Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-06-03
The Brethren National G ON.
ference.

ference.
The Brethren National Conference that
was held on the n. X. Beashor farm xas
largely attended every day. The attendance
would probably aggregate $1,000 people.
The road from Mexico to the camp was
beaten so that it looked like a highway
leading to or from q large town. During
the meeting Of the conference for business
purposes many questions pertaining to the
church were considered and disposed of.
Thefoilouing are the general questions that
were considered and disposed of in the
business sessions of the Conference:
An i'm portart question before the confer
ence on Tuesday was the one regarding the
breaking of the bread on the occasion OF
the Lords supper. The brothers break
their own bread, that is strip of bread is
handed to brother, he brea ks a piece for
himself and passes the bread to the nearest
brother he breaks for himself, and in that
way the bread is passed and broken among
the brothers. For the sisters, the bread is
broken by an administrator" as the officer i,
called who breaks piece for each and every
sister from q strip of bread that he carries
IL was proposed to allow the sisters to break
their own bread as d. the brothers. The
conference refused to change the manner
of the br eaking of the bread.
Another important question con siaered
on Tuesday was the Tract question. A
tract society was organised.
The query WAS asked, for the scriptursl
authority for the amounting of oil. The
conference refused TO act on the question.
The meeting decided that al next year. IS
conference not more than twenty five cents
shall be charged for q meal Of victIals.
1t was resolved that q moderator shall
not serve more than two years in four years.
On Wednesday, the question of Skating
rinks was brought before the meeting. The
ministers were instructed to discourage
among the membership of the church, the
practice of roller skating at rinks.
The Brethren were driven, by the noise
of the conversation Of the outside prome-
nsders, to stretch rope around the taber-
nacle thirty foet from the building. The
police and number of Brethren patrolled
the space between the rope and the taber-
nacle and kept the crowd outside the rope
as well as they could. One of the impor-
tant features of this days meeting was the
organi zation of q Womans' Missionary So
ciety. Mrs. Ella ]. Brumba ugh, of Hunt
ingdon, this state. was elected president,
with Miss LIZZIE Howe, OF Huntingdon, Pa,
secretary, and Mrs. Lizzie Miller, of Mount
Morris. Illinois, reading CLERK. Mrs. Miller
read q large number of letters from sisters
in the west, snd from sisters IN other parts
of the country urging the organis alton of
a missionary society. A number of the let
ters contained money contributed to the
cause of missions. One letter contained 8
gold dollar that the sister writer stated had
been given to her years ago as a birthday
present. 1t is the first woman's missionary
society that has been organized in the Breth-
ren church. The ability displayed by the
Dunker preachers was marked and beyond
all expectation by people who have no ac-
acquaintance with the Brethren, but the
ability of the sisters was so striking in the
management of the missionary question
that the like has not been witnessed among
womankind in central Pen nsylvana. Mrs.
]. Swinger, a sister from Painter Greek,
Dark county, Ohio, had her pocket picked
of twenty dollars while in the tabernacle.
Her money wss in the bottom of pocket
under an orange and pocket handkerchief.
She felt some one press her side. from be-
hind, she looked back and saw two strange
women in dark clothes sitting on the seat
behind her, the women arose and walked
out, and when thsy were gone she felt her
pocket and to her amazsment her pocket
book was gone. The pick pocket women
were not identified, but escaped to rob 9th
er people and to be caught in the future.
The first business before the Conference
on Thursday morning, was the reading of
the Missionary report by d. q. Miller, Of
Mount Norris Illinois. The report set forth
the amount Of money received, and how,
and where expended. The most distant
mission field Is in Denmark, Europe. The
only missionary effort made in Germany
has been through the circulation of Dunk
ard or Brethren papers and tracts. The IL
tie of the Denmark property is vested in
the Missionary in that country. The con-
ference by a unanimous vote ordered that
the title of the Denmark Brethren chmch
property, shall be vested in the officers Of
the Brethren National Conference A COM
mitiee of three members was appointed TO
examine the mission boards account.
1t was proposed to hold an election at
noon for three assistant editors or publish
ers for the church papers. One for the east
ern part of the church, from the Ohio river
er eastward One for the middle part OF
the church, from the Ohio river to the Mis-
sissippi river. One from the Mississippi
river westw ard. The motion was passed
and members requested to vote by ballot.
The Temperance Committee reported in
favor of asking or petitioniDg Congress TO
pass National Prohibitory Liquor Act.
Rev. D. C. Mumma, of Virginia, chairman
of the committee, addressed the conference
in favor of the adoption of the resolution.
He declared intemperance to be on the in
crease. Twenty years ago the average
amount of liquor drank by the people ct
this country, was two and a half gallons
per person, now the average number OF GAL
loas drank, is twenty per each person.
Rev. John Wise, of * ansas, said that the
troable On this ques ton had come through
prohibilory resau.io offered in last
wears Conference. The resolution was
voted down last year and people had put
false construction on their action. They