@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "2bbae84c-b86d-467e-b627-a3861645fda0"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:issued "2016-05-24"@en, "1910-08-24"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/gcdb/items/1.0309886/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ (Seneral Conference S)ail$ bulletin Devoted Specially to the Proceedings of the General Conference Session of the Methodist Church Vol. I. No. 9 VICTORIA, B. C, AUGUST 24, 1910 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE—50 cents (or the complete series. 5 cents per copy- TWO GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS DR. CARMAN, RE-ELECTED-DR. CHOWN, CHOSEN BY LARGE VOTE The elections for the two (ieneral Superintendents took place in this morning's session and was an event of intense interest. The counting of the ballots was relegated to a Committee of Scrutineers. The first report of the Scrutineers came in and resulted as follows: Dr. Carman, 173; Dr. Chown, 67; Dr. Rose, 19. Dr. Carman being the choice for the eighth year term, received a round of applause and thus addressed the Conference : "Dear Brethren in the Lord,—1 am overwhelmed with amazement at this expression of the Conference. 1 have looked forward to this with faith in God. 1 had a calm mind before I came to accept in the light of heaven the decision of this ('(inference. I know my advanced years, the brethren knew it, but my mind was calm, my faith clear, my trust firm in God. I cannot explain your expression. I can but accept it and go forward—I can do nothing else. Let God give me one year, five or ten. I go on firmly with a disposition for continued service. Accept my humble thanks and let us give thanks to God. I have been your servant cheerful and I trust faithful for the years and your servant I hope to abide." Several brethren received one vote each, but a pathetic note was sounded from Dr. Griffin who, with shaking voice, cried: "Didn't I get one?" Methodism's Grand Old Man Re-elected General Superintendent The second report of the Scrutineers on election announced 298 ballots, of which 217 went to Dr. S. D. Chown and he became the General Superintendent of the Church for four years. Dr. Chown was then called to the platform and he thus addressed the Conference: "The thirty-six years I have been going in and out fulfilling the functions of my ministry. I have received great kindness from you. You have done me today great honour, but you have torn from me the child of my heart. I would have been abundantly satisfied had you left me where you put me eight years ago. I'll do the best I can. T must accept this decisive vote as the will of God and ask that the General Superintendent lead us in prayer on my behalf." After prayer the Conference sang the Doxology and Dr. Chown took his seat on the platform, thus inaugurating a new era in the history of the Church. The time when Dr. Chown should enter upon the duties of his office was referred to the Committee. The discussion on Conference Boundaries was then resumed. Rev. F.msley thought to divide Toronto would strengthen Toronto, and he thought the Committee would do well to reconsider the whole case. Dr. Burns thought a Royal Commission should be appointed to report at the next Conference. Fraternal Address of Ministerial Delegate to General Conference of the Canadian Methodist Church. Last night's session of the Conference was given up lo the reception of Fraternal Delegates from the .Methodist Episcopal Church, Dr. Freeman D. Bovard, and Hon. R. A. Booth. Both gentlemen gave able addresses, expressive of the love and fellowship felt by their bodies for Canadian .Methodism. We hope to give, later, an extensive report of Mr. Booth's message. Dr. Bovard spoke as follows: Dear Fathers and Brethren: My credentials have already announced to you the nature of my mission. I esteem it a great honour and a delightful service to convey to the General Conference of the Canadian Methodist Church the fraternal greetings of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The security of the Church is love. Nothing can ultimately prevail against love. Love unfulfilled is sentiment. Love is fulfilled by expressing itself in words and deeds. The personal relation of each individual to our Lord Jesus Christ determines our relationship to each other. If we are vitally and consciously related to Him we are vitally, consciously and fraternally- related to each other. It is no fault of his that all the Christian world is not of one denomination, one organization. It is the fault of human nature. The variety of temperament, the degrees of receptivity and susceptibility, the intensity of feeling, the different metaphysical and philosophical perspectives give rise to denominational life, denominational activity. Religion is not alone in these divisive limitations. There is very little axiomatic truth in the world. The mathematician has found about a dozen principles which he is able to state in such a manner as to exclude the problematical elements and command the consent of all mankind. Nearly all truth is dimly and partly seen. The great body of religious truth is not seen but felt. The far greater part of religion lies within the realm of the problematical. Love is one in all ages and among all people. Every universal or primary principle carries with it the possibility and potentiality of variety. The law of growth is one, but the results of that law present a world of variety. Love is primary and fundamental, but it brings forth a forest of metaphysics and philosophies, theories and theologies. In love we are one, in expression we are denominations. The denomination is not an end but a temporary convenience, an expedient toward an end.—a consummation toward which the Christian system is gradually and surely working. It was Daubigne who said, early in the nineteenth century, that as the sixteenth century had been one of great separation, the nineteenth would be one of great unity. Canadian Methodism has furnished the largest and most conspicuous concrete example of organic church union. Your leaders were wise enough not to force a mere mechanical union destroying the life, the spontaneous activity of Methodism, vainly imagining that Christian union meant external unity. -Canadian Methodism has furnished the largest and most conspicuous concrete example of organic church union. Your leaders were wise enough not to force a mere mechanical union destroying the life, the spontaneous activity of Methodism, vainly imagining that Christian union meant external unity, a mere articulation of mechanical parts. With infinite patience they watched the development of the principle of life. They removed the difficulties, reduced the differences, emphasized the things hel«1 in common until the law of life by its own inscrutable chemistry transformed your five Canadian Methodisms into one living, growing, aggressive, harmonious organ- Rev. S. D. Chown, D.D. The New General Superintendent ization. It was Dr. Nelles, one of Canada's noble men, who said Canadian Methodism in five great columns accomplished more in the early pioneer days than it could have done in one column. Union was the result of the widening success of these five great columns of energetic evangelization. Christian Union is not the result of Ecclesiastical manipulation. Jt is not made. It is planted, cultivated and it grows. We discover it. The deeper and more primary principles of Church life are spiritual and invisible. The value of the invisible is in its power to rise out of the realm of idealism into the actual and express itself in actuality in a rer.l world. A spiritual union is not complete in itself. The motion and activity of all invisible and spiritual laws are toward concreteness. Any theory or impulse which fails to invest itself in some way in the concrete terms of life is not worth harboring. The mighty men whom God used to unite Canadian Methodism watched with patient care the motions and intentions of the spiritual and invisible law. In California we have a botanical wizard who unites plants and flowers and fruits with astonishing success. It is said that Mr. Burhank will lie down in his experimental garden and watch, day and night, the tiny intentions of the invisible law of growth. His meals are brought to him and hour after hour he administers soil and water and heat until he fairly coaxes and teases nature into doing what be wants done. The wild laws of nature, when left to themselves, will ravel out the highest and best efforts of the agriculturalist. The rose will return to the thorn bush. These laws seem to kimw Mr. Burbank's voice. They will do almost anything his patient genius asks of them. It seems to me that in some such way the leaders of Canadian Methodism focalized the laws of friendship and good feeling until a union at the root of Canadian .Methodism took place. The Methodist Episcopal Church rejoices with you in that great, imperial feeling, that sense of inner strength, that broad organic Dominion-wide sense of strength and adequacy arising from the Union of Canadian Methodism. If you are able to unite with the Presbyterian and Congregational denominations and fuse them into Methodism and fuse Methodism into them by a process so delicate and so subtle as not to injure their efficiency, the Methodist Episcopal Church will rejoice with you. The genial Canadian climate, instead of being the frost\\ breath of a glacier, is apparently becoming a rival of California as a health resort. At any rate, it is apparently far more favorable for Church Union than the climate o ft lie United States. There is no doubt but that we are living in a time of large Catholicity. In spite of these reactions against organic union 1'rotestantism in the Unite;! States and Canada is coming into deep, substantial and enduring unity. It was in 1905 that the Church Federation Council was formed. Its meaning has not yet dawned on the world. The object of this Council is stated as follows : "To express the fellowship and Catholic Unity of the Christian Churches, to bring the Christian bodies into harmonious service for Christ and the world, and to secure a larger combined influence for the Churches in all matters affecting the moral and physical condition of the It may be some time before this Federation will eliminate the denominational organization. It may be some time before it should eliminate the denomination. That consummation doubtless lies within the horizon of its purpose and will require much preliminary work. God may be trusted to bring that day in when we are prepared for it. It is certainly wise to do the things nearest at hand. (Rev. Freeman D. Bovard, D.D.) (Fraternal Delegate from M. E. ChurclO This new impulse of Catholicity, this mighty Union of Protestants has mingled the life currents of the denominations. A new third something has come into the Christian System by this affiliation of the denominations. No adequate definition of this new power has yet been suggested. We temporarily call it the power of federation, but is more than federation. We call it the Fraternal spirit. It is federation, it is fraternity, it is Christian Unity, but it is in essence the power of the Spirit of God. The individual believer cannot realize himself in any adequate measure except in terms of Catholicity. The citizen is essentially a part of the State. The neighbor is a part of the community. Individuality and Catholicity- combine in Christian Unity. The acts and deeds of the Church orig'nate in the individual, but they terminate and have their final cause and fruitage in Catholicity. If we fail to emphasize the importance of the individual our organic church life will be void of strong leadership and strong personalities. (To be continued.) 1 • I I 1 GENERAL CONFERENCE DAILY BULLETIN General Conference DaU$ Bulletin Devoted specially to the Proceedings of the General Conference of The Methodist Church, August, 1910. JOHN P. HICKS Editor CURRENT COMMENTS Senator Booth of Portland, Oregon, was introduced to the Conference, but like Dr. Griffin, he was of a retiring disposition and preferred not to speak. Reports of Committees were the order of the afternoon session and nearly every Committee was prepared to give a partial report. Dr. Sprague asked as a privilege to be allowed to speak on the Camp- belitown disaster and to make a personal canvass for relief funds. Dr. Sprague read a circular that had been sent to the ministers in New I'runswick appealing for help. Nearly every member of the Methodist Church living in Campbelltown were burned out, losing everything. The Church and parsonage were also burned. Dr. Sprague added: "Some years ago I appealed to the British Conference for help for sufferers in a lire in St. John, N. B., and my appeal was heard. Now I stand here to appeal for a Church in this Canadian Conference. The people for whom I appeal are worthy of your support. They were a self-supporting cause before the fire, but they have lost everything and for them I ask your help." JESUS OUR REDEEMER (Rev. J. Calvert, B.D.) Jesus, Thou art our Redeemer: Thou art Love; and Tenderness: When we sought Thee in contrition When we bowed low, in submission, Thou forgavest; Thou did'st bless. Kneeling low we sought Thee: found Thee; Touched; and were by Thee made whole. Heard the trumpet, sound to service, Heard the spirit's clarion call; Forward march we, one and all. On our way we go rejoicing; Thy true service our might, Shadows weird no more affright us: Midnight clouds no more benight us: Thy dear face is e'er our light. After service, then the dawning Of the morning waited long; When the host of the immortals. Safe within the City portals, Chant Thy Coronation song. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CHURCH UNION Your committee was organized with Rev. Chancellor Burwash as Chairman and Rev. J. W. Cooley as Secretary. (i) Your Committee begs leave to report as follows: There have been referred to this Committee the following documents: i. The report of the Committee on Union appointed by the General Conference of 1906, to act jointly with similar committees appointed by the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches. 2. The documents agreed upon by the Joint Committee and sent down to the said Churches as a proposed basis of Union. 3. The section of the address of the General Superintendent having reference to the subject of Church Union. 4. Memorials to the number of 18 from Quarterly Official Boards, District Meetings, Annual Conferences and Laymen's Association of an Annual Conference, which memorials have been carefully analysed, epitomized and classified as to whether "against" or "in favor" of the Basis of Union, showing a large majority of them "in favor." (2) After ample opportunity given for discussion and consideration in the eight sessions of the Committee, which have been held, and fully attended, your Committee submit the following as the expression of its recommendation on the subject: Whereas, the General Conference of 1902 in a carefully formulated deliverance, formally proposed the possibility of organic union of the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches, declaiming itself in favor of as wide a union as practicable aming Evangelical Churches, and that the assimilation of life, method* and polity between these churches and the large measure of spiritual unity already existing, marked them out as a hopeful field for negotiations with such object in view, a copy of which resolution was transmitted to tlic Presbyterian and Congregational Churches. The gracious and Christian response of these Churches to our communication and their appointment of Committees to meet tho Committee on Union of our General Conference, led to the initial conference in 1904. The Joint Committee subsequently greatly enlarged, entered on the work of seeking to constrticc a Uasis of Union. The work of the Committee, incomplete in 1906, was commended by the General Conference ot that year (1906), the Committee of Union negotiations continued and now presents to this General Conference a series of documents on which the Joint Committee, with remarkable unanimity has agreed as a Basis of Union to be submitted to the Churches represented in the Community. Your Committee recommend that the General Conference declare its aproval of these documents agreed upon by the Joint Committee as a basis upon which the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches may unite. 3. That wc recommend the General Conference to send the documents of the Basis of Union agreed upon by the Joint Committee, to the District Meetings for consideration, and the Annual Conference of 1911, for consideration, and adoption or rejection, the Conference to report their decisions and votes thereon,' with any additional information deemed desirable by them, to the General Conference Special Committee, immediately after the close of the Conference of 1911. Also that the General Conference authorize the General Conference Special Committ<'e; after the reports of decisions and votes have been received from the Annual Conferences, if the reports from the Annual Conferences warrant such action, further to send the doeuments of the Basis of Union lo the Quarterly Official Hoards and also to the membership of the Church for consideration and adoption or rejection, during the years 1911-12, the results of the decisions and votes of Quarterly Official Boards and of the membership to be reported in 1912 and transmitted through the District Meetings and Annual Conferences of 1912 to the General Conference Special Committee, which shall further be autho-ized, if the tabulated results of all the voting of Annual Conferences, Quarterly Official Boards, and membership of the Church, seem in the judgment of the General Conference Special Committee to warrant further action, in its discretion to call a special meeting of the General Conference further to consider the matter ot consummating the proposed union. 4. Memorial of Alberta Conference re Union with the Evangelical Association. Your Committee make the following recommendation: Whereas it is desirable, especially in the newer districts, where population is very scattered, to conserve all Christian forces as much as possible; and whereas in many portions of our country, there is much overlapping on the Dart of our work and that of the Evangelical Association; and whereas the Evangelical Association in doctrine and policy is in substantial agreement with the Methodist Church, therefore we recommend thai the General Conference declare itself in favour of approaching the said body with a view to organize Union, and hereby authorize our General Superintendent to open negotiations with the said Evangelical Association, with such object when in the opinion of the General Conference Special Committee the time seems opportune so to do. N. BURWASH, D.D., Chairman. JNO. N. COOLEY, Secretary. Victoria, Aug. 22, 1910. REPORT ON SUPERINTENDENCY This Report was brought in by Dr. Ross and the Conference was addressed on the subject by J. A. M. Aikens, K. C. His argument was the the rapid development especially in the West, made it impossible for one man to properly care for the Church throughout Canada. There are people coming into the West who know nothing with Eastern Canada and we want the West so well supervised that it shall keep in close touch with the East. Dr. Manning.—This measure asking for three General Superintendents is presented in a very crude form. Mr. Aikens has said there are great problems but he has shown special attention. What is there that needs supervision, what is there that needs supervision that is not supervised? The demands are so quick in coming upon us that any organization we make will not keep pace with them. I want to say that the General Superintendents have fulfilled the demands of our Discipline. Have they aroused young men to enter the pastorate, initiatel the great educational institutions, launched the great missionary campaign. No! And why not? Because that is not his work. We have not intended that wc have shorn our Superintendent of power. We do not want more officers. Is our educational work suffering. Is our missionary work suffering? The strength of our Church lies in our pastorate. The advance in our work is not due to the fact that we have made Connexional officers. Dr. Antliffe—He gave the Conference a recital of ancient history but his arguments were not in evidence except that he felt that we needed another superintendent who might act as an advisor to the pastors of our Church. He would have one reside in Toronto and one in Winnipeg. J. Gibson—I wonder why we are here. Why have we crossed this continent? Why have we incurred this expense unless by so doing we confer some benefit on this West. You've had an exhibition in this city in the last few days. Do you pretend to tell me that I cannot select a man from this august body fitted to lead this great Church victory. 1 came here on an Ai system of railway (no political significance in that) across a continent that will one day be the centre of the great British empire. And yet one speaker says there is nothing for a General Superintendent to do. There is Ontario, the biggest and richest province of this Dominion. (Cries of "No"!) Look here, ;you fellows in the West are big I know. You'll be bigger I know, but your Dad still holds down the job and you children ought to behave yourselves. May God Almighty give some of you men a vision—a vision of a great Empire and let us build up that great Empire and another as well, the Empire of the Lord Jesus Christ. W. J. Smith—The General Superintendent has been too greatly loaded with official duties and his ability to travel throughout the Connexion has been taken away. G. J. Bond—I am quite sure wc need more generals and not so many colonels. There is an East as well as a West. It is small compared to the West, but some of us love it nevertheless. We don't grow much wheat, but we grow College Professors, Teachers and Journalists. This Canada of ours divides itself naturally into the East and West and Centre. Shall the Church be less united if the West be supervised and the East have due regard? By the limitations of humanity the General Superintendent cannot be ubiquitous. Put one in East, one in the West, and one in the Centre and you have a trinity of power. This is a strategic thing in our Church. We need more supervision in the extremes of our work. R. N. Burns—The problems of our Church are not being solved outside of but within the departments of our Church now existing and unless we change our policy these problems are not to be solved by the increase of General Superintendents, We have enough Superintendency now in the West especially. With our Senior Superintendent and our Local Superintendents in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Dr. Ryckman—This is not a new question. We have had this proposal before and it was always voted down. The reason this was voted down before was because it savoured too much of the Episcopacy. I think that one General Superintendent is all our present polity requires. The General Superintendent has done all that this Church has ever mapped out for him. For power influence, I'll place our General Superintendent alongside the Premier of Canada. His work has been immeasurable. He has inspired our General Conferences. If you propose to enlarge the scope of the General Su- (Contimted on Page 7) Bank of Montreal Chambers, Victoria, B.C., Aug. 24, 1910. To the Delegates and Friends, Methodist Conference, 1910. Gentlemen: RE OURSELVES The Island Investment Company, Limited, was organized principally for the purpose of assisting in the development of Victoria City and the vast resources of Vancouver Island as well as points on the Mainland. During the last six months the Company has shown very marked increase as regards Capital, Earnings and Assets, which are as follows:— Subscribed Capital (approximate) $200,000.00, an increase of $75,000.00. Assets are now over the quarter million mark, an increase of nearly $100,000.00. The Company has been most successful and has paid its shareholders large dividends from the date of its inception; in fact the Company has been such a good dividend payer that old shareholders have been steadily increasing their holdings. The Capital is nearly all local and amongst the shareholders are many prominent business men of this city Our Directors have been required to purchase $5,00^ worth of stock in order to qualify them for the position. The foregoing facts should be a .guarantee of the progressiveness of the Company. We have for sale some of the best dividend- paying stocks offered in the Province with the best of security. We also have Victoria City residential and business lots for sale, Vancouver City lots which are handled through our Vancouver Branch, 431 Homer Street. We also have Timber lands, farms in the Bulkley Valley along the line of the Grand Trunk Pacific ranging from half a mile to three and one-half miles from the main line of the Railway, which we can dispose of in quarter sections, up to 8,000 acres in a single tract. Owing to the great possibilities of this valley from a mineral and agricultural standpoint we cannot too highly recommend an investigation into these lands, further particulars of which will be given in later issues of this paper. There is one thing which we would request of you and it is that you make a thorough investigation as to the personnel of the management of this Company and satisfy yourselves as to our reliability before making investments elsewhere. We intend that the Island Development Company, Limited, shall always maintain clean business principles. We aim at making the Company a medium through which a large amount of Eastern and Foreign capital may be safely invested in Vancouver Island and Mainland. There is one thing that the management of the Island Investment Company, Limited, are convinced of, and that is that it has in it the making of one of the most promising Financial Institutions in Western Canada. We refer you to the Merchants Bank of Canada. Yours faithfully, ISLAND INVESTMENT COMPANY, (Limited) D. C. DEID, President. GENERAL CONFERENCE DAILY BULLETIN Keep Dp with tbe ieneral Conference Business ■ in appointed once to die. To him almost the full measure of a man's life was granted. He was permitted to pass three score years and ten and was granted a course and a task that the greatest might envy. What more could we ask or desire than that he should have leave to depart, having finished the work that was given him to do. But with the death of this man I feel we have reached the close of one generation and the beginning of another. We have reached one of those ridges that part the past from the future. The height of land from which henceforth the streams must flow in another direction, taking their rise from another range. On such an eminence we stand today. Without the tried and trusted leaders of the past we must move forward. John Potts iV dead, hut though dead he yet speaks to us by tenderness of memory and strength of example. John Potts is dead, hut though dead he yet speaks to us the strong impassioned words, "Stand fast in the faith." Stand fast in the faith of God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son to die for it. Stand fast in the faith of God so loved His Son that he has given Him this world. Stand fast in the faith that as surely as one promise- has been fulfilled, the other shall also he accomplished. O! what a hell this world has been. Let us stand fast in the faith that this earth, so long rolling in misery and pain, shall yet surprise the listening spheres by chanting the glad song. "Sing, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath done it. Shout ye lower parts of the earth. Break ofrth into singing, O forest, and every tree therein, for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob and glorified himself in Israel." If anything can heighten the joys of our departed leaders it is to know that the younger and stronger spirits will take up the lamp of life as it falls from their hands, as in .the old lamp-bearing race of Greece, and carry it forward. The lamp has fallen from his hands. Let us carry it with swifter and steadier steps to the goal. We are getting on. We are to have two General Superintendents—three are too many—and this of course argues twofold efficiency or not, as the r.i.i may be, because if arithmetical progression were convertible into terms of moral equivalency, the more the better—and then you should have three or more in increasing scries of increasing effectiveness! Geography, it seems, is here to stay. For in committees geography was a troublesome thing. What are you to do when you have to bring in names, and yet don't know even the man that sits beside you? Clearly you must split up into conferential— and confidential—groups of twos and threes and presume that collective wisdom resides therein. Their re- . spective recommendations, conference by conference, of sundry representatives to sundry hoards throughout the connexion can then in due form be accepted by the groups in toto—to wit, the committee—and by them passed on to General Conference; and then collective wisdom, sitting as a General Conference, will adopt with all complacency the recommendations of the two and threes. And so we get on, with our arithmetical progressism, with or without convertibility into moral equivalency. The men from a neighboring dominion brought us strange tidings. Cleric and layman preached alike to astonished ears the new doctrine of applied Christianity. It appears that according to these gentlemen you have lo adjust both your ideas and your methods from time to time, from age to age; and they both of them stuck to it that Christianity was adaptable and invincible. It transpired that a prime obligation of the church was to put itself behind the big social movement going on everywhere, which insists on the inalienable right of the toilers of earth to social betterment and opportunity for mental achievement. In short, it was held that brotherhood was Christianity. Further, it seems that even theology must change with the changing thought of God, and that it were better to insist on just relations between man and man than piously acquiesce in the existing order in the hope that things may be remedied in another world. The fathers listened with becoming gravity. For this was something new all round—new economics, new sociology, new theology, new everything, as new as the new commandment. REPORT OF COMMISSION ON GENERAL RULES, ETC. Paragraph 35 of the Discipline reads: "Note.—The General Rules are to be understood as forbidding neglect of duties of any kind, inprudent conduct, indulging in sinful tempers and words, the buying, selling or using of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, dancing, playing games of chance, encouraging lotteries, attending theatres, horse-races, circuses, dancing parties, patronizing dancing- schools, taking such other amusements as are obviously of a misleading or questionable moral tendency, and all acts of disobedience to the order and Discipline of the Church." We recommend that the following be substituted therefor: "Par. 35. Note.—Mr. Weslcy.fram- ed these rules with no thought of legalism after the manner of the Ceremonial requirements of the Jewish economy and with no idea that their outward observance would satisfy the claims of the Christian religion. His aim was personal holiness and spiritual power. These Rules in his conception of them, were not in any wise a human code to be imposed arbitrarily on the Societies, but as they were drawn from the text and essence of the Holy Scriptures they were regarded by him as an indication of the godly life the Methodist people ought to live. He did not attempt to enumerate all the sins to be avoided, nor all the duties to be performed, but to give a summary which under the appellation of "General Rules" should be of great value to every honest seeker of salvation. Prominent in the design of Mr. Wesley was the guarding of inexperienced converts against the evil influence of worldliness and dissipating amusements, which are quite as dangerous in our day as in his. "The observance of these Rules, their Prohibitions and Injunctions, he deemed to be essential both as evidence of spiritual life and for the administration of Discipline." 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Campbell's Campbell's special $4.25 special $1.50 '6* GENERAL CONFERENCE DAILY BULLETIN General Conference Proceedings Transcript of Minutes (Continued from last Issue) His widow and family have the deepest sympathy of the Conference, and it is hereby directed that a copy of this Resolution be properly endorsed and forwarded to Mrs. Sutherland. On a rising vote the report was adopted. Rev. J. H. Hazelwood, D.D., gave the last message to the Conference from the late Rev. George Young, D.D. Business Committee Report No. 6 read and adopted. Your Committee recommends: 1. That the order for Thursday evening after reading the minutes be the reception of the report of the Committee on Church Union. 2. That the time for election of delegates to the Ecumenical Conference be held immediately after the election of the Connexional officers A Memorial from Rev. J. J. Red- ditt, re verbal changes in the Discipline, was referred to the Deaconess Committee. A Memorial re Indians at h'airs, referred to Committee on Temperance and Moral Reform. Announcements were made and Conference adjourned at 9.45 p.m., with benediction by Rev. T. J. Man- sell. NINTH DAY—ELEVENTH SESSION. Tuesday, August 23rd, 1910. Conference resumed its work at 2:30 p. m. The General Superintendent, Rev. A. Carman D.D., in the Chair. Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. W. H. Dotchon of Newfoundland Conference. The Minutes of the Tenth Session were read and confirmed. The Roll was called, 159 Ministers, Ig4 Laymen, total 313, responded to their names. Hon. R. A. Booth, Fraternal Delegate from Episcopal Methodist Church, was introduced to the Conference by Rev. J. C. Antliffc, D.D. A communication from F. O. Clarke, Secretary of the Government of British Columbia, re Souvenir for distribution, was referred to Business Committee. A communication from the Secretary of the Canadian Club re Luncheon on" Wednesday, was read for information. Rev. D. W. Snider moved the transfer of a Memorial on Missionary Languages from Committee on Discipline No. II, to Committee on Course of Duty. Rev. H. Sprague, D.D., President of the New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Conference, asked that a time be appointed in which he might make statement re the disaster at Campbellton, New Brunswick. On motion it was ordered that Rev. H. Sprague, D.D., he heard at once. Dr. Sprague addressed the Conference. Moved by Rev. W. S. Griffin, D.D. Seconded by Rev. T. E. Bartley. That the amount of $2,000 in The Union Church Relief be given in aid of the Methodist Cuurch at Campbellton. On Motion the matter was referred to the Special Committee on Union Church Relief Fund. Committees were reported ready, as follows: Special Committee on Union Church Relief. Sabbath Observance. Course of Study. Evangelism. State of the Work. Church and Parsonage Aid. General Conference Fund and Finance. General Superintendency. Rev. J. S. Ross, D.D., presented Report of the Committee on General Superintendency. On Motion the Report was received and taken up item by item. Item 1. That thre General Superintendents be elected. It was moved to adopt. Moved in amendment by Dr. Ant- liffe. Seconded by W. J. Smith. That the first item of the report be amended to read that we appoint two General Superintendents. After lengthy discussion it was moved by Rev. D. C. Cummings that the vote be now taken. Carried. The motion to adopt Item 1 was put and lost. The amendment for two General Superintendents was carried. Item 2 was read on Motion of Rev. K. X. Burns, D.D., and the Report was referred back to reconstruct and report to Conference before the order of the day to-morrow morning. Moved by Chancellor Burwash. Seconded by Rev. J. W. Cooley. That the Report of the Committee on Church Union be printed and distributed to the members of Conference to-morrow. Carried. Rev. T. A. Moore, D.D., presented Report of meeting of Delegates from Western Conferences re Superannuation Fund. Rev. W. S. Griffin, D.D., was elect- ed Ministerial Treasurer and E. Gur- ney, Esq., Lay Treasurer. Moved by A. N. Sanford. Seconded by R. N. Powell. That a special offering be taken to-morrow morning at eleven o clock in aid of the rebuilding funds of Churches at Campbellton, New Brunswick and Phoenix, British Columbia, two-thirds of the offering to go to the Campbellton Church, and one- third to the Church at Phoenix. Referred on motion to the Special Committee on Union Church Relief Fund. On motion of Prof. Allen it was ordered that the report of the committee on Education be printed before presentation to Conference. Report of the Business Commiltec was presented by Rev. A. E. Roberts that Rev. W. A. Brecken be given an opportunity to s;,y larewell to C.-.n- ference at 3:30 o'clock on Wednesday, and Rev. Henry Haigh o't Thursday at 4 p. m. The souvenir from the Bril^ii Columbia Government ;vill be distributed to the Delegates through their respective Conference Presidents. That the delegation from Local Option League of British Columbia be given 15 minutes on Thursday afternoon after the delegation from the Lord's Day Alliance. That the following brethren be permitted to retire from Conference on the days named, reasons having been given which arc satisfactory to your Committee: Dr. W. S. Galbraith. of Lethbridge, on Wednesday; Wm. Ross. Port Perry, on Thursday, Principal J. M. Palmer, Sackville, on Thursday; J. N. Harvey, St. John, Thursday; Jos. Gibson, Ingersoll. on Saturday; Dr. A. M. Scott. Calgary, to-morrow. Benediction by Rev. A. Stewart, D.D. "THE PASSING OF THE GREAT." (By Exeter Hall.) One of the most solemn occasions following the battle is the "Roll Call," by which pathetic process it is discovered who has fallen in fight; and equally pathetic and solemn is the occasion in the General Conference, when the names of those who have ceased to dwell amid the limitations of this mortality are presented with fitting eulogy and merited respect. In this busy and 'eventful age, it has a gracious influence upon the younger men. It rebukes with silent reproof the restlessness, and even passion for things material which not infrequently disturb the young minister's life in this wonderful period of commercial opportunity. These fallen fathers, how they lived and worked for the Kingdom of God! With what zeal did they prosecute •their business in the service of the Most High! How mighty the pen, how powerfully convincing the message, and how wise the directions! What a legacy they have left the Church and the world, and how enduring this will be! The pathos of the occasion is further enhanced by the fact that we know there are sainted men among us today, whose faces wear the sheen of the City of Light, and who, in the natural order of things, must all too soon whisper their farewell, and enter the Gates of God. It might bn well for those who would lay violent hands upon the ancient landmarks, and who arc anxious to bring the Church into line with modern con ditions, to enquire by what means the Fathers of the Church in days gone by, subdued Kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions Where lay the secret of their great strength, and how were they so honored of God? It might be said without reflection upon these warriors, that they did not attempt so much to expound the philosophy of their day,.or to indulge in a hypcrcriticism of the Canon, as they did to present the simple Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; they had no time to be critical, only time to be practical, and without at all attempting to discount honest inquiry, it may be said that their worth will most favorably compare with that of the most modern scholar in the more modern pulpit to-day. As younger men, we do well to heed their manner of life, their sacrifice and honorable and fruitful career. Wc have greater opportunities, more advanced equipment, and therefore increased responsibilities. It is also true that we have an intellectual front to meet which, to some extent, our fathers had not; but even so, without the simple and unswerving faith in the Christ of God—Divine, and wonderfully able to save—our academics will be as chaff before the wind and our message a.s a tinkling cymbal. The Fathers of the Church have labored, and we have entered into their labors; they are passing hence, and we in turn must at length tread that lonely way. While we have them with us, let us with gladness hear their work of counsel and warring, and by the grace which made them great, strive to become fit to follow them in the greatest of all human effort—the salvation of the race. "TWO OF A KIND." r\\. Rev. Dr. Rose and Rev. Dr. Manse I. SQUIBS Mr. General Superintendent, I rise to a point of order. There is no report before us. The Committee brought in. their report and every clause that followed the first one was dependent upon the first clause and that, if it carried, the rest would be submitted. The first did not carry and so we have nothing before us. Well, brother, replied the General Superintendent, the "if" is before you if nothing else. Mr. Chairman, said Mr. Gibson, someone has referred to me in the course of the debate as a Zacchens who climbed a tree to see a great vision. I would advise the brother not to climb the tree or someone might shoot. Dr. Griffin being elected as the clerical treasurer of the Superannuation Fund, upon acclamation said: I am keeping my speech for Union, when I shall have a few broken remarks to make on Union. I have not much else to say. This office has been getting monotonous and for 18 years I have been in this office. For these years I have had contest and ballot to face, till now at last you say it's no use; no one can touch it; Griffin's the man. 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Some people advocate ■ consumptive be treated in his iime; others think that dispen- dvice, providing when neccs- ents or shacks, is sufficient; .thers look on special hospitals expensive for the results ob- These views arise from two Tin hat onsii' hat t1 wn wry ary. bill 5 t' aim ■' .'hi-1 I. Thcenormity of the problem artd kon«'''|iient impossibility of effecting |he ihsired end. !. The failure to cure a majority of batk'iits and the relapse of many who ueti- thought to be cured. The magnitude of the problem is lertamly appalling, for we know that two "tit of every seven deaths occurring lietwecn the ages of 16 and ^5 Ire due to consumption. The great Civil War in the United States destroyed 650,000 persons in four tear- The cause of this war was lust, hut the destruction of human life is looked on with horror. We snow that 600,000 persons perish from Consumption every four years in the Jniti il States. This, unlike the Civil lYar. is not justified, because it can be prevented. Of course, then, the Jontt mplation of the problem is al- nost paralyzing, but, to meet the lifficulty, we" will look in vain to in- Iction. A policy of drift cannot be permitted in the present stage of progress and knowledge. A- to the question of failure to lure consumptive patients. No doubt, I ten 1 many instances, the unfortunate patient is beyond help; but why? t)ntc consumption gets a strong hold in an enfeebled constitution it is lardy cured. Its progress may be Iheckcd, but the patient need not ex- fecl to be physically reconstructed. ie may be patched, but he can never |e made whole again. It is however, different with a case recognized in its very early stage. If the constitution be good and if what is termed the "resisting power" be high, then the results are most satisfactory and the ICtttal percentage of cures vouched fur by reliable authorities rami as high si 70 and 80 per cent. As to relapses. No doubt, there are many. Why? 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