Evening journal., 1913-03-28
$1,000 MORE
IN PREACHERS
ENDOWMENT
Cambridge Woman Supple
mentS Generous Offer Of
WiIminetOnian to
Conference
NAME COMMITTEE
TO DEVISE PLANS

Special 20 THE EVENING JOURNAL.
Y CRIsFIELD. Md. March 2S-With
the high winds that prevailed since
Tuesday and the storm of yesterday
afternoon and last night blown away,
Wilmington NJ. E. Conference assem-
bled at the .s,15 of sunshine this
morning for the third days session.
At the same time the Laymen's AS
sociation gathered in its annual ses-
sion. Bishop Berry for an hour prior
to the business session conducted a
devotional service, and exhorted the
ministers and laymen to make the
mid-week meetings a power in the
church, and he gave some sugges-
tons as to the conduct Of those meet
ings::
sConference was addressed at length
by Bishop Theodore S. Henderson, OF
Chattanooga, one Of the newly-elected
Bishops, who presented the campaign
70 save Goucher College Of Baltimore
10 the church.
Presents Needs Of College.
Unless the financial obligations of
this college for women are met with
in a week, he says, the institution will
be sold
A quarter of a million dollars must
be raised within a week. He point
cd out that forty years ago the Meth
odists had a woman's college in Bal
timOre that had to be sold and was
bought by the Catholics and he ask
ed If the Methodists wanted the same
thing to happen to Goucher College.
7 The Rev. Drs. George Edward Reed,
Vaughan S. Collins, r. h. Marti.dalo,
l.. e. Barrett and T. e. Terry were
appointed a committee to arrange for
Wilmington Conference financial aid
to Goucher College.
The Rev. DR.. John Krantz, Of the
boon concern. adressed Conference
In behalf Of that concern.
The Rev. DR.. c.. T. Wyatt made the
cheering announcement to Confer
ence that Mrs. William A. Clash, OF
Cambridge, had just given $1,000 to
the endowment fund for needy and
retired ministers as a memorial to
her parents and her husband. Mrs.
Clash was present and was given a
rising vote OF thanks by Confer
ence.
DR.. George Edward Reed, I'm behalf
OF the committee to raise $4,000 in
order to secure $4,000 offered by Mel
Vile Gambrill for the fund for aged
and retired ministers, made a report
recommending that a committee OF
nine be appointed to devise a plan
4 for raising the fund and requiring
the committee to make annual re-
ports TO conference. Mr.. Gambrill
offers TO give one thousand dollars
for each four thousand that confer
ence raises. In accordance what
committees recommendation, the fol-
! lowing committee, was named:
The Rev Drs George q. Reed,
+ Charles A. Hill, W. G. Rooms, L. e.
4 Barrett, T. E. Martindale ministers,
and Williams H. Jackson, Walter o.
Hoffecker, Melville Gambrill, Henry
II. Cannon, laymen and the district
Superintendents.
The Rev. S. w. Gehrett presented
the merits of the Philadelphia Meth
odist Hospital and the Methodist
/. Times of that city.
4 The Rev. DR.. Clarence True Will
son, Of Kansas City, son of the late
y. A. B. Wilson, of Wilmington Con-
& ference who is secretary of the Ma
M NOudl OONitAgf dOuAtoo0N
II conference urging a campaign to Sc
sure signing of total abstinence
4 pledges. He has secured forty-nine
thousand signers to such pledges, he
said.
N DIR. Tindley HOnOred.
DR.. Wilson announced that the Rev.
DR.. Charles A. Tindley, colored, for
4 merly pastor of Ezion Methodist
II Church, Wilmington, had been Sc
a lected unanimously to lead the tenn
perance campaign among negroes in
n the south.
Conference at eleven o'clock went
into executive session as is usual to
q consider the characters and qualifi-
cations of ministerial students.
May Be Many Changes.
With the advent of the laymen last
night and today, speculation over
prospective appointments has become
Continued on Pa-o Fifteen.