The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-03-28
SUNDAY AT CONFERENCE.
Young Men Admitted to the Minitrys-
Appointments Due To-day.

LEwEs. DEL, March. 27''- Wilmington
Methodist Episcopal Conference appropri-
ately observed Sunday, and tho services
were largely attended. Hundreds of visit
Ors arrived in town, but owing to the small
number of churches they could not attend
many meetings.
The mostimportant service Of the day
was in the morning, when Bishop New
man preached in the Methodist Episcopal
Church. The church contained more per-
sons than had ever before crowded into 1t,
and The floors cracked under the strain.
Some plaster fell from the ceiling below
the auditorium.
In the afternoon Bishop Newman or
dained rs elders j. H. Beauchamp, Il. T. =.
McKinsey, !. p. Outten, w. s. H. Will
liams and G. w. Hastings. He also Or
dained as deacons l.. E. Poole, G. E. Hast.
D. J: Givan, L. II, Vandyke. J. W. Talley,
j. w. ,Prettyman, W. y. Bennett, G.. K.
Ellis and H. b. Kelso.
The conference session will adjourn to.
morrow at noon, after the appointments
are read. DR.. Robert Watt or A. S. Now
bray will be chosen presiding elder of Do
yer district, and v $. Collins Of Whining
Loves Church official board tonight pro-
tested to Bishop Newman because they
were told they could not secure Pastor
White.
Practically the entiro morning ses sion
OF Saturday was devoted to the reports Of
the board of examiners The averages of
the men examined were OF high standard
and the results wero gratifying. Upon re.
commentator L. e. Poole, G. f. Hastings,
L. Il. Van Dyke and d.. Givans were ad.
mittcd into full mem mbership, and elected
to deacons' orders.
II. G. Budd was made an effective elder
and B. E. McKinsey, J. p. OItten, John
II. Beauchamp, and w. $. H. Williams
were elected to deacons' orders. J. w.
Talley and John W. Prettyman were
orders, and H. B. kelso and George Il.
Ellis were admitted on trial and elected to
deacons' orders. Omor K. Jones, Il. +.
Bloxton and I. X. Moore were received OH
trial, and Charles /. Stengle was COLI
tinued In his third years studies
+. M. Dongherty, who has been trans
ferred to the Minnesota Conference, was
continued In first years studios, and J. w.
Prettyman and Harry Taylor were ad-
vanced into the second years studies.
William O. Bennett, in addition to being
advanced into the studies of the third year
was elected to deacons' orders. Thomas
5. Holt, and +. S. Collins We're advanced
into the fourth years studies
: Willard e. West of Denton, Nd, intsnds
to practice law in that town, ard he was
granted location, with certificate. The
presiding elders were Instructed to EN-.
ploy William Il. Wright in ministerial
work. He wasa candidate for admission
on trial, but owing to his age, quits dis
cussion took place over his admission. He
can read the Scriptures in eight different
languages.
AT the afternoo II session, Conference
Treasurer G. A. Grise read the report of
the financial condition of the conference,
Tho receipts were: Missionary Society,
$50; Church Extension Society, S5.146;;
Sunday School Union, $4?4: Tract Society,
$780, Fresdmen's Aid, Sl,3l6; public cdu-
cational collections, s2,0l9; childrens
fund, $96l; American Bible Society, 5000;
Woman Homo Missionary Society, $96S;
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society,
q ,639; domestic missions $3.50; Conference
Education Society. $3l3; Methodist Epis-
copal Hospital, Sill; missionary debt, $lO
General Conference expenses $93; con-
ference claimants, S., 1856; episcopal fund,
1891.
DR.. r. H. Adams. toward thu close of
Ghe session, received a Telegram announce
ing the death of Mrs. z. II. Webster of
Denton, wife Of Assistant Secretary Web
ster On motion tho conf erence resolved
itself into service of prayer for the af-
ficted. Resolutions Of sympathy for the
afflicted ones was telegraphed to the fam
lily.
William Salisbury read financial state.
ment Of the condition of the Wilmington
Conference Academy at Dover The re-
celpts for the year, he said, were Sl6.173-
9S, anu the expenditures equalled the sum.
The liabilities Of the institution are $36,-
99o.6 &C. In the afternoon President Good
Ing Of tho Academy made an address. :and q
plea for the institution.
the Freedmen's Aid Society was colebrat-
I'D in the NJ E. church, the speakers being
the Rev. W. H. w. Reese, D. D., and h.
J. Wagner. D. u.
At tho same time temperance annivers.
ary was celebrated in the Presby yterian
Church, addresses being made by the Rev.
Il. G. Budd and William r. Snithers,