530 





people, without regard to political afli. 



ally themselves with all movement - 



and aocial righteousness; expressed a hope f>t 



I.-...;..-:.' A '. " 1 - " 



Britain and for the settlement of all in 

 difficulties bj arbitration: an-: onoerning 



the position of the organiza' < no 



apology for our existence as a oal so- 



. and deprecai- i-ar.uble utterances 



of those who bj l-ny us the ri$ht of 



such ormuiiiation. We express again our u 

 co-operate with the young people of all denomina- 

 tion* in all pnetioal Christian work, ami our will- 

 :.::... ' - i ...... rith tl :..' Three bodiea 



werereprwent.il ,., this convention the Bpworth 

 i . . ' v , i ; pal Church, the 

 pSWth League of the Met h.Hlist Bfcisoopal Church, 

 Smth. ami MM Kpwrth League of tin- MtthodM 

 Church of Canada. 



American I m \ .r-.ii \.-The enterprise of the 



Washington, I' 

 tig gradually. Payment 



of 90 acres, was completed in 1805; the plans 

 for locating the building! ami Ii t the 



grounds have been drawn up: ground was broken 

 for the building 



in length, in March, and the corner stone was laid 

 Oct, 1, 1898; and tin- mari>l*> walls and the roof of 

 the structure were completed in June. !*!?. The 

 property of the institution, represented by the real 

 estate, fuiilding funds on hand and pledged, en- 

 .11 bonds, securr .md endowment 



pledged, was valued at the. -ii.l <.f 1 s'.7 at * l.l oo.OOO. 



< luirrh Congress. The firM Methodic 

 copal Church Congress was held in Pittsburg. I 'a.. 

 topics discussed concerned de- 

 nominational progress and the church in its rela- 

 tions to literature, rt, education, society , 

 and the Church and its cre<leiitials. The opening 

 address was by Hi-h.-p .1. H. Vincent. I). I)., who 

 had first suggested the holding of the congress, 

 upon " Service." and was followed by an address by 

 the Rer. C. H. Payne, secretary of the Board of 

 Education, on "The Yoi,- f the Church." 

 r addresses were on the scriptural ideal of 

 godliness, the revival, the new psychology, evolu- 

 tion, modern research and criticism and their con- 

 tribution to the science of interpretation, "The 

 li< Spirit in Methodism" (a symposium in 

 '(.besides the general treatment of the topic. 

 special presentations were made of it from the 

 of view of the negro, the (ierman. and the 

 Scandinavian). "The Yitali/.ing ..f (Mher Faith- by 

 Contact with Christianity." church music-, church 

 architecture and deoofiaon, the ideal worship, the 

 Ute of sociological sciem-,-. -Th- Institutional 

 Uelifrious and Literary Tenden- 

 urch." the 



claim of the Christian faith upon ti -.-it ion 



of the theological student, and the higher lr 

 culture of the ministry. 



MethodM ( hurrh in Germany. The union of 

 the Methodist Episcopal Chun-h 'in (M-rmany and 

 the Weslevan Methotlint Chim h in that ...unity. 

 which had been agreed upon l,y the KritMi Wes- 

 lejan Conference and by the A r BnertlOoo- 



ferenceof 18M. was accomplish.-.! at the sessi. 

 the conference* of the two churches in (iermnny in 

 1897. By n the Ml n and 23*,000 



memhrr* of the German Wesleyan churches were 

 addel to the Methodist Episcopal Church, together 

 with church property valued at $200,000. 



II. M ...pal I Jiiirrli. suuth.- 



talisdcs of this Church ' 



ministers, 18300 churches, and 1.4*2.665 communi- 

 cants, showing gains during the year of 0.'', minis- 

 ters, ?"> churches, and 40.000 communicant*. 



At the annual meeting of the Hook Committee. 

 "i, the amount of l.u- during the year 



in all th. -A as retun, 



while the protits were $4 l.o:;n. the liahiliti.- 

 954, and the anionnt of ca>h on hand April 1 



year's receipts of the Board of ( hun I 

 n from collections on the assessments, s[ 

 appeals, and miscellaneous sources were f'J 1 

 from collections on loans, $19,292: hi!.- $5,505 

 bad been contributed to the loan fun. u : mat. 



. ..f the loan fund! 

 was $185,140. which it was expected would soon l,e 



aaed by the proceeds of two bequests n 

 paid over to $160,000. Th.- General ai 



.-1 m\ ii aid to 4(>4 churchex j n ||,,. 

 aiiK'iint .f $(il.U72. Iin-1.. 

 coming over from the previous year, the i 



made appropriationj t. n? ohnrobefl in th. 



of $2:2<M in donations and *-,'.\oOo ,,. loai 



rule was adopted l.ythe Imardat itxaiinual meeting 



re(juiringtheConferenceBpardsof Churcl 



or their Kxeeutive Committees to meet annually in 



:i. and decide tip<.n the relative impoi 

 and urgencies of the places within their n-| 

 jurisdictions seeking aid. A report u,, 

 stating the objection- t" the practice of makii 

 peaU to the public in behalf of local and B] 

 building enterprises. 



The Sundax-School Hoard met \ille. 



Tenn.. May 4. and appropriated $2,050 to tl.- 

 eign-mission fleldx. '| he subjects were < 



paring a Sunday-echool directory, f tl, 



position to IM- made" of the moneys" collect. 



Chililren'x Iay. ami <-f appointing a mis-, 

 rally day. Tlie (juality of the Sunday-school lit'- 



erature was commended, and still further im| 

 ment and enlargement of it were ad\ 

 The fifty-first annual meeting of th< 



ns was held in Nashville. Tenn.. May 5. The 

 secretaries reported that the receipts f.'r f 

 mi--ion- had l>een $244,468, an increase from the 

 pre\: : $7,105, and for domestic in: 



!'4S;' while $81.!lHJ had been collected by the 



Won -Tii Mi>-ioii I'.oard and ^IS.m 



the Woman's Parsonage and Borne > 

 making the total receipts $478,827. API 

 were made for the enduing year of $198,876, and 

 assessments were made upon the Church at 

 for $350,000. From the 4 forcign-misxion 

 were returned 10." mi-.>i,,nuries (including ^ 

 li:{ native traveling preachers, 155 native h< 

 8.75G inetnberx. xho\\ingan increase for the \. ; ,r<.f 

 906; 71 dav and boarding sehooK. \\ith 2/^1 pu- 

 pils; 247 Sunday sch<.<>K with .sJ2 pupils; 19 

 ith Leagues, with N .uid 1 hos- 



pital. J{ dispensaries, and 12,01." patients treated in 

 iy.~>. The property of the minions was vah. 

 $458.406. 



III. Methodist l'r,,tcxt ;l ..1 Miiireh. Th.-ofli- 

 cial statistical tables of this Chun-h. puhlMicd in 

 December, 1897, give it 1,611 ministei-x. 1.105 

 preacliei-x. 174.7"6 members, 5,111 pi 

 2^94 chur areonages; 2,1'.' 



schools, with IH.W:} officers and tethers an<: 



societies of Christian Kndeavf.r. with 

 23,881 active and 4.743 associate mend.. 

 junior societies with 3,30.'J members: and 1 

 809 of church property. Tl i 

 "f Christian Endeavor are incomplete, some 



t making any report of them. Tin- edu- 

 cational institution* of the Church include W- 



uid College, WestminsU-r, Maryland : Adrian 



niversity. 



including 7 schools) ; Westminster Th< 



ical Seminary, Maryland: Yadkin Collegi . North 

 ma; and Westminster College, Texas. Th*, 



