The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-04-22
PENNINGTON METHODIST CHURCH.

equal responsibility Of the father and
mother in the welfare OF the child and
rounily condemned that prevalent opinion
w ioh left to the mother all the RESPONSE
| bility.
| At the business session Fred &. Nor
cross and Charles IL. Young were recon-
mended for full membership.
Frank II. Ellington was continued in
the studies of the year.
william Bragg ald Robert S. Leard
were elected as deacons and local preach.
ers Bishop Vincent referred to Mr..
| Bragg as remarkable man, a black
smith by trade and then "a member of the
salvation Army, who preached the gospel
with the strength of the blacksmith. He
reminded the Bishop of those early
preachers who convinced Wesley that the
ministry could be supplied by men taken
from the ordinary walks Of life. Brother
Bragg" said the Bishop, "is reader to
trust the Lord than he is to trust brother
Corey for when l asked him if he would
leave the question of his conference rela-
lions to his presiding elder, he said that
"a
and would accept the decision of the con-
ference as the wish OF the Lord.
Rev. Dr. L. NJ. Mills was introduced
TO the conference to present the desire Of
the Bishops that the Methodists should
make an Offering of $50, 900, 900 as thank
Offering at the close of the nineteenth
century-a century which has done SO
much for the American people. DR. Mills
started out by quoting some facts and
figures as to the great wealth of this
country He told of the meeting in New
York of six men who represented more
wealth than WINS possessed by the three
million people of the American colonies
who threw off the yoke OF Great Britain.
AT recent wedding in New YORK the
guests We're worth more than billion of
dollars The Bishops have inaugurated u
campaign of education by asking ior this
twenty million dollar gift Neal Dow
said that prohibition was brought about
in Maine by showing the state ankle deep
with prohibition literature. The three
years of effort to secure this money will
tend to create new and deep religious
feeling. A mighty revival will bless the
church in these three years The offerings
are to he III addition to those regularly
made. They are to be devoted TO various
purposes. The Methodists of this country
owe Sl2. 900, 900 of church debts. There is
the need of invested funds for worn out
Methodist ministers. II remember con i
ference, said Dr. Mills, where state
ment was made that one old brother was
too poor to attend. The Bishop suggested
that he be sent for, a collection was taken
up and the ministers went down into
their pockets. IF this movement is rightly
taken up, in three years there will be
ample funds in the conferences for the
care of the aged and intirm clergymen."
Then there is the cause of education
1t has been said that II the soul of Wes-
ley an could animate Harvard that uni.
versity would sweep the world. you
ought to endow your own magnificent
seminary" exclaimed DIR. Mills. 1T was
told that it was we'll that an insxperi.
enced and sanguine man had been sent 20
prosecute this work because we could not
raise $500, 900 and replied that already
knew where : that amount was to come