METHODISM.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9149, 19 May 1908, Page 5

METHODISM.

PRAISE PROM ROOSEVELT. Press Association—Copyright. New York, May 18. President Roosevelt, welcoming at Washington the members of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, attributed the great and peculiar role Methodism had played in American national life to Methodism’s essential democracy and the scope it gave toffindividual initiative and independence. After emphasising the importance of building the spiritual and moral side of the national character, bo eulogised those women who were doing their full duty in relation to wifehood and motherhood and roaring plenty of healthy children. They should he devoted to high ideals and to everything constituting the right type of family—courage, unselfishness, and the other qualities of true citizenship. A LESSON TO BRITAIN. Received May 19, 8.13 a.m. London, May 18.

The Times, commenting on President Roosevelt’s success in going behind the ordinary political machinery and cutting athwart party managers’ lines and boldly bringing the Federal and State Governments into friendly co-operation for the conservation of national resources, remarks that men of all parties representing most diverse interests vied in supporting him, which affords striking evidence of the effect produced by President Roosevelt’s vigorous propoganda of sound moral and social ideas. If it is necessary in the United States to seek a new unity based on the more directly social and material needs the necessity is not leas in the case of Britain, and the American example ought to stimulate the Empire to demand greater harmony on Interstate relations and closer co-opera-tion to move to reasoned co-ordina-tion of all parts for the common good of the whole.