The sun., 1903-04-07
NEW YORK NJ. +. CONFERENCE
Protest Against Jerome's Proposed Sunday
Liquor Selling Act.


PoUoHKEEPsIE. April o.-On motion OF
Presiding Elder C. W. Millard Of the New
York district. Bishop McCabe Of the New
York Methodist Episcopal Conference will
appoint a committee of Ave, including the
Presiding Elders Of the New York and
Poughkeepsie districts. to confer with a
similar committee Of the New York East
Conference to have readjusted the bound
aries Of the two conferences. The ques-
ton was discussed at length in conference
this morning. DR.. Sanford Of New York
said:
The saving of a soul east Of the Bowery
is just as important as the salvation OF a
soul west OF it. We have been sustaining
these churches for years almost entirely.
The boundary lines between the two confer
ences ought to he the State lines. The
borough of Manhattan should be entirely
ence. We are disfranchising our men.
They are sent into Connecticut, where
they have to remain a year before they
can vote, and then they come back to New
York and have TO live here another year
before they can cast their ballots
At the morning session the conference
adopted a resolution protesting against
any action on the part Of District Attorney
Jerome of New York in bringing about an
act legalizing the sale of liquors on the
Lords day.
The committee on temperance rendered
its r,port and oFe-<>t ,ha toii-.-i-o .---l,,-
tiS., knlcn Was unanimously adopted
We most earnestly protest against the adop-
tion OF the Yule amendment by the Legisla-
such amendment entirely nullifes the local
opt ion feature of the present law. We recon-:
me nd the forwarding Of this resolution. signed
by the officers OF the Conference. to his Excel
lency, Gov Odell. and the Senate and ASSEM-
bly, OF the State OF New York
The following appointments were made
for this city;
vaps slSfTP II = % odeil and % II Fowles; CENTENARY,
Hough Houston: Chelsea. Philip Germonds:
Church OF the People and Five Points Mission,
stone. duane Street, R: II. Travis Eighteenth
street. A. Jameson: Fordham,. 4. NJ Gay;
Forty-ionr,h street q. " Grinton: Grace,
Avenue. Wallace MacNIullcn and A, I.ongacre:
Ms,ropoIttan TemIle PaEsh RoSrr. F9anko aSTkal
Carr; Mott Avenue. " Nick. Darwoodi Park
'eRo J Rowe: St Andrew's' Andrew Gill!es; ST
James. 4 .MacRossie; 81 Marks. " Brooks
81 pauls. q. P tskman an and X a.. rrey9row; v,;
i. s Bond; fremont, J W Campbell; Twenty;
fourth Street : ossop tG,oRR; nORm wBsb BsI
MssSansSm N ston suaare Reed and I'VE r. B. Tower
Woodlawn Heights, W. r. Brush.
These other appointments we're made:
J. NJ. King. corresponding secretary OF
the Church Extension Society: J. r.. Day.
Clarke, agent Of the Conference Temperance
Society: W. B. Millar.. secretary OF the Inter-
BsrsS president N q Drew Ssw sG1h
Women; l. J. PERTH. professor Of semit c
languages and archaeology. Syracuse Uni
Seminary for Young Women: G. W; Skinner,
superintendent Of Washington, Industrial
Home. Washington, d.. G.: ID. NJ Blrming-
versity, Nashville. Tenn. and member OF
trace Quarterly Conference. Ensign McChes- 3
yefsity: Il. s, Triple, executive secretary Of
the Joint commission for the twentieth century
thank offering movement In the 6oropyhs
nance, executive secretary OF the confef;
ence Of claimants endowment fund ano
member Of Dobbs Ferry quarterly con-
ference; A. NJ Lambert. missionary IN Porte
Rico: O. E. Jayne missionary in Utah.