Smyrna times., 1904-03-23
WATT SUCCEEDS PASTOR
COLLINS ASBURY CHURCH
BISHOP SENDS REV. V. S. COLLINS TO PORT
DEPOSIT AND DR.. WATT TO SMYRNA.
Change Caused Some Surprise for Up Until a
Late Hour Rev. Collins was Slated for
Smyrna-Few Changes 10 This Vicinity.

Late Hour Rev. Collins was Slated for
Smyrna-Few Changes 10 This Vicinity.
The annual Conference in session at
Dover adjourned Monday evening and
the appointments were read out by
Bishop Fitzgerald. Although slated
tor Smyrna until late hour, Rev.
vaughan s. Collins, who for the past
three years has been the popular and
beloved pastor of Asbury Church,
Smyrna, was set down for Port De-
post and the Rev. Robert Watt, D.
d., sent to this charge. While the
Smyrna people are sorry to lose Rev.
Collins, they feel that they have
good successor IN DIR. Watt and he
will receive the warm and hearty
welcome, the kind that Smyrna al
ways gives. DIR. Watt is an able
preacher and popular pastor and
both he and his wife are active in
all the departments of church work.
While there are many regrets at los
ing Rev. Vaughan S. Collins and his,
lovely family, the feeling is that he
could not have been sent to a better
charge than Port Deposit, inasmuch
as he will have one of the best
paying appointments in the Confer
ence, and Mrs. Collins will be near
her sister Miss Mollie Caldwell. Be-
sides this, there are excellent school
advantages for their daughters. 1t is
understood that Miss Elizabeth will
stay and graduate from our Smyrna
Public Schools next June and will be
in readiness to matriculate at the
Tome Institute at Port Deposit in the
Fall. Mr.. Collins will preach his
first sermons at Port Deposit next
Sunday morning and evening, and will
leave next week with his family to
take up residence there, with the best
wishes of their many Smyrna friends.
DIR. Watt will not be in Smyrna next
Sunday. but has secured the services
of DIR. o. W. Miller, of Washington,
d. c., to preach for him both morning
and evening.
Rev. Morgan Presiding Elder Dover District.
The Rev. 81. S. Dulaney who has
done so much for Asbury NJ. E.
Church, Wilmington, was removed
from that church and sent to a small
place, while former Presiding Elder
g. S. Baker was sent to Asbury,
When he was removed, few who re-
NAMED were angry and predicted that
the people of Asbury Church would
in some way express their displeasure.
1t was generally expected that the
Rev. A. s. Mowbray would be presid-
ing elder of the Wilmington district,
and the Rev. S. M. Morgan of Dover
district, though some of the Milford
people made hard fight to have Mr..
Morgan returned there.
Busy Session of Conference at Dover.
The session of the Wilmington Nj.
E. Conference opened Wednesday
morning with the town of Dover
literally filled with ministerial and
lay delegates. Bishop Fitzgerald won
his way to the hearts of all in the man
ner in which he presided and the usual
preliminaries were disposed of rapidly.
Plunging into the business of the
opening session, Conference, with but
two dissenting votes, declared itself
satisfied with the church's attitude on
the amusement question, but DESTROYS
of restoration of time limit of five
years for pastorates. The Rev. DR..
William Writ King of Grace Church,
Wilmington, and the Rev. E. N. Cant
we'll of Bethel, were the only ministers
who by uplifted hands voted against
resolution instructing the delegates
to the General Conference to advocate
a return to the time limit, and to re-
cord themselves against any relaxation
of that clause of the Discipline now
prohibiting dancing, theatre-going
and other worldly amusements. The
delegates to the General Conference
were so instructed.
Presiding Elder Rooms Good Report.
In his report, Presiding Elder
Rooms noted that but one minister,
the Rev. T. II. Haynes died during
the year. HE lived Christ-like life
for 81 years, and then went to receive
his crown" remarked DIR. Rooms.
Among the 1aymen who died were
Walter H. Thompson, of Easton; Jo-
seph E. Harper, of Still Pond, and
Joseph K. Williams, of Odessa.
There were one thousand conversions
on the district, the most notable re-
vivals being at Middletown, Del,
with lis conversions; Townsend, Del,
with SO conversions; Kent Island with
so conversions; Queenstown, Nd, %;
Rock Hall, Nd, Sc; Odessa, 90; Gen.