The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-09
THE METHODIST GENERAL CON
FERENCE

The General Conference of the Metho--
dist Episcopal Church convened in the
Brooklyn Academy of Music on Wednes-
day last. AS may be expected very
great interest IS manifested in the pro-
ceedings of Conference, the more so as
apart from it's periodical gathering, sew
eral new bishops will have to be chosen,
and some important matters closely affect
ing the welfare of the Methodist Body,
introduced and discussed. Arrange
ments have been made for the publication
Of the DGiIg Chr jStian Ad00eato, during
the Conferential session: the first mum Der
was issued on May 1st, and from it we
CLEAN the following information:
BISHOPS OF THE NJ. E. CHURCH.
Bishop Morris, senior Bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, was born
April %, 1890, and consequently on
Sunday last be was eighty two years Of
age. He entered the itinerant ministry
in the Ohio Conference in 1916. he was
elected and ordained bishop in 1886, at
the General Conference in Cincinnati.
He has not been able to perform full
episcopal service for several years past
Bishop James, now senior effective
Bishop, was born April 81, 1907, and is
consequently sixty five years of age. He
entered the itinerant ministry in the
Philadelphia Conference in 1880 and
was elected and ordained bishop at the
General Conference held In New York
in 1914. He has constantly been in Ia
bors abundant, and gives good promise
of rendering the Church many additional
years Of effective service.
Bishop Scott was born 1902 and is
now seventy years of age He joined the
Philadelphia Conference in 1926, and
was elected and ordained bishop by the
General Conference, which met in B0ston
in 1852. He has performed effective ser =
vice, attending all the conferences as
signed, including those of the Southwest,
until the recent session of the Indiana
Conference, when he was suddenly pros
trated by severe and repeated nasal hem
orrhage. During his entire episcopacy
he has failed to attend only three of his
conference sessions, and these were the
last three assigned to him.
Bishop Simpson was born June 10, 1910
and is now nearly slXty-two years OF age.
He entered the Pittsburgh Conference in
1888, and was elected and ordained bish-
OPP at the General Conference which met
in Boston in 1862. During a portion of
last year he was so FRUSTRATED as result
of his severe episcopal and ministerial La.
bors as to be compelled to desist for sew
eral weeks from full service, and great
anxiety was felt throughout the church
lest his invaluable life might be approach
ing its close. Rest, however, restored
him to comparative health, greatly to the
Joy of tho whole Church.
Bishop Ames was born March 80, 1906,
and is a little over sixty,six years of age.
He entered the Illinois Conference in
1880, and along with Bishops Scott,
Simpson and Baker was elected and or
dained Bishop at the General Conference
held in Boston in 1862. From the first,
Bishop Ames has been blessed with a
vigorous and powerful physical constitu-
ton, which has enabled him to endure
successfully the great wear and tear of
his multiplied official duties. His thous-
ands of friends will be glad to learn that
he comes to the General Conference in |
good physical condition as
we'll as in excellent mental cheer.
GROWTH OF THE CHURCH.
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