Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1905-03-16

to-day than ever before. More than
ever to-day, he said, we need the old
type plain gospel preaching. When to
this he added, "We must cut loose
from the millinery in which too many
OF us are swathed and get into our
working clothes,'' the audience re-
sponded with hallelujahs and clapping
OF hands. Hundreds of people crowded
down the aisles to the altar rails at
which penitenJs knelt in prayer. The
singing was kept up for nearly an
| hour.
Without discussion, but with an ear
nestness of purpose that showed the
temper of the conference on the SUBJ
Ject, resolutions were adopted protest.
ing against proposed changes IN the
| New Jersey license laws. The Revs.
E. J. Kulp, G. H. Ham and John Fl.
Handley WE'RE appointed committee
| to protest against the bill pending in
the Legislature, and against all at
tempts to pass such legislation as will
favor the extension OF the liquor
traffic. I" The resolutions set forth
that this bill provides for the appoint
ment of Boards of Excise Commission
ers In cities of from 10, 600 to 10, GOO
population, thereby removing the
power of granting licenses from the
Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas
and placing it in the hands of the
local politicians
Women's influence and practical
work in home missions was eulogized
by the Rev. DR.. 9. W. Gallagher, OF
Washington. The Society of Woman s
Home Missions, he said, annually
raises and expends half a million dol
lars in mission work and the main
tenance of the Washington Training
School, built at cost of $3.50, 600, and
100 industrial schools in different
| parts of the country. Without the aid
OF the women, he declared that the
Methodist Episcopal Church would be
unable to reach many thousands of the
vast number OF immigrants annually
landed on our shores. He expressed
the hope that the conference would
approve the project to establish a
Deaconesses' home, and also board
of nine deaconesses. Altogether, he
said. there are 5000 women more or
less actively engaged in the society's
works.
Mrs. Frank D. Gamewell, who was
received with the "Chautauqua sa-
lute," spoke on mission work in
| China. She related her experiences
during the Boxer troubles in China,
and this story led Bishop Cranston to
declare that it was to the everlasting
glory of the Methodist Episcopal
Church that the young men and women
converts in Pekin and elsewhere in
China stood firm and did much to save
the missionaries from the red-handed
fury Of the Boxers.
Asserting that the best temperance
society in the world is the Methodist
Episcopal Church, the Rev. DR.. Will
liam Parr made a plea for greater sup
port being accorded the Church Exten-
sion Society. He said never was there
| greater need for more churches than
| the present time.
Reports on the condition of the
| churches in the several districts of
the conference showed uniform pro-
gression, financially as well as spirit
ueny. Revival meetings in each dis
trict were said to have been remark
ably successful and the forerunner of
still more numerous conversions this
year. Edmund Hewitt, Presiding Ell
der OF Bridgeton District, extending
| from Camden to the coast, and EN-.
bracing all OF New Jersey south to
Delaware Bay, gave these figures on
Church: Seven cities, N towns and
villages, 81 churches, valued at $6l6, :
600; 48 parsonages, valued at Sill, 900 /;
| 96 Sunday schools, with 100 officers
and 13, 700 pupils; 6S Epworth Leagues,
45 Junior Leagues, 50 Ladies Aid So.
cieties average salary of pastors, 1856.
representing a total expenditure of ga
per cent. on the investment in church
property. Speaking of the flourishing
financial conditions. he said the total
| indebtedness on church and parsonage
buildings was $50, Ala, representing a
reduction of more than so per cent. in
| the last three years He said:
/ "Revivals in the district were of
more than usual power and extent.
| Among the more remarkable were
those at Erma Tabernacle charge.
where the converts were of the old
fashioned kind and the conversions
were clear and Joyous.
"Christians who never were known
| to shout before shouted and praised