Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-21

THE con FERENCK
a FULL Alsr or AfPuIN1nEHTs.
ThsMs0sriaa Assesg-s.n ayscAselUssea
In shs Cosrs Hssss-highly lnssrss-
siDg Proessdisgs.
The memorial meeting of the confer:
ence was held in the Duke street church
II. Elliot presided. Rev. T. G. Murphy
announced the hymn and Rev. John A.
Watson led. in prayer. The scriptural
lesson, the 18th chapter Of Job and part
Of the 4th chapter of ID Thess., was read
by Rev. Joseph Mason. After hymn 1046
had been sang, Mr.. Elliot made q brief
speech stating the object Of tho meeting,
which was to hear read memoirs of the
late Rev. Edward L. Martin and Rev.
Chas. l. Thompson, members of the Phil
adelphia conference, who had died during
the past year.
The secretary of the conference then
read memoir Of Edward L. Martin, who
was born at Spruce Greek, Juniata county,
Pa, and died at Williamstown, Dauphin
county, April 10th, 1882. He was convert
ed when only 10 years old, was licensed
to preach in 1870 J.; was admitted to con-
ference in 1871 was an able and faithful
preacher, faithful pastor and did ex-
cellent work in arduous fields of duty.
Eulogistic addresses we're also made in
his memory by Revs. A. L. Urban, w. j.
Mills, D. NJ. Young, George L. Schaffer
T. Stevens, I. N. Gable and L. B. Nicely.
The secretary also read a highly eulogis-
tic memoir of Rev. Charles I. Thompson,
prepared by Rev. T. C. Murphy. Mr..
Thompson died at Philadelphia, on the
4th Of January, 1883. Further highly
complimentary addresses to his memory
were made by T. G.. Murphy, W. l..
Gray, s. w. Cooper, C. F. Turner, a.
Rittenhouse and J. w. Sayres.
Both memoirs were adopted and made
part of the proceedings of the conference.
The Sunday school Union
There was another immense OutpOuring
of the people at tho court house last eve
ming, tho occasion being the anniversary
of the Sunday school union.
Rev. E. Stubbs presided, and some ex.
cellent music was furnished by the choir
| of the Duke street church.
DR.. Morrow made the opening prayer,
after which the president announced that
Bishop Simpson, the senior bishop of the
church, who was expected to be present
and address the meeting, was unavoidably
absent.
Rev. CIevoland's Address.
Rev .H.A. Cleveland was then introduced.
He said there were many things combined
| to render it almost impossible for him to
address the meeting. He came without
any previous preparation, it being expect
| ed that Bishop Simpson would be present
| and occupy the time now allotted to him.
Besides, he had just now received tele-
| gram from Boston, announcing the death
! of the dearest friend he ever had
in the ministry which shocked and
! unnerved him to such an extent that he felt
unequal to the task before him. After a
| feeling reference to the tender ties which
| bound him to Pennsylvania, his native
state, and the yearning he felt for it during
his niue years absence, Rev. Cleveland dis
cussed for half an hour, the needs of the
Sunday school cause at the present time.
The greatest need is workers who are
we'll acquainted with the truths of the
Bible, who are apt Interpreters of them,
and who have the power to impart to
others the light that is in their own heart.
We can know little of God except what
we find of him in our own hearts. He is
not found at the big end of the telescope
unless he is first found at the little end
We can only appreciate that which We
know and feel. We find in our literature
little but what we bring to it. If there is
no tragedy in our soul we cannot under
stand the tragedy as it is in the printed
book. If there is no music in our soul We
cannot appreciate the music of the opera
So he is the greatest teacher who has the
power to vitalize and bring to the sur
face the elements of the teacher that
lie just beneath the skin of all of US. The
teacher must have knowledge. Children
ask such strange questions, and the
He cannot know too much, and he cannot
cannot turn on to-the piston more steam
than there is in the boiler, and if there II
but little in it and we turn it on the
whistle, we won't be able to run tht
engine. DR.. Cleveland closed with some
reference to the importance of directing
the minds of children into proper religi
GUS channel, and related some reminiscen
ces of his own childhood, whish haC
greatly tended to mould his character as q
man.
Rev. Vincont's Remarks.
The choir sang the hymn "Praise ye tht
Lord" after which Rev. DR.. Bethuel T.
Vincent, secretary of the Sunday schOo
union, was introduced.
For more than an hour and half DR..
Vincent held his audience in wrapt atten
ton by one of the most interesting and in
structive addresses of the many excellent
ones delivered during the past week. He
refer cd IN terms of high commendation tt
all the conference organizations-the tract
society, the missionary societies, the edu-
cation society, the freedmen's aid society
and the rest, but after all, he said, he fell
little as the French artist felt when he
said there were only three great artists
who would live in history. ''In ze frs,
place, zere is me, and forgot 70 names o
ze Others" So, in ze first place, zere il
Sunday school union. DR.. Vincent ther
at some length showed how all the Other
societies were constantly drawing or
and being supplied with leaflets, books,
pictures, tracts, newspapers, money and
brains by the Sunday School union. The
address was brim full of humor, as we'll as
1 wisdom, and frequently during its deliv