Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-26
THE COLORED METHODISTS.
MORE MINISTERS THAN PLACEs-A RESrGNA
TIoN-A NEW JERSEY PROFESSOR SAYS TIL
SUN DOES MOVE.


MORE MINISTERS THAN PLACEs-A REsIGNA-
TIoN-A NEW JERSEY PROFESSOR SAYS THE
SUN DOES MOVE.
The Virginia conference of the c. NJ. f.
church in session at Israel church saturday
afternoon fixed upon Petersburg, Va, as the
place for holding the next annual conference.
When the conference met this morning
Messrs. Hamilton and Hall were appointed a
committee TO take charge Of the printing Of the
minutes
The conference decided to ordain J. H. Lomax
as an elder on the recommendation OF the OK
amining committee of the North Carolina con-
ference.
TOO MANY PEGS FOR THE HOLES.
When the question Of the location of preachers
came up the conference discussed various cases
OF preachers who were too old feeble for active
service. There was q tendency shown among
the members to keep the old preachers on the
conference list, ii possible. In one the plea
was made, to save one brother from location, 7"
that he was good old man. and IL would greyc
him 50 that his years would be shortened, IL he
T Mere cropped from the rolls OF the conference.
as SUPPLEMENTARY.
Bishop Holsey remarked upon the predica-
| many men i'm active relation, there being more
men than there were appointments to Ill. Some
men grew old They may be good preachers
and have a thorough knowledge of the Scrip
lures, but still were not good for ministerial
service. They grew impatient, peevish and
| fretful and got behind the time Still they did
not want to be located made supernumerary
or superannuated. Ii they were sent to q
charge. after six months some one else would
have to be sent, or II they remained twelve
months the charge would die.
REV. r. THoMPKINs RESIGNS
Presiding Elder Hamilton, of the Washington
district, moved that Rev. R. Thompkins, wht
has served at Tenleytown during the past year
| be located.
quickly, "Ill save you that trouble. I'll resign
and the conference need not locate me agains
my will: never see such doings in any con
ference"
"You do resigne" said the bishop.
al resign, to take effect today" said Mr.
| Mr.. Usher thought Mr.. Thompkins had taker
| consideration.
ant man, and If the conference had no work fol
| him to do he could find it outside. He there
fore resigned i'm good faith.
Some other members wanted to discuss Mr.
saying that Mr.. ThOmpkins, having resigned
peremptorily, was no longer a member OF the
| conference.
''THE SUN DO MOVE"
At noon the business of the conference was
| suspended to listen to an address by Prof
Myler, of New Jersey. Prof. Myler was small
colored man in a long black coat, with very
| LOUD voice. He had several unique charts
| astronomical and one was geographical
| Brother MYERS time having been limited to s
minutes, he talked very rapidly i'm order TO state
| in that time ideas which he had been five years
| i'm forming. He alluded to what he says was
Mr.. Proctors theory that the earth was formed
by the stratihcation of matter thrown out from
| the sun, and said he had proved to his satisiac
| ton that the idea was false. Proof was given
| that the sun did move in the recent transit OF
| Venus. He had waited for that transit two
years to find that that sun did move 1t took
place 900, 900 600 miles away from the other
| transit. The transit of 1874 took place in the
constellation of Taurus. This transit took place
| in Hercules, two billion miles away.
chow can the sun pass up on the northern
Zodiac line and be there on the 22d of June, 4
she don't mover" demanded the speaker glar
| ing at the conference.
HELL AND HEAVEN.
"You don't profess to tell us where hell and
| heaven is. do you brotherfv esked the bishop.
The professor lodged the question a little. HI
said that it was absurd to think that hell wa,
underground and that God had put the devil
down there. "Why," he said, ''if the devil had
any sense at all, he would crawl right out" and
the professor went through a number OF pecu
liar contortiOns to show how the devil might be
supposed tocrawi up out ola hole in the ground
He concluded by remarking that just SO far as
they accepted this qualification theory of Proc
| tors they would have 10 give up their the
Ology.
After transactng aquantity of routine bust
ness, the conference adjourned till this evening
The Market Dealers Cases.
DECISION BY THE COURT IN GENERAL TERM
To-day, in the Court in General Term, the
cases of the District agt Oyster, Daley and
Emmert were decided, Judge Merrick deliver