The Newtown bee., 1889-04-12

and oppose whatever is menacing the religion and liberty of this country. We are here to meet this mass of heresy which originated in the colleges of our land and is finding it's way into literature and the pulpit.''
 In behalf of the work of Methodism in Utah, Rev T. c. Tiff, for many years re- siding at Salt Lake City, addressed the conference. MT Tiff served three years in active service in the Civil war. ssOur work in Utah." he said, sshas been of slow but substantial growth; 19 years ago, Methodist preacher arrived there and secured a deserted hay loft for relig- ious services. Nearly 15 years of ardent toll yielded no material fruit, but, during the past three years, our work has been magnificently blessed. We now have 9 missionaries, 40 teachers in 30 schools, 1900 children at school, largely of Nor mon parentage and church membership of nearly 1000. Two years ago, I went in company with two brethren on a re- vival trip to southeast Utah. We stop pCSt du blAC obbbiohs WaihCu up SGIcCU until we came to rum shop, where I went in and commenced negotiations for the tavern. I asked the keeper what he would take for his business, building, rum and all. He answered that S20O would buy him out. I stopped to con- sider bit and talked to the landlord of our plans for church there, in that old grog shop. The idea seemed to strike him as quite the proper thing and he re- marked, Suppose we call the price $195; want q hand in this enterprise myself His offer was accepted, the old hole was cleaned out and long served IS our place of worship. The society prospered and, in course of time, the old tavern-church was replaced with substantial edifice of brick, from the tower of which sweet toned bell peals out over those Mormon homes and among the converts we have enrolled the name of the former tavern keeper. Do you wonder that, in the face of facts like these, we take hope for the future? We are having old-time re- vivals and many Mormons are being ad- ded to our roll of membership. Day is breaking-dawning to full noon and we shall ere long have the flag of Methodism floating over every mountain top of that far distant land" At the close of Dr euce gathered S251 65 for new Metho- dist school building at Salt Lake. It was a generous and spontaneous response to most eloquent appeal.
 The following were elected to elders
 orders: Saul o. Curtice, William E. Sco- field, Frank s. Townsend, Edward D.
 Basset, Robert E. Norton, Frank A. Seo-
 field, Arthur J. Smith, Clarence A. Lath-
 bury, Adoniram r. Leach.
 Rev John M. Beach, presiding elder of
 New Haven district, reported for the
 past year as follows:
 ''The passing years make but little
 change either in the territory or the ge. ography of New Haven district. Those
 who have known it in late years know it
 pretty well as it is to-day. Men who
 know it generations ago-preachers who in boyhood travelled over it as preachers
 children, or in their early ministry en ljoyed it's varied opportunities of disci pline and grace, would undoubtedly rec | ognize in their observations of to-day
 manifold evidence that the general
 changes that have been trying the world | elsewhere have not altogether neglected
 the proverbially staid regions that com. pose this district. Located in the heart
 of Connecticut, containing it's capital and
 government, embracing most of it's large 1 cities and still larger percentage of it's
 thriving towns and boroughs, grouping
 within it's limits the great preponderance
 of the States industrial enterprise and | wealth, enshrining nearly all the humane and charitable foundations of the com. | monwealth and quite all it's learning
 New Haven district has beyond dispute
 patrimony that none of it's sisterhoods should despise. | The district is one into which Metho-
 dism came early and yet came late. Ev
 cry high hill in it had church on its | top when Jesse Lee crossed the Bronx
 and turned his horses head toward New England. My district in those days was l the Holy Land of Congregationalism. Or the sides of the north, I touch it's Dan
 when climb up to Bethlehem and bound my visitations in that direction at the
 garden wall of famous Dr Bellamy When4I stop in my journeys the other way, I have touched to Beersheba, for
 am in Old Saybrook, beyond which, in a
 good many respects, the faithful of that
 period did not essay to go. Congrega- l tiOnalism is still at home in New Haven district and I suspect always will be, i Methodism came not in to drive it out
 but, rather, under Gods providence, to
 hold the ancient faith to it's best tradit- ions, give shape and vigor to it's evangeI
 ical agencies and help it on to the power it has become in the Christianity of these times.
 The group of small churches with which the annual minutes credit the New
 Haven district must not be lightly
 thought of. Multiplied and distributed
 as these churches are, they, perhaps, do
 better work than the same material in any other shape. Many great church,
 like great fortune, is a great waste.
 It's might is founded and foundered at
 the same time. It is not the deluge but
 the dews that make the earth rejoice.
 As move through the hill country of
 my district and climb up it's rugged ways to little churches, well-kept and neat,
 perched snugly here and there almost
 out of sight, for the service of people
 hidden away in hardly discoverable plac- es thereabout, often think see, as peo-