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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1903)
Missionary Business of the Methodist Church r ' . - t . h- -v - A a BISHOP M'CABB OF THI5 METHODIST CHURCH. HE business of (he general mis sionary committee of the Meth odist Episcopal church, which meet In Omaha Boon, will con sist practically of the ordinary routine und no matters of unusual Import are to come up for consideration. The meeting will not be devtld of interest and Importance, however, the Indian situation. In particular calling for attention. The Philippine and Porto Rican missions also will be considered more particularly than heretofore. Perhaps not as many of the lights of the Methodist Episcopal church will assemble In Omaha an usually attend the missionary committee's sessions, be cause of the general conference which meets next May In Ioh Angeles. The con ference only holds Its session once In four years and because of Its early approach some bishops will not come to Omaha. The most Important question to be con sidered Is not a new one, but one of yearly Increasing difficulty.. It Is the question of raising more money for the mission work. Imposing as Is the $1, 125,000 which Is yearly subscribed for the work and whlvh' Is annually augmented by thousands In bequests and legacies, yet this sum Is never equal to the swiftly growing de mands upon It. Means by which more money, can be obtained will probably be the principal topic of discussion. , Take the Indian field as an Illustration. In this quarter of the globe conversions have been so rapid that there have not been enough teachers to care for the work. The practice of the church requires that before baptism ft certain amount of in struction, be received. There are now thousands waiting for baptism because they cannot be taught. In this country there are hundreds of students waiting (or a chance to go. Money Is wanted to hasten the work. The situation la not new. Borne lively scenes often accompany the apportionment of funds to the various fields. Each branch of evangelistic work has Its ardent supporters and these are on the floor early and late pleading for their fields. Bishop McCabe, because of his re cent tour,"ls enthusiastic over the field In Bouth America and will doubtless plead the cause of the southern continent. The Island' pof sessions 'of the United Stales offer an Interesting field for Protes tant effort and each year occupy a more prominent pla-e before '' the "missionary committee and cult for more money." Thcro Is an 'unsettled question as to whether they fall unfleV domestic or foreign uila elons. The ' Committee' gives 57i per cent of Its funds to foreign work, and the lea ver half to domestic 'so that this contro versy has a' point. Dr.. Stunts, superin tendent of missions a ' Manila, will not come o Omaha, but will send ft report. Other Information will come from Bishops Warner , and. Thoburn of the Indian and fclelniilln missions. ... , The secretaries furnish reports from the superintendents of the various fields and In addition there are interesting reports from the bishops who, under the mis sionary system, huve nearly all visited Widely In the places of work, those re cently returned having Important Informa tion on the missions. Bishop Hartzell of Africa will not be here this year, but will send an Interesting report. The Bul garian field Is just now of particular in terest. The bishops who will attend this year are: S. M. Merrill of Chicago, E. O. An drews of New York. Cyrus D. Foss of' Philadelphia, John M. Walton of Cln . clnnatl, W. F. Mallalieu of Aubondale, Mass., Charleu H. Fowler of Buffalo, J. M. Fltsgerald of St. Louis, I. W. Joyce of Minneapolis, Charles C. McCabe of Omaha, .Carle Cranston of Portland, Ore., and John W.Hamllton of San Francisco. The gen eral conference district representatives are to be: W. W. Oglere of the east Maine conference, II. A. Munroe of Delaware, O., W. D. Marsh of northern New Tork, R. C. Smith of the Erie conference, J. C. Arbuckle of Ohio, R. H. Robb of Georgia, J. J. Maveety of Michigan, H. G. Jackson of Illinois; N. 12. Slmonsen of the Nor wegian and -Danish conference, G. W. Isham of the Nebraska AVesleyan at Lin coln. II. J. Coker of South Kansas, W. H. Nelson of central Alabama. Henry Lemcke of Chicago and John Parsons of Oregon. Of the officers of the committee, the treasurers, Homer Eaton of New York and H. J. Jennings of Cincinnati, will attend the Omaha meeting. The two secretaries and their assistants, A. B. Ieonard. 11. K. Carroll, W. F. Oldham and J. M. Trim ble will also ha present. Among the noted men of the church press who will attend are C. B. Spencer of the Central Christian Advocate of Kansas City, D. I). Thompson of the Northwestern Christian Advocate and prob ably J. F. Berry of the Epworth Herald of Chicago. Dr. J. M. Buckley of the Christian Advocate has written th-it he will not come to Omaha. One of the most prominent bishops who will attend Is Charles Fowler, who Inst year presided at the Nebraska conferences, being succeeded by Bishop Edward G. And rews, who will - also atend the committee meeting. Bishop Fowler Is regarded by many as the great orator of the Methodist EpIacofMtl church, and his must popular contribution to the session will be no doubt his lecture on Abraham Lincoln, which Is considered to be one of his best effort. Bishop Fowler first came to Nebraska In 1S80, to Nebraska City and preached there, creating a great sensation. .Omaha people are naturally interested In Bishop Charles C. McCabe, because of his episcopal residence In tldtu sity. ..He. was elected to the episcopal office,, In .IMt? and came to Omaha In WOO. Iiljjhop MeCH.be has always be- ii known us a money runner and an able executive. He was bprn. In Ohio and early became ft member of one of the Ohio conferences. When the civil war broke out young McCabe . Yolunt.ee.red . as a chaplain and after seeing a number of hard battles was thrown Into Llbby prison with the officers of part of, his regiment. He Is remembered in connection with the several months spent there, for his encour aging Influence on his fellow prisoners. It In related of htm that on a time at mid night he saw band of prisoners being s : - , .. v i v . v . i. , ii r- i.i I i i i.ii I REV. W. A. QUAYT.E. D. D., PASTOR INDEPENDENCE AVENUH METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, KANSAS CITY, Mo. led Into the enclosure and from his third story window began to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" In the fine rich voice which he possessed during his younger years. The effect was great and cheered the new prisoners. The bishop's lecture, The Bright Side of Life In Llbby Prison," has the true ring to It, through his per sonal experiences and will therefore be of much interest. After his liberation the bishop took ip his pastoral work, but was soon raised to -general duties. The Church Extension society was then at the height of Its first vigor and McCabe be came corresponding secretary and execu tive. This position gave a chance, for his ' genius as a money raiser and he soon had the society on a firm foundation. He liter became corresponding secretary of the Mis sionary society and set up the mllllon-dol-lar-a-year-for-mlsslons mark, which was first rldlcu'x.l and quickly met. One note- , worthy act of his career was the raising of the debt from the Methodist Episcopal church In Salt Lake. ' This edifice, which was In many respects ft pioneer, had un fortunately fallen Into an apparently unre deemable debt. Bishop McCabe personally . assumed this 40,000 Indebtedness and it la Among those who will be In Omaha dur ing the meeting are two widely known educators. Dr. John F. Goucher, president of the Woman's college, Baltimore, and Dr. 8. F. lTplium, president of Drew Theo logical college, Maddison, N. J. The first of these Is a leader In the education of women. He has been a man of wealth and has given a great part of this to found and maintain women's schools in India. His long years of success in this county made Mm think that he might be equally suc cessful in the Orient. A few years ago, In company with Bishop Newman, he visited India and China, one of his reasons for going being ft wish to Inspect these schools which he had started. He has been ft mem ber of the missionary committee for soma years. '' While in' Omaha he will preach Sunday,' November 18, In Hanscom Park church In the morning and In the evening at Seward Street church, this latter ad dress being on "Foreign Missions." Dr. Vpham on tr-e other hand has been an Instructor and insplrer of men. In the words of a local minister: "He h.is a genius for educating and In spiring ministers and his special work lias , been In the selection and bringing forth of young men for the mission field. Scep ticism and the undesirable phases of higher education are nes'r heard of In bis school." ' ' The dctor wllf talk 'on "educational work during the meetings. ' A. li. Id'nard, D P., of New Ycrk City and Dr. ' IL. K., Carroll are the executive officers of the Missionary society und will make most Interesting and Important ftiiinclal reports to the assembled body. The "former of these, who Is a native of Ohio, some years ago made an unusually successful gubernatorial campaign In that state on the prohibition ticket. He has been for twelve years one of the corre sponding secretaries of the committee and has visited the greater portion of the mis sionary fields of the church. He Is held by many of the ministry ot the denomination as largely responsible for the fact that the yearly subscriptions to the missionary fund stands at 11,260,000. He Is credited with being one of the most enthusiastic and successful mission workers the church has produced. Dr. Carroll, the other executive, has only been in this position since 1900, hav ing been elected in Chicago. He is much better known as a statistician and as the editor for years of the church year-book. He Is said to be an almost unequalled authority on church statistics. He has, like Dr. Leonard, been a wide traveler. W. F. Oldham of Chicago is one of the assistant secretaries. . He was born in India, the son of an officer of the civil list, and began life as a civil engineer, but early fell under the influence of Bishop William Taylor, who was such a great power in the Methodist Episcopal mission work In India, China and South America He established a name for himself in his own country and later came to the United States. ; ; : " The othir assistant secretary is J. N. Trimble of Sioux Cfty. He Is an Jowa man and because of Ills strong and effective work In the northwest conference on the church In that state was appointed only a few months ago to the assistant aecretary ship. Pointed Paragraphs To the pure all things are not delivered In milk wagons. If you haven't any enemies to forgive par don a few of your friends. For each big man at the top there are ft million little ones at the bottom. You may not get all that is coming to you in this world but look out for the next. Never ask a man How he likes married life' In his wife's presence if you wast to hear the truth. There is a man In Chicago named Dam rich but bis financial rating isn't what his name would indicate. Some ministers do not practice as they preach and some. base ball players do not play as they practice. Probably some men meander around all night for the purpose of satisfying them selves that there is no place like home. Even with his wonderful memory the old; est Inhabitant la apt to forget that he has Inflicted his reminiscences on everybody he knows. Chicago News. . ... Why She Hesitated The girl to whom the old bachelor had finally proposed looked worried. "I am trying to make up my mind,"-, she said. "And Is It so hard?" asked her friend. "Very hard. You see, he has lots ot money, but no bad habits." - . "Do you want him to have bad habits?" "Well, they shorten life, you know." Chi cago Post.
