The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-06
NORTH INDIANA NJ. Il. CONFERENCE.

Fort Wayne College, Sunday Observance and
Home Missions Considered Yesterday.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAGRANGE, Ind, April 5.-The principal
portion of the morning session of the North
Indiana NJ. E. Conference here, to-day. was
devoted to a discussion of the interests of
the Fort Wayne College. According to the
report of the trustees. the institution is not
in a f1ourishing condition, although the
college property is valued at $4,000, and
the management in the past year has been
excellent. The college has an Indebtedness
of $1,000, and the task of wiping out and
building up the institution was the special
order of the day. Revs. Robinson, Mahin,
Lynch and Parr took part in the discus
sion. The report of the educa-
adopted by sections. 1t approves
the change of management, which
makes the college a church institution. and
recommends a ~remodeling of the buildings.
The bishop is requested to appoint ii. N.
Herrick president and Y. B. Rogers pro-
fessor, with r. d. Robinson, d. c.. Wool
port, +. L. Simpson, John Miller and III. C.
Cain, A. J.. Garry, c. E. Drisbro, Geo. Hill.
E. l.. Seamons, G. u. Wade, visitors. 1t is
also recommended that 81, 900 be appor-
toned among the charges to be used for the
support of the institution.
The matter of Sunday obser vance came
up. n a committee, consisting of A. w.
Lamport. +. g.. Brown and w. d. Parr, was
appointed, who shall labor with railway
managers to secure the observance of the
day. The report of the visitors to De Pauw
DR.. Baylisss, of the Western Christian Adj
yocate, made a spirited plea in support of
hat paper. DR.. Geo. Gray, of the Freed
mems Aid Society, spoke in the interests of
that work, and asked that the sum raised for
luton setting apart Sunday, July z, for spe-
cial services on Southern education was
adopted.
Among the many prominent church
workers introduced to the conference was
Bishop Walden, who dismissed the body at
noon.
At 2 o'clock his afternoon Rev. G. E. Ba-
con delivered the annual missionary ser.
mon, a most ~creditable effort, to an i'm
mense audience. At It's conclusion Mrs. X.
S. Rust, or the Woman's Home Missionary
Society, spoke at some length in behalf OF
home missions.
The night session was occupied by DR.. A.
b. Leonard, missionary secretary, in a pow.
erful address on foreign missions.
The Andover Controversy.
SALEM, Mass, April 5.-Chief-justice
Morton has sent down an order in the An.
dover controversy in the case of Egbert G.
Smyth, appellant, VS.. the visitors of the
theological institution in Phillips Acad.
envy, in Andover, pending in the Supreme
Court. He orders that Julius H. Seelye be
required to nswer the question put to
him in the hearing before the commits.
sioners as to how VIM. 7. Eustis voted in
the case of Egbert Smyth. Following are
the grounds gwen for the decision: THE
visitors are a private eleemosynary corpo.
ration. The privilege which exempts
judges, jurors, and other public officers
from testifying as to the matters which
take place in their deliberations does not
apply to such visitors. A visitor is required
to testify to matters which too place al
the meetings if the matter is pertinent
and material to the issues under investiga
acted corruptiy. it would be ground for set
ting aside the whole proceedings"