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Texas CHRISIAN advocate.
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membrance may bring
preacher to
qualities—a
Methodism.
smiles than tears or sighs.
Well, Bro. Advocate, we have, tha
to conference, Bro. Gardner back
if
fires now and then a center shot at
these traveling politicians.
The government is spending lots of
money in an effort to kill all the mos-
BRIEF NOTES.
H. G. H.
Both men and women are traveling
throughout the country asking the use
of our churches in which to advocate
the interests of the Prohibition party
with collections in our churches for
their support. I am glad the Advocate
more happ
live. They
The present drouth is alarming the Church, South, on the basis of the Plan
farmers, merchants, everybody. Really of Separation of 1844, that the Church rested at 15 degrees below zero. Yes-
no rain this winter. And yet stren- would cordially entertain the proposi- terday the snow fell constantly all day,
uous efforts are being made to induce tion." The only reason given by the as it also did the night before, a con-
large immigration to that far-away Northern Church for refusing to re- tinuous snowstorm of twenty-four
arid Brownsville country on the Rio ceive our messenger was that there hours, with the wind blowing sharply tant worK, lor tne stability of any t ________
Grande, where our Church has not were “existing difficulties” between the from the north and the mercury at 0. building depends upon it. The denom- I
been able to do anything for forty- two Churches. Then this conference What do you Texans think of that for ination in Texas is to be congratulated THE MAGICAL ISLE.
five years, and no other Church has proceeded to nullify the Plan of Sep- winter weather? We think it is cold on the auspicious beginning. First, When reading Bro. Yarbrough’
done anything, unless the Mexican. aration, which they had neither moral enough, and are not anxious for any we have an excellent lot, well located letter in one of the December num-
Among the scattered cattle and sheep nor legal right to do. The plea set up more like it. Too cold for a 75-year and paid for through the liberality of hers of the Advocate I dropped
ranches are some people who live and was that the General Conference of old preacher to go away from home in the dean of the faculty. The lot is al- the paper in my lap and took a swift
die. How they get to heaven I do not 1844 had no authority for dividing the search of items for a letter, so I will most central to the city, and in close journey to the magical isle up the
know. Church. This brought about the liti- send you some clippings from late pa- Proximity to the St. Paul’s Sanitarium River of Time. When my dear old
M gation over our vested rights in the pers with some reflections provoked by and two other hospitals where the stu- father was a pioneer in the southwest-
If Joe Webb will engineer some sue- publishing interest. The courts de- the same. The first one was clipped dents can with the least possible ex- ern part of Arkansas and our houses
cessful missions away west and south cided that the General Conference did from the Arkansas Methodist, and is as pense attend the clinics. It is re- were built of hewed’ logs and pun-
of Beeville—not merely suggest them have tne right to divide, and that the follows: moved from business centers, where cheon floors oh but it was a grand
—he may immortalize himself. Here Plan 0 Separation Was le8 al.So.We What We Read. other lots can be purchased at a rea- home, for our King and Queen dwelt
is a pointer from Bishop Hoss: I seeurednisurxshareainfnythetsoproery. “While the people of the United sonahle.pri cefor a great hospital in the rough abode and their Christian
wish it might become an obligation of p“t of the ME Church they could States imagine that in the matter of Which will follow in due course of love and devotion glorified the rough-
honor among our best young preach- ^teSter our territory because of the general education no nation surpasses timeh, ness and the daily life of their chil-
ers to spend some years at least on tne Hochue O territory, Decause 0 the annears that as hook readers Secondly, we have the offer of two dren.
verv hardest of our circuits and mis- difference of opinion on the slavery -nem, it appears tnat as DOOK readers firms to donate lihera1lv in n1-nc K , , . ,
very hardest ° our circuits ana mis question But the they occupy the lowest place among ™ - aonate liberally in plans and Never have birds sung so sweetly or
sions." Hundreds in Texas are doing Huesto4; U as Soon as tne War Christian nations Snain n1y Atcn superintendence of construction of a skies been so blue as when we loitered
it and the Bishon is here now to make closed they began to make strenuous -nristian nations, Spam only except- handsome college building 1,,1 J been so blue as wne,n we loiterea
it, ana tne blsnoP is nere now to m Ke efforts to occupy the South and this ed. An exhibit of the number of auosom C58e building with all under the blooming dogwo'ods, among
more such appointments. they have kept up to this day. This books—that is, of new works, publish- modern, up-to-date lecture rooms, etc., the beautiful ferns that grew in fiot-
••* the Bishop does not deny. Hear him: ed annually by the different nations heeesm,, 4, n . . ous profusion around the never .failing
WHY IS THE M. E. CHURCH IN “While I hold and assert as a fact that for every one million of inhabitants— ‘-541685 1S .-ai equip- spring, inhaling the breeze laden with
-LE goi—g, requires neither apology nor defense has been prepared by Prof. Paul Ottet. Ped Wah urniture, charts, laboratory the perfume of ten thousand flowers,
THE SOUTH? that thhi E Church has a providen- Secretary of the Brussels International and other apparatus necessary in 11- and above all the fragrance of the
In my former article I essayed to tial work in the South, I aim to do my Biographic Institute, which stands as uSmun8 and exemplifying the lee- sweet wild rose. Just for one good,
answer this question in reply to a part of that work in accord with the follows: tures. Besides this the professors, long sniff of the rose of my childhood!
statement made by Bishop Walden growing fact of fraternity.” Please to “Germany, 354; France, 344; Switz- Who are pacticin8, physicians, hav- Not one in after years ceases to re-
while holding the Austin Conference note that the Bishop does not deny erland, 338; Belgium, 337; Italy, 309; 418 "or daily in the various hospl- member, though the-dead and gone
in this city. I also made answer that the M. E. Church is in the South Sweden, 300; Norway, 175; Great Brit- ta.8, are prepared to demonstrate their years lie the thickness of three score
through the Record, published in this in open violation of the Plan of Sep- ain, 85; United States, 81; Spain, 66. tueories in actual practice, and ten yet the magical isle up the
city. To this the Bishop has made re- aration, and that they are seeking to "But the people of the United States fourthly, the college has the utmost River of Time stands clear and fresh
ply, and I ask to present to the read- extend their work in defiance of the are the greatest newspaper readers in 8( od will and confidence of the citi- 'men, mothers and fathers make the
ers of the Advocate the substance of provisions of the Cape May Commis- the world. The number of newspa- zenS who are contributing to the ma- little or big isle so happy that their red
the rejoinder which I prepared for the sion. But he is going to do his work, pers and periodicals published in the ferial advancement of the institution. ' - “
Record. I have for the M. E. Church not as provided by the compact or the United States is 21,000. Germany comes We mention these as some of the fa-
nothing but respect and love. I re- Cape May Commission, but “in accord next with 8049; then France, with vorable conditions of success. They
spect and love good people regardless with the growing fact of fraternity.” 6681; Great Britain, fourth, with 4943. are not all, but they are essential.
of geographical boundaries, and I Then he proceeds to explain how he There are many readers in the United We mention some things that must the Travis Circuit, and hope he il
allow no man to surpass me in Chris- has sought to advance the ends of fra- States, but comparatively few .stu- be done and must be speedily done, remain with us for many years
tian courtesy. So far from being preju- ternity, and how kindly he has acted dents and scholars. Very few even of First, a suitable edifice must be erect- blessings as we had last vear A
diced, if I were to settle North I towards our Church. This is all very the comparatively wealthy have good ed on the lot recently purchased.. No As we are not heard " for A
would not hesitate to join the M. E. well, but it brings no relief to the private libraries.” institution ever prospered without a speaking t wij js, .nin I
Church and identify myself with all situation. He says, “They have a Solomon said: “Ashe (man) think- domicile. The family must be housed; mav make a SA, 1y‘. 1081,4
her interests, and would form associa- providential work to do in the South.” eth in his heart, so is he.” If Solo- the Church must be domiciled. The where there ; a river -411
tions in her Methodist circles, with no I cannot believe that God calls any mon had lived in the twentieth cen- wise and good Bishop Marvin ex- whereof shall make og 411
desire to create new conditions in old man or body of men or compact to go tury of our era he would have added: presses the thought, “All organizations God kt 7Aps8mud H
established Methodist centers, and to any place in violation of solemn "And as a man readeth, so he think- require it as a condition Of perma- •.288228
thereby inject a disturbing element, pledges. On the principle that Abra- eth.” Newspaper readers never think nency and power that they shall ***eed \ "
So I think when Methodist people ham and Lot separated (Gen. 13:1-12) consecutively. Hence never think have domiciles. They must be put Honor is the attribu%
come South they should identify them- so did our fathers in 1844. But, alas! closely nor deeply. Consequently they between four walls and under a roof- and the excuse of themza4218 2828
selves with the Southern Church, and for the glory of God and the good of are not in any proper sense students, they must not lie about loose. They__.4488820222 8822
thus exhibit the spirit of true frater- Methodism, the covenant has been set nor can they ever be scholars. must have headquarters a definite A man , A ’
nity of which the Bishop so ardently aside! The M. E. Church, South, has Lord Bacon said: “Reading makes place, where their business can be to his w fP hv « 885
speaks. This would be fraternity not ever acted in good faith, and has never a ready man; writing makes a correct transacted and their records kept; World_Rames--A8m8d8
MEDICAL COLLEGE can take care of them and want them.
Already pastors are at work and writ-
In two preceding articles, in the ing to us for information, and soon
briefest manner possible, we have the new catalogues will be ready for
sought to acquaint the readers of the distribution, and where they are de-
Advocate with the origin of our Medi- sired we will cheerfully mail them to
R C ARVSTRONq cal €ollege and some of the reasons interested parties. May we not hope
Fort Worth Texas * ' for calling it into existence. It is due for the co-operation of our pastors and
_____ ________ , to those who are interested in the people in this great college enterprise?
growth and extension of our denomi- This is wholly a voluntary matter and
LETTER FROM MISSOURI. national influence that they should be is not to interfere with any conference
This morning, Jan. 26 the mercury made acquainted with what has been assessment, but is commended to the
' - ■ -- - - — done and what is in contemplation. A wise and thoughtful men and women
mere beginning has been made, the in and out of the Church under whose
foundations have been well laid and auspices this college has been project-
foundation work is the most impor- ed. H. A. BOURLAND.
tant work, for the stability of
in name, but in deed and in truth, intruded upon the legitimate territory man; thinking makes a great man.” they must have8 -
\\ hatever may have been the occasion, of the Church North. As to Montana, But it is not the surface thinking of resort, there"a
or the motive prompting the state- it was a vast waste. I am not advised begotten by newspaper reading that point. No busine^l ■ ,
ment 8ishoP Waden did. accuse the as to whether there was a Methodist makes great men, but profound, pro- without a domicift
M. E church. South of violating the Church in all that region when the longed, continued, careful, close think- sheltered
Plan of Separation of 1844, which was Plan of Separation was made in 1844, ing provoked by reading great books, nothing. Every mer2,A82 - '
the cause of the M. E. Church entering and so could not have been included in The other excerpt, which follows, is his store- he cannot 8 E ' -
the Southern territory. This he does it. About 1866 a body of Illinois taken from the St. Louis Christian XXion business wSI
not deny in his rejoinder but begs the ivethodists, who had organized them- Advocate: an office Evert mLou^W '
duestion and then proceeds to make a selves into an Independent Church, ap- “According to the last census re- pave its ball and so of SE
peisonal statement regarding his fra- plied to our Church to be recplved nort +here Sr, 1g 996 nAvsaners nd 1 •e ana so ot OCw
ternal attitide towars nc t d. " mu- ivuuim io De recenved. porb tnere are 18,2-6 newspapers ana temperance organizations lilmeenm
mmcfmn tu t wards us. I do not This was their spontaneous action, and periodicals published in the United cietes everv ogAni-t'.
guesti t1 e Bishop s sincerity or his not secured by aggression, or the out- States, an increase of 22.6 per cent tempts to get orsanization. t"age
fraternal.feelingS. This is not ger- lay of missionary money on our part, from the census of 1890. Of these in the woHd ” arg
quitoes on country ranches in Webb man toth guestion. I rejoice at the The case is quite different with the M. 2226 are dailies, 12 978 weeklies, and Medical education forma no 888
and other counties, and yet when the lastspiri oft 15. fraternity, and can E. Church. They have mapped out the 1817 monthlies. The number of relig- M 4 4 ruIe Th- nssn.6m
spring rains come a million mosquitoes assure. ,8' d Bishop that the Un- South and make large appropriations ious papers is 962. In this class there tont 1 the Methodists of iding.8e
will be hatched out there were ten are known ,(o ,1 +- cor respondent of missionary money to carry on their has been a decrease of 9.8 per cent in f 8 t ret odists of exas
now being killed. stands ready at any time to accord to work among us, right in our best cul- the last decade. The average circu- ormapaqlthe corps of Southte
se th r presentatives of the M. E. tivated fields. They establish a lation of all classes of newspapers and n.U ivers Y. . . "
Old Capt Baker buried near Stock- Church the most cordial Christian Church wherever it is possible for periodicals per issue during the year :T e vork.at.presentis being, c'
dale a few weeks b was said to have greeting on the basis of true Chris- them to do so without regard to our 1900 was 6271 copies, an increase from ried on in a rented building which en
been the last of the’ Mier nrisoners tian fraternity, but self-respect de- ability to occupy the ground. The fact 4640 in 1890.” tails a heavy expense, and is being
One of those o?d trssrs PrASrs mands reciprocal recognition. The is, the Church South has the ability This gives the number of newspapers met bytthe doctors composing the fac-
Nava^ro wS the first nrS Bishop would dismiss the history to conserve all the people of the South in 1900. The first quotation gives the ulty. These gentlemen give their time
canconverted to spprtmtnentmexl of the past as effete and would con- who have Methodist proclivities. But circulation for 1903. Hence there was without fee or reward, and this draft
Western Texas rotesanusm 1n cern himself with the present rela- our brethren of the North Church have an increase of about 2000 newspapers upon their private means is more than
ion, which is the important relation spent large sums of money and much in three years. But the most alarming they ought to bear or will be able to
0 of these,two great Churches.” Grant- force, down here to little profit, but as fact is that while there was an in- bear for any great length of time. The
E ar up in the beautiful Sabinal can- ed, but the present relation is so I believe, not to do a providential crease of 22 6 per cent of all the papers building in contemplation will cost in
yon rest the remains of old Capt. correlated with the past relation that work, but to the detriment of the yet there was a decrease of 9 8 per the neighborhood of fifty thousand dol-
Ware, San Jacinto veteran; and not it cannot be separated from it, or even Lord’s kingdom. Although Bishop of religious papers. ' lars, which is a small sum if divided
far off live the only two veterans of be understood without a knowledge of Walden stated while here that they The secular press educates men among the members of the Church
the famous-battle now living west of the past relation. The Church South had about 100,000 members in the away from religon away from the throughout Texas and the Indian Mis-
the Guadalupe River, Capt. John Tom is justly pioud of her history, and does South, it is a fact that their English- Church, away from God and heaven, sion Conferences, who are to be bene-
and Benjamin F. Highsmith, not wish to forget it, If I have wrong- speaking white membership is small. Those who read political and commer- fited.
%e . my. brother by appropriating what I doubt if they are numerically as large cial papers, but do not read those of a Dallas will do its part, but cannot
These men are very old. One is S JuS y- h1S, .may not with an indif- in Texas as one of our districts, their religious tone, think more of politics reasonably be expected to meet the
blind, and the other nearly deaf. High- erent air.say to him, “Let’s forget the colored and German conferences ex- and secular business than of religion, large expense of erecting and equip-
smith went into the Alamo with Travis past and De brotherly,’ and the mean- cepted. Our Church organized the col- more of the State than of the Church, ping the building. The Methodists in
and Bowie. Travis sent him out for ume “sregard his claims. No, I must ored members into a separate Church, enthrone political and financial sue- Dallas are putting into Church enter-
reinforcements, and the Alamo fell be- make 1 he amende honorable; I must The M. E. Church, on the other hand, cess above God and worship Mammon, prises a large amount of money and
' fore help could reach them. The let- carry out the Christ spirit by restoring holds on to the colored members, so What we think about we read, and as are’willing to do their utmost in this
ter written by Travis is now in the t nimwhat.s justly his own If the when they speak of 100,000 members we read we think, and as we think we enterprise. If each congregation would
State Library room at Austin, M E.‛church WO uld. foster t he spirit in the South let it be remembered that are. average ten dollars the happy con-
ae . true raternity, then indeed, as 1 a large portion of these are colored The worst “mired wheel” in Metho- summation would be realized. But the
T . — . . ,, . ,, .. sincerely,be ieve, they should leave people Let no one think for one mo- dism to-day is the one that circulates stronger congregations will have to
. In reading Notes from the Field” it the Southern Church undisturbed to ment that the M. E. Church, South, religious literature. Or the wheel that help the weaker ones We feel we can
is pleasing . to find that so many occupy the territory set apart to her has been indifferent to the negroes. In did so in the days of the fathers. The ask the co-operation ‘of our neonle in
preachers discover such numbers of in the Plan of Separation of 1844. This 1860 there were 207,000 colored mem- hub of this wheel was the “circuit this undertaking because unlike the
charming people on their new works- would remove all ground of friction bers upon the register of our Church, rider’s” saddle-bag, a pair of which literary schools of the niversiv"
and the people are there, sure as you between these two great Churches. The and at the close of the Civil War we this old preacher has not seen since will be self-sustaining when Xp t
simply needed a new Bishop says: “Building altar against had 300 missionaries preaching the gos- he sold his to a young brother pre- has gotten into operation Tuition fees
develop their excellent altar in an objectionable way is about pel to these people. From the organi- paring to “fall into ranks,” will not only meet current exnenTes
really fine feature in the same in Illinois and Montana as in zation of our Church in 1845 to 1864 Mired above the hubs. A teamster but the sumwill -rent, ePensei,
Georgia and Texas.” I suppose that more than $1,800,000 has been expend- is in a bad fix when the hubs of his enlargement S the work for
*e he indicates by this remark that the M- ed in this work. After the close of the wagon wheels are out of sight-under Another thing caiT be done without
A little more about our Mexican E. Church, South, has also infracted war many of these joined colored mud. aAnt) thing Cantbed one without
work would be of interest in the Ad- the compact of 1844. This calls for an Methodist Churches, and yet, when we My theme is prolific, and other jE service it would and. to invalua.
vocate. The West Texas Conference additional historical statement of the set up the colored Methodist Church in thoughts are clamoring for utterance, for t "udprqtocanvasS
was the father of that great mission facts involved. The attitude of the 1870 we started them with 80,000 mem- but as I wish this letter to be read I L o HS;, hoP ’ ho aS
and also of the mission to the Ger- tWo Churches respecting the legitimate bers. I mention these things to show must stop here. ’ Peen, in.+auas • some Weeks,. 1S
mans in Texas. Facts about work be- domain of the other is quite different, that the Southern Church has been w s WOODARD deep-int ste in., he institution
ing done—not prospects. 1 shall, not reiterate anything said in taking care of the colored people as _________r / - ’_______ * ’ ■ and expr essesthe belief by proper ef-
.. my former article, trusting to the well as the white, so that there has ort two hundred students could be
memory of the reader. At the next been no excuse for the Church SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY gathered to the school next fall. We
The great Indian Mission Confer- session of the General Conference of North to enter our domain. These
ence is a sui prise to the Church and a the M. E. Church after 1844, which things have been written because the
revelation to the world. But I remem- was in 1848, Dr. Lovie Pierce present- occasion required it, and that the pub-
her when Bishop Pierce, accompanied ed his credentials as a fraternal mes- lie may have some of the facts of his-
by his nephew, George, traveled in his senger from the M. E. Church, South, tory before them, and in the hope it
buggy through Arkansas, out to In- The conference refused to recognize will ultimate in good
dian Mission Conference, then back him as such. So there was nothing
clear through Texas to Austin, and left for him to do but depart. This he
down to San Antonio, before the days left for him to do but depart, “that if
of railroads. . ever the M. E. Church should make the
offer of fraternal relation to the M. E.
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