The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-03
PROBABLE CHANGES
Methodist Annual Confer
enee to Be Held in New
ark in April. .
BISHOP NINDE WILL PRESIDE
There Will Be Few Transfers
Among Jersey City Dis
trict Pastors.
BISHOP NINDE WILL PRESIDE

The annual conference of the Newark dis
trict of the Methodist Episcopal Church will
be held in Newark on Wednesday, April 4.
Those who arrange these matters of church
business nave decided that the conference
shall take place in st. Luke's Church, corner
of Clinton avenue and Murray street. 1t
will last one week the sessions beginning each
day at nine O'Clock, and the business meet
ings viii be preceded as usual with de-
yotional exercises.
Methodists will learn with pleasure that
the Rev. Bishop Ninde will preside. This
distinguished divine was born in 1882 and be-
gan his ministerial work in 1857. He entered
at that period the Black River Conference.
After many years of successful work he was
consecrated Bishop in 1884. When this honor
was conferred on him he was principal of the
famous Garrett Biblical Institute.
Bishop W. X. Ninde is a very able and elo-
quent man, and his visit in April is eagerly
anticipated. His residence is in Detroit,
Mich.
FEW HANGE IN R CITY.
This thirty-seventh conference will not
have so much attraction for the Church in
Jersey City because there are few changes
to be made in the district. The Rev. VIM.
Eakins of st. Pauls, it is understood, is de-
sirous of being transferred, while his peo-
pie, who are much attached to him, wish
him to stay. The DIR. Rev. John Atkinson
of West Side Church, whose time was up
this year, has been invited to stay another
year in West Bergen. 1t was rumored that
the Rev. DR.. NJ. l.. Gates of Grace M. E.
Church, Marion, wished to be transferred,
but here again the congregation don't want
him to go. Like Mr.. EakinS he has
been a hard worker and an earnest, jealous
pastor. The Rev. w. S. McEwan of Linden
Avenue Church will be transferred, as his
term is up.
Presiding Elder J. B. Faulks of this dis
trict is out of town for a week or two, so no
definite news can be obtained as to the
changes in the outlying districts of the Jer-
sew City division of the Newark district.
But from a previous conversation with Mr..
Faulks this year there will be few removals.
In hoboken there will be one or two; as, for
instance. the Rev. DIR. Marshall of the First
NJ. E Church. He desires to go to Camden,
and will probably be transferred to the New
Jersey Conference.
Bayonne will not have any change.
Neither, it is understood, will Union Hill,
West Hoboken or the outlying townships OF
Kearny and Harrison.
NEWARK CHANCES.
Presiding Elder DIR. S. Van Benschoten
will have some changes in the Newark dis
trict. 1t is said that Calvary Church, East
Orange, win receive, by transfer, the Rev.
DR.. John Y. Dobbins, of Grace Church,
Wilmington, Del. Calvary Church stands
in the very first grade of appointments in
this or any other conference. DR.. Dobbins
is a man of middle life, cultured and cour-
teous in his character.
There is quite likely to be a change in the
pastorate of the Franklin Street Church in
Newark, but nothing definite is known.
All the other Newark Pastors, with the ex-
ception of the Rev. Mr.. Aylsworth, will re-
main in their present charges. |
The Rev. DR.. Amos B. Kendig, who came /
to Calvary Church two years ago from Han
son Place Church, Brooklyn, now presided
over by the Rev. DIR. Parsons, formerly of
Newark, will be transferred to Calvary
Church, New York, whose pastor, the Rev. |
DR.. J. R.. Day, has recently been elected
Chancellor of Syracuse University.
OTHER
st. James's Church, Elizabeth, will pro-
badly receive, as its pastor, the Rev. Joseph
Owen, now at Montclair, and the Rev. E.
w. Burr, now at st. James's will take his
place. The Rev. DR.. j. E. Adams, of Nor
ristown, Is to be transferred, probably to a
Brooklyn church.
The Rev. George P. Eckman, now at the
First Church, Orange, will got Morristown.
The Rev. D. B.. F.. Randolph, of West New
Brighton, it is said, has been invited to the
pastorate of the new church at Summit.
The Rev. P. G.. Bascom. of the Cross
Street Church, Paterson, is to be appointed
to the De Groot Church, here, of which the
Rev. R. NJ. Aylsworth is now pastor. Mr..
Aylsworth is expected to go to Bloomfield.
This is the only change in this city by ex-
expiration of term.
At the conference two presiding elders will
be elected. One for Newark and one for
Paterson as DR.. Benschoten and DR.. HAM
monds terms expire.