Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-06-01
The METHODIST CONFERENCE
Interesting Proceedings at Quad
renniaI Meeting.
lEGlSLATe AND RE0RGANIZE.
Executive and Advisory Departments of
the Denomination Framing and Enact
gressiye.
BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT


Chicago. May s.-The following is
a condensed report of the past weeks
proceedings of the Methodist general
conference:
The conference Monday accom-
plished two things 1t decided 10 hold
afternoon sessions in Studebaker hail.
beginning with Wednesday. in order
TO make sure of completing the work
before May %. and it elected. as ex-
pected. the two missionary bishops
E. W. Parker and F. w Warne The
total number Of votes cast was 667
necessary to choice 445 The result
was Parker 55S, Warne 400.
The election of home bishops was
not accomplished. Dr. Berry with
drew to help break the deadlock of
the ballots. During the progress Of
the voting number of attempts were
made TO indefinitely postpone the
election. which would mean no new
bishops until 1904.
David H. Moore and John w. Hamil-
ton were elected bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church on the
seventeenth ballot Tuesday morning
They will be ordained at special ser
vices TO be held in the Auditorium
next Sunday afternoon. After the last
ballot was announced Dr. Hamilton
stood in the corridor. tears running
down his cheeks. while his friends
pressed around TO congratulate him.
The Methodist Church has had in its
history forty-four bishops. the present
election increasing the number to
forty-siX The number OF effective
bishops is increased from sixteen TO
eighteen. AS it has been decided that
two of the general bishops are to go
abroad, one g. Zurich for Europe. and
one to Shanghai for eastern Asia. the
number in this country will remain
the same as in the last Quadrennium
There is no longer law in the
Methodist church declaring that a pas
tor may not remain longer than five
years in one charge. On the contrary
he may. if the church so desires. re-
main with the congregation till he
dies. This is the result of Wednes-
days action abolshing the time limit
by vote of ABB to 23S The vote
was not secured without hours of des-
perate debate on the part of those op-
posed TO the majority report of the
itinerancy committee Amendment
after amendment and substitutes by
the score were offered by delegates
clamoring for recognition but all were
finally laid on the table and the orig
inal report adopted The portion of
the discipline amended is section OF
paragraph l73, which prescribes the
duties of bishops Subsection | pro-
vides for the five-year limit. This is
stricken out in its entirety. and for
1t is substituted: u. He shall appoint
the preachers to the several pastoral
charges annually"
The conference Thursday resolved
to elect two secretaries for Freedman 5
Aid society One will be NJ c. B.
Mason. a colored man. The secretary
ship of Epworth league was abolished.
Conference adjOurns on May %
The following assignments of bishops
were made: Bishop Stephen VI. Mer-
rilI, Chicago: Bishop Edward q. An
drews. New York: Bishop Henry w.
Warren Denver: Bishop Cyrus ID.
Foss. Philadelphia; Bishop John F.
Hurst. Washington; Bishop W Y.
Ninde Detroit: Bishop John NJ. Wal
den. Cincinnati. Bishop Willard +.
Mallalieu. Boston: Bishop Charles III.
Fowler. Buffalo: Bishop John Vincent.
Zurich. Switzerland: Bishop James y.
Fitzgerald st. Louis: Bishop Isaac w.
Joyce Minneapolis: Bishop Daniel r.
GOOdsell. Chattanooga Bishop Charles
r.. McCabe. Topeka, kas.: Bishop Earl
CranstOn. Portland. Ore; Bishop David
H. Moore. Shanghai. China Bishop
John W. Hamilton. San Francisco. Cal.
The general conference committee
favors resembling the penalty clause in
paragraph censuring dancing. card
playing and theater going This would
put into the form OF advice what is
now a rule.
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