Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-05

der in the United States. 1t has within its
confines three of the greatest men in the
Methodist ministerial circles. They are
Bishop John Walden, D. D.. LII. D., presid-
ing. whose residence is Cincinnati; Bishop
john +. Hurst, d. D., LII. D.. a resident of
Washington, and Visiting Bishop Thomas
Bowman, d. D., Ii. D., whose headquar-
tiers are at St. Louis. Its conference board
of examiners is made up of the following
men, largely the resident ministers of Bal
Mcdowell, secretary: Page Milburn, ]. C.
Nicholson. W. r. Stricken, ]. ST. Clair
Neal. II. S. France, F. ]. Wagner, william
Sheers. J. P. Wilson, ]. F. Goucher. L. T.
j. B. Van Meter. f. l.. Watson. F. II. Ha-
yenner and Joel Brown, all of Baltimore.
The Washington members are DR.. ]. F.
Heisse and Dr.. NJ. F. B. Rice.
Among the other men prominent in the
conference are DIR. G. C. Bacon, DR.. C. w.
Baldwin, presiding elder; DIR. F. NJ. Bris-
tol. DR. B. F. Garrison. w. NJ. Ferguson.
presiding elder; DR.. ]. F. Goucher, DR.. w:
l.. Mcdowell, Dr. L. A. Thirlked all of
Baltimore. Among the more prominent
Washington divines are DIR. Bristol. DIR.
r. ID. Huntley, DR.. II. r. Naylor. St. Clair
Neal, DIR. W. r. Stricken. Dr. l.. B. Will
sock.
Pioneer in Church Work.
DIR. John NJ. Walden, bishop presiding. is
one of those Methodists who sees sunshine
everywhere, and who carries 1t with him.
He has been pioneer in the church work.
and is very bulwark of faith to the fol-
lowers of John Wesley. He was born in
Ohio February II, 1881, and was one of
the early members of the Free State"
party of Kansas. He went to the territory
in 1857, and started paper at the promis-
ing town OF "Quindaro." called the Chin
dowan, which was Indian for News. ;"
Editing a paper in Kansas in those DAYS
was not a picnic, and required boots ard
nelt in which to carry four six shooters
i blsnop Walden gave it up at the end of a
year and today Quindaro is but legend
in the state. Mrs c. l. H. Nichols was as
sociate editor of this paper.
Dr. walden entered politics in Kansas,
ana IN the Free State convention held in
Topeka in July Of the year he went there,
wrote and reported the resolutions which
were rabidly Free State" in their pro-
visions, and he was elected to the Kansas
territorial legislature in the August follow
ing, under that constitution. In 1888 he
was elected state superintendent of public
instruction, and was q member of the
teavenWorth constitutional convention in
turned to the church. and by successive
steps, has reached his present high posi-
ton in It.
Bishop Bowman.
Bishop Thomas Bowman, than whom no
man In the Methodist church was ever
tS 4o'eu' Is d naive OF Pennsylvania,
"here he was born. just one year after the
oeath OF the beloved first bishop of the
United States, Francis Asbury. He grad
uated as valedictorian of his class in 1877
and adopted law as a profession. hut in
less IMAM year he turned to the church
ana began preaching, being ordained dea
con ana elder by Bishop Waugh in 1899,
When he was appointed to the Beaver
MEADOW Mission, Baltimore conference
FROM that time he has been identified with
all the progressive work of the church, edll
cauonal, missionary and all the rest.
In 1861 he was elected chaplain of tho
I nited States Senate and served through
TWO sessions In 1872 the general confer-
ence OF the Methodist Church, its highest
Ia, "tst,aaklhg body: sitting in Brooklyn, elect
cd MIN to the office of bishop, or general
superintendent" of the Methodist Church
being the first of eight so chosen. In this
capacity he has circumna vigated the e.obe
several times, visiting the conferences in
al the states in the Union as we'll as the
territories and those in China, Japan, Mex
leo and Europe. Bishop Bowman's life has
been busy one. He has dedicated over
1000 churches. and they rear their heads
IN every cline. AT general conference in
Cleveland, Ohio, in May 1886, he was re-
tired on account of advanced age Although
relieved of the active duties so long and
worthily discharged. he retains all the dig
NIFTY and honors of the episcopal office The
degree of d. ID. was conferred on him by
the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1859. and
that Of LII D. by Dickinson College of
pennsylvania In 1872.
Among the Noted Ones
Among the many ministers of note who
are no longer on the active list is DIR. John
lanahan of Baltimore He is tall and snare
and his hair is snow white, but his voice
Is as clear and penetrating as in the DAYS
OF his early manhood, when he was a power
as a speaker He entered the Baltimore
conference in 1888 and since then has been
known throughout the church and has
maintained a commanding influence In al
Its councils. He was elected to the general
conference of 1855. and has served in every
general conference since-a period of forty
years He is the only member of the Meth
! odlst Church in the world who ENJOYS this
distinction The present conference will
EJECT five members to attend the general
conference in Chicago in June, and DR..
Lanahan will for the eleventh time carry
the greetings of the Baltimore conference Ia
its master body.
DR.. Lanahan was twenty years presid-
ing elder and was pastor of the Foundry
Methodist Church during the administra-
ton of President Hayes, who with his fam
lily attended his church. During the war he
was strong anti-slavery man and val
ued counsellor of the administration. and
rendered valuable service to the Methodist
Episcopal Church on the border. He was a
member of the second ecumenical confer
| ence, he'd in Washington in 1891. He is now
iCNilc GU anu iuI lildHy years mas naQ charge
of the Book Depository in Baltimore. a
branch of the great book concern of the
Methodist Church.
Schools and Colleges.
The Methodist Episcopal Church North IS
very proud of its schools and colleges
which number over fifty. Its colleges and
universities are among the finest in the
country, and its theological seminaries have
more than national renown. The church
| very early in the slavery agitation took
steps toward educating the colored boys
| and girls. and now has fine schools in op-
| Grafton all over the south, the most north
| ern being the Morgan College of Balti.
more. The president of this college is Dr.
| F. J. Wagner, who was for many years one
| Of the most active ministers in the Balti-
more conference. 1t was established in 1864
| for the education of colored boys and girls
\ under the freedmans aid branch of the
| work of the Methodist Episcopal Church
| There are forty-tive of the schools south
| of Mason and Dixon's line. There are so,
| students at Morgan College, divided into
| the normal, college, preparatory and thee.
| logical. The school has supplied hundreds
| of teachers for the Washington and Della
| ware conference district which is the col
| ored conference. and the Baltimore anG
| Wilmington conference, with its colored aid
| supply the funds to support the schools fol
the colored people. They have also an in