Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-03-24
THE FOURTH DAY.
AsuMMARY OF YEsTERDAY'S PRO-
CEEDINGS OF THE WASHING-
TON NJ. e. CONFERENCE.
THE PREACHERS AID SOCIETY
HELD THEIR ANNUAL MEETING
LAST EVENING IN THE SIMPSON
NJ. E. CHURCH-TO-DAY'S CON-
FERENCE PROGRAMME.


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The services to have been held at
the Fourth Street M. E.. church this af-
ternoon, as heretofore announced, have
been cancelled, and Bishop Fowler will
be at the Grand Opera House this af-
ternoon, where elders will be confirmed
Immediately after the services. Late
in the afternoon or early in the even
ing Bishop Fowler will leave for his
home, he having been advised yester-
day of the illness of his wife.
The fourth day of the Washington
M. E. conference was opened at the
usual hour yesterday morning, Bishop
Fowler presidinge Devotional services
were conducted by the Rev. l.. w.
Riggs. after which the conference ses-
sion was begun. Nearly the entire day
was taken up in hearing the reports OF
the various standing committees. These
reports showed the church and confer
ence to be in a very prosperous condl-
ton, both spiritually and materially.
The cabinet was in session with the
bishop in making the appointments
for the ensuing conference year. The
list is yet very incomplete, and will
not be made public until Monday. 1t
is understood that the Rev. j. w.
Waters, who for the past five years
has been the pastor of the Simpson M.
e. church, Will be transferred to Bal
timore:
The following committees made
church extension, temperance, Freed
mans Aid and Southern Educational
Society, district conference records,
periodicals and literature. education
and missions, Epworth League, and
the report of the state of the church.
C. C. Brown, of Washington district.
and E. d. Venture, of Alexandria dis
trict, were elected to elders order. n
Rev. Noble Watkins and Rev. Robert
Steele, on account of their extreme
age and long, faithful service, were
elected to the superannuated relation.
The standing committees on Sunday
Schools, parsonages and furniture,
Twentieth Century thank Offering,
Morgan College and Sabbath observ-
ance then followed with their reports.
The report of the church extension
cause was presented by the Rev. Hard.
He stated that the Washington confer-
enee was the strongest one in colored
Methodism. The conference during the
past year had helped 229 churches, and
for the coming year the conferences
assessment was 1854 for this cause
i p mi A@~o, o,tt+oa An, fara nffnr-
ed a brief report and the following
resolutions, which were adopted:
s"sWhereas, AS a movement has been
inaugurated in many of the States to
suppress this great evil, therefore, be it
sResolved, That we, the members
of~the Washington conference, now in
session, recommend the suppression OF
this great liquor traffic in all its deadly
forms.
Resolved, That we recommend the
election of delegates to the American
anti-saloon league convention, and
recommend that each pastor preach one
sermon on the subject"
A resolution was adopted prohibit
ing ministers from buying sacramento
wines of saloonkeepers and liquor
dealers. .
The committee on Sabbath observ-
ance followed with its report and
urged the people to interest themselves
in everything that would tend towards
a better observance of the day, and
urged them to use their influence with
law bodies to have laws passed that
will promote this. The preacher to
have at least one sermon on the sub
ject during the coming year. In the
discussion that followed the report,
the following pastors took part: A.
Beck, n. M. Carroll, S. r. Hughes, R.
II. Robinson and w. 7. Harris.
"The Status of the Negro Race" was
the subject of a thoughtful paper read
by the Rev. j. w. E. Brown.
"A resolution was next proposed and
adopted denying financial aid from
the conference to all effective minis
tiers. Several churches expect financial
aid from the conference, but it was
thought the wiser plan to make the
churches self-sustaining.
The revised constitution adopted by
the last general conference and sub
mitted to the district conferences for
approval or rejection, the chief object
Defng TO secure equdl representation III
the clergy and laity. 4 very warm de-
bate ensued which was participated in
by the Revs. j. w. Waters, J. E. Gun
by, C. G. Key, j. W. E. Bowen, Ernest
Lyons and r. II. Robinson. The vote
taken resulted in sc to 3 against the
new constitution.
At 3 o'clock Pentecostal meeting
was held, and interesting and able ad-
dresses were made by the Rev. j. H.
Jackson and the Rev. Washington
Murray. Last evening the annual
meeting of the Preachers Aid Society
was held in the Simpson NJ. E. church.
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