St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-19
PASTORS time LIMIT.
No Action on This Important
Matter by the Omaha Con-
ference.
A Majority Committee Report
in Advocacy Of It's Abo-
lition.
Church Papers to Be Edited by
Drs. Mendenhall, Moore,
Buckley and Edwards.
MessrS. . j. L. Hurlbut and
Lewis Curtis Also Elected
to Office.

OMAHA, Neb., May 1S.-Bishop Eos
ter was in the chair today at the Meth
odist Episcopal general conference. The
galleries filled up early, as the special
order, the discussion of the time limit
question, was expected to awaken con-
ST lerable interest When the devotional
exercises and the minutes had been
disposed of the conference received the
| fraternal delegates from the lndepend-
! ent Methodist church, one of whom,
| Hen. Charles Baker, of Baltimore, read
| an address.
The address was received with hearty
applause. A resolution was then intro
duced expressing the satisfaction of the
conference on the efforts of the frater-
nal delegates from the Methodist Epis-
copal church South and the Independ-
ent Methodist church, and expressing
| hope that in the near future all branches
of the great Methodist church would
become one body in the Lord. 1t was
adopted.
Biship Foss presented a minute
winch had been prepared by the bishops,
and which they desired to have the con-
ference adopt. The resolution eX-
pressed great satisfaction upon the fact
| that the American people, and eSpecl-
ally the Methodist brethren, had llber-
ally replied in relieving the Russian
sufferers. The bishop hoped the good
work would continue.
Hurlbut. Curtis, Mendenhall.
mil
the election of a secretary for the Sun
day School and Tract society. j. l..
Hurlbut the incumbent during the
past four years, was the only man NOM
mated. The last ballot taken Tuesday,
for the second agent of the Cincinnati
book concern, was reported by the
tellers as follows:
Whole number of votes cast. 1,431;
necessary TO a choice, ZIG; Curtis. 1873;
Stowe. $50; rest scattering. Lewis
Curtis. of Chicago, was therefore declared
elected as the associate of DIR. CranstOn
in the management of the Cincinnati
book concern.
A ballot for secretary of the Sunday
School and Tract society was then
taken, and while the tellers retired to
count. the election of all editor for the
Methodist Review was taken up. j. w.
Mendenhall, the present editor, was the
only nominee and received a large
vote.
The special order was then taken up.
1t was the report of the itinerancy COM
mittee, proposing to strike out that sec
ton in the discipline providing for the
tive-year limit on the passionate and to
allow the bishops the option of sending
minister back TO the same place year
after year if eXpedient. DR.. Arthur Ed
wards, of Chicago, editor of the North
western Christian Advocate, favored
abOlIsning the fiYe-year limit. 1t was
| held, he said, by some that this would
Abolish Itinerancy.
He held it would do no such thing.
| Every passionate would close at the end
Of every year just as they do now. This
would give the bishops and presiding
! elders power to keep men in those
places where they could be of the great
| est benefit to the church, and it would
entirely remove the apparent claim OF
| the pastors upon the right to lie kept in
the same place for five years.
The report from the tellerS upon the
! action Of the secretary for the Sunday
School and Tract society was then an
nOunced. and J. A. Hurlbut was elected
almost unanimously. Now came the
election of an editor for the Christian
| Advocate, of New York, the itinerancy
| debate being temporarily interrupted.
| Rev. DR.. Mains nominated DR.. j. Nj.
| Buckley. who has been editor of the
paper for twelve years. The nomina-
| ton was greeted with general burst of
applause from all over the house. the
galleries joining in the enthusiasm. If
| the rules of the conference had permit
ted DR.. Buckley would have been elect
ed by a rising vote, but the rules were
carried out and ballot was taken.
DR.. II. A. Moore was nominated for
the editOrship of the Western Christian
Advocate, and his nomination aroused
almost as much enthusiasm as that of
Dr. Buckley. Mr.. Moore has been the
special champion of the women in the
great discussions that have been waged
i'll the church for several years upon
the admission of women as delegates to
the general conference. His nomina-
ton for editorship of the Western
Christian Advocate was heartily sec
Onded by score of delegates. After
the ballot was taken the report of the
committee on itinerancy regarding the
time limit was again taken up.
Thrusts at the Big Guns.
Rev. Alderman, of Tennessee, made
a ringing speech, and made some pretty
lively thruSts at the presiding elders
and the bishops. The speaker created
a good deal of merriment, but the con-
ference guyed him, crying "louder"
when he was yelling at the top of his
| voice. A majority report from the COM
mittee was presented, approving the
abolition of the present limit, five years.
Dir. CaSWell, of Southern California, was
in favor of the majority report. He
held that the needs of the church and
the judgment of the bishops and pre-
siding elders should decide upon the
appointments and not almanacS. He
believed in keeping men in the places
where they could do the most good, re-
gardless of the number of years: He
liked the idea of life pastors.
The result of the ballot for editor of
The New York Christian Advocate was
as follows: Total number of votes,
1852; DR.. J. NJ. Buckley, 96S; DR.. j.. IL.
Potts. 81; Frances Z. Willard, Is [ap-
plausel and the rest scattering. DIR.
! Buckley was declared elected.
The election of all editor for the
Northwestern Christian Advocate came
next. The nominees were DR.. Arthur
Edwards, who has been the editor for
twenty years. and Dr. E. ID. WhitlOck.
After the ballot was taken the teile rs
retired. and the chairman announced
the result of the vote for editor of the
Western Christian Advocate at Cincin-
natl. DR.. Moore received 9y5; E. b.
Nicely, 10; J. f. GOlcher, 4. and the rest
scattered. DIR. Moore was declared
elected, after which the conference adj
iourned. 1t is generally conceded that
Dr. Edwards has been elected editor of
the Northwestern Advocate, although
official announcement will not be pade