The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-02

If DIR. Berry, the present editor of the Ep-
worth Herald, is made bishop, Mr.. Sher
idan has signified his willingness to take
the editorship of that popular paper. He
will make good editor If he gets there.
but at least a dozen others are willing
to take up the same burden. some of whom
older men. and one two have had
editorial experience. 1t is not to be a
walkover with him. Perhaps the next
most interesting case to the readers of
the Journal is the editorship of the West
ern. 1t seems highly probable that DR..
Moore, the present editor, will be made
bishop. So far as is known to your corre-
spondent, no Ohio man is talked of as
successor, for wonder. though knowing
ones say in undertones that half dozen
are willing. If the emergency arises. The
present candidates most talked of in the
circles I most talk with are DR.. Brown, of
the North Indiana Conference, who for
four years has been the efficient assistant
editor of that paper. He is a ready writer
and good thinker, and otherwise worthy
and well qualified, and he is backed, is il
said. by the undivided influence of his
conferences; and DR.. j. p. d. John, late
man who is absolutely doing nothing to
obtain the office can be called candidate
He has been brought out by present and
former lay delegates to the General Con-
ference, the list headed by the late Col.
r. w. Thompson, and containing the
names of such men as Colonel Cumback
Judge Baker, Senator Hogate and William
Newkirk. 1t Is something of an expert
ment. DR.. John persists in taking no hand
in the matter. He does not even say
whether he will will not accept. if
elected. The most he has said is that he
has never refused to do whatever the con-
stituted authorities of the church have
called him to. The laymen, who have un-
dertaken to secure his election, contend
that there are impending theological and
ecclesiastical questions that will require
more than a mere paragraphist to handle,
but demand profound thinkers. That DR..
John is one OF the ripest scholars in the
church and one of the ablest writer's no
one doubts who knows him. But he is
not here and will not be, except as he may
drop in later on. to look in upon the con-
ference from the gallery, as thousands
will. So far as I know there is no con-
Scft VI dclicil dthou6 the pFeacn-
ers in his behalf. At least six, If not
seven or more, who are delegates or have
been, are in the field for one or another
of the Offices, and 1t is but natural that
they should help one another. Meanwhile
an Ohio dark horse stands ready to be
compromised on.
OF course. how many bishops. and who.
and other subordinate questions come in
for word now and then, but after all, the
most far-reaching problem to be dealt with
is the book concerns. 1t has reached the
forks of the road. 1t appears that only
two of the twelve official papers have paid
running expenses the last four years, and
these not much more, but that ten of
them have been subsidized to the tune
of $4,000 annually from the income of
books and Sunday-school supplies Dr.
Truesdale, one of the book committee, says
1t is time some business sense" should
be shown in the manag cement of this great
| institution. But can there be without a
practical revolution? We shall see.
| Just how to get higher criticism and its
cognates before ~ General Conference is
bothering some. They want it there, but
there is no way of getting 1t in a con-
crete form as the Presbyterians do; but il
| will bob up in less than a week, for several
may be expected. t. A G.