Evening star., 1902-02-05
National Conference Of Workers i IN
Session in This City.
DELEGATION CALLS 1T WHITE HOUSE
Proposition for Creation of a Pen
sion Fund for Ministers.
PLEA FOR UNITY OF EFFORT

The morning session today OF the va
tionai Federation of Churches and Christian
Workers was called to order at $50 o'clock
In the Y. NJ. c. A building, Rev. William
Hayes Ward, DID,, LID. of New York
presiding DIR. Jeremiah Zimmerman. pas
tor of the First English Lutheran Church
of Syracuse, N. Y, led the devotional serv-
Ice. In the election which followed MI j.
Cleveland Cady of New York was reelected
president: Rev. William A. Rice. ID. OF
Newark, N J.. and Mr.. Alfred R. Kimball
of New York city were reelected record
ing secretary and treasurer. respectively.
and Rev. jeremiah Zimmerman of Syra-
cuse, n. Y; Rev. Kerr Boyce Tupper. DID,,
LID. of Philadelphia. Pa, and Rev.
Floyd W. Tompkins, d. D., of Philadelphia
Pa, were added to the list of vice presi-
dents
The members of the executive board
whose terms of Office had expired We're all
reelected.
"The Work of State Federations'' was the
topic for general discussion. j. W. Bash
ford, DID. president of the Ohio Wesleyan
University and president of the Ohio Fed
Grafton of Churches. who was to have taken
part in this discussion. was unable to be
present. owing to the death of one OF the
professors OF the institution over which he
presides
Rev. Charles II. Richards. DID,, pastor
Of the Central Congregational Church.
Philadelphia, and president Of the Penn
sylvania Evangelical Alliance, reported on
the work accomplished by that body. Rev.
| 8. II. Dick. DID,, pastor of the Mathew
| son Street M. E. Church. Providence. r.
/ l.. and president Of the federation of
| churches in Rhode Island, after giving q
1 brief history of the organization, spoke
enthusiastically and hopefully of the work
| of the federation within the state of Rhode
| Island and In the city of Providence.
! Call at the White House.
delegation composed of the following
| ciergymen and laymen, representing ten
| denominations. called. by request, on Pres
| ident Roosevelt this morning:
Mr.. ]. Cleveland Cady, New York presi-
| dent National Federation of Churches: E.
b. Sanford. DID,, general secretary, Ma
| tional Federation of Churches.
Congregatfonal-Willia Hayes Ward, d.
D., LID, editor of 1.-THE Independent -
| President A. T. Perry. DID,, Marietta.
Ohio: Charles s. Richards. ID, Phiiadel-
| phia: William A. Rice, DID,, Newark. N
| j.: Rev. III. H. Kelsey, Hartford Conn.
| William H. Wanamaker, Philadelphia; Mr.
| Jackson. Providence.
burg; Rev. Boyce Tupper. DID, LID
| Philadelphia.
Baptist Free)-Rivington D. Lord, DID.
Brooklyn.
Methodist Episcopal-Frank Mason North
DID, New York; Rev. s. NJ. Dick DID
Providence: Rev. William c. Webb. DID
philadelphia: Mr.. w. H. Beach. Jerse,
City; Mr.. H. c. NJ Ingraham. Brooklyn
Rev. ]. Wallace Webb, DID, Canandaigua
| n. Y: Mr.. Welsh, Jamestown.
Lutheran-Rev. j. Zimmerman, DID, Sy
| racuse. n. Y.
) Presbyterian-Rev. w A. Powell, DID.
Toledo. Ohio; lev H. H. Stebbns D. d
; Rochester. n. Y. Rev. ]. Bancroft Devins
DID, New York; Gen. Charles II. Darling
Utica, n. Y: MIR. Alfred r. kimbaiI, New
| York
Protestant Episcopal-E. Walpole War
!. New York 'a5' s'''.'' . -,il@tF
Dutch Reformed Donald Sag
: Mackay. DID, New York; Rey George F
Talmage, Schenectady. n. Y. !;
German Reformed-Rev. Rufus r. Miller
Reading. Pa
. Methodist Protestant-Mr. j. w. Herring
. LID, Westminster, Md. (
Topics Discussed Today.
AT this afternoons session Gen. Charlie
!: w. Darling of Utica, n. Y, presided. Re,
!! RiYington d. Lord. d. D., pastor of tn
!. First Free Baptist Church of Brooklyn. \
!: Y, directed the devotional service. Re,
s. NJ Dick, d. D., Of Providence, r.
J. read paper on 'Why a New Englan
!. City Needs Federation" Mr.. Charles
Z. Hughes of New York will discuss .sFedera
!: ton From Layman's Standpoint" ''Cc
|: operation in Home and City Mission Work
!. VIII be discussed by Rev. William A. Ric,
!. ID. D., pastor of Believille Avenue Congre
!. gatiOnal Church. Newark, N. J.. and Re,
!: Geo. h. Ta!mage, Schenectady, n. Y.
I. Proposed Pension System.
!. During the days proceedings Rev.
: Winthrop Hegeman of New York city o
I. fered a resolution to appoint a represent;
Z tive committee of clergymen and layme
g to confer with denominational authorities
I. reference TO the feasibility of establishing
Z pension bureau for ministers. Among 9th
& things. he said:
. "A national federation has the functic
3 of doing certain things for the who
3 church One acknowledged duty is to fl
!. fill the law of love. The Bible explicit
!. teaches how this is to be done-by bearil
). one another's burdens.
!. There are three times when human Ii
= is burden. In childhood, in disability
: illness or accident, in helpless old age.
Z The church ought to be alert to sci
& new ideas emerging in our civilization.
= Is exceedingly slow. That is why today t
. best form of charity is shifting from I
: church to business corporations and to t
\ state. The new sense of trade responsible
! together with the economic advantages
( high-ciass workmen have caused the n
\ tions of Europe to promote workingmeI
J | Insurance.
{ | Charles Booth has shown that half
! those in England aged twenty-five will Ii
! to sixty-five years of age and that 40 2
( cent of these will be paupers. Has Il
! sense of trade risk and the social and
I dustrial responsibility for the care of wor
( ing people influenced a corresponding ser
, of church responsibility for its aged m
{ | listers? While wages here are larger
- time of the earning is shortening. In bl
- mess and in the church the tendency
against the aged. II we classify ministe
ce as worthy of charity we put on them
- pauper stigma IT, as propose. We have
~ universal pension, the church at large bes
re the burden OF her aged and incapacitai
bly, servants
,.- The speaker showed how an average
&c 81 from each communicant in the natl
%" would secure at the end of twenty yes
'ed for 10000 ministers, with families. whit
ian | salaries never averaged over $500 a yeal
o. cash gift of $1,000. and all during I
81 period protection for their families
5000 in case of DEATH
Ut. DIR. Hegeman suggested that this wo
nni be an objective for the federation a
ad- would unite churches in a common eff
,.r to supplement the doe now given to al
M ' ministers. and thus wipe out the disgr;
"ih of their treatment of the aged.
'aS Union of Forces.
The Rev. Dr. jeremiah Zimmerman of
-, First English Lutheran Church of Sy
D. cuse. N. Y. made strong appeal in