St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-16
NOW THE AFTERMATH,
Gossip and Reflections Of the
Late Methodist Confer
ence.
What They Did and Thought
That Is Put as I'm
official.
Delegates Doings Before and
After the Regular Ses-
sion.
How the Changes Made At
feet the Twin Cities
Pulpits.

| was being preached. The thrOng of
Methodist preachers and their followers
is almost like the proverbial ''sands of
| the SeaShore." They have a habit of
seeming double, and they penetrate
every store, every restaurant and cafe
Of the city.
But they are not serious. If they
have any lOng-facedness, it is left at
home. for there is no jollier crowd than
the disciples and apostles of John
Wesley. Small salaries may make their
bodies as narrow as st. Paul business
| street, but the smile Oh their faces is
broad as barn door. They think it no
sin for a minister to grin and some of
the addresses delivered in solemn con-
ference session would Outrival any en-
| tertainment Nye and Riley ever gave.
How different this is from the confer
ences attended by the last generation,
| some of whom are still receiving their
annual appointments" Then there
was a log church, through whose gaping
| chinkS the wind whistled dancing
tune. l wonder those staid preach
| ers should brook the merriment
| fork was the sole musical instrument,
and yet think the music of the old
fashioned psalm tunes can never be
| equaled by the frills and flippery of
| modern hymnOl0gy. The bishop was a
wonderful man, superhuman in his re-
lation to the rank and file, and the read
| ing of the appointments was the most
| solemn occasion of that very solemn
meeting.
Now the Methodist brethren. for they
are still brethren, meet in the hand
/ soonest church edifice in the Northwest.
| Cushioned pewS replace the hard
| hl hn cfoi oil
seem like transfiXed bits of an evening
sky, the auditoriums could seat all the
| parishionerS in the state twenty years
| ago, and the diminutive tuning fork is
replaced by the swell of mighty Or
| gan. Even the bishop has changed.
He seems very human, very much like
other men in the universal Prince AL
bert. The appointments, too, are fore
gone conclusion. the quaking and
trembling has given place to an assur-
| ance which dareS even demand such
and such place, and the only expires.
| sion which fits across the ministerial
cOuntenance when his appointment is
| announced is that of satisfaction which
every one has Oh hearing his name
read in public.
| The church at Hamine is again a
| flock without a shepard. Rev. w. II.
Daniel was transferred last year from
the Indiana conference to fill this pull
pit, but he has received very urgent
call from the church at Goshen in his
! former tramping ground. The Meth
odist minister is in all things an timer
| ant, sometimes carrying this char
learns to love some landmarks
which he always looks back to with
longing. So Mr.. Daniel has decided to
answer that gospel cry of Come over
| into Macedonia and help u.s." and will
return to the land of Goshen. Who
| will he his successor has been matter
for general speculation. The ques-
ton is one of vital inter-
est to the conference at large.
for there is scarcely little burg in the
| United States but where dwells some
the university at Hamline, and FORUM
ately in this day of changes and tran
| SitionS the parents are anxious to know
who will become the spiritual adviser
of their offspring. Rev. Thomas Nc
Clary has been mentioned for the place.
He is happy enough in his mental
life to drive all bugaboos of supersti-
ton or doubt out of the window. His
long, solemn face never appears in a
| group but what the other faces immedi-
| ately resemble that of the man in the
|
| ton of being the wag of the conference
| But he has been at his city church only
year, and. while the Methodists be-
| lieve in travelling, they usually let a
| man stay out the time limit. and Mr.
McClary usually does.
Rev. Frank Cowgirl, of Northfield. is
| a very probable possibility. lie is a
| graduate of the state university, where
he took first prize in oratory. His theo-
logical education, however, did not re-
ceive Its finish in state institution, and
| the church fathers have no fear of any
| Unitarian heresy creeping into the
Sunday discourse. Mr.. Cowgirl has
| been at Mortified four years, and sue
hand over the students of Carleton
college. In that way he has the best
practical education of any man in the
conference. Rev. Benjamin Langley,
of FOss church. Minneapolis, is one who
is near the inside track. He is Cana
dian, and all intimate friend OF DIR.
Bridgman's.' The baccalaureate SER
mon of this gear was given by him, and
he impressed the student body very
favorably, and. however contrary that
| may seem to the fifth commandment, it
is true that the young people have to be
considered first in this charge.
Yesterday DR.. r. n. McKaig was be-
ing doomed for the place. A petition
has been circulated, and the stewards
of the church are very anxious To Sc
cure his appointment. DR.. McKaig has
signified his willingness to come, and
the strongest probabilities seem to be in
his favor. Ii there were any objection
to him it must be tnau he is too sood.
That seems paradox in choosing a
minister. but students don't read Spen-
Ger, Huxley and novels of the Mrs.
Ward type without veering off the track
of their forefatherS. However. DR.. Nc
Kaig is not gOOdy goody, but one of the
jolliest of that jolly species, Methodist
clergy, and his piety may be the very
best tonic for morbid spectators.
The changes in Minneapolis promise
very little to the would-be ministerial
broker. AlmOSt> every man in the con-
ference has the reputation of preterring
| a city church. even one set back against
the city wall and poor as church
mouse, to little country pulpit under
the dome of the blue vaulted church
universal. This year will give but one
VI Two changes. Rev. Ii. }. Van Eos
sen, who has been in iowa four years
returns to Minnesota this fall,
and will probably be assigned
to Lake Street church. One always
| associates theological puSlilSm WITH
this church since the redoubtable Rev.
Il. F. Allen delivered his rounds
against city sins from this pulpit. and
the man VINO succeeds him must be a
fighter indeed, direct descendant
of Peter Cartright, to sustain
the Lake Street church's reputation.
Rev. Z. o. Holman will, of course,
remain at Hennepin church. He hasn't
been sessioned, and if the bishop has
heard of his scheme of Wholesale an
inhalation for the wicked he hasn't re-
bulsed him publicly. OF course the
ministers mention it to one another,
calling it heresy, but no one dreams or
making such charge in public. Meth
odIst doctrine, after all, is q variable
quantity which today is and tOmor-