The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-30
GENERAL CONFERENCE NOTES.
Arrival Of Delegates-sunday Services
Meetings-Personals, Etc.

| 1eetings-Persenals, Etc.
The General Conference of the NJ. E.
Church will hold its first session tomorrow
and continue in session each day for 9
month. Delegates have been arriving all
day to-day in large numbers and are being
assigned to their places Of enter tainment
as fast as they arrive. Everything is in
readiness for the meeting at Pixies Opera
house tomorrow.
From 10 to 12 o'clock to-day a meeting
was held at Trinity NJ. E. Church for the
purpose of praying for the blessing of God
upon the General Conference and for di-
vine guidance in its proceedings The
services were conducted by Bishops Scott
and Simpson, assisted by Presiding Elders
Runyan aud Leonard. The meeting was
largely attended.
The various pulpits of the Methodist
churches will be supplied Sunday by dele
gates to the Conference as follows:
At Pixies Opera-house, at p. m. by DR..
Vincent; at Trinity. ut IL a. m. by DR..
Fvss, and at 711aa D. m. by Dr. Buckley; st.
Paul, Bishop bowman and Jacob Todd;
| Walnut Hills, Bishop Andrews and DR..
Newman; St. Johns, DR.. Crary and d. G..
Strong; Pearl street. DR.. L. G. Queal and T.
C. Tiff; NJ Lean, Drs. Lanahan and Marine;
Finley, P. NJ. Starr and DR.. Locke; Chris
tie, A. N. Craft and DR.. A. Wheeler; Wes.
ley, Bishop Peck and Dr., Payne; York,
street, Drs. Mallalieu and Upham; Mt. Au-
burn, T. Nj. Gossard in the morning; Avon
dale, Drs. Fuller and Hemingway; Pendle-
ton, C. J. Clark in the evening; Fair.
mount L. A. Belt and J. N. Fitzgerald;
Delhi, P. M. Granger and I. b. Ford
jacksonville T. b. Hughes and 8. O..
Barnes; ,Lockland, Bishop Simpson and
DR.. E. Wentworth; Union, Covington, DR..
Hurst and H. w. Warren; Grace, New.
pot. DR.. Trimble and W. l. Fee.
Mr.. w. Parker Bodtish is in Cincinnati
making General Conference sketches fol
the Frank Leslie periodicals.
The local committee appointed to make
arrangements for the Educational Conven.
tion to be held in connection with lhe
General Conference, May 9th and 7th, con.
sists of Rev. Drs. Moore, kidgaway and
Hoyt, George w. Harper. Principal OF
Woodward High School, and Prof. A. J.
Mast. The committee has elected DR..
Moore Chairman and Prof. Mast Secretary,
to whom all matters of business were COM
mitted.
Many excursion parties will visit Cincin-
natl during the session of the General Con.
ference. Several leading Methodists OF
Davenport, Iowa, and vicinity, have pro-
jected one from Rock Island, ILL.,, with
round trip tickets from May 9th and good
for thirty days, or from May 14th, good for
twenty days. The 1lIinois Wesleyan Uni
versity of Bloomington has organized q
series of excursions, certain per cent of
the profits of which goes toward the pay
| Iho Grctx ~
9th and the tickets will be good for thirty
days. The second will start May l4th, tick
cts good for twenty days. '.....
Uuiing the Conference q course of lee
lures will be delivered at Trinity M. 4.
Church as follows;
Tues iav evening, May 4th-Rev. @. II.
Fowler, DID,, LID. subject, Great Deeds
of Great Men,"
Thursday evening, May 6th-Rev. H. W.
Warren, DID,; subject, Forces in Sun
beam."
Tuesday evening, May 1lth-Rev. J. F.
Hurst DID,, LID; subject not an
nounced.
These lectures will probably be followed
by Others.
Rev. W. H. Daniels, editor of the Daily
Advocate. is in the city, and will issue the
first number of the paper tomorrow. Rev.
w. H. Kincade is preparing biographical
sketches OF the members of the General
Conference for the daily.
The German Churches in New Orleans
will petition the General Conference to
transfer them from the Louisiana Confer
ence to the Southern German Conference,
which now includes Texas. The total mem.
bership of these churches is l59. and the
value OF the three churches and two par.
sonages is $i9 800. The three Sunday
schools number 80 officers aud teachers ani
$50 scholars.