Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-20
METHODIST EDITORS ELECTED.
Among the Number Is DR.. Smith for tbs
Pittsburc Christian Advocate,


OMAHA, May 19.-At the Methodist Con-
ference to-day, over which Bishop Merrill
presided, a report of the Committed on Con.
solidation of Benevolence was injected into
the proceedings by suspension of the
| regular order. 1t recommended that the
Educational Society and the Freedmen g
Aid and Southern Educational Society be
not consolidated. The report was adopted,
and again the friends of consolidation sui-
fered defeat.
sThe judicial Committee reported. The
question asked by the Bishops relating to
the meaning of the rules where they pro-
v1ded that one-third of either order should
call for a vote by orders-whether the rule
meant one-third of all the members. one
third of all present or one-third of all men,
bers voting-the committee decided thnt
the rules meant One-thiru of all the members
! present at the time of the call, whether they
voted or not The report was adopted.
Then the regular order was taken up. 1t
was the discussion OF the time-limit resolu-
tlon touching the itinerancy. Rev. Z. j..
Gray. of Pennsylvania, was opposed to the
abolition of the five-year limit. 1t would be
drifting toward COngregationalism, he said,
erancy. He said the abolition of the time
limit might help the better class of the
churches, but would be hard on the weaker
churches. 1t would create an oigarchy-des-
potism composed of the bishops and pre-
siding elders He therefore, offered a sub
stltute for the minority report, providing
for the submission of the question to the
annual Conferences.
Bishop Frank. of Nebraska, made stirring
speech i'll favor or abolishfng the limit,
which, he said, is a corpse, and should be
The Committee on Church Extension
brought in report favoring the election of
an additional secretary for the work. A
minority report also came in, recommend
Ing that three assistant secretaries be
elected. The Conference got into q snarl in
trying to discuss the recommendatio tions
Some held that to elect three secretaries in
stead OF one would involve change in the
law of the church, and that would have to
lay over one day and be printed. 1t was
finally decided that this was the situation,
and the matter had to be laid over until the
next day.
The rest of the day was spent in the elec
tion of editors of church newspapers. The
election of DR.. Edwards for the Northwestern
Chrisfidn AdUOcate, which took place yester-
day, was formally announced. After q spir-
tied contest Dr.. Jesse Bowman Young was
chosen as the head of the Central Christian
o on t5e see 1a1
cate and the Northern Advocate (Syracuse)
Dr. C. W: Smith and j. E. c. Sawyer respect
lively had walkovers.
Now the colored people were in it. The
election of an editor for the Southeastern
Christian ddUocdte interested them deeply.
Dr. A. e. P. Albert, the editor for the past
published especially for the colored Method
lists, Rev. Mr.. Shumpert nominated DR.. A.
e. P. Albert to succeed himself. The colored
delegates had the conference all to them
selves for half an hour. Mr.. Knox, of Ken
lucky, in long speech, nominated Dr. E.
W. S. Hammond, of Kentucky. Hammond
was elected. A. J. Mast, son of the former
editor, is the man who will conduct the
Methodist Apologize, the German organ at
Cincinnati. DR.. Hart was elected editor of
the Hdus Undherd, another German paper.
DIR. G. H. Payne was nominated as Cores
ponding Secretary of the Board Of Educa-
tion. DR.. Brtdgeman and DR.. r. B. Neeley
were also nominated. The ballot was taken
and then the Conference adjourned.