Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-01-20

'tWho will be appointed presiding
elder OF the Wilmington district of the
Wilmington Methodist Episcopal Con-
fersnce?'' "Who will be assigned to
the presiding slderHhir of the Dover
DISTRICT" These questions ars fire.
quently asked in Methodist circles, and
will often be repeated during the next
two months They will be officially
answered during the latter part OF
March by Bishop John p. Newman, ut
the annual session of the conferences,
which will be held at Lewes. The re.
plies made meanwhile will be pursy
speculative.
For the Wilmington district, the
general opinion is that the Rev. Ezra
Tinker, LII. D., pastor OF Asbury
Church. or the Rev. w. Il. s. Murray.
d. D.. pastor of st. Paul's Church,
will be chosen; for the Dover district,
the Rev. Vaughn S. Collins of George
town and the Rev. S. M. Morgan 81
Snow Hill are clRRsed foremost as posi-.
bilities.
Should DR.. Tinker be selected foi
the Wilmington district. his opponents
assert, there Will be "a hot time in tue
old town." by this they mean that
ulH WuuIu uub RlFb CUul-
plete satisfaction, anu that trouble
would result. The objections to him.
it is stated, are: HE ia transfer.
he has not been on the district long
enough to become conversant with it's
needs or become acquainted with the
people, and he could not obtain for in
digent churches tho financial aid they
should receive He ia exceedingly
popular as pastor. but, it is said, he
would encounter much opposition as
presiding elder. In behalf of DR.. Muir
ray, it ia claimed that, having Gently
bald the position of presiding elder
of the Wilmington tlistrict, he is
! thoroughly couversant with it's needs
and acquainted with the people. II is
added that nobody is better qualified
| to obtain financial aid for INDECENT
churches than he, aud that he is the
almost unanimous choice not only of
the ministers and laymen OF the Will
mington district but OF the other dis.
tricts. Besides his fitness for the office,
it is urged that the appointment of Mr..
| Collins to the Dover district would
create at Georgetown. desirable pas
torate, vacancy that the Rev. Adam
| Stengle, whose term at Smyrna is ex-
| piring and who, it ia said, is at sea
as to where he will be stationed next
conference year, might be asked to fill.
| Presiding Elder Barrett having recon-
mended Mr.. Morgan for the Salisbury
| district when the Rev. Walter f.
| Avery, d. d., resigned it's presiding
eldership, it is averred, will recommend
him for the Dover districr.
Notwithstanding Bishop Newman's
alleged intimation that he might make
a change on the Salisbury district, it
| is expected that the Rev. Thomas f.
| Martindale, d. D., will be reappointed
to its presiding eldership, TO which he
was recently assigned.
1t is highly probable that the Rev.
Wilbur F. Corkran. d. D.. will be re-.
appointed to the presiding eldership of
the Easton district.
DIR. Aysry's health is improving, and
he expects to attend tho session OF the
conference. He hss.returned from Long
Isiard, and will spend the next two
months at Elkton.
The Peninsula Methodist mentions
the fact that DR.. Barrett preached at
Trinity Church, Chester, last Sunday
week and adds: "That invisible but in
superRble division, conference bound
AIRY, b the only hndrance to DR.. Bar.
rett's call to Trinity as pastor
Lakesville circuit and the Wyoming
and Greensboro churches, respectively,
have invited the Revs. Joseph A. Buck
son. j. E. Graham and Aloycius Green
to return 10 their pastorates.
The church at Pocomoke City has de-
cideu not to select at present SUCCESS
sor to the Rev. Il. z. Macn,chol, ID. D.,
whose term is expiring, but will send
to the conference session a committee
authorized to make the selection. The
committee will possibly submit the
proposition that the Rev. J. W. Easley
and DIR. Macnichol, the former OF Gen.
treville, Md, exchange places.