Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-03-23
MINISTRY
AFTER FORTY YEARS
OF FAITHFUL WORK
Conference Members Express Re-
greet at Departure of DR..
G. A. Hill.
BUSY SESSION HELD TODAY
special Dispatch 10 Every Evening

Special 'tSpaith tp Every Evening
Dover. March Helping Other
People. suggested hy the incident OF
Christ healing the impotent man at the
pool was the subject of an impressive
address delivered 10y Bishop Frank NJ.
BRISTOL at todays session Of the Whining
ton NJ T. Conference.
q. l., Walton who was granted n Ger
uhCate of locatlon FIVE years ago, sur
rendered the certificate and was re-
admitted to the Conference.
REGRrr MS DEPARTURE.
The committee on Conference relations
recommended that the Conference grant.
with great regret. Charles \ Hills re-
quest for a certificate of loration.
V : Collins said he regretted DIR Hills
intention 20 withdraw from the Con
ference W T. Tompkinson SAID 1t
grieved him.
" g. koons suggested that action on
the recommendation he deferred, pending
communication with Dr. Hill
Georgc G Williams proposed the ap-
pointmcnt Of commission To Communl-
cate with nr Hill
ADOPTED AMID ArrIAusr.
7 II Reauchsmp. corresponding sccrc-
tarv of tho Wilmington City Missionary
and Church Extension Society. read his
annual report. which was adopted amid
applause.
George 4 Jones did not think DR.. Hill
would change his decision. The com
mittco on Conference relations knew tho
CnnfercnCsn held Dr Hill IN great honor
and heard with profound regret his in
fcntion to withdraw from the Methodist
ministry.
~ CoNvER WITH pR. MIL.
Dr. Collins said the circumstances Were
peculiar Or Hill had been in the
Methodist ministry 40 wears. and was a
man of superior worth. He urged that
III Hill bc communicated with, by letter
or commission, and that he be granted
ANYTHING he wanted
4 W prpttvman and Robert Il.
stephenson were proposed as commits
Eloners
Or Stephenson said the recommenda-
tinn nf the committee on Conference To
iations was painful 20 him and he con
.ldered II a great honor to he a member
of = commission 20 confer with DIR. Hill,
he would like to gu 20 DIR Hill, but owing
b. other engagements, asked to he cX-
etlsod
Finally, Drs. Prettyman and Stephen
son uerr appointed commissioners and
hy telephone
Pending the interview with DIR. Hill
action on the recommendation Of the COM
mittee on Conference relations was dc
fcrrcd
Request hy George W Townsend,
that his relation he changed from retired
to effective was referred TO the COM
mittee ON conference relations.
CONFERENCE CLAIMANTS.
l.. II Dashiell, corresponding secre-
t.rv of the Conference Claimants En-
,lownent Commission, submitted his
annual report. which the conference en-
Enthusiastically adopted
The conference also adopted the fol-
Irvine recommendations made by the
commission That our secretary he
instructed Ia oall. as soon after conference
a. practicable, a meeting of our COM
mission, for the purpose OF perfectlng
plsns for "a simultaneous conference.-the
camnaign to seclre tho remaining amount
necessary 20 close our Conference Claim
ants Endowment
That the conference, by unanimous
rising vote. pledges itself to get back
of this campaign to the utmost of It's
energy, that We may. as Bishop Mcdowell
SAWS. cross the line with a shout
Henry J Bailey of Wilmington was
added 10 the commission.
ELECTED TO ELDERS ORDERS.
y Claude Benson, Marion W Marine,
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