New-York tribune., 1886-04-03
METHODIST MINISTERS SALARIES.
DISCUSSING THE QUESTION IN TWO CONFERENCES
THE WHITE AND BRIsToR CASES.

DISCUSSING THE QUESTION IN TWO CONFERENCEs-
THE WHITE AND BRIsToR CA~Es.
The session of the Newark Methodist Episco-
nal Conference wasconuue yesterday the Lafayette
Church Pacific Jersey City. The Bristoi case
was talked privately by the ministers and there was
considerable speculation u TO what should he doae
about his failure to appear before the Ecclesiastical
Court Thursday. Bishop Foster received letter
Bristor asking permission TO withdraw from the
Conference. TIE Bishop will take no action In the
matter until 1t is Determined whether he has the right to
grant the pernIs-ion tho Conference must
pass upon The Trial Committee met in the lecture
room of the Lafayette Reformed Church. and after some
discussion decided to "a vi the case with int regard
to the absence Brst,r st night the committee took
testimony upon tie charse OF insnbordinaton The
ccedlngs hut when concnson ia reached
It will be presented to the Conference.
At tho morning session o. conference the presiding
elder. submitted reports Of the work done during the
year Presiding Elder rcc or the Newark district re-
ported 1ourishins con ion OF things In the district
reduction Of $4,000 has been made In the debts OH
churches Presiding Eler Craig OF the Jersey City dis
trct. reported that tho debt Of tho churches hal been
reduced S2l 900 Aluding ths salaries OF ministers
the report stated OF the 2O1 pastors OF the con-
ference received than $500 year AMI parsonage
Mr. Craig said
when the support Is mellow that point 1t must one
way another impair the efficiency OF the pastor.
weaken the power OF the church and dsnearien the
family o, the minister 1t impossible for church to
maintain llhy and prosperous life where the pa.tor
is paid only S4OO q $500 salary"
rhe New-Yor Conference Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church was continued yesterday in 81. Johns Church
in West Ffty-thirdst Bishop Hurst pro-ided.
Reports were made by the Rev. Drs Gregoy Crawford
Ferguson Burch and Beden the five presiding elder of
the Conference showing general prosperity n heir dis
durns The year. At TIE close OF his report DE-
Ferguson announced that after forty years service IN
church he desired retire from active pastoral work
The Rev. H. n Lewis. OF Cornwall who had been fory-
appointed To consider the labor question
and the recent Chinese ontrases.
In the afternoon tive OF the ministers met in the
Madison Avenue MthOds ST Episcopal Church TO oconsrr
charges against several pastors Their mecnrs were
held with closed doors. Only the witnesses being ai-
United to give TESTIMONY. lhe anniversary OF me
in 81. Johns Church. conducted by the Rev c
X North. Addresses were made by Mrs kennard
Chandler and Mrs. Isabella c. DAVIS. Bishop Hurst
lated some Incidents Of ms recent visit tho
Influence Of the Womcn's Foreign Missionary Society
Al the second DAYS session OF the New-YorK East
Methodist Episcopal Conference in Brooklfn yesterday.
the OF all the effective elders connected with
the Conference passed. The presiding elders made
their reports showing the prosperous work OF the year.
Chancellor SIMS of Syracuse University, Dr. W. G. Steele
of wllnrsham Aradeay. aud Professor N: d. Buell. o!
School of Theology addressed the Conference
behalf Of those institutions lD dscussirg resolution
urging the pastors to take collections for the Pastoral
Church Ad society on account oftGe gieatneqnalty
the salaries OF the pastors. the evJ Lansing urged
that something should he done to make the pay OF min
listers adequate 20 ther supPr nc sau tntt III Iorty
three OF the churches In the NewHaven District OF the
than a day aborer earned. The lot OF the wives Of
these ministers especially hsri ono
Mr. Lansing, whose salary s S3, 900, proposed that
ministers whose salaries $1,000 pay three
per cent who ct 81 900 per cent, and those
who 81 900 cent OF their salaries to
for benefit Of those whose salaries ess The
subject laid upon the table to be taken up In
the evening The anniversary OF the Womens Foreign
Missionary Society addressed by the Rev. EibeIt B.
Todd apd Miss Julia /. McGrew meeting AT which
tho interests OF Brook IN thodst Episcopal Hos
ptal were presented by Oliver Hoyt. DR.. j. NJ Buckley
and the Rev. G. p. Mains. well attended in the
evening.