The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-11
MINISTER'S IN session
Forty-fourth Annual Wyoming Con-
ference Begins in CarbOndale.
BISHOP ANDREWS PRESIDING
DR.. Day Pleads for the Syracuse Uni
versity-Rcport and Statistics In tho
Afternoon - Chaplain McCabe's
Talk ON Finances.
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ed the ether air.
Our bishop in his official way was
with us once before. But fourteen
years have not only changed our per-
sonal presence. but he will find that the
personnel OF this conference has mar
velously modified. He will miss some
OF the leaders of whom we We're proud.
Bixby Olive, King. Elwell. Qpeal,
Geiorge Peck, Nelson Paddock, Ohm
stead, Brownscomb, Copeland and their
like. Yet he will find In the fellowship
of this conference pious, pushins,
loving, ambitious. sacrificing company
of brothers Loyalty awaiting his leader
ship and orders.
Therefore be 1t resolved, That we well
come our beloved bishop both for his
own sake and for his office. and we
shall pray that his coming may be a
pleasure to himself and profitable to us.
Manley 5. Hard. ], X. Peck. II. c.
McDermott, l.. l.. Sprague, j. +. VIII
Jams, committee.
Response OF bishop Andrews.
When Bishop Andrews rose to respond
the assembly sang "Blest BE the Tie
That Binds" which rendered the scene
a most impressive one. The bishop, III
returning thanks for the love they had
shown and the confidence reposed III
him, reminded them that he had IN
marked degree a great attachment Tor
the Wyoming conference. as In lS4S ne
was received on appreciation. ana IN
1850 and 1851 he was in charge at Coop
erstown, at which time he was elected
on a committee which recommended the
division of the united conference, Of
which the Wyoming conference was an
offshoot. After this pleasant remi-
nisence he referred to the veterans OF
the pulpit who had gone to their rest,
and he hoped that they would all follow
them as they had followed Christ. He
then introduced DR.. Day, chancellor of
Syracuse university.
DR.. Day, in a speech which attracted
the absorbing interest of his audience,
referred to the position of the university
and lauded its locality as being most
delightfully."- situated. and in convent
ent center for New York and Pennsyl-
vania states. They were, however. in
want of another building and endow
ment. which would be the burden of his
appeal. He gave a pleasing resume of
the work in the physical sciences de-
partment, where the young men were
making their own instruments and ap-
pliances for scientific research. In par
ticular he related that pupil had recent
ly made galvonometer al cost of s.,
which would involve an expense of $50
to import.
Urgent Appeal for Help.
These young men. however, were la
boring under serious disadvantages in
a dirty, dingy little room. and funds
were urgently required to fit up proper
room to give the pupils fair oppor-
tunity Of carrying on their studies. The
university had nominal endowment of
$500, 900, but out of this $4,000 was in
vested for the benefit of annuitants, and
no income would accrue to the univers-
ity until these annuitants had passed
from this world A considerable propor-
ton or the endowments We're invested
In the west. from which they did not
realize the full amount of interest, the
result being that they were compelled
to meet deficit of $4,000 to $4,000 per
annum. He urged upon them. there
fore. to talk to their rich men about this
syracuse university and its require
ments. His address was rendered more
interesting by his announcement that
some of the students spent their vaca-
tions working in the coal mines in or
der to gather funds for their mainten-
ance during the university term. Next
year they hoped to commence to make
honest lawyers for America. In music
and painting the students had achieved
phenomenal success. There had two
te-r9 in nninfinp Ital Of
whom was ranked as the most promis-
ing artist throughout the whole of that
sunny country. Dr. Day then paid a
glowing tribute to the devotion of the
Syracuse physicians in giving their
time, without fee or reward, to training
the pupils. After vigorous defense of
'co-education' he concluded with an ap-
peal for more substantial assistance for
the university. Rev. Levi l.. Sprague
of Kingston, then presented the follow
ing resolutions, which was carried by
acclamation:
Resolved, That we have listened with
pleasure to the splendid address of
Chancellor j. r. Day, in the interests of
Syracuse university, and would well
come him in this, his first visit to our
conference and pledge anew to the
great university which he represents
our fealty and our help.
w. L. Thorpe,
l.. J.. Sprague.
VIII Go to a Good Cars,.
Rev. III. Eaton, representing the
Book concern, New York city. reported
that the sum of $12O. 900 would he hand
ed over as the dividends this year This
amount would be devoted to the worn
out ministers fund and widows and
orphans fund. The apportlonment re-
ceived by the Wyoming conference
would be $1,7O0 and $25 from the chart
cred fund. The reverend gentleman
criticised the action of Methodist
churches In purchasing periodicals and
literature from undenominational
sources. thus helping in enriching in
dividual persons. and losing the oppor-
tunity of assisting their own denomi-
national auxiliary, whose profits were
devoted to the charitable objects of
their church.
Rev. DR.. Morrow. OF the Pennsyl-
vania Bible society. was next intro
duced and explained the work Of his
society and urged wider patronage in
view of the cheap rates at which their
bibles were sold. He claimed that the
society offered exceptional facilities for
spreading knowledge of scripture
among the foreign population. OF which
the young peoples societies should
avail themselves.
cTITuCTICAI CECCInN