Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-04-08
N. P. CONFERENCE
FAILS TO LIMIT THE
=. TERMS OF PASTORS
Effort Made. at Annual Session,
to Obtain More Sympathetic
Newspaper Aid.
AGAINST YELLOW JOURNALS
Special Dispatch TO Evarr Evening.

Special Dispatch io Evarr Evening.
Chestertown. Md. April S.-The
Maryland Annual Conference OF tho
Methodist Protestant Church resumed
It's session here today.
The sessions today were uneventful
and were consumed IN reading tho re-
ports OF the committees on superauu-
ntes, tho annual meeting of the Super
anuated Fund Society. annual meeting
Of the Church Extension Society and
The report Of the committee on tin
crancy and orders and tho reception
uf new members into the Conference.
The Conference faculty OF iustr,ic-
tion has recommended nine young me /
10 orders and they will be ordained
at the ordination service tomorrow
Among the number Ia Rev. Mr. SUIT
CltfYe OF Philadelphia. who for the past
several years has been connected with
n Protestant Episcopal church I'm that
city, receiving a salary OF $4,000. Haw-
ley Memorial congregational Church.
~ which Rev. Paul Warner is pastor.
will be admitted 10 membership into
the Conference at the session on Mon
day
Tomorrow will he the climax Of the
Conference and Il is expected that a
throng of visitors will he In atten-
dance. Hotels and boarding places
have been reserved for the visitors and
no one Will he turned away. Tomcr-
row afternoon there Will be "A Sunday
school massmeeting IN tho Conference
church, when members OF the Confer
encc connected with the Sunday school
and young peoples work. viii make
addresses
Last night the services wer~ in
charge OF members OF the Maryland
and District OF Columbia branches Of
the Home and Foreign Missionary So
cieties and the church was thronged
Addresses were made ty "A number ot
I lady members and a greater interest
WAS asked for by the speakers. Il
developed that out OF the $4,000 vo-
men in the Maryland Conference, on.y
1900 are connected in any manner
with the organizations and accordins 6
20 the number OF members Of tn,
various churches throughout the de,
nomination the annual per capita con
trihution is only Is cents and yet tn,
societies have met all expenses, hav,
raised their quota of the budget snC
have comfortable balances In IN,
treasury.
Many Changes In Prospect
There are rumors OF a wholesal,
shakeup among the pastorates. 90
pecially on the Maryland DelAwar.
peninsula. Last night the Conferenc,
members were thrown into a state o
anxiety by the report emanating iron
The presidents room, that there woul
he changes in pastors all along III
line, from New Church. Va. 10 WI
Imington. and II Is certain that Seaford
Mardella, Dover. St. James. Bait
more Circuit, Clayton, Hurlock. FRS
Church. Washington, and a number O
the charges in Virginia viii have ney
pastors next year.
President Straughn is devoting tn
greater part OF every day 20 his plar
of appointments and IL is believe,
quite probable that the list will be al
most complete by late Monday after
noon They will be read at the closinl
session on Monday
The reports on Westminster Theo
5 logical Seminary. Western Marylan
= College and the Baltimore Book Con
, Germ were deferred until today. whe
| they will be made the special order q
( the DAY.
2 There promises 10 be lively con
test for the place OF assembling q
/ the next Conference. ST John
8 Church, Baltimore. through its dele
? gate, William o. Atwood, has invite
!, the Conference for next year and Con
Z grcss Street Church. Washington.
. C.. has also extended an invitation
0 The chances are in favor Of St. John
Church.
4, The report on Western Marylan
o College yesterday afternoon brougl
Z out the fact that It is in a Tourist
r ing condition. but its president Re
A. Norman Ward. outlined ne
= course which calls for funds to
e raised TO endow 1t for the great serN
{ ice il is capable of performing for I'll
Il church and education In general.
2 questionable sent out by the commit
;. tee on budget brought the reply tn;
Il 35 charges were upon the honor re
8 for raising the budget, and at lea
500. 600 would be obtained
n A committee headed by Seth
= Linthicum Of Linthicum Heights. pr,
e sented resolution limiting the ter
y OF pastorates TO 10 years. DIR. Geors
I w. Hadaway. who has served sta
Church, Baltimore, for 20 years, r
sented what he declared an inferen'
that he had played politics in order
retain his pastorate,
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