Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-03-12
FOURTH EDITION.
PHILADEIPHIA CONFERENCES.
A Lively Little Row Expected
about Transfers and the AppOins.
sments.

To-day's Philadelphia Ledger says:
The Methodist Annual Conference,
which meets at Lancaster on Wednes-
day, will be OF peculiar interest to Phil.
adeiphia MethodiSts on account OF the
many and important pastoral changes to
De made III many III the churches in
this city. Time was when the Bi>hop
and his Council of Presiding Elders
from the I'll ttercnt districts made M The
list of appointments without allowing
ontslhc interference. Thing> are chang.
e'i now, aud the large churches make
arrangements with prominent preachers
IN advance of the meeting Oft Conference,
which are expected 10 be- ratified by the
Bishop, and rhrr" is n pretty row ii'thl>
expectation i, not realized.
Bishop Foster a few years ago created
quite Il sensation IN the Philadelphia
'"nt"r"nr" Ny putting his foot down
fiatly upon TINS rilroa' hnrut of thu
tpiSropaI prer"gativr. n" declined 10
ar'rp; e rut .and-irird program
presented To him. A. that session tie
Conference passed a /, solution request
ing the Bishop 10 make no transfers Of
preachers from other he phlldrlpha
Conference, hecause there were already
more preachers, in this Conference than
appointments aud some of the bret hrcn
were bound ''to get left - The Phila.
d"iphia Conference preachers, have thus
prev cnl,si, toa considerable extent, the
admission rf men from abroad This
year there is prospect Of another clash
between the -chrrch-nrrangernrnt
Al Al La. lt,,l. q a..
ference, who are thus crowded into the
smaller appointments.
- The Bishops were hnS>,> mIr"." re-
marked well known itinrrant as he
ran his eye along the list Of salaries
published i'll the minutes; but the
wealthy churches boss The Bishops
now A resolution viii probably lie
passed as SuOn rs the Conference meets
In" he on" upon which Bishop Foster
acted, asking Bishop Bowman, who
viii preside tins year, to transfer no.
preacher 10 this Conference unless Il |
preacher of equal grade l. tran >trrr.d
ont The result remains to hr seen.
tn" highest grade appointment in |
this Conference is Arch Street Church,
where Dr. Tiffany ha, served ont III, |,
'''' ''HI VI illltt wears, ana inllSI 20. !
Dr- ."ngarrc, If Trinity, Is book 81 t. |
succeed him, and DR. Tiffany will hn
transferred To New York. Jacob Todd, |.
on" 81 tn" mos, popular preachers in /
the Conference, may he transferred ruI
N"wark, \. j., aud Mr.. richards, r,I
II. Panl's Church, Wilmington, viii
succeed him At ',rr"u Stree, Church. |
Nr EI"liardS recently came from In, .
West, and TINS is his iir,r appointment
Ill III" Philadelphia Conference.
Green Street Church pulpit will be-
iiiied 10y k"v, j, L Boyle, from the
Western Church. l;rv. nr. Vernon will
!" appointed t" Trinity Rev. j. y.
Miller, VIII" has filled tho pulpit # the
"calthicst Methodist Church in WI
Will Ni"c'rl Dr. snyder IT
~UTi, Gar,tcn street tAur, Ii, " hu goes
Ia hainrs Street Church, Germantown.
DR. liargiS will h transferred 10 Jersey
.'ilN, and Rev. \. J.. Urban will proha-
bly, - I" Union.
All OF these contemplated changes
llay he Knocked into a rurkrl hat after
he Bishop has run his eye over the list.
mere Is no certainty about Il Met odist
appointment until the Bishop
"adS out the names At the close of the
Conference