Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-01
METHODISTS OF NEBRASKA
Tilt Over Election of Member of Board Of
Trustees of Wesleyan University.
REPORT OF THE STATISTICAL SECRETARY
Healthy Condition of Methodism-
New Hospital to Cost $4,000 to
BE Erected in Omaha Mt
Once.

| The lay delegates to the electoral college
| which resulted in the election of Messrs
Goss and Balson as general conference dele
gates, met with the ministers of the
North Nebraska Methodist conference
In joint session yesterday morning
Bishop Warren invited S. X. War
rick, who had presided over the lay confer
ence as chairman, to sit with him as one of
the presiding officers Of the meeting. Mr.
| Warrlck delivered short address, in which
ne stated that the laity Of the church recog-
nized the close affiliation of all interests
common to clergy and laity. He stated that
the clerical and lay delegates to the general
| conference should work in unison and seek
only those things calculated to advance the
cause of Methodism. Bishop Warren heartily
endorsed the remarks Of Mr.. Warrick
| When the ministers got down to business
there was sharp, lively, but, withal, pious
tilt between the members of the
conference over the election of a
member to the board of trustees of the
Nebraska Wesleyan university Trouble
was launched when the report of the COM
| m1ttee on education was introduced This
| report recommended the Christian school as
| IN institution OF vast Importance to the
,nurch and the state, congratulated Ne
braska Methodism in having such a splen-
did institution of learning as the Nebraska
Wesleyan university, and commended it
most highly for the work which it is ac-
| complishing. In conclusion the report rec
| commended the appointment of DR.. Alfred
Hodgetts Of Norfolk as member OF the
| board Of trustees of the university to fill
the vacancy made by the expiration of his
| own term. For some reason DR.. Hodgetts
i Ia not noDular wi ho NJ tba
| conference as he might be and the report, in
| SO far as 1t referred to him, was strenu-
ously objected to by number of the promi-
| nent members. w. w. Shenk of Omaha
nominated DR.. ]. B. Carnes of Lincoln for
| the trusteeship and secret ballot was
| called for. At this DR.. Hodgetts arose and
| withdrew his name after paying his respects
| In a perfectly pious but, nevertheless eff
fective manner to several of the brethren.
| Deprived of an opportunity to indicate their
preference the ministers suddenly decided
that DR.. Hodgetts was all right and the re-
port of the committee naming him as the
| trustee was adopted.
Statistical Secretary's Report.
The reports Of the statistical secretary
and treasurer were read. The former
showed a membership OF over Is 900 Meth
odists in North Nebraska conference and
Sunday school membership exceeding $1,000
The treasurer's report was most encouraging.
1t showed that the ministers in the confer
ence had been royalty supported by their
congregations, in nearly every case their
allowances being not in full. The total sup
port given pastors, presiding elders and
bishops last year amounted to $72,S27, an
increase OF $3.837 over the former year. For
various benevolent causes the conference
raised a total amount of s13,19s, being an
increase of 1921 over the previous year
After the report had been made showing
that the Epworth league had increased along
all lines during the last year, DR.. Edwin A.
Schell, general secretary. was introduced
and delivered rousing address. In which he
especially pleaded for the early conversion
of young people, and urged the Methodist
fathers and mothers to seek at all times,
in season Sand out OF season, the CONVEX
sion of the members OF their own families.
The affairs of the Methodist hospital OF
this city were shown to be in most excellent
condition from the reports submitted by the
chairman of the Board of Trustees and the
treasurer. Seven hundred and seventy-fve
patients were treated during the last year,
but because of limited facilities over 800
were necessarily turned away who sought
admission. Through the efforts of the dea-
conesses and the friends of the hospital a
new building fund amounting to over s23, 900
in cash and gilt-edged subscriptions has been
raised, and 1t is expected to have a new hos.
pital. costing $4,000. erected by March I,
1900.
Reserve delegates to the general confer
ence were elected in the persons of Rev. DR..
j. w. Shenk, editor of the Omaha Christian
Advocate. and Rev. Alfred Hodgetts, d. D.,
of Norfolk.
One of the interesting features of the
mi ncin he t.tr
Mother" Mccoy of Omaha, the pioneer
Methodist OF Nebraska. She founded the
first Sunday school in this state and is one
of the charter members of the First Metho-
dist Episcopal church in this city, although
she is now identified with Trinity church.
"Mother" Mccoy gave the ministers an in
spring address and expressed the fervent
prayer that they might reap great success
in their work for the Lord
Missionary Society Anniyersary.
The anniversary of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary society was the feature of the
afternoon session Saturday. 1t was pre-
sided over by Mrs. Ida ]. Moe of Fremont.
secretary of the society for field embrace
ing a number of western states. The ad
dress was delivered by Miss Grlffith, a mis-
stonary who has had considerable experience
in foreign work. gained by several years
residence in Japan.
Rev. j. w. Hamilton. d. D., of New York,
one of the secretaries OF the Freedmen's
Aid and Southern Educational Society, was
the speaker Saturday night. 1t was the
occasion OF tbs anniversary OF the society