The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-04-07
Rev. J. C. Graham to Take
Charge of Fifth Street Flock
And A. J. Carey Goes to the
Third Church.
WADE AND NELSON
REASSIGNED HERE
Delegates and Ministers Re-
turned From Anderson To-
day Well Pleased With the
Northern Indiana Meeting.

Two changes were made among the
pastors of the local Methodist Chur-
ches at the conference of the NOl tn
ern Indiana Methodist churches held
at Anderson. The Rev. J. c. Graham
was transferred from Muncie to the
Fifth street church and the Rev. a. J..
Carey was sent to the Third church,
from kokOmO. Both of these minis
ters are young men and each has met
with unusual success in the fields in
which he has labored in the past. The
Rev r. J. Wade was returned 10 the
First church and the Rev. W. n. Mel
son will be at Grace church for an
other year. The local ministers and
delegates to the conference returned
to the city this morning. All were
well pleased and expressed the Opin-
ion the conference held this year was
the most successful ever held in the
northern district of the state. The
ministers were especially satisfied
with the conduct of affairs by Bishop
Berry of Buffalo.
Many important business matters
were transacted the last day of the
sessions.
The proposed home for aged people
at Warren. Ind. heretofore referred
to as Chopson Home. because of Will
| liam ChOpsOnS agreement to cOntri-
! butte $4,000 if the conference will
raise the same amount, was discuss
ed. NJ. A. Harlan continued as field
OF a
Commercial club of Warren reported
a $4,000 subscription to the proposed
home and conference has collected
$500 At the suggestion of Mr.. Chop
son the name will be the Methodist
Memorial Home for Aged"
To Reduce Representation.
BY vote of III to AZ the confer
ence decided to recommend to the
General conference that representa-
| tiOn be changed to one delegate for ev-
cry sixty pastors, instead of one to ev-
| cry forty-five.
A resolution was adopted request
ing the General conference to fix the
| time limit of pastoral charges, and
| the delegates We're instructed to sup
port the resolution. There has been
no time limit for eight years Presi-
dent Hughes of DePauw University,
addressed the conference on the uni
versity. He said the endowment since
he took charge had increased from
! $500 to s531, 900. There was no
current expense deficit for the last
! three years. Students had increase
( from 5Qb 10 nearly | 000 Tho cOnfar.
ence gave about $4,000 to DePauw
/ during the last year.
Conference Statistics.
Statistical Secretary Lewis Reeves
| today completed the summing up of
! all reports. made by the presiding el.
ders of the various districts in the
conference. The recapitulation shows
! that the membership of churches in
the conference is 60,521 Logansport
district led the conference in member
! ship for the last conference year.
In the six districts there are 6,645
! probationers and their acceptance in.
to full me embership of the churches
will swell the total membership nearly
10000. There was a decrease of more
/ than ZOO prObatiOners, but an increase
/ Of more than a thousand full members
Sichmond Had Lowest Death Roll.
The greatest number of deaths dur
ing the year was in the LoganspOrt
district, 157 members answering the
! final call. Richmond district had 1l2
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