The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-16
METHODIST ALLIANCE,
1t Hears What the Home Delegates
Did at General Conference.

Notwithstanding the fact that the
heavens We're opened and the floods de-
scended, a goodly number of clergy and
laymen. including brothers and sisters,
assembled in Hedding Methodist Church,
on Montgomery street. last evening, to
attend a meeting of the Methodist AL
lance. At eight o'clock there were not
over twenty persons in the large church
and it was suggested that the meeting
be postponed, but Mr.. w. H. Beach,
President of the Alliance, said that those
who had had courage enough to come
out on such a night, were entitled to
have a meeting and one would be held.
So the few present gathered in the front
part of the church aud the meeting was
opened with devotional exercises.
The object of the gathering was to hear
reports from the local delegates to the
General Conference held at Omaha last
May and an address Upon "City Evan
gelIzation" by Johu Field, Postmaster of
Philadelphia. MI. Field was not present
and Mr.. Beach suggested they lear from
the delegates. AS he was one of them
ha was persuaded to speak first.
BROTHER BEACH CHANGES HIS REGISTER.
He said that in a speech he made AT
Oman he had said that he would rather
be a delegate TO the General Conferences
than be Mayor of Jersey City.
This" said Brother Beach, raised a
great shout, for. l suppose, they thought
1t was not much of an honor to be Mayor
of Jersey City. But now | can say that it
is a great honor to be Mayor of Jersey
City while we have such a Mayor as we
now have. Why, when 1 used to register
at hotels, | used to put myself down as
from New York. but now I always regis
ter w. H. Beach. Jersey City," Brother
Beach is an aggressive member of the
Republican party militant.
Brother Beach then went on to saw that
he considered Genera Conference a great
educator. He had always considered that
there was lots of wire pulling anu other
things going on which ought not to go on
in the supreme body of the great Metho-
dist Church. But after a wideawake in
vesE1gaGion he found that was not so.
The Co inference must have changed wou-
derfully since tn e session of 1883, when
John 2. Newman was elected Bisnoo.
Mr.. Beach said he felt very small and
modest as he sat surrounded by Cover
nors. Senators ana Presidents of colleges.
He spoke of the tight the laymen had TO
secure seats by themselves in the body of
the house, and was telling how that OBJ
Ject was accomplished, when the door
opened and a middle-sized, prosperous
looking man, with a bald head, entered
the room.
"And no one had more to do with
bringing 0 that result" continued
Mr.. Beach. than the brother who has
just entered the door. Hon. John Field, of
Philadelphia"
POSTMASTER FIELD SPEAKS
Mr.. Field was cordially greeted and
after he had ''cauRbt his breathu as he
ex pressed it. he addressed the meeting.
He said he was never in Jersey City be-
fore, and as the card of invitation did not
tell where the church was situated. be
had had some difficulty in getting there.
He went into Taylor's Hotel and looked
for the church III the directory, but could
not find it. He asked The clerk if he
Church was, but he could not tell. He
called up the hall boys Que by one. but
they could not tell. One little fellow
asked if it was the. little place on the
corner where they have the faith cure.
Then, Mr.. Field said, he went into the
restaurant co get his supper. and asked
some of the walters il they could tell
where Hedding Methodist Church was.
but they seemed never TO have heard OF
it. Finally "a lady in the restaurant said
the church was on Montgomery street.
and Mr.. Field could reach it by taking
an Erie street car. So he boarded an
Erie street car and found himself fioun-
- O'o Al eAO AdAh a~o[
ParK. After much enquiry he finally
succeeded in reaching the church.
OPPOSED TO WOMEN DELEGATES.
Mr.. Field Then gave his personal ex-
perience at Omaha. He said that tile
man who goes to General Conference ex-
Hecting to have mis- own way is going to
be disappointed. He referred to the
fight the lavmen, had for seats by them
selves, and said he thought that it was
most important that the great part of the
chdich work be brought home to the lay
men SO that, in the struggle of every day
life. the burdens and Obligations which
God had placed upon them, through the
Church, might be brought home to them.
1t was of the utmost Importance that they
should sit by themselves, so that thev could
act as a unit. and not have their Influence
broken by being scattered through the
clergynen all over the house.
MIR. Field was very severe in his con-
demna'ton of the action of the General
Conference IN passing the resolution pro-
vid1ng for women representation.
The Rev. J.. B. Faulks sppke Of what
the Conference did not do, and said that
that was one Of the most important feat