Connecticut western news., 1904-04-07

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 These churches are supplied by 215 full members, and r probationers ill the conference and 31 local preachers. During the past year nine have died; | two have withdrawn from the confer ence to enter other fields of labor. The program of services during the session of conference, already arranged, is as follows:
 On Tuesday evening, April 9th the War Veterans Association " of the conference will hold an annual camp fire, addressed by Rev. L.M. Foster, D.D. On Wednesday afternoon the Minis ter's Mutual Assistance Society will be addressed by Rev. P. M. Waters, D. D. On Wednesday evening, Church Exten- sion Society-speakers Rev. J. M. King, D. D., and Dr. Forbes.
 Thursday, II am, conference sermon by Rev. I. J. Perity, D. D.; p. m., Women's Home Missionary Society; p. m., a reception by the Lay Electoral Conference at the Grace M. E. Church. 104th St
 Friday, the Lay Electoral Conference will meet and choose their delegates to the general conference, to be held at Los Angeles, Cal, in May 1904. The same day an election will be held in the conference for the ministerial delegates to the same body, and under the present law of the church women may be chosen as delegates. Att p. m. the anniversal y of the Sunday School Union and Tract Society will be held; at D. m., the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Educa- tional Society.
 On Sabbath the bishop will preach at II a. m. and ordain the candidates for the ministry as deacons, and in the after noon Rev. T. H. Baragwanath, D. D |, will preach the missionary sermon, fol- lowed by the ordination of elders. The Epworth League anniversary will be held at p. m. The Educational Society will meet in Calvary church, 2190 Seventh Ave; the Missionary Society i'll St. James church, 1881 Madison Ave.
 On Monday at D. m. the memorial service win be held; at s p. m., the Temperance Society anniversary.
 As there is now no time limit for the pastorate we hear but little about the changes to be made and the calling of pastors to certain churches. The con- ference is now self supporting. Each church is assessed for the entertainment O the pastor during the session of con- fe 'ence, and t e travelling expenses arc also capitalized, so that each preacher will bear the same expense, and the superanuated have their travelling ex. penses all paid. This year it is expect. ed the whole amount of the fund for the superanuated, amounting to sl00,000, will be raised, and Mir. John E. Andrus will add to tie same s50,000 more. Al the sessions of the conference are open and free to all who wish to attend.
 Historically the present St. Paul: church dates back to the Mulberry St church., known as the Second Wesley | du hSuiIdbSd Ds 1oDD Here in 1S42 the 43d session of the New York conference was held, Bishop Hedding presiding. In 1858 the Mul berry Society was removed to Fourth Ave. and 22d St., and under a new name, "The St. Paul's Church." built one of the finest and most costly Meth. odist churches in the city of New York Here the conference met in 1860, Bishop Levi Scott presiding; again in 1888 Bishop W. H. Hanis presiding. The society sold their church in 1892 and re. moved to the present new St. Paul's, which was dedicated by Bishop Cyrus D. Floss, a former pastor, Oct. 3, 1897 and now for the fifth time welcomes the conference, after three score and ten years, having survived the changes of membership by removals and deaths, and the peril of two removals of the location of the church.
 As there will be an election of one or more bishops at the next general con- ference, have no doubt the New York conference will furnish one or more candidates ill their choice of delegates.
 REV. J. H. LANE. Plasant Valley, N. Y.,