The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-05-17
THE METHODISTS.

PHILADELPHIA, May 16-The General Confer
snee of the Methodist Episcopal Church reassem-
bled this morning. resolution was adopted that
a committee of three be appointed on time and
place for the conservation of the bishops elect.
John NJ. Phillips and Rev. DIR. Sanford were then
elected book agents for New York.
At the afternoon session the report Of the COM
mittee on itinefancy was adopted. The report
stated that it was nexpedientto take action as to
the licensing OF women to preach or ordaining
them. Rev. Earl Cranston D. d. and Rev. W. P.
Stowe were elected agents of the Book Concern in
Cincinnati.
Biographical Sketches of the New Bishops
William Francis Mallalieu, d. D., was born in
Sutton, Dec. IL, 1928, of John and Lydia (Emer
SOM Mallalieu, who subsequently removed to Mill
bury, where the young but energetic boy found en-
ployment in a wooden factory when little over 10
years OF age striking out on his own hook" as he
says. His wages were then but $1.50 a week, and
to make this miserable pittance go far possible
he boarded himself. He continued at the business
seven years, rising from one position TO another
until his name was proposed as agent OF the mills
where he had applied himself SO assiduously. Book
canvassing was next tried, and then that of tin
smith, at which he made money enough to make a
start in his intellectual career, entering Wilbraham
Academy where he fitted himself for college; and in
'53 commenced his college life in Middletown at
Wesleyan University, graduating from that insti-
tuition in '57. He Immediately joined the New
England Conference at the session held in 68 at
Worcester, and his first appointment was Grafton.
Here he showed the qualities ch2racterizlng his
whole ministerial career by returning double the
membership Of the little society at the close OF MS
second year. His subsequent appointments were to
the most prominent churches in the conference
Chelsea, Lynl Common streeD, Charlestown.
76'78) Chelsea again c75). and still again in '79,
80 and 49, Worcester, South Boston, Springfield,
etc.
In 1882 he was appointed presiding elder of the
Boston district, which position he filed with the
same vigor and ability that has marked his entire
professional life for which he was evidently
lifted Very early in life Mr.. Mallslieu's active
mind was attracted to public affairs. and the poll
tics of the country had an especial charm Tor MN,
so that when the Fremont campaign was booming
Malalieu did good service in stumping Connecticut
for that gallant and dashing young candidate for
the White House. With the same hearty enthusi-
asm he espoused the antislavery cause, in which he
has always been among the most pronounced lead
ers, coming the nearest to the late Bishop HaVens
radical standpoint of any in the conference his
popularity among the members of his own confer
ence sufficiently indicated by the fact that ne was
not only first on the list OF delegates chosen at It's
late session in Lynn but his vote was the heaviest
of ALL he having received IT'S out Of the 2OS votes
cast on tho first ballot. He ranks nearly all his fell
low conference members in that sturdy oh-hand
style of practical oratory which makes him exceed
ingly popular with the masses, with whom MS sym
pathies are strong, for he remembers his own hard
struggles for life, and has often been heard TO say
Thank God, can make good living with my
two hands, health strength and wit holding QUIZ
He will undoubtedly make himself felt as efncisnt-
life from his very entrance upon its responsible
ties.
Rev. John NJ. Walden, d. D.. of Cincinnati, is
the senior agent of the Methodist Book Concern in
that city. he was born in Lebanon, Ohio, Feb. IL,
1881; was brought up on farm, worked as
clerk, and at the age of eighteen entered the
Farmers College, having previously devoted his
with honor filed the position of tutor in the college
two years, and then became a journalist. In 1857
he started Free State paper in Quindaro, Kansas
the Topeka Legislature and he' the ONCE OF State
superintendent of public instruction. He was IL
censed as local preacher In 1854, became mem-
Der of the Cincinnati Conference in 1858, and
since then has been pastor, city missionary presld
ing elder, secretary of the Freedmens AID Society
and agent of M. E. Book Concern, having been
elected to the position last named in 1868. In Gin
cinnati he has been member Of the board OF edu-
cation and chairman of the library committee; he
is president of the board of trustees of the Cncin
nati Wesleyan College and has been delegate 10
several of the General Conferences.
Rev. William Xavier Ninde, d. D., is president of
the Garrett Biblical Institute Evanston, Illinois.
He was born in Cortlandyille, Cortland county,
New York, june 81, 1882, and was graduated at
Wesleyan University in 1856. During that year
he taught in the Rome Academy, New York, and in
1856 Joined the Black River Conference, whence
he was transferred in 1861 to the CINCINNATI Con
Cincinnati. He visited Europe and the East III
1859 and in 1870 was transferred to the Detroit
From u s7 to 1875 he was pro-
lessor of practical theology in the Garrett Biblical
Institute, and in 1874 received the degree OF d. d.
from his alma mater. In 1876 he was again pas
tor of the Central Church, and was delegate to
the General Conference. From the Central Church
he returned to the Garrett Biblical Institute to as
sumo the position of president He was delegate
to the Methodist Ecumenical Conference, held In
London in 1881.
Rev. Charles II. Fowler, d. D., LII. D., is native
of Canada, having been born in Burford, Brant
county, Ontario in 1887 He was graduated in
1869 at Genesee College, now Syracuse University,
and two years later took the position of B. D. in the
Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Ill. From
1852 to 1872 he was engaged in the work of the
ministry in the Rock River Conference, and during
that period, in 1867, was honored with the degree
of d. D., from the Garrett Biblical Institute. He
was president of the Northwestern University from
1879 to 1875, and then became editor Of the
Christian Advocate. Wesleyan University con
ferred upon him the honorary degree of LII. d. in
1875, and the same degree was conferred upon
him by the Syracuse University in 1878. DIR. Fow-
Ter was corresponding secretary of the Missionary
Society from 1880 to 1882, and was delegate to
the General Conference in 1872, 1876 and 1885,
He is at present resident of Chicago. He has been
editor in part of Home and Health and Home Eco
Monies, and is the author of 1.-THE Fallaeies of Co
lenso Reviewed"