Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-21
METHODIST.
TIE GATHERING OF THE ANNUAL
MINNESOTA CONFERENCE.
The Charges Against Rev. Wright-He
Denies Having Written Anonymous
Letters and is Being Tried-A Multi
tude OF Routine Work Accomplished.

The Charges Against Rev. Wright-He
| Denies Having Written Anonymou.
| Letters and is Being Tried-A Multi.
| tude of Routine Work Accomplished.
| Below will be found the delayed report OF
the M. E. Conference at Rochester, as we'll al
the later report for to-day. miscarriage il
the mails prevented the report, which should
have appeared yesterday, from reaching the
GLOBE office until yesterday forenoon.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, Sept. IS, 1S78.-Ths
| further discussion of the matter pertaining tt
DR.. Wright was fully entered into by many Of
the ministers, some for secret trial and some
against. The resolution whether the testimony
should be taken in open conference or not wa,
lost A motion for committee to be appoint
ed to report the names of eleven persons who
should constitute committee to take testi
mony and report to the conference for its action
was passed. The Bishop appointed as snchco m
mittee: DIR. Hobart, DavidiBrooks and D. Cobb
These gentlemen retired and during the in
terview the newspaper question came up, wher
Rev. Bishop. of Fairbaut said that as we were
not to have the Conference Aduocot.
published as contemplated, he would
move that as the Pioneer Press re-
porter was here the money be placed in his
hands and copy Of that journal be forwarded
to the persons who had subscribed.
Rev. Rice said the money had been collected
for the purpose of GETTING the Conference Id
vocate, and as that project had failed for want
of sufficient number of names. he thought it
only proper that the money be refunded to the
subscribers. He did not feel authorized to
make them subscribers to the Pioneer Press or
any other paper. The representatives of the
GLOBE and Dispatch thought SO, to. The mat
y: D.
making motion to lay it on the table, which
motion prevailed. 1t is proper to state here
that twenty cents per COPY will furnish the
GLOBE to the ministers and their friends for the
conference week. The secretary, Rev. 81. J. Crist,
called the attention of the conference to the
subject OF the publication of the minutes.
which called forth some discussion. This was
cut short upon the appearance of the COM
mittee on the DR.. Wright case, which was a
matter of more Importance. Twenty-three
names were presented by the committee fro m
which to make the selection of the eleven. As
the names were called they were to be chal-
lenged, if challenge was to be made at all.
There being no objection, the first eleven were
selected as follows
j. Akers, G. T. Barkuloo, s. Bolles, B.
Blain, j. Crook, J. Hall, j. N. Henry. G. T.
Kingsland, ]. Lamberson, N. NJ. Learned, and
j. W. Lewis.
r. Forbes was nominated as secretary, G. Fl;
by the bishop as president of the committee of
eleven.
The bishop stated that this controversy would
embarrass him somewhat In his cabinet. as
three of the litigants were presiding elders, but
so far as he was concerned, he was determined
that everything should be done to honorably
and oonscientisusly adjust the existing diff
Guilty.
The committees were called and conference
adjourned.
The charges against Rev. DR.. Wright are for
immoral conduct and for conduct unbecoming
a Christian minister. 1t seems that certain
anonymous letters have been written, of a
hulldozing character, and the authorship has
been traced to the reverend doctor. This he
denies, somewhat to the surprise of the breth-
who make the charges. They supposed he
would acknowledge the corn and suffer the con-
sequences.
The doctor was not of the same mind, and
proposes to make the proof substantiate the
charge. It is a difficulty much to be regretted.
but now hat it is entered into will be disposed
of, and no embarrassing.
ROCHESTER,, Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 49,
The conference adjourned promptly at IL NJ.
The afternoon was employed by the bishop and
his cabinet in looking over the several fields.
The cabinet is seriously broken into by three
absentees, DR.. Wright, Elders Chaffee and
Creighton. who are participants in the matter
now under consideration by the committee Of
eleven in regard to the charges against DR..
Wright. But the bishop is equal to the emer-
gency and will allow no interest to be harmed
The several committees are attending to their
duties.
At2:3O, Rev. F. H. Tubbs preached a sermon
from the 46th psalm, 4tb and 9Th verses,
"There is a river, the streams whereof shall
make glad the city of our God" etc. The
pulpit was also occupied by David Brooks.
The speaker pre- faced his sermon by an apol-
ogy, in saying he did not expect to preach, and
if he believed in the policy of saying no, he
probably would have acted that policy to-
day. We have known an apology to spoil many
a sermon.
PERSONAL.
Among the arrivals to-day are layman F. s.
Swisher of Grace church: st. Paul, who is tax
ing casual survey over matters and things
He is not after any wood chuck and has no ak
to grind, and there are NO rumOrs or intima-
tons of change in his billiwick; but, like
many others. Fred likes to go to conference
and see how the thing is done. DIR. Jabez
Brooks, of the university, put in an appearance
to-day also. DR.. Hitchcock is busy in the
basement room settling up with the ministers
for periodicals, books and church itera-
ture. The doctor is kind,
venerable looking man. His hair is white as
snow, but his eye is as keen as a briar, and
business is in every twinkle. He is very val
liable man to the book concern and hard
worker. He has kind word for every one.
but business must be attended to- He has the
supervision of large interests, and he wants all
to understand that obligations should be met;
and these obligations could be met if the peo-
pie would pay the minister.
PAYING THE MINISTER.
We heard one young brother say his people
were behind 800 on his small salary, and he
should be obliged to ask an extension of his &C
count until October. Now, ia it possible that
the laborer in this cause is not worthy of his
hire? Or, do men obligate themselves to pay
the minister without the intention of doing it
One of two things is true when the minister
is not paid, either the society is too
niggardly mean to deserve minister, or they
make obligations without the intention Of per-
forming. The salary at best is small enough
and at the tail end, if any one has to wait it's
the minister. Well, we suppose he can live or
faith. If he can, he can't get very fat on it
and the only advantage he would have under
the circumstances might be that his clothes
would get too large for him, or made a suit fol
| his whole family.
EXPLANATORY.
By way of explanation, would like to sa,
that the word ''supernumerary," where it &C
curs means where ministers are without regu
lar ministerial work from ill health, or TO
travel. OF because of a desire to temperate,
indulge in secular work, or for study, and ye
have a voice in the conference. ''Superannu
| ated" means where they are worn out in tn
service ard are a conference charge. To $50
cate'' a minister, and it is done for various rea
| sons, prominent among which is ineficiency,
to drop the name from the conference rolls
Sometimes good men find they have made
mistake in selecting the ministry, and it
necessary to locate them. This is where "
get our local preachers. If man is located
for immoral conduct, his parchments as mil
lister are taken from him. and the conferene
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