The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-11-02
MHTHODIS7S CONFER.
Quarterly Meeting Of the
Alliance at Hedding
Church.


Thursday evening In the Sunday school
room Of Hedding church. About seventy
five men were present. Among them were
Presiding Elder Lowrie, the Rev. a.
Barnes, of Hoboken. the Rev. David Hal
leron, the Rev. John Crawford. the Rev.
y. Wright, the Rev, r.. G. Deutch err, the
Key: 5. Jones. the Rev. w. H Russell,
the Rev 4 =. Grower. the Rev. c. Burn S
the Kew. j. w. Daily, the Rev. j. w.
Young, the Rev. w. e. Snodgrass, the
Rev. G. l. Coll. DR.. Clark. Messrs. w.
rawlings, J; Q. Foster, Lowns, Judge,
Cummings, Fafrchild, Cosgrove, Moron,
Brown, Campbell, Chamberlain, Eye aud
Wildwood
At seven O'Clock COLLATION. was served
py committee of. forty ladies' of the
Hedding, Trinity and St. Paul's Churches.
After the collation. the tables were cleared
and the Rev. w. III. Beach arose and
said:-"I am confident there is a latent
| amount OF talent in the heads before me
and propose to give them an opDortun~
ity to sneak to u.s." He then introduced
Mr.. j. v. Foster.
Mr. Foster spoke as follows:-"Iy dear
friends, shall give you some cold facts.
II was suggested that / give you some
ilgures in relation to local Methodisn
We have sixteen Methodist churches in
Jersey City, Hoboken aud Bayonne, with
4,O95 members; the value of church prop
erty IS S5l 900; the indebtedness is $110. $50
the amount given last year to missions.
So, o80; to ministerial support, s85. 600'
These figures may not perhaps be inter-
estlng, but they are indicative of growth.
For the sake of comparison | have OBJ
tanned some figures in relation to Newark
ana Harrison, which, combined, form a
territory about equal to Jersey City, Bay
onnc and Hoboken. There they have fif-
teen churches, membership OF 1856:
cnurch property equal in value to
S631. 500, an indebtedness of Ss4 sos:
money raised for missionaries
81, 500; for ministerial support, sos. 6o3.
These figures show we hold our own.
AS to the Sunday schools, the figures
show that the Reformed Church is now
advancing somewhat faster than we are
In certain sections of the city we are de-
creasing or standing still the down
tofFn churches suffer from removals and
do not receive as many in the changing
population as they lose. We must change
our methods to advance. In the past nine
years we have gained about twenty per
| cent, as IN 1888 our listed number of Sun
day school scholars was 4,643. and our
average attendance 1892 In 1890
| our listed number is 600 and our
average attendance 4.009 We want to
push MeLhodism and we can't do it nv
building a wall around our church. Sue
| inn '--
President Beach next introduced the
Rev. Mr- Muller, who spoke upon "Tbe
modern city q sight to stir the Christian
He said;-" We are told that when ST
Athens his eyes were opened and
| he saw and pondered on
what he saw, and he became SO excited
| that he eoald not wait for his collearues
but began to work immediately I aver
that the modern city is sight to stir the
i'm ~ soFtfA
is counted unfavorable to Christ,s cause
among men. We find it practically inn
| possible TO keep pace with the growth of
| the cities in our church building. The
| growth OF the modern city is uufavorable
because the growth Is one of people who
are nard to reach, such as Jews, ration
alists, Infldels There is gulf betw cen
| US and them, and we cannot get them
into our churches The most dismal
| thing about it all Is that we seem To he-
4 gin to give them up--to think we must
| give them up. As our cities grow ia size
/ they grow In Tickedness. The newspa-
| pers spread this wickedness before us I'M
4 til we sicken. Would to God thew did
not give us SO many loathsome details,
But there is another aspect. As the
| cities grow in wickedness and in
| alien classes the churches shrivel M.
Professionalism does not begin to be
the power it once was in Boston.
leaving down town to rum and ruin. AS
the city goes so goes the country IN
| ancient times the city needed the world
So it was in medieval times. IL Satan IL
| to have the cities these foes to good will
have the country we love so well. The
city today is the opp ortunity for the
Christian worker In the city the church
is better agency for the work than the
country"
AT the conclusion OF Mr.. Muller,g adj
dress. which received much applause
Messrs. Eye, Crowan and Deutcher were
appointed committee to make nomina-
tions for officers for the ensuing wear
While the committee were preparing The
report, Presiding Elder Lowrie made n
short address. He said.--"1 feel very
highly honored to be one of this number
] am delighted that so many distinruish-
ed laymen have met with our pastors.
Let me speak in relation to the subject
on which Brother Foster addressed van
want to call your attention to the past
six years. This period shows a record
equal in giving and doing to the twelve
preceding years In the past six wears
$3.50, 900 has been expended in repairing
and building churches in the county, ana
about s25, 900 on parsOnages.''
The Nominating Committee then re-
turned and reported the following
ticket, which was elected:-P President W.
II. Beach; rirst vice president. ]. B. Eos.
ter; second wee president. G. W. Roberte..
secretary, d. Halleron; treasurer. a
Church. The voting on the Candidates.
was by acclamation.
The Rev. A. Barnes, of Hoboken arose
after the election and offered the InlloSg-
ing resolutlon:-"R Resolved, That a peti.
ton be forwarded to the parent nissio,,-
airy society to the effect that the time IN
arrived when some appropriation Ia
made for the home work. Mr.. Barnes
said:-''The time has arrived when some
money should be appropriated for home
work; that religious canvassers may be
employed to 60 from house to house and
bring people to the church. In these
| days the ministers are unable to attend
| to all the wants OF the parish. and tire
| employment OF eanvassers would do nm
| immense amount of good"
| Elder Lowrie said:--'.Sueb q netition 60
already in preparation, and win IN the
| very near future be ready.n
The Rev. Mr. Atkinson sa,d.-.sEa,.
| years and Years it has been IA vTeonv via
| ton that the way to convert the yvos'ld =.
| Christ is to evangelical America. LAT us
not go away from here tonight without
rousing the world. Our petition NJ ra :
| quest will probably be refused bur II VIII
| have its effect"
| The Rev. Mr.. Sn0dgrass said;--uI xva,,t
to go on record as being heartily In favor
| OF this resolution, and this moEe,nens
believe the establishing Of religious can
vasserS would be an immense advantage
TO the church" After passing the Rev.
MIR. Barnes resolution amid ef1thusfasfic
q l. -