The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-03-12

The Baltimore Conference of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, which has been in
session in Baltimore. closed on Wednesday,
and will meet in Hagerstown next year.
Bishop Foster, in his closing address, said:
al want to express my qualification in having
presided over this conference. II mas peen
Gus session, and lift were not for my relnarkaDle
health / could not have stood it. 1t has been a
pleasant session. and if there has been some little
feeling, there has been nothing oil extraordinary
unseemlness. / say that with some mental reserva-
ton. l glad to see our church so highly IN
favor as is demonstrated by the attending consre-
I'VE have had busy session. and several extra.
ordinary items have been called up 10 be discussed
and acted on. These added not a little to its eX-
haustiveneSS. think / am judge of men, and
must say that the five men presiding elders who
tiousness of brotherly kindness and affection. We
have been rushed and oppressed with burthens of
your concern. No one knows of the hours OF labor,
of prayer and of thought we have spent together IN
making these appointments. If there are sacred
moments in my life, they have occurred when l
have been adjusting conference appointments.
lone difficulty in this conference is that it is too
much packed. 1t is a conference with two hundred
or more places with only about 1--WE supplies when
il ought TO have at least thirty In view of this fact
no one should be received into your conference IN
at least five years to come: There are. however,
some who knock at your doors VINO must DC adj
You will understand me when l say that it has
been extremely difficult to adjust men with families
to little insignificant appointments that can pay
but from 500 to $3.50 year. IL Is better that these
be left for supplies ms Is an important matter,
and suggest that you reflect it, for the confer
ence is certainly too crowded to make appointments
satisfactorily. Ten years from now expect to be
with you again. and hope by that time you VIII
have laid them to your heart and proited by them.
There a time in our church, healthy time,
when no preacher Yentured to show any anxiety
about his appointment Then there were prear-
ranged plans and semicontracts. am not arraign-
ing any one but il is now popular idea that man
must manifest an interest in his appointment To-
day preachers come to the conference in a feyered
state of mind and there is great deal of prelim-
hntb hoFnr n farf bpir mir
know there is great difference in preachers, and
all will suit the same place; and there are, too,
forty appointments in this conference that it Is
hardship to send man to.
There is good deal of trash in the large mem
bership of our preachers, brethren, and there are
also many great men and heroes that have done
this hard work, and they have built up Methodism.
81 have been perplexed little with the presiding
elder question. Not with your action of yesterday
but the large number of available men among you
from whom could have selected
Immediately after the Bishops address,
the conference was surprised when Rev. NJ.
F. B. Rice, of Union Square Church, arose
and said he repudiated the statement made
by Bishop Foster that there was some trash
in the ministry, and asked him to withdraw
the expression. This the Bishop refused to
do, saving all understood what he meant.
Mr.. W. L. Mcdowell submitted the statistical re-
port of the conference for the year. which showed
a general increase. The membership on probation
deaths nc; children baptized 5 400; adults baptized
3l3; number of churches existing, 1877; probable
number - Of parsonages, III probable value
$3.50 AGO. increase, $3.50; paid for building and
improving churches and parsonages, s90,699 in
church property SS2,4lS; present Indebtedness
s2I7 49, increase, $40 s74 current expenses ST. $780,
number of Sunday schools, 405 officers and teach
ers $685. scholars. 81 0S contributed for ministerial
support pastors presiding elders and bishops $751;
100: conference claimants, S6,S02.
Rev Page Milburn, conference treasurer made
statement of the finances of the conference, as fol-
lows: Contributions for missions during the
year 49, l6s; for church extension, SS,46S; Sun
day school Union, $500: tracts, S5l6. Freedmens
aid s2565; education, sl,0Sl; Bible Society, S942
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, S9S35; Episco-
pal fund 81 sos: for conference claimants Sc SOP:
Children's Day, Sll6l for susteniation fund 1887
annual minutes, sl95; toward general conferences
expenses. $685. total sSO5i6, being an increase Of
81 All over last years receipts. The proportions
contributed by the districts are: Baltimore 2li5s:
East Baltimore, Sl59E Vest Baltimore SIG s64.
Frederick $780, and Washington, sl67s7
Following are the appointments announced
by the Bishop:
Baltimore DistricL-william Edwards, Presiding
Elder AnnapoliS-First Church, W. l.. Mcdowell
], Il. Dashiell, suRernumerary; Wesley Chapel,
Mowbray Bethel TO be supplied; City Station L. D.
Huntley, o. II. Cummings supernumerary; Guilford
Avenue J. +. Heisse; Fifth Street, Edward Hayes;
oxford, r. W. II. Weech; Eutaw Street. George Il
Maydwen W. I. D. GLENN and W. b. Geoghegan,
Hanover Street Mission, W. H. Reed; Madison,
Avenue, DR.. Lucen Clarke, of New York w D.
Morgan; Mount Vernon Place, A. II. futile; South
Baltimore w. N. Ferguson; Strawbridge, W l. Nc
Chapel, W. R. Stricken. woodberry~Firsit Church,
John Edwards; Grace, c. d. Smith; Roland Avenue
A. II. Thompson; Baldwin Memorial, T. N. West'
Baltimore Cireuit-T, f. Peters, C. E. Guthrie.
Calvert ciTeuit3W, G. csssard Hunts Circuit
Lutheryire-E. L. Watson. Mount Vernon--G, H.
Cooper. Mount Washington-J. f. Ockerman
Reisterstown and Glyndon-W. A. Koontz: J. b.
Hail. supernumerary Smithville-JW Hammersly
Solomon's.William Anthony. South River-w. {.
Babcock. West Riyer-William Rogers, w Morgan
Cross
D. il. Carroll, president Baltimore City Missionary
and Church Extension Society, member Mt Vernon
Quarterly Conference Thomas Myers, agent Mary
land Bible Society, member Strawbridge Quarterly
Conference; L. F. Morgan, agent Woman's College,
F. Goucher, president Woman's College member
City Station Quarterly Conference; j. B. VanMeter
professor Womans College. member Mt, Vernon
Place Quarterly Conference; F. j. Wagner president
Morgan College, member Madison Avenue Quarterly
Conference; W.. NJ. Frysinger, editor Baltimore
ence; II. II. Clark. chaplain U. S. n. member First
Church (Annapolis) Quarterly Conference.
Elder. Aberdeen-F. G. Porter Baltimore-Appold
Charles o. Isaac; Bohemian Mission, to be supplied
line Street. G. W. Hobbs Chester Street. d. b. Win
stead; East Baltimore, b. p. Brown NJ j. Law Exc
ter Street, G. 7. wede; Greenmount W. L. Curey;
Hartford Avenue Richard Norris Highland William
Harris High Street. d. G. Miller; Homestead H. NJ
Thurlow; Jefferson Street. g. c. Bacon; Madison
hide; North Baltimore, C. H. Richardson J. W. Cor
nelius, supernumerary; Wayerly, W. G. Herbert.
Belair-J. NJ. Slarrow. Darlingt6n-J W. Fleming
East Hartford Circuit--W. d. MITCHELL E. H. Lamar.
Govanstown-G. V. Leeeh. Great Falls Circuit
Joseph P. Wilson, George w. Rice. Havre-d Grace
S. NJ Afford. Hereford Circuit-Thomas Wood,
f. II. Hayennor, Clinton B. Adams. Long Green
Circuit. II. Marsh. North Harford-J. q Smith.
Parkton Cireuit-W. F. Roberts. J. Tucker Iansdale
Sparrows Point-W. W. Davis. Towson-A r.
Kelley. West Hartford Circuit-B. F. Devries J. r.
Isaac. George w. Hyde, chaplain Seamen's Bethel
Vest Baltimore Disirict.-J st. Clair Neal Presid-
ing Elder. Arlington and Pimlico-W. W. Barnes
Baltmore-Columbia Avenue, ]. p. Wright David
Rodgers Mission, George G. Harris; Emory b.
G. W. Reid: Fayette Street B. sttt o. A. McCauley.
supernumerary); Franklin Street. B. F. Clarkson
a. NJ Gardner supernumeraryl Fulton Avenue.
Page Milburn; Garrett Park, c. T. House; Grace
Richard Harcourt; Harlem Park, J. Mex Kelley CR.