The Washington times., 1895-03-07
Dr.. Hunt Says II Is, Rapidly Tray
cling Toward the West.
FASTER THAN is POPULATION
Opening of the One Hundred and Eleventh
Annual Session of the Baltimore N. E.
Canference-Work of the General Board
of Education-Anniversar7 Celebration of
the Woman's Home Missionary Society.

Baltimore, Md, March 6.-Aftcr a short
preliminary service of prayer ami the ad-
ministration OF communion to-day, the
Baltimore conference OF the Methodist
Episc opal Church settled down to the work
of its 111th annual session.
A feature of the conference this year are
the pentec ostal services every morning and
afternoon. These meetings are in charge
of Rev. Dr.. s. A. Keen, OF Delaware, Ohio,
who has devoted the past four years TO
eyangelistic work of this character.
Bishop E. G. Andrews, of New York,
secretary of the Episcopal College, is the
president of the conference
In telling of what the general board of
education has done during the past year,
DR.. s. a. Payne said that it had been
largely Instrumental in giving to the Metho-
dist. Episcopal Church the best system in
the country
STANDARD FOR GRADUATION.
The university senate of the church, he
declared. has formulated a standard for
graduation for Methodist colleges, and all
such colleges are required to come up to
1t. All udNe uOHe 70, ara IUlS mas tdNSeU
an advance in their curriculum
Last year" continued DIR. Payne,
''nearly forty colleges changed the cur
riculum in order to conform to the standard
placed before them This is an advance
never before attempted
DR. Payne urged the strict observance of
children's day and compliance with the
requirements of the discipliIe in sending
the children's day collections entire 10
the board OF education
DR.. Sanford Hunt. senior agent of the
National Methodist Episcopal Book Con
Germ, Called attention TO the fact that the
appropriations made this year by the con-
Germ Were Sl20 ,oG0, an increase of S20. 900
Notwithstanding the financial distress.
THE profits of the Western house al Gin
cinnati," b" said, have been greater
than those OF the Easternhouse at New York
That which we have been expecting for a
long time has come to pass. the patronage
OF the New York house has decreased, while
that OF Cincinnati has increased. This
viii be more and more apparent in the
future. The West does not feel the press n
OF the times as does the East.
METHODIsM GOING WEST.
'Methodism is drifting Westward. There
is no rivalry between the two houses. They
work as one. The center of population
is now west of Cincinnati, and the center Of
Methodism is even still farther West
Methodism is travelling West faster than
the population"
The net capital of the Eastern house is
So ,O15, $40; that OF the Western house is
81 .3Sl ,112; total net capital OF So, 1895,
952. The sales last year of the New York
house were SS6S. 1856, and of the Cincin-
matt house S989. 1855; total, $1.S57 ,322.
The profits of the New York house
were S66. 90T, and of the Cine innati
house, $127 ,564; total, $194 ,472. Paid
in dividends to annual conferences, sub
sides, and other objects ordered by the
general conference by the New York
house, SS0,o45; by the Cincinnati house,
S56,546 Dsbursed to annual conferences
in 1854, $1o7 .465. Paid in subsidies for
Epworth League and other expenses in
1894, S29 1926. The total profits in the
past two years have been SAIL. .26o.
The report called especial attention to
the fact that the Book Concern has, in
the last two years contributed seas, $40
for the support OF the superannuates.
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society
celebrated its anniversary in the after
noon. DR.. A. H. Ames, president of the
Lucy Webb Hayes Deaconess Home and
the Sibley Hospital, at Washington. gave
an interesting account of the work of these
institutions.
Mrs. C. L. Roach made short statement
of what the society had done to help desti-
tute preachers on the Western and South
western frontiers. During the year over
$25.900 worth of supplies were sent to
them.
Mrs. c. W. Brown, treasurer Of the So
ciety, reported contributions of SIC, SCI
cash, and 81 ,7S1 in supplies.
In the evening the Freedwoman's Bu-
reau and Educational Society held its an
niversary meeting. Rev. DR.. HartZeu, of
Ohio made the address