The Portland daily press., 1888-04-12
the METHODIST CONFERENCE.

dies that Methodist ministers are not very
good financiers. Many of us don't have the
chance to show whether we are or not.
believe that ordinarily Methodist minister
makes his money tell for God and his family
and everybody else to about as good advan-
tage as any set of men under Heaven. be-
lieye as a rule the Methodist ministers give
more for benevolent enterprises than any
other. set of .men. l believe it Is wrong
to let any man who has wrought faithfully
and well suffer when he can no longer labor
"This great government of ours liberally
rewards her soldiers for the service which
they rendered when they were able. Is the
Methodist church going to be behind the
government in caring for its soldiers? Coo
forbid"
Rev. L. B. Bates, of Boston, was next in
troduced, and he spoke in brief as follows;
MR.. BATEs's REMARKS.
"The world moves, the Methodist world
moves and they expect we are going to have
the world bye and bye. God feeds men that
feed ON Him. Many of these men that we
seek to help now have worked all their day on
the frontier breaking up new ground, intro
ducing our church and our system, and Their
sons have come up after them and enjoy the
products of their labor. 1t seems to me that
of all the claims we present to our congrega-
ti0ns there are none stronger than THIS.
These godly men who have proclaimed the
ton in our communities. There is no such
class of men in the world as the Methodist
ministers. God bless all ministers; they are
grand men,"
Methodist Insurance Association, and told
many stories to illustrate the subject on
which he was speaking.
Rev. Mr.. Whitaker, pastor of the church,
spoke briefly, the following being an abstract
of what he said:
MR.. wHITAKER's REMARKS.
Outside of the Catholic, no church cares so
well for her aged men and her worn out
preachers as the Methodist church. Our men
do sacrifice like others, they are glad to sac
rifce they think but little of themselves in
regard to the future. Their great aim IS
Gods glory and the conversion of the world.
You all know how the Rev. Mr. Clark has
been laboring in behalf the worn out preach
els for the last eight years; hox in the midst
of fearful odds he has secured appropriation
after appropriation, until this year the worn
out preachers will receive 100000. Let it be
understood that these contributions are for
the men of God who have given their life
for the honor of God and the salvation OF
man. There are 1000 men that are. thus
banded together by this association and 1000
women who will be provided Tor IN the event
of their husbands death. / hope the. time
will come when we shall have an association
ministers and give them at least from 100000
$1,000 without its being felt as serious drain
on our resources.
The benedicton was then pronounced by
the Rev. w. b. Bartlett thus ending the
afternoon session.
Immediately after this session meeting
of the Preachers Aid Society was called.
The meeting opened with prayer which was
followed by the reading of the minutes of
the last meeting by the secretary. Business
of routine order was then transacted, and
Rev. Mr.. Pendexter appointed to fill the
place on the committee on bylaws formerly
occupied by Rev. Mr.. Stackpole. The fol-
lowing officers were elected for the ensuing
year. after which the meeting adjourned:
President-R Rev. E. Martin.
Vice President -Bey. Z. K. Bisbee.
Secretary-kev. i. Luce.
Treasurer-Rev c. j. Clark.
AUDITOR. b. Donnell.
Managers-Rev. S. Patterson, II. H. Shaw, j. b.
DonnelI
Evening Session.
At 730 O'Clock p. m. the largest audience
of the day was gathered at the church to lis
ten TO q sermon by the Rev. l.. B. Bates of
Bos ton. The services opened with an organ
voluntary which was followed by congrega-
tional singing and scripture reading. Prayer
was offered by the Rev. Geo. A. Crawford
and then Mr.. Bates was introduced as the
speaker of the evening The text was taken
from the 31st and 33d verses of the 4th chap
ter of Acts. The speaker told numerous
stories illustrating the views advanced and
closed his address with an appeal to all who
were not Christians to join the church.
1.-The two mightiest forces known to NOR
tails are prayer and faith. and they are the
simplest forces. So simple that any mind
can understand something of them, and so
vast that the mightiest mind only pervades a
part. Christian praying is unlike any other
pTayng There sae isn't prayer in dSSy
that utters it. Christian prayer does not
consist of sound, it does not consist of
silence. it has no particular form.
''You have heard thousand men pray, but
you say that once you heard a man utter
prayer that took you out of the pew and
placed you in communion with God. 1t
takes good deal to believe that God an
swers prayer. You don't believe that God
steps out of the spiritual world. GOD is in
all the world If he can touch the spiritual
being he can touch the physical being. The
manifested presence of God stirs men, and
his gospel should be preached with bold
ness"
The service closed after the benediction
had been pronounced.
NOTES.
The Rev. Edward Livingston Allen of the
New Yorksconferende is visitor at the con-
ference. He was in Portland during the
National Encampment of the G. A. r. in
1885, being then chaplain of the department
of New York. During 1886 and 1887 he twas
chaplain of the State Senate. In his early
life he was reporter.
The Rev. DIR. j. r. Day, formerly a men,
Der of the conference, delegate elect to the
General Conference from the New York
Conference will be in attendance after
Thursday.
The official board of the Methodist Episco-
pal church of Pennington, consisting of the
trustees and members of the Quarterly Con-
ference have unanimously decided to present
the name of Capt. Charles w. Reyes, of
Pennington. to the lay conference which
meets in Portland Friday. as delegate to the
General Conference in New York city.
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