New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-10
CONFERENCE MINISTER'S PREACH
SPECIAL SERVICES IN MOUNT VERNON
CHURCHEs-HTNTs AS TO CON-
mo CHAMBER

Nearly fifteen hundred people from Mount YER
non and nearby cities filled the First Methodist
Episcopal Church In Mount Vernon yesterday
morning TO hear Bishop John r. Vincent preach.
Bishop Vincent Is presiding at the New-York East
Conference. in session in Mount Vernon. He
preached powerful and eloquent sermon. taking
for his text Psalm elf. L. HE made known his
ways unto Moses and his acts unto the children
OF Israel" The discourse purely scripfurd.
and was exposition OF the law OF divine reveiae
tion In human action.
In the afternoon Bishop Vincent conferred the
orders OF deacon and elder a class OF candidates.
and led vesper service OF the chautauquan circles
OF the city In the Reformed Church.
The other Conference ministers filled thu city
pulpits to-day follows; First Presbyterian. the
Rev. DR.. Charles T.. Thompson. secretary OF thu
Presbyterian Board Of Home Missions. In the
morning. and the Rev DR.. Harvey Burnes. of
Brooklyn. In the evening. Reformed Church. the
Rev. William A. McNicholl OF New Haven. IN the
morning. and the Rev. ". p. Griffen OF Brooklyn.
in the evening. First Baptist Church. the Rev ".
A. Richard OF Hartford I'm the morning: In the
evening there was large union temperance meet
ing TO protest against the Army canteen. and DR..
C. II. Mead and others preached Chester Hin
Methodist Episcopal Church. the Rev d. @. Dow
ney OF Brooklyn. in the morning and the Rev.
p. NJ Adams. Of Bethel. Conn. IN the evening.
North Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev. W.
F. Prince. OF New Haven In the evening. DIN
Methodist Episcopal Church. wilsmsbrdge. tho
Rev. r. c. Miller in the morning and the Rev.
W. +. Smith In the evening In the Universalst
Church. Of which DR. Augusta Chaplin Is pastor.
the Rev. L. II. Caswel preached In the evening.
The night services I'm the First Methodist Church.
where the Conference Is in session consisted OF an
Epworth League service. led by the Rev L. X.
Moore. and a Conference missionary sermon By
the Rev. Or j. ". Johnston
The Conference programme to-day Is as follows:
Conference prayer-meeting. a. M. led by Bishop
Vincent: a. M Conference session: 2.30 d. m.
lecture by the Rev. DR.. c. T. Winchester. The
Teaching Of John Ruskin"; p. m. address by the
Rev. Or. Charles Cuthbert Hail. president OF Union
Theological Seminary. the Rev. DR. w. Y Kelly.
The principal gossip Of the ministers OF the Con-
ference Is about the changes that are likely 10 be
PRED and among the pastors there are two COM
pusory changes in the New-Haven District. four in
District and nine in the Brooklyn South District
Although this is total OF only twenty compulsory
changes in 2s2 pastorates, the prediction IS made
It Is said that the Rev. o. F. Bartholow. OF the
Eighteenth Street Church Brooklyn. is going to
st by the Rev an F sehoaeG who Vii be- so
lowed at Norwak by DR.. Beler. who has just re-
turned # from the Holy Land The Rev g:
Rev Arthur II. Goodenough may be presiding elder
OF the Newly District. and will be followed az
Rosie of Grace Church. Brooklyn Or. Chad
wick IT Is said will be the new presiding elder Of
toned for the New-Haven District They are the
Revs. J. W. Johnston w. w. Bowdsh d A.
Jordan and Herbert WEIGH II the latter should bs
Conn. The elders do not expect TO have the list OF
appointments completed before tomorrow. and Il
The pc o M nsxt sesson
the Conference has not been determined and as
any place.