Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-10
NEW xoKK EAsr OorFERENCE

The Beings Yesterday-A Very Inter estfng Letter From one of fhe Ness tors in methodtsnn.
 MIDDLETowN, April 9.-Bishop Foss preached in the Methodist church Sunday morning and ordained the following to be deacons: Joseph Irons, James E. Holmes, John L. Erickson, John w. Maynard, Abram R. Eagan, William M. Warden, w. N. Carr, Frederic A. Stichler, R. J. B. nlman, Julius Nelson, Allen McCressey, Charles Tomlin- son, s. K. Moore, Thomas Blake, JIM. Miller. The following were ordained elders David G. Downey, William E. Jeffries, William A. Richard. Frederick J. Shackleton, Jay A. Churchill, John F. Duinkerke, George N. Compton, Eldred Powell. In the afternoon and evening the Rev. Prof. Buell. and the Rev. G. H. McGrew preached in the Metho- dist church.
 Members of the conference supplied other Middletown pulpits as follows: Baptist church, Isaac M. Foster of Brooklyn and Thomas L. Poulson of Brooklyn; North Con- gregational, ". Valentine Kelley of Brook South Congregational, c. B. Miller of Brook lyn and George E. Reed of New Haven; South Farms chapel, Edward O. Tree; Long Hill chapel, George Stevens; Westield chapel, William N. Taft; Reform club, M. Y. Bovard; Young Mems Christian association. E. s. Ferry and H. N. Livingsten; Indus trial School for Girls, O. W. Lyons; Con- necticur General Hospital for the Insane, Willard F. Compton.
 YESTERDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
 MIDDLETowN, April 9-But little of gen. eral interest was done in the Methodist con- ference to-day. This evening 8 prohibition meeting was addressed by Clinton B. Fisks, Sam Small and William H. Boole, under the auspices of the conference prohibition socie- ty. On Tuesday the special committee of fifteen in the Brooklyn scandal case will re- port and Bishop Foss will announce the ap- pointments for the ensuing year.
 Remarkable Letter.
 The Rev. MT. Sizer, of Amityville, L. l., father of F. W. J. Sizer of New Haven, sent the following letter to the conference, which deserves to be printed:
 AmTYvILLE, N. Y., April 3. To the Bishops and Members of the York East
 Conference in Conference Assembled.
 Dear Brethren--I congratulate you on your assembling at your annual gathering, and I do most devoutly pray that the great head of the church may preside over all your delibera- tiens It reminds me of former days when I met in conference; of those old and able vet- erans of the cross of Christ who did their work well and have gone to their reward Bishop George, whom have carried in my wagon, and Bishop Hedding, who ordained me deacon and elder, whom I carried in 1881 from the conference in Middletown to the conference in Springfield, Mass. John Emory, whom I knew before he be- came bishop and whose last word was "Amen;" E. s. Jones, to whom I preached when he was school teacher; and our own preachers, Freeborn Garrison, at whose L-.. IL George, Daniel Ostrander, Billy Hibbard; Laben Clark, the only one among us who lived to be ninety years; Nathan Bangs. He man Bangs; Samuel Merwin, who, February 15, 1894, sent me out to call sinners to re- peRtance, and was employed by his success sor, Samuel Luekey, the next year; hence I travelled about fourteen months before I joined conference (it was general conference year) and received S45 as compensation; Buell. Goodsell and John B. Matthews, six of whom were my presiding elders But the list is not complete unless we name the sainted Fisk and She herculeap Sts- phen Olin, both of whose history belong mind when in the spring of 1920 I sat in the gallery of the old church near where you are assembled I heard John N. Moffitt preach from ''I saw and behold watcher and holy one came down from heaven" He cried aloud and said thus, "Hew down the tree and cut off his branches" etc., also, "For ye knew the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet you," etc.
 I would like to come to conference and once more visit the spot about one mile south of you, where on the 11th of April, 1920, at il o'clock 8. m., I was born again, fou nd the spirit and made new creature in Christ Jesus, glory to God on high.
 To Bishop Foss-I want to say to you that I received license to preach at the New Haven district conference with your father, in October: 1894, and joined the New York conference with him in 1895; and of all that conference of preachers, especially of our own conference, know of but one living beside myself-Asa Bushnell, who joined the con- ference at the same time.
 Brethren, my prospects are bright and clear for heaven. And 1 trust that shall ere long join the other part of the conference in that "house not made with hands eternal in the heavens" Jesus is precious to my soul. I thank the brethren of the conference for their kind indulgences and fraternal re- gards towards me.
 F. W. SEER, born June 13 1799.