The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-05-16

The music of the convention was in
charge of Rev. William Stone, of Camden,
and there was special evening music by
the church choir. At times the organ was
presided over by Adam Geibel, the blind
music composer and hymn writer, of
Philadelphia, who sang several sweet
solos. There were other distinguished
visitors present, one of whom was Dr. l.
A. Lippincott, of Philadelphia, superin-
tendent of the Methodist Episcopal Hos
pital.
DR.. Crantz, a representative of the
Methodist Book Concern. made an earnest
plea in support of the periodicals published
in The interest of Methodism.
Rev. D. E. Clair, a member of the COM
mittee. made reference to the Inter-
National Convention to be held at Denver,
Colorado, from July to 8, stating that a
special train of five cars had been arranged
for with the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
panY to carry the New Jersey delegates to
the west.
Rev. Frank Moore, President of the
Pennington Seminary, addressed the
audience in the interest of that institution
The invitation extended by Dr. Ham
berger, that the next annual convention
be held in St. Paul's church, Atlantic
City, was accepted.
The report of E. T. Fitzgeorge, treas
urer, showed that the cash received DUR
ing the fiscal year was 1885, rs; disburse
ments, $173.95, leaving balance on hand
of $112 SO. The aggregate of all monies
handled by the New Jersey Conference
Epworth League, which includes all the
Leagues south of New Brunswick, was
SIS, GA rs, and there was cash balance
in the treasury of 81, 1884,
7 IN
ship as follows: active, II, 438; associate,
2,672, total of IA, 10.
The largest chapters are: Broadway,
Camden, 525; Tabernacle, Camden. 451
Mount Holly, 3O5; St. Paul's, Atlantic
City, 199
Following are the newly-elected officers:
President. Rev. Thomas S. Brock, New
Brunswick; first vice president, Rev. s..
G. Pitt, Atlantic City; second vice presi-
dent, Rev. William G. Meyer, Mount
Holly; third vice president, Miss Anna
Stiles, Camden; fourth vice president,
Miss Myra Dobbins, Long Branch super
| intendent of Junior Work, S. H. Thomp-
son, Camden; secretary, H. Hendrickson,
Long Branch; treasurer. E. T. Fitzgeorge
Trenton.
The convention opened on Wednesday
evening at Z. 40 o'clock with a brief ser
vice, and fifteen minutes later Rev John
Handley, d. D., delivered an address on
John Knox. The speaker said in part:
There are but very few men who out
live the age in which they acted well their
part. At the close of our Civil War there
were before the nation at least score of
famous names; now there are but five or
six. AT the end of this century there will
be but three-Lincoln, Grant and Lee.
"a man whose name and fame survive
the centuries must not only have done
something remarkably great, but marvel
ously great There must be something
phenomenal in his life, character and ac-
chievements, or otherwise the terrential
currents of the ages will carry him into
deepest oblivion. The tendency of the
centuries is to bury men, not to resurrect
| them.
"John Knox lives Neither time, prog
ress or eternity can obliterate his name
| from history, remove his personal in
| fiuence from Professionalism, nor his life
from that human galaxy of stars which
Eliminates the darkest night of adversely
and constrains the lonely traveller to look
aloft to Him who is the inspiration OF
every noble and immortal life.
The examination of John Knox's life is
a revelation of God in man. Every good
anu great uldu is du luCdIudblOu u some
power of God; so as we trace the life Of
Knox from its origin to its terminus, we
are following the evolution of the divine
in the human.
"Kuox was born at Haddington, in East
Lothian, in 1905. 400 years ago He re-
ceiyed liberal education, and at the age
of sixteen entered the University of Glas
gov, but left just before he received his
degrees. Later we find him teaching
PHILOSOPHY and theology in subordinate
position.
I'm 1880 he became a priest in the Ro
man Catholic Church, in which Office h,
continued for about ten years.
'sAs the martyrdom of Stephen hat
much to do with the conversion of Sau
of Tarsus, so the martyr death of Georg'
Wishart, his companion and teacher
changed John Knox into strenuous Pro
testant. making him to Scotland wha
Paul was to the Gentiles, the pionee