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M. {. conference
HAS BEGUN.
Annual Six Days Meeting
Opened Today In St.
Luke's Church, New
ark.
BISHOP CRAHSTON IN THE CHAIR
Board Of Examiners Met Yes.
terday and Went Over
Prospective Pastors
Papers Today's
Work.
BISHOP CRANSTON IN THE CHAIR
Board Of Examiners Met Yes

4Ixff <A1l1A, MARCH 20, lOV1.- HS
forty-seventh anual session of the New
ark conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, began this morning at 8
o'clock at st. st. Luke's NJ. e. Church,
Clinton avenue and Murray street. The
session will last six days ending Monday
afternoon, if there is no hitch in fixing
the annual list of appointments 10 be an
nounced just before adjournment.
The business meetings of the clergy
men vii be held at st. Lukess each morn
ing except Sunday, and the pricipal an
adversary meetings of the various con-
ference socities will occur there in the
afternoons and evenings. Other anni-
yersary sessions will take place in St.
Paul's M. z. Church, Broad and Mar
shall streets, and at Central ME. Church
in Market street, near Mulberry street.
The Laymen's Association of the confer
ence will meet at the Clinton Avenue
Baptist Church, short distance from
st. Luke's Friday morning and after
noon
A new feature of the conference week
will be the nightly eyangelistic meet
ings to be held at Franklin Street NJ. b.
Church, opposite the new City Hall.
Various ministers of the conference win
preach and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Leper
will sing.
The regular prayer meeting of the
congregation of St. Luke's was held last
night and was followed by a reception
at which Bishop Cranston and a num-
Der of visiting clergymen were present.
There was an informal programme, with
singing by Mrs. Caroline Polhamus, So
prano of the First Reformed Church. A
few Of the out-of- town ministers arrived
in the afternoon and went to the homes
to which they had been. assigned by the
committee on entertainment. The major
ity of the 800 members Of the conference
arrived today.
Today's session opened with the sacra-
ment of the Lords Supper administered
by the Bishop Then followed formal
organization and roll call. The rest of
the session was consumed by a memoir
ial service for the clergymen and their
wives, who have died during the year.
Bishop Earl Cranston. of Portland,
Ore, who is presiding at the business
meetings, arrived here last evening and
/ is the guest Of Rev. Clarence T.. Will
son, pastor of ST. Luke's at the parson-
age, 13 Murray street. The cabinet
meetings will be held each afternoon at
2.3O o'clock.
The conference board of examiners
was in session yesterday in committee
room No. /, at st. Luke's Church. It
convened at 10 A. NJ, and ended its ex-
aminations in the afternoon. The COM
mittee consisted OF the following The
Rev. DR.. u. S. MCGOWAN, president, the
Rev. DR.. M. d. Church, registrar; the
Rev. d. B. F. Randolph, the Rev. J. G..
Johnston, the Rev. e. S. .Iamison. the
Rev. P. G. Bascom, the Rev. W. H..
Ruth, the Rev. W. R. Neff. the Rev. G.
G. vogel, the Rev. J. Y Dobbins. the
Rev. f.. G. Dobbins and the Rev. r. B.
Urniy.
1t is the boards duty to examine the
papers of the various young ministers
and students in the four year course Of
conference study. Those whom the board
examined yesterday were First years
study, the Rev. Samuel Jones, of Wal
pack Center; second-year's study, the
Rev. John Bovenizer. Of Succasunna the
Rev. i. S. Garris, of Branchville; third
| years study, the Rev. Dorr r. Diefen-
dorf of Chatham ;the Rev. A. g. Arm
strong, of Vernon and Glenwood the
the Rev A. ]. Bliss of Bloomsbury; the
Rev. W. w. G. Walker, of Caldwell, and
the Rev. +. g. Starr. Of New Foundland;
fourth years study, the Rev. Oscar L.
Joseph, Of First Church, Crawford; the
Rev. E. H. Atwood, Of colevilleA and
| I4ibertyville; the Rev o. ]. shoor, of
Matamoras, Pa, and the Rev. Charles
.. Morris, now in Korea.
In the afternoon the clergymen Mt
tended the annual session Of the Confer
enee Life Insurance Association in the
lecture room of St. Luke's, while the An