Evening journal., 1911-03-17

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said that no invitation being received
at the last Conference, the district
superintendents met and selected Will
mington and Asbury Church as the
place for this years session. and ask
ed the various quarterly conferences
to pay 1 per cent. Of the pastors sal
airy, to cover the cost OF entertain
ment. Treasurers we're appointed in
the different districts, TO whom the
money should be paid. DR. Macnichol
said this had been done in the ma
iority OF cases, but some quarterly
conferences had refused, and their
ministers had had to pay their own
expenses.
The statement made by Or. Stone
to the Conference that the American
University was on the eve of opening
was received with hearty clapping.
He said during the last year about
Sl7S,OOO had been received in pledges
and cash.
Conference Academy Managers.
The Reys. +. J. Cochran. W. O.
Hurst and Il. c. MacSorley were elect
ed to succeed themselves on the
Board OF Managers of Wilmington
Conference Education Society. Elect
ed as lay delegates were Joseph
Smithers, to succeed himself. and
Frank w EIeissler and Henry Mayer
10 succeed J. p. Holland and w. r.
Nesbitt.
The presentation of the new mem
bers OF the Conference was held be-
tainment plan. The three young meE
passed for admission were Edgar c.
Prettyman, preaching last year at
Royal Oak Md; John ]. Bunting.
local preacher last year at Marion,
Md, and b. l.. Mcfarland, stationed
last year at Hockessin. This was
done in executive session.
Mr.. Mcfarland sent word that he
was absent at his classes i'm Drew
Seminary. Bishop Nicely did not ac-
cept the excuse and this candidate
was not presented this morning.
Bishop Addresses New Members.
Bishop Neely gave practical and
earnest advice to the new members of
the Conference.
The Bishop emphasized the import
ance of speaking ability, saying that
young men might come to the min
lstfy with more education, but somel
times they came with little preach
ing experience, which he thought a
mistake. He advocated not giving
orders to local preachers unless they
We're exceptionally well qualified and
It was a case of great necessity. as n
lieentiate was more under control
than a minister
The Bishop told the candidates that
they We're to consecrate their entire
life to the ministry; that they could
not afford to be secular; the owning
OF a farm by the minister was often a
bad thing for his church. He told
them they needed grace and grit.
The ministry, said the Bishop, was not
a money-making pursuit. He said they
must be ready for hardship and gross
misrepresentation whether thew were
elders, district superintendents. or
| Bishops; they must 20 on and do
their duty in spite of it. He warned
them not to treat the Bible as a lit
erary production, like shakespeare s
works, If they wished to make the sort
OF religious sensation God intended.
The Bishop emphasized strongly the
using of the full name Methodist
Episcopal by ministers and laity. He
said he thought a good deal of the
/ Protestant Episcopal Church, but he
was ashamed of the ones who wanted
to take the Protestant" out of it. The
Bishop said he was as much an Epis-
capalian as Protestant, or Greek, or
Roman Episcopalians. When he found
IN a book belonging to Methodist Epis-
copal Sunday school book the letters
IN. h. S. s., he thought that was lust
what they had made of it
On Church Calling.
Speaking of the fact, that the can
didates would not select their own
fields, the Bishop rather hinted that
ever pastor was not going to get just
what he wished for, saying that 1t was
a Bishops duty TO be equitable, but il
did not mean that an appointment
was arbitrary because It was different
than desired. The Bishop said that a
Methodist Episcopal minister had as
much right to choose his church, as
the church to call it's minister.
The Bishop advised the candidates
to be clean, honest, pay debts, and tC
be gentlemen, remembering that a
knife was not a fork. He said, Dress
like minister. not like a travelling
salesman" The Bishop, who wears
the cut of coat familiar on Protestant
EpiscOpalian minister's, said that h,
; first adapted that dress I'm Soutl
America finding II necessary to iden
tify himself as a Protestant, and al
a minister. He said that a distinctive
dress would exert its influence on peo
= pie around. though there were SOM
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