The Newtown bee., 1893-04-14
has been held each evening during tn < week and has been we'll attended.
Danbury.
THE METHODIST CONFERENCE.
Second Session ever Held in Danbury The ses sion Reviewed.

l t Second Session Held in Danbury The ses
 sion Reviewed.
 The New York East Conference of the Methodist church commenced here, last Tuesday week, in the new Methodist church, the second conference ever held ! in Danbury. The members began to ar | rive, Tuesday morning, but only about ! 20 were present up to near noon. The real commencement was Wednesday l morning. The largest part of the preach | CTS were here by Wednesday afternoon. Bishop Ninde, (prounced in on syllable), presiding officer. He isa Western man. During the week Bishop Hurst arrived, 1 but had no official connection, directly, l with the conference. He came ill the in- terest of the projected Methodist uniyer- sity at Washington and presented it's claims on Methodists.
 Rev Dr J. M. Bulkley, editor of the l Christian Advocate, the great editor and brilliant orator, had been announced to speak, Tuesday evening, but was not present on account of illness. There was much disappointment. He appeared lat CT and spoke in his usual vein.
 l ferences. The share of this conference is $2, AT.
 The anniversary of the Epworth league was held with an illustrated lecture, by
 Rev Dr Hartzell of Cincinnatti. These stereopticon illustrations have been an interesting feature on several
 occasions.
 Rev Dr Hamilton of Cincinnatti also Ispoke in the same line. The latter speak
 CT said the Methodist church has been
 the instrument of educating 100000 young persons and qualifying 13,000
 teachers in the South, mostly colored,
 Rev George P. Mains was elected se-
 cretary, MT Barton statistical secretary,
 and Rev MT E stes conference treasur- CT.
 About the first business proposed was
 q resolution offered by the Rev Dr Boole 7 instructing the committee on temperance : to prepare a plan for the organization of a Christian Temperance League to cover
 the whole jurisdiction of the conference
 Much bIsiness has been done of interest,
 
 religious interests generally. Discussion a has covered wide field.
 Among the first reports made was that
 of the publishing interests of the church.
 The Methodist church has an extensive
 publishing house in New York called the
 "MtthodiSt Book Concern," among the
 largest ill the country in the line of
 religious; according to the
 report the total capital
 at present is $2,OS9,3l4. On this busi- ness there was a profit of $22S, 114. This appeared to the conference to be a grati- . flying showing. It appears the profits
 are apportioned among the annual con
 Home missions have been leading . feature. The report of the Woman's
 Home Missionary society was read by
 Mrs Maynard, secretary; encourag:n :ng,
 very. Mrs Jennie Fowler Willing deliv- , cred an address giving the origin and ob-
 Ject of society and the work accomplish
 ed. It was interesting; at times thrill
 ing The anniversary of the Woman 5
 Foreign Missionary society l was held. Mrs z. F. l Denler read the annual report. Mrs a Vesta o. Greer, missionary teacher in . Pekin China, gave an interesting ac- Il count of work in that country, leaving U the impression that China iS at present a D difficult field of labor. She put the home r Chinaman ahead of the home Japanese, 5 saying the Chinese specimens we see here : do not represent the average Chinaman. n Mrs Thompson of New Haven spoke = we'll. Rev Dr Butler of the Mexican
 field of missionary labor spoke, giving
 an account of progress made there. Rev
 Dr Leonard spoke of work in more gen. e eral sense, thriltingly, at considerable t length.
 Rev Dr Kejerett, of Philadelphia spoke
 on church extension. He said the board
 of church extension has received and e disbursed $4,75O,0o0 in it's operations of F 27 years, most of the sum passing through t the general fund. The board has S,675 a churches. There is fund denominated Q frontier fund giving 8 limited amount of , $250 to frontier communities, in sparse 0 sections, destitute of churches. This sets them going. Over 800 of such small churches have been helped.
 0 A detailed account of the proceedings - would be too lengthy for HE BEE. This l may be added here. Methodist ministers r 1 at their admission to the conference are - given certain tConference studies," and
 are examined each year by appointed
 committees each successive year until e the course is finished, we believe four 0 years. At the present conference l3
 were addmitted to full standing, having a completed the prescribed course of study.
 Four were advanced to the office of dea-
 con. They were ordained by Bishop a Ninde, Sunday afternoon.
 Q Mrs Boole and Miss Boole spoke for
 temperance in Union hall, White street, s Saturday evening. They are both count ed among the good workers in temper ance and eloquent speakers. The local s churches, several, were supplied by the r conference members. The First and r West street Congregational, Disciples, ' Methodist and Universalist, the latter by
 a Swede for the SWedes. In the after
 noon Rev Dr Boole delivered h is great :. lecture at Union hall, White street. d Several preachers went to Bethel to fill
 pulpits there. The conference continues ,. till Tuesday this week. Taken all in all I it was red letter week for the Metho-