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Show METHODISTS LISTEN TO IMIESSES Work of Home Missions and Church Extensions Considered Consid-ered by the Conference. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 6. after a day of business in which numerous num-erous resolutions came before the gon-crnl gon-crnl conference of the Methodist Episcopal Epis-copal church, the conference tonight hoard addresses upon tho work of home missions and church cxt elisions. Among the speakers tonight were Dr. Robert Forbes, Dr. C. xM. Boswcll and Ward Piatt, all of Philadelphia. "American cities make the battlefield battle-field on which the uerpotuation of Protestant Christianity will be de termined," was tne Keynote oi mc mi-dress mi-dress of Dr. Boowell, who told oi tho work being done among the foreign population of the cities of America. Among the resolutions prosouted to the conference today wore the following: follow-ing: Commending action of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in settling disputes by arbitration. Memorializing congress to pass ;i law giving the federal government supervision super-vision in the case of negro lynching and mob violence. Calling for the appointment of two nogro bishops in the south. Censuring the "American press" for printing exaggerated reports on revolutionary revo-lutionary conditions in Mexico and commending the government of tho United States upon its method of nou-intervontion. nou-intervontion. Calling for an immediate report from the committee on state of the church on the proposal to withdraw naragrph 260 which places tho bun on certain amusements. All of thoso resolutions, except the first, were disposed of, at least temporarily, tem-porarily, bv the "no consideration" voto of tho conference. The last Tesolntion, which was presented pre-sented bv tho Rov. TV. P. Rice, a missionary mis-sionary of Santiago, Chili, protested atrainst the action of the ecumenical missionary conference in Edinburgh in declaring not proper the missionary enterprise en-terprise conducted in so-called Roman Catholic countries. In a fiery speech, in which he told of the opposition of the Catholics of South America to work of Protestant missionaries, he asked that the resolution "bo passed immediately. Finally a substitute was adopted which placed tho resolution before a committee of five, headed by Dr. Rice, to be reported on Wednesday. |