Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-27

churches of conference in proportion
to their strength. There shall be free
entertainment, as now, for superannu-
ates, supernumeraries and official vlsl-
tors, and from the fund each minister
shall have 81 per day, for entertain
ment After much discussion this plan
was adopted for future conferences. In
its report OH the Epworth League, the
committee recommended that the state
organization be abolished. This aroused
much opposition and the recommended
1ion was stricken from the report.
Rev. II. A. Clifford OF Strong in his
report for the committee on education
raised a mild storm of protest by
giving praise to Wesleyan, of which he
is a graduate, in a way that seemed to
discriminate against other colleges.
BY vote of the conference this part
of the report was toned down so that
there was no discrimination.
The bishop was present during the
last part of the afternoon and most
| matters Of Importance remaining un-
attended to were taken up. Upon his
own request the name of Rev. Charles
S. Cummings Of Auburn, ex-sheriff of
Androscoggin, was taken from the list
of supernumerary preachers and
placed on the effective list. This left
the list of supernumeraries as follows:
David F. Miller, Frank c. Potter,
Charles B. Lamb, John A. Ford, James
Nixon, Charles A. Southland and Will
liam T. Chapman. The only change in
the list of superannuated preachers
was the dropping Of the name Of Nath-
an .. Center, who died during the
year. This leaves the list as follows:
George w. Barber, Charles K. Evans,
True Whittier, Sylvester D. Brown,
Frank w. Smith, John Gibson, Francis
Grosvener, Gersham F. Cobb, Henry
Crockett, True P. Adams, Chas. w.
Blackman, John Collins, George Hoitt,
John r. Masterman, Chas. E. Bisbee,
James w. Smith, Hezekiah Chase,
VIM. F. Marshall, Israel Luce, VIM. S.
Jones, David Pratt, Melvin E. King,
VIM. H. Barber, James H. Trask, John
B. Lapham and Leonard H. Bean The
| oldest man on this retired list is True
P. Adams, aged 81, whose son was the
speaker Of Sunday evening at City
| hall. Two of these superannuates live
| in Augusta, John Gibson, a member
OF the conference for 4S years, and
Francis Grosvener. Several are now
living outside the State.
The following were appointed official
visitors to the annual meetings of 9TH
er denominations: Congregationalists
| Raw. Geo. A. Martin Of Rumford Falls;
Free Baptists, Rev. A. A. Lewis of
Gorham; Baptists, Rev. F. L. Hayward
of Auburn.
| The last matter of the afternoon was
one of great interest and the hours
| lively discussion upon it would doubt
less nave been much longer, had it not
| Kept the members long past the sup
per hour. This was the proposition to
unite the two conferences in this State.
or rather to petition the general con-
ference for such a consolidation. The
vote of the conference was empha teal
ly against union. At the recent annual
meeting of the East Maine conference
at Houlton action favorable to such q
uion was taken, though the vote on the
matter was close one. The matter
had been referred lin this conference
to committee of Rev. H. E. Dunnack
OF Augusta, Rev. j. F. Haley of Port
land and Rev. D. B. Holt of Bath, and
its report was given at $50 Saturday
| A majority of the committee, Messrs
Dunnack and Haley, presented a brief
report favoring the union. Mr. Holt re-
fused to sign the report and made a
speech against it, in which he made
very logical and forceful arguments
against union. Other speakers against
union were Rev. c. F. Parsons of Port
land, Rev. G. D. Holmes of Lewiston
and Rev. w. F. Berry of Kents Hill,
while the speakers in favor of union
were Rev. A. S. Ladd of Ogunuuit
Rev. John Collins of Portland and Rev,
Geo. A. Martin Of Rumford Falls. The
debate was very animated one and
many others wanted to speak on one
side or the other, but it was now 6.3C
and the cries Of Question: arose all
over the church. The vote was by a
show of hands and no count was made,
but by a vote of about three to one
the conference rejected the report OF
the committee and thus went on record
as opposed to any union of the two
conferences.
This was not done in any spirit of
hostility or rivalry or lack Of true fell
loWship, but rather because the ma
Jority felt that the present arrange
ment is most convenient for managing
the affairs of the denomination in
Maine. In only six of all the IL confer
ences in this country are state lines
followed. It was felt that one confer
ence in Maine would be too large an
affair for entertainment and involve
too great expense of travel, and it was
urged that the line between the con-
1erences is no more than the lines di-
viding the districts within each con-
ference. At $50 adjournment was TAX
en- to 8 A. NJ. Monday.
| AT the Green street church Saturday
afternoon was devoted to two great
missionary meetings in charge of the
women, the first in honor of the work
OF the Womens Foreign Mission Soci-
ETY. and the second under the auspices
OF the Women's Home Mission Society.
| The church was crowded. the gather
| ing being largely made up Of women.
The first meeting was called to order
at 23o with Mrs. Cora Knight Clifford
OF Strong presiding and Mrs. Charles
Parkhurst Of Boston as the chief
speaker. Music was furnished by the
1 conference quartet with solos by Rev.