The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-06-06
PASTORS WELCOMED.
Evangelization Union Gives
a Reception to Metho-
dist Ministers.

The Evangelization Union of Jersey Cliy
and vicinity, accorded a royal welcome TO
the Methodist pastors transferred to thls
city at the recent Newark Conference. IN
the Lafayette Methodist Church last
evening The platform of the church was
decorated with palms and plants and cut
flowers The music furnished by the
surpliced choir of Centenary and
Lafayette Methodist was excellent in
deed.
There were pastors present from almost
every Methodist Church in the city.
Among those on the platform were:-
Presiding Elder James R. Wright, of the
Jersey City District, the Rev. r. w.
Aylsworth, of Simpson; the Rev. w. IL.
Ruth. of st. Pauls; the Rev. t. G. May
ham, of Grace; the Rev. S. M Goodman,
of Centenary; the Rev. w. B. Fleming,
of Bayonne, and the new pastors, Rev.
C. G. Vogel, of Emory; the Rev. w. Neff,
of Brown Memorial and the Rev. William
Redheffer.
After the surpliced choir sang, Mr.. J.
V. Foster President of the Union and of
the Hudson County Sunday School AS
sociation, who presided, opened with a
few remarks as to the nature of the
gathering. He spoke on the work of
the church in the city and welcomed the
new pastors most cordially.
The Rev. William Redheffer, of
LAFAYETTE, when introduced spoke of be-
ing one of the three infants sent to this
city to grow up and make name for
himself He said he was proud of his
connection with Methodism because dt
afforded a wide scope for broadening
and deepening the intellect. The work
should De broadened, said he, and the
Methodists ought to fight shoulder to
shoulder to build up their denomination.
He thanked the union for its welcome in
a concise speech.
Pastor vogel followed after the sur
pliced choir rendered selection. His ad-
dress dwelt principally with the building
up and growth of Methodism in the
world He alluded to the work of the
general conference just ended in
Chicago The placing of laymen on a
level with pastors, he said, was grand
piece of work and should be favored the
world over Woman, too. he admired,
for they were making their way in the
world and were now working in the same
sphere with the men. So persistent were
they said he. that they brought the con-
ference to its knees and forced it to
admit them.
The choir of the Lafayette Church then
sang the pilgrims Chorus from
''Tannhausser" The Rev. w. Neff follow
ed. He said that Pastor Redheffer had
spoken of infants being sent to the city
by the Conference. One he said was bad
enough, twins were serious indeed, but
how the people stood for triplets, he
could not understand. He too spoke of
the history of Methodism.
John R. Doherty, of Emory Methodist
Church, one of the delegates sent to
Chicago by the Newark Conference, re-
lated some interesting impression of the
conference. His stories were excellent.
He praised Chicago's Methodists and
spoke of the Conference as being the
greatest in it's history.
w. R. Beach, who went along with Mr..
Doherty, to Chicago, related occurrences
of the conference. He spoke of all the
interesting questions that took place in a
truly humorous manner. His story of the
discussion on just what constituted
amusements, appealed to all.