Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-04-26
THE N. e. CONFERENCE.

| THE III. II. CONFERENCE.
The SD annual Vermont Metho-
dist conference opened at Barre last
Wednesday, Bishop j. M. Walden of
Cincinnati, presiding. This being
the second consecutive year it has
been held in that city. The first bus
| mess was the examination of the can
didates in the various courses of stud
| les; also for admission on trial and
for local elders and deacon's orders.
Wednesday evening Rev. w. Aspen
Ger D. D. of Philadelphia, delivered
an address in celebration of the
Church Extension society. DR.. Spen-
Ger is an eloquent speaker and deliv-
cred a fine address taking as his sub
ject, s'The Church of To morrow,
where shall we find it and what shall
we do for it?" Among other things
he said: We have 1000 unsheltered
Methodist congregations and over
5000 unsheltered M. E. Sunday
schools. We must build for them and
for the unsheltered poor, more than
four churches day to the end of the
century. During the last twelve
years a gain of $39, 100000 has been
made, more than $3,OO0,O00 year.
During the previous twelve years
church property gained thirteen mil
lions of dollars, Or little more than
one million a year. There have been
built during the last twelve years g.
500 churches in new places and near
ly as many more new churches in
place of old ones.
Thursday morning an address of
welcome was delivered by Mayor
Gordon which was replied to by Bish
op Walden. The conference was
then formally opened with the cleo
tion of Rev. w. r. Davenport as Sec
retary and the naming of his assist
ants, Revs. l.. P. Tucker and w. M.
Newton. The roll-call was then call
ed and each one present answered to
their names. When the name of Rev.
J. A. Sherburne was called he arose
and said this conference was the SD
consecutive conference that he had
the pleasure of attending.
Rev. III. J. Mclaughlin was elected
statistical secretary and he named as
his assistants, Revs. J, a. Dixon, G. o.
z akkinEzsaad 6. esssa Rsx.
named as his assistants, Revs. B. F.
Rowland, F. K. Graves and W. Jones.
A slight change was made in the
evenings program and instead of
Bishop Walden delivering his le cture
on Africa and it's evangelization, it
decided to postpone the lecture until
Saturday evening. This was deemed
necessary in order to give the people
another opportunity of listening to
Rev. @. B. Mason DID. of CINCINNATI.
DIR. Mason is coal black negro and
made an exceedingly favorable i'm
preston on his hearers.
The regular business was pleasantly
varied Friday by highly interesting
addresses by distinguished visitors.
In the morning the speakers were
Rev. Charles Parkhurst, D. d., editor
of Zion's Herald; Miss Mary Lunn,
Supt., of the New England Deaconess
home, Boston, and Rev. William F.
Smith, D. D., general missionary sec
retary, N. Y. Bishop Walden deliv-
cred an impressive address to the
class entering conference in full con-
nection.
Remarks were made by DR.. George
Mains, representing the book concern,
DR.. Starr in behalf Of Wesleyan col
lege and Rev. Chas. Rishell for Bos-
ton University. The matter of ap-
pointing a committee to meet the
committee recently appointed by the
New Hampshire conference to estab-
lish a boundary line between the two
territories was brought up. Three
border towns of Essex county consti-
tute the section in dispute. 1t was
voted by large majority not to ap-
point committee.
In the afternoon came the anniver-
sary Of the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary society. There were reports
of officers and addresses by Mrs. Phe-
be Stone Beeman, conference cor
responding secretary, and Rev. Alfred
Baker, D. D., recently of India.
WE ARE BETWEEN GREECE AND
TURKEY.
After a good deal of preliminary