The herald., 1894-09-28
THE METHODIST CONFERENCE.
Bishop Fitzgerald Presiding at
the Annual Meeting.
Officers Selected and the Business
Session Commenced.
First Church the scsne of the G Gather-
ing-The Anniversary OF the
Womsn's Home Mission
airy Society.

The nineteenth annual Southern Cali
fornia conference of the Methodist Epia-
copal church opened yesterday morning
at 8 80 in the First NJ. E. church of this
city, with Bishop Fitzgerald as presid-
ing officer. After half an hour of devo-
tional exercises the business began. and
the following were nominated and elect
ed: Treasurer, T. e. Robinson of Al
hambra assistant treasurer, S. G.
Blanchard; secretary, Rev. II. J. Crist !;
assistant secretary, f. M. Larkin; sta
tistical secretary, W. @. F. Nelson, who
named as his assistants A. Graves of
Santa Barbara district and @. w. Stow
ell of the Fresno district, and also a
representative of the Los Angeles dis
trict The following were nominated
and elected for the named committees: {:
Benevolence-C. H. Lawrence, J. II. A. Will
son, c. W. F. Nelson, J. C. Elliott.
Education-T. G. Miller, L. M. Hartley, J. B.
Green, 3. y. Cory. ]. ". Camp oeu, W. S. Mat
thew, Il. W. Waltz, ]. G. Healey, J. W. Van
Cleve, N. A. Wright.
Conference stewards-J. @. Gowan, s.
5prowls, A. W. Bunker, J. O. Elliott, I. s.
Uren.
Ml.sions-The presiding elders.
W. IL,
Stephenson, l.. NJ. Hartley.
Conference relations-G. F. wenk. W. A.
Wright, z. o. McIntier, J. H, Henry.
Publishing 1nterests-T. H. Robinson, A. A.
Holden, II. W. Waltz, p. II. Bodkin, I. W. Lin
coin.
State of the church,. NJ Rich, VIM. Steven.
son, Henry Cox, +. L. Morrill,.
District conference records. R. Lovejoy, W.
L. Douglass.
Publishing minutes-H. ]. Crist, F. NJ. Lar
kin.
Temperance-A. NJ, Ogborn L. NJ Hartley, J,
W. Campbell.
sabbath observauce-w. @. Cowan, 8. Gas
coigne, l.. G. Spring, W. S. German, /. L. Spen-
GER.
Bible cause-Alfred Ramey, ". L. Miller, A.
Bland, f. g. Woodc0ck
Pastoral address-A. A. Graves John Pitten-
eaii Gillian. L. 0' ~'''s'' T. M warrington T. H.
Memoirs-w. A. Wright. G W. stowell. t. Il.
Robinson, J. W. Van Cleve
Woman's Home Missionary Society-T. w.
Johnson, W. t5 Leonard, Chas. Leach, Thomas
Woman;s Foreign Missionary soclety-A. NJ.
Ogborn, A. b. Holden, Z. H. Book IN, A. Hardie.
Auditing presiding elders accouuts-J. c..
Gowan, W. P. Wenk, d. Roberts, A. N. Fields, b.
Sprowls.
Epaosth Leasue-J w. Morris, L. NJ. Hartley,
J. G. Elliott, F. NJ Larkin, h. A. Healy, B. q.
Cory, G. II. Lawrence.
The sacrament OF the Lords supper
was administered and very great num-
Der participated.
Inc aiternoOn bS6blou convened ~ q
O'Clock. with DR.. Henry Cox in the
chair. DR.. Van Clevs OF San Luis Obispo
led in prayer.
The roll was called and the preachers
handed in their statistical reports. AT
this session all money collected for be-
nevolence was passed over to the treas
urer, Rev. t. E. Robinson of Alhamb bra.
Rev. j. B. Hollsvay OF Grangeville,
who is the railroad secretary and who
attends to the equalization of travelling
expenses to conference, called for the
amount that each preacher would pay
in coming and going to and from confer
ences.
The brethren from Los Angeles and
vicinity paw just as much as preacher
from San Diego or Fresno. The COM
mittee met and organized and will give
their report later.
At O'Clock Rev. s. A. Kern, d. D.,
who is known rs tho conference svange-.
list and leadn devotional meetings, took
charge of the services. 1t had much OF
the old time fervor and Methodist ring.
This makes his ffty-ssyenth confer
ence. His singing and exposition OF the
Scriptures is very helpful.