The sun., 1882-04-09
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BROTHER SMITHS LIBRARY,
COMPLIANT AGAINST A RETIRED MIN
ISTER OF lfIDDLETOWN
Bishop Simpson. Advice TO Young Methodiss
Preachers who Doubt-Tho Rev. w. y.
Blake's Disobedienco OF his bishop.

Bishop simpsons Advice to Young MethodisA
Preacher. who Doubt-Tho Rev. w. ..
Biake's Disobedienco OF his Bishop.
The secularity OF Brother Seneca Rowland
was laid over until Monday morning by the
New York East Methodist Conference to enable
Bishop Simpson TO prepare fvo young men for
their ordination on Sunday as deacons. They
stood up in a row yesterday. and answered In
chorus to certain formal questions. Bishop
Simpson said to them:
II. as ministers. you should find yourselves
having doubts. don't preach these doubts. but
have them in your study. and whom thore they
mature into certainty. quit the ministry"
He then asked IL the young men were heavily
In debt. and pledged them to abstain wholly
from the use Of tobacco.
Brother George A. Hubbell called up the case
OF Brother William +. Smith. which a commit
tee OF the Conference has been investigating
secretly. Brother Smiths father was highly
vcrsity. Through his influence his son was
admitted to membership in tho Conference
that Brother Smith was not an acceptable
preacher, and fow years later he was super.
animated. For TWENTY-FIVE years he has had
Conference. and has received from it. Alto
Getti9cr; Gssti g. 59o; member Of tho Conference
sowshp @ hn The uc@S fHsia S obscd f' to DO
SDI1elullle l'bT MS support.
Brother Smith has made living by acting as
agont for books ,Imagazincs. and papers. and
BY runnnGa small circulating library IN Mid
sons. OF other denominations in Mddletown OF
the ti,mEroper charaGiGr e the books Brother
spGciIled in the charges against. Brother Smith
Is " Mysteries, of the Court of London" by @.
w. NJ. Reynolds. Charges have also been made
against Brother Smith Of having used i'm
proper language oyoung girls; but IT has been
difficult to compel the attendance OF witnesses.
Brother Smith denies them. It is expected that
he will ask. q location rather than take his trial
Church, New York. whose. disciplinary time
congregation. be, ontinued there another year.
S RIn Of the city hs e. rents
rent expenses until the church debt is paid.
The Rev. Edmund o. Bates of Brooklyn has
been continued as the chaplain of the Seaman's
Friend Society.
THE SING SING CONFERENCE.
In the New York Conference yesterday at
Sing Sing Presiding Elder L. H. King of the
the town of maximum morality. In a popular
election on the licenco question the vote stood
BhTattsyils district; II ihs Elenyie distTiSs
The Conferences decided m % to meet next Year rim in
the First Methodist Church in Pcckskill. Chan
eSSIor Sims Of Syracuse University repordteed de
and that its entire debt is 100000.
The court appointed to try the Rev. W. 8.
Blake for dSobeying the Bishop last year In
not going to the church to which he was ap-
pointed reported that Brother Bakc's case had
already been inquired into by committee, and
that in consideration OF the fact that Brother
Blak was peculiarly situated and because he
had submitted TO the committees examination
mcckly. it was recommended by the court that
he should not be expelled but located" This
relation he had asked for himself hoping to
become an active preacher another Year. Tho
Conference granted the request.