Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-03-22

we're converted. The kind of pastoral
oversight given by Brother Greenfield
is attested by the fact that he was able
to report 9Sl, per cent of the converts
of two years ago still in the church and
at work for God. Berlin also reports
SIl5 paid on old debts, $425 on church
and cemetery improvements and S55S
paid to Red Cross similar war work, gifts
for Red Cross, Army Y. Nj. c. A., Ar
mcnians. etc. Stevenson has advanced
her salary twice already during the pastor
ate of Brother Greenfield and will make
another handsome advance next year
The quarterly conference voted unanl-
mously to urge the resppontment of
Brother Greenfield for the ensuing con-
ference year Stevenson is blessed
with one of the most progressive bodies
of official men on the peninsula. They
stand for every good thing in church or
| State
Island has had a wonderful year Starting
the new year with an advance of 5000 on
salary, they then set about renovatIng
| the parsonage and did not stop until
| they had made a cosy home OF which any
pastor might justly he proud. Then the
Ladies Aid Society started in TO furnish
it. So the parsonage at Deals is now
| blessed with convenient kitchen, front
and back porches nicely screened,
| bath room. and outhuldings both pleas
| ing to the sight and comfortable for use.
| When Prothcr Outten seats himself Mt
| the steering wheel of his beautiful Coun-
| try Club Overland and glidcs over the
| hnc she'll roads of the island over which
he rules as spiritual monarch he looks
every inch king Deals has paid this
year about St00 on church improve
mcnts in installing new lighting system.
| q
| The campmeeting was quite financial
| success.
| Paramount under the inspiring leader
ship of Rev A. w Goodhand. has paid
| $500 on old debts and spent SlN9 on
/ improvements All benevolent offerings
| up 10 last year and beyond This. too.
| III spite of conditions that all the tide
| water sections Of district have never
| known IN all their history The freeze
| absolutely ruined the ovStcr business on
which SO many depend for livelihood;
| and the high wages away from home made
certain sections about fairmount and
| Deals Island and such places seem desert
| cd but hy getting the collections IN time,
and with his executive skill and his grip
on the people, Brother Goodhand has
| achieved great victory
Frankford has had mixed year be-
cause the pastor. Rcv G " Strick-
| land. holds ideas concerning war which
are not in accord with what some of his
men think are just to the country Of his
! adoption; but however much | may re-
! gret that the pastor Of any Methodist
| hurch shall So speak IL public and IN
/ private rs to make men doubt his patriot
/ ism, J. for one. shall he slow to condemn
/ him when he has sent two Of his own
| sons, one into the army and ono INTO the
navy, where they have already served
| jointly fourteen years IN tho service OF
| the country, has sent q enlisted men from
| his churches. and raised $50 for Rcd
| Cross and other war work relct
| Five Of the fort y-cight charges on the
! district roxdisgruntlcd last spring be
cause of appointments. GIrdlCtrCc and
Clarcmont wCrc loft without "A pastor, and
Gumboro, Mardca Springs. Ncntor-a and
! Wcstovcr needed adjustment for good and
sufficicn. reasons Finally, All was settled
satisfactorily by taking ". Vaughan
Moore from Wcstovcr and returning him
to Nardcla Springs taking John T.
Graham from P0comokc Circuit and
returning HIM 10 Clarcmont; taking " +
Atkinson from NcStover and sending
him to phdbus. where the pastor had
been called into the regular army, send
ing W Nj McCann from Gumhoro TO
Girdetree and securing c. \. Wander
muclen from the Ccncscc conference for
Pocomoke Circuit; and from the iolston
conference Roland G. Elzy and sending
him to Gumbnro. II has been = source of
much qualification that this first attempt
al appointment making succeeded so well.
Mardela Springs has had the best year
in its history Ii advanced the salary
from S425 10 $500 and paid every dollar
oh, Hox- ar n
fed AZ cost Of $500 all paid. apd pledges
totalnq 500 were secured f4r Wesley
Colleen Institute Too much credit
c"nro y"n the cnerRetl" Young
p..s, }aughan Moore who has
been re- Of activities and the
inspire, lis people
Equal, successful has been the work
Of Rev " VI NicCanu ~ Glrdletree
so favorably did he impress his people on
his arrival that they advanced hiS salary
$500, and have paid IL: they have paid
$3.50 on old debts. some Of Il iour Years
old: and with 20 conversions as the re-
suit of three revival meetings II i not
surprising that Glriletree wants their
pastor for smother year.
Gumboro without even waiting to
have a pastor appointed TO them au
thorlzed me to send them i good man
ana promised tntN WOulQ pay 81 ,bDO
cash salary in addition to improving their
parsonage home In Rev Roland {
Elzev they have the man they needed;
and right royalty has GumbOro kept the
faith BY paving what she had promised
have not the full reports yet in hand but
Gumboro takes her rank now as a regular
s 900 appointment
Pocomoke Circuit was pleased with
Rev Chester Arthur Nandermuelen, who
came to US from within the bounds of
the Genesee conference Pluckily setting
their salary at $500, an advance of 5000,
even before the pastor arrived, the arrival
oi this bundle Of energy and activity soon
started all the church wheels OF Pocomoke
Circuit moving al 8 gate they had never
before Travelled The new financial plan
was introduced at three or four of the
churches on the charge. and when we'll un-
der way the pastor planned for a taber
naCle meeting on scale hat staggered
even the most sangune of his members
At total cost of SSS2 he built a taber-
nacle Of the Billy Sunday variety that
would seat 1000 comfortably: secured
hls evangelist and chorlstcr. and carried
on a seven-weeks campaign, which re-
suited IN IS conversions and 70 being
reclaimed Subscriptions 10 the amount
Of $3.50 on the old church debt at vii
Iiams has been secured new stained glass
windows for Cokesbury have been bought
and the cost, $3.50, paid in full New
hyInnaIs bought and paid for, S56; S335
was pledged on Wesley Collegiate Insti-
tute. narsOnage furniture has been i'm