Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-09-20
OREGON N. e coNrrRENOE.
Report cf 'he Opening Of the Forty
Second Session.

read the scriptural lessons aud sfter-
wards the Sacrament of the Lords
supper was administered.
The roll was called and fifty minis
iers answered to their names as follow, I:
Albeit T j. Albany.
Booth r, Grants Pass.
Bush0ug J w, Astoria.
Boyd r Z. Sunnyview.
BALDWIN II +.
Brink NJ o, Wilbur.
Buckuer n 3, Ashland.
Craven + j. MedfJrd.
Calder f H, .Bpringfield.
Crandali q K. Amity.
DenisOn J n, Portland.
Driver d, Eugene.
EiwOrthy II B, Hillsboro.
GrannIs g w, Salem.
Gardiner w, Canby.
Gould Hiram, Corvallia.
Cue @ w, Portland.
Harrington w 3, Mt. Tabor.
Horner E r, Lincoln.
Jones T l., Grants Pase.
Kershaw A, Hubbard.
Lee 8 l., Sbedds.
Lewis G A, Portland.
Meminger s E, MeMinnville.
McInturff d n, Eugene.
McLachlan Donald, TillamOOk.
Myers w ii, Jefferson.
MuIligan A ), WoOdburn.
McCart A M.
Parsons John, Salem.
Royal t f, BroO7s.
Royal H B, Salem.
RoOrk ] n, Salem.
Shulse NJ. salem.
Starr 8 A, Dallas.
Sweeney ] NJ, Lowell.
Summerville ID T. Lebanon.
Spangler J w, Mehama.
Smith ] s, Ashland.
Sykes Gabriel, Oregon City.
Skidmore Fl.
Stratford j L, Drain.
Thompson K l.. RoseburG.
Wire N @, Mt. Tabor.
Webb Fl P, Sellwood.
Waters ID A, Forest Grove.
Whitaker g, Salem.
Wigstead d 3, Cornelius.
Wolfe David, Brownsville.
Whitfield w.
PROBATIoNERs.
Moore Frank l., ClatskaDie.
Peart Isaac, SlIvertoD.
Qulmby, g w. Marshfield.
Belknsp l. F, Dayton.
Stryker s w, Portland.
Brown + J, Beaverton.
Corner r NJ, Turner.
Dimick g w, Lakeview.
DIR. Denison was reelected conference
and chose for his assistants
=. A. Lewis and E. l.. Thompson.
Hiram P. Welch was reelected Statis-
ical Sec'y., 8. w. Striker was APP
pointed as his assistant. Prof. Starr
was re elected to the position of treas
lrer.
The NJ. E. church of Oregon is asked
10 raise during next year the following
'mount, for Freedmen's Aid and
southern Educatio n society:
General conference expenses -$643 90
Episcopal fund -------------- 643 90
Sunday school fund 208 90
Tract society------------------- 2O8 20
The Conference received as its divi-
lend from the Methodist Book Con-
,ern $500.
DIR. Hartzell presented the work of
he Freedman's Aid and Southern Ed.
lcation society in a very eloquent ad-
iress, showing the cosmopolitanism of
he NJ. E. church. He claimed f,r 1t
he title of the National Protestant
Church OF America-not that he would
change Its name, but that in spirit it
vas that as in 5000 counties of the
United States with the exception of
100 In the South.
Bishop Joyce spoke in very kind,
,rotherly way # his work as bishop
md made every one feel at ease under
bis presidency.
A DISTINGUISHED DIVINE.
Bishop Isaac w. Joyce, l.. L. D.. who
presides over the Oregon conference
now in session, is an enthusiastic
worker and powerful evangelical pull
pit orator. The bishop has recently
presided at the two conferences In
Montana, the Idaho, Columbia river,
Puget Sound, and North Pacific Ger.
man conferences.
He is native of Ohio, ntered the
In 1859. and was elected TO
he Episcopacy in 1888. His Official
is in Chattanooga, Tenn. AS
.he resident bishop Of the Central
states, he has largely to do
with the church and educational work
n his denomination among both white
and colored people. He IL chancellor
'f u. s. Grant universIty,iH Tennessee,
which enrolled over 900 students last
pear. Since 1883 the bishop has pre-.