Norwich bulletin., 1910-04-01

like thIc as Heaven, but enc or the brothers, Rev J. s Bell, who heard his nane aano rl ced for Moo,ius Conn.,. when the appointments were read, nev- | CT lived 70 sec the new church nor 10 greet the expactant company who were waiting to greet him as the'T new las 1 tor Brother. Bell asked the o!ueie;is permission to be absent for a few days that he mi.;l,t attend the funeral Of l longtime friend. At that funeral he took cod l. m which he itever re- l covered. He died April 25, three weeks after. He had given eighteen years of faithful work to this conferences, and those who knew him best Will miss him for a long time.
 On the 18th of January of the pres ent year Rev. John Sherman, super annuated member of this conference.
 died after a brief illness at his home in Franklin, Conn He had been su- perannuated for twenty years but had lost none of his interest in the confer ence. This I learned while visiting
 him in December, only a few weeks be- fore he died. At that time he was in his usual health. Brother Sherman had given six years to the ministry in Min- nesota and sixteen in this conference When his pastor told me that this brother had opened the work in lf- teen places where Methodist churches were afterward built l knew that
 heroic spirit had gone to reward for
 his apostolic work better than\ this
 world can give.
 In February, 1910, Rev. William A. Taylor, local elder, belonging to the church at New London. died in Provi-
 dence a the home of his sister. He had been for thirty-five years a local preacher in our church and for twenty three out of those years he supplied churches in the Norwich district and had a record for always rendering faithful and valuable services to his charges. He also deserves an honored place on the roll of our honored dead.
 A number of the families in the par sonages of the district have been af- f1icted with illness. Brother J. H. AL len, pastor at Burnside, has been i'll most of the year Until recently he has been able to keep the work going himself, but in the latter end of the year the pulpit has been supplied by the good-hearted brothers who reside near by. Dr. Allen will ask to be su- perannuated at this conference. Broth CT Fischer, pastor at Bridgeton. R. l., has spent several weeks in the hospital at Brooklyn, N. r., where he was very sick and suffered excruciatingly. but returns in greatly improved condition. The family of Brother J. A. Wood of Holland have been in quarantine for some six weeks with scarlet fever, as has that of Brother Buck in New Lon don for diphtheria. Dr. Kaufman of Norwich Trinity has been incapacitated for an equal length of time with la grippe. In less degree there has been illness in the parsonage at Gales Ferry, at West Thompson, at East Hampton, at Griswold, at South Manchester, at Manchester and at Vernon In view of the great amount of illness we are devoutly thankful that there have been no fatalities other than those mention ed.
 Pastoral Changes.
 Moodus. which was left vacant by the death of J. $. Bell. was not per- manent1y supplied till August, when Rev. F. Lewis Brooks. who came to us from the membership and ministry of the Baptist church, began to supply as a local preacher September Bish- op Wilson transferred Rev. J. A. Mar tin from the Vermont conference and placed him in charge at Quarryville, a place left vacant by the removal of the supply formerly in charge. In the last days of October, Rev. N. B. Cook of Jewett City and Voluntown charge was transferred to the Maine conference, and stationed to the Bea- George D. Stanley was transferred to our conference and stationed at Jew cit City and Voluntown- These two new accessions to the membership of our conference have been doing good work and their churches unanimously commend the appointment. Of the places left to be supplied at confer ence and for which no supply was named all were speedily filled At East Thompson, George Squires: at South Coventry, Ernest L. Amy; at Staffordville, Robert Williams; at Eastford W. W. Shepherd have per formed acceptab1y the important du- ties of pastor.
 Membership and Spiritual Work.
 About eighty deaths have been re- ported so far this year. About one hundred and seventy-hve have been as removing by certificate without certificate, or withdrawn.