Evening journal., 1892-03-22

Island, . conversions, $400 debt paid
"Church Dleek and Madison. 53 con-
versions. mo visits: Beckwith, $50 visits,
$50 Sermon, 54 converts. Cambridge, 80
converts, 5Jd visits, prospect of a new
church, II hes 446 members and pr0ba
tioners.
I'm these Eve years Dorchester county
has increased from twenty -one churches
to forty-one. with the membership about
doubled. The salaries at many points
have been advanced, but there are def
clencies reported from several places. The
actual receipts from 1887 to 1892 will
show an increase Of not much less than
80 500 OF 81 per cent. The total receipts
for all ministerial support during the
present quintennium will exceed that OF
the last by $37, 322, while the sum total
of the benevolences have only amounted
to $39, 037, or SLIT more than the in
crease for ministerial support In i've
years. With these facts before me It Is
hard to see how brethren have been i'm
poverished by the advances upon the be
nevolences
The sum total of these has reached
the high water mark this year, and in
cluding the local as well as general offer
ings amount to $10,606 or 1929 more than
last year or ever before.
Notwithstanding every adverse In
fuence this Is the record made and it is
7S per cent. in advance of FIVE years
sgo.
"Then the missionary collection was
SO, 1856. now II is 1864, then Church Ex-
tension was S295, now it is $7lS. Then
Foreign Aid was $210 it is now $271;
tract, $67. now $5s; Sunday School
Union. $40, now 1857; Education was
then 1852. now 1925; or including offer
ings for Academy. $1.161, Conference
claims, were $1.073, now it is 81, 1888
The sum total OF all benevolent offerings,
both general and local, was $5 952. they
are now $lO,506, an increase of 7s per
cent.
"our parsonsges five years ago mum
bered 26; now, 81; churches theH, 1903,
now, 1879. an increase Of &c; transfers,
/ actual increase. 25. Then there we're
100 Sunday schools, now, 1885, an in
crease Of 81. Value of psrsonages then.
SAC, 500; value now, $63, 100; value Of
churches then, $242, 600; now, $2s6, ,2S5.
THE MEMBERSHIP INCREASE.
"In 1887 there were reported 2, 1862 full
members; the records were carefully
pruned and more than 1900 names
dropped from the list; Notwithstanding
this we report 1884 members. an in
crease of 1852 to the full membership.
"This year our conversions number
1,S46, against 1908, with 1869 proba-
tioners. During the quintennium
7941 probationers have been reported
and 6.037 for the previous peroid, an in
crease Of 81 per cent.
AMONG HIS FoREFATHERs
81 have been held 10 this Peninsula by
ties Of sentiment, the strongest that can
bind a man TO the land of his birth. The
eighth generation in Sussex county and
the seventh born there through q period
of 200 years. When in Milton / am
within twelve miles of the graves of
seven generations of my ancestors l
have desired no better country. / will
not leave 1t for gilt-edge appointment.
II know this territory and sppreciste
its possibilities and forecast it's future,
as think no other living man either
does OF can, and how am l Strengthened
until it comes to pRss7 The boom Is being
lost from the great West and will more
and more disappear as the desirable land
is taken up. Where in all this world is
such a section as this alluvisl offspring
from the womb of the ocsan, caressed
upon her bosom and embraced by the
Chesapeake and Delaware arms of the
sea. "A great population will find it and
the hospitable shore that ssYlumed
Asbury in the time Of danger. Tht
church of his nurture must prepare e
enfold them in the arms of her charity
We must garrison every cross-road with
church. To simply mold intact the
achievements of the past is dry rot.
PLEADS GUILTY TO AMBITION
"'But he is ambitiousr plead guilty
to the strange Indictment, and 1t hal
been to contribute my little measure
toward making this the greatest confer
ence.
"The church that wins. the poor Of thi
generation will have the wealthy of tn,
next. The church that fails to retain o.
win the poor is the church withou
future. To bring to pass thes'
possibilities, have accounted neither
home nor health nor life nor means dea
unto myself that might finish this course
with the Joy OF actual realization. II
attain unto them 1t has seemed to m'
that a we'll trained ministry would b.
more than contributory it has therefore
been my effort through these years tC
aid those called of God in preparing foi
future leadership.
hPWolbu upo hhNp bpcn
lied in twenty two charges. We are ad
ding more machinery without taking out
any OF the old, aud it may be well, fol
some will adhere to the old while other
work the new, and so the greater number
sre called up from the useless and put il
the front line. One of the greatest per
plexities OF the administration is Il
handle the crowd who have nothing to 90
The Napoleon of church organization i
the coming man who can call out the re
serves and keep them in the columns o
advance.
"And now in conclusion, thank Go
} for the victories Of this year. askel
Him to vindicate :.the policy pursued b
giving success to His own cause and 81
has answered from Heaven by the FIRE o
holy revival, bringing an increased mum
Der Of conversions and with substantiS
advances along the other lines of legit
mate endeavor."
COLLECTIONS IN DOVER DISTRICT.
The ministers of the Dover district ha
, their characters passed upon and reporte
collections as follows;
COnferenc
Missionary. Claimants