The Jersey City news., 1899-03-29
NEWARK MEETING
Methodist Conference to Be
Held In Halsey Street
Edifce.
ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME.
Changes In Pastorates = Mr.
Wilding May Go to
Elizabeth.

Arrangements have been fully com
pleted for the annual meeting Of the New
ark Conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, to be held this year in tht
Halsey Street Methodist Episeopa.
Church. Newark. The conference viii
begin Wednesday, April 5, and end the
following Tuesday.
Although comparatively few changes
will be made among the pastors this year
the conference will be no means lack in
terest. The entertainment committee has
taken especial care to select interesting
speakers and vital topics. Matters of local
and national pnrport will be discussed,
and the visiting clergymen will find the
meetings bright and entertaining.
The conference will open at ten o'clock
Wednesday morning in the Halsey Street
NJ. E. Church with roll call and organiza-
tion. AT 2:30 P. M the Rev. DR.. r. w.
Rodgers. of the Drew Theological Semin-
ary will lecture on Two Kings with New
Ideas,'' the Rev. DR.. c. w. Mccormick
presiding. A meeting of the Conference
Life Insurance Association will be held at
four P. NJ, and in the evening the Rev.
David Halleron will preside at the ami
versary of the centenary fund and
Preachers Aid Society.
The Rev. DR.. R. s. Macarthur will
speak at this meeting on Church and
State Expansion and reports of the
treasurer, w. H. Murphy. and of the cor
responding secretary, the Rev. ]. A. Gut
teridge, will be presented.
A business meeting will be held
Thursday. at A. NJ. and the anniversary
of the Women's Home Missionary So
ciety at P. NJ, with Mrs. Mary L..
Woodruff presiding. Bishop c. H. Fowler
will consecrate the deaconesses, and
Miss Iva May Dunham will speak on
'Deaconesses' Work in Our Cities" The
Rev. J. A. Cole will preside at the mis-
sionary meeting in the evening, and the
speaker will be the Rev. DR.. w. F.
Smith.
The same day the Rev. DR.. Marcus
Buell., of Boston University, will lee
ture in the Franklin Street School at 8
p. NJ on 1.-The Epistle to the Philippians" :"
In the evening the Rev. DIR. c. H. Mead
will address the Total Abstinence and
Prohibition Society in the Central NJ. E.
Church, Newark.
Friday morning another business ses-
sion will be held in the Halsey Street
Church. AT 3 P. NJ. the Womans S Foreign
Missionary Society will hold its anniver-
sary, with Mrs. j. H. Knowles presiding
and the Rev. Dr. ]. F. Goucher, President
of the Woman's College, of Baltimore,
Md, as speaker. In the evening the an
niversary of the Church Extension and
Freedman's Aid and Southern Education
al Societies will be held. The speakers
will be the Rev. DIR. M. S. Hard, of
Philadelphia, and the Rev. DR.. j. M.
Hamilton, of Cincinnati. At the same
hour the conference Epworth League will
hold its annual meeting in ST. Paurs NJ.
E. Church. with the Rev. w. C.O'Don-
nell presiding. The Rev. c. L. Goodel1, of
the Hanson Place M. E. Church, Brook
lyn, will preach on 1.-The Greatest Story
in the World
Saturday evening evangelistic services
will be conducted in the Halsey Street
Church by the Rev. DR.. L. w. MunhaH,
of Germantown, Pa. These services will.
no doubt be crowded, as DR.. Munhalfs
drawing power is we'll known.
The Rev. r. Van Horn will lead the
conference love feast at nine A. NJ, Sun
day, and Bishop Fowler will preach the
sermon at 1890. At P. NJ. the Bishop
will ordain the deacons and elders and at
7:30 P. M. the Rev. w. S. Robinson will
preach missionary sermon.
The anniversary of the Sunday school
Union and Tract Societies will be held