Methodist General Conference
New York, May 26.- In the Methodist general conference yesterday resolutions were adopted demanding voluntary total ebstinence from all intoxicants and complete legal prohibition of the liquor trafflo as the duty of the civil governments, and church members were advised not to permit themselves to be controlled by political party organizations that were managed in the interests of the liquor trafflc. Rev. J. M. Thoburn was electcd Missionary Bishop to India. New York, May 28.- The Methodist conference selected as missionary secretarles Chaplain McCabe, Revs. J. O. Peck and A. B. Leonard. Dr. A. J. Knyell was chosen corresponding secretary of the Church Extensión Society ; J. L. Hurlbut, secretary of the Sunday-School Union and Tract Society; Dr. Mendenhall, editor of the Methodist Review; Dr. J. M. Buckley, editor of the Chrwtian Advocate; J. H. Bayliss editor of the Western Christian Advocate, and Arthur Edwards, editor of the Northwestern Christion Advocate. ■New York, May 30.- The six Methodist Bishops-elect, Drs. Vincent, Fitzgerald, Goodsell, Joyce, Newman and Missionary Bishop Thoburn, were consecrated yesterday.
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