The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-20

Inc sunday morning services should begin
az u;Sl Tho IL O'Clock business ID a device of
tne oevlL Young men who live in boarding
houses ana whose dinner hour Is noon will not
aong stay at church till 80 or O'Clock ana
tnen go home tn . cold meal. 1t is an Insult to
600 to give him snly the hottest hour of the
day. In all the Eastern world they commence
At DO. aud none should be too lazy to reach
church at that hour. The sermon should not
o. eartailed. NO man on earth can preach a
hour or twenty minutes. For this greatest Of
all work there should be sufficient time allowed.
Il that dealing fairly with the Lord or giving
His divinely called ministers q chance to fulfill
their mission TO commence At IL, occupy an
hour in preliminnries which are sometimes
proitless, and hurry of for Sunday school at
Never do your pastoral work in the pulpit or
scold your members publicly. Yours IL gospel
OF love. Win men aud women and children to
Christ in loving manner.
Six members were admitted to the conference
alter examinations with the following marx
ings: William H. Wilson, studies s, sermon
So; r A. Atkin, studies 81. sermon 9; John
Johnson. studies 8. sermon 3. These had re-
ceived the orders Of deacon last year.l W. H.
Jennings. studies s, sermon S; l. N. GoodelI.
studies s1a, sermon 8; c. A. Luse, studies 9,
sermon ~. The last three were raised to the
order OF deacons. All of these will be ordained
next Sunday at $50, Immediately after the Sab
bath school service
The bishops charge made a deep impressio n
on all present. and at its close the young men
were all duly received into the conference. Dur
ring the session many brethren from the differ
ent districts were introduced, among whom
were: ID. 7. Denny, ". j. Morphy, Dr. Rufus
Willard, J. o. EASTWOOD and C. E. Fry, of Sc
attic.
At 2:30 O'Clock occurred the anniversary of
the WOmsns Foreign Missionary Society, pre-
sided over by the conference secretary, Mrs. A.
J. Hanson. Mrs. Samuel Moore read the
Scripture lesson, and Mrs. J. NJ. Walden offered
prayer. The report OF Mrs. Hanson indicated a
good growth in she tweuty-three years of or
ganization. 1t has ten branches and $4,000
members in the United States, collections this
year, $253.660, being an incr ease of $4,000 over
last year. favorable change has been made
in the laws regarding the government of the
women's foreign missions during the
past year. There are 100 missionaries In
the field. India has 81, Japan Is, China q,
Mexico 8, South America 4, Italy 2, Bulgaria
], Korea As assistants Mrs. Abrams 10 at
Bombay. Miss Blackbu at Singapore and Miss
Backstock at Tokyo. The children of the con-
ference are supporting this year an assistant in
Miss Thoburn's school in Lucknow, at cost of
$ls4 The support of a Bible reader in Japan is
undertaken by the Puyallup auxiliary at a cost
OF $50. The address was delivered by DR.. F. B.
Cherrington The little African girl Diana sang
'Come 70 Jesus Just Now" in both her own
tongue aud English, standing upon a chair with
Miss McNiel's arm around her. She has sold
enough pictures Of herself since her coming to
America to redeem herself, and is now working
to redeem Bella, 3 little friend of hers who very
much desires her freedom to live at the mission.
Mrs. Lizzie McNiel gave description of her life
in Liberia for four and half years, which was
very interesting The reports of mission collec-
inn a IN "a