Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-08
NEXT CONFERENCE.
The Session VIII be the First to be Held
in Atlantic City-Bshop Foss
to Preside,

to Preside.
The Trenton True american Wednesday
talked Interestingly of the next session
of the New Jersey M. E. Conference.
The Trenton paper says:
"For the first time in its history the
New Jersey Conference will meet in At
lantic City, the session being held in the
new st. PauPs NJ. E. Church. which was
dedicated last week. The session will
begin March s. 1899, and will be presided
over by Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, who was
admitted to the New York Conference in
1857, and made Bishop in $780, He re-
sides in Philadelphia. The only other
| occasion on which he presided over the
New Jersey Conference was in 1888, when
the Conference met in the Broadway
Church, Camden Bishop Foss is we'll
known in the New Jersey Conference,
being frequent visitor at the sessions.
1.-The new st. PauPs Church, where the
Conference will meet, is a handsome
structure. and well adapted to the use of
the Conference. The pastor, Rev. George
| L. Dobbius, is closing his fourth yearaof
a very successful pastorate there, the
new church having been erected under
his administration.
There are few pastors in theConference
who are completing the fifth year, and
must move by expiration of the time
limit They are; Rev. w. P Davis, D.
d., of the First Church, 'Millyille: R. NJ.
NAPLES, Seaville; J. L. Surtees, Kaghn
! s@Yenpe, Camden; Edmund Hewitt, Tab
ernacle, Camden; s. K, Moore, Keans=
burg; Samuel Sargent, Sayreville; David
Stewart, Vincetown. and F. A, Dennis,
supply. Kinghton.
"Gn the Bridgeton district, IS pastors
are closing up their first year, Is the sec
ond year, 9 the third year, the fourth
year, and the fifth year.
The presiding elders are: Bridgeton
district. Rev. J. B. Graw, D. D.; Camden
| district, Rev. D. B. Harris; New Bruns-
wick district, Rev. J. L. Roe; Trenton
district, Rev S. Wesley Lake, d. D.
hev. ID. b. Harris term, as presiding
elder, expires at the coming session of
conference: OF course, it is not known
who his successor will be. Among those
named for the position are: Eli Clifford,
w. T. Davis, George l.. Dobbins, Ed
mund Hewitt, George B. Wight, j. Nor
gan Read and James Moore. There is a
strong probability that DIR. Davis will be
appointed,
Ine air is full OF sunaors as - ~
'ee'e's: changes in prospective locations
among th6 preachers, and the dickv birds
that sing in the spring are twittering all
sorts OF possible and impossible comb.
nations of circumstances that may be
! Drought about. All is conjecture. and
the rut1ors are given for what thew NAV
be worth"
The True 4mertcdu then takes nm
ABOUT couple of columns in making a
forecast OF probable appointments.
among other suggestions, it saws that
Rev. J. B. Westwood is anxious to be
transferred from Philadelphia to New
Jersey, and is possibility for Central
Church, this city. Rev. G. E. Hancock.
it says, may leave here and 90 to Wiley
Church, ,sCamden. Rev. Henry Beltinp.
OF Broad street, Burlington, is mentioned
as DIR. Davis successor, at the Firs.
Church. Millville. Rev. Alfred Wagg. 1t
says, now at Elmer, may go either to
Trinity. Bridgeton, or to Sea Bright. DR..
Thompson. of Trinity. is spoken of as
likely to go to Clayton.
Rev. c. III. Elder, it is said, will be re.
urned to Commerce street.