The Monitor-register., 1896-03-13


The sixtieth session OF the New Jersey
Annual Conference opened in the Central
M. E.. Church, Bridgeton, on Wednesday
morning, Bishop Joyce presiding.
A preparatory service was held on
Tuesday evening, at which DR.. Marshall.
of Camden, preached.
Rev. j. L.. Roe was elected secretarv
and Revs. Payrau, B~otanger, Betting.
Snyder and Howard, assistants. Rev j.
a. Russell was made statistical secretary.
Rev. Henry G. Williams was elected
treasurer, with Assistants Revs. Ogborne,
Mcintyre and Zeeley.
Reports were read from the four dis
triets, Bridgetop, Camden, New Bruins.
wick and Trenton. All of these showed
that a great revival wave had swept over
them, adding hundreds of souls to the
churches within their respective districts.
But three deaths occurred the last year.
Bishop Joyce, in his address to the
Conference, said: 81 want to get
acquainted, and I guess I will before l
get through" He told them whore he
was stopping in the city, and said: 81
ana always at home to you, brethren,
whenever you want to see me. II any
one don't want to let you come in to see
me, you tell them that Ihave sent for you
and want to see you. And you, presid-
ing elders, l want to see you particularly.
| want to ask you about the preachers.
l want to learn how they are getting
along; If they have any REVEALS In their
work; il their churches are prospecting in
the work of the Lord. And you,
preachers, | want you to call on me, for I
want to inquire into your affairs and ask
you about your laymen; If they have
prayers in their families; If they attend
the prayer meetings and the Sunday
school, and If they are workers in the
revival meetings. You, laymen, / want
you to come and see me; come right in
and we will have class meeting together.
l want to ask you IL you 60 to church
and are active in the work of a Christian
life; if you get down on your knees
beside the poor penitent and point the
way of life to him.
] want the minister's ~wives-especi-
ally the timid wives-to come with their
husbands to see me. We can compare
notes together, and | may be able to help
you to a little better appointment. Oh,
we'll get acquainted with zach other
before the Conference is over"
One apt little part of the Bishops ad-
dress was particularly pleasing to a ma
jority of the preachers. He said he did
not know how it was in this section, but
he had known places where they had
everything fixed up before conferences.
He had also heard of them becoming
unfxed. He believed in the presiding
eldership, he had been one, and he knew
they had lots of trouble. He would add
be would rather be a bishop than a pre-
siding elder. He knew of some preachers
who had complained they had had COM
binations against them. This might be
SO, but it could not be more than once in
a hundred times. If he found such a
combination of presiding elders those
presiding elders would not be presiding
elders any longer.
A feature of the sixtieth session will be
daily revival services and noted Evange- /
lists have been engaged to conduct them. |
One of these is Evangelist Thomas Har- |
rison.
Pentecostal services will also be held |
every afternoon at 8 O'Clock under the d.
rection of the Conference Committee on
Evangelistic Services. The committee |
have secured Rev. DR.. G.. B. Oliver, of
Ohio, to conduct these meetings.
There will also be quite a contest in the
Lay Electoral Conference, on Friday, as
q uuAUoI VI SauuiudG0S 6T6 dIE63Uy |
mentioned as eligible as lay delegates to
the General Conference. Among those
whose names have already baen mentioned
are; Senator William Fl. Skirm and
General James r. Rushing, of Trenton;
Charles II. Butterworth, of Camden; G.
w. Shoemaker, of Bridgeton, and Charles
J. Alcott, of Mt. Holly.
The anniversary of the Missionary |
Society will be held on Friday evening, |
to be addressed by Rev. DIR. A. B.
Leonard, Missionary Secretary. DR.. W.
A. Spencer will speak at the Church |
Extension Society Oh Saturday evening. |
The services On Sunday will open at Q
A. NJ, when Rev. b. G. Lippincott, D.
D., will conduct the Conference love
feast. At 1880 Bishop Joyce will preach
the sermon, to be followed by the Ordi-
nation of Deacons. In the afternoon the
Women's Foreign Missionary Society will
bold their anniversary, at which time
Mrs. Kennard Chandler will speak. The
last meeting of the day will be a rev ival
service, to follow a sermon by Raw. W.
A. Spencer, D. D at Z 80 P. M.