The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-12-06

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| The Bishops of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church at this seml-annuai
meeting in Syracuse, New York. on
| November 242Sth, 1921, set March
Goth, 1922, as the date for the next
assembling OF the Wilmington AZ
nual Conference and assigned Bishop
! William F.. Mcdowell, residential
bishop oil the Washington area. as
the presiding officer. This VIII De
| Bishop McDowelIs fifth presidenc!
of the conference. He is a master
on assemblies and is exceedingly
popular with the members OF the
conferences and with its entire con-
stituency.
The conference at the 1921 @%s-
sion in Crisfield, Md, enthusiastical-
" accepted the invitation to be the
guest OF Zion Church, Cambridge,
Md. Re-. Walter Edwin Gunby,
pastoi.
This will be the fifty-fourth SEES
sion of this conference, the first nav
ins been held in Asbury Church
Wilmington, Del, in March 1917
Bishop Matthew Simpson, presiding.
L was formerly a part OF the Ola
Philadelphia Conference. when was
one of the first formed following the
organization of the Methodist Eplsco-
pal Church in Baltimore, during the
Christmas season Of 1884. It's tel
ritory takes in the whole OF the Del
maryi2 peninsula. The conference
has met in Cambridge On two former
occasions, the first on March 7th,
1883, Bishop Matthew Simpson Ill
the chair and the second on March
22nd, 1899, Bishop Cyrus D. FoS5'
presiding.
This session OF the conference
promises to excite more than ordl-
nary interest. Three of the touE
District Superintendent will have
served six years as such, and While
the time limit has been removed
from the District Superintendcy,
placing it upon the same plane as the
pastorate, yet speculation is rife as
to whether they will be re-apo1nted.
The names of several prominent pas
tors have been mentioned in conn c.
ton with these appointments, but
this is only a part of the usual pre-
conference talk and does not presag9
that any of them spoken of will be
named for either of these much
coveted offices.
1t is pretty we'll understood how
ever that there will be a general
shift in the pastorate assignments, es-
pecially in what is known as the
upper tier" There being no time
limit on the pastorate it would se"ra
~, Ia In
OF Ions MINISTRIES, but such is NOT
the case. There are one hundred
and ninety-one pastoral charges III
this conference and the minutes OF
the last session show that there are
only eleven charges out of the ore
hundred and ninety-Onc whose pres
ent pastors have served them five or
more year.
Another thing of extraordinary in
terest at this session will be lie
Boy Conference" This is some
thing new and quite apart from any
thing provided for in law OF the
Church. 1t is the carrying out OF an
idea, that was conceived in the minds
of those who had charge of arrang-
ing for the meeting of the Central
II was carried out with such fine ef
feet, that Bishop Mcdowell, who was
presiding, was so deeply impressed
with the meeting, that at the last
session of the Wilmington Confer
ence. he requested those in charge or
the preparations of Entertainment OF
the next ministerial Conference that
ARRANGEMENTS be made for the hold
ing OF a Boys Conference" This
Bows Conference is constituted py
the selection of one boy, in the teen
age, from each of the ministerial
charges in the conference.
This yearly gathering OF the mill
tant host of the Methodists of the
peninsula is very important oc-
oasion and is looked forward to with
keen interest by all the followers Of
Wesley throughout the bounds OF the
conference.
It ia peculiarly fitting that the
conference should meet in Cambridge
it was here in 1880 that Freeborn
Garrettson, that flaming Herald OF
early Methodism, was incarcerated IN
the old Jail, which stood just across
tho street from where the beautiful
church is located in which the SEES
sions OF tn conference will be held.
In the Cambridge cemetery lie the
remains OF the Rev. Joseph Everett
who has been characterized as the
toughest spoken preacher that ever
stood in the itinerant ranks. he
was contemporary with Garretson
and with him sat in that historic
assembly, that organized the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. They were
part OF that Evangelical Cavalry
that under the leadership OF Asbury
swept through the Eastern border
OF our country and sowed the SEED
of the Everlasting Gospel, resulting
in the rise of Methodism, which was
| "Coeval with the Republic