Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-29

III deaths, lOOi cnllOren DaptlZeu, 0oli
adults baptized. Gl; Sunday-schools, 49,
churches, 81 probable value, S2SS $50; par.
sonages, 20; probable value. S64, 700 paid
for building and improving parsonages,
IS, 305; paid on old Indebtedness on church
property, S2,4S2; present indebtedness on
church property, s6,96i; Sunday-school
officers, 466, teachers, S4l; scholars in
primary grade, 2,3S6; average attendance
1922; Sunday-school officers and
teachers who are church mem-.
bers or probationers, 1,l57; scholars
who are church members or probationers.
1915; conversions in the Sunday school
this year, Az; Sunday-school's current ex-
Penses, S2,4l3; pastors salary claimed,
S25, ,26O pastors house rent claimed, $i,GG6;
pastors salary received, S2i, ,476 pastors
house rent received. S4,666; apportioned
for support of presiding elders, $l,I03;
paid Tor support Of presiding elders, 81 ,hD2;
apportioned for support of bishops, 1894;
paid for support of bishops S3lG; received
by conference claimants, sl,36i; cur
rent expenses of churches, S5,956;
churches received for missions, $l,790;
sions, s3,O2l; received for, Board
of Church Extension, s465: received for
Sunday-schOol Union, 500; received for
Tract Society, $685. received for Freedman's
Aid and Southern Education Society $3.50
children's educational fund, S270; received
for other educational objects, Sl43; re-
ceived for American Bible Society, S104;
received for the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society, S425; received for the
| Woman's Home Missionary Society," S176
received for the episcopal fund.- S347; re-
| ceiyed for conference claimants, 81 ,40l;
received for the Conference Educational
Society, s129; received for ladies hall, SS7;
received for domestic missions, 1870; re-
ceiyed for stewards endowment fund. SIG.
SALISBURY, Nd, March 23.-Con-
| paratively little business was done by
| Wilmington NJ. L. Conference this
morning. Devotional exercises and ad.
dresses consumed most of the forenoon.
Visiting ministers, representing various
enterprises and institutions Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, were the
speakers. All the speeches and particu-
larly the remarks of DR.. Reed, were
sprightly.
A communication from the Nonpar-
| tisan Woman's Christian Temperance
Union was referred to the committee on
temperance.
Conference was not prepared to act
on the request of the Rev. A. Il. Scott,
that he be restored to the effective rela-
tion and appointed editor of the Chris
tian COMPANION, and the matter was re-
| ferred to the committee on ministerial
qualifications.
DIR. Murray announced that the Rev.
j, ii. Caldwell, ID. D., is in very poor
health.
The Rev. r. X. Stephenson stated the
condition of the health of the Rev. II.
@, Jones. For q year Mr.. Jones has
been supplyinga little circuit in Indiana.
The work has benefited him great
deal and the people on the circuit desire
that he be returned to their pastorate.
Mr. Stephenson requested that Mr..
Jones' relation be changed to effective
and, that he be transferred to the Indiana
Conference. Bishop Vincent said he
would grant the request but he would
transfer Mr.. Jones back to the Whining
ton Conference if there should be any
difficulty in the case.
The announcement of the death of the
wife of the Rev. w. G. Koons was re-
ceived with sadness. After the com
mittee to express to Mr.. Koons the SYM
pathy of conference had been appointed
the gathering sang "Blest be the Tie
\ That Binds Our Hearts in Christian
Love"
| ( 1t was ordered that hereafter there be
published in the minutes the names OF
the writers of the conference memoirs.
Following is the full report of the
committee on stewards endowment
fund, the consideration of which has
been made the special order for IL
o'clock Monday morning:
Your committee to whom was recon.
Initted the report made year ago to the
conference, in regard to the plan for O
Stewards Endowment Fund, with in
structions to consider the whole question,
, and report at the present session, beg
leave to submit the following proposition
All moneys accruing to the Wilmington
Conference for the benefit of its superan.
nuated ministers and other conference
claimants shall be divided into two parts
| to be known aud distributed as follows
, Part First-Ths shall be called the an
nuity fund. and shall consist of all
| moneys received from dividends OF the
Book Concern, bequests, special donations
/ income from the conference endowment
. fund and other Investments. 1t shall bI
distributed by the conference board ol
! stewards on the following basis: Ten dol
lars to every ministerial claimant for eact
year of effective servicein the Methods
Episcopal Church; one-half of this amour
to each widow of deceased minister, anC
one-lifth of this amount to each child of {
: deceased minister under 10 years of age
. provided, however, that if this fund shal
be more or less than enough to allow o.
! this distribution, each claimant shal
. receive a prO-rata share. Part Second
This shall be known as the necessitou!
: fund, and shall consist of all moneys
raised by annual collections in the charge!
e OF the conference for the benefit of IL
claimants. IL shall be distributed by tn,
l. board of stewards, according to the need
, of each case, as the present method pro
yides. Nevertheless, in distributing tn,
: fund, the stewards shall take cognizance o
$ the amount received by each claiman
from the annuity fund The committe
: also presents the following resolutions:
! ReSolVed, l. That it is our duty as q con
1 ference TO make immediate effort to in
. crease our endowment fund to at leas
$4,000, and we would respectfully reques
the bishop to appoint an agent to canvas
the conference in the interest Of the en-
dowment fund.
! ReSolvod. q That we request every charg
/, in the conference, if practicable, to oDserv
the second Sunday i'll September as Confer
ence Claimants Day, baving special exer
: cises with sermon on the subject, and al
earnest appeal for a great giving on tn
J part of all our people; that the revenue o
!, this cause may be largely increased.
2 ResolUed, 8, That each member of tn
: conference, except those who are super
; anuated, will be expected to contribute a
! least s. annually to the above funds, sale
8 amount to go to the annuity fund.
\ W. r. NJ. S. ANNIVERSARY.
The anniversary of the Woman
J. Foreign Missionary Society was hel,
:, this afternoon. An address was deliv
}. cred by Mrs A. Ii. Eaton.
e During the afternoon there also wa
e meeting of the stockholders of Viii
mington Conference Academy, at which