Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-11
METHODIST CONFERENCE
Now Attending Strictly To Business
Matters.

Melrose, Mass. April 10.-Following
several days during which business has
been interspersed with addresses and
anniversaries the delegates to the an
nual session Of the New England Con-
ference of Methodist Episcopal churches
in this city today devoted themselves
strictly to business. Sessions were ar
ranged for forenoon, afternoon and
evening. 1t WAS thought the matter of
might be reached late in
the day.
HI Rev. ]. w. Higgins Waltham, Offered
d motion at the forenoon session to the
effect that evangelistic and revival SER
vices should be substituted for the an
niyersaries which now occupy most of
tpa afternoons and evenings o fthe an
nual session Of the conference. After
considerable discussion in which the
general sentiment seemed to favor the
Introduction of revival meetings during
the conference, to some extent, the mo
ito was referred to the committee on
active evangelization which will report
at next years session.
Rev. L. w. Staples, repairing for the
committee in charge of the sustentation
fund recommended that no church
should receive the full services of a
minister unless it raised $500 a year for
mis- support. in addition to house rent.
He declared that in many cases minis
tiers were receiving less thar $500 year
from their churches. The committee
recommended that the smaller churches
should establish circuits, each Of which
should be supplied by one minister as
is done in many Other conferences
The report of the sustentation fund
committee was adopted, this having the
effect of making the recommendation re-
gardng ministers salaries to the ap-
pointing powers of the conference but
leaving them flee to act in the matter
as they see fit.
Rev. c. II. Stackpole of Melrose, for the
committee on lions Herald. reported
that the present conditions with relation
to that paper were not entirely satisfac
tory to the committee. He said the ut
trranccs of the paper were not official
and the conference was not responsible
for them. The conference. ne added had
no voice in the management of the pa
Jrr. He suggested that a committee
should be appointed to ascertain the ex-
act relations between the Herald and the
conference and report its findings to the
conference This suggestion was adopted
and a committee was appointed for this
purpose.
III" conference adopted a resolution
extending sympathy to Rev ID. c. Bah
cock, pastor of the Methodist church at
Milford " H., whose daughter, Miss SUI
sic (. Babcock, was found dead in
field yesterday, as the result of exhaus-
ton and exposure.
The conference took further action In
the ease Of DIR. James Boyd Brady. Four
hundred dollars in salary was due the
clercvmen and the conference voted to
raise this amount and liquidate the in
debtedness. 1t was also voted to have
DR.. Brady's accounts audited to date and
close them up.
The evening session was devoted TO the
closing up of the business of the CONFER
encc and the reading of appointments
and changes Two presiding elders We're
changed by the committee, Rev. JOhn U.
Aibraith being sent to the Cambridge
district and Rev. Charles +. Rice to the
Boston district.
Among the changes as read at the
meeting, tonight, are the following:
Cambridge district-Lowell-Centr
church, George Whitaker; Lunenpere
church. supplied by Fayette Nicholas;
church. II. G. Alley: Haverhill, Peoples
church. r. G. Crosse; Highlands church.
sunnlicd bv c. C. Otto; Maple street
church. F.. r. Pomeroy: Lakeside church,
srppied by G.. H. McCrea: St. Lukcs,
r ID. Lane: Newhurvport. Peoples
church, w. ]. Kelley: Peabody. Arthur
P,mncr; Salem. Lafayette street church.
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