People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — CONSECRATE THREE BISHOPS. [ARTICLE]

CONSECRATE THREE BISHOPS.

Solemn Ceremony in the Methodist General Conference ac Cleveland. Cleveland, 0., May 27.—The Methodist general conference devoted Tuesday morning’s session to the consecration of the three bishops-elect—Mc-Cabe, Cranston and Hartzell. Bishop Ninde presided, Bishops Bowman, Foster and Taylor, who had been declared non-effective, participating. The report of the committee on book concern was the real parliamentary struggle of the day. The committee introduced a resolution providing for the election of a book editor for the New York branch of the book concern, the editor to be nominated by the book agents and. elected by the book committee. On the suggestion of the Rev. Dr. Frank M. Bristol, of Chicago, that portion of the resolution which referred toi the nomination of the book editor by the book agent was stricken out and the resolution was adopted. The fourth Sunday in November was designated an annual temperance Sunday, at which services are to be held and collections made for the cause of temperance. The evening session was devoted to the constitution, several proposed changes being discussed.