The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-31
METHODIST
CL.ERGyMEN
MEET HERE
Ministers OF Northern
Jersey and PennSyl-
yania in Session.
BISHOP THOMAS NEELY
THE PRESIDING OFFICER
Fifty-second Church Conference
to Continue for q
Week.
MORE THAN zoo ARE I
PRESENT AT OPENING
Memorial Services Are Held ii
Honor of the Rev. John
F. DOdd.
MORE THAN zoo ARE !
PRESENT AT OPENING

piS.houist ministers from northern
New Jersey and parts OF New Yorr
and Pennsylvania assembled todav IN
the Centenary NJ e. Church at sum
mer avenue and Kearny street in the
fifty-second annual session Of the
Newark conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. The conferences viii
last week. Bishop Thomas e. Nicely
Is presiding.
Following the devotional exercises.
with which the conference was opened
and the roll-csll and Organization.
there was a memorial service for those
members of the conference who had
died since the last session. Among tho
number was the Rev. John r. Dodd, or
this city, for many years secretary OF
the conference
From the four districts embraced In
| the conference--Newsrk, Elizabeth.
Paterson and Jersey City--there was
full attendance. More than 200 MIN
isters It Is estimated, were present.
| Bishop Neely presided at the celebra-
tion of the Lords supper, aidsd ~ ths
Rev. DIR. D. y. r. Randolph, the Rev.
DR.. c. NJ. Anderson, the Rev. Or. g.
w Smith, the Rev DR.. l.. G. Muller.
the four district superintendent: the
Rev. DIR. Charles L. Mead, pastor of the
church. and the Rev. DR.. ]. T. Coultas,
formerly of the Roseville Church.
More than $50 Methodist churches
are represented in this conference. and
the pastor of each church was present
A few women were also in attendance
The death-roll for the year just past
contained six names. and as the Rev.
Frederick Bloom, the secretary. read
them from the pulpit the members OF
the conference stood with bowed heads
Eulogistic papers on their lives were
read from, the platform. The speakers
and those they spoke on being as fol-
| lows:
/ The Rev. Thompson Hoadley Landon
on the Rev. Josiah Reeves Daniels, the
! Rev. George Cleaton Wilding on the
/ Rev. Samuel 3. d. Prickitt the Rev.
Albert b. Richardson on the Rev Abra-
ham M. Harris, the Rev. DR. Henry An
son Buttz on the Rev. Dr.. John f.
Dodd, the Rev. Warren l.. Hoagland on
/ the Rev Alexander Craig, the Rev Dr..
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roll Is Called.
! Immediately following the devotional
exercises, the Rev. Mr.. Bloom, who Is
pastor of the Lafayette Church, Jersey
| Ciey, called the roll. The Organization
resulted in the selection OF conference
secretaries, the election being unani-
nous.
/ s..r.or,.. .,.,n..a
1 ,,
me secretaries We're as follows.
oeeretary' ene l1eF. rreoerick ploons
ssslstants, tne hev; Wailace p. rieun-
ing the Hev. Heddlng D. Leach the
Isex, Aus.lh H. Arnls.rons ana tne f.sV-
% ~. Mcoosi slatis.icdi secretary' .nS
iNeV. ~. Jonn a. Gutteriaso, asslst-
s, anus, tne rev; ., n. poonItie. the Hev-
w =, iiiiipreli, eie rev = =. Nooneys
.ne rev. Arlnur Lucas ana the Hev.
"a. hihs' treasurer the rev. y. A.
ooie, assistants tne hev. J. W. ryder
.ne Key. ). u Sparmon and the Kew.
w. H. Nen'
Inc stanu'ng cominittees appointed
iast year ior TINS year We're confirmed
as ioiioWs'
Foreign aissiohs-J' y. Huriput. Il
n. BOYD Albert CAM hlcnard johns,
M u. Iranl.