The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-26

and the editors of the various church
publications, present officers being IN
most instance reelected. The excep-
lions were on secretary of the Freed
mems Aid and Southern Education 50
ciety, the assistant secretary of the mis-
siOnary society, and editors of the Cen
trail and Western Christian Advocates.
The conference also took up Tor nnal
disposition the report of the committee
on the state of the church in regard TO
the attitude of the Methodist church or
card playing. theater going and other at
present prohibited amusements. The
majority report as presented by
Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, ia
vOrs the removal from the penal code
of the book of discipline of the matter
bearing on this subject and placing it in
the advisory. The minority report ia
vors no action. Many of the best deba-
tors of the great Methodist body haVe
announced their intention of speaking
on the subject. The committee on state
of the church recommended that no &C
ton be taken in regard to licensing WO-
men as preachers and this was approx
ed by the conference.
The result Of the b~alloting for secre-
taries and assistant secretaries of the
church benevolent societies and for the
editors of the various official church
publications was as follows:
Missionary secretary, DR.. A. B. Leon
ard, reelected.
Church extension society. DR.. w. a.
Spencer, reelected; DR.. J.. NJ. King,
elected assistant secretary.
Freedmen's Aid society, 1.-TWO secre-
taries) DR.. NJ. G. B. Mason, colored,
elected.
Board of education. DR.. w. F. Nc
DOwell, reelected.
Sunday School Union and Tract So
ciety, DR.. r. p. Nicely, elected.
The result of the first ballot for eui-
tors of the official church papers was as
follows:
Methodist Review. DR.. W. V. Kelley.
reelected.
Christian Advocate, DR.. J. NJ. Buck
| ley, reelected.
Western Christian Advocate, no
choice on first or second ballots.
Northwestern Christian Advocate, DR..
| Arthur Edwards, reelected.
Central Christian Advocate, no choice
or first or second ballots.
Pittsburg Christian Advocate, DR.. C.
W. Smith, reelected.
Southwestern Christian Advocate. DR..
I. P. Scott, reelected.
Pacific Christian Advocate. DR.. A. n.
Fisher, reelected.
Christlich Apologet. DR.. A. ]. Mast, re-
elected.
Haus Und Herd. DIFF. NUM-, re-elect-
ed.
Epworth Herald. DR.. J. F. Berry, re-
elected.
The committe on e-piscopacy fixed
the episcopal residences assigned the
bishops to their several fields and
adopted a report mildly censuring gen
eral superintendent for SOLICITING funds
for particular Institutions at the annual
conferences over which they preside.
The session was p~rOtracted, lasting IN
til nearly midnight. The friends Of
Bishop Hurst and the American uni
versity fought hard to have the report
tabled, but it was finally adopted by
a narrow margin.
Few changes were made in the Ioca-
ton of the episcopal residences and the
bishops assigned to them. They are as
follows:
Chicago, Bishop Merrill; Philadelphia,
Bishop FOss; Washington, Bishop Hurst,
Denver, Bishop Warren: Minneapolis,
Bishop Joyce; New York. Bishop An
dres; Boston, Bishop Mallilieu; Zurich,
Bishop Vincent Cincinnati, Bishop Wal
den: Buffalo, Bishop Fowler; Shanghai
Bishop Moore: San Francisco or Los
Angels, Bishop Hamilton; Portland
Bishop Cranstcn; Detroit, Bishop Ninde
Chattanooga, Bishop Goodsell; St. Louis
Bishop Fitzgerald; Topeka, Bishop Nc
Cabe.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
A long list Of standing committees OF
the church and a committee to select
delegates to attend the ecumenical con
gress in London in 1901, We're agreed
upon by the conference today. A reso.
luton was also adopted allowing al
officers of the general conference whC
were not reelected one half of theil
salaries until the meetings Of the an
nual conferences.
Rev. w. P. Thirkield, formerly gen
eral secretary of the Epworth league
was declared elected as one Of the sec
retaries of the Freedman's Aid anC
Southern Education society.
! DR.. Levi Gilbert of New Haven, Conn.,