New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-10
READY FOR CONFERENCE.
Bishop G0odSeU to Head SeUentieth
annual Session.

AsW-Brunswick y. J. March 9 (Special). -
The SEVENTEEN session Of the New Jersey annual
conference Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
VII be held in the First Methodist Episcopal
Church q this city beginning with the opening
sermon by the Rev. 6. g. Pitt. of Atlantic City.
o. The evening Of March Is and continuing until
March 20
Bishop Daniel A Goodsen. Of Boston. will
Preside during the sessions. Bishop GoodseI
vas born in November Of 1870, and entered the
ministry al the age Of nineteen. He was con-
scaied bishop in 1883. and two years later pre-
tded Al the sessions OF the New-Jersey confer
taos in Melville
There are four districts in this conference,
tsnsly: New Brunswick Trenton. Camden and
5Hogeion IN the four districts there are more
nan three hundred pastorates. the number OF
minister's expected 10 attend being 3l5- Last
year the reports from the four districts showed
nee were 4s75 probationers and bl.6OO fuIi
MEMBERS, making q constituency OF about nfty-
* thousand. There are 337 churches In the
conference, some Of the pastors acting as a
supply 10 more than one church. The churches
Ere valued al So. 757.725, and the 1ss parsonages
E;5sss25.
Ohe Of the questions that may come up al tle
Conference this year is the organizing OF fifth
'acts are large in the amount Of territory COW
esd snd II has been proposed 10 divide these
no districts and make a fifth one At present
aFse presiding elders live in Camden district.
nose from The Camden. Bridgeton and Trenton
UsIicis. and the question may come up relative
he presiding elders living inside the district
LEY represent.
'Tee active pastors and two who held super
~ ated relations have died in the year. The
.4'f pastors We're the Rev. John Wagg. who
: appointed last year 70 the charge at Forked
= Dli died before assuming the pastorate'
II i's'. Henry ". Brown, one Of the Oldest
'ers " the conference and a member OF the
Grove Campmeeting Association. who
~, a. CT&nbuTy ~ the end OF q service OF al
h@'g years In the ministry, and the Rev.
y pA h Boyd. who died IN December at
--aeIoEe' where he was the pastor in charge,
Tbte DeeA IL the conference since 1880.
tsi,.1 Two preachers VINO held superannuated
e,..oas and nave passed away since the last
IA .t-nee met are the Rev John i. Connolly
~'e Rev William Franklin.
uas u Tie pastors have signified their intea-
taoe - oIIlng from active work at this confer
10 - yVii!lnS the supernumerary ministers
Ry u Is. Harris, OF West Grove, and the
a, J. Gregory. OF Oceanport.
nature 81 the conference will be the ap-
Tt-De % the ministerial choir Of fifty voices.
E,9fs being trained by the Rev. William
sscb &c. a. the PentecOstal services, 10 be held
q 10 moon a. o'clock under the direction
4smr-, ley Re George T. Harris, pastor OF the
pesr- NAarch. IN Camden, this choir Will APP
asscb '"e HeY: w. II. Bolton. Of Chicago. will
isiln.s tiA subjects being Conditions Of I'm
Besn..ee success Garments of Strength and
u o., SalaH's Admission and Mistake, i" Law
lD,Sl.~A succession" and "Sonship."
lla6e a. centres about the appointments 10 be
gib - lhe Bishop and the first conference
Gss..A e presiding elders, who are the Revs.
Hewitt W. w; r Davis J. .. Haines. Edmund
RFbo, and James Moore. viii be held by the
= rey, upon his arrival here Tuesday afternoon
E,r-s- Yeasor viii be named 10 the Rev. ID. B.
Re- % West Grove and the Rev Henry J.
OF EatontoWn, is likely TO be trans