Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-18
slsHoP Nicely MAKES METRO.
DIST CONFERENCE At sHEn-
ANpoAh MEMORABLE ONE.
p,sPENsEs hoMELY ADVICE
AND HARSH INJUNCTION
Delegates On Anxious Seat a. to Ap-
pointrnsnts- Bishop Warns Ministers
That hs Will 30 Actuatsd Only BY
His Own Judgment in Making Ssise.
tions.
Special to rlmes-Republican.

Special to Times Republican,
dist Episcopal conference OF the Des
Moines district, which closes late to-
day, has been the most eventful in the
history of the church in Iowa and
many of the older members of this
conference declare that not within
their memory has one just like 1t been
held in any mid-western state or where
their wanderngs have taken them.
1t is all due to the bishop. Bishop
Nicely is in many respects a remark
able man and that he has left his I'M
press upon the members Of this confer
ence need not be asked. ii Is felt in
the air and reflected in the actions OF
the members. Never before. say the
members have they been subjected to
so many joits as within the past week
at the hands Of the presiding bishop.
Bishop Nicely Of Old School.
Bishop Nicely, D. D., belongs to the
older and more arbitrary school repre-
scented in the Episcopal board and he
is bubling over all the time with home
Iy advice and harsh injunction and he
has been unusually free with it at this
meeting, whether he believed that the
mem bers of the conference were I'M
usually in need of an oratorical and
cleansing or whether it has
been the result of the insufferable heat
The ministers are waiting for the an
vealed in the appointments. The bishop,
al, emil ~
he insists upon all the traditional
rights of the office he holds His adj
dress upon 'Mannerisms" in the pulpit
was followed by sizzling talk upon
THE Preachers Personal Appearance"
members always to wear nothing but
the traditional black
AS the bishop let out those words
there was a curious craning Of necks
turnout the large congregation for the
audience presented the usual varie-
gated appearance Of black suit-largely
In the 1ninority-with strong mixture
OF grey, brown. speckled and striped
clothes and even the, much maligned
shirt waist was here and there in evil
dence E
The bishops observations were re-
celVeQ Win SnllleS ana II IS not as
sumed that there will he any change in
the ministerial garb at this conference.
Ministers Walk on coais.
Despite the warning talk Of the
bishop on the first day Of the confer
ence, when he warned the ministers.
laymen ndschurch delegations on hand
to rot urge .tfls or that appointment,
that he proposed to be the boss when
it come to making up the list Of APP
pointments, and that he did not propose
to act as an underwater to endorse a
list made up by somebody else. there
has been feeling-a wish father to the
thought-that the bishop would relent
and that ne would listen to the appeals
of all in the matter Of appointments
The bishop rudely shattered these
hopes yesterday when he again gave
notice that he would make the APP
pointments, prepared the ministers for
a possible shock. in fact suggesting
that some Of them were due to receive
one, and stated that he had taken the
matter into his own hands and that
when the appointments were made they
would be his own. A bad Sunday re-
suited for many of the delegates.