Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1897-03-25
CHANGES In PULPITs,
The Question of Admitting Women Will
Come up Again-A Reunion of
Pastors of Trenton's Central
Church.

TRENTON, March 2l.-The sixty.first
annual session of the New Jersey Confer
ence Will assemble in the Central Metho
dist Episcopal Church, in this city, next
Wednesday, with Bishop Henry w.
Warren, presiding.
The charge is sometimes made that
Methodist preachers are in the profession
for the money it brings, but when it is
known that the 230 churches in the New
Jersey conference pay an average salary
ofS77l.5S, it is apparent that there is little
Likelihood of many of them becoming
bondholders.
some OF the knowing ones of the con-
ference say that, while the slated ap-
polntments have been fixed for some
time, it is quite possible that there will
be general upheaval, for during the
past week there are indications of numer-
GUS changes which will have the effect of
a regular shake-up.
There are but three preachers in the
conference who must remove by reason
of expiration of the time limit. Fifteen
has served their present appointments of
y
the third year of their pastorate.
The Woman Question Again.
Among the questions to be considered
by the conference, will be that of the ad-
MISSION OF women as delegates to the
General conference, and equal lay and
clerical representation. Those two ques-
tlons have been agitated tor years, and
still they bob up with great regularity.
A very interesting service will be held
on Conference Sunday afternoon, when
a reunion Of all the pastors of Central
Church will be held in the Sunday
School room. 1t has been twenty i've
years since Conference met in Central
Church, and it may be long time before
another opportunity will present itself
for reunion.
| Programme of Conference.
The programme for the conference is as
follows:
Wednesday, March A.-The conference
will convene in Central Methodist Epis-
copal Church at 9 a. N. The sacrament
OF the Lords Supper will be administered
by Bishop Warren, assisted by the pre-
siding elders,
Evangelistc services at 8 p. M, in
charge of '.eys. Hughes, Hanlon, and
Heisler, in the Central Church.
Freedmen's Aid and Southern Educat
ion Society anniversary in Central Church
at 7.3O p. m. Address by Rev. Madison
c. B. Mason, of Cincinnati, o.
,Epworth League anniversary in the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, al
30 p. m. Address by Rev. Hugh John
ston, of Washington, D. C.
Thursday, March 25.-Business session
in Central Church at 9 a. m.
Evdngelistic services at 3 .. M, Sermon
by member of the conference.
The Church Extension Society will
hold its anniversary at 7.3O p. m. in the
Central Church. Address by Rev. A. J,
Kynett and others.
Conference Temperance Society ami
versary will be held in Trinity Methodist
Episcopal Church, at 7.3O p. m. Address
by J. G. Wooley, ESQ.
Friday, March 26-Regular session OF
the conference in Central Church will be
opened at Ga. m., with lecture by Bishop
Warren, 1.-THE Felicities and Intensities
of Biblical Expression
The anniversary of the Women's For
eign Missionary Society in the Central
Church, at p. m. Address by Mrs. Dr.
Baldwin and others
The anniversary of the Missionary So
ciety will be held in Central Church, al
7.30 p. m. Address by Rev. A. B. Leon
ard, corresponding secretary of the So
ciety, and others.
Saturday. March 27.-Business session
of the Conference in Central Church, at 9
a. m.
The anniversary of the Educational So
ciety will be held in Central Church, at
7.30 p. m. Addresses by Rev. Chas. F.
Sitterley, of Drew Theological Seminary,
and Rev. j. Richard Boyle, of the New
Jersey Conference.
Sunday, March 2s.-In Central Church,
conference love feast, at a. m., con-
Quoted by Rev. Socrates Townsend At
1890 will be the ordination of deacons and
the sermon will be preached by Bishop
Henry w. Warren.
mems Home Missionary Society, Mrs.
Clinton B. Fisk, presiding. Addresses
by Rev. George X. Morris. of Boston, and
Rev. J. Parks Cadman, of New York.
At 3 p. M, the ordination of elders and
sermon in the State Street Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The Conference Missionary sermon in
the First Methodist Episcopal Church, at
7.30 p. M, will be preached by Rev.
Peter Provost, of the New Jersey Con-
ference.
Monday, March 26.-At ga. m., the
regular business session of the conference
in Central Church.
At p. m. memorial services in Central
Church.
At 7.30p. M, Preachers Aid Society in
Central Church. Speakers to be an