The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-15
OUSTED FROM PULPIT
RESULT OF TRIAL OF A.. W. STOUT BY
METHODIST CONFERENCE.
Ministers LOG Rolling" for Honor ia
Conference-Laymem ON Hands.

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GREENCASTLE. Ind, Sept. 1.-THE Sec
morning with Pentecostal services and sac
rament administered by Bishop Goodsell.
The afternoon sessions of the conference
are employed by the bishop and his cab
met of presiding elders in consulting as to
the appointments for next year. The COM
mittees and secretaries rooms were exceed
ingly busy and in addition it might be said
that some of the ministers took advantage
of the time to log roll" a little in the in
terests of their canvass. IL it may be called
such in a conference, for delegates to the
Methodist General Conference, to meet next
year at Chicago. Among those prominently
mentioned for the place are DR.. ]. H. Dodd-
ridge, of Bloomington; DR.. T. H. Willis. DR..
II. A. Talbot. DR.. C. E. Bacon, DR.. F. A.
Lasby. DIR. j.. H. Steele and DIR. Sargent.
Seven delegates are to be chosen.
The lay delegates. 80 in number. arrived
this afternoon and tomorrow will elect
their seven delegates to the General Con-
ference. There will be a string to five of
these, as they go on the proviso that the
General Conference will allow them equal
representation with the ministers There
was a decision to-day in a case of disci-
Rilic III SCStClody = PtONCCoih6S AK SAiGA
acter of A. w. Stout was not passed and
prefer against. him. A committee was i'm
mediately appointed and DR.. Dashiell was
appointed as his attorney. To-day the COM
mittee reported that they did not find him
guilty as charged. but did find him guilty
of imprudent conduct and acts unworthy
a minister of the gospel. His credentials
u-ara foI4n from, L;~, oDI h. hos M vnnro
a place in the NJ. E. pulpit.
Two more districts reported this MORN
ing-the Evansville district, with H. j. Tai
bolt, presiding elder, and the Indianapolis
district, with E. B. Rawls, presiding elder.
These reports were full and interesting.
Rev. Rawls made special mention of the
grand Epworth League meeting recently
held at Indianapolis and it's results on local
Methodism. He also made quite favorable
mention of the Deaconess Hospital at In
dianapolis.
DR.. Horace Reed, a member of the Gen.
eral Conference committee, addressed the
conference on the subject of General Con-
ference expenses and urged that the collec-
tions be taken early. At 10 o'clock the con-
ference gave way to the Preachers Aid
ing reports and electing officers for the en-
suing year. The assets of this society are
$40. $50 and the annual income about $1,000.
The proceeds go TO the superannuated
preachers.
Among the pleasant meetings of the day
was a reunion at I o'clock this evening Of
University. held in Plato Hail.
Bishop c. 3. Galloway spoke to a large
audience this evening In Meharry Hall on
pnoeee1s soing T sowa Mss the a P sxpe aessar Of the the
conference.
The Woman's Foreign Mission Society met
at 2 o'clock at Locust-street Church and
addresses were delivered by Miss Lula E.
Fry. of Seoul. Korea, and DR.. Quayle. Of
indianapolis, The meeting was Largely at
The bishop this morning, In speaking
about the extensive travelling of the bishops;
traV saH' 2,%o!S sSs miles nile 'a and Sf nome ' Of them "an
had been injured by accident:
the tn Co conference. ' ). ". MsiIend eT'f had It last.
but he surrendered 1T by death during the
past year.
Among the interesting ministerial charac.
Vevay. DR.. Rawiins embarked in the work
in 1sl9 and is now rounding up his fiftieth
in the six hundred men, lay and clerical,
now In attendance. He. sometimes remarks
he is afraid he never will be sick; A re;
bear out the statement hat he has been
effective longer than any man now In the
conference and he is now in full vigor. He
times of Booth, and Harlan, and Glenn, and
Childs, and Porter, and was many a time
the rival and competitor of d. w. Voor-
hees, snatching away first prizes in every
contest in which they were engaged. These
two men entered college on the same day
in September, 1874. the year in which James
X. Polk was elected President, and grad
uated and took their honors together on
the same day in June. in 1s49. For sixteen
consecutive years DR.. Rawlins was an hon.
ored presiding elder in his conference, while
Voorhees, was running his career in the
Senate. DR.. Rawlins's name is mentioned
for the General Conference and to a mere
1nnknr on the oOnfaranno w01116 honor if
self quite as much as DR.. Rawlins in send
ing up such q representative.
The doctor may be seen busy at his
table writing up the proceedings of the con-
ference for the Western Christian Advo-
cate, of which for several years he was
Methodism of this state 70 nrominance on
it's pages. The doctor is the youngest old
man in the conference.