The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-14
DETERMINED WOMEN
To Push the Question Of
Women Voting in the
Methodist Church.
SCORING THE DOMINIEs.
A Mild Boycott Proposed to Com
pei Quarterly Conferences
to Act.

Although the Methodist Conference in the
early part Of this week practically ignored
the question of the right of women to be
represented in the annual conference, yet
the matter is by no means settled, at least SO
far as the women of Jersey City churches
are concerned. It Is to be taken up again,
brought before the quarterly conferences
and pushed to the front when the next
annual conference is held.
As the matter now stands it is in the
power of the annual conferences to adopt
the recommendation surreptitiously passed
through the last general conference at
Omaha, which was to the effect that any
women of full age and in good standing in
the church should be eligible for election as
lay representatives.
1t is scarcely possible that the Newark
Conference will have the courage to deter
mine the matter because at the last meeting
the brethren fought shy of this delicate
question and did everything in their power
to push it out of sight.
The Rev. DR.. Boswell, Chairman of the
committee appointed by Bishop Ninde to
consider the recommendation of the General
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vote on the question, is in favor of the plan.
but his colleagues On the committee wouldn't
listen to even a compromise and the question
was shelved. The idea now is that a
petition to be circulated among the churches,
will be presented to the next conference
demanding that women be allowed represen-
tation.
In the meantime, the ladies are going to
organize a species of missionary work
among the members of the quarterly con-
f~erences, and induce those bodies to favor
the plan.
A III BOYCOTT.
The advocates of the yexed question of fe-
male representation in Jersey City are In
tensely disappointed with the action of the
annual conference in regard to it.
II annot refrain from saying" ex-
claimed one Of the foremost ladies in Meth
odism here, 'sthat our ministers at the last
conference were extremely cowardly. They
did not dare to take up our cause, but just
allowed it to go by default. Do you know
what the effect of this conduct will be?
Well, it will amount to this, hat we, women,
who nave spent so much time and money in
the cause of tine church will not be SO gener-
GUS in the future. We have all been living
in the hope that at some near time we would
be able to vote, and take our seats in the
conference, and this action Of the conference
kills our dearest wishes. / know what it
will mean.D
SIGMA SOCIETY MEETING.
The Gamma Sigma Society Of Jersey
City, an organization composed of sixteen
ministers of Jersey City and Hoboken, met
at the Rev. Edwin McMinn's house on
Summit avenue, yesterday afternoon, and
passed a sociable time. An essay was read
by Rev. Mr.. Garretson, on as the first or
seventh day of the week the Christian Sab
batha" His view CT the question is that the
first day is Sunday. Others took a different
view n discussed the changing the day.
McMinn, who was assisted by Misses Ger
trude Buckly, Emma Falkenbury, Grace
Hook and Nettie Haines. The next meeting
of the society will be held at the Rev. Mr..
Stewards house in Hoboken, On April "a.