Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-31
CONFERENCE COMPLETES THIRD DAY
Address by Bishop ouaye and Bishop Asbury Memorial Ser vice Features of Thursdays Programme Anniversaries of Board of Conference Claimants and Freedmen's Aid Society Held at Evening Meeting.

Reading the Scripture lesson, Thou hast set my feet in a large place." Bishop Quayle said at the devotional service which opened Thursdays ses- sion, we don't know who wrote this but we do know it was a Methodist itinerant- He was travelling in Par adise. He didn't say Thou hast set my feet large Although that may be | true of most of us. Our lower ex- | tremities are unusually larger than the | upper ones; that's because we have , twice as many feet as heads. But a | mans feet are a part of his brains l and a man ought to have his feet so | trained that if he walks in his sleep, | he will walk where he ought to go. | The sleep walker ought to walk to church.
 You fellows know when you used to walk with girl. you could That's where we got the Scripture The longest way 'round is the short est way home.' The way is short where we walk with love. You and are walking with God.
 The minutes of Wednesdays meeting were read and approved.
 The Rev. Louis M. FTlocken of Paw | tucket, R. l., and Rev. W. J. Gates | of Fall River, Mass, were excused from attendance, to attend funerals. Members, Not Money.
 "we get accustomed to report mon ey collections and not members" said | Bishop William A. Quayle in calling | for verbal reports from the churches | on increases in membership.
 we want members, not money" Rev. A. J. Coultas of West Bedford | suggested that 1t was not necessary to | make such reports verbally since they were already included in the statis- 1 tical reports. "I only want to know l if the bishop is trying 10 rorce the | conference to make such a report. If l the bishop merely requests it, I have | no objections: otherwise might have" 1 Bishop Quayle stated that he made this request but did not regard it as l a command. The list of churches was called and the ministers reported the
 numbers of new members received.
 '@Ten children brought into the
 church are worth ten adults I ever | knew. They will not think they
 are the only ones who have got re- ligion and they will not give a quart
 CT year and call it 'quarterage.' said
 the bishop when some pastors explain
 ed a number of new members were
 children.
 Delegates to General Conference.
 The report of the committee on
 Board of Church Aid and the election 1 of delegates to the General conference were made the order of the day for : ] Friday morning after the approval o1 the journal.
 l O- William F. Thomas and Alwyn J. At i lins were admitted to full membership in the conference and were .notIaed tc be present at the session at 10.45 this morning, when the bishop will deliver the address to the new class.
 You can't have a smart bishop al the time,'' retorted Bishop Quayle
 when Secretary George A. Grant ot
 Edgartown suggested that the work of the committee on examinations would be easier if the bishops would 1 stanGardize their requirements. Chair
 man Robert S. Moore of the commit
 tee told the bishop, in reply to the Mshop's criticism of the board fol
 being technically in an error.
 rhf There a1ie,na4n are some things iV even Got rank yourself so high. Brother
 Moore" retorted the bishop.
 Elected to Elders Order.
 H. H. Crawford was continued 1T
 studies of the third year, David H Talma ge advanced to the fourth year
 class. D. F. Todd was graduated
 from the conference course and elect Slutz was discharged from tn, 3 course.
 Superintendent J. Francis Cooper O
 Providence finished his report whicl ? was interrupted the previous day. Advanced Price of Year Book. I Rev. F. c. Baker of Arnold's Mills . R. l., publisher of the conference yea, book reported a balance of S276.SO ol s hand. Increased cost of printing hai | caused the conference to vote to ad g vance the price of the year bool 9 from 20 to 25 cents, the books to b. I | apportoned at the rate of two book j. for each s100 of salary.
 : Norwich Pastors Meet Bishop 0uayIe . We are members of denomination !. which have a strong tendency towart l Christianity, jestingly said Rev. c. H 1 Ricketts, of the Greeneville Congre
 1 gational church, in introducing tn clergymen of Norwich churches t
 Bishop Quayle, that he, in time
 might introduce them to the confer
 ence. The ministers thus presente were the Rev. S. H. Howe, D. D., 0
 Park Congregational church, J. F
 Cobb, of the Church of the Goo :. Shepherd, B. S. Worcester, of Broad ff way Congregational church, G. F 5 Ewing of the First Congregations r church, H. J. Wyckoff of the Secon 5 Congregational church, J. H. Denni. of the Mt. Calvary Memorial Baptis church, E. George Riddle of McKin , ley Ave. M. E. Zion churcI
 Joel B. Slocum, D. D., of the Centrs
 Baptist church, J. O. Barrows. c. 4 D Northrop and G. c. Pollock an