The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-28
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1876.
THE TROY CONFERENCE.
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GLESs' FALLS, April "a.
The morning social meeting is more
generally attended by the preachers than
is usual at the conference sessions. Thi:
morning the meeting was in charge of Rev.
Il. PUmeroy, author OF "shocks from the
Battery" The meeting was one of pecu.
liar interest and power. Many hearts were
touched and many eyes melted to tears by
the pathetic prayer of the venerable but in
firm Rev, ID. p. Hubbard as he said &c
Lord, Thou has given us grace to work,
now give us grace to wait Thy will" Amid
tears, and sobs, and amens, came voice
above all the responses, "God bless Brother
Hulburd," Promptly at o'clock BishoI
Ames was in his place, took the confer
ence in hand, and the machinery moved OF
in regular ORDER
| MISSION FIELDS.
The committee to designate mission
fields where the church is too weak to b.
self-sustaining, and yet where the interest,
of the cause demand pastor for the peo
pie, and to decide where mission money
should be appropriated, reported as fol
| lows:
Saratoga District-Wells, Lake Pleas
ant Hope, Benson, Edinburgh, Northamp
ton, Hagaman's Mills and West Galway.
Cambridge Dstrict-Indian Lake, Norti
Hudson, Newcomb Mission, Lake George
Shushan and Arlington.
Platts District-Port Henry, Altoona, Ell
lingburgh Depot, Upper jay, Keene, Sa
ranac Lake and North Elba.
Burlington Middletown, Wells
East Pittsford, Leicester Goshen, Yves
Salisbury, East Middlebury, Ripton, Lin
coin and Shoreham.
CONFERENCE TRUSTEES.
The following were appointed-in frs
years course: VIM. Griffen, d. d., IIo
mer Eaton and o. Gregg; to fill vacanc,
in sedond course; j. NJ. Edgerton. III,
trustees we're instructed to pay the confer
ence stewards 1925, being interest on fund
in their hands. Legacies to the amount o
$500 for beneficiaries were also reporte,
to have been received. A note is to b
published in the minutes, informing tn
laity of the object of these trustees, and re
questing that the cause they represent b
remembered il legacies.
THE CHRISTOPHER SUFFERERS.
The report of the committee on the cas-
of the grasshopper sufferers was presented
DR.. Newman addressed the conference il
behalf of the destitute districts. He ha
been in those parts the past winter ant
knows whereof he speaks. His plea wa
for Methodist ministers and their families
especially in the Nebraska conference
In that territory, four hundred miles LON
and two hundred miles wide, were owe
eight thousand members and about nnet,
minister's The average receipts of tn
ministers during conference term of eigh
teen months was a small fraction over $500
and they were obliged to pay house ren
from this amount. This average receip
includes all they received. And they wen
back to those fields of toll, of trial, an
of tears, knowing they would receive moth
ing till after harvest. There are over fit
ministers helpless and not likely to receiv
a dollar except by charity and mission helI
One minister from near Omaha had re
ceived but So. There is heroism and tn
martyr spirit as pronounced and true as i
olden time. One presiding elder write
from Nebraska: "Nine preachers and thei
families in absolute need in my district.
breaks my heart to see their children shiv
ering with cold and crying for bread an
not supplied" One minister, having n
horse, or COW, or fowl--no food or fue
received only $50 during the year. Rev
Mr.. Thompson of Kansas gave vivid an
thrilling description of the destitution an
suffering of the Methodist ministers in tha
state, confirming all DR.. Newman had sale
Mr.. Thompson related
TOUCHING INCIDENT
in the case of young minister with fan
lily who wrote to him that he had received
all told, but $22, and $3.50 of that mus
20 to pay rent before he could move to hi
new charge. On the day he received thi
letter the Protestant Episcopal bishop @
Kansas called on Mr.. Thompson to kno,
how the Methodist ministers were standin
the pressure. Mr.. Thompson read hir
/, this letter; the tender hearted bishop brok
into tears, drew his check for S25 and said
"Please give the brother that for me" an
the minister wrote back his receipt an
thanks saying, II think Bishops
christian and a gentleman" Amid tear
and "amens" the conference confirmed tn
minister's opinion concerning the chai
acter OF that noble hearted bishop. Whe
the ministers of Kansas conference pledge
themselves to go back to their people an
preach the gospel to them in trial and SUI
fering, without the prospect of dolla
till after the harvest, Bishop Merrill, the
presiding, said: "You are a set of the BRAY
est men / ever looked in the face" A col
lection in favor of the Methodist relief SC
ciety for the needy Methodist ministers an
their families was taken on the spot, an
nearly 5000 in cash was contributed by tn
conference and enough more by persons i
the congregation to make the sum tota
$670.
CASE APPEALED.
In the appealed case of b. w. Powell
tried before the appellant, court, the CON
miltee reversed the decision of the quar-
terly conference of West Bush, by whoI
own request he was discontinued from hi
LOCAL PREACHERS.
The following local preachers wer
elected to local deacons orders Delos 4
Brooks, Marvin Il. France, Duncan M
Schell, Austin o. Spoor, Charles Kennedy
George III. Van Dusen, James l.. Atwel
Joel Martin, George W. harrington, Samue
w. Snow.
TIKI FREEDMEN.
Rev. Mr.. Rutledge, agent of the freed
mems aid society, addressed the conferenc
in behalf of the freedmen. The good wor
of education, of building school houses, an
of mental and moral Improvement is surel,
going on. Teachers and ministers are be
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