The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-03-21

who sees only the spires of the distant city
and forms his conclusions therefrom (un-
mindful of the mauy pretty homes that go
to make up the city, so in this limited
report we note only the colossal flguIes
at the front, leaving the reader to MI IN
the background at pleasure.
These figures as we saw them were
Bishop Daniel A. Goodsell, Layman Clin-
ton b. Fisk, Editor James M. Buckley, OF
the Christian Adoocate, New York. and
others we cannot now mention. Mote
Should any of our clerical friends believe
themselves aggrieved i'll the abov they
can appropriate the ''and others" dd
k5itum
Bishop Goodsell is unquestionably an
excellent parliamentary ruler, and witlial
a splendid specimen Of the pulpit and plat
form orator. This is the way he impressed
everybody with whom lie came in contact
while at Conference. The Bishop is a
ponderous speaker but not clumsy, dealing
in some of the finest figures of speech and
| classical illusions. His address to he
Young ministers of the Conference on Sat
urday last was q mastery production,
e~qualled only by the easy judicial flow of
an ~extempore speech before the Home
Missionary Boa,d tie following Sabbath
evening.
When two years previous this month we
listened TO the powerful address of Bishop
Hurst before tie Conference Board at
Bridgeton we thought perhaps there was
then before us the ne plus ultra Bishop of
the Methodist connection in this country,
but we have revised our opinion somewhat
since then.
General Fisk, ''the greatest layman OF
the land as some tersely put it, was, cx-
eepting perhaps the Bishop, the most pub
lie figure before the Conference, and was
followed by admiring crowds whenever
and wherever announced to speak. On
Saturday evening, the 18th, he packed the
Workingmcn's Institute building (now the
". C. I. [. rooms), and on Sunday even
ing. the 10th, lie, no less than the Bishop,
was the attraction Of an overerowded
house, numbering perhaps not less than
1900 souls. 1t is altogether evident that
General Fisk has the public ear as we'll as
the public heart. He told his auditors at
the Saturday evening meeting that he was
a prohlbitiouist of Prohibitionists, but
nevertheless welcomed any and all tenn
perance advances, let them come from
whatever direction or party.
The temperance sentiment Of the Con
ference, however, was the monopoly of no
particular person, as without question the
most hearty and prolonged applause OF
the convention was produced when the
Bishop in his exordium to the young
licentiates said you do not com to a
church which stands in the presence of
the saloon and pleads fer permission to
remain" and amid much laughter and APP
plause characterized the preacher who
was too weak to make himself felt on this
great moral question as having a s'gela-
tinous vertibl;e." DR.. Graw, toe, greatly
enthused the Prohibitionists in an address
Saturday evening.
j. NJ. Buckley, editor of the New York
Christian ADVOCATE, like Bishop Goodsell
and General Fisk, has a reputation not at
all confined to his own denomination. DIR.
Buckley is not only a magnificent speaker
but is regarded by competent judges as
among the foremost journalists of this
country as we'll. The circulation of the
Adroeate is now given as from 100, 600 to
100, 900.
The Doctor has a number of acquaint-
ances through Cumberland county and
some relations living in Melville. The Jr.
j. NJ. Buckley is a son Of the Rev. John
Buckley, who about the year 1871 lived in
Bridgeton and carried on the shoe business
in the brick building on Commerce St, adj
joining the present clothing store of Ayars
& Mulford, in those days next the Davis
House hotel, Mr.. Buckley had as partner,
Mr.. Mark Riley, a well-knowu business
man. He was 4 broken down Methodist
preacher and had adopted this calling to
supplement the small sun he possessed on
IttlIlnB from LIc mlulSlfN. lHlS Ictllc-
ment, however, came too late, as his health
was permanently affected, and after a few
months Of business experience there he
died at his residence on Broad street,
nearly opposite the residence of the late
DR.. William Elmer. Enoch Sayre, who
had his place Of business next to the Com
merce street bridge, carried the body to
Mount Holly and %'.ievont men made great
lamentation over him."
There are those now living in Bridgeton
who recall tie memory Of a light haired
youth who at that time was never seen
without a pack of books or papers about
him, aud was necessarily engaged in
polemic debate when finding one able and
willing to dispute with him. This was
the embryo New York journalis+, the
present DIR. J.. NJ. Buckley.
There are other members of Conference
deserving mention, men who serve ON COM
mittees and do the hard work and as a
consequence are rarely seen at the front; the
self respecting, heightened %elergymen, who
will not and do not degrade themselves as
| laaa nnly,.1 a.l