The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-03-21
The ConRerarca.

of that body convened in the Methods
Episcopal Church in Mount Holly O.
Wednesday. The first time the Conferenc
met here was in l845, with Bishop Waugl
presiding. The second was in 1859, whel
Bishop Ames presided, and the third wa
in 1876. with Bishop Wiley presiding.
The session, which is the fifty-seventl
annual, is presided over by Bishop Johl
NJ. Walden, d. D., LII. D.. of Cincinnati
and it is the first visit of Bishop Valdez
to this Conference.
The session was opened by BISHOP
Walden. who read for his scripture lessor
the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, afte
which Rev. George Hughes offered prayer
This was followed by the administration
of the Lords Supper, by Bishop Walden
assisted by Presiding Elders Rev. w. P. c
Strickland, of the New Brunswick District
Rev. George Reed, of the Trenton Dis
trict; Rev. Milton Relyea, of the Camden
District. and Reys. George Hughes. H. M
Brown and Socrates Townsend.
Immediately after the conclusion of th'
devotional exercises the Conference rol
was called, after which the election o.
officers was taken up.
A letter was read from Rev. George B
Wight, D. D., Presiding Elder OF the
Bridgeton district, and Conference Score
tary for the past nineteen years, in which
he expressed regret at being unavoidably
absent, on account of sickness, and thank
ing Conference for their trust and conf
dence through all his long term of Office
1t was announced that DR.. Wight
would not accept the Office any longer
and Rev. J. L. Roe was unanimously
elected.
The Assistant Secretaries were an
nounced as follows: Revs. j. H. Payran
Henry Betting, George II. Neal, Jr.. M
E. Snyder and g. II. Stanger.
For Statistical Secretary Rev. John
H. Boswell was elected unanimously. He
announced his assistants as follows: Revs
s. M. Nichols, B. c. Lippincott, Jr., ]. r
Mason, C. S. Miller, ]. H. Magee and c.
r. Smith.
Rev. H. G. Williams was reelected
Conference Treasurer, with Revs. S. H,
Ham, D. w. C. Mcintyre and W. N. Og-
born as assistants
The following resolutions were adopted
and ordered telegraphed to DR.. George
B. Wight, at his residence at Millyille;
tha Wh0 for
the last nineteen years has been the very able
Secretary of this Conference, is now Tor the
first time absent on account OF sickness,
"Resolved That we. the members OF this
Conference, tender to him our heartfelt sym
pathy and prayers in his sickness, ana assure
him of our very high and brotheriy love"
Resolutions of sympathy were also sent
to Revs. Fl. B. Beegle and James Rogers
who were detained at home through i'll
ness.
The standing committees were an
nounced, after which Bishop Walden
made brief address to the conference,
in which he referred to this being his
first visit to preside over the deliberations
of the New Jersey Conference, and
spoke feelingly of the work of the
itinerant minister. Continuing, he said
st think Methodist ministers ought to be
a happy set of men, and their associations
ought to be among the most pleasant
The annual conferences should be occa-
sions looked forward to anxiously by the
ministers, where pleasant reunions are
held and where ministers can speak out
lust whatever is in their hearts,"
The Bishop also referred to the days OF
circuit riding, and said he believed it was
q good thing for young man to be second
man on circuit in charge of an expert
enced minister. Throughout his entire
address, the Bishop kept the subject OF
prayer constantly before the Conference,
and asked the members to pray for Divine
guidance in the sessions of the Cabinet
during its deliberations.
The Bishop, in responding to a remark
concerning this State, said II don't know
of any State in this country that needs
salvation any more than New Jersey"
1t was decided to hold the sessions of
Conference from $50 to II, the first half
hour to be given up to devotional exer-
cises.
Rev. DIR. Gray, representing the Univer-
sity at Washington, was introduced and
addressed the Conference on the subject
of educational work and the great needs
of advancement in that direction. In
closing he made an earnest appeal to the
members of Conference to interest them
selves in this great work.
In the evening the church was crowded
on the occasion of the anniversary of the
Missionary Society and an interesting ad-
dress was delivered by Rev. ]. o. Peck.
The second days session opened with a
praise meeting at which there was large
congregation.
At the business session. Rev. George
Hughes offered resolution, signed also
by Rev. A. E. Ballard, which read as fol-
lows:
Whereas. by the Ubiquitous action of the
Legislature OF New Jersey, whereby race
track gambling has been legalized, the moral
sense Of the people has been shamefq h out,
made throughout the commonwealth, under
a deep sense OF the fact that a degree of DIS
honor has been inflicted upon this noble state
OF the Union without parallel in its history,
opening the fioodgates and letting loose upon
us black tide OF crime ana ruin appalling
Whereas, our sister states are keenly alive
to the moral atrocity Of the act which now
confronts us, feeling that the whole country
is affected by this prostitution OF the Legisla-
tive function and loudly call upon us to vtndi-
cate our state honor, and preserve inyiolate
the noble heritage which Goa has has s given us Is
the NJ E. Church, now assembled in Mount
Holly, sustains as an ecclesiastical body, vital
relations to the body polite as well as to all
that per ains to the spread OF Christianity,
Resolved, that in order to the securing of a
calm, digntfied and righteously indignant ex-
preston of the Judgment OF the Conference in
this momentous crisis, that special commit
tee OF thirteen be appointed by the PRESIDENT
to prepare a suitable paper for the action OF
the Conference, to be presented as early In
the session as practicable, ana that the COM
mittee embody in its paper protest against
changes the penalty for disorderly houses.
Reys. Thomas Hanlon and John Hand
ley offered the following additional reso-
lutions:
Whereas, the Legislature of the state of New
Jersey has by its recent legislation legalized
and has thus brought disgrace upon our Com
monwealLh and lmperilled the virtue ana nap
piness of the people of the state.
Resolved, that we, the members OF the New
Jersey Annual Conference, assembled, do de-
nounce and brand with intamy those mem
beers OF our State Legislature who voted tor
these most vicious laws.
Resolved, that we do here and now pledge
ourselves to vote for no candidate Tor the
Legislature in.the ensuing election to be held
in the month of November next who does
not stand openly and expressly pledged To
vote for the Immediate and unalterabie repeal
of these laws
Resolved that we will Furthermore do all
in our power TO elect only such candidates,
and TO defeat any and all other candidates