Smyrna times., 1899-03-29
THE WILMINGTON CONFERENCE.
The Annual Session last Week at Cam.
bridge Held With Much Success and
lnterest-The Reading of
Conference Appoint.


Episcopal Conference, Wednesday.
and about 175 ministers were present
Rev. A. S. Mobray was reelected sec
retary for the eight consecutive wear.
Rev. q. A. Grise was reelected treas
urer.
DIR. Baker reported all collections on
Dover district sustained, many debts |
paid and salaries increased 81 400, |
Galestown church had 21S conversions. |
DIR. Baker deplores that camp-meetings |
produced meagre spiritual results and |
disrupted church congregations.
Rev. George A. Phoebus made an
address at the one hundred and twen- |
tieth anniversary of Methodism's in
PRODUCTION into Cambridge.
The Conference adopted resolutions
urging Congress not to seat Brigham
H. Roberts, the Mormon Representa-
tive from Utah. Delaware and Mary
lands Congressman will be petitioned
to oppose Roberts seating.
1.-The sight of an aged minister beg
ging for crumbs at the door of the
wealthy church of which he was mas
ter builder is enough to make angels
weep and devils smile," declared Pre-
siding Elder Corkran, of Easton dis
trict, and he made an appeal for minis
terial support.
Presiding Elder Watt, of Whining
ton district, said that about !, 900 con-
versions were reported on the district,
and $2S, 1000 was paid for church i'm
provements. Pastor Short, of Ep-
worth, Wilmington, paid $4,000 on
church debt. One thousand CONVEX
sions were made on Salisbury district,
Presiding Elder Martindale asserted.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY OFFERING.
Revs. Henry Baker, w. l.. S. Muir
ray and Julius Dodd, and Laymen II.
s. Goldey and Samuel H. Baynard, of
the Wilmington District; Rev. G. A.
Hill, E. G. Atkins and @. A. Grise,
and Alfred G. Cox and Congressman
elect John Henry Hoffecker, of the
Easton District; Revs. w. G. Koons,
Alfred Smith and Adam Stengle, and
Laymen j. W. Fletcher and j. E. Hol-
land, of the Dover District, and Revs.
S. W. Morgan, G. W. Morgan, @. w.
Prettyman and Laymen A. G. Cox,
and G. p. Swain and William H.
Jackson, of the Salisbury District,
were appointed a committee to devise
a plan for making contribution to the
Twentieth Century Thank Offering.
WILMINGTON DISTRICT REPORT.
Wilmington District was called, and
Presiding Elder Robert Watt read his
report. He said the camp meetings at
Leslie, Brandywine Summit and
Woodlawn were marked with great
spiritual fervor. In speaking of the
temperance question, DIR. Watt said
"It is humiliating to confess that
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domination of the rum power. The
chief cause of the success of the license
party was apathy on the part of those
who were opposed to the traffic. The
Anti-Saloon League idea grows in
favor, and the outlook in Delaware is,
in spite of the seeming discourage
ments, growing brighter"
Revival work has progressed, anC
there were about 900 conversions in the
district.
A number of the churches during
the year had increased the salaries o
their pastors, and all the congregations
are in good financial condition. Dur
ing the year the churches in the dis
trict have spent $27, ,S45 in making i'm
provements and paying old debts.
THE EAsToN DISTRICT.
In his report of the Easton District
| | Presiding Elder Corkran spoke a
, | some length upon the necessity of Civ
ing ministers good salaries. He SAT-
E that at present "a member of Whining
? ton Conference can only hope for
meagre subsistence, without the mean
s to purchase the facilities for the high
est measure of usefulness until hi
head begins to frost, when he is relC
= gated to the rear by the demand fC
: young men, little later to the retire
v ranks, with beggar's pittance, or,
r he should die, positive want awaits b.
/ family" DIR. Corkran said the aver
!, age increase in salaries in his distri'
n during the year was only $39. Thel
d were 725 conversions in the Easto
d District last year.
I. Friday afternoon the Women's Fo
h eign Missionary Society held its ann
l. versary. The speakers were DIR. job
d f. GOucher and Mrs. E. b. Steven
e The church extension society held
b meeting at night, at which DIR. Man
rs S. Hard made an address.
COLLECTIONS FOR BENEvoLENCEs.
D. At the meeting Saturday, the col
II mittee appointed to consider the S2O
r 900, 600 Twentieth Century Thank O
is fering, made its report. The comml
Ig tee named as objects of special atte
ID ton the Wilmington Conference Aca
I'd emy, the Conference claimants, endo'
t ment fund and the burdensome deb
d. upon local churches.
er Conference Treasurer Grise repor
d. the collections for the various benev
al lences as follows:
s. Totals Dover District, $S, SIS; Easto
ne S9,061; Salisbury, $40, ,252; Wllmln
ton, $l4, 64S; grand total, $42, $50.
Rev. +. B. Short, pastor of Epwor
no Church, Wilmington, on behalf of
n. congregation, asked the ConferenC
st to meet at their church next year, a.
Iss the invitation was accepted unal
[r. mously. ~
- SFCRETARYSHfP CREATED.
IL The report of the committee on I
~ Twentieth Century Thank Oferl
nd fund, recommended that the Bisop 1
es. noinf Rev. John ID. G.. Hanna for sec