Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-03-09
Programme of Vermont Metho-
dists's Annual Gathering at
Enosburgh Fall
BISHOP MOORE TO fESlDE
Opening Service Tucsda' ~ evening
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April 1S-Rcv. >. &. Lewis 10
Preach Missionary Scrmom--'rhc
Bishops sermon VIII BE
Delivered In Open Hull.

St Albans March S.-The 6lst annual
session of the Vermont conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church Will be
held this year at t.nosburgh Falls. Tho
conference. which viii y" in session for
nearly Il week, will open Oh Tuesday,
April IS. and continue until Monday, the
25th with Bishop David II. Moore OF
Portland. ore. presiding.
The conference programme as arranged
follows: The session which will be held
a the Methodist Episcopal Church. will
open at 1:3o oclock on Tuesday evening
Arrl IL. with the anniversary service
Of the conference temperance society, at
which meeting the Rev. Dr.. Baker. ma
t.pnal superintendent of the Anti-Saloo
League. will deliver an address. On We'd
nosday morning at nine O'Clock the con
ference proper will be opened by Bishop
Moore, whom the sacrament of the Lords,
supper will be administered. The organ
i?ation of the conference will come next,
after which the usual memorial service
for deceased members md of decea Sod
wives of members of the conference will
be held. The conference missionary ser
mon Will be delivered at go O'Clock on
"Wednesday afternoon. by the Rev. S. G.
Lewis of Barton Landing In the even
ing at 7:S0 the anniversaries of the board
oi education and of the Sunday school
union will he held. at which addresses
will 10 delivered by the Rev. W. r. An
derson. y. D., of New York and the
Rev. A. +. George. d. D., of st. Louis.
Mo.
ON Thursday morning at $50 o'clock
there will be held the usual devotional
service of one hour, followed By the
first business session of the conference.
deaconess work will be represented by
Mrs. r. s. Douglass of Boston and on
Thursday evening the anniversary Of
the Missionary society will be held,
when an address will be delivered by
the Rev. S. .. Benton, ID. D., Of New
York Friday morning from $50 to $50
will be devoted to devotional exercises
followed by the business of the confer
ence and at eleven o'clock the bishop will
address the calss ready for full conncc-
ton with the conference At o:3O
o'clock in the afternoon the anniversary
OF the Woman's Foreign Missionary So
cety will be held and an address will
he given by Bishop Moore. On Friday
evening at 1:3o o'clock tho anniversary
of the Church Extension society and the
Frcedman's Aid society will be held
when speeches will be made by the Rcv
W. X. ThirkIcld. ID. D.. of Cincinnati
secretary of the Freedman's Aid society
and by tho Rev. DR. Robert Forbes. sec
retary Of the Church Extension society
~ $50 on Saturday morning the usual
devotional exercises will be held. followed
by The business session. and at eleven
O'Clock a reception to visiting fraternal
del, gates Will be held AT two o'clock in
the afternoon the anniversary Of tho
Womdns Home Missionary society will
b. ncld ard will he addressed by Mrs. L.
Lihbic Allen. general field worker OF the
society. The reception to the Pastors
Wives union will be held at the Metho-
dist parsonage at four o'clock. In the
evening at eight o'clock at opera hall
Bishop Moore. who has recently returned
from four years in the Far East, will de-
liver his celebrated lecture on "Chs m
ulpo or What an American Saw of the the
First Battles between Russia and Japan"
rho services on Sunday will all be held
at opo,a hall, commencing with love
feast at nine O'Clock in the morning. led
by the Rrv. O. NJ. Boutwell, Of Hyde Park.
Al 1890 there will be services with a Ser
mon by Bishop Moore. There will be a
brief address by the Rev. Il. NJ. Randall
u. d., ri Chicago general secretary uf
tho Fpworth League. followed by the or
dination Of deacons and elders by tho
bishop. At seven O'Clock in the evening
tho first anniversary of the conference
Epworth League will be held and will he
addressed by DR. Randall. followed by
cVanPelistc services. The conference will
come to close on Monday morning when
The unfinished business will be wound up
and the appointments read by the bishop.
Tho conference. which includes $50
churches will be attended by at least
two hundred delegates. Although the ho-
tel accommodations are limited at the
falls. every member attending the con-
ference will he nicely taken care Of The
Free VIII Baptist and Episcopal Church
people have very generously rendered the
Methodists their hearty support in Iooh-
Ing after guests and the enterta inmcnt I
committee is pleased to announce thai t
places have been found for all. within
easy walking distance Of the conference.
CHANGES IN PRESIDING ELDERS.
The Rev. Charles s. Nuttcr ID. d., who
has been presiding elder OF the st. AL
bans district for the past six years, will
complete his term as such in April and
it Is expected that he will take an ap-
pointment to preach. The same can be
said Of the Rev. j. O. Sherburne, pre-.
siding elder of the st. Johnsbury dis
trict Who their SUCCESSORS are to be will
not be known until the conference ap-
uointments arc given out. Tho board OF
examiners will hold II meeting on Tues
day afternoon. April IS. for tho examina-
tion of candidates for admission on trial
and i'm the courses OF studies and also
for local orders.
Bishop David II. Moore. who has been
selected as the presiding officer OF Tho
conference is one of the ablest and most
talented III the board Of bishops. lie has
had n wide and varied experience IN uf-
fairs of the world and is n great Traveller.
His reputation as public speaker and
lecturer extends across the continent and
the oceans as WELL The bishop arrived
homo last April from four years in the
O.iant xuhcrn hn has had charRe Of lhC