The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-04-02
NEWARK vi. E.
CONFERENCE
The Fiftieth Anniversary to be
Celebrated in Connection
with Annual Meeting.
THE INTERESTING PROGRAMS

Episcopal Church will be held in Nor
ristown this week the sessions be-
ginning to-day and lasting IN til the
following Wednesday. Most Of the
sessions will be held in the Methodist
Church.
Wednesday morning, April 3, at 10
O'Clock, there will BE- a sacrament of
the LORDS supper, followed by roll cali
and organization, and in the evening
the anniversary services OF the CEN
tenary fund and Preachers Aid So
lciety. Rev Daniel Hallefon will pre-
lside, and reports will be made by Rev.
J A Gutteridge, corresponding Secre-
tary and Milton K. Blanchard, treas
urer. An address viii be delivered by
Rev. r. J Cooke.
Thursday morning Bishop Goodsell
will conduct the opening services fol-
lowed by a business session. At night
will be held the semi-centennial cele-
bration OF the Conference A roll call
OF the surviving members Will be read.
They are Rev. Fl. ]. Hayter. Rev B.
O. Parvin, Rev. Thompson II. Landon,
Rev. w G. Felson, Rev r. B. Lock-
wood Rev. Isaac Thomas, Rev Walter
Cham berlain and Rev. George f. Dick
inson +" "reminiscences of Ministers
of the Conference" will be the subject
of an address to be delivered by Rev.
t. H. Land0n, and "Reminiscences
of Laymen, by George j. Ferry A
historical summary OF the conference
will be read by Rev Dir. John f. Dodd,
the veteran secretary. Two other
addresses will be delivered, one by All
appointee of the New Jersey Confer
ence, and the other by Bishop Good
sell, on Facing the Future"
Friday will be known as ''Laymen'S
Day" In the morning there will be
| a business session, followed by a lunch-
con. Upon an invitation of Rev. E..
A. Noble, president of the Centenary
| Collegiate Institute Of Hackettstown,
| the members of the Conference will go
| by special train to the institute. The
members will return to MorriStown in
time for the anniversary of the con-
| ference of the Epworth League. Rev
dresses will be delivered by Rev DR..
| w. l.. Anderson. secretary of the
Board of Education, and Rev. DR..
!
worth League Herald.
There will be only a business ses-
| sion of the conference Saturday. Sun
( day morning conference love feast
will be held, followed 10y a sermon by
the bishop. In the afternoon Rev. A.
Fl. futile, of Summit, will deliver a
missionary sermon, followed by an or
dination of elders and deacons. At
night will be the anniversary services
of the Board OF Home Missions and
Church Extension. An address will
be delivered by Rev. Robert Forbes,
of Philadelphia At the same time
time Rev. DR.. Homer Stun, superin-
tendent of the Methodist missions in
the Philippine Islands, will speak in
the First Presbyterian Church.
A business session will be held Mon
day morning and at night the Prohi-
bition and Total Abstinence Society
will conduct services.
The first anniversary at the coming
session of the Newark Conference will
be that of theWoman's Home Mission
ary Society 1t will be of special in
tereSt to everyone who loves his coun-
try, no matter what his creed may be.
This society stands for patriotism as
we'll as religion, and is seeking to lift
up the poor and degraded, and create
high and pare standard of home life
in the tenementS of our cities, the
cabins of the colored people in the
South, and among the ignorant masses
! in our new possessions. With orphan
ages, hospitals, industrial schools, and
:. other agencies these women now have
many thousands of homes under their
| transforming influence, and are eS-
pecially successful in uplifting the
children of the poor. The report Of
the years work by Mrs. Hedley r.
Woodward of Montclair, will certainly
be of great interest. The anniversary
address will be delivered by the Rev.
q. f. Locke, d. d., of Brooklyn, said
to be very eloquent and able speaker.
The date is Wednesday, April 3rd, at
2.30 p. m.
The anniversary of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will be
held in the Methodist Church onThurs-
day, April 4, at go p. m. Addresses
will be made by DR.. Homer G. Stuntz,
of the Philippine Islands Mission; Rev
H. f. Randolph, pastor of the First
Church, Hoboken, and possibly Miss
Jennie V. Hughes, of Kin Kiang,
China. The public is invited to attend
this service.
The conference committee is issuing
a handsome souvenir program of the
conference to be held in the Methodist
Church next week, the tftieth ami
versary of the organization. 1t will
be illustrated 10y about SiXty-iive pc
lures Of former pastors, etc, and will
contain a historical sketch of the cen
ference by john X. Dodd and one Of
the local church by s. S. Day After
| The programs are given to the delegates
the remaining copies will be offered
for sale.
Measuring Cattle to Get Weight.
| The following rule has been found Of
considerable value in determining the
| vUaicsht of aaftIa uhen act1Ial Ivei0hin O.