The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-10
CONFERENCE SUNDAY.
Closing Business of Satur-
day, Too eacons and
Elders Ordained.

When the adjourned meeting Of the
session of the Newark conference mat at
three o'clock on Saturday afternoon,
Bishop Fitzgerald mad vacated the chair,
and Rev. DIR. freeman presided. A call
for committee reports was responded to
by the substituting of a number of docu-
ments with which the chairmen OF the
different committees seemed to be well
armed. DR.. Boswell, who first responded
to the call for committee reports, stated
that the total amount collected for the
missionary church was Sl,269, 600, OF
which Jersey City r~eceived.s2, 500 and New
ark, 81, 800. This was for local work. II was
Their decided on motion that the Mission
airy Committee be made d special COM
mittee to present the report TO the Mis-
sionary Committee OF the General Con-
ference.
The Committee on Su~stentation re-
ported chat the Fund received Amounted
to S1.075, IS Il of 1853 churches contribut-
ing. IL was decided to make the report a
special order of business FOR Monday
morning.
Chairman l.. C. Muller. of the Com
mitLee on church extension reported that
46 out of 27S churches had been aided by
the extension fund.
When the Temperance Committee re-
ported it denounced the iiquor-traf1c,
and advocated the prohibition feature by
resolution.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
The Committee on nominations pre-
sented these names for officers Tor the
Standing Committees.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
MIssIoSs.-J. G. Johnson, G. P. Eckmann, q.
r. Lowrie and j. A. Owen.
CHURCH ExTGNsIoN.-L. g. Muller, 5. NJ Be-
bout. p. G. Bascom and j. Q. Jackson.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS. j. S. Gilbert, d. Hailoren,
W. H. HUH and G.. P. Blight.
TRAcrs.-J.R. Wright, ]. G.. Howard, 5. u.
Jones and r. NJ. Aylesworth.
TEMPE sANcE-W. Morton, NJ. D. Church, J.
Fl. Egbertand W. S. Galloway.
EDUoATIoN.-C. E. Little, W. NJ. Horland, w.
E. Blakeslee, and 5. K. Doolittle.
FREEDMEN's AID AND SourHERN EDUCATIONAL
SocIErY.-N. A. McNichol, w. r. Kieter, e.
Meecham and A. L. Wilson.
BiBLE.-J. r. Ryan. Il. A. Mason, II. johns
and Adrain Dresser.
CAM MEETINGS. - S. Gilbert, w. G. Snod-
grass. B. B. Culiins and g.. Miller.
sABBArH o~BsERvAScE..J Krantz, J. B.
Brady. j. F. Andrews and f. Blum.
STATE OF CHURCH y. Q. Boswell, ]. Craw-
ford. G. F. Apgar and ". S. McCowen.
CHURCH BENEvoLENcE.-O NJ. Anderson, J.
0. Winner, j. Atkinson. F. G. Baldwin and j.
ErwoRra LEAeuE.-Jos. Framfower. A. W.
Crasto. N. Brooks and W. s, Robinson.
NOMINATIONS FOR 1695.-E. Clements, E. v.
King, G. +. Hull and l., r. Dunn.
On the motion of DR.. Alexander Craig
that u committee be appointed tn finish
MP the list Of officers. Drs. A. NJ. Palmer,
Daniels. Collins ant Russell were ap-
pointed a committee to finish the work.
RUssELL-CRAIG AGAIN.
An attempt was made To revive the
Russell-Craig controversy, when Il mo-
ton was made py DR.. Parsons that the
committee having charge of the papers
dealing with that matter return them to
MIR. Russell. Chairman Freeman re-
fused to entertain the motion, on the
grounds that it was not properly before
the Conference In that the matter came
up while Bishop Fitzgerald was prestd-
ing, and in right, as well as courtesy, tine
motion should come before MIN.
Some desultory business was transact
ed Ut minor Importance, after which the
Conference adjourned It's business session.
until this morning.