The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-09

tS taken an and the motion was lost The lit
Lets take this piece meal" exclaimed
''cui bonoY". answered Rev. Charles
Whats that?''
Rev. Daniel Haneron, of Simpson
Church, Jersey City, here raised the con-
would fetter subsequent action by subse-
uent Conferences. He insisted that it
was illegal and opposed to the law of
Van SAINT. Rev. G. D. Jones and others
took up the discussion and emas-
culated the motion by amendments
after amendments to the intense disgust
got chance, angriiy exclaimed
Il wish some of you would talk inside
the Conference about this matter as you
have talked about it outside. l don't
care about it; but / do know you will
have to face this problem, and il it be
your wish it should not prevail I'll
The motion was withdrawn by general
consent, and the discussion was oruele "a
stricken off the journal.
BIshop Andrews, replying to- Rev Dr.
Halleron as to the question of constitu-
tionality raised by him, said that the
Bishops met last fall and took up the
question whether or not the annual Con
ference was continuous body and the
trend of the Bishops was, that the Com
ference was a continuous body and any
action one Conference took on any mat
ted continued from year to year until i;
was reversed. In future, said Bishop An.
drews, that would be the ruling.
A touching, scene next occurred, ant
one rarely witnessed in a Conference. II
was the pathetic plea of Rev Lewis f
Dunn of East Orange to be placed on th,
superannuated list He said his healt
was shattered, and he had lost his chii
dren, and realized that his end was near
In broken voice and with tears stream
ing down his weather-beaten cheeks h
said, between sobs, that he could do n
more work, and now he realized tho
meaning of Professor Henry Drummond'i
remark to his mother to whom he sent a
photograph of himself stretched out
helplessly in a reclining chair beneath
which he had written the words, THE:
Descent of Man, these words being
THE Ascent of Man.
Rev. DR.. Bryan and Rev O. R. Barnes
and others paid warm tributes of re-
spect to the aged preached and by unani-
nous consent he was retired full of
konors.
To relieve the feelings of the brethren,
SO affected by the last scene, Rev. G. R.
Barnes threw a frecracker into the Con-
ference by moving the appointment of a
committee of nine to be known as the
COMMITTEE on Conference Relations 2
which body should inquire into cases of
preachers returning from the super.
numerary to active relations and vice
This is q star chamber inquiry and Il
won't vote for it Said Rev. I. 6. May
ham an of st Paul I Church, Jersey City
Guthridge. another Jersey City resident
The discussion waxed exceedingly warm
and was Just about to become as inter
some brother moved TO lay the, matter on
the table and it was. done So
Il isn't such dreadful thing" said
other Conference has one
The rules of order were SUSPENDED in
favor of Prof. Rice of Wesleyan University
and Chancellor j. r. Day of Syracuse
their respective Institutions Chancellor
Day was introduced by Bishop Andrews
cellor is six feet six inches and has a
magnificent physique and the compliment
tickled the fecipientAnd the Conference.
Chancellor Day spoke eloquently about
the work in the university and said that
at this time when anarchy and socialism
were rampant, it was imperative that men
should be brought within the influence Of
the bad. 1t reminded him, he said that
once he went to see a farmer and he met
his little son and asked him where his
soh,. he's in the field with the pigs,
said the lad. hut. you'Il know him be-
cause he's got his hat on
When the laughter at the story had
subsided, Conference had assumed a SER
ious mood for the most serious subject
Of the years discussion. This was the
handed down by the General Conference
The first related to the eligibility of wonl-
en- to membership in the General Confer-
eEce, and the second to equal lay ard
ministerial representation in that body.
Rev. DIR. Baldwin was the first speak
er when the propositions were read ana
he made a warm speech in favor of adj
mitting women as delegates
Rev. G. H. Jones bitterly opposed it
saying, amid roarS of ironical laughter
that to allow women to become delegates
was againset the law of God and nature
A man couldn't he said. fight a woman
in the Conference as well as he could a
man, and that was his reason for oppos-
ing the proposition.
Rev. John A. Boswell ridiculed the
statements that women would substitute
her sympathies for her judgment. and
gave the editor Of the Christian Advo-
cate scoring for opposing womerI's
right to be representatives.
II you admit woman, said little Rev
tofln L. Hayes, without waiting for fine
Bishops permission to occupy the f1o5r
she viii disrupt our constitutional law
! don't know whether we have any CON
stitutlonal law or not; but she'll disrupt
it, fLaughter.) II, j
The debate was interrupted at this
Doiat to permit addresses being made
from representatives of the Board of
Education and Freedman's Aid Society
both of course pleading for funds The
latter gentleman, colored, the Rev NJ. C.
B. Mason, D. D.. said that he hoped The
preachers would plead the educational
cause for the coiored people in the South
with enthusiasm and not as a COL
ored parson once said to his fock:-
If you repent. you'll be saved maybe.
If you don't, you'll be damned, perhaFs. =
An adjournment was taken at the close
of the addresses.