Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-01
SIX CANDIDATES
To MINISTRY ARE
GIVEN PRECEPTS


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business of his charge without taking
into his confidence any of the mem
bers. This allowed suspicious to be
voiced as to the disposition of funds
and MISUNDERSTANDING to arise. He
hoped none of the candidates would
err in a similar manner. but at the
same time he impressed them with the
necessity of recognizing themselves as
the executive head of the church Of
which they would be pastor and seeing
that the affairs of the church were con-
Quoted in a thoroughly ~businesslike
manner
PersisteBcy Necessary.
Illustrating the salesman's creed that
persistency brings results and that
prospects are always prospects until
brought within the fold by a story of
a salesman who made t~wenty-nine
eanvasses for one customer, the bishop
asked the young ministers to adopt the
same spirit in bringing into the church
new and effective members. Above all
he warned them that their lives should
be those of Christian gentlemen; that
the study of good manner would en-
nance their usefulness, n TO impress
them with details he told of one min
lister who neglected his finger nails and
allowed them to become unsightly.
thereby having his salary reduced 81
200 on thai account only.
Preaching was important. but to look
after the children. visit every member
of the congregation and bring all within
the influence of the church and make
all feel that the church was there for
them and not they for the church was
even more SO, the speaker continued.
Eminent authorities said that it took
ten years to learn to preach, but the
bishop said hat he would go these
one better and say that if a man
learned In a lifetime, he was accom-
plishing much. He a personally
been learning for twenty years and
was still trying.
ITO be a good preacher is a challenge
to our manhood for your whole life
time" the bishop declared. He spoke
against the time-killer in the pulpit.
and advised all to try and bring God
to man as well as trying to bring men
to God. The former he thought the
most important.
Secretary Bloom reported that in ac-
cordanee with the directions of last
year the conference had been incor-
porated, and while officers had been
named in the Incorporation papers 1t
was h duty of the conference to hold
an election. officers were elected as
follows: Trustees, for three years. j. A.
Cole. c. M. Anderson and Frederick
Bloom; secretary, for two years, L. C.
Muller and D. B. F. Randolph; for one
year. G. w. Smith and ]. L.. Hurlbut;
auditors, William H. ~Trumbower,
Frank Chadwick n Perry c.. Bascom.
Bishop Anderson during the session
ruled on the question. Does a super
numary preacher have a claim on the
conference claimants fund.- saying
that he did not so far as collections of
the churches were concerned, but that
he does as to book concern dividends
and the proceeds of the charter fund.
Greetings To Bishop.
Henry A. Buttz and Frederick c.
Baldwin were appointed to convey the
greetings of the conference to Bishop
Bowman. William Eakins, who had
been presented to the confer
ance, was introduced by the bishop,
the members rising to receive him.
The Bowman resolution was drawn
by the Rev. DR.. Fred Clare Baldwin,
and read as follows:
The Newark annual conference re-
joices in the continued health and vigor
of our senior bishop, Thomas Bowman.
d. D., LII. D., who resides at Orange,
N. j., and who is o in his ninety
third year. We pray that o bless
ing may be upon him and that all his
remaining days or years may be filled
with the sunshine he a so generously
contributed to the lives of others"
Official visitors were heard, J.. H. Nc
Farlane, editor of the Sunday school
publications, telling of the work OF his
| department, and DR.. Homer Eaton, of
the book concern, reporting on the de-
velopnent of this branch. which last
year paid dividends of $4,000. against
$50, 600 a few years ago. The profits of
the concern were s1S1 900. The Rev.
DR.. George e. Reed, president of Dick
inson College, urged all to encourage
young men to enter the ministry. He.
viewed with alarm the general COM
plant made by religious colleges that
there was a constant diminution of
the number of young men entering the
ministry.
Winfield C. Snodgrass, of Paterson,
reviewed the history of the a grant
to the Market Street Church in that
| city, and, after declaring that he would
like to see the name changed to the
| First M. E. Church of Paterson when 1t
is rebuilt, closed his address with
recommendations regarding the CON
templated improvements. James I.
| Boswell thought the matter a local one,
involving a reparaple legal blunder,
and. as no conference action was de-
sired or deemed necessary, the matter
was dropped.
A committee on resolutions, to re-
port later, was appointed, Charles NJ
Anderson, Ralph B. Urmy and George
G.. vogel making up its personnel.
A plan by which the members of
the conference and representative lay
men may be brought into cooperation
in connection with the annual con-
ference was suggested and a commit
tee composed of the Rev. w. e
Palmer, Elizabeth district; the Rev
DR.. Charles l.. Mead, Jersey City dis
trict; h Rev. DR.. William H. Nor
gan. Newark district. and h Rev.
Frederick Bloom, of the Paterson dis
trict, was appointed to arrang for a
Joint meeting of the two bodies in
1911 and plan a program for such d
meeting.
The. problem of the entertaining of
the Newark annual conference is be-
coming one of increasing difficulty, and
the Laymen's Association and the con-