New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-08
DISBURSEMENTS IN YEAR. sl,3OO,OOO.
N z. E. CONFERENCE AGAINST CONSOLIDATING
BOOK HOUSES-FOR N. Y. u. E. DISTRICT.
WANT ENDOWMENT FUND RAISED.

WANT ENDOWMENT FUND RAISED.
The session Of the New-York Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church was continued yester-
day in St PauPs Church. West End-ave. and
Eighty-sixtn-st. The application OF former min
lister Of the Kingston District. who some years ago
withdrew from the ministry under charges, FOR per-
mission to unite In church membership was re-
fcrred to a special committee. Presiding Elder VIII
declined to give the name OF the preacher He
IS said have involved in financial d1rcultes
Presiding Elder c. W. Millard. of the New-fork
District in his annual report said Methodism was
making remarkable progress here. there having
been IN the last year sixteen hundred conversions
In the same period seven new churches ana three
parsonages were established. others freed from
debt and altogether $4,000 paid for repair work
IN the district. IN which the total disbursements
reached s.. 9O0.0oo
Presiding Elder f J. Beicher of the Poughkeep-
sic District, in his report complained Of the small
salaries paid the pastors OF churches In the ruraI
districts.
The Rev. Dr. T. 8. Bond wished resolution
passed by the conference authorizing that part
Of the general missionary fund be transferred to the
fund for home work. to BE- used for the re-
lief Of poverty among ministers. The resolution
was referred and afterward tabled
Treasurer John T. Andrus presented his annual
report He told the preachers that there had oedS
no foreclosure OF church property for nearly eight
years and urged them to bend their energies
toward raising the endowm mt fund through an
nuities or perhaps by will He SAID Ihere "erS
many rich people in the church who would II ap-
preached in the right way. like to be relieved OF
the responsibility of caring for their money and
consent to take annuities
The conference sermon was preached by tho rev
DR. ! J. poritz who some years ago abandoned Ju-
daism to become Methodist. He said In paTf'
DIR, PoRITZ's SERMON.
There was a time when faith lost ground and
then the Church became a substitute for Jesus sSs
Christ. That was when men reyoited from me me
authority. But we have come to new awakening AIKEN
and realize that in Christ Is centere9 an 1iA' -
II is far more important to me to know how to
get evil out of the world than TO ascertain no"
What is God? Jesus answered that God IS a
sull others who say there is no God and materlai
While the world Is so full Of business activity
and effort bpsy people look for some way 70 dayS
To-day there are great problems before, us-our
-et j1aston ~ iabor and capital What shall we
teach2 Shall IL be competition or co-operatonE
When we see the civilized nations armed to the
IS that S Christs teaching is the brotherhood Of man
Service is the great motive OF Christian lie,
think IL IS a great thing to have original thought
and great ideas but there things still greater
original in thought. Jesus not only. taught great
things. but he lived great things and he pr9eti,sed
one who lived no other man lived. and yet min
ged with sinners and took ne rs oaPb OF who
could reproduce Ills teachings and life in others.
Sometimes I feel ashamed Of Methodists who
have gone back the mystical element In teach
ing. \ gospel Is good news.
The afternoon meeting was devoted the eigh-
teenth anniversary exercises Of the Womans Home
Missionary Society. Of which Mrs. Clinton B. Fisk
is the national president She presided at the ex-
ercises which were opened with prayer by the Rev
Dr. J. W. Campbell Reports were read by Mrs
Mark Fisk Park president OF the local society; Mrs
J. 9. Bennett. recording secretary: Mrs. James
White. treasurer: Mrs. W. r. Baird. secretary OF
Mission Supplies: Mrs G. +. FraiTn. secretary OF
Young Peoples Work: Mrs. F. H. Holbrook secre-
tary Of Mite Boxes. and Mrs. J. W. Campbell. cor
responding secretary.
During the exercises there was solo by Miss
Alma T. Matthews. soprano Of 81. Paurs Church
and the Watts de Peyster Home described BY
Mrs. F. c. Morgan and the Immigrant Girls Home
by Miss Alma T. Matthews.
The anniversary address was delivered ~ the
Rev. Or. Wallace J. McMullen After telling Mrs
Fisk and her associates in the Home Mission Soci-
ETY. how women manage show clumsy and blum
daring men that they possess an Irresistible indu-
ence over the pocketbook. DIR. McMulleu said in
part:
DR. MMUILEN's ADDRESS.
This society and others IKE it belonging to or
EantZet humanity is standing and real protest
against the charge that religion Is an ethereal. in
tangible and ghostly thing.
sent a commission TO this country to study Chris
t!anity and ascertain II IL IS success or failure
and have reported that Christianity there Is fall
ure because the people do not practise what they
preach l hone that no such report Will be made
about Christianity in this country.
Mrs. Park told the ministers that II they would
take the advice Of n coored sister from Texas and
put the cookies on the lower shelf" they would
have larger congregations and the contributions to
the missionary and church extension funds would
be much greater The attention OF the members OF
the conference was called to the fact that Young
Peoples Home Mission pins could be bought FOR 80
.~-E.-
Porto Rico were introduced and prayed for before
the meeting adjourned.