Texas Christian Advocate (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1902 Page: 1 of 16
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Vol. XLVIll.
No. 39
REV. F. L. WISEMAN'S ADDRESS.
Wesleyan Methodist Church.)
Bishops,
Brethren:
courtesy and grace, always so charm-
commission he received? He was look- Church to increase in about fifty years
workmen in the foreign field, I am kingdom of heaven.
But they have
to their sorrow that it is one
marching orders of our Captain, “Go
necessarily on short notice, directed
have
and
authoritatively add unto it
the regard in which you are held
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her to say that no American is ever of our Church, men whose ability and the kingdom for such a time as that
The practical disappearance of
easily covered by a year’s income from notwithstanding all
claims to,
local preacher, Methodism in the rural ment of the genuineness and authen-
been their liberality,
districts would soon become extinct.
CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR.
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ticity of the books of the New Testa-
ment, and especially of the Pauline
considered by an Englishman as a for- worth who, by our late gracious sov-
eigner. Like Gaul, in the time of Cae- ereign, was recognized with royal fa-
throughout the connection we are wit-
nessing a revived* interest in .foreign
tra five per cent would enable us to
pay all the expenses incurred in the
effort. We have collected -one million
capacity* can be even less restrained
in my language of regard and affec-
masterly discourse, and of your other
representatives I could say that we ad-
mired the vigor, the learning and the
eloquence of their expositions and ad-
With us it is considered somewhat bad
form to begin an address with a per-
sonal apology, but in the present in-
pre-
our
binds the free spirit in a yoke of in-
violable love for its master which can
not only say “Son, thou art loosed
from thine infirmity,” but can also as
in general, however we may be regard-
ed here, there can be no mistake about
on
an
many
such
have
and
their
cost
i of
S, their readiness in debate, their
of administration, their natural
of
life,
we
over
start-
career,
126,000
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Church brings with it, I think that in
so doing I proved worthy of my name.
But, in the presence of the serious
responsibility which now rests upon
me, it seems to me that by consent
I forever forfeited the right to such
making the acquaintance of one with spite the peculiar difficulties and social
whose comprehensiveness, originality, disabilities incident to nonconformity
American lady, which, I presume to be
quite courteous, spoke of herself as a
stance I feel that I should be neither ing to an Englishman, however little
loyal to my Conference nor courteous he himself may exhibit it. We rejoice
wise. It would be improper for me to
•roceed without expressing my sincere
regret that Rev. James Chapman, the
Fraternal Delegate* appointed by our
last General Conference, is prevented
sure will be rejoiced to far of the 'learned
tion. With strong and ever increasing It is no uncommon thing for a circuit,
me to proceed. I consented to do so, this year rejoicing over a larger ac- sionary and the fidelity of the native
and in view of -the great opportunities cession of membership than the Church Christians in their great fight
dres^g;
power
people bacl again to those first prin-
ciples on® which all missionary labor
rests, and they have heard anew the
through which we are now passing.
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much enthusiasm and many prayers
the scheme was launched, and, it was
soon seen, would prove popular. Meet-
ings convened to raise moneys in the
various circuits were veritable means
of grace, and most gratifying has been
the response from the country circuits,
arid most touching the generosity of
the poor. Laboring men earning from
five to six dollars a week, with a fam-
ily of four or five children, have con-
trived to enter upon the historic roll
the property, nor for the increase of and
endowments, but specifically for ag- of
gressive purposes. The idea was that has
clearness, eloquent expression and per- in England, the Wesleyan Methodist
- rm vanvcxd hve pe-. Church is also advancing- rapidly. Weye into all the woxd/and preach the
In his place, the President, are now in point of numbers the pre- Gospel to every creatur; " while, on the
other hand, the heroism of the mis-
/resident recalls the profound and fections of our people. In most parts tion of feeling against merely realis- was put low in order that participation
Speaking of the last first: Realizing had many unexpected calls upon our
mier free Church of England. We are
connectional institutions. Amid
lowshjp which a visit to this great
“sin no
< s
more.” And so it comes to pass that
. ------ that the new yoke which they substi-
missienary work? Recent troubles in tute for the old, exercises no author-
China and glsewhere have led ouMity over their conduct whatsoever, for
(Fraternal Messenger from the British
ing forward with much eagerness to
his visit, and in a letter to me refers
to his inability to be present here as
the greatest disappointment of his life.
I regret that our Conference is depriv-
ed of the services of one who, from
his intimate acquaintance with our
Church polity and the problems con-
fronting us to-day, is so well fitted to
be its representative, and that this
Conference lost the opportunity of
man, is divided iyto -three parts, the of the Peace, city and town Councilors, fathers had so strenuously to fight,
English, Americans and foreigners. members of the learned professions, b.ds us use every effort to follow up
But I am here to represent the Brit- are to be found in the ranks of this the victory which" they gained. In
ish Wesleyan Conference, and in that nobl order. Without the aid of the historical criticism the re-establish-
by indisposition from fulfilling the
the opportuneness of the time, we de- charity since this fund was started,
termined to make a great effort to Funds for the widows and orphans of
raise one million guineas, not for the our soldiers in South Africa were not
payment of debt, for happily our. above the horizon when the Twentieth
Church property is not seriously en- Century fund was launched, but our
cumbered, and its indebtedness is people have risen to the occasion, and
lighted.
of the country the Sunday-school anni- tic interpretation of the riddle of ex- in the effort might be within the power
versary is the most popular Sunday of istence. The further science pushes of the humblest of our members. The
no
in
It
is
thing to *10036, and another thing to
bind. They have freed from the old
sanctions a people unwilling to be
bound by them, but they . now find
lasting effect of Bishop Galloway’s
church house in London to be the ral-
lying point of British Methodism and
the home of the Forward Movement
country and this mighty Methodist
pounds in the following way: Three
hundred thousand pounds to aid in the
erection of great halls in our large
towns, chapels, Sunday-schools, mans-
es, etc., two hundred thousand pounds
for educational purposes, one hun-
dred thousand pounds for aggressive
forign missionary movements, anoth-
er one hundred thousand pounds for
home missionary developments, fifty
thousand pounds for the enlargement
of our children’s homes, to make pro-
^ision whereby in the future we shall
be able to lift from the State work-
Fathers and
abundantly blessed; that your .educa-
tional establishments show “such a
high degree of effectiveness. For a
the other side. Since I arrived,
tion. S • preserve the most of our population
Did time permit, I should like to from moral decline, fills even their ad-
have saidOmore than a word about our vocates with dismay. " They qbtain
foreign mission work. .The Church, the power of losing and eyentually
which has its very noble army of imagine they have the keys of the
for inspiring and widening the fel- has witnessed for the last nineteen awakened the liveliest admiration of
the presence of Paganism, I think,
recognizes that that system alone is
an increased
the commodities
sar, the world to-day, to the English- vor, members of Parliament, Justices destinarianism, against which
Province for subseriptions.
worth £1, 1 shilling; that
say $5.25. It was hosen, pos-
throw a sort of an-
home '
the cause of the eternal state of houses any child of Methodist parents
truth which as well as loosing has the who might unfortunate^ have to be
authority (to bind, wiich looses in- /brought up there; twenWve thou-' *
deed from the burden of the law, but ’ sand pounds for a great hall and
the year, witnessing crowded. ;congre- its inquiry into the origin and calmly guinea is our old gold coin,
gations and often phenomenal collec- surveys in its examination not only longer minted, but still used
tions. The recent adult Bible class thessources of phenomena in order to the
movement seems destined to afford an get facts whic, it must analyze and is
important contribution to the ques- classify the less inclined is it to de- to
tion how to retain the older scholars, stroy the ‘ testimony of the Church in sibly, ~to throw a sort of
Our Wesley Guild, although not yet its books of inspiration. “In the be- tique respectability over the
of many years’ standing, has become ginning God,” and “God is Spirit.” movement, but chiefly because any one
to yourselves if I were to begin other- exceedingly that once again you re- so important that at the last Confer- Moreover the failure of the substi- who can give £1“ would not hesitate
port so large increase in Church mem- ence a minister was set apart from tutes for .the divine sanction of mor- -to. subscribe a guinea, and by rais-
bers, and that the labors of your min- circuit work in order to give his ality not merely to help the ordinary ing guineasinstead of pounds the ex-
isteis in foreign fields have been so whole time to developing that institu- advance of our people, but even to
members, is an achievement on which
you may well congratulate yourselves.
Suoh advance is, I believe, unparal-
leled in the history of the Protestant
Church, and we thank God for the
prosperity thus given to you.
You will be glad to hear that de-
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triumphs of the Gospel under the aus-
pices of our Society® Must I content
mysel with ’simply saying that
each adherent or friend of Methodism, already in bank £860,000,
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interest we watch the development of with two traveling preachers, to have Epistles, so necessary to Methodism, should give or collect one guinea, who outstanding, and, perhaps, we shall
your Church life, and especially your 18 to 25 places on the plan. It is brought about that very precise his- should have his name inscribed on a have a whole £1,000,000 in bank
educational and evangelical advance, obvious that the majority of these torical criticism which at one time historic roll which would serve as a by the end of the year. I want, also,
The names of your leading men are must be supplied by local preachers, threatened to destroy every authority, perpetual memorial of the names of to say a few words upon our forward
familiar to us. The recent Ecumenl- and as a matter of fact, every Sunday gives us revived confidence in our use those engaged in this great effort. Of movement. In all our towns the drift
cal Conference in London gave us an five out of every seven pulpits of Meth- of the Scripture, and especially adds course, more than a guinea might be of the population is away from the cen-
opportunity for a closer acquaintance odism are occupied by these devoted, weight to our appeal to its record, subscribed, and, indeed, was both ter to the suburbs, and so it comes to
with some o"f them. In the letter in- self-sacrificing men. Our Sunday- Further, the close of the last century expected and forthcoming from those pass that the Church is bereft of its
troducing me to this Conference, the schools are still maintained in the af- has witnessed a remarkable revol u- that could afford more; but the unit congregation. The neighborhood in
from 500,000 members to
1,500,000, * in addition to
ing a Church on its
and starting them with
5,
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OFFICIAL ORGAN HE FIVE TEXAS ANNUAL CONFERENCES OF THE MRITHODISTAPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH.
o Dallas, Texas, Thursday, May 22, 1902.
years. The Church Extension is going the whole Church, and confirmed their
on apace, both in replacing old struc- faith in the continued power of the
tures by handsome and commodious Gospel. just now the opponents of Christian-
buildings, in providing for the spirit- But the terms of my commission ity are looking to us once again to
ual needs of the overgrowing popula- bid me particularly refer to the recent see if we have any Gospel for the
tion of our laige towns. No less than great effort of our Church called the people. They are not Christians, they
five million pounds’ worth of Church Twentieth Century Fund, and to that do not pretend to be, but there is at
piopeity is now being erected. Scat- peihaps still more remarkable devel- the present time a disposition to rec-
patronymic. However as the proverb tered through nearly all the villages of opment of its activity, known as the ognize that much more can be said
goes “If you cannot ’ have a silver England are our preaching houses, Forward Movement in eur large cit- for the evidences of Christianity than
trumpet, you must put up with a ram’s many 1 them pieces of architectural ies. The two are more closely related its opponents have been willing to
horn ” But since my arrival here I have ski ’ others plain and unpretentious; than at first sight appears. Both find admit. And in the face of the social
received such universal kindness that but whether the one or the other, these their origin, necessity and justifica- problems of to-day their attitude is -L-- mA .... „ .
t 6 T • . f • ...... , humble village sanctuaries are the tion in the clamant call made upon 1i, that of the Jews of old to St ames, and that of wife and
~ mighttrustuimplicitly.to meeting places OI the saints, and in our Churches by thesociai and relig- Paul “If you have any Mrg to say every member of their household.
• assured sympathy of this Conference, many cases the only witness of angeli- ious conditions of the age in which Lat' “Yu sayem„thi8 to poor ^ry girls, earning misera-
Well, sir, I bring to you heart mes- cal truths which the villages possess, we live. Nothing could be further NT . ‘ 2 . n ble Pittances, have gone without what
sages of good will and affection from and they are really the bulwarks of from the truth than to suppose that , MoW, sr, sueh a crisis as this cas would seem to us the necessities of
your brethren across the sea. If, for a civil and religious liberty. It is of the Twentieth Century Fund was sim- continued acuion on 11 part o life inorder to make their contributions,
moment, I might venture beyond my these village Churches that I think ply the happy inspiration of a fertile our Church and we should be untrue On the other hand, some of the
commimssion and speak of the feel- when we sing, as in our own country imagination; that it would be a good ou traditions, and unworthy the wealthy have given princely donations,
wings toward you of the English nation we so often do: way to turn the sentiment associated name we bear were we to falter for Nothing in the history of modern Meth-
with the commencement 0 the cen- a moment 111 the strongest attack odism has so stirred the attention of
“These assemblies of His Grace, . . om , that we can make at this juncture. .the press The idea that wp n1
0, 1, tury to profitable account. Men don’t „ i . . e PesS -ne 1dea that We should
Honoi of our native place ,m s-deniaj Our Forward Movement in the large ever complete raising one million
And bulwark of our land.’’ P centers of population is our advance guineas took their breath a wav An
selves to gratify mere sentiment or 1 . , r, „ 1 ., „ . guineas ook their breath away. All
Our ordained ministry is nobly sup- yet vanity. For years our Church has caimed -he Twentieth Century through our efforts they have looked
plemented by our great order of lay felt the necessity' for a great advance Eund is to 8ive us better equipment on sympathetically, and have aided not
“foreigner.” I felt that .courtesy de- (or, as we call them, local) preachers, all along the line. We can not resist Ior an advance all along the line. a little by their comments. We have
manded that I should instantly stop Some of the most prominent members the conviction that we have come to
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