The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-22

educational and missionary agencies OF the Church,
c0rpoiated in the report OF the General Missionary
Society, and the preachers be requested to take up
COLLECTIONS annually In their charges for the society.
Adopted.
The Committee on Revisals reported in favor OF
commission OF three ministers and three aymen to
drait c0de o! ecclesiastical Jurisprudence ana to
report the same to the next General Conference.
They also recommend that the question requiring
assent to the Articles of Religion as condition
precedent to church membership be stricken from
page rs OF the Discipline.
The committee on Sunday Schools and Tracts re-
ported in favor OF division of labor OF the German
editors OF the Church. giving the books and tracts
TO one ana the papers and periodicals to another,
upon TINS discussion arose, DR.. Mast and Others
1avorng that the tracts and papers be placed under
one head. This amendment was adopted with the
report.
Judge LAWRENCE presented a resolution calling
upon the General Conference to provide sonic
means to
UNITE ALL THE BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES
OF the Church-namely the Missionary, Church Ex-
tension, Education, Sunday School and Tracts, to
which was subsequently added Freedmen, and to
bring them all under the control of the General
Conference AS at present constituted the man
ayers OF those societies are independent OF the Con-
ference, and any dozen men can by combination,
change the whole character OF any society. The
report constitutes the bishops commission to pro-
cure from the several state LEGISLATURES the right
of those societies. Adopted.
Bishop AMES hoped that the brethren to be
elected bishops would be included IN this commits
sion.
A voICE-An election makes them bishops.
Bishop AMEs-After they have been ordained.
daughter and applause) Those who have read
the controversy in the Church papers on the episco
pacy rs a distinct order will understand the point
and pertinency of this remark.
Governor EVANS. OF Colorado, and other aymen,
presented protest against being shut or from dis
cussng the question OF a vote by orders, as they
were this morning, and that in voting, az they did,
In favor OF separate vote there was no disrcspect
intended toward the minister's The paper was read
and entered on the Journal
report recommending that the General Confer
ence take the Freedmens Aid Society under It's
patronage brought Rev. Mr.. Cardozo, OF South
Carolina (cOlOrcd), to his feet in able adyOcacy of
the propositions and, in a sketch OF the condition of
the South socially, politically ana religousy, he
showed the necessity for increase OF schools anu
churches In all that region.
RESULT OF THE FIRST BALLOT
The tellers having entered with their report all
announced, as follows:-Whoe number ofvotes cast,
40S; necessary for choice, 205. OF these Rev.
Thomas Bowman, D. D., of North Indiana, received
293 votes; William L. Harris, ID. d. OF Central Chic,
30: and Randolph $. Foster, of the New York Con-
ference 232 votes These three dvines were, there
fore, declared elected to the episcopacy The other
candidates for whom votes are cast are Drs. J. w.
Wiley, 10; y. NJ. Merrill, ITO; Jesse T. Peck, 161;
Gilbert Haven, las; Erastus Q. Haven, 1870; J. NJ,
Reid, Ill; T. G. Andrews, Ill; T. NJ. Eddv 1876; J. p.
Newman, 100; J. NJ. Walden, 90; q. d. Foss So; Q.
II. Fowler 81; b. +. Crazy, So; Moses HIM. 70; N +.
IS; William Brush, SO; J. o. Pershing AZ; Alexander
Martin, 40; 3. =. Hamline, 43; A. $. Hunt, 80; c.
Mutt, "a; l.. q. Matlack, Benjamin Brown ana Il. q.
Fuller, each %. These were all who received more
than twenty votes; number received less After
the announcement Of the vote the Conference took
recess until harpast three O'Clock =. M.
Upon reassembing, after religious services addi-
tiOnal reports were received, read and adopted,
and second ballot was taken for five additional
bishops.
While the tellers were ont the Committee on
Boundaries presented their report minority re-
port was presented also in favor OF leaving the
Black River and the Central New York Conferences
as they were fixed by the General Conference four
years ago. discussion arose this, and the Con-
ference agreed that each of the contestng Confer
ences should speak half an hour on the question,
and a, made It the order for to-day, at eleven A. NJ
Other parts OF the report were recOmmtted
The Committee on the State OF the Church pre-
sented report on class meetings, allowing only
twenty to q class, but leaving 1t optional with the
Quarterly Conference to appoint one leader to two
or more classes, and that incompetent or unaithful
leaders be removed, and that speaking in class be
voluntary, and that II be not made test OF church
membership.
Dr.. sLlcER opposed the report because 1t did not
provide for getting the people into class meetings.
and he moved an amendment, adding o section OF
the old chapter on class meetings, which he elO-
quently advocated, and said that he once cited 140
church members 10 trial in one day for neglect OF
this means OF grace ana cured them all save thirty.
diScniinn hd ~ q" ~; @ Az an VI .me
port was adopted.
RESULT OF THE SECOND BALLOT.
While the Conference thus killing time the
teers entered and presented their report, as fol
lows whole number Of votes cast, 400 necessary
receyed $50 Merr o Mey
Ihey were duly declared elected to the Episcopal
drews, 49, r. M Eddy 1ol; j. p Newman, 81 !; j. M.
Walden, o6; 9. j. Foss, u; B. +. Crazy 81; J. Cum
mngs, "a; w. Brush, 81, and the rest scattering.
The Conference thereafter adjourned, and to-day
they VIII go through the agony OF choosing their
nine Bishops.
SKETCH or THE BISHOPS ELECT
Rev. Ihomas bowman, ID. d., is PENNSYLVANIA
by birth and OF Methodist .parentage, ffty-four
years OF age. He graduated from Dickinson Col
ege Carlisle, Pa, in 1897, and In 1889 entered the
Baltimore Conference and continued in the pas
toral work until he was elected to the Presidency
OF Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, Pa, where
he remained ten years, and again returned to the
pastorate until IN 1859 he was called to the Presi
dency OF the Indiana Asbury University, which p0-
sltion he now holds. DR.. Bowman IL an excellent
educator q first class preacher, ready, fluent and
chaste exhibitions Of Divine truth. Unassuming In
department, courteous and genial in association,
yet carrying the dignity OF the Christian minister
into all the Intercourse OF life OF 1.-THE and active
frame, and enjoying good health, lie gives promise
term Of vigorous service yet to come, equalled
by few that have reached the period of mature
manhood. The office to which he has been elected
has sought him rather rlan he the office.
brief sketch OF DIR. Harris was given in late
Issue OF the HERALD and need not be here re-
peated.
Dr. Randolph s. Foster was born at Fosters
Landing, on the Ohio River, about thirty miles
north OF Cincinnati. He is In his ny-lith year
and the thirty-sXth year OF his ministry, having
been admitted on trial In the Ohio Conference in
his eighteenth year. lie has been member OF the
New York Conference about twenty years. AS an
educator and theological and doctrinal preacher
he has few equals and no superior in the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He was for some years Pres
dent OF the Garrett Biblical Institute, and holds
similar relation now to the Drew Theological
Seminary. His piety is deep, genuine and uncom
promising, and no one can sit under his instruc
ton without feeling that IL ever a man was called
of God to the ministry DR.. X. $. Foster has been.
As an author he IL widely known in this country
and Europe. lie, too. has not sought the bishopie,
but the Office has sought him. and better choice
could not have been made.
Dr. Isaac w. Wiley Is q member OF the Newark
Conferences Western mainland about fifty years
OF age He Is at present editor OF the L0dies' Repo
STORY, one OF the most important publications OF
the Church. He is forcble and lucid writer, using
none but the choicest language. first class
preacher and man OF strong, physical frame, deep
pety and solid learning, and remarkably even tenn
per and disposition.
DR.. ;. NJ. Merrill IL a Western selfmade man,
forty six years OF age twentyfour OF which he has
spent In the ministry He il one OF the best theolo-
gcal debaters and expounders In the Methodist
Episcopal Church and has been and Is now editor
OF the western, Christian AdrOcdte. lie Is said by
many to be the very best choice the Conference