The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-20
.LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION
OF Conference meets
Governor Brumbaugh Sends Message
Saying He Is Unable to Attend
Methodist Gathering-Bishop Burt
and DR.. Smucker Principal Speakers

Shamokin. Pa, March 2O.-Gover-
nor Brumbaugh sent a message to the
Central Pennsylvania Methodist Church
Conference to-day that he could not be
present at the session of the Confer
enee this afternoon.
At the twentieth annual session of
the Laymen s Association of the Cen
trail Pennsylvania Conference, held in
the First Presbyterian church, to-day,
Bishop William Burt and DR.. Clayton
Albert Smueker were the prominent
speakers on the program. c. ii. Hoff
man, of Harrisburg, is president of the
association.
The conference took an unprecedent-
ed action yesterday when it telegraphei
w. f. Gilbert, pastor of the Glen Hope
church, Altoona district, who has been
absenting himself from the conference
sessions for several years past, to come
to the session
resolution providing that the
basis of the distribution of the Con-
ference Home Missionary funds for
married men, who are members of the
conference, be placed at $500, was
presented by the Rev. A. 5. Williams,
of the Curtin Heights church, Har-
risburg, and was unanimously adopt
ed.
a class of seven candidates was ad-
dressed by Bishop William Burt at the
Conference to-day, preliminary to being
ordained tomorrow into the ministry.
The character of fifty retired minis
tcrs was passed on and they were con
ilnued in the retired relation. The
Rev. A. B. Harper. Penield Clearfeld
county, was received into the confer
ence from the Primitive Methodist
Church.
Thanks of anthracite coal region
Slavonians were extended to the con-
ference by Adam Nagay. minister of
the Slavonie missioa. hazleton.
During the Woman s Home Mission
ary Society anniversary meeting Presi-
dent Mrs. James Edgar Skillugton,
Berwick, delivered the chief address.
y session of the Mutual Beneficial Asso-
citation preceded the anniversary meet
ing. Fully 500 members of the Lay
men S Association met in the Presbv-
terian church.
A number of addresses and reports
were made, The membership has great
~ increased owing to many revival
meetings held throughout the State
aud country.
Conference Commends Gov. Brumbaugh
Norristown, Pa, March 20.-The
Philadelphia conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church to-day commend
el Governor Brum6augh for the stand
he has taken in favor of local option.
y resolution was also adopted commend
ing the Governor for seeking to have
tae Legislature pass a workmen s com
rensation law and a child labor law.
The conference denounced the proposed
law compensating liquor dealers who
are eorced out of business by law. This
action was taken after DR.. David 5.
Sherry. of Reading, had read the report
of the Temperance Society.
DIR. P. J. Meveety. corresponding see.
retary of the Freedmen 5 Aid Society,
made an appeal in behalf of Southern
negroes who have been seriously affect
ed by the cotton situation due to the
war.
Mass Meeting in Philadelphia
The conference planned for a mass
meeting in Philadelphia on or about
March 20, when an organization will
be perfected to carry on the Billy Sun
day campaign for new church members.
The Revs. William Q. Bennett and r.
f. johnson were elected State trustees
of the Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon
League.
An appeal was made TO aid the sea-
men vino are also affected by the war.
Eight young men were admitted to
full membership in the conference as
deaeons and elders at to-day's session.
They are:
G. II. G. Rowland, Lumberville, Pa;
i. A. Tyson, Cressona, Pa; George W.
Tovey, Summit Hill, Pa; Ralph A.
Mautone, Reading, Pa; Benjamin A.
Seull, Greene, Pa; Alex. Maronaghy.
Geiger's Mills, Pa; Walter F. Humph-
rey, Boston School of Theology; Elias
Baker, Atglen, Pa.