Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-23
PAY HIGH TRIBUTE
TODR. J. D. FOX
Central Penna. Conference Re
grets His Departure; Districts
in Flourishing Condition

Lewistown, Pa. March 2S.-Appeal-
ing to the members of the Central
Pennsylvania Conference, in session
4 here in the First Methodist Church,
FLOR proper development, Bishop
Mcdowell in his first morning talk
during devotions said that any con-
ference was in great danger of en-
phasizing its practical efficiency while
neglecting it's own personnel. Con-
ferences do not improve in their per-
sonnel unless they give their minds
to it.
Steady improvement of the personnel
of the conference will be realized. first,
by the improvement of those who are
already in it, and. second, by an effort
to interest those in this principle who
are brought into it. Addition of weak
ones to a conference constantly sub
tracts from it. The bishop declared
his purpose to join in this policy of
making the Central Pennsylvania Con-
ference a steadily improving confer
ence.
Some men seem to measure their
ministerial growth by the size of the
town in which they live or that of the
church they serve or the salary they
receive, or their benevolent budget,
instead of measuring their growth in
loftier ideals and greater religious as
sets. A man should ask himself the
question, Am 1 better by virtue of the
influences and ideals that have pre-
sented themselves to me?
1t matters not half so much where
man is as 1t does as to where he is
going. 4 man should have improved
more at forty than at thirty and
should be better at fifty than at forty.
Is the Central Pennsylvania Confer
ence better to-day than it was ten or
twenty-five years ago?
Bishop Mcdowell keeps the confer
ence in good humor by his witty say
ings and honest fun. Anyone can say,
he declared, that misfortunes never
come alone, but only the Irish, who
are real artists in expression, can say,
single misfortunes never come alone"
and also that "A solitary Irishman
never disturbs themselves"
Conference was resumed at o'clock,
the journal of Wednesdays sessions
being read and approved.
Announcement was made by Dr.
Fasick that the Rev. G.. f. Boggs, of
Waynesboro, had received word of his
fathers death and by action of the
conference he was excused to attend
the funeral and its sympathy extended
TO him. DIR. B. II. Mosser. of Will
Transport, was excused to attend the
funeral of a parishioner. The bishop
presented from the board of confer
ence claimants check for 5000, made
payable to the conference board of
stewards.
Juniata District Grows
Report of the Juniata district was
read by the superintendent, the Rev.
Z. NJ. Stevens, which showed an in
crease of 500 new members and 800
for missions, $3.50 for conference home
missionary society, a big increase in
the conference annuity and there
were 1000 conversions. A high tribute
was paid to A. A. Stevens, Tyrone.
deceased, who served as counselor for
the conference annuity.
DR.. Maveety, representing the Freed
mems Aid Society, made it patent that
it is imperative that the Methodist
Church supervise the work of the
schools of the South now under its
control in order to solve the negro
problem.
Elect Conference Trustees
Conference went into corporate ses-
sion and the president of the board of
trustees, the Rev. B. H. Hart, read
his annual report, in which he stated
that A. A. Stevens, deceased, Tyrone,
had given to the association S11, 500,
and commended the work of the Rev.
c. w. Karns, secretary of the confer
ence annuity, which cannot be meas
ured in dollars and cents, but must be
measured by its influence in future
years. The preacher in his local
church is the key man. A ballot was
taken for the election OF three confer
ence trustees. which resulted in the
selection of ]. B. Stein, ]. S. Seuser
and j. II. Morgan.
Conference resumed and by its &C.
tion the committee on conference ses-
sions was excused from further work
for the present. W. Z. Karns was
appointed to canvass for the Methodist
Review.
DIR. Mains. representing the Meth.
odist Book Concern. New York, en-
phasized the need and their supply of