Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-05-27

icating liquors rs = beverage. renting
property to or becoming boaiSrlen cor
liquor dealers. dancing. paying al
games of chance, attending thcatcrs.
horse races. and indulginv in many
other popular ADJUSTMENTS. shall be ex-
PEELED from the church. ualess the or
fender exhibit real humiliation.
The conference, by an almost unaui-
nous vote, refused to change the dis
cipline On the subject of amusemcnts.
CLEVELAND, o., May 2a.-Bishop Mer-
rill presided at Thursdays session of
the general conference. The begin
ming of the end is at hand and motion
was adopted ordering that no more
memorials or resolutions be sent to
committees
The two new bishops will be conse-
Grated next Tuesday in Central Armory.
Rev. DR. Morris. fraternal delegate
from the church south, bid the confer
ence good bye in l5-minutes speech.
lie said that the two great churches
should be united.
The table which has been used bv
the conference of the industrial school
ct Venice was auctioned off for the
benefit of the Venice school. John T..
Andrus paid $500 for the table A. j.
hynet and W. a. Spencer were elected
secretaries of the board of church ex-
tension on the first ballot. Rev. DIR.
w. I. Smith, of Des Moines, was elect
ed third secretary of the missionary
society on the sixth ballot. The vote:
W. I. Smith. 29l: j. w. Hamilton. POS.
The report of the committee on
Episcopal residences was read by DIR.
Buckley. Boston and New York were
made Episcopal residences. Then
Cleveland was passed by.
The following is list of the cities
that will have Episcopal residences:
Boston, New York, Buffalo, Philadcl-
phia, Washington, ID. c.; CHATTANOOGA,
New Orleans or Fort Worth. Cincin-
natl. Detroit. Chicago, st. Louis. To-
pelia, Minnesota, Denver, San Fran
cisco or Los Angeles.
CLEVELAND. O.. May 2S.-Bishop An
drews, the senior bishop of the Metho-
dist church, presided at Friday morn
ing's session OF the general conference.
Portland, Ore, was selected as the
place Cor the last of the Episcopal resi-
dences.
1t was decided after much discussion
that the bishops should select their
places OF residence in the order of sem
iority. Bishop Goodsell was granted n
leave OF absence in order TO GO to Eu-
rope on n tour of inspection. He will
look after the consolidation OF the two
churches in Germany.
memorial 10 - different nations
and rulers on the subject of arbitra-
ton was adopted. When the election
of DIR. Buckley as editor of the Chris
tian Advocate was announced the dele
gates and galleries gave him an oya-
ton. II was fully five minutes before
the house could be quieted. DIR. c. W.
Smith, of Pittsburgh; DR.. Levi Gilbert.
of the First church, Cleveland. and
Rev. Or. Muller, presiding elder of
North Ohio conference, were placed in
nomination for editor OF the Pittsburgh
Advocate. The last two named repre-
sentcd two different factions in local
church circles, and are not on very
good terms personally DIR. Muller
withdrew.
c. w. Smith was elected on the first
ballot. The vote: c. VI. smith. 37C:
Rev. DIR. Gilbert, &C.
The following officers were elected:
Secretary of the Sunday-school Union
and Tract society. Merritt Hulburd. OF
Wilmington; secretary of the board of
education, Charles ii. Payne. of Gin
cinnati; editor of the Methodist Re-
view. ". V. Kelly, of New York; ed
itor of the Christian Advocate. Rev.
DIR. j. VI. Buckley, OF New York; ed
itor of the Western Christian Advo-
cate David II Moora of C;rc;r,,,.;
editor of the Northwestern Christian
Advocate, Arthur Edwards, OF Chica-
go; editor of the Central Christian Ad-
vocate, Jesse Bowman Young. of st.
Louis: editor of the Pittsburgh Chris
tim Advocate, c. W. smith: editor of
the North Christian Advocate. j. o. C..
Sawyer OF Syracuse; editor of the
California Christian Advocate: w. S.
Matthews, OF San Francisco: editor of
the Apologist, DR.. a. j. Mast. OF Gin
cinnati
The amusement question viii again
come up in the Methodist general con-
ference. The committee on judiciary
has adopted report declaring the sec
ton OF the discipline relating TO amuse-
ments unconstitutional majority
report VIII be presented.
Plans VIII be submitted 20 The con-
ference for establishing an insurance
society under the auspices OF the
church. The idea is that the board of
bishops shall appoint five of their own
number and one member OF the church
from each general conference district.
making 10 persons in all. they to con-
stitute the board OF directors of the in