The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . s relief and national purityBy voice and pen she stirred multitudes of men and womenin every land to a recognition of the curse of intemperanceand the political crime of legalizing the liquor traffic. In the Anti-Saloon League a non-partisan and non-sectarianorganization originated in recent years for the furtherance ofthe cause of restriction and prohibition of the liquor traffic;prominent Methodist clergymen and laymen in every placeare found among the leaders. In 1890 the National Non-Partisan Womans Christian 1254 American Methodism Temperan
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . s relief and national purityBy voice and pen she stirred multitudes of men and womenin every land to a recognition of the curse of intemperanceand the political crime of legalizing the liquor traffic. In the Anti-Saloon League a non-partisan and non-sectarianorganization originated in recent years for the furtherance ofthe cause of restriction and prohibition of the liquor traffic;prominent Methodist clergymen and laymen in every placeare found among the leaders. In 1890 the National Non-Partisan Womans Christian 1254 American Methodism Temperance Union was organized by certain members of theWomans Christian Temperance Union who resisted andrepudiated the injection of partisan politics into temperancework. The Non-Partisan Union does not ally itself with anypolitical party. Its platform, it is claimed, is broad enoughfor all temperance workers to stand upon. It seeks to enlistall Churches, temperance societies, and political parties in thework of the destruction of the liquor CHAPTER CXXV Women and the General Conference The Lay Delegation Movement.—Are Women Laymen?—WomenEligible to Ckrtain Offices in the Church. — Five WomenElected to the General Conference of 1888, but not Seated.—The Neely Amendment.—Excitement in 1872.—The HamiltonProposition. — Four Women Elected in 1896. — Challenged,They Withdraw.—The Great Compromise.—The New Consti-tution. THE General Conference of 1872, when lay delegateswere first admitted, declared that in all mattersconnected with the election of lay delegates the word laymen must be understood to include all the members ofthe Church who are not members of the Annual 1880, the question having been submitted to it for decision,the General Conference ordered that the pronouns he, his,and him, when used in the Discipline with reference tostewards, class leaders, and Sunday school superintendents,shall not be so construed as to exclude women from
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