Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-09-30
NEW HALL FOR LAWRENCE.
Large Contributions Assure It-Meth-
odists Assigned to Pulpits.

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odists Assigned to Pulpits.
Marinette. Wis, Sept. Is Lawrence
univel sity is to have a new science
hall to cost 100000. exclusive of equip
ment. This announcement was made
at the Methodist conference when DR..
J, Il. Farmer made known the con-
tribution of Louis Gram of this city,
of 81 600 for this purpose, and followed
II with the further announcement that
eX-Congressman Stephenson had do
mated SIS, 600, The new building is
to be known as the Robert G. Stephen
son hall, The surprise did not stop
here, for when the %uproarious applause
subsidized DR.. Farmer read a letter
from DR.. II. A. Kirschner of Chicago,
stating that he would contribute
$4,000 for the equipment of the build
ing, DR.. Farmer thought the confer
ence ought to donate $1,000, and
called for contributions. Revs. Web
ster Millar OF Waukesha and Willis
Cooper of Winneconne contributed
500 each, George f. Reynolds of
Omro and w. j. Olmstead of Milwau-
kee, $50 each, and Revs, A, ]. Mead,
Farmer, Perry Millar, George Trever,
William Clark, T. w. North and w. e.
Morris, s25 each. Fifty-four ministers
contributed $40 each for their wives,
making a total of 1920. The build
ing will be brick, three stories high,
and will have a tower.
lowering over the conference like
a powder magazine suspended over a
blazing fire. has been one of the great
est sensations of the Methodist year,
and only the greatest tact and nicely
prevented the explosion. Had the bolt
fallen it would have precipitated n
ether such scene as that at Green Bay
three years ago and at that other
conference which Bishop Fowler pre-
sided owe at Appleton ten years ago.
Party politics make strange bedfellows
and Methodist politics are subject to
the rule, and the religious ups and
downs are just as marked as in the
secular game, so that 1t Is not, per
haps, strange that the spirit which eX-
pounds the principles of brotherly love
and good fellowship should some
times give way and angrily burst forth
with, "Oh, keep still, ! saved your
head and kept you from being turned
out into the country accompanied
with a turning away in unfeigned dis
gust. And likewise it cannot be said
to be strange for the one rebuked 20
retort with equal spirit and all but
: pass the lie direct, though it may be
said to have passed indirectly and in.
ferentially in a sharp, quick, THAT is
not SO and you know It." This was
the elimination scene Of a series Of
somewhat similar and equally excit-
ing encounters between one of the
formerly most prominent pastors in
/ the conference and one of the five
presiding elders. And this pastor
spoke his mind with independence and
force in criticising his superior's ac-
ton. And then he proceeded to charge
his presiding elder with being the
fault that all but disrupted his con
~gregation and turned the members
against him. While the storm was
{ happily stayed, it. is by no means GER
tain that the outbreak will not come
at Waupun next year. 1t will be sur-
prising to many if it doesn't
Following IS the assignment of min
listers as made by Bishop Warren:
au14, li,tri,t Draoidtug oIdor
f. A. Pease; Allen Grove and Fair
child, A. Pomfret; Beloit, r. D. w.
Poake; Clinton, w. +. Leek; Delayan
and Darien, S. w Naylor; East Troy
ana Troy Center, j. A. Coliinge;
Edgerton aud Albion, e. J, Symons;
Elkhorn and Bethel. w. w. Wood
side; Evansville, William Rawlins;
Fort Atkinson, w. w. Stevens, Foot
vile, j. j. Lugg; Heart Prairie and
La Grange. j. =. Noyes; Hebron and
Rome, to be supplied; GAINESVILLE Court
Street, w. a. Hall, GAINESVILLE, First
church, If. w. Thompson Jefferson
and Johnson's Creek. r.. G. Richard
son; Lake Geneva. J. j. Garvini Lake
Mills and Milford, G.. W. White; Lon
don, to be supplied; Lyons and Spring
Prairie, NJ. A. Drew Magnolia H.
Sewall; Milton Junction and KOshko-
1ong, A. W. stephens; Milton. +. +.
sherwin. Orfordyillc and Plymouth, 10
be supplied, Palmyra and Little Prai-
RE, G. w. Pratt; Palmyra circuit, f..
c. Brayton: Richmond and tiers Cor
rers. j. G. Lang: sharon, Il. c..
Potter; Shopiere } II. Fretts Stough-
ton and Wheeler Prairie, r. x. Mana
ton; Whitewater z. Perry.