Smyrna times., 1888-02-15
Conference News.
HOW THE WILMINGTON NJ. E. CONFER
ENCE Is CONsTITUTED-PRos
TIVE PASTORAL CHANGES
ADDITIONAL LAY DELE
GATES.

The Wilmington Annual Conference
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church
will convene in Union M. r. Cbnrcb
Wilmington, On Wednesday, March 7.
among the important business to he
transacted is the selection ofthree dele
gates to the General Conference. and il
IS likely that proposition will be sub-
nitted looking either to the abolish.
ment or enlargement of the Virginia
district, created at the last session and
another suggesting that the members
OF the clerical and lay conferences he
hereafter required to board themselves
ms latter proposition is prompted
from the fact of its being almost a nat.
ter OF lmpossibility to find homes for
the oOO odd members. The member
snip OF the present body is comnoso5
as follows: Effective full members
il6; non-etfective members. 16. nrol
OatlOners to be admitted this confar-
ence, II, total number full members
40. There will be nine probationer9
co3Ulhued. Several also will be admit
ted on trial, making probable total nf
lou or more at conference.
Inc business sessions will ha c.o,,, n
A. NJ, TO noon, and a half hour of dove
tlonal service will precede them each
day. The afternoon and evonina. ' ''.:ii
~ UoVo'eu TO committee meetings and
anniversaries ann Upon any question il
VII! require vote of 73 to coDstituto -
majority, as only those in full connoc-
C'on are permitted to vote. Several
members, OF course, may not be nree-
emu ana from 68 to 70 will he tho
acCual number required to elect anv
ROslIlon or TO decide any Question
:, hree delegates will be elected tn tLo
GehGral conference and two alternatae
Much business of most inrerasti,',,
ana important character will he tr,ns9
ae'eH' The conference will nrobahIv
continue In session seven DAYS
lEere are many changes to he made
III tne pastorates, and this important
WORK VIII be done by the bishoD and
ms GaDlhet, although this has degener-
aIed INTO merely a matter of form os
/! Is well known that MANY conora,,a-
tlohs nave already got dead enre,,
successors to take the places of tho
present incumbents. In Wilminoton
the following churches will mni
change their pastors: Asbnrv Ir,;na
grace, EpWorth, Brandywine, Wesley
ana ,Madeiey; Of those that change ST
6auis has asked for the Rev. +, T.
barrett par now at Port Deposit. Md
MI. salem wants the Rev. ". Z. Avery
at present at Paramount, Md. Scott has
requested the Rev V. S. Collins now
at IF5elton, Del, to become its pastor.
lhOse charges outside of the civ
Ihat are unlikely to change are the fol-
lowing in this district; Bethel and
DlaSgow, Chester, Mt. Pleasant. Chris
II5tha' Newport, Newark, Charlestown
Ho,pewell, Rising Sun, Zion. Chen,
NH New Castle, Delaware CitI /
Elk Neck and North East; leaving
tne loIlOwlng places to change: Elk
IOh' ma which has invited the Rev |
Charies Hill; the Rev. !. p. Otis has
Deen invited to Port Deposit and ~
Georges and Mt. Lebanon on the Wi.
mlngtOn district.
Rev. J. ID. Rigg, conference secra-
tary and a former pastor of Wt SaIo,o
" nl llroOaDiy go to Still Pond, Md:
Ine Rev. +. c. Macnichol, who is as,
Sistant secretary, to Odessa, and the !
heV' ~ W. Todd to Chestertown. Md |
In Easton district there will proba-
Oily DC from ten to fifteen changes nm
u.ouoledly seven, because of the expira-
I 1E OF full term Of three years. In
D , district there will ten or twelve |
changes, as many more in Salisbury
district and two or threein the Virginia
district. So that the entire probable |
changes Will foot up to q few over fnv,
Ichough the number may exceed This |
Inquire. - Wilmington Star,