The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-06
COLLEGE PASSING
AWAY, SAYS HEAD
Of HACKETTST0WN
No Time to Spend in Schools of
Liberal Arts, He Tells
Conference.
REV. DR.. MORGAN HITS
AT YEARLY CHANGES
Central Church Minister De-
clares Pastors Should Be
Removed for Cause Only.
Especial to the Evening STAR

PLAINF1ELD, April 6.-The passing
of the college was the surprising pre-
diction of the Rev. DR.. Eugene A.
Noble, president of Centenary Col
legiate Institute. at Hackettstown, in
an address before the Newark Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
The American hustle, DIR. Noble de-
clared, found no time for the liberal
arts institution. What is demanded. he
said, is an institution that will elimi-
nate the college entirely and pass the
pupil from the secondary school to the
technical or professional school. The
class of schools heretofore maintained,
he contended. will not answer future
demands for education.
DR.. Noble stated that more girls than
boys arc applying as students since the
increase of tuition. There are ninety
seven boys and cighty-seven girls in
tho school. He made a plea for more
money to retain tho excellent corps of
teachers now in the school. The debt
of the institute. he said, is being re-
duced.
Dr. MorEsn's pIan.
The Itev. DIR. William II. Morgan.
pastor OF Central Church, Newark. who
holds the record for service in one
church, having been at his present
! charge ten years. read a resolution
which was deferred a vote until to-
morrow to memorabilia general confer
ence TO fix a time limit on p%astorates at
four years, providing for reappointment
after fou years, but pastors not to be
removed in four years except for cause,
The Rev. DR.. John r. Dodd, of New
ark, was elected a reserve delegate to
the General Conference. The two other
reserves are the Rev. DIR. William Fl,
Morgan, of Newark, and the c DR.,
Jacob A. Cole, of Orange.
The Rev. Daniel Halloran, of New
ark: the Rev. DIR. Charles L.. Mead, Of
Newark; the Rev. George G.. Nogel
of Jersey City; the Rev. Herbert F
Randolph, of Hobol1en, and the Rev
Ralph 3. Urmy, of Morristown, were
appointed to cooperate with the stand
ing committee to arrange matters per
tanning to the Mount Tabor camp meet
ing.
Peace Official Talks.
DR.. Beals. secretary of the American
Peace Commission, was present anc
spoke on the work of the commission
showing progress II "a preceden'
established for arbitration.
He said that thirty-five years of /;
working mans lie are shot away ii
five shots at a target practise and fifty
years of a school teachers life-work
Two thousand members are now en-
listed in the work of this commission
he said, to try to secure adjustment OF
International disputes without resort tc
arms.
Bishop Hartsell. for twelve years pas
bishop to Africa, spoke on his work
He said If the flag of some great nation
could wave over Morocco it would oper
this great country for Christ.
He spoke of the English flag as the
missionary flag of the world, and re.
ferred to Germany's great influence il
the eastern world for Christianity.
Immigration is an awful peril, oil
our great opportunity, and the church
must make it the opportunity de
clared the Rev. DR.. George Elliott, oil
Chicago, field secretary of tho Home
Missions Board. in one of the most
vigorous and eloquent addresses de-
livered at the conference, and his plea
was for an awakening of the great
American people to their opportunity,
as well as to their security.
America is the last stand of the
Anglo-SaXon," he said, and here shall
the final purpose of God be fulfilled. II
America fails, God must fail. The
question of immigration is the greatest
which America faces today. Men are
coming to see that money is not the
only question. No country ever faced
such a problem as ours, with the
thousands of every nationality landing
on our shores every year.
81 believe the future of this country
for a thousand years viii lie between
the Saxon and Slav. The Bohemian is
the best of all mi immigrants. He is
a natural Protestant. 1t was from the
Bohemian that John Wesley got the
spiritual warmth for his Methodism.
Il am glad that we have not for
gotten Corea and India in Il mission
work, but can we rejoice when our
church has forgotten the two million
Poles in our country?
81 love the Italians. What We hear
of the Black Hand and the Malta no
more concerns the real Italian people
than the night-riders stand for Ken
lucky. We need the Italians for the
hard work of the country. They are
taking the place of the Irish of