The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-03-07
M. E. Conference.

M. E. Conference.
The New Jersey Methodist Conference
will meet in Atlantic City tomorrow
morning. One of the subjects that will
engage the attention of the Conference is
the Rowan House for Aged and INDECENT
Methodist Women. A. K. Rowan having
decided a house and lot, for the purpose of
a home for such women, to the Confer
ence, it will be for the ministers to make
the necessary arrangements to put the
home in operation.
I'M of the matters that is stirring the
breasts of a number of ministers who
have an ambition to go to the General
Conference, which will meet in May OF
next year, is the selection of holding the
next succeeding New Jersey Conference.
Five ministers and two laymen are sent
by Conference to the General Conference.
Usually the minister of the church in
which the Conference is held is chosen as
one of the five, and it is also a matter OF
custom to choose a prominent layman OF
the same church. At the last General
Conference President Mckinley was a lay
member, and he addressed the gathering.
The churches that are making the great
est effort to secure the Conference of
March, 1900, are the First Church and
Broadway Church, of Camden, and the
First Church, of Millville.
About this time each year there are
many speculations with reference to
change in the ministers stations. This is
the State Gasette's prediction:
There will be but one change in the
Presiding Elderships, and this will be in
the Camden district. The term of Pre-
siding Elder Rev. D B. Harris will ex-
pire with this Conference. 1t is likely
that he will be assigned to the Tabernacle
in Camden. DR.. Davis, of Millville, will
be apt to succeed to the Presiding Elder
ship. In that event, Rev. w. P. G. Strick-
land will go to First Church, Millville,
the pulpit of which is now occupied by
LII. OdNIS. IbGN. MI. Is HOW dl
st. Luke's, Long Branch.
The fact that DR.. George L. Dobbins,
completing the third year of a very sue
cessful pastorate at st. Paul's, Atlantic
City, is a candidate for the position of
Presiding Elder of the Camden district,
should not be overlooked. 1t may be that
the Bishop will say Dobbins instead of
Davis. In this event, ]. Morgan Reed
might possibly be assigned to St. Paul's,
in Atlantic City.
Sometime since it was announced that
DR.. J. R. Boyle would in all probability
go to Spring Garden Street Church in
Philadelphia. The pastor of this church,
DR.. Elliott, was about to go to Brooklyn,
to the church where Rev. DR.. j. E. Adams
is pastor. Now it is stated that DR.. Ell
lott says he will not go to the Brooklyn
church unless DR.. Adams is provided for.
The matter thus stands, State Street
Church, from which DR.. Boyle will retire,
has called the pastor of Grace Church,
Harrisburg. Unless the Elliott-Adams.
Boyle tangle ~unravels itself, DR.. Boyle APP
pears to be close to Grace Church, Har.
risburg.
Nothing would please the members OF
the New Jersey Conference more thar tc
have DR.. Adams transferred to it. He
was brought up in New Jersey, and he is
one of the ablest preachers in Methodism.
He is one of a family of preachers.
Rev. De Witt @. Cobb will go to At.
lantic Highlands if the wishes of the
Methodists at that place are consulted
This arrangement is pretty apt to be
made, and in that event Rev. J. r. Ma
son, of New Egypt, will be suggested fol
Wesley Church, Trenton, where Mr.. Boyle
now is.
Rev. J. W. Morris, after three years o
most successful ministry at St. Paul's
Trenton, is expected to- go to Trinity, a
Bridgeton. This is a much better appoint
ment, from a worldly standpoint, thai
the one he now fills. A committee of st
Paul's have invited William S. Mitchell
of Eighth Street Church, Camden, to sue
coed Mr.. Morris.
At one time last fall it looked as if tn,
whole conference was to be rent apar
this spring, but matters have sim
mered down and differences are adjusted
and wounds healed. The revival season
has much to do with this. 1t is a grea
harmony distributor. The result is tina
many of the changes that were contem
plated last fall will not now be made.
DR.. Edmund Hewitt is talked of for st
Luke's, Long Branch.
Rev. Marshall l.. Owens, of Palmyra
has been invited to the Mount Holl,
Church, and DR.. D. w. G. McIntire, O
Gloucester City, is talked of for Palmyra
Rev. G. B. Pitt, who is now at Allen
town, has had his name mentioned in con
%nection with the Princeton appointment.
William r. Widderspoon, now closin
a two-year pastorate at Long Branch, ma
be assigned to Union Street Church, Cam
den.