The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-07
MONEY TO LOAN

principal ana interest. O. J. 1GOE, ~ Mon
gomery ST.. Jersey City
testify for their Savior in their Sunday
school afternoon meetings
Esnory-Has mad a good year. 1s Of
I gained in all departments. has s@enty
ss.N paid on improvements. $500 added 70
the building fund. Her people are feelng
that there are possibilities OF a Jew
| church i'll the near future.
Grace and Pal;sade-Sunday Schools IN
fourisfing condition. Grace has seventeen
probationers and Palisade twenty. Peace
has been paid on improvements On par
sonage and church parlor, and $500 on
debt.
Lafayette and Linden Avenuemaave
had a year of heroic work. sunday,
Schools fourishing. Young people well
cared for. Young mems meetings a
success. Successful revival services heia
in January, resulting in-probatloners Iep
Lafayette and Al for Linden Avenue. $l9o
paid on debt at Linden Avenue ana
improvements lave been made at a
cost of 1892.
James and Union ~Place-Good work has
been done in church and Sunday Schools.
/ REVEALS in both churches. Fifty proba-
TONERS at James and II at onlon Lac.
ary collection in advance of last year.
Simpson-S1,V 600 paid on tnelr mort
gage a &reylSai, En'Ilth n, barm mo pgu5
| gressive and aggressive.
St, Paul-I sustained by earnest work.
ers. Prayer meetings well attended anu
sujrited. Has q Junior League OF great
promise. Fifteen probationers: $2o0 pald.
on Improvements made IN the SUNDAY
| school room.
West Side Ayenue-A year of activity
in ali lines. This church was visited by
| fire during the winter. AS a result II IS
newly furnished and beautiful; $tVo spent
on improvements and 500 PAID on !ne
1 debt. The Woman's Home and Foreign
| sgiss;onary Societies have both increased
1 their membership.
Probatiopers reported, S56. Amount re-
ported as raised for canoeing deots ana
making improvements, SSs,Se7- Amount
of gifts in legacies to the church, si''2Vo,
making a total of $685. raised in the
Jersey city District during this confer;
ence year, in addition to the general
church expenses and benevolences.
God is honoring the faithful preach
ing of His Word, the earnest prayers. OF
His people. His servants are bringing
in their offerings; surely He will open
the windows of heaven ana pour us OUT
a blessing till there shall not be room
enough 10 receive it.
Let US claim this promise in present
ing ourselves TO Him for fuller. consecra-
! tion to the Supreme purpose OF our llves
the salvation of souls. May God give
us the Spirits annointing power tor TINS
great work.
The Bishop, at the close of the report,
called before him five young men candi-
dates for "full connection Ihey WERE
! George Whitehead, George ". Cdiuiiei,
Chester j. Hoyt, Wallace 3. Fleming, and
i Andrew j. Turner. In a delightful ADDRESS
through which ran a vein OF quiet humor
the Bishop told the Conference that 1t
had arrived at the most deiicate ana I'M
portant task, that of making Methodist
ministers.
And / don't want you ministers" con-
tinued the Bishop, TO be Indifferent ABOUT
casting your votes for these young mems
entry into the church. You can be IN
different about your appointments, pul
not about this. And to you, young men,
remember tina once admitted you cant
pull out or be divorced as a man can be
| divorced from his wife, and be an essence
bottle all his life. / remember once at a
conference the pastors wanted to put IN
a man who had no qualifications, and in
nv Judgment was unfit. I protested, and
in despair l said, All those in favor of
this idiot hold up your h "a ana T They
did that not because they were mad with
me but in sympathy with the idiot. Ihats
all wrong. | fear we too often square our
doctrines with our lives instead OF squar-
of Amen, Amen. That's true..'o
AS the bishop was e1oquently sketching
the duties of a preacher, he suddenly
topped and pointing to one OF the stu
What do you think of that? I'm after
you because you are thinking OF some
That embryo preachers face flushed
scarlet and never again during the ad-
dress did his eyes wander from the
wow young men, continued the
bishop. "you are not going on a picnic
excursion and you are going to meet mean
men who will treat you shabblly ana
you will be tempted to say to yourself, /
suffer his because of the Master, but |
would like to knock the head off you.
naughter.) Now | want to tell you that
among you five only one | fear will get
to the front rank, because of a fault
found among e5 to 70 per cent; Of cur
preachers all over the, church and that IS,
it's an ugly word and you won't ike me
for it, but ] don't care because l am
going away after conference ~adJounrs.
I,aughter1 That word is laziness. Do
you ministers get into your STUDIES at
seven o. clockand work as you did at college
when you worked for some contemptible
prize In Latin. Greek or Mathematics, or
Do Won diliv-dally about, read the news
papers, get out to tea. with the people
and yourself into trouble? Qaughter.)
Let your wife do that and II you havent
got a wife get one. If you haven't BOOKS
do that take them ~(laughter), but be
careful to take them back. AS for your
thoughts from the pulpit: Get good ones,
and if you haven't them, Why steal them,
and then own Ilp cloud laughter.) Don t
60 into the pulpit with an internal ma
chine under the carpet which Will blow
you into the deadly column OF the news
papers next day. (Renewed laughter.1
Preach, but II you donft prepare your
sermons the Lord 1--we mercy on those
who listen to you. CLaughter.)
The address closed with the customary
disciplinary question to the candidates.
who afterwards left the church while the
n pastors voted. Ihey were later aumltfed
as preachers.
This afternoon will be the anniversary
of the Woman's Foreign Missionary, am
riversary of the Conference Epworth
League and anniversary OF Freedmen's
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