The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-10
CLOSING UP THEIR YEAR.
Methodist Pastors Review Their Work
in Savannah.

Yesterday was the last Sunday in the
I South Georgia conference year. and the
! pastors Of 175 Methodist churches In South
Georgia closed up their years work. None
OF them know where they will be sent
next year and will not know until the last
session of the conference, when the ap-
pointments for the year are made.
The conference viii meet at Waycross
Thursday. Bishop Wilson OF Baltimore.
viii preside Rev. DR.. Cook of Trinity,
Rev. A. NJ. Williams of Wesley Monumen-
tai. Rev. W. F. Smith of Grace and Rev.
r. NJ. Booth of Marvin. accompanied by
Rev. DIR. Hinton. presiding elder of the
Savannah district, and probably the lay
delegates. Mr.. W. 3. Stubs of Savannah,
Mr.. r. J. Davant of Guyton. Mr.. Enecks
of Emngham county and Mr.. +. f. LawtOn
Of Waynesboro, will leave Savan-
nah Wednesday for Wayoross. The pros
poets Of the conference have already been
referred to in the Morning News. and it is
expected that the sessions will be among
the most interesting that have been held
in some years.
The pastors Of all the Methodist
churches in Savannah alluded in their
services yesterday to the coming session Of
the conference, and some OF them re-
viewed their work during the year just
closing.
The morning services at Trinity Meth
odist church were conducted by Rev. II.
II. Parks of the North Georgia confer
ence, now stationed at Atlanta. Mr..
Parks was pastor of Trinity church dur
ing the years 1s72-73-4 He was given
warm welcome by his Old parishioners
yesterday.
After the regular services the pastor.
Rev. J. o. A. Cook, made statement of
the work of the church for the year.
II entered upon my labors as pastor of
this church on Dec. 81, 1885, said DR..
Cook. "Since that time, with the ex-
ception Of two weeks trip to Florida, I
have been steadily at the post of duty.
have not had a days serious sickness
for which l am profoundly grateful.
Some time was lost in the first of the year
for want of a correct church directory in
finding the residences of our scattered
membership. Some whose names are on
the roll l have never yet found. / have
made about 1000 pastoral visits and
preached ninety-seven sermons during the
year. 1 have regularly conducted the
week night prayer meetings and have
been in regular attendance on the Sab
bath school services ana the devotional
meetings of the Y. p. S. c. f. have been
called to ofiiciate at the burial of eleven
of the members of this church and of eight
or ten Others. Have performed ten mar
riage ceremonies and baptized twenty-one
infant children. / have received into the
church fifty members, fourteen on pro-
fession of faith and thirty-six by letter.
Have dismissed thirty-four by letter"
a considerable part of the pastors
work. Dr. Cook, stated, is the collection
of the conference assessments upon the
church for its various benevolent enter
prises.
Collections have been taken for foreign
missions, educational and other purposes.
The total assessment against Trinity
church is S1,100. of this amount 500 has
been collected in cash. and there is still
800 due on subscription. To this must be
added the contributions of the Sabbath
school to home missions of $7S.S5, making
a grand total of $685. Dr. Cook expects
to increase this amount before leaving
for conference this week. "All at work.
and all the time at work, was Mr.. Wes-
leys ideal of vigorous church life" said
DR.. Cook. I'VE have not attained to that
yet, but we are reaching toward 1t. We
have 10 stewards. 9 trustees, II class lead
ers, local preachers, and a church secre-
| tary. In our two Sunday schools, Trinity,
and Trinity mission, we have II officers
q teachers, and 34S scholars with an av-
erage attendance for the year of 259
Amount raised for Sunday school pur-
poses this year. $317.22. Our women, young
people, and children are organized for
Christian service. We have these socie-
ties al work in the interest of foreign
missions-the women's, the girls and the
juvenile. Our Sunday School Missionary
| Society is to aid our home missions. The
Parsonage and Home Mission Society
is auxiliary to the church extension board
The Church Aid Society is to help the
sick and needy of our own communion.
and the Parsonage Aid Society is to look
after the home of the pastor Here is
opportunity to work for all the women
and girls in the church, if distributed as
/ it might be. Our Young Peoples Society
of Christian Endeavor is doing much good
in the matter of training our young men
and maidens for Christian worship and
| work. l submit herewith a brief state
ment of financial results of these organi-
/ cations. For the year ending Dec.
/ these societies have raised:
/ For foreign missions, s170 AZ
/ tor nome missions. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES S So
/ For church extension. .............. 26 90
| For church aid, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 40 25
For local parsonage. 1872 90
Iotai ''..................... s4S9 so
The treasurer of the board of stewards
which is also the board of finance, reports
as raised for current expenses. salaries
of pastor sexton, and organist. 81. 900. for
the poor of the church, $3.50 Total. 50 GEO
Rev. w. F. Smith of Grace church is
the only pastor who has been in CHARGE
of church here more than a wear. The
others were sent here a year ago. Rev
Mr. Smith has been pastor of Grace two
| years. He made no report yesterday of
his years work, but alluded briefly in his
| sermon to the conference.
The last Sunday before conference in
! the Wesley Monumental church was an
! propriately observed and services botb
morning and evening were conducted NV
! DIR. J. w Hinton. In the morning he
preached on Justification by Faith . his
! sermon being an able exposition Of the
Christian doctrine on this subject.
! None of the reports of the church off1-
GERS were made as it was announced bX,
tRev A NJ Williams, pastor of the
! church, that a mass meeting of the NOM
bers of the church would be held TUESDAY,
night at o'clock for this purpose. IT is
intended that the entire work for the
| church for the year shall be reviewed q +
this meeting. The reports of all the off,
GERS of the societies and committees in
the church will be made on this occasion
and the general work of the church will
be discussed. Tonight the last meeting
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