Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-09
LAYMEN MEET
IN CONFERENCE
Methodisis Hold Interesting SEES.
sion Followed by Banquet
Beach Is Reelected.

JERSEY CITY, Apr. 9.-Friday
was laymen's day at the Newark
Methodist conference, which is being
held in West Side Avenue NJ. e.
church, Jersey City, and at their
meeting in the First Congregational
church, of which DR.. Scudder is pas
tor, they showed by reports and in
other ways what a valuable adjunct
that association has been to the
church.
At the morning session introduce
lions and preliminary business took
ND most of the time. In the after
noon. however, considerable business
was transacted, and several members
| urged the necessity of aiding home
and foreign missions.
Henry II. Meyer, secretary of the
Wesleyan Brotherhood, urged the es-
tablishment Of male organizations to
| engage in mems work, which, he said,
was the object of the Brotherhood.
Among other things, Mr.. Meyer
said that the principle underlying
trade unionism and lodges was a sell
fish one, being on the basis of self
protection instead of ''for service
rendered.
In order TO demonstrate the need
of mems organizations, he stated that
in 500 churches in the East New
York, New England and Illinois con-
ferences there were 114,169 men
and that out of this number only
1856 were interested in mems
work.
No Zeal i'm Newark.
The report of William H. Beach,
| president of the organization, was
warmly received. He said that since
the conference met last the parish
association had been multiplying in
an encouraging manner. Regarding
evangelical unions, he said that the
Paterson district had made fine prog
ress; much to his sorrow the New
ark district had lost zeal and was
very much in need of regeneration.
Jersey City and Elizabeth district
unions, he added, had made fairly
! good progress.
'"The work in Jersey City" he con
tinued, should be more systematic
so as to c%hristianize the alien popu-
lation.'
Continuing. Mr.. Beach said that
The minister who consented to the
appellation splendid money g%etter"
and great builder had mistaken his
calling.
II am glad to report that this as
sociation has so nobly supported
Drew Theological Seminary and
Hackettstown Collegiate INSTITUTE
ne added.
John Callaghan, successor of the
late Samuel Hadley, as superintend-
ent of Wesley Rescue Home on the
Bowery, near Houston street, New
York, made a feryent appeal for the
support of such charities, and his rev.
citation of things in the under
world" amazed his hearers. The To-
cation of the home, he said, was the
next place TO hell"
Model Sandwiches.
During the course of his remarks,
Mr.. Callaghan raped patent medi-
cines for their ravages upon the sys-
TENS of weak mortals. He raised a
laugh when he said that the sand
witches doled out at the mission were
not of the kind YOU could read a
newspaper through, neither were
they of antediluvian origin.
On motion of Charles P. Fletcher,
of Linden, a committee, consisting of
himself and a second one to be pick
ed by him, 70 gather statistics, was
appointed.
A plea for religious instruction in
public schools was made by DR..
George A. Werner, president of the
Evangelical Lutheran Synod, of New
York and New Jersey.
Give us, say Wednesday after
moons. in the schools" he said, and
we will solve the problem of religious
instruction"
The following officers were elected
by the association: w. H. Beach.
president, ~(re-elected); vice presi-
dent, James r. jay; secretary, Al
bert b. Meredith, of Newark district:
treasurer. Frank ID. Peter. of Jer-
sey City: district vice presidents:
Newark, Fred H. Larter; Elizabeth.
Charles w. b. Fisher; Paterson, Os-
car .Ieffries; Jersey City, Chas. l..
Gilmore. Mr.. Peter reported a cash
balance on hand of SCI 95, with out
standing DEBTS of s26 40.