The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-03-04
M. {. CONFERENCE.
A Partial Program of the Goth
Annual Session.

The 18th annual session of the Will
mington NJ. E. Conference will be held |
in Middletown, Del on March 18th to
continue about wosk. Bishop Stephen |
Mason Merrill of Chicago, who will
preside, was born in Jefferson county
Ohio, September 10Th 1925. He presided |
over the Wilmington Conference, at
the session held at Snow Hill eight years
ago, and is acquainted with most of it's
mem ers.
The committee of arrangements is com |
posed OF presiding Elder Alfred Smith of
Easton district and the Rsvs. n. NJ. |
Browne and H. S. Thompson, respectively |
of Middletown and Odessa,
There will be business meetings in the |
morning and anniversary celebrations in
the afternoon and evening. Most of the |
business will be of a routine nature. and
the sessions will be comparatively quiet. |
The sensational features which character
lied the last session will be lacking. Tho
programme OF anniversaries has not been |
completed. The Educational Society will
have it's anniversary the evening proceed
ing the opening of cor ference, and the
Rev. j. p. Otis will represent the society
During the session there will be anuiyer-
saries and other services, as follows:
Wednesday evening, March 10Th, Church
Extension Society, the Rev. A. j. kyGett
D. D., representative; Thursday. after
noon, March 16sh, Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society; Thursday evening,
missionary, the Rev. C. G.. McCabe,
speaker; Friday afternoon, March 18th,
Woman's Home Missionary Society;
Friday evening, Epworth League, the
Rev. D. A. Jordan. d. D., speaker;
Saturday afternoon, March 18th, Histori
cal Society, the Rev. B. F. Price repre-
sentative; Saturday evening, Freedman's
Aid aud Southern Educational Society,
the Rev. John W. Hamilton, d. D.,
representative, Sunday afternoon, March
10Th, temperance; Sunday evening, the
veterans, tho Rev. j. Benson Hamilton,
D. D., representative; Monday afternoon
March Goth, memorial service; Monday
evening, Sunday school Union and Tract
Society. A train for Wilmington will
leave Middletown at the conclusion OF
the Epworth League anniversary. Six
members of the conference have died
since the last sessiou-theRavs. Charles
B. Hill, James l.. Houston, Alfred t.
Melvin, Alfred A. Fisher, William B.
Gregg and Joseph Robinson.
From present indications there will be
comparatively few pastoral changes.
1t is expected that the Rev. W. w. w.
Wilson will be transferred to the New
Jersey Conference and the Rev. Mark Z.
Bowman to the Central New York
J. H. Howard who has call from
Twenty fourth Street Church New Yok
City is considered doubtful.
The following ministers have been in
vited to return to their present charges
John D. c. Hanna. Asbury Church; I.
E. Terry, ST.. PauPs; John Y Dobbin's.
Grace; John France, Scott, Isaac Jewell,
Epworth; E. L. Hubbard, Union; John
B. Qulgg, Wesley; J. p. Ous, Brandy
wine; F. Burgette Short, Harrison Street;
D. F. Waddel, Madeley; H. S. Dnlaney,
Kingswood; William L.White, Goodman
S. NJ. Morgan, Jr., Mt. Salem; t. E.
Martindale, New Caslls; J. Ii. Howard,
Cambridge; Vaughn S. Collins, C5nteI-
vile, Md; ]. w. Fogle, Queenstown; Z,
H. Nelson, Galena; E. F. White,
Wilmington; W. G. Koons, North East;
J. E. Bryan. Rising Sun, Md; E. c.
Atkins, Onancock; Robert Roe, Rock
Hall; E. p Roberts, Milton; S j.. Morris
ST. Michael's, Nd; J. NJ. Liudale, Kings
Creek; W. r. Mowbray, Bond and Now
bray;J. w Essley, Chestertown; Edwin
Gardner, Elk Neck; G. S. York, Salem
and Zion.
The following have been invited to
new charges: G. W. PreVtyman, Seaford;
Adam Stengle, Smyrna; Ralph t.
Coursey, Snow Hill; R. X. Stephenson,
Crisfeld; Harvey w. Ewing, Port De-
post; Henry Clay Turner, Clayton; w.
R. Mowbray, Smyrna Circuit; G. W.
Bounds, Cheswold.
Conference will be asked to meet at
Smyrna next year.