El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-01
Methodist Conference Proceedings

This morning the conference was
opened by a very beautiful prayer
| from DR.. Lambutn after which the
minutes of yesterdays proceedings
we're read by the secretary and accept
ed.
Rev. Sawders of Demiug was called
on to tell of lis work at Deming. His
report of the work was most favorable.
In regard to the circulation of reading
matter at that point Brother Sawders
said that they had two or three reli-
gious papers there and in mentioning
them be said some OF the members took
De Witt Talmage's paper. This made
the bishop ask how IL was that his peo-
pie should take Talmsge's paper; the
brother did not know. He said they
had been taking it ever since he went
there and as they liked it they wouldn t
stop The bishop complimented Broth
er Sawders on his good work, aud he
was allowed to pass.
The next called was w. T. Burgher,
of La Luz. AS Brother Burgher was
not present his report OF the years
work was read by Rev. G.. G. Eddipe
ton. The report was not encouraging,
and the bishop asked Elder Eddington
what he knew about the brothers
work. Elder Eddington said that Mr..
Burgher had been up in that country
iOE buc year duQ ildu bTlSo W w
good work no doubt, but had failed
TO organize even single church,
saying that he could not get
tnem together. Another preacher
went right into the same district
and got together a congregation. At
present the brother is engaged in get
ting out timber for the new railroad
The elder said he was very sorry that
the absent brother was not here to re-
port personally, for then maybe he
could throw some light on the many
things which needed explaining. AS
Brother Burgher's report showed that
he had been paid by the conference to
do work which he had not done he
recommended that he be located.
which recommendation will be carried
out.
At this point the Rev. n. W. Moore
was brought in by the Rev. Mr.. French
and introduced 70 Bishop Duncan, who
in turn introduced him to the confer
ence.
The next name called for trial was
that OF Rev. A. 81. Sutherland. of San
Marcial. Brother Sutherland was I'M
able to be present and his report was
read to the conference. The report
was very good, showing that the broth
err had done good work during the last
year, and he was passed.
Rev. L. l.. Adams was the next to
report. Brother Adams is from Mag
dalena and his report shows that he
has done excellent work in that vi
cinity. His report was very amusing,
as he is full of fun. He was pass
ed.
While the report of Rev. 3. G. Mat
thews, of Roswell, on the saving of
souls was all that could be expected he
told the conference that his church
was still In debt, but hoped to see this
settled this year, as there was about
5000 subscribed and would be paid on
the debt this month. Brother Mat
tbews was passed.
The name of Rev. j. T. French was
called, to report the work of the Ell
Paso church for the past year. Broth
er French reported that at present
there were 219 active members on the
church roll and this number showed
an increase of forty members. The
value of the church property in Ell
Paso was about rs, 700. The next mat
ter told OF in his report was the cir
culation of church literature. The
bishop said he was glad to hear reports
that the young people of the church
were reading good books.
Here the bishop gave to those pre-
sent a little lecture on the building of
churches. He said that the FL Paso !
church had been poorly arranged as to |
light. The back windows throw such |
q bright glare in the speakers eyes |
that he couldn't tell whether those sit |
ting on the back sests,were white or |
black people. He wished that all who |
were contemplating building churches |
would bear in mind and have the |
light come to the congregation |
from the sides of the buildings. |
Bro Adams said amen. Then the bish-
Do said. That's right, Brother
Adams. you strike it right some
times" General lsughter.)
ORev. W. s. Huggets made most
favorable report on the mission work of
FL Psso. He was passed.
Rev. T. l.. Lallsuce made his report
rom Eddy. After reading his report,
which was very good, he told of raising
church funds by having fairs and festi-
,als. Here tho bishop intarruptad him