Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-13
ru-NsGur's ANNIVERSARY.


The arrival in the city of the ministers
and others whose presence was Iequired
by these committee meetings created con-
among the hOspitable citizens who had
opened their homes to the entertainment
OF the visitors. All Of to-day there have
been arrivals and assignments of the
incOmers to their stopping places
and tomorrow night the presence of SO
large body OF strangers will be very no
ticeable in Lancaster. This evening the
first of the anniversaries takes place. that
of the historical s0ciety,in TIE Duke street
~ E church and the programme as ar
ranged for the occasion is as follows:
Rev.J. s. J.McCc nuell, presiding; address,
es by Bishop T. Bowman Rev. ]. A.
Roche, D. D., subject "The Philadel.
phia Conference the Classic Ground of
American Methodism - Rev. A. johnson,
subject The Preaching of the Faith
ers;'' and Rev James Neill, subject !:
Fifty Years Recollection of the Phila
delphia Conference"
The PresidIns Bishop.
In view of the fact that Bishop Bowman
will preside at the conference and that he
will be among the speakers of this evening,
we reprint from high Methodist authority,
the following sketch of his life and SER
vices:
Thomas Bowman, D. D., LID, a
bishop of the NJ E. church.. was born
July Is, 1917, near Berwick, Columbia
county, Pa. He prepared for college at
the Wilbraham academy, Mass, and at
Cazenovia, N. Y. While q student at the
hitter place he was converted and joined
the M. E. church Jan. 1, 1888. He grad
uated at Dickinson college, as valedictO.
rian of his class, in 1887. After leaving
college he spent ono year in studying law,
and was licensed to preach July, 1888
and travelled for one year as agent for the
Pennsylvania Colonization society. In
1889 he Joined the Baltimore conference,
and was stationed in Beaver Meadow
circuit. From 1910 to 1843 be was
teacher in the grammar school in Dickin-
son college when his health becoming
impaired, he was placed in q superannu-
pointed professor of Dickinson seminary.
1T Williamsport, Pa, which institution he
organized, and over which he presided
for ten years. In 1858 he was stationed
at Lswisburg, Pa, and during the year
was elected president of tho Indiana As.
bury university. He continued to act as
president of the university from 1859 until
1872, when he was elected to the episco-
pacy. Ito received the title of Doctor Of
Divinity from the Ohio Wesleyan uni
versity in 1858, and that of Doctor, of
Laws from Dickinson college in 1872. He
was elected chaplain to the United States
Senate during the sessions of 1864 and
1865 !; and in 1864 was appointed by the
general conference as one of the delegates
to attend the British Wesleyan conference.
He was a member of the general confer.
ences of 1868 and 1872. From 1880 to
1856 he was a member of the Baltimore
annual conference from 1856 to 1859, of
the East Baltimore conference from
1850 to 1864, of the Southeast Indiana
from 1864 to 1872, of the North Indiana.
Since his election to the Office OF bishop,
in 1872, he has been actively engaged in
episcopal duties, and has visited nearly all
parts of tho United States. His residence
is in st. Louis, Missouri.
The Sessions Of COuference.
During the week the regular sessions of
conference will begin at a. m. and close
at noon. The afternoons are devoted to
committee work, which greatly facilitates
the dispatch of business, and the even.
iggs to anniversaries and other celebra.
tiOns.