—Mr. Pornell had no on cept among the lower clases, Engiand believes that Mr. Gladstone majority at the next election. Even vervatives admit that now. “And that would bring with it “Home role. | There one house of lords mey throw out the home rule! ‘And all of the extreme liberals are anxious that will gete ‘the cow ably adjourn being the rule bill had been great agitation. If threw it out then be would the country and the issue boure of lords, , ater a do in euch a crisis. really more democratic ment than you ere. On: feres with the nations the acts of the bonse of com! lime duty is to carry out our . it cnn veto an!