Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-02-25
VERMONT CONFERENCE

VERMONT CONFERENCE.
The Vermont Conference will COM
mence its session at Montpelier, April
10th. The Session will be an import
ant one in respect to many of the in
terests of Methodism in Vermont, and
its appointment at Montpelier is re-
garded as appropriate and timely, in
view of it's central location, and the
interests which are associated with
the seminary in that town.
The venerable Bishop Simpson,
who is assigned to the presidency of /
the session, has presided in the Yer
mont Conference on four previous
occasions: At Barton in 1881 at
st. Adams in 1868; at Montpelier in
1876: and at Springfield i'll 1870. |
1t is interesting to note that he was
born on June 81, 1911, when the first |
Methodist Conference of Vermont |
was in session at Barnard, and only |
one day later than its commencement.
If he lives to preside at the coming
session, he will look upon the sixty
sixth conference in the State, while !
reminded that he found his voice dur
ing the first of this series. Although
now in his 73d year, Bishop Simpson
is still vigorous In body and mind,
and gives no indication of near APP
proach to approximation. He was
born in Cadiz, o., received an aca-
demic education in his native town,
and attended Madison College, Penn
sylvania, (since merged into Allegha-
ny college,, where he was elected tu-
tor in his eighteenth year. He after
ward studied medicine and commenc-
ed his practice in 1888, about which
time he was licensed as local preach
Ell and soon after was admitted on
trial to the Pittsburg conference. In
1887 he was elected vice-president
and to professorship in Allegheny
college. In 1889 he became presi-
dent of Indiana Asbury University,
in 1S4S was elected editor of the
Western Christian AdUocate, and in
1852 was made bishop, since which
his services in his church have been
still more eminently useful and wide
ly known.
The first Methodist conference in
this State convened in Barnard, on
June 20, 1911. This was the New
England conference, which then CON-
prised all the territory indicated by
its name, and from which the New
England Southern, (kown formerly
as the ''Provldenceo, the New
Hampshire and its offshoot the Yer
mont. and the Maine, and East
Name conferences have since been
sub-divided. The session of 1911
was the twelfth in the history of the
New England conference, and the
twenty second session convened at
Barre, VT, on June 20, 1921, and the
twenty-ffth session at Barnard, VT,
on June %, 1924, which three ses-
sions comprise the entire record of
that conference in this State.
On June %, 1880, the New Hamp-
shire and Vermont conference con
vened for its first session in Barre
and on the even years until and in
Guiding the year 1912, this bod.
held its sessions in Vermont, making
fourteen previous to the organization
of the Vermont annual conference
which occurred in 1915, at Roches
ter, the session cOnvening on jun
IS. The sessions of the Troy con
: ference in SO, 40, AZ, "A, 90, '5S
20, 70, and 80, have also been hell
: in this State. giving the summary O
> three sessions of the New Englan
y conference, fourteen of the Ne
;, Hampshire conference, nine of th
!, Troy conference, making a tot;
u of sixty-fve Methodist conference
= in Vermont.
" At all these sessions the member
. and visitors have been entertaine
gratuitously by the citizens whel
they have occurred, Barre and Blu
. lington have furnished entertainer
- for five sessions each, Montpeli
= for four sessions, Bradford, Mort
u field and Springfield three each, Che
y sea, Danville, Middlebury, Newbur,
. St. Adams, ST. Johnsbury, Swantol
2 and Woodstock two each, while twel
= ty-six other towns have each provi
- for one session.
III Since Methodist conferences ha,
0e become larger in membership, al
- especially since the establishment
the lay conference, which meets {
~ each fourth year, thus increasing t
u number to be- provided for by L
,er DELEGATE from each station or circu
'eo the entertainment problem has {
ho sumed difficulties of solution, al
ny the time has now arrived when ev
III in Vermont, where hospitality is
oh cardinal virtue of pronounced CHI;
Ia acter, no unqualified invitation ava
the session of 1884. The VermC
conference will, therefore, inaue
~ rate qualified arrangement for
entertainment of attending memb'
and visitors at the session next A
ril; the members and visiting clere
~ men being provided with rooms
lodging by the citizens, and prov
W ino meals at their own eXDenSe