Show 4 Jf 4 Bitterness in Conference Over Amusement Debate D 4 t OLD RULE EULE UNCHANGED 4 t PROPOSITION TO REMOVE THE THEBAN THEBAN THEBAN BAN IS VOTED DOWN t Dancing Theatregoing ing and a d Card Oard Playing Pl ing Are Ale Still Proscribed by bythe the Personalities Are In Indulged in During the Heated R at d Dis Discussion Presbyterian Assembly Asse Adjourns Chicago May 26 By a close vote vole and after a debate which exceeded in bitterness and a d feeling f eling displayed di ed any anything an anything I thing yet heard during the th session the Methodist general conference nce practically practically decided today tod y to make no change in the th attitude of the church churchin in regard to card td playing dancing i theatregoing and other forms of amusement which since inca have ha e been under theban the ban of the church church Preceding the vote to accept the min minority minority mm report which recommends that no action be taken the conference at times imes was Vas in a state of wild disorder This was s due mainly to attempts to I amend the section of the book of din dis under discussion Some exceed I sharp language was indulged in by the angry delegates before the vote was taken The matter matt r came up in report No 7 of the committee c e on an the state stat of the church involving ig the standing of the Methodist church on dancing card playing and other prohibited amuse amusements amusements ments It was presented pl yesterday The gallerie Were crowded r With spectators sp Dr B P Raymond Ra of Boston spoke spoken in n sup rt of the majority report The regulation itself is a dead let leter letter letten ten ter er over a large part of our church he said It cultivates duplicity a d thus hus undermines the fundamental prin principle I ciple of truth in our church Thus we I compromise all aU other virtues Dr Raymond also said that from the studies of pedagogy gy a point could be made in favor ef e taking the ban nan from the amusements We strike e a point about the sixteenth th years ean of age where whre the he will appears app rs If we would follow nature we cannot build a fence around round man mn for he rebels I Dr E J r 1 Gray of Williamsport Pa 1 also spoke in favor of the majority re report report I port I Calls List Toe Poe to the Conversion Dr Buckley wag ws then recognized d The Jesuits Lutherans and Church of England never allow aHo the people to dance or go to the theatre for the forty days das during Lent but they do donot donot donot not have any laws on the subject he said sald It is not said to any man Thou Not but the moral foree force of the body together with the religious rel Ious ex exercise exercise X causes their people to tt abstain during Lent I believe bell eye Methodists can abstain all the year ear The putting of this list in the t e presence of young peo pee people people pie is a foe to sound genuine conver conversion conversion conversion sion Dr J W Bashford for the majority report saying it Intended no difference in principle but Simply a 0 different t method Amid Ai id a wild clamor for recognition the previous question was ordered Conference e in Uproar Frank Prank Arter of New Jersey then put PIt the conference in an by starting to read an amendment proposing to in insert Inin insert sert in paragraph 48 48 opera grand opera prize fights bull fights COCK coCa COCKfights fights checkers backgammon football baseball one old cat two old cat here hare his voice was waa aa drowned by fifty delegates springing to their feet and demanding recognition while cries oC ot Outrage on the conference We wont listen to the ridicule of ot a rule or ot orthis this thin church were heard The chair ruled that Mr Arter was wu in order and he proceeded amid hand clapping and stamping of feet Bishop McCabe be is Attacked The conference was VaS again thrown i ito into to toa a turmoil by a demand that Bishop Mc McCabe McCabe McCabe Cabe leave the floor He SHe has no right on the floor of this body endeavoring to influence persons in their voting said Dr Buckley hotly 1 I was here on private business re retorted reto retorted to ted Bishop McCabe You were not You told tol me to with withdraw withdraw withdraw draw my motion shouted Mr Mt f Arter Amid the contusion confusion Mr hIre Arter then withdrew his and the angry delegates settled se in their seats se ts to hear the closing argument in favor lavor of the majority report by Governor Pattison A demand for tor an aye and nay vote on the question was carried It was evident before the close of the roll roil call that the minority report would carry Unofficial counts count made It about in favor fa vot and against the adoption a The Th conference adjourned for the day without hearing the official result Other Business Transacted ted Before this dIscussion began a long list of f standing committees of the church and a committee to select dele deje delegates delegates gates to attend att nd the ecumenical congress in 1901 were agreed upon by the th con conference c n ference Rev W P Thirkield formerly gen gee general general eral secretary of t the League was declared elected aa u one of the see sec secretaries of ot the Aid and andI I Southern Education society Dr L V of ot New Ne Haven li ven Conn t editor of ot the Dally Advocate published here during the sessions of the confer conference I 1 ence enee was vas declared elected to the editor editorship editorship I ship of the Western Ve ten Christian n Advocate I I cate and C B Spencer formerly edi editor I tor lor of the Ro kY Mountain Advocate to the editorship of o the Central Chris Christian tian Advocate H K l Carroll Cn ll formerly editor of the New York Independent was elected as assistant secretary of or the Missionary so society 80 clety |