The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-05
CONFERENCE in SESSION
NORTH INDIANA METHODIsTs GET
DOWN TO BUSINESS.
District Reports Made-WooIpert Case
Taken Up-EvangelicaI Associa-
ton Appointments Made.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
ELKHART. Ind, April 4-The fifty
seventh annual session of the North In
diana Methodist Conference opened here
this morning. The principal business of
the day was the reception of reports. the
hearing of the woolpert case the confer
ence sermon this afternoon and to-night's
missionary address, by the Rev. A. b.
Leonard. Bishop Cyrus ID. Foss. of Phil
adelphia. presides over the conference.
The conference organized by re-electing
l.. j. Naftzger as secretary. T. c. Neal,
statistical secretary. and c. G. Cissell.
treasurer. The usual standing committees
were appointed and the conference pro-
ceeded to the consideration OF reports. Pre-
siding Elder T. S. Simpson, of the Fort
Wayne district. made his report, of which
the following is a summary:
Fort Wayne district is composed of thir-
teen stations, with thirty-four charges. The
aggregate salaries are $780, $50. Presiding Elder
Simpson reported satisfactory work i'm al
most all of the charges and a great re-
duction of the annual debt The various
societies are all well organized, the Wom-
ans Foreign and Home Missionary Socie-
Twentieth Century movement in this dis
trict meets with general approval. The in
terest in De Paw is great and a district
commission has been organized for the
PRONUNCIATION of the educational interests.
There are eighty-five Sunday schools with
an enrolment of 1856, and / $50 officers and
teachers. There are twenty-nine Junior
League chapters and forty-six Senior
League chapters, with an enrolment of
1.51l i'm the former and 1858 in the latter.
The probationers list has given to full
membership 456. The number baptized was
204 children and 263 adults. The total num-
Der of pastoral calls was 1880, and the
highest in any one charge was 1.2l3. The
revival efforts have all been successful.
and from the charges reporting twenty or
more conversions a total of 40 have been
added to the church. Three parsonages
and eleven new churches have been added
TO the district.
Presiding Elder c.. G.. Hudson. of the
Goshen district, reported a general ad-
vance In benevolence all along the line,
lections for missions. and other depart
ments showed proportfonate increases.
There had been a great revival, and over
400 accessions We're recorded while SIC. 100
had been expended in Improvement of
church property. The pastors of the twen-
ty-eight charges and the elder delivered
total of 4300 sermons, anu 1900 pastoral
calls had been made Special attention
the Senior League numbered 2,200 members,
but exact statistics regarding the Juniors
were lacking The elder mentioned the
deaths of son of the Rev. and Mrs. w.
K. Ingalls,. of Elkhart, son of Rev. and
Mrs. w. r. Wones, of Nappanee. Mrs.
}. ID. Belt, of Leesburg the Rev. NJ. HI.
Mott, superannuated minister, and Lulu,
daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. c. II.
Brown, of Elkhart. Reference to his own
recent illness brought manifestations of
sympathy During the six years of his
administration as elder fourteen new
churches and seven new parsonages were
built. He had failed to fulfill his appoint
ments but half a dozen times, and these
failures were occasoned by illness.
The Woolpert case was taken UP, but
nothing was done 1t involves a mortgage
deal and piece Of property at Jamestown,
O.. and the defendant in the hearing Is
the Rev. D.. c. Woolpert, a superannuate
of the Kokomo district, his last charge
having been at Upton. The specific charge
Is that Mr.. Woolpert' overvalued the prop
erty In giving mortgage in security for
notes, and in settling up the involved
estate, under Jurisdiction of the court, it
is charged that he defeated final collec-
ton of the notes by claiming the $500 ex-
emption allowed by the Ohio statutes.