Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-11-09

nesday, March 21st, 1894. Bishop |
Vincent will preside.
This item of information is of great |
interest to ethodists--ministers and lay |
men-throughout the bounds of the |
conference. There has been much gos-
sip about the matter for several days, |
particularly in regard to the assignment
of the presiding bishop. Much difficulty |
was encountered in obtaining the in
formation, but finally EVERY EVEN
mes efforts proved successful.
The assignment of bishops to the re-
speetive conferences is made at the an
nual meeting of the Board of Bishops,
which was held this year in Milwaukee,
Wis, last week. In the list of assign
ments, made public last Thursday morn
ing and published in EVERY EVENING
of that day, no mention was made of
Wilmington Conference. The date of
the Delaware (colored) Conference was
given-April 11tb, with Bishop Fowler
as the presiding bishop.
The omission was probably accidental,
and EVERY EVENING at once endeav0red
TO correct it,. A telegram of inquiry
was sent to an afternoon newspaper of
Milwaukee, and the answer came that
wilmington Conference was fixed for
April 11th,n and that "Bishop Fowler
will preside" The telegram arrived
just in time to be hastily inserted in the
last edition of the paper.
Later investigation showed that the
date and the bishop were identical with
those of the Delaware Conference,
which indicated that the sender of the
telegram had evidently taken the latter
for Wilmington Conference, about
which inquiry had been made. Still,
the news created profound impression
among the Methodist clergy and leading
members of the laity. Bishop Fowler
was the presiding officer of the confer
euce of 1891, at Centreville, Nd, and he
made the session famous by the sweep
ing and unsympathetic manner in which
he smashed the pastoral estates" that
had been prepared in advance for his
episcopal sanction. The ministers, or
many of them, did not want Bishop
Fowleryto run the next conference.
Realizing that q mistake had been
made, EVERY EVENING continued its
efforts to obtain the desired information.
A telegram was sent to Bishop Andrews
at Milwaukee, but, as was learned later,
he had left the city, and no reponse was
received. Next another telegrarhic in
Quiry was sent to Bishop Andrews at
St. Paul, Mimi, where he had gone to
attend the session of the general COM
mittee on church extension. Late Satur-
day night, his answer reached Whining
ton. 1t was as follows.
ST.. PAUL. MINI. Nov. 4.-Eyery Evening
Wilmington, DEL: Wilmington Conference
Morah Otat RiahAp
sides. u. G. ANDREWS.
And so, after much trouble and delay
the information that so many peoplt
were anxiously waiting for was at last
obtained.
Some members of Wilmington Con
ference endeavored to secure Bishop
Newman. He was willing to come bu
his assignment to the foreign conference
necessitated the appointment of some
body else to preside at the session a
Salisbury and Bishop Vincent was Sc
lected.
SKETCH OF BISHOP VINCENT.
John Heyl Vincent was born in Tus
caloosa, Ala, February 23d, 1882. H
was educated at the academies in Milto
and Lewisburg, Pa, began to preach a
the age Of IS, completed his training 70
the ministry at Wesleyan Institut,
Newark, N. j., and in the four YEAR
theological course of the New Jerse
Conference, into which he was receive
in 1858. He was ordained deacon
1866 and elder in 1857, when he wf
transferred to the Rock Conference
serving as pastor in Galena, Chicap
and elsewhere till 1865. In that year
established the Northwest Suaddy-sch0
Quarterly, and in 1866 the iSunday-scllo
Teacher. He was appointed gener
agent of the Methodist Episcopal SUI
day-school Union, aud in 1868 WI
elected by the General Conference co
responding secretary both of the unio
and of the tract society, in which pos
he was continued till 1884. He was Il
editor of the Sunday-school publication
of his denomination, conducting II
Sunday sct0oI journal, published in Ne
York city, with such success that
circulation rose from 1880 to 160,0C
while that Of his lesson-books has be,
nearly 100000 copies.
In 1878, with Lewis Miller of Akro
Ohio, he projected a Sunday-scho
teachers institute for the purpose
preparing teachers for their work
means of lectures and drills. The ms
tute first met at Chautauqua, N. v.
August, 1874, and has since assembl
each year in the same place. 1t has c
tended beyond the limits of its origir
design and given rise to allied ms
buttons, which, as well as the Sunda
school assemblies and the information
lessons, extend their benefits TO me
beers of all Christian bodies. The Che
tauqua Literary and Scientific Giro
which prescribes courses Of reading
all classes of people, was founded
1878 and within a few years had 1901
students on its rolls. In connection W
this the Chautauqua University !
established, summer school in VIII
lectures on most of the arts and scien
are given, and of which DIR, Vince
who received the degree of d. ID. fir
Ohio Wesleyan University in 1870
that of LII. ID from Washington
Jefferson in 1885. has been chance
from the beginning. At the Gene
Conference Of 1888 he was electe
bishop. Among his published VIC
are "Little Footprints in Bible Ian
New York, 1917 "The Chautaut
Movement I1SS6); "The Home DO,
(1SS6G "The Modern Sunday-schc
(1sS7) and Better Not assn. He
never presided over Wilmington
ference.
His cousin, Strong, was born
Waterford, Erie county, Pa, June 1
1887, and died near Gettysburg, Pa,
It'll, 1868. After passing through
Academy he worked for two year
his fathers iron foundry, after wi
he entered the scientific school at II
ford, Conn. Next he became STUD
at Trinity College and, leaving t
was graduated at Harvard in 1859.