Show TIm Til fl C Th conference of Metho Methodists Methodists distil now In session eslon In London Is a 1 notable gathering It Is the third of Its It kind The Tho first was vas held In Lon Lent London London don ilon In 1881 The second convened at Washington In 1891 1591 The present 11 nt con wn conference ference consists of or oo 00 delegates about of whom ate aro from America aM JOO 00 from Great Britain mitt and her Mo Most t of ot the timO participants nr are from distant lands land some lomo having traveled It 12 mlle miles In order to be Some Somo unpleasantness was narrowly escaped nt fit the tho opening session on the tho of this month when whon Bishop Wal Sal Walters tore of at Jersey City a n colored delegate appealed to the 1 people l In lit lie halt half of his hi people In the United 1 Stiles States for fur sympathy and i against The Tho bishop bishap declared hero thoro Will was a systematic effort on foot fooL on the part jart of oC white Americans to rte its which th the troy the good opinion lisle people 1 had of ot American negro negra He Ho recapitulated the lynching figures of the lime year 1000 anti and declared that though M Ito negroes wore WON lynched In only 11 it eases cam had assault ll aUt on white women been proved The English people have bAn al jj b brea a our friends declared Zilch Uth op Walter alters You c gave v ua us a refute refuge fu and awl now when w we le are art struggling in to n improve ourselves wo tt look to 10 yu you OU our friends to 10 give I us sympathy and encouragement as All you did In the lie pact iasU The speech p was ns loudly cheered by byI I delegates but hut some seine of to lb II Southerners present loft left the hell hall while white others by b different means manifested tM their disapproval of ot tha Iii In appeal for sympathy Another hitch occurred 1 wh when n a aIlle cou ees couple PIe Ille of speakers l against UM tilt war ar In o th Africa A kIt pate gate replied to t th tM i 5 In what hat Ille lai r i a R i a t h hf heat at and ul srM h The n Wb m in ll l when lie r dated upon he the Ih t friendship existing between the th United States and Great Britain That was a subject more pleasant lasant to lO touch thou than the tho wins tune anti frailties of the tholo two Among Arnon the tho subjects that are nr on onlie the lie program itro 1110 those theses Tim The Present Position tit ut f Ic The Tine of Methodism In Sn tho the Promotion of ot In tI 0 fill I Peace Icaco 1 Biblical Criticism and the Christian Faith Christianity and Modern Unbelief Modern and Practical Methods of ot Dealing with the Liquor The rite Moral Unity of oC th the l h Speaking Peoples will be the tho subject discussed at a public The Tine since sine the tho time of or John have ha grown grun rapidly and become an Influential baly boly bOil in the tho world limit as flu A religious organization they had bettor batter not middle with lIh national or International question qu lI of policy There are arc political gatherIngs for or that pur It was certainty Indiscreet to carry the lynching question over to 10 Great Greut Britain as no If thus thin country were wore deal d 11 with It It wo wan unnecessary sary to 10 subject 1 the tho British government to criticism In that international gath gathering ering of ot representatives of oC a n chinch mid It Is la absurd to waste vaste time on the unity of ot the English spooking speaking people oven ONI thought though that unity be cautious cautiously ly Iy referred to as nl only moral morn It Is Isa IsIt a It 1 waste of I time into In an assemblage that professedly Is iii not of oC thin Oils world Theological and ethical questions ate ale alethe the lie 1 rOlle I subjects of discussion lon In such an nn assembly embly A church should first of ot nil all know that h her r Influence up uli upon ulion on worldly affairs 18 III not pot secured by direct Interference but hut by the correct teaching of general prin principles and lint by b the faithful Hv liv II Ing hll of her members In ac nc accordance with those prInciples 1 It was Vila In thins way that Christianity In the tie early ages became a power The Apostles Apostle did not nol meddle with the tho politics of their day do Vow Few I ew of at them had citizenship In the tue Itoman empire But nut they were a 1 tremendous power lower for lor good goot because they exemplified lied led In their lives 1108 the tho virtues which It was their duty to Inculcate There is no other way to accomplish lie tho regen rogen regeneration oration of the world |