New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-01
THE METHODIST CONFERENCE.
THE DELEGATES AssENiBLING-wHo ARE LIKELY 10
BE Neutrality-suspicious. WHICH ARE To BE DIS
CUssED


IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSF.l
CINCINNATI. April 30.-The twenty-thlrd
General Conference the Methodist Episcopal Churcn
will begin in Pkos Opera House here tomorrow. Inc
Rev Levi scott, d. D., the senior Bishop OF the
will preside The list OF delegates, nearly all OF Whom
have arrived, includes 154 aymen 100 preachers anu
3s colored men. They will constitute as intelligent
body of men as has ever assembled in the interest,"
OF Methodisin. Free entertainment has been proVldeu
for the entire body including the fraternnl deeGatcS III
pleasant homes In the city and suburbs ana Wlnlh 9'
distance Of the conference headquarters The SESSIONS
will be hell in the forenoon OF each week
a at tbo month Of Mny and
perhaps longer. Several bishops will ne
elected and book agents editors OF the various pArou-
cals end at least missionary secretary appointed
The men prominently mentone for Bshops, the hgh'
cat Office In the gift Of the church. nre Cyrus W. FoSs
pr,sIdont of the Wesleyan University at Mddletown
Conn., j. L. Walden, book agent In this city, Chares '"
Fowler Editor Of The ChriStiGn AdUocate New-NorKb
Henry w. Warren. pastor Of the Arch street Church'
Philadelphia, John +, Hurst, president OF Drew lheo-
logical Institute, Madison, y. Y, Erasmus Fuller edtor
at Atlanta Ga L. Haven, Chancellor OF tho Syracuse
University N V, and William Mast, for forty-tWO yours
Editor of The Christian ApoioGisL
DR.. Fo57 Ia probably the most certain of election OF
any IN the list. DR.. Walden Is emncny qualified Tor
the place. and nj the last election OF Bishops by 'he
twenty Conference in New-Hork in 1877, he eaWe
vii ain Il E.ss votes q being elected. . ~ -, 4,
Dr.. Fuller avorite clndd date OF the memhers OF
o. whom tntr are now 100000 II It s dpcid.d lhat
chosen aud If pastor is elected. which will bo strongly
urged Dy come Of the delegates MI. Warren VIII prODa
| bly, nc named. -,,..-, m .
me venerunc Dr. Curry, at present Editor OF I1e
National hYos'oy s 1eng TALKED Of Tor Ld't3r ol ime ne
Christian ddrOcGfc (Ncw-Notkl. Ic iS ihe NGs-
tor Of MctnpdIst journalism The Rev. John /;
Newman aud the Rev. C. H. Payne. ID. D.. pIe5ldeut Oi
the Wesleyan University Delaware in this satc. VIII
he COnsiurTcI connection with the missionary score
taTVEhip The BshuUs, their quadTtnnlhl audlets
which may be s'nied tomorrow Will avoid as Iti US
10, sInic, topics liable to provoke long dlscsl ~ sew
era matters upon whcn there Is considerable dsagle.
Of this pgccution on tue part OF me HlSh9ps AWDnk
| these is proposition favored by BlslOp Whey
to Increase very considerably the "umher OF
lushOps another for the lcngthcning Cf the
pastoral tCrm; another us - thN clcctlOn
~ the presiding elders, and still another prov1iug IOr
the ordination of To expedite the work 9i lo
Conference new plan Of organizing the committees
will be submitted al tho opening scssl"n Ihe Assem-,
bling OF the Conference Is creating good dcal oi locH
interest.
The Conference Will meet AZ o'clock each morning
ana All urn for the day nj nOun Inc afternoons VIII
DC devoted to committee Wurk.