The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-04-04
me I Holds is BUSY
Forty third Annual Session
of Newark Conference
Opened Today in
Paterson.
BISHOP VINCENT IN THE CHAIR
Project to Make Rev. w. L.
Hoagland Newark's Pre-
siding Elder Clerical
Politics.
BISHOP VINCENT IN THE CHAIR
Especial to ..rhe Jersey city News."l


opened this morning in the Market Street
Church of this city, and if the brethren
attending it are as good prophets as they
are exhorters it promises to be lively
conference. The chief interest Is in the
election of delegates to the General Con-
ference to be held in Chicago next month.
There are ten delegates to be elected, five
ministers and five laymen. OF the five
laymen three will be elected "provision-
ally which means that they will serve
provided the General Conference will ad-
nit them. In the event of their doing so,
that bugaboo of a large class of the
clergy-equal lay representation-will be
settled once for all. The laymen's con-
ference will take place on Friday morning
in the Young Mems Christian Association
Hall, and in the afternoon of the same
day they will hold a meeting of their as
sociation.
Aside from this laymen's election there
will be the usual amount of wire pulling
for snug places and the Bishop and his
cabinet will be importuned daily from
now on until the end of the Conference
with delegations, petitions to make this
change or that. Although it would be
out of joint to say that the Methodist
preacher can give cards and spades to the
politician in that particular line, yet he
could give some of them pointers in the
matter of securing the best places in the
gift of the Conference.
So far as the Jersey City pastors are
concerned they are only directly interest
ed in the desire of some to make
Rev. w. L. Hoagland, of Emory Church,
Jersey City, succeed Presiding Elder
Hammond of Newark. Mr.. Hoagland's
chances are exceedingly bright. There
are at present only two changes spoken of
in the Jersey City church. Brothers Cook
man of Centenary, and Randolph, OF
Trinity, may go to other charges.
There are few rows of course to
adjust one notably in Newark, where
Brother Tuttle is the storm centre. Half
of his church want him and the other
doesn't They will scrap in the lobby and
then amicably heal up matters by sing
ing "Blest Be the Tie That Binds
Strictly speaking the Conference opened
last night with a lecture from Bishop
John H. Vincent, D.. D., L. L. D., the
presiding officer The lecture was upon
Tomorrow, a study of the Church of the
Future and in the course of it he made
some statements which considerably
startled the old fashioned Methodist and
his staid views. He firmly believed he
said in church progress and revision.
sThe church must be one of revision, y
he said, ST have sometimes thought that
if 1 had revelation to make to a people
1 would have complete and satisfactory
of da,1 or q
dictionary. I would build up a pyramid
which the people could climb and view
the broad and clear truth. wonder why
God didn't build such a pyramid. Instead
of that He hurled His commands from
the mountain and men have to dig and
dig deep and uncertainty. He made a
human revelation, very human which
needed revision and recasting as human
ity developed, always to conform to
human progress and thought. Therefore
we have a bible which took thousands
of years to write and it took thousands
of years to dig out the nuggets of truth
from it. One thing I am sorry is that /
won't see the next revision of the world,
when Turkey is no more and the flag OF
England shall be flying over Constantine
ple. / believe in all creeds. If | We're the
PRESBYTERIAN Church I wouldn't strike out
a word.
AS the brethren gathered in the meeting
room of the church this morning the
Bishops words were discussed and the
pastors took sides. They stood about in
groups and the verbal clatter was at its
height when they were called to the open
ing communion service. The Bishop him
self was punctual, but the brethren were
not Jersey City pastors came in by twos
and threes, and among the earliest ar
rivals were Presiding Elder Rev. ]. r.
Wright, Rev r. M. Aylsworth of Simp-
SON, Rev. P. G. Blight of Palisade, Rev.
w. H. Ruth, ST. Pauls; Rev. D. B. F.
Randolph, Trinity; Rev. G. 3. Little, West
Side; Rev. w. E. Blakeslee, Union Hill;
Rev. F. S. Cookman, Centenary; Rev. w,
l.. Hoagland, Emory; Rev. 7. G. May
ham, Grace; Rev. ]. A. Owens, Hedding;
Rev. w. M. Johnston, James; Rev. w. s.
Robinson, Lafayette, and Rev. r. G.
butcher of Linden Avenue.
The session today opened with the cleo
ton of these officers: Rev. DR.. ]. F. Dodd
Secretary, with assistants; Rev. G. w.
Mccormick and Rev. Frank McDaniels;
Rev. J. A. Gutteridge, Statistical Secre-
tary, with assistants, Rev. J. w. Cole and
Rev. j. W. Ryder; Rev. A. M. Palmer,
Treasurer, and Rev. F. Bloom, Engross-
ing Secretary. Mr.. Gutteridges assist
ants in the statistical department were:
Revs. G. N. Crasto, S. K. Doolittle, w. c.
Timbell and Frank Chadwick for Jersey
City.
The standing committees for 1900 were
nominated as follows
missionary Cause-G. G. wilding, J. A.
Owen, G. J. Schilling, s. L. Baldwin, r.
B. Urmy.
Church. Extension-J. B. Faulks, r.
John, r. K. Boyd. Alfred Evans. J. e.
Appley.
Sunday schools--A. B. Richardson. C.
S. woodruff, w. s. Galloway, c. J. Hoyt,
e. N. Crasto.
Tract cause--E. ". King. G. Waldron,
n. +. Fowler. ]. n. Egbert; G. n. Won
Claim.
Temperance-w HI Morgan. ]. a. Hen
sey, s. p: Harris, We Fl. Trnnabower r.
Van Horne.
H;ducation.-J. I. Dobbins. q. x Hutchi-