St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-06
Elections and Reports the
Order at the Methodist
Conference.
Ecumenical Council Delegates
and It's Own Officers Are
Chosen.
Two Powerful Exhortations
and Some Very Interest
ing Reports.
To-Day's Programme Out
lined--Some Probable st.
Paul Assignments.

Yesterdays session of the Methodist
conference was opened with prayer by
Rev. William COpp, of Eagle Lake. AT
g O'Clock the business session of the
morning was opened by the bishop.
Advancement was announced for sew
eral ministers, and several Withdrawals
from the conference were reported. The
names were announced of ministers on
probation, and the names of those who
will take elders orders to-day are David
p. Olin, s. F. Kerfoot, John Ii. Ham
mOnd, Charles Z. Davenport, John C..
Handy, W. l.. Tanday. r. c. GOse.
Abraham Meland, S. W. Warner
and William Moore. The mat
ter of the trial Of J. P. Oakley for SLAM
der was referred to the bishop for the
latter'S opinion on a point of law. Next
came the report of the Epworth league,
one of the newest and most tiOurishing
of the church organizations. ReSOlu-
lions ind0rSing the league as society
well adapted to the benefit of the young
people of the church, by assisting in
their development into symmetrical
Christians, were adopted. The fOrma-
ton of a Minnesota Conference Ep-
worth league at some time during the
present session was advocated; also
that each presiding elder should hold Il
district convention at an early date for
the purpose of securing thorough
organization of the young people of the
Methodist church. All pastors were
urged to help on the work by every
means IN their power. The most i'm
pOrtant business of the morning session
was the election of ministerial and lay
delegates TO
THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL,
to be held in New York during the
summer of 1891. The council will con-
tain representatives from all the Meth
Odist conferences of the world, and is
body got together for the sole purpose
of discussing and acting upon questions
of vital interest to the Methodist church.
DIR. William Mckinley, of Hamline, and
DIR. Levi Gilbert, of Winona. were
elected ministerial delegates, and DIR.
W. K. Marshall, of Minneapolis, and
Rev. J. B. Hingeley, of Fergus Falls, as
alternateS. The lay delegates are NJ. o..
Norton, of WinOna, and Judge II. K.
Brill, of st. Paul.
The class of ministers about to enter
the conference in full connections
came before the bishop and were ques-
toned on their faith. The class is COM
posed of J.. NJ. Brown, w. j. Robinson,
q. NJ. Rule, James K. Coley, Frank A.
Cone. Thomas Billey, w. Dawson,
David Wolfe, F. w. Harte and Nathan
Wood. The class was addressed by
Bishop MalIileau, who eXhOrted them
to conduct themselves as became serv-
ants of God and ministers of the Meth
Odist church. He spoke of the doctrine
of Christian perfection TO which they
were to attain. He said that this doc
trine differentiated the Methodist
church from others, but he did not want
them to understand that by Christian
perfection he meant state where they
would be free from temptation. He
advised them not to be III hurry about
taking up with new doctrines; an eX-
ample of this was that doctrine Chris
tian science. which the bishop deSig-
mated neither as Christian or science.
Tney should anchor to the Methodist
creed.
AT the close Of the morning session
the bishop expressed himself as
highly pleased with the conference in
all its departments.
AT THE AFTERNOON SESSION
the principal business was that of the
anniversary of the Conference Mission
airy society. The attendance in the
afternoon was larger than at any other
time during the conference. Rev.
Chauncey Hobart, ID. D., of Red Wing,
presided. Rev. c. A. Van Anda, of
Minneapolis. read, and Rev. David
Brooks. of st. Paul, offered prayer.
Secretary James DOrr presented the re-
port of the treasurer for the year, show
ing the contributions of the five confer