Evening journal., 1897-11-02
John p. Newman Assigned
BY the M. E. Board.
TO HOLD THE LBwBs CONFERENCE

LtWtHs Dtl.
Bishop John f. Hurst is assigned as
bishop of the Delaware M. Il. Confer
ence, which convenes at Orange, N. j.,
on March "a.
The Philadelphia Conference gets
Bishop d. A. Goodsell, and assemblies
at Chester on March 16.
The bishops Of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church since last Wednesday have
been holding their semi-annual meeting
at Mt. Vernon Place Church, Baltimore. |
They will next meet officially on May
4, 1898. at Albion, Mich.
A number of the bishops left Balti
more last night, while others will not
depart until tonight. They seemed
deeply appreciative of the hospitality
Of which they have been the recipients
since they arrived in Baltimore. Every
where, they said, they were given a.
most cordial welcome and all united in
saying that their visit had been a most
enjoyable one.
OF the subjects considered by the
bishops there was not one in which
more interest was manifested by min
listers and laymen alike than in the plan
of episcopal visitation This work has
engaged the attention of the bishops
yesterday afternoon. Conferences in the
East meet in the Spring, while the
Western conferences do not assemble
until the Falh Owing to this arrange
ment the bishops are compelled to come
together twice a year and arrange
among themselves who shall preside
over the different conferences.
INTERESTING CONTEST FOR Ell
DER
The selection of a bishop for the VIII
mington Conference was looked for
ward to with great interest by local
Methodists because of the many
changes that will be made by the in
coming bishop at next conference. Will
mington district, too, must have pre-
siding elder, as the term of Rev. l.. e.
Barrett ID. D., expires.
The high authority Of a Methodist
bishop was fully demonstrated at last
conference in removing Rev. V. S. Col
Inns from New Castle against the pleas
of a united official board and the sub
sequent changes that this entailed.
There are no avowed candidates for
the Wilmington eldership. but the
friends of Rev. John ID. c. Hanna, pas
tor of Union Church, and Rev. Alpheus
S. Mowbray, pastor of ElktOn, are
pushing them to the front for this high
office in the NJ. e. Church. Friends OF
Rev. V. S. Collins, pastor OF George
town, are also looming up and declare
that they have not forgotten his
treatment by the cabinet last year, and
that this was done to remove him from
the district and the possibility of the
eldership, but that he will surely be
elected to succeed DR.. Barrett.
SKETCH OF BISHOP NEWMAN.
Rev. John P. Newman, d. D.. LII. d.,
who will preside for the first time over
the Wilmington Conference, was born
in New York city, September /, 1926.
He was converted ana united with the
Methodist Episcopal Church at the age
of 16. He pursued his studies in the
seminary at Cazenovia, N. Y, and en-
terei the ministry in the Oneida Con,
ference in 1S4S
After filling a number of appoint-
ments he was transferred in 1855, to
the Troy Conference, and shortly after
wards to the New York Conference,
and was stationed in New York city In
1860 ne sailed for Europe and made an
extensive tour on the continent and in
the East, and on his return published
book entitled, From Dan TO Beer
sheba"
He preached in Albany and New
York, and was sent IN 1864, to New Or
leans to organize the Methodist Episco-
pal Church in the Southwest. He sue
ceeded in building a fine church in the
city, in opening a seminary and orphan
asylum, and also in establishing for a
time a religious paper. He remained
there FIVE years, and in 1869 was ap-
pointed pastor of the Metropolitan Me-
mortal Church, at Washington, ID. C.,
which was organized by him.
He was three times elected chaplain
of the United States Senate, and in De-
cember, 1873, was appointed by Presi-
dent Grant inspector Of the United
States consulates in Asia. He crossed
the Pacific Travelled extensively in
China, Japan and other Oriental coun-
tries, and on his return published a
work entitled, Thrones and Palaces Of
Babylon and Ninevah." He returned
in 1876 to the church he had founded
at Washington, and three years later he
was appointed pastor Of the Central
Methodist Episcopal Church, New York.
He remained there three years, and in
1882 was engaged as acting pastor Of
the Madison Street Congregational
Church, in that city.
After two years service he resigned
and went to California. He subsequent
ly returned, and was with General Grant
in his last illness He went back in
1886 to his Washington church, and at
the meeting of the General Conference,
in May, 1888, in the Metropolitan Opera
House, New York, was elected bishop.
Bishop Newman is a member of the
Society OF Biblical Archaeology, and is
very popular both as preacher and lee
turer
BISHOP HURST A NATIVE.
On a farm within one mile CT Salem,
Dorchester county. Nd. John Fletcher
Hurst was born. August II, 1894; the
family subsequently removing TO the
Piney Neck farm near the Choplank,
just across a creek from The cid home
stead of his grandfather and five miles
from Cambridge.
His only sister, Sarah L. Hurst. be-
came the wife Of the late DR.. John F..