The Penn's Grove record., 1893-03-24

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cat is gone the kittens will play, there
was music and some imitation of dane
ing. The guests dispersed in good
time, wishing the genial Captain and
his estimable wife many returns Of the
anniversary. ONE OF THE NUMBERS.
NEW JERSEY N. e. CONFERENCE.
The M. E. Conference In session ut
Mt. Holly had the following interesting
reports submitted.
Rev. James Nj. Freeman, D.. D., of
the Suuday-school Union. In his ad-
dress gave the following statistics:
Number of Sunday schools, $4,000;
number of officers and teachers. $40, 900;
number of scholars, 2,370.0OO increase
in the number Of schools, $50; increase
in the number of officers and teachers,
65S1; increase In the number of scholars,
Al, 916; officers and teachers who are
members of church, 2S7, 900; number of
scholars, 6SS, 200; conversions, 117,OO0.
The New Jersey Conference has 50
charges where no collections were taxi
ell COR this branch of church work.
THE CAMDEN DISTRICT.
Rev. Milton Relyea, Presiding Elder
of the Camden district, presented his
annual report, in which the past Con-
ference year was stated to have been a
successful one, spiritually and dnan-
cially. Most encouraging reyivals of
religion were reported at Broad
way, Fifth Street, Third Street, Taber-
nacle, State Street, Kaiglm's Avenue
and Centenary Churches, Camden,
Dudley, Nays Landing, S%wedeshoro,
Chew's Landing, Gloucester City, Col
lingswood, st. Paui's, Atlantic City
and at several other places additions
were made to the Church membership,
aggregating about 1000.
New churches were reported as fol-
lows: Broadway, Camden, Sunday
School Chapel; Third Street, Camden;
Centenary, Camden; P%edricktown,
Paulsboro. New parsonages were built
at Hammonton, Williamstown, Cross
Keys. Collingswood, Pitman Grove,
Wiley, Camden and Marion. Improve
ments were made to a number Of cbur-
cles in the district, and the missionary
collections amounted to SS761, as
against S90l6 in the previous year.
The Societies Of the Christian Endeay.
or and Epworth League were reported
in a tlourishing condition, with a mem
bership Of wei 5000. There are in the
district so Sunday schools, 1900 schol-
ars and 100 officers aud teachers.
The annual report of DR.. Hanlon,
President of Pennington Seminary
showed that institution to be in u very
lourishing condition, both from a fin
ancial and spiritual point of view.
There are now about 300 students, of
whom so are studying for the Christian
ministry. This is the 54th year of Penn
ington Seminary, and In that time over
10000 graduates have gone out, and
over lO0O entered the missionary fields
Of labor.
The fund for the superannuated mill
listers received 1851 from the Book
Concern as its share from that great
institution of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Rev. W. z. G. Strickland, the Pre-.
siding Elder Of the New Brunswick dis
trict stated in regards to the case Of
Rev. Geo. s. Sykes, who mysteriously
disappeared from Long Branch several
months ago, stated that his family
claimed lie had been afflicted with de-
mentia and had gone away while in
that condition Of mind. A letter had
been received from him In which he
said lie would be able to satisfactorily
explain his sudden disappearance and
his remaining away SO long.
THE BRIDGEToN DISTRICT.
Rev. VIM. Allen, of Vineland, in the
absence of Rev. Geo. u. Wight, d. D.,
the Presiding Elder of the Bridgeton
District, read the annual report of the
Elder of that district.
The report showed that the churches
generally were in fair condition fihan-
cially and spiritually, and the Confer
ence year had been productive of good
results. Revival services were held in
nearly every charge in the district, and
over 800 conversions were reported dur
ing the Conference year. Extensive
improvements were made to many of
the churches, and church debts were
reduced. Trinity Church, Millville,
and Fourth Church, Millville, were
dedicated during the year, and the
church at Vineland was reopened.
The churches at Vineland. Cape May
City, Ocean City, Newport, Fsirton,
Broadway, Salem; Fourth Church.
Bridgeton; East Creek. Central, Bridge
ton, and Commerce Street, Bridgeton,
were greatly improved during the year,
and the First Church at Millville is to
ha and havo a unu eoOn1 nr.