| Show NO VOICE FROM HOT So the Methodist Ministers In New York Pro pose to Curtail their Bishops TrUdr MI 1 n 1 Lrilding CletgYalra 1 for Their V rtoullAd1191 OlijtIll toII 1 0 Come tile 1AII i New Yolk Sept 23The Herald jays There was a lively iliciunloii at the meeting it h nuticlodilan 1 ministers of the Milhnillst 1Icopl I eliuich In the M lhillitt Hoik Conctrr lulldlng over the iKIftlor it ell Atall the power of th bllop The niujit dlFet oed U one of the most vital Alerting Ine Affairs of the church nnn It nlpo tn braced the methods low rilt cd li > by leading Urgym n of tha clulch In getting transform tiorn Oe coliilence 10 an other with n vltv I of tiering themselves them-selves Th rvlls of the piesent Pre tem nuoj 1 alllvald farm at the annual tnfue oC the New York 1It nlerncr buIt year and Ihl a Vl 101 file cause nf the pre tllg ent nooel to rttll the powr of ill A blsiops Last > < n three of the calling hlreh ct that conference which were mrillintl unable to sU Isfy thinselvcs with the timber near nt haul the tr > ims ef their pasti rs having expired extindwi calls lo men In otrr tart i t the toiintr still ai aumeit lint they would get the men of their choice Hut the united Iwdy of mlnlttteii nf tho conference made ft vigorous protest on the ground that the conference was Already full The protest was m strong that Dlch ill > Walden concluded not to let the three churches referred to have the ministers to whom they had extended calls The feeling that had been stirred up In the felnl York East conference hlch comprises some of the leading churches In the metropolitan districts load the effect howovrof bringing the olhjoet efole the enthe body of min Itr and It I wan for the purpose of determining hethr It was not 1001 file 10 corect the evils that the meet Inl was held The question was opon1 by a paper read hy th Rev O L Thomlon of Shelton Conn entitled low to reg ulnte ministerial transfeis Mr Thompson did not take any radical stand but he was Inclined to the opinion that some change wa odvls able anti he suggested as remedy that the presiding elders be Blven Coordinate co-ordinate Iowr with he bishop In a conference to settle the question as to wholhcr n certain minister from the outside should be allowed to fill a pulpit pul-pit milell n cal was extended to him hv any church rurthermore Dr Thompson said that the crowding of conferences hy the admlon of out Bets could be obviated by providing < that no new minister shall bo admit ted unless on old mlllotr lentleto and that no more hal he admitted than leave the conference In any one year I Is I considerea likely that the mt Inl wi I < In he drawIng up of lolutlons which will be presented ai tile general conference which convenes next Year leconiniending certain regulations reg-ulations of the character Indicated by tile paper of Mr Thompson |
