Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-03-22

The Baltimore conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South began its one hundred
and ninth annual session this morning in the
pretty Southern Methodist Church at Front
Royal Va. Bishop J. 5. hey Of Fort Worth,
Tex, presiding.
Bishop Key. tine presiding officer Of the body,
ia n typical southern gentleman, southern by
birth education. association and environment.
He has travelled extensively and is a man of at
tractive personal appearance and genial man
He was born at La Grange. the county
seat Of Troup county. Ga, of yirginian parent
age and will be sixty-four years Of age in July
next He was educated at Emory College.
whence he was graduated in 1Sis. In the jan
nary following he was admitted on trial in the
Georgia conference. and when the conference
was divided he became a member of that por-
tion known a. the south Georgia conference.
lie remained in the pastOTate here until elected
10 the bi-hoprIr 1t the Richmond general con-
ference of 1S-i. He was elected delegate to the
general cOuict rncc which erected to meet in
New Orleans n 1862. Du: that city then being
occupied by federal troops under Gen. Ben
Batter the Conference postponed until
lS6G. Or. ker was elected 10 each succeeding
general conference unit! lie was elected bishop.
Five wears ago he went to Fort Worth. Tex.
vL--, lie row reside. Last year he had episco-
yal SUP rvIsion Of he work % his church IN
Japan end spent II" summer IN tina: country.
TEE EXTENT OF TIE CONFERENCE
The Baltimore conference embraces III terri
tory all os Maryland the District of Columbia.
the valley of Virginia and what is known a. TIE
Eastern Panhandle counties of West Virginia
It's strength l. greatest In the counties. There
are eight districts. Baltimore. East Baltimore.
Washington Winchester. Rockingham. Roa-
noke. LeWi-Durs and Noo-ef-ld. In these dis
tricts az the beginning of last conference year
were i63 churches. which were supplied By I75
PREACHERS. The church property. including
l25 parsonages, Is valued at more than 81 $50
GO. There are about 5000 members. VINO
,iuTinC conference year ending last March con-
tTibuted for pastors salaries. Sl0s.l3j: pre-
siding elders. Sll 20; q. 69I for bishops fund:
conference claimants. - $50: foreign missions.
I'll .4S5; home missions. $5.1lj: church extern
sion. S2.3yI. There are 554 Sunday schools.
With J.4S6 officers and teachers and 81, ls3
scholars. The church property IN Wellington
district Is valued az SlTI 100. and includes
sixty-four church editices and seventeen par
sonage<. II contributed 51I 6s4 for It's preach
ers, II. J52 for presiding elder, Il 4s9 for con-
ference claimants. S2.O!3 for foreign and
Sl.0i2 for home lssIons- 1t has seventy-four
SUNDAY schools. with $40 teachers and officers
and 1859 scholars.
The past wear has been a very successful year
for the conference. While the number Of con-
versions ami accessiOGs profession of faith
viii not quite measure up 10 last wear. still the
showing viii be VerV good There have been
some $500 or 3.4O0 persons converted. and
nearly 5000 of these have joined the church.
The years principal distinction for the confer
enee Is IN the number of churches built There
will be reported nearly double the number of
churches begun. on the way. completed and re-
paired OF any previous year IN the conference
history. No less than thirty of these have been
reported so lar. aggregatlng an outlay OF some
S10OoO. the greater part of which has been
paid Three members of the conference have
died during TIE year. Rev. James Cunningham
Dice of CpDerville. Va. who entered the con-
ference in 1873. and who stricken with par
alysls two or three years ago; Rev. :. ID. Ben
nington of Springfield. W. Va. and Rev. Il. s.
Cunningham Of Monterey. Va. number of
others are disabled ard viii tsks tie super
nGmerary and superann-atei relations. There
viii be twelve applicants fo- admission on trial
IN the travelling connection. the largest class
applying for admission since 1875.
The fou--year PASTORAL limit is in effect in
this conference ard number of changes will
be required by IT. These. however, will be but
a very small proportion of the changes made
One Of those to be hanged by the expiration of
this time Is Presiding E.der l.. T. :. Hough OF
Washington district. Others are j. H. David
son of Fairfax. W. q. Eggleston of Hamilton.
j. h. DuiGay OF HhlsbOro. j. II. huffman
Of Manassas. ". II. Woolf of Lenganore l.. W.
HaSiup OF Laurel, G. :. Stanton of Hillsboro'
J. ". Mitchell OF ROYAL Oak. W. III. Sanders OF
Prince Georges. l. Fox of Warren. l.. r. Jones
Of Brucetovn. J. X. Van Horne of Shepherds
town. A. U. Armstrong os Bridgevater A. Q.
flaherty o: Newport. W. ". Hedrick of Ca
tawba. j. L. Henderson OF Amsterdam. 5. VI.
Bowman OF James River and L. C.. Hamiu OF
Morgan.
LAY REPRESENTATION.
Unlike the conferences of the Methodist Fpis-
eoFal Church. there is lay representation in
those Of the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
each presiding elders district being entitled to
four lay representatives. This gives Baltimore
conference tb;rty-two laymen in its member
ship. These are j. W. +. Aiemong. J. b. Buch-
snan. John T. Crout, L. ;. Conrad, Reeves
Gait. W. 5. Embrey. I. T. Fishburn, ]. H.
Ford. Il. E. Guthrie. Thomas Hoskinson. q. r.
Hill. J. T. HOuek. l. y. hagey. W. :. Kline,
rTof. =. I. MOreland, Judge j. VI. NcNhor.er
Robert Nagruder. John ". Numsen. l. F.
Nichols. Judge +. ID. Newman. J. W. Newton,
Prot. T. Il. Prettyman, %. L. Rhodes. Col J. A.
Robinson, W H. Stickley, NJ. L. Walton and
DR.. G. A Brown
CLERICAL MEMBERS.
The clerical members Of the conference are
Bevs- francis VI. Mills DAVID Thomas. Nelson
Head. Vim. q. Eggleston. Geo. Stevenson. ].
Hoffman Waugh. John W. Tongue. Samuel K
Cox. joshua NJ. GrandIn John W. Wolfe Robt
smith. Samuel Rodgers. Chas. G.. Lintbcum
John II. Wlghtman. Jas. VI. Follansbee. j.
Newman Hank. John W. Botaler, Jas. E. ARM
s.rnng. Jas. :. Gardner. hos. l.. Carson,
Hamilton A. GaysH. Z l.. kregloe, Il. Z. y
HCugh, jas II. Wolf. T. A. Mercer Jos Il
Temple, y. = +. Sixeas, :. T. Dolly j. j.
EnGle. Ramsey SmithsCa. Aaron Boor Jas =
Porter. Vim q. Hammond. A. T. Boude j. H.
Er.ansy. John W. Canter. Thos. Briicy VIM
Hedges. l. n. Graybiil. l.. X. Crenshaw Syl-
Nanus Townsend. L. 4 Jones' VIM X. BOYLE
John p. Hyde. Geo. III. Zimmerman, Leonidas
ECtt. j. l. Shipley. Edward H. Hewey Felix
j. hill. Lemuel W. Haslup. Z. II. Whisner 4
4. flaherty. Chas. A joyce. Marbury G. Ralt-
MS, VIM A. Harris, A. A. =. Neel. JOS. ].
Crickenberger. Chas. l.. Cameron. Addison
Weller. Wesley Hammond. John T. Maxwell.
VIM A Mcdonald. John A. Kern Isaac w.
Canter. Benz Z. Ball. J. i. Van Horne
Rufus II. Wilson. Walter W Watts
1nOs- W. Brown, Il. Vi. Stricken. Sias
X Snapp. David Bush. Asbury L. Martin.
Henry H. Kennedy. VIM. A Wade, Robert
Ross. ". H. u. Harper. Lewis II. Martin.
Frazier FUR. George I. TYLER. Samuel W
Haddaway. W o. Ross. II. ID. Bishop F. H.
Shipiey, j. ". Duffev. J. :. Hutchinson VIM
T. Miller. Beverly ". Bond. Hamilton W. Kin
yer. 4 G. NcNeer. Thomas Cooper. Frank A.
Strother. SvcnOr q. Ferguson. John c. Sed-
wick. Lewis l. Lloyd. q. G.. Beall. LAFAYETTE
Fox, q. A. Wheat. Vincent W. Wheeler James
i. Williams. j. L. Andrew ]. F. Boggs Thomas
o. hewitt o. T. Burgess. Charles e simmons
RuIus VI. " Leeler. J. q. c. Newton. james H.
BOYD. Charles NJ. Brown, A. VI. Cackley. y. -
Zoe. Vim. v. Hedrlck l. L Afarkyood Z