Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-09
Radical Changes for
Methodist Conference
Bishop Berry to Preside al
Montclair Meet, Instead of
Bishop CranstOn.

Radical changes will mark the Meth
odist conference al Montclair, begin
ming March %. In place of the system
that has beer in use since 1859 an en-
tirely new scheme of dealing with the
business of the annual conference will
be i%naugurated.
For more than half a century the
Methodist ministers of the State have
had to wrestle annually with their ap-
%portioned amount of the various funds.
There were the centenary fund and
preachers aid, the freedman's aid, the
board Of education fund, the Sunday
school board, the board of foreign mis-
sions, the board of home missions, the
Methodist Brotherhood and the board
of conference claimants. Collections
had to be taken for all these. and a
separate report and accounting had to
be made oy the ministers at each an
nual conference.
Laymen and clergy alike found the
system had Objectionable features and
because of 1t the whole machinery of
the conference was intolerably clutter
ed with routine business.
The new plan provides for a system
of rotation, whereby specified IAN
niversaries," as they are called, will
be considered by the conference only
once in foul years.
Bishop Earl Cranston, fsWashing-
ton, D. c., who was to have presided
at the conference, will be Unable to
offlciate on account of a change of
plans, and Bishop ]. F.. Berry, of Buff
falo, Will be the presiding officer. The
change was caused through the inabil-
ity of Bishop Bashford, now stationed
in China, to leave hat country during
it's present disturbed state to officiate
at the conference to be held at Balti-
more, and Bishop Cranston has been
selected to preside in his place. There
fore Bishop Berry was named to Of
iciate at Montclair.
Plan of rotation for four years is as
follows:
1s12-Evening or evening anniversar-
les: Sunday School Board, Centenary
Fund and Preachers Aid ~(afternoon).
1913-Freedmen's Aid, Board of Edu-
cation.
1914-Board of Foreign Missions,
Board of Home Missions.
1915-The Methodist Brotherhood, the
Board Of Conference Claimants.
1912-Morning session, twenty min
utes: Board of Foreign Missions
Board Of Home Missions.
1913-The Methodist Brotherhood.
Board of Conference Claimants.
1914-Centenary Fund and Preachers
Aid, Board of Sunday Schools.
1915-Freedmen's Aid, Board of Edu-
The Conference Temperance Society.
Epworth League, Women's Foreign and
Home Missions. are at present to be a
of the annual sessions.
DR.. G. Stanley Hall, of Clark Uni
versity, will be present to lecture on
Wednesday at 4 and 8 p. m. DR.. Hall
not fail to interest all preachers,
lecturers, day and Sunday, and most
admission must be by ticket, which
car be secured at the publicity office,
Montclair Methodist Episcopal Church,
and after March 90.
DR.. Hall speaks at 4 on Adolescence
Boy-His Mental, Moral and Physical
Needs" at 5 his subject is 1.-The Feel
and Emotions-Their Education
Dr.. Woolston m to Montclair
to speak at 4 o'clock. He is the intro
Queer of the first penny concert in
America. His ability to speak to chill
dren and youth and fascinate and in
struct them is widely recognized. DR..
F. Reisner, of Grace Church, New
York, speaks of his lectures as "fasci-
in interest" Bishop James H.
D. D., bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of Cen
trail Pennsylvania, says he has GER
tainly found the secret of securing and
the attention of the little
people.
He will also speak to preachers,
school superintendent, teach
ers and parents at about 4:4O O'clock.
DR.. D. G. Downey presents 1.-The
Work of the Adult Bible Glass as a
New Religious Force" He will have
a fine exhibit of material and methods.
will also conduct a conference.
This meeting will be the first of the
anniversary type at night under the
plan.
DR.. William H. McMasters speaks
the Higher Uses of Education"
He meets the members of young peo-
pies societies on Friday night. DR..
McMasters is president of Mt. Union
College, Adriance, o., of the school
William Mckinley and Lewis Miller
were trustees. Besides his admins
trative work DIR. McMasters teaches
the English Bible and philosophy of
religion.
A colored orator, DR.. NJ. c. B. Mason,