The Penn's Grove record., 1904-10-28
PROTESTANT
CONFERENCE
Held A Short session.

= ONHSSJ 41OtCDVctilU IN
) began on Wednesday OF last week an6
closed last Saturday evening, after one
Of the shortest sessions OH record.
Rev. w. ID. Stultz was reelected Presi
dent and Rev. A. S. Struthers was re
elected Secretary, with Rev. w. Petit as.
slstant.
Rev. w. d. Stultz presented a very
! complete report Of his work during the
year. He referred feeiingly to the late
L. B. Appleget and +. d. Stultz who
have died during the past year, the latter
being for several years known as the
father OF the conference. He called at
tention to the overture sent down from
the general conference with reference to
the union OF primitive Methodists, Uni
ted Brethren and Congregational denom-
nations with the Methodist Professionals,
to the communication relating to the cleo
ton OF a member to the board of mis-
sions, to a REIMBURSEMENT of the time of
holding annual conferences SO that they
will not conflict with each other, recon-
mending that the blank furnished by the
annual conference be used so that there
may be uniformity in statistical reports;
that a ministers meeting be provided for
where the ministers of the conference
could gather and discuss spiritual mat
ters and that a committee be appointed
to formulate the plan, that a committee
be appointed to provide a plan for evan
gelistic work in the conference. The re-
port was referred to a committee to re-
port on the a~dvisability of adopting the
presidents recommendations. Revs. j..
b. Nixon, j. H. Algor and j. H. Clarke
were appointed as the committee.
Rev. Samuel A. Harxer was elected
conference steward, to succeed Rev. l.
Mcdowell, who was unable to be present
owing to illness.
The committee on presidents report
made their report endorsing the recon-
mendations as set forth therein. The
report recommended that the references
to deceased members be referred to COM
mittee on obituary. In the matter of a
preachers meeting or institute it was re-
commended that it be left with a COM
mittee of five to fix the time, place and
prepare a program, aud that a commit
tee of three be appointed to arrange for
the ~evangelistic work suggested. The
recommendations of the committee were
| adopted after considerable discussion on
the question of adopting the blanks re-
commended by the general conference
for statistics.
The following committees were ap-
pointed:
Standing district committee = Revs.
VIM. Sharp, J. l.. Watson, Theodore
Darnell, Messrs. G. R. Brain, Timothy
Hulet and G. G. Dempsey.
Stationing committee-Revs. w. d.
Stultz, f. F. Craig, Norris Webb, Messrs.
James Sparks and N. r. Somers.
Confnrancn claimants Rows TT r.
Blackwood, R. J.. Patterson, j. Leup-
| pie, Messrs. Samuel Jones and @. G.
Dempsey.
Itinerancy and Orders-Rev. G. D.
Sinkinson, D. D., j. B. Nixon, A. Pat
ton, j. p. Turkelson, J.. H. Clarke, D. D.
After the above committees were elect
ed the conference took up the overtures
handed down from the General Confer
ence. The first taken up was that for
union of the Primitive Methodist Church
with the Methodist Protestant Church.
DR.. Clark in speaking on the subject said
| there was no principle at stake if the
| overture was adopted, and he was i'll
| favor of it's adoption. The overture was
adopted unanimously.
A Fraternal delegation from Eastern
Pennsylvania Conference of United
Brethren Church was present and ad
dressed the Conference on the an%ticipat-
ed Union. DIR. Stultz replied in IN OF
his earnest talks and all ielt that the bar
riers of separation were being removed.
On motion the conference refused to
unite with the South Illinois Conference
in request for disciplinary judiciary to
| determine the constltutionallty OF the act
of the general conference in setting the
| Paris stationfro
ference to the North Illinois Conference
without the consent of either of these
conferences. .rrx
Rev. L. ID. Stultz was elected a COM
| missioner to represent the conference i'll
a general council or joint commission of
the Congregational. United Brethren and
Methodist Protestant denominations to
consider the question OF church union.
| This is one of the most important and
far-eaclling matters to come before the
| conference. He will report back to the
Conference and the commissioners of
from the United Brethren and Congrega-
tional Churches will report to their gem
| eral conferences. The question of a name
seems to be one of the hard problems to
arrange.
Rev. J. G. Berrien, D. D., Secretary
| anu 4IOdolll Ol VI liz ~ vi q
Education, made an address on the edu-
| ~cational interests of the Church, and was
followed by Rev. G. E. Wilbur, ID. d.,
| editor of the Sunday-School publications,
| who spoke in the interests of these per-
iodicaIs. Rev. G. E. McManiman, D. D.,
Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of
Home Missions, made an address relating
to the mission work. Rev. F. L. Tagg
z.o1o 800 +1a ,pnrifceaf tho AIofIa1icf
Protestant and other church papers.
Rev. j. P. Turkelson was elected a
member of the Board of Foreign Missions.
There was a heated discussion over a
proposition to change the time of the an
| nual sessions. In his annual report
| President Stultz called attention to a
| suggestion from the General Conference
that the annual conferences arrange their
meetings so that they will not conflict
and interfere with the visits of church
representations. A motion to fix the
time of meeting on the second Wednes-
day in October was lost, a number Of the
ministers taking the ground that no ac-
ton should be taken without first sub
hitting the question to the churches of
the conference. Finally a motion pre-
vailed fixing the next session of confer
6nc6 LOT MdTCn, loOO, pIONlu0u bIle
change meets the approval of majority
Of the churches.
Rev. S. E. Rupp and Rev. A: G. Phil
lips, representing the Eastern Pennsyl-
vania' Conference of United Brethren,
addressed the Conference OH church I'M
ion.
The Conference decided to hold the
next session at Beach Haven.
The President in his report recon-
mended an eyangelistic movement on
the part of all the Churches. It was
adopted. The President was authorized
to arrange a plan, report it to each of the
Churches and the movement
on Sunday, Nov. goth.
The Conference was the most spiritual
held for years, and a year of great revival
is Anticipated. The stationing commit.