The Newtown bee., 1904-07-29
FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
SHERMAN.
THE QUAKER HILL CONFERENCE.

THE QUAKER HILL CONFERENCE.
 Sherman people attend in good num- bers the sessions of the Quaker Hill Conference, which meets this year September 13 to IS. The preliminary program is as follows.
 Tuesday, September IA, at p. m. The Rev Dr Lyman Abbott, Editor of The Outlook, is expected to make the opening address. His theme is "The Expression of Religion, in the Life of Today"
 Prof Frank K. Sanders, Dean of Yale Divinity School, presides at the opening meeting.
 Wednesday, September IA, a class for Bible study, conducted by Dean Sanders, occupies the first hour, We'd Desday, and continues, one hour each morning, throughout the Conference.
 This series of clear and thoughtful expositions of Scripture, interspersed with questions and discussions, makes a daily attendance of special profit to Bible students. "The Psalter," will be the theme of the lessons. !l-sJ,
 Prof Frank c. Porter, D. D., of Yale University, speaks on 1.-The Signtti- canoe of the Book in the Christian Re ligion.
 Rev Warren H. Wilson,o of Brooklyn, preSides at this meeting.
 A devotional meeting, held on We'd nesday afternoon, will be conducted by Rev Henry s. Coffin, pastor of the Bedford Park Presbyterian church, New York.
 Rev George William Knox, D. D., of Union Theological Seminary, lec- lures in the evening on 'The Meaning of Salvation in the Great Religions. Rev Oliver s. Dean, D. D., of Patter- son, N. Y., presides at this session.
 Thursday, September IS, a session of interest to Bible teachers is to be opened with addresses by Rev Richard Morse Hodge, D. D., Director of Ex- tension Courses, Union Theological Seminary, and Prof Irving F. Wood, of Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
 Their theme is ''The Child and the Book" and their addresses are to be followed by an open discussion.
 The annual meeting of the Confer ence Association occurs on Thursday afternoon, to be followed by a. Sympo- sium.
 In the evening, John Graham Brooks, of Cambridge, Mass, Presi- dent of the American Social Associ- ation, speaks on "First Steps in Social Betterment."
 Friday. September 16, Problems pre- sented by immigration are to be dis cussed in addresses by Eliot Norton, President of the Italian Immigration Society, and Miss Kate H. Claghorn of the Tenement House Commission, New York City. These addresses are to be followed by an open discussion.
 Friday evening is observed as Farm ers' Night.
 H. w. Collingwood, Editor of The Rural New Yorker, and Miss Martha Van Rensselaer,, of Cornell University, are expected to speak. Good Roads, 1" and "A Reading Course for Farmers Wives, 7" are the themes of their ad. dresses. to be followed by an open dis cussion. T. J. Arnold of Pawling, presides at this meeting.
 Saturday, September IT, Quaker Hill Day. The exercises of this morn- ing are held in the Old Meeting House.
 James Wood of Mount Kisco, gives a historical address on '"The Purchase Meeting," and Miss Alicia H. Taber of Pawling, presents paper on the manner of living in early times.
 Following these exercises is the un- yelling of a Memorial Stone erected on the Meeting House Grounds. Up on adjournment to the manse lawn, a collation. will be serued to the mem- bers of the Conference Association and their guests.
 Sunday, September IS, on Sunday morning, the Rev James s. Riggs, D. D., of Auburn Theological Seminary, is expected to preach the Conference Sermon, and on Sunday evening, the Rev Percy s. Grant, pastor of the Church of the Ascension, New York City, speaks, his theme to be announc. ed later.
 Notes: Quaker Hill is reached from New York, by the Harlem Division of the New York Central Railroads, sta tion, Pawling, about 90 minutes from the City. From Albany on the same road, reached at Chatham. Visitors from Hartford and eastern points, ol from Poughkeepsie on the West, con nect with the road at Brewster, N Y. Quaker Hill can be reached from Danbury by three hours drive acros. the country New Milford is 12 mile. distant to the east.
 Visitors who attend the conference and bring lunches will find comfort able accommodations at Akin hall and hot tea and coffee will be secure, at Mizzen Top hotel, or at farmhouses at reasonable rates. A final program of the Conference will be issued il August. i
 Full particulars as to boards etc. can be had by addressing the secretary Rev Edwary L. Chichester, Quake Hill, N. Y.
 TRIBUTE TO DIR wOODRUFF's MEM ORY.
 Editor Charles Whittlesey Pickett son of the late Mason Pickett, give