Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
CONFERENCE OV Err
BUSY SESSION ENDS METHODIST
EPISCOPAL MEETING.
COMPLETE LIST OF APPOINTMENTS
President Hancher of Iowa Wesleyan
University Raises $4.ooo-Five Dea-
cons Take vows-seven Elders Or
dained.

cons Take vows-Seven Elders Or
dained.
The assignment of ministers for
the coming year, the reappointment Of
all the local ministers to their pres
emit charges and of Rev. U. B. Smith
as superintendent of the American
Home Finding association and the sub
scription of 500 to the Iowa Wesleyan
university by A. j. C. Brown, were
the items of interest to Ottumwans
in the business of the closing day of
the sixtieth annual meeting of the
Iowa conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Muscatine yester-
day.
The Morning Session.
The session opened with devo-
tional services at s o'clock by Rev.
Collier.
The business session of the confer
ence began at 9 o'clock.
DR.. j. w. Hancher made announce
ment of the gift of $500 of P.
M. Musser to the Iowa Wesleyan uni
versity.
J. A. Glendenning, Robert A. Bruce,
Thomas Rowe, Preston A. Conant,
Sidney j. Sarvor and Henry Butler,
applicants for admission on trial were
called and introduced to the confer
ence. The character and study was
satisfactory and their admission was
confirmed by the conference.
The board of stewards made it's re-
port, recommending disbursements to
superannuates and others. The report
was accepted and the sums distribut-
ed according to their recommends
ton.
Allow $1,000 Per Year.
"A lengthy discussion was INDUCED
in regarding the establishments of a
superannuate fund and the method of
securing the fund. A committee hav-
ing charge of this matter reported,
recommending the appointment of c..
d. Smith to the position of collector,
allowing him a commission of 10 per
cent for his services. Considerable
opposition was manifested to this plan
and the matter was referred to the
board of stewards. Later this body
reported recommending that some
person should be appointed for the
purpose of having charge of the super
annuate fund and that he should be al
lowed a salary Of $1,000 per year and
expenses. The report was accepted.
Iowa Boundary Question.
Yesterday the heated discussion of
the Iowa-Des Moines- Upper Iowa
boundary question which has been
the concern of these conferences for
many years, and the discussion of a
resolution conveying the sentiment
that Methodists of the present are
not disposed to indorse "the advanced
thought OF scientists" were the prin-
ciple matters taken up for considera-
ton, and at no time during the con-
ference has there been outbursts of
oratory, eloquence, earnestness and
feeling like that manifested over these
two subjects
Stand by Old Plan.
The discussion was precipitated by
the report of the committee having in
charge this matter through u. S..
Smith, which provided that the stand
that Yves taken by the Iowa confer
ence last year regarding the boun-
dairy line settlement should remain I'M
changed; and although W. G. Smith,
OF Grinnell, offered an amendment,
which was said to smack Of compro-
mise, and was followed by eloquent
supporters, the report of the commit
tee was adopted. In plain words, as
expressed in the conference, the plan
adopted was to TASK for all that we
want, and take all we can GET
Rev. Wilson maintained that the
Iowa conference could not hope to get
the city of Clinton and part of Gin
ton county, and he thought that the
claims presented to the general con-
ference should be the request only
for the cities of Iowa City Davenport
and Upton and the adjacent coun-
try.
His amendment was to this effect.
DR.. G. l.. Stafford of Muscatine NOV
ed that the amendment be tabled, sug-
costing that Rev. Wilson would prob
ably find his work appreciated by the
Upper Iowa conference, but the motion
was lost.
The original report of the committee
was accepted and approved. This
means that the delegates of the Iowa
conference will go to the general con
ference next May, and ask for chang
es in the boundary lines between the
Iowa, Upper Iowa and Des Moines di-
visions, the results of which if granted
will be the addition to the former OF
parts of Johnson, Cedar, Scott and
Clinton counties.
Stand by the Orthodox.
That Methodists of the Iowa con.
ference look with shame upon the ad,
vanced line of thought being advanced
by scientists regarding the Bible;
that the people of this faith in this
part of the world believe that men
like DR.. Terry of Wisconsin, and DR.
Thompson of the Wisconsin confer.
ence are turning the minds of many OF
the people including many young
preachers; was evidenced in an en-
phatic resolution adopted yesterday
morning which provided that no men
or women who declare themselves to
{ this way of thinking shall be allowed
any position as exhorter, agent, edu
Gator or other, shall find place in the
ramification of the church in this con
ference. The resolution will be pre-
sented to the general conference.
DR.. e. O. Haben of New York wa!