Evening journal., 1893-03-13
CONFERENCE WEEK.
The Busy Season for Metho-
dists Everywhere.
LOCAL CHURCHES CLOSE THE YEAR

hfated lhta week at mlddletoWn-ihe
Afternoon Sessions of Conference.
Would Not Consider the Cali for
Canada AIinister-Asbury aud Dover's
winding-Up.
Every Methodist In Delaware Is now
looking forward with increasing interest
10 the session of the Wilmington Con.
ference, embracing ali the NJ. +. Churches
in Delaware and the Eastern Shores of
Maryland and Virginia--or Delmarvia
peninsula The preliminary sessions Of
the conference-such as class examina-
tions-begin tonight at Middletown,
where this session viii be held and the
conference proper, with Bishop Merrill in
the chair begins at 8 o'clock on Wednes-
day morning. No such unpleasantness
as characterized the last session which
was held in Wilmington last March.
March is always busy month among
Methodists all over the country. IL is
the conference month and. as Bishop
Andrews expressed it last year the month
of appointments and disappointments
The conferences nearest TO Baltimore
are as follows: Baltimore Confer
ence OF thu Methodist Episcopal
Church at Hagerstown, Maryland,
March 1, Bishop Newman, presiding
Virginia Conference, Roanoke, March 2,
Bishop Warren, presiding; Philadelphia
| Conference, Norrstown, March g. Bishop
Warren presiding; Central Pennsylvania,
Bellefonte, March 10, Bishop Warren,
presiding; Wilmington Conference,
Middletown, Del, March 10, Bishop
Merrill, presiding; Newark Conference,
probably at Jersey City Bishop
Fitzgerald, presiding, April 12;
| Delaware Conference, Dover
Bishop Walden, presiding, March 8;
New Jersey Conference. at Mount Holly.
March %, Bishop Walden, presiding
New York Conference at Tarrytown,
April 3, Bishop Walden, presiding
Washington Conference,a at Staunton. Va f,
March 8 Bishop Andrews. presiding
East German Conference. at Buffalo,
n. Y, April l2, Bishop Joyce presiding
Busy Week In Middletown.
The busy week for Middletown Meth
odists began at dawn this morning On
the evening before the opening OF Con-
ference the anniversary of the Educa.
tionai Society will be celebrated. The
program Of the other anniversaries Is az
follows: Wednesday evening. Church
Extension Society; Thursday afternoon.
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
evening, Conference Missionary Society
Friday afternoon, Woman's Home Mis-
siouary Society evening, Epworth League
, mass meeting; Saturday, afternoon
Conference Historical Society; SUNDAY
afternoon. Temperance anniversary
evening, Veterans anniversary; Monday
afternoon, Memorial services; evening
Sunday School Union and Tract Society
ono Can Not Considered.
+ A remarkable case in the "high" o
rather high-toned Methodist Episcopa
Churches was that which has troubled
. the trustees and official men OF Mount
, Vernon Place NJ Il Church, the aristo
cratic Methodist Church of the south
This church asked for the transfer Of q
4 famous minister from Canada The
, official board Of Mount Vernon Place
r Methodist Episcopal Church held I
special meeting after the service yester
day morning and received letter from
Bishop Newman, who presided at the re-
cent session of the Baltimore Conferenc'
at Hagerstown. The letter had refer
/ ence to the case Of Rev. John E. Ian
celey Of Toronto. Canada, who had beer
q invited by the Mount Vernon Church Il
become its pastor but who had been de-
/ MED admission TO the conference. BshoI
. Newman said that the legal difficulties n
the way Of Mr.. Lanceley becoming paste
4 Of Mount Vernon Church were In
surmountable The Bishop promised
however. to transfer to the Baltimor
p Conference aud appoint as pastor Of tn
. church any Methodist Episcopal preache
= whom the congregation would select
= Yesterday was the first Sunday after th
> conference and much regret was ex
: pressed by members of the Church a
! their inability TO secure Mr. Lanceley'
: services. They and the official board
: however, acquiesced in the Bishop
!, decision.
In paper which these officials pre-
pared and forwarded TO Mr.. Lanceley, wa
the following paragraph: "The attitud
n Of the conference in relation TO an out
= side minister being called TO the pastoral
= OF the Mount Vernon Place Methods
Episcopal Church being wholly unel
pected and out of harmony with previou
!, practice, the difficulties Of the existing
N situation could not have been foreseen.
!. winding Up the Conference Year.
The fourth quarterly conference q
Asbury NJ. f. Ch arch was held on Satul
day night. The following stewards weI
e named for the ensuing conference year
y J. c. johnson, John Wise, c. NJ Leitol
4 William T. Groves, James F. Mckay, I
d II. Ferguson, Charles +. Bordner, Lew
n NJ. Maxwell. b. f. Leonard Harry
d Gray, William F. Macslin aud Beniaini
8 J. Downing Mr. Leitch was elected n
Ie cording steward aud w. 4. Groves dii
triet steward
The following committees we're 81
pointed:
d Missions-John Wise, Alexander Bal
}, ney, Matthew McGarvey, Mrs. S.
D. Moore, Mrs. Jennie Fox. Church ExteI
ID tion-T. B Ridgway Thomas II Spence
?. John c. Wilson, Miss Ella M Marve
m Mrs. Lydia Futty Sunday Schools
Augustus Dennis, Charles Heald, Robel
p. Carey, Mrs Carrie Grove
Miss Annie Scott. Tracts 80
?. omon Lohand, Samuel H Low
lg NAM Geld Kitchens, Mrs Emma
e' Cramer, Mrs. Ella wilkins. Temperan'
MS Robert +. Grubb, William G. Byr'
De d H Ferguson, Mrs Sarah J. Crav
ford, Mrs. Julia a. Wingate Educate
Charles f. Bordner. Miss Sallie SHAY
Mrs Maria Floyd, B. + Leonard Free
en- mans Aid and Southern Education
ek II. Slmms, A. NJ Price, William LednuI
as Mrs. Sarah +. Porter Mrs. Annie