The Portland daily press., 1882-05-08
THE METHoDIsTs.
Thirty-Fifth Annual Session of the
East Maine Conference.

FOURTH DAY.
WALpoBoRo, May 6-At the fourth days
session of the East Maine Conference social
service was held at $50, led by W. 7. Jewell.
The regular session was :opened by prayer by
DIR. Reid Bishop Andrews addressed the can
didates for deacons' orders upon the necessity
of complete conservation to the work they have
chosen, and gave fitting advice concerning the
proper use of body, intellect and soul in min
isterial labor. The candidates were elected to
deaeons' orders and admitted to full connec-
ton. 1t was voted to locate f. Morse. T. w.
DIR. Reid spoke upon missions.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
In the afternoon there was business meeting
at which Bishop Andrews presided. The
stewards report and reports on'education were
adopted. G. r. Palmer, A. Prince and L. d.
Wardwell were made committee to draft q
constitution and bylaws for the Conference
Educational Society. Committees on the
| American Bible Society, Conference Mission
Society, Sunday schools and tracts, temper
ance, and marriage and divorce presented their
reports, all of which were adopted.
Resolutions of thanks to President Arthur
for vetoing the Chinese bill were passed. The
statistical committee reports were adopted.
/ The following are chairmen OF standing COM
| mittees for 1888:
/ Public Worship Presiding Elder Of Bucksport
| District.
| Education-C. A. Plummer
| Stewards-S. H. Beale.
Claims and Clamants-A. S. Townsend
Bible Cause-J. Alexander.
Benevolent Causes-D. H. Sawyer.
| Sunday Schools and Tracts-W. L. Brown.
| Statistics-A. j. Clifford.
! Freedmen-G. N. Eldridge.
Temperance-S. l.. Hanscom.
| Book Concern-G. W. Hudson.
| Memoirs-W. W. Marsh.
| Missons-W. w. Marsh
| Report of benevolent causes, freedmen's aid,
book concern and missions were adopted. The
| amount apportioned for domestic missions by
the parent society, $1,000; trustees of Confer
| ence, $13S.
The following committees on examination
| were elected:
First Years. L. Hanscom, j. Alexander, E.
Skinner.
Second Year-C. E. Libbey P. E. Brown, j. P.
Simonton
Third Year-A. S. Townsend, G. L. Haskell, J. H.
Fourth Year-A. Prince, G. W. Hudson, F. P.
Wardwell.
Local orders-J. W. Day, L. L. Hanscom, 9. B.
Preachers of Missionary Sermon (Alternates)-C.
B. Besse. G. A. Southerd
Triers of Appeal-C. A. Plummer, b. EidIloge,
w. H. Williams, w. W. Marsh, S. d. Beale, e. u.
Winslow, M. Milchelm.
Conference Board Of Church Extension-Presi-
dent, j. A. H. Hewitt Esq; Vice President, George
Pratt Secretary, F. j. haley; Treasurer, R. b.
Storer. Additional members, Presiding Elder ex-
oficio Garich, Esq, Horace Muzzy, Esq, ID. BAKER,
Esq.
Nathan Miller was recommended to the
Maine General Hospital.
A. Church was requested to preach the semi
centennial sermon at the Conference.
Rev. Mr.. Cummings, of the New England
Southern Conference, presented the claims OF
the Baldwin Place Home at Boston
EVENING SESSION.
At the evening service DIR. Reid, secretary
Of the parent mission, spoke for more than an
hour upon foreign missions.
SUNDAY SERVICE.
WALDoBoRo, May To-day opened bright
and beautiful Service was held in the Con-
gregational Church on account of the extra
ROOM At o'clock e. G. Crane, pastor OF the
Congregational Church, welcomed the Confer
ence to their house by few remarks A love
feast followed for an hour and a half, s. II.
Beale presiding. At 1880 sermon of great
power was preached by Bishop Andrews from
Psalms 51:10
The following deacons were ordained: A. A.
Lewis, c. A. Main, Alexander Protsman, q.
L. Banghart, Mark Small, f. w. Towle, r.
B. Gardner, Winifred Baldwin.
AFTERooN SESSION.
~ - .fto,no<v, carvinor xrara ha1d in all the
churches in the village and pulpits in South
Waldoboro were supplied by the Conference.
DR.. Reid preached at the Congregational
Church from Isaiah 53:5, and making each
word of the first clause emphatic as heads OF
his discourse he graphically depicted the work
of Christ in his sufferings for sin-not His sin
but ours
The following elders were ordained: Elton
II. Boyton, James Alexander, Perley j. Rob
inson.
DR.. Cyrus Stone preached at the Baptist
Church and T. Gerrish at the Methodist
Church this afternoon.
EVENING SESSION.
In the evening at the Congregational Church
Bishop Andrews in the chair, a memorial
service for deceased ministers and ministers
wives was held and appropriate Scripture se-
lections were read and prayer offered by O. A.
Plummer. Memoirs were read concerning the
following persons deceased during the year:
Nathan Webb, T. B. Tupper, Mrs. Sibylla
Browning Mrs. Abigail A. Fowler and Mrs.
Elma Tyler. Voted to ACCEPT the memoirs.
Bishop Andrews spoke in memory of Bishop
E. o. Haven.
7. W. Bishop, of the New England Confer
ence, preached at the Baptist Church this
evening.
At the service at the Congregational Church
the audience filled the house to oyerhowing,
Bishop Andrews being greeted by the largest
audience ever convened for preaching in this
town.