The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-06-02
AFTER HHE CONFERENCE.
A Summary Of the Work Per
formed by the Long Session.
SETTLEMENT OF QUESTIONS
That Have Agltatcd the Methodist
Episcopal Church-Important
Changes Siadc-The Pro-
hIbltlon Resolutions.

: hIbItlon Resolutions.
Special Correspondence ofthe IatellfOener.
NEw York, May 3O.-While the Con
, ference pauses briefly in its arduou
! work, preparatory to final adjournment
and repairs to Riverside to strew flower
on the tomb of Grant, whom it recog
nized by n resolution yesterday, as no
only the greatest military chieftain, bu
as true Methodist besides, a good op
portunity is afforded to summarize ant
review the accomplishments OF the body
In general terms it may be truthfully
said that for the spirit Of independence
shown, for the superior character Of the
men placed in office, for the mighty de-
bates sustained, for the radical changes
made, and for the quantity, no less than
for the quality OF the business brought
before It, this Conference has had nc
equal in Methodism since the memOra'
bic gathering in this city forty-four years
ago when the split occurred OIL the sub
ject OF slavery.
Not less than n thousand petitions and
memorials have been considered by the
body, and upon at least n hundred OF
these have the great committees ground
out some sort OF Il report. 1t is only. a
pity that all these reports cannot be
acted upon, but 80 much time was spent
ut the opening on the woman question,
and so much more was occupied last
week in the elections, while the breth-
ren now seem SO anxious to adjourn,
that such consummation is not pos
sible.
TIE WORK ACCOMPLISHED.
The Episcopal office remains as it was,
notwithstanding all the efforts made to
modify it. 1t is still an office, not an
order, the present conference affirming
this by an indirect vote MS emphatically
MS in express terms the same view was
adopted by the last conference. The
tenure, moreover, is still for life, and
this, by the way, applies also to the Mis-.
Sionary Bishops, who have been declared
by the conference to be OF the same
standing with the others, excepting that
their field is limited. To Bishop Taylor
in Africa has now been added Bishop j.
NJ. Thoburn, whose diocese will COM
prise India and Malaysia. Both these
get their pay from the Episcopal Fund.
and Bishop Taylor gets his back pay OF
$4,000 from that fund technically, al
though the Episcopal Fund is reim-
bursed for this outlay from the Mission
ary Treasury. ,
Bishop Mallalieu has been appointed
to visit the European Conference this
year, and will leave for Europe on Sat
urday. The Episcopal residences are LETT
us they were, only, OF course, with addi-
tions 10 accommodate those newly elect
cd. The new places added arc Philadel-
phia, Omaha, or Lincoln, and the State
Of Texas. a noticeable feature in the
election OF the Bishops is that two of
those chosen came directly from the
pastorate, and that another was q pastor
up to year ago. This is a new depar-
ture. In the four elected by the last
conference not one was from the pastor
ate, and only one OF the four elected III
1850 held that relation.
THE CHURCH PRESS.
The church press is another institu-
ton which remains as it was, excepting
that the paper for young people, called
Our Youth, is to be made more distinctive
ly Sunday school paper. To the editor.
ship OF this and the other Sunday school
notifications of this church, the position
so long held by Bishop Vincent, the
Rev, ]. L. Hurlbut, long an able assist
ant in this work, has been promoted.
The cditorship OF The RerielC, made VA.
cant by the death OF DR.. Curry, is filled
now by DR.. J. W. Mendenhall, OF Ohio.
DR.. Albert succeeds the lamented Mar
shall w. Taylor as editor OF The South
treSiern Adrocate, and the other editors
were all reelected, MS were also all the
book agents. The only election by ac-
clamatiOn was that OF the venerable DR..
William Mast to The ApOlOgiSt, position
he has held for forty-nine years. The
Methodist advocate, of Chattanooga, for
merly an independent paper, is now
made regular organ OF the church,
with a liberal appropriation, and DR.. T.
G. Carter is continued as its editor.
In the great Church Societies the
changes are more numerous. The Freed
mems Aid is now the Freedmen's Aid
and Southern Educational Society, and
this change, 1t issupposed, will enable
the society to carry on its white work in
that section with less probability Of in.
reference on the part OF the Colored
people. The venerable DR.. Rust, the
father OF this society, was thought to
have deserved an honorary retirement,
and the actual management will rest
hereafter with DIR. j. G. Hartzell, for.
merly DR.. Rust's assistant.
IMPORTANT CHANGES.
Another veteran placed in the same
honorary relation is DIR. j. NJ. Reed, long
the chief secretary of the Missionary So
ciety. DR.. C. G. M'Cabe succeeds to DR.
Reeds position, and the other CORE
spending secretaries are new men, name
lv, DR.. A. B. Leonard, OF Ohio, and DIR
i ]. o, Peck, Of New York. The Educa
tionnl Society is enlarged in its scope
somewhat, and DIR. @. II. Payne becomes
its secretary, succeeding in that position
DR.. Goodsell, one of the 0ew bishops
The only other change is that the Churcl
Extension Society adds to its loan funC
} an annuity fund. "
| II will, however, greatly delight the
church to know that new society hai
been formed for the special benefit o
Conference claimants. Heretofore tn,
worn out preachers and the widows anC
I orphans OF deceased ministers have ha'
, to depend for their. allowances upol
what could be raised for them in thei
own conferences, the result being, thai
while none have received nearly s.
! much MS they deserved, some have 60
much more than others because belong
ing to conferences better able to give
Ifnhnr the now ARRANGEMENT the allow