The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-17
Notes and Personal Talk.

Notes and Personal Talk.
There are about eighty members of the con-
ference, and the assemblage is noted, not so
| much by beauty as intellectually
Rev. S. A. Bright now at Chsrlestown, one Of
the youngest members of the conference, was a
| railroad engineer before he entered the ministry
Rev. A. FL. Gillett of Cincinnati, secretary of
| Sunday-schools who will speak this evening at
the anniversary of the Sunday school Union, is q
finished and highly entertaining talker. full of
mis- subject and worthy of large hearing on the
part of al! Sunday school people.
DR.. George L. Curtiss, presiding elder of the
tJeffersonville district, is in the front rank
among the so-called business preachers of the
| conference. He is doubly doctor, as he is not
| only doctor of theology, but graduate in
| medicine being equipped to care for souls as
well as bodies.
Among the visitors yesterday were Rev. Kemp
presiding elder of the Muncie district; Rev. @.
| r. White, of the same conference; Rev. A~W.
| Wood, Northwest Indiana Conference; Rev. Col
| Inns, Rev Woodruff, Rev. j. V. r. Miller, of In
diana Conferences Revs. Rogers and Reed, North
| Indiana Conference; Rev. jones' presiding elder
Of the Lexington Conference.
DR.. j. M. Thoburn is a returned missionary
| from india having come home to recruit his
| health, and for the purpose of seeking helpers
| for the mission field He is superintendent Of
mission district in India and one of the foremost
men in missionary work, being characterized by
his enthusiastic zeal. He Is q popular platform
speaker, and an eloquent pulpit orator
Rev DR.. Spencer of PHILADELPHIA, will speak
at the anniversary of the Church Extension So
clety, tomorrow night, at Roberts Park Church.
He Is assistant secretary of the society. He is
said to be of much the same force and vim as Chap
| lain McCabe. He has been around the world,
and can sing in Chinese, Japanese and other
Oriental tongues. He is an enthusiastic and elo-
| quent speaker.
| The net increase in membership of the differ
ent districts OF the conference is set down as fol-
| lows Moore's Hill, $685. Jeffersonville, about
| 1,l00; Indianapolis. about 1,200 Connersville,
about i. 600. The church year extends from the
close of one conference to the close of the next.
| The work of all districts was commended, espe-
cially that of Connersville district, Rev. Tinsley
| presiding elder.
The '.revival preachers" in this conference, all
| of whom have conducted greatly profitable
| meetings during the past year, Revs. G. W.
Lee, Lawrenceburg; j. H. Doddridge, Corners
| vile; S. A. Bright, Charleston C. G. Edwards,
| Liberty B. f. Morgan. Morrstown; G. p Jenk-
ms, Rising Sun; T. w. Northcott, North Yer
non; V. W. Tevis, Columbus and Isaac Turner,
| Nineveh circuit.
DR.. Earl Cranston, of the Methodist Book
| Concern Cincinnati, is man of fine business
| qualifications and an excellent platform speaker.
| He was elected to the Office he holds from the
presiding eldership of the Denver district Col
orado Conference He has served q number of
| leading churches pastor He is of middle
| age. and is thought as is Significantly said
| among Methodists, to have "a future"
| DIR. J. P. d. John, vicepresident of DePauw
University, is a member of this conference, and,
! although young man about forty years old,
stands among the first educators in the West.
| He was president of Brookside College; went
| from there to the presidency of Moore's Hill
4 College, and from there to DePauw where he is
professor of mathematics. 1t is difficult to get
/ him to lecture, but when he talks he has the
most attentive and appreciative listeners, even
/ when he addresses college boys
| DR.. j. Fl. Bayless was received with many
warm hand-shake, not alone by the clergy, but
| by former members of his church, who were
! present. He was at one time pastor of Roberts
| Park Church, and no one ever filed that pulpit
| more successfully or acceptably. He is now ed
4 itor of the Western Christian Advocate at Gin
| cinnat. He left yesterday afternoon for Alli-
4 ance, o., where he will attend the East Ohio
1 Conference, after which he will go to Canal
Dover, to attend the North Ohio Conference
1 Rev. E. II. Wood, of Aurora, presiding elder
of the Moore's Hill district. is the youngest pre-
1 siding elder of the conference He made fine
report, one quite out of the usual dry-as-dust
| style. His district is an exceedingly billy one,
4 and his service in visiting the churches In his
charge suggests the work of the saddle-bags
preacher OF fifty years ago. He has travelled g.
| 068 miles during the year. a great part of it on
| horseback. The increase in membership in his
| district was highly gratifying and brought forth
a hum of approval. the bishop remarking. II
| like to SEQ these gains. This is the way to mas
| ter those socalistc and anarchistic problems
| that are troubling With such gains to the
church everywhere there would be no doubt
| about their being solved"
The three oldest men in the conference, all of
whom on the superannuated list after long
years of arduous labor are Revs Joseph Tark-
4 irO n anH
| are called the patriarchs of the conference Mr..
Harrington is the eldest of this venerable three.
\ He lives at Greensburg. Drs. Lynch and Gilett
/ live In this city. the former being a member of
| Central avenue and the latter of Roberts Park
Church. DR.. Lynch is the Oldest man in the
| conference now preaching having for the past
| year had charge of the church at Brightwood.
| DIR. F. G. Holiday, now at Rushville, is the old
| charge. He is now building $1S, 900 church at
Rushville Rev. w. NJ. Grubb at Waldron, has
been preaching over fifty years.
| Bishop Andrews is an admirable presiding Of
| fcer He has spent the greater part of his life
in the pastorate up to his election to the epsco-
pate When about thirty five years old he was
elected principal of the female college at Mans
| field, o.. which he served for short time only.
| and returned to the pulpit. He has filled
some of the best pulpits in the New York
| East Conference. and elected a bishop
from pastorate in New York city in
1882 He is eminently spiritual in
his ministrations and has taken high rank as
| pulpit orator. He is a man of liberal educa
ton. is dignifed presiding officer. and is popu-
lar with the conference. He probably has no
superior among his colleagues as a parla-
mentariau. When elected to the epscopacy he
was assigned an episcopal residence in Washing
ton City. where he now resides. When Presi-
| dent Garfield was struck down by the assassin's
| bullet the Bishop was the first minister to APP
| pear. he ministered tenderly to the stricken
President and took deep interest ia all that
pertained TO him during his suffering. The