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Show THE METHODISTS. Some Interesting Figures Tomorrow Will be the Last Bay of the Congress. Washington, Oct. 19. The eleventh day's session of the ecumenical Methodist congress con-gress opened with William Warden of the Wesleyan reform uuion of England in the chair. The committee made a report upon the subject of the week of prayer, recommending recom-mending that the week beginning November 15 next be set aside for that purpose. Report Re-port adopted. The committee ou Methodist statistics reported re-ported that since the London ecumenical council there had been an increase of 30 per cent in Methodist helievcrs. The report shows that the ministers number 4-',rj(i5; members 6,495,390, and adherents 25,37,000. Adopted. A resolution was adopted making tomorrow's tomor-row's session the last of the conference. The report of the committee on executive session recommended that the third ecumenical ecumen-ical council be held in 1001, and that the executive commission consist of eighty members, divided into two sections, called respectively the eastern and western section. This body is to arrange for aud make the necessary preparations for the next conference. The report went over until tomorrow, and the topic of the day, "The Church and Public Morality," was taken up. After the reading of an essay by B. W B. Hill of Macon, Ga., on "The Legal Restraint of the Vices of Society," Rev. Joseph Pos-r.ettof Pos-r.ettof the Wesleyan "Methodist church of Hull, England, delivered the first appointed address of the rooming session. His subject sub-ject was the same as the essay. a m m |