The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-05-24
METHODIST
BISHOPS ARE
ASSIGNED
College of Bishops Shift Mem
bers to New Territory

Hot Springs, Ark. May 19.-Im-
portant changes in the assignments
Of members of the college of bish-
ops from Methodist Episcopal
Church, South. and numerous shift
ings in territory embraced in the
Episcopal districts We're announced
tonight by the college, which is
meeting in connection with the gen.
eral conference Of the denomination
here.
With the exception OF Bishop
Horace NJ. DuBose Of Berkeley,
Cal, all presnt members of the col
1ege are given new assignments,
while of the five men elected bish-
ops at this conference, all but one.
J. E. Dickey of Griffin. Ga, will
be sent to the foreign missionary
fields.
Bishop Warren A. Gambler of
Atlanta will be in charge of a re-
arranged district which contains the
conferences Of Virginia. Louisiana
and Baltimore.
Bishop Collins Denny Of Rich
mond. Va, is shifted from the
Kentucky-Illinois district to the
North Carolina and South Carolina
district.
Bishop William 3. Murray of
Memphis. whose district the last
four years included the Missouri
conferences and I,enver, Col, goes
to the AIabama-North Georgia dis
trict.
Other assignments include: B1sh-
op Edwin D. Mouzon, Of Tulsa,
Okla. changed from the Oklahoma
Arkansas district 20 the Tennessee
district; Bishop U. v. W. Darling
ton of Huntington, ". Va. from the
Carolina district to the Kentucky
Illinois district; Bishop William
Ainsworth Of Macon, Ca. gees from
the Texas district to that which in
cludes the North Mississippi. South
Georgia. Mississippi and Florida
conferences.
Assignments for the four new
bishops going abroad follow: Will
liam 3. Beauchamp Of Nashville,
Europe. headquarters, Brussels,
Belgium; Samuel r. Hay, Houston,
Texas, China, headquarters. Shang-
hia; Hoyt NJ. Dobbs. Admission, Ala.
Brazil, headquarters. Sac Paulo;
Hiram A. Boaz, Dallas, Texas, ST.
IBERIA, Manchuria, headquarters,
Seoul, Korea.
An intensive cmpaign to carry
the teachings Of the denomination
into all parts Of states lying between
the Rocky mountains and the Pa
cifc ocean was ordered by the con-
ference late today.
The campaign will be financed In
part during the quadrennium by
funds derived from 60 per cent. OF
the surplus Of the missionary cen
tenary fund and for the first time
in the church's history paid evan
selsts will be employed to carry on
the work.
Especial attention also will be
given the church extension work IN
parts of Oklahoma, West Virginia,
Illinois and Texas.
A commission which will handle
the campaign was directed to con-
slider the establishment of a branch
of the cilurch's publishing house In
! San Francisco.
PROLONGED debate took place over
the proposal to appropriate a pof-
ton of the centenary fund surplus
| for purpose, but article carried al
ter members of the committee
which presented the plan declared
statements made to them showed
there is a wide field for church ex-
| tension in the Western states ana
that the money could not be used to
better advantage.
The conference held morning ano
| afternoon sessions today, at which
a large amount of routine business
was transacted. and then held an
other session tonight.
Hot Springs. Ark. May 19.-The
general conference of the Method
list Episcopal Church, South, II
session here, late tonight accepted
it's finance committees budget OF
s2O1O.o00 for operating expenses
of the church during the next lou
years and decided to leave virtual
w unchanged legislation governing
the transfer of pastors.
Both subjects were regarded as o.
paramount importance to the
church and the action was takei
only after extended debate.