Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-10
mnN1sTRRTAL ASSOCIATION.


 MINIsTKRIAL ASSOCIATION. The FiftY-Fourth Meeting Yesterday At East Pearl Street MI. K. Church. Matters Discussed.
 The fifty fourth meeting of the New Ha-
 ven Methodist Ministers association was held ! in the East Pearl street M. E. church Yester~ day.
 The presiding elder of the district, Rev. Dr. Beach of Middletown, opened the day's proceedings at 10 o'clock and announced that l MT. Winter would read paper on "Ques- ! tionable Methods of Raising Money for Church Purposes" He said in brief: "I am aware there is 8 diversity of views
 as to this matter. Some are only disposed I to be critical with the Catholics who go in { for anything from genuine lotteries down. You l ask: How shall we get money for the ohurehs I say, the church to get money, must conform to the world. A shrewd sin- ner says ahl but our case is an exception, our \ lottery is an exception and is for church pur- \ poses. Iris prime mover in startling the | young man on the highway to ruin. If the church is successful in wringing sinners ! from the hands of Satan, she must first be \ righteous herself. The church that would | have influence must abolish it's fairs, its necktie parties and it's chance schemes, | which are the means of drying up the streams of all true benefoence. This kind ! of benevolenoe resembles charity balls, where | a proportion or $100 goes for the enjoyment | of the promoters of the schemes to every $10 | that is turned to an actual account for good. \ There is constantly tendency to worldli- ness.
 "If your church needs money let the pas | tor give the word to his congregation. They | will put their hands in their pockets, and l from the usual congregation if fifteen or twenty minutes from $100 to $500 can fre- quently be raised. Through the channel of [ fairs to obtain the same amount it would | take month. No investment pays better | than helping on Christ's kingdom. Make your hearers believe it. Burn 1t into them. {" Rev. Mir. Pullman didn't agree with the | reader and thought social entertainment very | desirable. Rev. Ar. Fordhan of Westvflle | thought likewise, and said that he didn't for in solemn dignity there was anything harm ful in suppers-or sociables. He thought it ! inspired human fellow feeling, which is the end of all true religion. Revs. Mr. Cava- naugh and Foster thought likewise. There was social element in mankind that the church should not ignore nor neglect. Dr. Joseph Pullman then read a review of Count Tolstoi's work, "My Religion" He stated that the counts standpoint is similar | to that of Matthew Arnold, and that he dis ! tinctly believed in no future existence. At ? o'clock Rev. MT. McAllister of Yales- vile, after noon report in the church par 1 lors, addressed the meeting upon the political bearing of religion.
 f'What we read in the papers about politics must be taken with considerable abatement, '' said he. "If we limit our views to the paper we shall probably err. There is good deal in the outcome of the election and many things cloud the question. There is 8 decided disposition at the North to purchase votes-bribery, and at the South by intimi- dation and false count to suppress an honest vote. There is disintegration of parties constantly going on. The Irish vote is fall ing rapidly into the lap of the Republican party. Harrison will get the G. A. R. vote of the State of Indiana and other western States. The Presbyterian church of which Harrison is an elder will support him solidly. The tariff question will have some force. It fsvors Harrison. Slightly however" An Eloquent DIscOurse Last Evening by Rev. NAT. PItbladO Of Hartford. Last evening the ministers held another session in the auditorium of the East Pearl street Methodist church, which was open to the public. Quite good-sized audience was in attendance, and Rev. Dr. Pitblado, . noted Hartford, preached Q most able sermon on riches. Dr. Pitblado's discourse was lis tened to with marked attention. It was re- plete with poetic expressions, apt illustra-
 tions and sound logic Among the other can live luxuriantly, he can wear fine clothes, he can dine sumptuously. He will have \ many friends. He who has it not will have | to live plainly and wear coarse clothes. He will have few friends and 6 com mon burial. But when one looks through longer dazzled by the glamor of money he is prone to cry out. Is there nothing morei' \ Yes, there is something more than the riches we speak of, the material riches of Christ Why, the universe belongs to him." The | speaker then went on to show how the whole \ every fresh discovery of the scientists but ! added to the worlds knowledge his power ! and might, how natures wonders all pro \ claimed his natural wealth.
 Man" continued the preacher, ''is at best | but mere artist. The sculptor may carve \ the marble and polish it. Jesus Christ cre- ! atsd it. His is the master mind. He made
 the earth complete by putting man upon it. | He made heaven musical by filling it with \ the angels.
 "The riches of Christ's character are un- | sesrehable. You can't speak of the good points in Christ's character. It cannot be \ considered in sections, but it must be viewed \ in it's indivisibility."
 Dr. Pitblado then related the story about Peter the Great; how he left his throne to I travel to foreign country, where he became l a workman in a shipyard in order that he might learn the trade of shipbuilding; how l he mastered the craft and returned to his ! empire and taught the people how to build ships. He said that people were accustomed
 to look upon that as a great thing and to consider 1t wonderful that a monarch ! should step down from his high position to one SO lowly. He said that in his opinion Peter the great, did not descend, but that when he left the throne it was to step up- ward to the ahipyard.
 Then the preacher referred to the great sac- I riice of Christ, who left his kingliest of king- | ly thrones to become 6 wanderer on the ! earth.
 'sHere's wonderful thing" commented the clergyman, quoting from portion of his 1 text: Where sin aboundeth there shall grace abound yet moTe.' There's hope for | Che world Sin, that archdeceiver is strong, consummating, wealthy and vile, but there's power that shall overcome it, and that power is the grace of Jesus Christ. The tain man who was about to be assassinated, when his daughter, perceiv- ing his danger, rushed to his assistance and presenting her bosom to the daggers, ex- claimed: "Strike, but your daggers shall
 reach my father only through my hearti"
 then, throwing aside their weapons, cried out: Forgive, forgive. So, said the
 speaker, Christ descended from heaven and
 laid hold of humanity and turned his breast
 to the daggers of death; a ransom was found
 and the world was saved from the bottom
 less pit"
 There was excellent singing by the choir
 intersperssd during the exercises, MT. Brown
 directing. Mrs. Parsons of West Haven, one
 of the leading members of the choir, was
 taken ill during the service and was taken
 home in carriage. Her indisposiion, 1t Is
 believed, is only temporary. s
 The session of the conference will be con-
 tinued this morning at 10 o'clock.
 THE COURT RECORD.