Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-08
N. ]. METHODISTS
PLANFAREWELLS
Many Pastors Slated for
Transfer at Conference
Opening Wednesday -
KANSAS BISHOP PRESIDES
New Assignments Will Be An
nounced Before Ocean
Grove Session Starts

Bishop william O. shepard, wichita
Kan. will preside at the eighty-thlrd
annual session OF the New Jersey Meth
odist Conference, which opens Wednes-
day in st. Pauls Church, Ocean Grove
Il will be his first appearance at the
New Jersey Conference, and he will be
given reception on Tuesday evening
when the ministers and their wives Will
assemble in the church and hear a lee
ture by the bishop on The christian
Destiny in America"
The ministers who expect to be trans
ferred will preach their farewell SER
mons tomorrow night in the churches
where they are now stationed, and VIII
leave for Ocean Grove Tuesday morn
Ing.
The formal organization Of the con-
ference will take place wednesday
morning. and sessions will be given each
morning az . O'Clock. In the afternoon
each day there will be ar evangelistic
service in charge Of the Rev John Il,
Mason. with special speakers each day.
Memorial Service
Wednesday evening there will be a
service at which memorials to pastors
who died during the year and TO the
wives OF preachers will be read, and
there will be sermon by the Rev. Pen
nington Corson. PleasantVille.
Thursday there will be an al-day
jubilee participated in by both the minis
ters and laymen, when the ratification
of the platform amendment will be cele-
brated. Prominent speakers will be
present. ON the same day the annual
meetings OF the Preachers Aid Society
and the Womens Foreign Missionary
Society will be held.
on Friday the Home Missionary Sc
ciety and the Educational Society will
meet. The managers of the Home for
Aged Methodsts will give a reception
to the ministers and their wives on the
same day
The announcement OF appointments
will be made Tuesday afternoon. The
place for the next conference will also
be decided on that day, and II Is be.
iieved that First Church. Atlantic City
will be selected.
There will be number of changes In
the churches in Camden and nearby
towns. DR.. Alexander Corson seems Ia
be selected for one OF the positions as
superintendent. and this will leave the
pulpit Of Broadway Church. Camden
vacant. The Rev. John b. lIaines. pastor
Of Centenary Church, Camden, is alsC
to be a superintendent.
Other Camden Changes
The state Street and Asbury Churches
Camden. expect new pastors, as tht
Rev. George johnson and the Rev. J. T;
Read are 20 be transferred 10 Other
fields of labor TIE Rev. Earl I,edden
II Red Bank. Is likely to be sent &c
State Street. The Rev. W. T.. thinner
man. of Florence, is slated for Parksid,
Church. Camden, to succeed 1.-THE lat,
Rev. Paul Miller. The Rev. Frank u
pointed TO First church. Camden. 4
assist the Rev Holmes T.. Gravatt. VIII,
will be returned for the fifteenth term
He Is now III. The Rev Richard J
Conover Of Bradley Beach. is SLATED
for First church. Gloucester and III
Rev. Richard w. T.. Buriiett Of Nil
vile is slated for the church at Audi
bon Both of the latter churches have
increased the salaries to $500.
Doctor Corson, Of Broadway Church
is slated to preside over the Bridgetor
district although the ministers of tina
district do not want DR.. Alfred Wagl
transferred to the New Brunswick dis
trict to succeed the Rev. j. w Marshall
whose term expires Doctor Haines Il
slated for the Trenton district and DR.
Melville Snyder is to be transferred
from the latter district to succeed the
Rev +. A. DeMars. who has been ap
pointed pastor of the Asbury Parl
Church