The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-04-14
NEW YORK EAST CONFERENCE.


The Ladies' Temperance Union Before
the Observation-Disclosures by Ladies
and Observation-Disclosures on Of Total
Abstinence Principles.
Alter the reading OF the minutes yesterday IN
the New York East Conference the Rev. c. Kelsey
offered resolution calling upon the bishop to dis
trict the Conference into fifteen districts and TO
appoint the presiding elders to central station in
each district Laid on the table until to-day at
eleven O'Clock. Rev. L. S. Weed offered resou
tion appointing Rev. A. c. Eggleston and Oliver
Hoyt committee to inquire INTO and settle the
claim of Dr. De Haas the Conference. Laid on
the table also temporarily.
The Committee on support Of the Bishops
ported the following assessments for the Bishops
Fund on the New York East Conference New
York District, ss25; Long Island South District,
$500; Long Island North District. Ss75; Bridgeport
District, $500; New Haven District $500. Total
So, 400, the same amount that was assessed last
year.
The Committee Freedmen reported resou-
tons recognizing the Obligations Of the Church
and the country TO the colored people, promising
to increase their Church collections for this cause
and TO cooperate with the Freedmens Aid So
Getty. whose oricers are to be invited to address
their respective charges in this interest, and re-
questing the presiding elders to bring tae matter
The report OF the book agents was received
and ordered on file. The Tract Committees and
other reports were adopted.
THE NEXT CONFERENCE IN AERIDEN.
The Conference was invited to hold it's next ses
sion in Beekman Hill churcn, New York; in the
First Methodist Episcopal church, Meriden, Conn.,.
in the First Methodist Episcopal church, Hartford,
Conn., and in the Fairhaven Conn., Methodist
Episcopal church. Last year the Conference came
near adjonrning without having any place Sc
lected, and finally was offered its present place OF
meeting which 1t accepted. This year it had four
ana more 10 choose from. The claims Of each
were pressed by the respective pastors;
but the character OF the invitation pre-
| sented by Secretary Goodsell, from the
| Merden church. was such that, instead of
voting as usual on the places IN the order OF their
invitation, the Conference almost unanimously
voted in favor OF Meriden. Not only did the Metho
dist Episcopal church there invite the Conference,
but the First and the Second Congregational
churches and the Baptist church there offered their
respective churches and entertainment to the
Conference. And the Secretary remarked that he
had the invitations of two other churches to offer
II these were not enough. His own church, which
took action IN this matter at the same time, de-
cided the number OF ministers that each would
entertain and subscribed the amounts necessary,
so that 1t was Impossible for the Conference to re-
fuse the invitation. But 1t was urged by DR.. Wood
rufY as further motive that the Conference
should interchange between New York and Con-
necticut.
On motion OF Rev. D. A. Godsel Revs. D. Curry,
II. +. Pease, J. A. Roche George Taylor J. NJ. Buck
ley, William McAlister ana L. 5. Weed were
elected triers Of appeals in the judicial Confer
ence.
NEW METHODIST SENSATION.
At this point "lree Methodist" named King,
who has special mission to interrupt proceed
Ings in Methodist gatherings, and who, during the
past winter, has interrupted services in De kalb
avenue and Hanson place and other Methodist
Episcopal churches, put the question to the Con-
! terence and demanded an answer-.Has a brother
right to go To law with brother and that before
the unbelievers Z" To this scriptural query he
added o rambling charge about a suit, In which
he has been defendant and which mas cost him
$3.50, whereby the bread was taken out OF the
mouth OF a widowed mother and a hali-orphaned
sister, &c, &c. An attempt was made to sing the
man down, but ne was evidently prepared to spike
that gun, and held his ground and went on again,
until couple OF the trustees OF the church took
MIN by the coat and placed him outside the
church door. The business OF the Conference there
Brother Phillips. book agent called the attention
OF the Conference to the acJ that OF $4,000 due by
than $4,000. When the last report OF the agents
| was made there was due from the conferences all
over the country $500, ooo He wished TINS indebt-
edness cancelled before the Conference adjourned.
The report OF the Committee on Bible cause was
read and adopted. The Rev. W. II. Boole was
| year Ministers were instructed TO omit all irac-
tiona parts Of dollar in their statistical reports
OF collections. The Presiding Elders were appointed
TO nominate the standing committees Tor next
| year.
pointed last year to relieve the Rockville Cen
ire church had done IN the matter. Mr..
Buckley replied substantially that the SUIT
had been carried to the Court Of Appeals, from
which, however, it had been subsequently, with
drawn, without trial, upon the payment OF COSTS
and that now the Conference was In debt to the
committee and the Rev. Mr.. Conner the then pastor
or that charge, in the sum OF $780, Notes were out
which must be met promptly, and the only way he
knew OF settling up this business was TO take up
$623 rs was pledged or paid there and then.
THE TEMPERANCE LADIES BEFORE CONFERENCE.
The order OF the day was then taken up, and
the Womens Temperance Union OF Brooklyn, were
introduced by the committee ana addressed the
Conference. Almost every inch OF room IN the
| church was crowded with people-a large proper
ton OF those present being ladies' The fair cru
d ea ns wy cs%
before you today she said, las Chris
tian women. we have followed Our Blessed
Lord to Calvary and have found there that His
precious blood cleanses from all SIN. We have fol-
lowed Him to the tomb and have found 1t empty,
and as We fingered in the garden we heard our
names called and we answered, Here am Lord.
This Women's Temperance Union was formed
before God and pledged ourselves TO this work as
our sisters had done up and down this land, OPP
been destroying our Kindred. ne have come very
near the blessed Jesus In this work and He mas
come very near us, and the committee who have
gone out to visit the rumsellers and the druggists
&c, have found the presence OF God with them
and gong before them, and the rumsellers receive
them kindly. But the one great obstacle whicn
those ladies' find to their work Is that the rum
trafc ~ entrenched In the church OF Christ. Her.
self and her sisters came before the Conference
therefore, TO ask that oody TO pass sucn resolu-
lions as shall wash this Church clean OF the thing.
The ladies are told every day by rumsellers tnat
they own or rent pews In churches, some OF which
they never see and this is the great hindrance
10 their w0rk. Those men who deal out thus