The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-04-05
WILMINGTON CONFERENCE.
Its Twenty-Second Annual ses-
sion at Milford, Delaware.
FRIDAY, March 2S, 1890.

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sion at Milford, Delaware.
FRIDAY, March 2S, 1S9O.
Devotional service at this morning S
session of Conference at $50 O'Clock, ana
were conducted by the Rev Alfred Smith.
The business session was opened prompt
IL at 8 O'Clock by Bishop Bowman. after
which the following telegram from Bishop
Fowler was read:
MANY thanks for sympathy ana
prayer. Love to the Conference L desired
to meet"
Bishop Bowman said he had received a
letter from Bishop Fowler saying he was
in very poor health.
The Revds Evans of Pennsylvania, Van
Niter of B ,ltimore, Rittenhouse OF Dick
inson College, Moffit of New Jersey,
Stevens of Utah aud West of Pennsyl-
vania were introduced.
The Rev w w Evans. pastor of the NJ
E Church at Carlisle, Pa, was introduced
and said a vigorous Methodist Church IS
needed in that town to make Dickinson
College a success.
DR. Wagner. president OF Morgan Col
lege, Baltimore; Dir. Van Nlrer, senior
professor of the Women's College OF Bal
timore, and DR. Rittenhouse. of the Meth
odist Hospital in Philadelphia, were in
troduced and each spoke briefly in the
interest of the institutions they repre-
sent.
DR. Rittenhouse said that the hospital
has an endowment OF 5000 600 and as the
building is now being constructed 1t must
be completed.
The Rev ] P Otis offered the following,
which was adopted
WHEREAS, We have heard with great
pleasure the representations OF y KIT
tenhouse, uper!ntendent- elect OF Inc VI u
Hospital in Philadelphia.
"ResoIUed, That we. mindful OF onr
historic connection with the Philadelphia
Conference and of the many WAYS in
which oui people are still related TO Phil
ultSb bliJ ICJ'iOo ih VIZ ''tSS
that this enterprise has been inaugurated
and the success thus far obtained.
'.ResolUed, That we commend the hos
pital to the liberality of our Conference
and will welcome him to our charges to
represent it's needs"
The following was also adopted:
.sRssolced, That we have listened with
interest to the Rev w w Evans, pastor
of the NJ E Church at Carlisle, Pa, rep
resenting the claims of that church upon
the liberaIity of our people throughout
the territory from which students are
sent to college.
The question was then taken up:
''Shall the lay delegation to the Cen
eral Conference be increased?"
Joseph Pyle, sand that ne loved Metho
dism, and that if he believed it would be
benefited by cutting of all lay represen-
so doing. He, however, thought the
church would be bentitted by being
equally represented in the conferences
by laymen and clergy
The Rev J T Van Burkalow said while
he had originally been opposed to lay rep
resentation, he now thought that AS it
has been secured, they should be equally
represented.
Prof II S Goldey thought that as the
without representation.
Rev j l. Houston said that he was OPP
posed to the measure and would never
vote for it. He considered that the power
to preach came from above and not from
p4low.
The Rev Willis, being called upon,
said: The result of this question is in
evitablt. The laymen will be represented.
The speaker was unwilling to stop the
wheels of the progress of Methodsm.
The progress of the nineteenth century
demands the change and it will come.
The laymeu have benefited religions
bodies, they have improved them. Pres
byterians admitted them, and the pro-
posed change Of the creed which consign-
ed infants to eternal damnation aud a
portion of the people of the earth to eter-
raj fire without hope of salvation, is a
result of their work. The change which
gives laymen equal representation will
come. 1t is useless to be afraid of it.
A vote was then taken and resulted !:
Yeas, n; nays, 81 blank, l.
In the afternoon the anniversary of the
Women's Home Missionary Society was
held. Mrs N NJ Browne presided. The
church was crowded from altar to door.
Three fourths of those present were la.
dies.
Mrs Jennie G Willing, who is known
all over the country as great home mis-
sionsry worker, made brief address on
the work of the society.
In the evening the annual anniversary
of the Board OF Stewards was held. The
Hon W F Causey presided and the church
was crowded.
DR. Jay Bennett Hamilton made an ill.,
teresting address.
SATURDAY.
The devotional exercises at Saturday
mornings session of Conference were led
by the Rev c Warren. The business
session opened at 8 o'clock with the con-
sideration of the fourteenth question :
"What deacons have become elders?''
&c
at sixteen charges aud showed fair
average. DR.. Upham, Of Drew Theolog-
ical Seminary, was introduced aud spoke
in the interests of that institution
The following were admitted into full
connection: G Smith, VIM Shears. G
A Anderson, F F Carpenter, w Comp
ton, w w Chairs. Warren Burr Charles
P Swayne. John w Gray. J r Todd. J w
Geisler, T L Price, w P Taylor, Thomas
F Tabler
Previous to their election the class was
asked the usual questions, and each an
swered satisfactorily.
Bishop Bowman then addressed the
Conference, and closed with reminding
them that the minister should remember
that he is the example and pattern by
which the congregation models itself.
The following local preachers were
elected to deacons' orders: Dover dis
trict-Melvin D Nutter, Geo w Bounds,
James W Fogle, Aloysius Green. Easton
district-Eben WEIGH. Salisbury dis
trict-W X Galloway. Wilmington dis
trict-Trustin G Smoot, } E Franklin.
drawn from the Conference to take