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Show philosophical reasoning I have become convinced that a man penerally chuoees his religion accord- ' ing to hi temperament.. Some men by. reason of temperament never could become Slethodists. It would be necessary to enter into minute reasoning reas-oning to demonstrate why this is so, but I thir.k oil person? who have thought npan the subject are convinced that the creed believed ly a rar-tlcular rar-tlcular man is not altogether the result of early education, but a rational adaptation of needs and desires.' i . i j 1.MOTIONAL ( il RISTIANITV. j Bishop Tavlok, a prominent southern member of the recent Methodist ecumenical ecumen-ical council in Washington, speaking of the progress of Christianity, said: persons ulllkted with what ia commonly known as the 'power' are not as common an tliey were forty and lifty years atro. (inly among the negroes cf the south is it common now, their emotional and uncultured nature being peculiarly pecu-liarly udupted to that ppiritual exaltion that was so common in the Jlethodift church of years ao. Tim Uoutinj; whiti Methodist is also a it minii-c eu'-fe. When I was a boy 1 know -a Methodist exhorter by the name of Cuonkhite. Ii wan such a powerful - lunged man "that when excited in his exhortations his voice was hi'iird a quarter of a mile in a still summer's niidit, and his powers to arouse his hearers so gre;it that some women would fall on the floor in laintiiitr fits, while tho groans of men would disturb the neighborhood. I think the Methodist church has Krcut preachers today as it ever had. I do not think that increased culture has been at tho expense ot the virtility that 'distiutfu.-hed Methodist preuchers forty and fifty years ay;o. The Methodist church has preserved its indivjitu-altity indivjitu-altity to a remarkable decree to greater degree, de-gree, perhapn, than any other religious denomination. denomi-nation. - "As you may know a Quaker not only by bis garb, but by hi personal characteristics, the keen observer of men can generally detect a Methodist from n Presbyterian by outward appearance. ap-pearance. I'ut as between Methodists and Baptist Bap-tist the Wik is not so easy. By a course of |