El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-04
THE METHODIST CONFERENCE A D.
JOURNS.
Continued from Yesterdays I'd Edition

| report w nile Tedul0g'tue Dleuop dohe
him how much of the church propert
was reported as insured, and he an:
wered that there was none reported 8
carrying insurance.
Bishop Duncan then gave the pres cl
ers q lecture about not insuring tn
churches. He said that there was q
much religion in insurance as Their
was common sense and he didn't wau
any of them to think that the churc
beiog a house of God would be fire.
from destruction by IRE, and there W a
no way better to meet this emergenc
! than by Insurance. One in stance wa
| related where fine church was insur
I'd for the full amount of its value anC
it was burned. Twelve months from
the date of the fire there was muct
handsomer church erected on tn
pot the first one occupied and 1t wa
| dedicated, which would not have beer
the case if there had been no insurance
The bishop announced that the be-
| ginning of this year saw two new
preachers in the conference. The
| Rev. John Hodgson who was ordained
| last afternoon at 4:30 and Rev. Ar
| thur Marston's name was received
from the Arkansas conference and was
admitted to this.
At this point Rev. T. L. Italian ce
made q motion that hereafter all ex-
this conference be held in writing and
That a grade of 65 per cent must be made
before an admi,tance would be given.
Secretary HOogson read a resolution
thanking the people of Ell Paso for
their kind reception of the conference
and hospitsble entertainment,
the other churches for the welcome
extended them, also the railroads
for the courtesies shown them in rates
and treatment.
At this point the secretary read a
set of resolutions, which were framed
by The conference of Missouri in re-
gard to the deception of the U. S.
senate when the agents OF the MethO-
iist church applied to that body for
the amount of money which the gov.
rnment owed 1t. because OF the des-
truction of its property by the govern
ment during the civil war. The agents
If the church Messrs. Barbee of Tenn.
and Smith of Kentucky, in trying to
nave the amount due the church ap-
propriated, employed the services of
IN attorney and some of the pious MEM
bers OF the senate asked them the
question If an attorney was conducting
the case, and they would evade the
answer and when the senate finally
placed the amount owed the church at
$3.50, 900 and appropriated that amount
t leaked out that the agents had Civ
On lawyer 35 per cent for his council
10 the matter of getting the sppropria-
ton. This made the pious members
of the senate mad and they raised a
fuss about it and the bishops of the
church told that BODY If they didn't
-hlnk they wou have made the Ap-
preparation had they known that an
attorney was in the case then the
church would return to the government
the $3.50, 900.
The resolution which was Def ore
the convention upheld the proposition
of the bishops OF the church and con-
demned the agents.
Rev. Huggett was in favor of cutting
out that part of the resolution where
the agents were condemned and to
pass the part of upholding the action
of the bishops.
His ideas were not fsvorably receiv-
ed and Elder Edoing on said that they
had acknowledged that they had done
wrong and like Peter said that they
had lie d and asked forgiveness, and
there was no reason to cut that part
out of the resolution. Elder Edding-
toms i6ea seemed to be In favor and
the origi al resolution signed by
twelve names of the preachers present
we're passed, as framed.
Rev. Huggett wanted to thank Elder |
Eddington for the hard work he had |
done In this conference for the last
year, but he was out of order as the
elder had only done district work and |
this was a general conference and not |
q district, However the bishop thanked |
and complimented brother Edd ing ton |
very highly for the work he had done. |
The next matter taken up was the |
place of meeting of the conference
oext yesr. The pames presented to
the conference with the number of |
votes received were: Albuquerque IL;
Alpine 3; San Marcisi 1.
This vote gave the conference to AL |
buquerque.
After the selection of the place of !
of the conference for the next |
year the bishop said that he would now |
close the conference by stating where |
The different pre- achers would be sta
oned Tor the coming year, but before
doing this he would like to say that |
Ia making the selections for the differ
could under the circumstances. he
said thas it was impossible for him to |
make the fields of labor as he would |
ike to have them ana it was also i'm
Dossible for him to m AXE men to fill the
ields which were to have work done in |
them, but he had done
the best he could with the
he had and he hoped that |
every member of every congregation
would join their preacher aud make |
each congregation prosper during the |
coming year. The bi-hop said that |
he knew that in putting men in these |
small towns to work it was hard to /
please every body as one of these |
towns he would place AGAINST creation /
Tor the different asses in them the |!
different opinions in them and he
wished and hoped that they would all /
De satisfied.
Before telling where the preachers
would go he Asked brother Huggett to
offer up prayer.
Then the bishop said. he had assign
I'd Mark -Hodgesou as the presiding
Elder OF Albuquerque, also as pastor
1t Albuquerque: At Cerrillos. A.
q. Sutherland: Magdalhns, L. Glad
ney; San Marcial, Il. l. Lsllsnce Mis-
,ionsry, G G. Edington; Roswell, Ar
thur Msrston: Eddy Circuit u. ". Lille:
Pecos, K. F. Hodesop; White Oaks, II,
L. Adams; Demiug, ]. f. S.wders:
ella River. Edward Lebritton: Ell paso
w. S. Huggett, Ell Paso Trim
ny church, j. T. French.
Then the bishop led in the singing