The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-05
VARIOUS INTERPRETING PROCEED
 INGS YESTERDAY.

l declined to serve
 Presiding Elder Wing of the Soutf
 Long Island district asked for the ap pointment of committee of five to in
 quire into the case of Lewis S, Stowe, Q
 superanuated minister, who has beer
 out of active service for ten years
 Statements had been made to him, Dr Wing said, concerning MT. Stowe thai required an Investigation He declined
 to say what these charges were except
 that they did not effect his moral char.
 acter.
 Presiding Elder Wing made his report
 on the state of the church in his dis
 trict, South Long Island. Dr. Wing
 stated that there was no spot in his dis
 trict from which Methodist church
 could not be easily reached by an easy
 Journey on foot. The roll of the South
 Long Island ministers was then called,
 and the character of each passed upon
 by the presiding elder.
 During this roll call Dr. Charles w.
 Parsons of the Hanson Place M. E.
 church, Brooklyn, was transferred to
 the Maine conference.
 The case of Arvine c. Bowdish of the
 Sumner avenue Brooklyn church excit-
 ed some discussion to-day, with the re- suit that the case was ordered to be re-
 ported with the principles involved
 therein to the next general conferepce. Last year Dr. Bowdish was transferred
 to the New England conference by Bishop Fowler, but the transfer was not consummated, and the published minutes appeared with Dr. Bowdish's name omitted. Dr. Bowdish appeared in this conference but his name was not called by the secretary. Bishop War ren ruled that as the transfer had not been made complete Dr. Bowdish had remained in the New York East con- ference and was SO still. On motion of Dr. Pullman the matter was ordered to be reported to the general confer ence.
 When the name of George P. Mains. secretary of the conference, was reach ed, the reading of the roll was inter- rupted by Dr. John A. Roach, who de- manded an inquiry into the matters in dispute between himself and Dr. Mains. Dr. Mains is superintendent of the Church society and Dr. Roach is supernumerary minister who was assigned two years ago to the Wash ington street, Brooklyn, church. He to the passing of Dr. Mains until such a committee of in- quiry had been appointed. My char acter has been under consideration for two years" cried Dr. Roach, through the action of Dr. Mains. My salary has been withheld for two years through his instrumentality I have myself been the means of obtaining $100,O00 for the church and yet have not had one dollar of my salary"
 Dr. Mains denied that he had given Dr. Roach cause for offense, and his denial was supported by the statement of Presiding Elder Wing, but now that the matter had reached the public at- tention he insisted on a thorough tn- quiry into the case. He wanted the in- quiry to be in open conference, where all the facts could be made known. Dr. Roach was vehement in his demand for 8 formal inquiry according to the rules of the church, and on motion of Presi- dent George E. Read of Dickenson col ege a committee was appointed for this purpose
 The Rev. John Stenstrom was added, by vote of conference, to the list of su- ministers.
 J. M. Buckley, J. s. Breckennon and ;. Fl. Buck were elected to fill vacancies In the conference board of trustees.
 Presiding Elder Van Alstyne of the North Long Island district read his re-
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 Addresses were made during the morning by J. c. Hartzell, D. D., secre- ,ary of the Freedman's Aid society; | ManIey D. Hard, D. D., secretary of the 1 Church Erection society; R. w, Rogers, | D. D., of Drew Theological seminary; | Or. Marcus D. Buell., dean of the Boston | Chancellor J. R. Day of the | Syracuse, N. Y, academy, and Francis | D. Blakeslee of the Greenwich, Conn.,, l academy.
 The afternoon session was devoted | o the Woman's Foreign Missionary | iociety reports. The Rev. A. Fl. Good | nough was chairman. Mrs. z. P. l Oennler, corresponding secretary, read | he annual report. This was followed | ,y short addresses by Mrs. s, L. Gracey | Lnd S. L. Beiler, D. D. In the evening he anniversary meetings of the General Missionary society occurred. Tomorrow he program includes the reports of he Womans Home Missionary society i md a lecture by Editor Buckley of the Christian Advocate.
 The following committee of inquiry n the Roach-Mains case was appoint- d: Francis c. Hill of Huntington urius w. Eggleston of East Berlin, \. H. Wyatt of Norwalk, G. L. Thomp- on of Flushing, L. l., and J. R. Nun on of New Haven. The committee eld session at 7:3O this evening.
 A popular meeting was held last vening. Dr. Manley s. Hard spoke of he work of the Church Extension so- iety. He said that in the twenty eight 1 ears of its existence this organization ad accumulated fund of a million ollars, which it employed in loans to churches to aid them in Nearly 10000 churches had cen aided, and these churches housed alf million Sunday school children. The New York East conference has ontributed $S900O to this board, re- eiving in return in aid and loans to reak churches in the conference about I8,O00. Last year the conference con- 'ibuted 71a cents per member to the oard.
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