The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-30
NEWARK M. f.
CONFERENCE
Fifty-second Annual Gathering
To Be Held IN Newark
Next Week.
BISHOP I. B, NEELY PREsDEs

Bishop Thomas Benjamin Nicely,
who will preside at the tifty-second
annual session of the Newark confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church in Centenary church, Newark,
during this week, is one of the most
forceful leaders of that denomination.
He is deep student, an indefatlgable
worker in the field of the church, and
a powerful pulpit orator.
The program for the session is now
in preparation. Preliminary to the
formal opening it has been arranged
to have Walter M. Chandler, of the
New York bar, deliver his lecture on
1.-The Trial of Jesus from Lawyers
Standpoint, +" in Centenary church on
Tuesday evening, March Both, Judge
Jay Ten Eyck presiding. Examina-
tions of applicants for admission and
orders will occur in the church at
ten O'Clock on the morning OF March
3Oth. The actual openingEof the con-
ference will take place Wednesday
morning, when the sacrament of the
Lords supper will be observed by the
members. Following the roll call,
the customary memorial service will
be held at 11:30.
The anniversaries and reports of
the Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety and the Centenary fund and
Preachers Aid society will occupy The
afternoon. In the evening the anni-
versary of the board of education will
be observed in the Franklin Street
church. Rev. A.NC. McCrea presiding.
The speaker will be Rev. Thomas
Nicholson, corresponding secretary of
the board.
Bishop Nicely will be in charge of
devotional services, which will open
each day of the conference, except
Sunday. The remaining hours OF the
morning will be devoted to business.
On Thursday, at 2:30, DR.. Isaac I.
Headland, professor of science in PEI
king university, China, will speak at
the anniversary of the Woman's For
eign Missionary society, Mrs. j. Fl.
Knowles, conference secretary, pre-
siding. In the evening Rev. David
G.. Downey, corresponding secretary
of the board of Sunday schools, will
speak at the anniversary of that
boaro.
The anniversary of the Freedmen's
A:e society. Rev. E. l. Rhodes in
charge. will. be celebrated Friday
evening, the secretary, Rev. Patrick
j. Maveety, addressing the meeting
In the Halsey Street church, at the
same hour, the conference Epworth
league will observe its anniversary.
Rev. Frederick w. Hannah, Of
Brooklyn, will speak and Rev. M.
W. Womer will preside.
Rev. Joseph B. Hingeley, corre-
spending secretary of the board of
conference claimants, will address
the members of the board at their
anniversary in the church Saturday
evening, at which Rev. W. E. Palmer
will occupy the chair.
The Sunday session will begin at
nine a. m. with the conference love
feast. Rev. Joshua Mead will lead.
Bishop Nicely will preach at 1890, and
the ordination of deacons and elders,
followed by a missionary sermon by
Rev. Herbert f. Randolph, will oc-
cur in the afternoon. At the Cente-
nary church in the evening the Home
missions and Church extension an
niversary will be observed, the speak
er to be Rev. Charles M. Boswell,
assistant corresponding secretary of
the society. Rev, Samuel 7. jackson
will be in charge of the meeting. At
the same hour in the Central church
Bishop Neely and Dean James B.
Brooks, Of the College of Law, Syra-
cuse, N. Y, will address the anniS
versary meeting of the Methodist
brotherhood. The topic of the even
ing will be Move On" DR.. James
r. JOY will preside.
On Monday at 7:45 p. m. William
H. Anderson, legislative superinten-
dent of the Anti-Saloon league of
Washington, d. c., will be the speak
er at the meeting of the Total Abb
stinence and Prohibition society.
Rev. DR.. Charles S. Woodruff will
preside. The Foreign missions an
niversary wilt occur at the same time
in st. Luke's M. E. church, where
Rev. j. @. Floyd will speak.
Provision for the entertainment Of
out-of-town visitors to the conference
is being looked after by committee
headed by Edward Fl. Jones. The
arrangement of the program is in the
hands of a committee OF which Rev.
DIR. Charles L. Mead, pastor of Cen
tenary church, is chairman.
1t is expected that Rev. DR.. Urmy
viii be sent back TO Morristown.
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