Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-23

good literature and announced the an
nua1 dividend of the concern to this
conference of $3,S21 and from the
Rose fund S34.40. This conference
was highly commended for its prompt
and full payment of the episcopal
fund, of which DR.. Mains in treasurer.
Danyille F1ourishes
Report of the Danville district was
read by the superintendent, DR.. j. b.
Stein. who reported the following
facts: All disciplinary and conference
benevolences have reached an increase
beyond $2,700. The Rev. E. II. Wal
lace was compelled to give up his
work last October, is seriously ill and
asks for a retired relation. Lincoln
Street Church, Shamokin. with ten
weekly classes studying subjects on
missions, social service and the dis
cipline of the church.
The Rev. II. II. Holsopple, Harris
burg, superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League, appealed to the con-
ference to concentrate upon certain
important lines and strategic positions
in order to bring about definite tenn
perance legislation before 1920 and
complimented the conference for its
hearty cooperation in the work of
the league.
a committee to arrange for an edu-
cational jubilee was ordered at the
n.
retary of the board of education. con-
sisting of the bishop, district super
intendents, presidents of the two
schools of the conference and men,
bers of the educational society.
Pursuit to order of adjournment,
conference resumed it's duties at 1.3O
p. m. Some rules governing the order
of business were amended on motion
of DR.. II. l.. Jacobs.
Report of the Altoona district was
read by the superintendent, the Rev.
). b. Evans, showing 1867 CONVEX
sions. with LOSS preparatory members
and 17,222 full members, and an in
crease in benevolent gifts for the con-
ference home missionary society and
the administrative fund for the confer
ence annuity.
Compliment DR.. Fox
The transfer of DR.. Robert Bagnell
from the Philadelphia to the Central
Pennsylvania Conference and sta
toned at Grace Church, Harrisburg.
and DR.. j. ID. Fox from this confer
ence to the Philadelphia, was an
nounced. Bishop Mcdowell, paying a
high compliment to DIR. Fox, said that
no transfer man had ever come into
the Central Pennsylvania Conference
and gone out who had maintained and
carried out with him greater con-
fidence and respect of the members of
this body than DR.. Fox.
A business session of the Mutual
Beneficial Association was held, it be-
ing the year of jubilee of the society.
An appeal was made and a canvass for
new members taken which resulted in
the addition of twenty-eight new
members.
Evening Services
Anniversary exercises for the boards
of education and the Freedmen'S Aid
Society were held with speakers repre-
senting the interests of these organ
izations of the church.
DR.. Maveety. of the Freedman's Aid,
said that there were four million COL
ored persons at the time of the Eman-
cipation Proclamation and the ques-
ton was what to do with them in their
ignorant condition. The society which
he now represents now has twenty
schools among the colored people of
the South, with 5000 boys and girls.
and in the fifteen years of the exist
ence of these schools there have been
100000 of these colored boys and girls
in the schools, with 100000 members
in the colored Methodist churches.
Money has been given to the Freed
mems Aid schools by men of other
denominations because they say that
the work of this society under the
Methodist Church is the best they
know of any organization.
Many of the colored people of the
South are being prepared in these
Freedmen's Aid schools to teach in
the public schools and these will con-
stantly command q larger place for
the teacher is the most influential per-
son in the community second only to
the preacher.
DR.. Harris, of the board of educa-
tion, made an appeal to the Central
Pennsylvania Conference. which he
characterized as of fertile fields and
rich in resources. to give to others
what it has received and thus obey
the Golden Rule.
America must furnish the leaders
of the world for the next fifty years."
declared DIR. ]. H. Haucher, assistant
secretay of the board of education,
because the young men of Oxford
Heidelberg and the other universities
of Europe are in the trenches, from
which many will never return.
DIR. Goucher. president emeritus of
the Women's College. Baltimore; DIR.
J. H. Morgan, Dickinson College, Car
Isle, and DR.. 3. c. Conner Dickinson
Seminary, Williamsport, were also
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