Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-18

rial service were on motion fixed for
Thursday afternoon.
M. L. Canoe offered a paper. which
was adopted, including a committee,
consisting of M. L. Canoe, w. A.
Houck, w. R. Whitney, Joseph Gray
and Owen Hicks. bearing on the chap
laincy in the army, navy and national
guards of the United States.
The hours of opening and closing
the business sessions of the conference
were fixed at 8 and IL o'clock, re-
spectively.
Pass Resolutions
j. r. Anderson read and the con-
ference heartily adopted the following
resolution:
1--WE, the members of the Central
Pennsylvania Conference, assembled in
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church,
Harrisburg, March IS. 1914, desire to
express our pleasure at the presence,
of our esteemed bishop, Earl Cranston,
d. D.. LII. D.. who comes to us for
the fourth time to preside over our
conference. With deep and genuine
affection we welcome him as a brother
beloved and an honored servant OF
the church. We are grateful to a kind
Providence that has kept him in
strength and enabled him to efficiently
discharge the arduous duties his high
office exacts
we assure him of our hearty CO.
operation in the responsible task that
has been assigned him. We shall ever
pray that these days in which we shall
meet together may be fruitful in bless
Ing to the Methodism of this city as
well as to our sister denominations
and also a lasting inspiration to the
churches. Also that we appreciate the
generous hospitality of this church and
Its honored pastor, DR.. John d. Fox
in inviting us to hold this session Of
our conference in their midst
b. H. Mosser. as secretary of the
bishops cabinet. read the following
names of members of the conference
who were referred to the committee
on conference relations: F. C. Buyer,
Isaac Hickman. I. j. Reeser and T. S.
Faus.
On motion of the Rev. H. l.. Jacobs
the conference ordered a committee Of
five to be appointed. one from each
district, on periodicals, and the book
concern. Conference adjourned to
meet at o'clock to hear the mis-
sionary sermon.
This evening at 7.30 the anniversary
of the board of home missions and
church extension will be observed. The
Rev. F. H. Brunstetter. of Shamokin,
VIII preside and an address will be
delivered by the Rev. Ward Platt,
IL. u, OF Pnlladelphla.
Missionary Sermon
God was in Christ reconciling the
world unto HIMSELF" was the text
used by the Rev. Allen C. Shue, of
West Fairview, who delivered a mis-
sionary sermon this afternoon. The
Rev. Mr. Shue is probably the young
est man that ever delivered the mis-
sionary sermon before this confer
ence. He said: life is incomplete
without fellowship with God; that
this was the primitive state of man,
but the fall of man meant an es-
arrangement from God. The problem
OF reconciliation, he declared, is the
greatest one that can engage the at
tention.
The message of the speaker was
that through Christ Heavens gate is
swung wide open. This message, he
asserted, is for all conditions, classes
and places. Upon us rests the re-
sponsibility of giving this message to
every creature. Human messengers
must reach human world
Carrying the Message
The speaker emphasized the thought
of carrying the message to all the
world. The first work of a Christian
missionary is telling the story of the
cross. Paul Is the example in preach
ing. The various forms of missionary
activity were dwelt upon, especially
the mission schools which few years
ago numbered twenty-nine thousand
of which thirteen hundred were of the
higher grades with total enrolment
of 1,304,905 pupils.
He pointed out that literary work
is another duty of the missionary. He
said further that medical work finds
its example in the great Teacher; but
that all such agencies are simply a
means to an end; that the true mis-
sionary brings the message of recon-
ciliation.
Mission Society Anniversary
The anniversary of the Home Mis-
sionary Society of the conference took
place last evening at 1880 o'clock.
This is comparatively new organi-
cation Of the conference, Its purpose
being to help the weaker charges in
the matter of ministerial support.
James M. Barker, a layman aof this
city, delivered an interesting address
treating the subject from the lay
mans point Of view. He emphasized
the inadequacy of ministerial support.
He said: "A young man enters one
of the so-called secular professions or
callings with meager education, but
rises in the course of eight or ten
years to position in which he COM
mands a salary of from three to four
thousand dollars, while the young man
who prepares for the ministry must
spend three or four thousand dollars
to secure his education and then re-
ceives only eight or ten hundred dol
lars per year or possibly rises later on
to a. salary of fifteen hundred or two
thousand dollars. This is the reason