The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-17
THE VERMONT CONFERENCE.
IN ENJOYABLE md PROFITABLE
SESSION
At Waterbury-Salient Points of Each Days
Proceedings The Appointments.

The members Of the examining board, OF
which Rev. j. o. Sherburne of Williams
town is chairman, met at the Methodist
church in Waterbury on Tuesday, the day
previous to The formal opening OF the Yer
mont Conference, and found large class
of young men ready to take the examine
tions for admission on trial and for the
studies Of the four-years course. The ex.
aminatons were thoroughly conducted and
were unusually satisfactory. Those adj
mitted for the first years stu lies are Will
liam M. New ton OF Waterbury, Seymour G.
Smith of Reading, Allen e. Atwell of Lld.
low, William II. White of Thetford Center,
Samuel Lewis of Marsh6eld, James II.
Willis of Elmore and William J. Mcneil of
Newport Center. Albert A Estabrook and
George T.. Deuel. of this class were not pres
ent 70 take the exami cation. Those in the
second year are John A. Dixon OF Cab t,
Joseph w. Naramore of Bellows Falls, Mar.
Gus Parounagien of South Reading aud
John l.. Wesley of Canaan George II.
Bolster is in this class, but he was not able
to take the examinatio 1. Those OF the third
year are George II. Rogers of Wardsboro
F. S. Clark of Derby, W: II. Atkinson of
Berkshire and George III. Wright Of Barton
Loading. Those OF the fourth year are G
II. Rogers OF Wardsboro and f. I. Clark o.
Derby
The celebration of the anniversary of the
Vermont Conference Epworth League oc
cured in the evening The Montpelier and
Waterbury Leagues and the Waterbury
Christian Endeavor Societies attended In a
body and were seated in the center of the
church. The speakers we're Bishop Foss,
Presiding Elder Joseph Ha hilton Of the st
Johnsbury district, and Rev. j. p Chase Of
st. Johnsbury Center.
WEDNESDAY.
At nine o'clock the holy communion was
celebrated. Bishop Foss was assisted by
Presiding Elders Sherbu ne, Beeman and
Hamilton, Rev. DR.. A. l.. Cooper of New
port, and Rev. p. N Granger of Burke An
organization W as effected by the election of
Rev. W. r. Davenport OF Barre as secre-
tary. At the business session that followed
the roll call, the characters of the pr siding
elders were passed. and their reports we're
read Rev. DR.. Charles II Parkhurst Of
Boston, editor OF lions Herald, was intro
duced and spoke in the interests of that pa
per- A statistical session was held in the
afternoon, after which the missionary ser
mon was preached by Rev. l. 2. Tucker OF
Bradford.
the anniversary of the Board OF Educi-
ton was observed Wednesday evening.
Rev. DR.. G. n. Payne Of New York was un-
able TO be present, and Rev. DR.. A. s. Hunt
Of New York spoke in his place, taking as
basis of his remarks words found in John
xii: SO, " These things spake Jesus and de-
parted and hid himself from them"
THURSDAY
Quoted by Rev. DIR. A, l.. Cooper of New
port. Routine work occupied much of the
time of the morning session. Rev. w. K.
Davenport of Barre extended cordial in
vitation to the conference 20 meet at Barre
next year, which was unanimously &C
cepted. Rev. s. K. Miller of Essex juno
ton. representing the Baptsts of the state,
Rev. DR.. A. s. Hunt, secretary OF the Amer
ic an Bible Society, Rev. Dr. William V.
Kelley, editor OF the Methodist Rsuie,o and
d., r;I xa Of 4 hap NIy
Ign Methodist Hospital, addressed the con-
ference. The anniversary OF the Temper.
ance Society was observed the first hour of
the afternoon session. Rev. o. d. Clapp
presided, and Rev. j S. Upper of New
bury was the principal speaker.
AT three o'clock came the anniversary of
the Sunday-scbool Unto |, at which Rev. A.
H. Webb an Rev. A. G. Austin were the
| principal speakers.
Rev. w. R. Davenport presided at the
anniversary of the Missionary Society, in
| the evening Rev. DR.. s. l.. Baldwin Of
New York was the speaker of the evening.
Among other things he ssid 'The work is
prospecting in Italy, Germany, Switzerland
Sweden, Denmark, South Finland, South
America, and Mexico. Excel ,nt young
! go wheneverneeded,a and with such pressing
calls on every hand and such willing
| workers we cannot afford to let the work
fail. Methodists expend one and one-quar-
ter million dollars annually for missions,
| and about S54 900 in the United States.
| Among the Germans in the Uni5ed States
we now have nearly $4,000 communicates
| among the Norwegians, Swedes and Danes
10000. They are also carrying work among
the French, Spanish, Bohemian, Italian
and Portuguese population, also among the
Japanese and Chinese. During the past
year they have had 200 conversions among
| the Japanese on the Pacific coast"
The devotional exercises were led by
Rev. g. o. Howe of Waitsfeld. G. NJ.
Stebbns was continued in the studies of
the fourth year and M. o. Eddy advanced
to the fourth year studies. W. ii. Akin
son and G. H. Wight were continued in
II. Wright, j. II. Wills, w. j. Mcneil, S. H.
| Smith, w. M. Newton were continued on
trial and advanced to second year studies
Ralph Gluckler, A. A. Estabrook and 8. G..
Lewis were continued in the first year
studies. George K. Deuel. and George ID
Bolster were discontinued at their own re-
quest, the latter because of illness. The
conference voted unanimously agai nst
| changing the second restrictive rule, thus
making the basis OF representation in the
general conference sixtyhve, instead OF
| forty five, as it now is. Dr. j. K. King presi-
dent of Fort Edward Institute, former
principal of Newbury Seminary, addressed
| the conference. John A. Dixon, Joseph
w. Naramore, George FL Rogers and Mar
Gus b. Parounagian, the class for admission
in full, were called. Prayer was offered by
Bishop Foss.
The bishop then addressed the class on
the qualifications of a preacher for our
times He must be learned, consecrated,
moral, manly, loyal and biblical. These
qualifications were eloquently enlarged
upon and brought out.
The candidates named were then adj
mtted into full connection. Francis T.
Clark was elected to elders orders, Silas
Vandecar was discontinued at his own re-
quest John l.. Westerly was continued on
trial. The following opportunities passed
in character w q. Robinson, w II. Puffer,
A. M Wheeler, p Merrill, Joseph ENRICH
w. II. Hyde, Alonzo Hitchcock, w. j.
Kidder, Dennis Wells, Austin Scribner and
W. ID. Malcolm
Rev. f. W. Reeder, representing the Free
Baptist church of Vermont, presented greet
ings. which were responded to by the bishop
The anniversary OF the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society was celebrated Friday
afternoon. Mrs. l.. l., Beeman of Mont.
pelier presided, The principal address was
delivered by DR.. Mary Christiancy of India
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