General Conference Daily Bulletin
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issued: 2016-05-24
issued: 1910-08-26
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note: (Seneral Conference H)atl£ JSnllettn Devoted Specially to the Proceedings of the General Conference Session of the Methodist Church Vol. I. No. 11 VICTORIA, B. C, AUGUST 26, 1910 SI an KII'IION PRICf-50 cent, lor Ihe I ixnfilrlr jrriri ri <rnlj per copy. GREAT DEBATE ON CHURCH UNION REPORT ON CHURCH UNION No session of the Conference has aroused such deep interest as that of Thursday evening when the question of Church Union was discussed. The gallery of the Church was tilled to the utmost with visitors and a large number of such was also in the body of the Church. After the reading of the minutes the election of the members of the Missionary Hoard was first proceeded with. The report on Union was then introduced by Chancellor Bur wash. "1 have come to the conclusion," he said, "that so far as we have gone has brought us to the point where I can sec the hand of God in it. Some of us can remember when the churches here named stood far apart. In the 50's came great revivals that brought our evangelical churches together. Then came a call to prayer from our mission fields that the first week of the new year be a week of prayer for our mission work. These in- lluences had far-reaching results. Union in the Presbyterian Church and in the Methodist Church followed. We in Canada have had peculiar influences which have put us to the front in this forward movement. The federation of the Universities in Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg brought us together as nowhere else in Christendom. Then, too, we in Canada are laying the foundation and building the superstructure of a new nation. In no other part of the world is this true to the same extent. You who followed the Edinburgh Convention will have been led to feel that Union is necessary if this world is to be evangelized. Our emulation seen in competition may have selfishness and spiritual pride behind it, but the spirit of unity is the mind of our Master and appeals to us all. In every meeting of the Joint Cotn- mittce this sp…
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