The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-23
BRONX ROW srIRs NSTRoDIsM,
Future Of the Churches Affected by the
Split In fremont C0ngregatien.

Split In fremont Congregation.
Methodist leaders describe % a slap
in the face" the relieving Of Presiding Elder
Willard. Of the New York district OF the
Methodist Conference, Of jurisdiction over
the fremont church In The Bronx. Charge
OF the church has been given TO Presiding
Elder Palmer OF the Newburgh district.
The Rev. Dr. Willard. the Presiding Elder,
and the Rev. DR.. J. W. Campbell OF the
fremont church were in conference yes
terday over the situation.
The whole matter Is being more talked
about by Methodists than what the Rev.
Mr.. Campbell Of England says. The action
OF Bishop McCabe In taking the fremont
church out of Presiding Elder Millards
hands is new in American Methodism.
Not only Is the fremont church disturbed.
but the members of the Conference Com
mittee on Location are indignant because
they have been ignored In the location OF
the new Mount Hope church.
The statement made by the official board
OF the fremont church to Bishop McCabe
was made public yesterday. 1t goes over the
whole story of the troubles in the fremont
church from the time Z. r. Eckley declared
that he would rather see yellow dog than
woman president Of the church chapter
OF the Epworth League, to the dispute
over the division of the proceeds OF fair.
and says:
Presiding Elder Willard having been asked
for advice, which he is supposed TO give.
replied that he had troubles OF his OWL; On
another occasion. when given Snpp9ss nuns
ene t S"s T Kew b Eea Msrd ADVISED
your meetings and vote them DOWN p,,d,,
T. has been the custom Of the o p adiaeens
churches before organizing anything new
Notice Of a conference was received BY ne
on NJ May "sF1lSsa PPrssidlns Eidsr Misld
organized the Mount Hope church rsnv tne Sass
protest was handed him from the fremont
people.
Then follows formal petition from the
fremont church asknE 10 p Ella iare M,, i1fh
whom the petition describes as partisan
or injudicious or both. This the Bishop at
once granted.
The Rev. Dr. j. W, Campbell. pastor Of
the church, SAID yE Sssore his con-
What Presiding Elder Millard is think
ing of l cannot say. Mount Hope Is In
my parish. Twenty-Five families live there,
and they are among my largest supporters.
The fremont church is located on the borders
be moved further west. There is not room
has been taken by the Presiding Elder, who
was my predecessor in the fremont church,
Of a quarrel in my church over money
matters. DR.. Willard has located a new
church, and organized it. without, permits
sion from the Committee on Location.
The matter must pass that COMMITTEES, else
the church cannot belong to the New York
Methodist Conference. Even now. DR..
Millard's act having been repudiated BY
Bishop McCabe, the Mount Hope church
is not Methodist, save only In name:
Presiding Elder Willard said he had not
entered into personal differences in the
fremont church, the pastorate OF which he
left a few years ago, but it is his judgment
that another Methodist church Is needed
on Mount Hope, which is some distance
from fremont. About the act OF Bishop
McCabe in summarily taking one OF his
churches out Of his hands he declined to
talk.
The Conference Committee on Location,
which must pass on the Mount Hope matter
but not on the Presiding Elder tangle, has
among its members the Rev. DR.. G.
Eckman, the Rev T. Oakley and the
Rev B. H. Burch.