Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-20
TO HEAR CHARGES
AGAINST MINISTER
Committee Named at Methodist
Conference to Investigate
immortality Complaint.
PROTEST AGAINST SALOON
GRANT AT FOUR CORNERS
Also Oppose Bill for Liquor Ii
cense Within Mile of Camp
Meeting Grounds.

Several addresses by prominent
clergymen, and the appointment of a
committee of fifteen to hear the
charges of alleged immoral relations
brought against the Rev. Willis S.
McRorie. of springdale, marked the
beginning of the second days session
of the Newark Methodist conference,
which is being held at the Halsey
Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
Two protests were brought in by
the temperance committee of the
conference and unanimously adopted.
The first was a protest against the
granting of a license to sell liquor In
the Kinney building on the ground
that it was within 200 feet of the
First Presbyterian Church. The res
olution carried with~it the provision
that the conference urge emphatically
upon the members of the Board or
Excise Commissioners the reasons
why the license should not be grant
ed The Rev. DIR. William H. Morgan,
pastor of the Central NJ. f.. Church,
said that the very illegality OF the
measure would tend to kill ii in ms
opinion
The conference also went on record
as opposed to the bill introduced in
the Legislature by Assemblyman
Francis A. Foley, of Essex county,
which would permit the sale of liquor
within one mile of camp-meeting
grounds.
McRorie Charges Heard secretly.
The conference went into an eXecu-
tive session while the bishop APP
pointed the committee to investigate
and try the McRore case. The trial
will probably be held this afternoon at
the Central M. E. Church.
DR.. A. b. Leonard. of New York, a
former secretary of the Methodist
Board of Foreign Missions, spoke in
glowing terms of the growth of Meth
odism. DR.. Leonard said if there was
any one thing that he was glad to be
able to tell the conference, it was the
fact that he was a Methodist He
onld like to have the Apostolic Creed
amended, he declared, to read: Il be-
lieve in the holy Catholic Methodist
Episcopal Church. The Methodist
church was gloriously conquering and
was bound to advance still higher, he
declared.
Upon the suggestion of Bishop Will
son, Leonard Ocheslei, a member OF
the New England conference, was
elected to elders orders under the
missionary rule by the local confer
ence and then transferred back to
the New England conference. The
young man has been assigned to mis-
sionarY work at Singapore, 1t was
stated.
Tells of Work in South.
DR.. p. j. Maveety. who was sched-
uled to speak as a representative of
the Freedmens Aid Society, was UNI
able to be present. In his place he
delegated Dr. Judson S. Hill, who is
engaged in educational work in the
South among the negroes. to address
the conference.
DIR. Hill spoke of the work being
done by the society under whose
jurisdiction there are thirtythree
schools in the South. He touched
briefly upon the work done by David
Livingston, whose one hundredth an
niversary is being observed.
Missionary Society Meets.
The Women's Home Missionary So
Getty met at o'clock this afternoon
with Mrs. G. S. Woodruff presiding.
The speaker was DR.. r. M. Moore
Following a reception and inspection
refreshments were served at the
Deaconess Home, 219 Fairmount ave-
nue., for both men and women.
AT O'Clock the conference was adj
dressed by the Rev. DR.. w. w. White,
whose topic was "Present-Day Au-
thority of the Bible, Adaptability and
Method of Study"
Addresses will be made at this eve
nings session by the Rev. DR.. w. S.
Bovard, corresponding secretary of
the Methodist Brotherhood, and by
the Rev. A. A. Brown, director of
social survey. Selectins will be rem
dered by the male quartet of the Hal
sey Street Church choir.
The Laymen's Association will meet
at the Central NJ e. Church tomor-
row morning at 10 O'Clock. Steps are
on foot to bring about a closer af-
filiation between the clerical and lay
delegates.
1t was with this point in view that
the proposition was made at yester-
days session to have delegates of the
Laymen's Association take part in
the deliberations of the clergy. While
this plan failed a motion by the Rev.
William e. Palmer for the appoint
ment of a committee of three to bear
the ministerial welcome to the lay
men prevailed. The committee APP
pointed consists of Dr. Palmer, the
Do, = Woodruff and the Rev. DIR.
Henry A. Buttz, of the Drew Theo-