Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1910-03-30

CONFERENCE
At NEWARK
53rd. Annual Session Open
ed 10 O'clock This Morn
lng--About 300 Present.
GOV. FORT AND BISHOP
ANDERSON SPEAK
specsai by Unlted Pres, w,r,.

warn Mhrcn 5U.-Ihe fftys
third annual session of the Newark
Methodist Episcopal conference was
opened here at 10 o'clock this morn.
Ing with Rev. John Gutteridge pre-
siding. The city is filled with Meth
odist clergymen from northern New
Jersey, New York and PENNSYLVANIA.
The chief interest is in the assiRns
meDt and transfers of ministers to
he announced at the close of the
conference. The principal speakers
viii be Bishop William F. Anderson
and Governor Fort
Bishop Anderson, who will pre-
side during the conference, which
VIII end on next Monday, or pos
sibly next Tuesday, arrived last
night and took up his quarters at the
Continental Hotel. The daily at
tendance at the conference will aver
age 500, 1T is expected.
Interest among Methodists espec-
tally and church-goers generally, will
center principally in the discussions
as to church business, which win
feature each morning session Dur
ing these sessions the ministers gen.
orally voice their views as to the
best policy to be adopted by the
church. Overshadowing this in In
terest, however, are the various as.
signments and transfers of minis.
ters by the bishop, which will be an.
nounced at the end Of the confer
ence. and which are always awaited
with great interest.
Bishop Anderson, with his cabi-
net, which consists of the four pre-
siding elders, will sit in session daily
at the Continental Hotel, where he
will be waited upon by delegations
These delegations, representing con-
eregations, wait upon the bishop
with view Of influencing him In the
selection of new a pastor for theiy
church or to get the reappointmeut
OF their present pastor, as the case
may be.
Although there will be 500 cler-
gymen in daily attendance at the
conference, there will also be nearly
the same number Of lsymen. The
latter hold their annual conventio4
during the conference. but always
remain until the latter adjourns for
the year. While most of the visitors
will stay with friends, others will 60
back and forth to their homes or
stay at hotels
During the session tonight the an
niversary of the Centenary Fund and
Preachers Aid Society will be OBJ.
served. Principal among the speak
ers will be Bishop Anderson and
Governor Fort Rev. DR.. John A.
Gutteridge will preside. Reports
will be ready from the president of
the society and treasurer, Milton q,
Blanchard.
The session opened this morning
with the administration Of the
Lords supper. At IL O'Clock the
roll was called. A memorial SERVED
followed at 1880 o'clock.
The anniversary Of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society will be
noon, with Mrs. ]. H. Knowles. cond
ference secretary, presiding. Ther4
will be special music and the report
of the treasurer. Miss Edith l.
White. will be read. Miss Jennie v,
Hughes, missionary In China, will
deliver an address on work being ac~
complished in the land of the
heather. At o'clock there will be
a meeting of the Conference Life
Insurance Association in the lecture
room of the church.
Yesterday Afternoon examinations
of candidates for ministerial orders,
to the opening Of the
were held in the Central
Church. There were six candidates,
four for admission on trial and two
for deacon's orders. The candidates
for admission on trial were George
H. Cooley, Levi B. McMichle, Albert
Hall Marion and Joseph Robinson,
Those who sought deacon's orders
were John Lane Miller and Abraham
Lincoln FEetz.
Twelve undergraduates who are
pursuing four-year college courses
were also examined.
Rev. DR.. George c. Wilding, pas
tor of Simpson NJ Z. church, this
city left here this morning to at
tend the conference. DR. Wilding,
who has been pastor of the local
church for the past two years, st
the quarterly conference of the
church held recently, was unani-
mously rendered call to return for
another year. Dr. Wilding, in the
time that he has been here. haa
made many friends, both outside aud
within the church. There Is no doubt
that he will be returned again to
take up his work in this field
AS this afternoon is the aliniver-
sary of the Woman's Fcgeign Mis-
sionary Society, many OF tlfe loeai
members of the organization are
planning TO go from here.