The Portland daily press., 1874-05-12
Reported for the Pressl
Maine Conference.
FOURTH DAY.

DR.. Rutledge addressed the Conference on
the Freedman's Aid interest, and asked the
Conference the raise 81 900 for the cause the
coming year. On recommendation of the com
mittee it was voted that the above sum be ap-
portioned to the circu it's and stations in the
Conference.
The vote discontinuggiBro.A Averll was recon-
sdered and he was continued on trial 1t was
voted to grant j. Armstrong superannuated
relation.
The committee on the case of Bro. Cousins
reported. Brother Cousins acknowledged he
did not understand his duty fully the committee
recommended that his character pass, and the
vote was adopted.
Voted to continue James Nixon on trial.
At three o'clock a meeting was held in the
interest of the Ladies' and Pastors Christian
Union" conducted by J. R. Day.
Mrs. Wittenmyre addressed the audience, ex
planning the operations of this organization, and
showing by results, by incidents, by facts, its
importance and efficiency. In all our cities and
villages there are neglected ones,i in poverty and
wretched ones who are left to feels'no one cares
for my soul;" their mission is to them. There
oiO tHO DIOhcn HodI lcu wives Vi uEuuk-
ards and their half-starved, half-clothed chit
dren; their work is there. There are multitudes
Of poor, neglected women aud children who
never visit the sanctuary; they are too poor, too
wretched; no priest or Levite enters there; the
Christian woman's errand is there. She should
work in harmony with the pastor, and thus she
will win many families to his cause. I cannot
fully report her remarks; but she stated most
folcibly the necessity of organizing this new
power ia every church.
DR.. S. Allen Immediately called the attention
of ike audience to another branch of woman's
work in the church, and called on Mrs. Taylor
of Portland, who spoke in behalfof the "Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary Society,"" The essay
read by her, presented in choice language and
eloquent and graceful utterances, woman slmis-
sion in the church as seen in the positions to
which God called her in olden time in the
ways of usefulness now opening before her by
Providence, and the success and blessing at
tending her efforts. Our Missionaries cannot gain
access to domestic life in the East. Woman
alone can do this and God calls her to this
woik.
EVENING.
In the evening an earnest temperance meet
ing was held, conducted by G. G. Cone The
woman crusade in the West was fully an.
proved and the reason for its comparative fail
ure in New England was presented and dis
cussed, and shown to be such as may be avoid
ed by more discreet efforts.
SUNDAY-FIFTH DAY
A bright, beautiful morning, and at an early
hour people were seen focking from all direc-
tons toward the Methodist church This was
the point of attraction, though nearly all the
pnlpits in both cities were supplied from the
Conference.
AT half-past eight the Conference Love Feast
was opened and continued for an hour and a
half. There were 12O witnessed for Christ. and
ii was season of great interest and power. At
1o3 O'Clock Bishop Simpson preached sermon
of great power from II Cor. I'd 14-.sNow
thanks be unto God which always causetb MS
to triumph"
we have no ability TO report the sermon. ! am
sorry for everybody who did not hear it. At
tne close OF the service the Bishop ordained j.
" ". smith, j. W. Johnston, J. E. Walker. and
church. -e'A'u''' L.
In the afternoon Prof. Cushing preached an
eloquent sermon from 1st Cor. iii 9 sLabourers
with God" AT the close of the sermon p
smith, e. r. French, and j. p Cole were or
dained Elders in the Methodist E. church. The
church will seat comfortably 800 people, and at
least lzOO crowded into it, and hundreds could