The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-06
TODAY'S PROCEEDINGS,

NEWARK. April 6, 1Ss9.-Since this
m~orningsthe characters of the pastors OF
the various districts had to be passed up
on. every one was agog with excitement
to know what would be said in reference
to the case of the Rev. j. J. Boswell.
DR.. Boswell, one of the ablest men in
the Conference last year, was in iA-health
and went one evening to a restaurant in
New York City and ate al alleged French
dinner. He drank a little of the stuff
which these restaurateurs call win
rouge and being still in poor health it
affected him. He felt dizzy when he left
the -estaura and was on the street. A
police officer. seeing a man leaning for
support against the ratings, and r to
the instincts of a copper Imagined Dr.
Boswell was intoxicated and took him to
the Tenderloin Police Station. A charge
having been made, Dr. Boswell appeared
in court the next day, but when expiana-
tions were made he was promptly dis
charged and his friends at once sent MIN
to a sanitarium. He has now recovered
and when he appeared at the Conference
yesterday he received a hearty welcome
from the Bishop down, all of whom had
much sympathy with him in his trouble.
Now the custom is, and it is a rule of
the Book of Discipline of the Church, for
the Bishop to call out the name of the
pastor or the districts, and the presiding
elder replies:-
Nothing against the brother.
Where there has been some charge
against the pastor the presiding elder,
when the question is put, makes a state
ment which if not satisfactory to the con-
ference Immediately provokes a discus
sion. It was not astonishing then that
when Bishop Fowler called out the name
of DR.. j. /. Boswell the wandering 'atten-
ton of the brethren centred on the Jersey
City presiding elder; One could have
heard a shadow fall SO quiet was that
vast gathering. DR.. Boswell sat a few
seats from the front row, with his head
buried in his hands and only raised 1t
which Presiding Elder Wright's explana-
ton provoked. Rising slowly and speak
ing in a low tone the Presiding Elder said
in reply to the Bishops CALI
stSoon after the last Conference csrcum-
stances connected with DIR. Boswell made
1t necessary that he should go to Clifton
Then later a committee of inquiry was
called which carefully investigated the
matter. 1t heard DIR. Boswelfs frank
Acknowledgement and explanations, and
while depioring the occurrence came to
the conclusion that no action was neces-
sary." cloud a~pplause-)
iiGX.. j.. l. BOS WGii Il III SOOu Stdlu1IS
with the Conference after tina endorse
ment.
There was another touching and affect
? ing incident which occurred today and that
was when Rev. J. w. Barrett, a venerable
pastor was asked to offer prayer. He has
recently become blind and when he raised
his eyeless eyes to the ministers before
him and told them how much. he regretted
his inability to see them, many were
yjsibly affected for in past days none was
more beloved that he by the pastors for
his sunny disposition.
Ministers have had an appeal made to
them for funds for the mission fields in
Finland. 1t was made by Mrs. r. ). Far
ker. who is agitating a scheme TO nuiio a
church in Helsingfors, capital OF FINLAND.
She explained today that for. years she
had resided. in that country and would re-
turn to that cold place within a month
her her projeets Already sfeooo had been raised
bl1t-sI3.60O more were required. The pas
tors win make an appeal to their consre-
ration to help Mrs. k protect.
roll call was finished this morning, pre-
scented his nnual report OF the Newark
District. which seems to be in a toieraply
satisfactory condition. He suggested q
change in the selection OF members OF
quarterly conferences. Men OF brains ana
energy were preferable to men OF wealth.
The methods, he continued, OF old METH
odists were out of joint with those re-
CURED for modern church work. a nlun-
derbuss,. he said, would never 40 IN these
DAYS of rapid-firing guns and then again
the man behind the guns must be tralneu
and SO must the man behind the Metnod-
list guns of today be trained and elIlclent.
(Cries of
1T is no USE to be always praying OF
discipline and the Book of Discipline as
an excuse for inefficient work. Inat LAX
diselIsts Methodists," added the presiding
elder and there was general applause.