Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-03
JOINT CONVENTION
ON CHURCH UNION
M. E. General Conference Adopts
Report Providing for Gather
ing to Decide.

Az the recent session of the General
Conferenee of the NJ. +. Church held
in Dos MONIES. Ia, the report OF the
special committee on unihcation was
presented. toward the close of the session,
bv Bishop Mcdowell, chairman. The
report was adopted without debate and
proDoses n Joint general convention oil not
less than 200 nor more than 400 members,
ministers and lavmen in equal numbers,
from each of the Methodist Esplscopal
and the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. to which shall be submitted the
plan of the Joint commission or any other
plan that may be proposed.
an adjourned session of this General
Conference is ordered subject to the call
OF the bishops for the purpose of consider
inc or acting upon any report or recon-
meudations that may be submitted by
the Joint commission or the commission
on unIficatlon.
The lifting of the time limit on the term
of the district superintendent and making
the anpointment of the same an annual
duty OF the bishop was enacted into law.
The report Of the committee on Sunday
schools recommended the reading Of the
Bible in the public schools, and was so
adopted.
The following paragraph against lynch
inc was contained in the report OF the
committee on Freedmen's Aid which was
adopted:
1--WE would respectfully petition the
Congress OF the United States to put such
laws on statute books as shall strengthen
public sentiment against lynchlng and
mob violence and protect all our citizens
in every section of the nation.
Instructions to send to officers OF the
Tcmperance Society of England a COM
munication denying that the agricultural
population and what was termed so
called working classes" Of the United
States were against prohibition We're gwen
to officers of the Methodist Episcopal
General Conference yesterday.
The action was taken TO counteract
what the instructions said was an
official communication sent by the gov
ernor of one of our great States 70 John
a. Page. secretary Of the Temperance
Society Of England The governor 5
communication was said to have alleged
'the working classes demand their beer,
and the same may be said OF large
percentage OF our agricultural people.
The committee on Freedmens Aid
presented its report, recommending that
the name Of the Freedmen AID Society
he changed to the Board Of Education for
Negroes, which report was adopted.
The committee on Judiciary rendered a
report which holds that inasnuch as IN
most States all business except judicial
decisions is legal if done on Sunday. there
fore. the church NAV transact the business
Of electing trustees on Sunday, except IN
places where this is specifically forbidden
by law.
During the recent centenary campaign
ri the church the lavmen did service
through an organization known as Minute
Men. in speaking before the Congre-
cations and presenting the varl-
Gus causes. The value Of TINS lay
organizations is recognized in report
filed by the committee on temporal
economy providing that these Minute
Men shall he permanent; that they shall
he appointed annually by the pastor and
prescribing the number for each local
church.
EPISCOPAL RESIDENCES.
Episcopal residences assigned by Cen
eral Conference were as follows
Residences in the United States-At-
ianta, Georgia, Bishop T. G. Richardson
Boston, Mass, Bishop E. H. Hughes;
Buffalo. \. y, Bishop William Burt;
Chattanooga, Tenn, Bishop F NJ Bristol
Cincinnati, O., Bishop ". F. Anderson;
Denver, Col, Bishop G. L. Mead; De
froit, Mich. Bishop T :. Henderson;
Helena. Montana, Bishop c. ". Burns;
Indianapolis, Ind, Bishop F. D. Leete;
New Orleans La, Bishop r. f. Jones,
(colored); New York City, Bishop /. B.
Wilson; Omaha, Neb.. Bishop II. c.
STUNT; Philadelphia, Pa, Bishop j. F.
Berry; Pittsburg, Pa, Bishop r J. Nc
Council; Portland, Oregon, Bishop ". O.
Shepard; St. Louis, Mo, Bishop ". a.
ouayle; St. Paul, MINI, Bishop {. B.
Mitchell; San Francisco, Bishop a. W.
Leonard; Washington. d. c., Bishop
". F. Mcdowell. Wichita, Kan, Bishop
I L. Waldorf
Residences in Foreign Lands-Eastern
Asia. Seoul, Korea, Bishop Herbert
WEIGH; Foochow, China, Bishop T. T.
heeney: Peking. China, Bishop v. :.
Lewis; Shanghai, China, Bishop L. J.
BIrney.
Southern Bangalore. India, Bishop
H L. Smith; Bombay, India, Bishop j.
". Robinson; Calcutta, India, Bishop T
B. Fisher: Lucknow, India, Bishop + W
Warne.
Southeastern Asia-Manilla, P. l.,
Bishop c. T. Locke; Singapore, Straits
Settlements, Bishop c. II. Buckley.
Africa-Capetown South Africa, Bishop
I. ). Johnson; Monrovla, Liberia Bishop
NJ ". Clair (colored).
Latin America-Buenos Aires, Argen-
TINA, South America, Bishop " r.
Oldham. Mexico City, Mexico, Bishop
W f. Thirkield.
Europe-Copenhagan Denmark. Bishop
Anton Bast; Paris, France, Bishop Edgar
Blake; Zurich, Switzerland, Bishop J. L.
Nuelsen.
CONFERENCE WAS EPOCH MAKING.
The General Conference was considered
by church authorities one of the most
epoch-making in the history of the de-
nomination.
It's final action was To go on record
In favor Of the Interchurch World Move
ment and to give this united effort Of
many churches the strongest kind Of an
Endorsement. Following closely upon
somewhat similar action by many de
nominations, this action apparently will
ace the Interchurch Movement in q