Richmond planet., 1928-06-02
General Conference Makes Radical
Chan6ess=SeVen Years Service
for Ministers.
Ei6ht Years for BishOpSsEOr9anic Union OF
MefhOdisfS Recommended,

despite the predictions tnat the
General Conference would force
him to resign. Not only did ne
retain his position, but the matter
was not even discussed in the Gen
eral Conference session, for there
is no law against the Bishop hold
ing office.
Assignment of Bishops.
Great commotion was caused by
the report which made assignments
of bishops for the next quadren-
MUM. There had been great specu-
lation; there were many previous
arrangements; Bishop j. Albert
johnson was scheduled for the First
Episcopal District and Bishop
Reverdy C. Ransom for the second
the majority straw vote left Bishop
A. L. Gaines over the Fourth Dis
trict and sent Bishop A. j. Carey to
Mississippi; but the "wise" guessers
failed.
The bishops were assigned to
work as follows:
Bishop Joshua H. Jones, Wllber-
force, Ohio, First District-Phila-
delphia, New York, New jersey
New England and Delaware.
Bishop A. l.. Gaines, Baltimore,
Md, Second District-Baltimore
Virginia and North Carolina.
Bishop w. Fl. Heard, Phila-
delphia, Third District-ohio, Pitts
burgh and West Virginia.
Bishop A. ]. Carey, Chicago, ILL.,,
Fourth District-Indiana and Hi
nois.
Bishop John A. Gregg, Topeka
Kans., Fifth District-Missourl
Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska.
Bishop w. A. Fountain, Atlanta
Ca, Sixth District-Georgia.
Bishop John Hurst, Baltimore
Md, Seventh District-South Caro-
lima.
Bishop w. D. Johnson, Eighth
District-Mississippi.
Bishop Joseph S. Flipper, Atlanta
Ga, Eiey cnun DlstncG-i'lorlda.
Bishop r. A. Grant, Jacksonville,
Fla, Ninth Observation-Disclosures.
Bishop w. Sampson Brooks, Bal.
timore, Md, Tenth District.
! Bishop w. T. Vernon, Detroit
Mich, Twelfth Observation-Disclosures.
Bishop Reverdy G.. Ransom, New
York City, Thirteenth District
Louisiana and Oklahoma.
| Bishop j. Albert Johnson, Phila.
Idelphia, Pa, Fourteenth District
Tennessee and Kentucky.
Bishop H. B. Parks, Fifteenth
District-Michigan, Nova Scotia
Bermuda and Ontario.
Bishop M. H. Davis, Baltimore,
Md, Sixteenth District-Lberia.
Bishop G.. B. Young, Seventeenth
District-South Africa.
Bishop S. L. Greene, Little Rock
! Ark, Eighteenth District-Puget
Sound, California.
! The new bishops all went to
foreign fields except Bishop Il. A
Grant, there being need for only
three bishops in these fields.
I The general officers elected were
John r. Hawkins, financial secre-
'tary; D. M. Baster, book concern
S. j. Johnson, church extension; E.
H. Colt, secretary of missions; Ira
T. Bryant, Sunday School Union;
A. S. Jackson, secretary of educa-
ton; DR.. R. R. Wright, editor
Christian Recorder; G. W. Allen,
editor Southern Christian Recorder;
]. H. Wilson, editor Western Chris
tian Recorder; S. S. Morris, Allen
Endeavor League; Julian G. Cald-
well, editor Sunday School litera-
ture. All had served the previous
four years except ]. H. Wilson, who
takes the place of DR.. ]. D. Barks-
dale, who had served eight years
as editor of the Western Christian
Recorder.
Some of the Failures.
! The General Conference failed
to adopt measure providing a
separate pension department for
superannuates which means that
these retired and disabled workers
will fare little better than during
the past four years. Another re-
grettable failure was in regard to
a department of evangelism and
social service which was strongly
advocated by Bishop R. C. Ransom
and other progressives of the con-
nection.
This scribe would close with the
Bible language, care not the deeds
of this General Conference record