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MINUTES

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OF THE

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BISHOP LUTHER B. WILSON, D. D., LL. D., President E. A. ARMSTRONG, Secretary

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MINUTES

OF THE Michigan Annual Conference

OF THE

Methodist Episcopal Church

SEVENTIETH SESSION

Charlotte, Michigan, September 6-12, 1905

BISHOP LUTHER B. WILSON, D. D., LL. D., President

E. A. ARMSTRONG, Secretary

OFFICIAL RECORD Volume XVIII. Number 2 Price, Fifteen Cents Conference Officers

President.

Bishop Luther B. Wilson, D. D., LL. D. Chattanooga, Tenn.

Secretary.

Edward A. Armstrong, Ltidington, Mich.

Assistant Secretaries.

W. A. Taylor, C. S. Wheeler, G. A. Brown, J. G. Biery, F. A. Lendrum.

Statistician.

G. S. Robinson, Portland, Mich.

Assistant Statisticians.

F. M. Cottrell, F. A. Lendrum. Albion District C. A. Norcross, C. J. B ready Big Rapids District T. P. Bennett, E. W. Davis. Grand Rapids District H. L. Rood, F. H. Larabee, S. B. Ford. Grand Traverse District H. H. Harris, W. A. Robinson. Kalamazoo District P. E. Whitman. Lansing District F. M. Clough, G. V. Fallis Niles District C. L. Beebe, Q. Walker, H. E. Wylie, W. Earl.

Treasurer.

W. F. Kendrick, Greenville, Mich.

Assistant Treasurers.

G. K. Fairbank, R. J. Freeman J. B. Peatling, C. E. Pollock, G. W. Maxwell.

Biographical Secretary.

G. A. Odlum. Grand Rapids, Mich.

Conference Trustees.

OFFICERS FOR 1905-1906.

President, W. M. Puffer; Vice President, J. T. Buell; Secretary. P. J Maveety; Treasurer, E. J. Phelps, Kalamazoo. investment committee.

L. E. Lennox, Chairman; P. J. Maveety, M. M. Callex. (Samuel Dickie, E. J. Phelps, Advisory Members.)

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Conference Committees for 1906

Auditing.

\Y. J. Wilson, O. F. Bulman, C. J. Kruse. Bible Cause.

J. G. Biery, Geo. Bullen. Book Concern Accounts. Quinton Walker, C. A. Norcross, C. E. Pollock. Church Extension.

J. H. Wilcox, P. E. Whitman, J. W. Shehan, F. M. Clough, J. S. Valentine. Conference Claimants.

R. E. Meader, R. H. Bready, R. J. Slee, Thomas Cox, Isaiah Wilson, J. H. Emmons, E. Tench. Conference Relations.

J. I. Buell, A. S. Williams, Geo. Varion, J. W. Vickers, R. S. McGregor, E. V. Armstrong, A. W. Mumford. Delegates to Fraternal Bodies. Pastors where Fraternal Bodies meet. District Conference Records. Geo. D. Yinger, Frank Cookson, R. B. Cilley. Education.

T. H. M. Coghlan, J. R. T. Lathrop, Arba Martin,. . . "W. H. Wright, A. L. Toner, F. E. Day, J. E. Cook. Epworth League.

J. F. Peschman, G. E .Lewis, J. E. Foote, J. B. Peatling, W. J. Douglass. Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education. C. E. Hoag, S. C. Robinson, G. A. Brown, A. Trott, R. E. Yost. Memoirs.

F. A. Chapman, J. W. Hallenbeck, W. D. Rowland, G. A. Odlum, D. C. Riehl, J. P. Durham, J. K. Stark. Periodicals.

A. J. Wheeler, J. J. Yost, W. H. Irwin. Public Worship. Presiding Elder and Pastors where Conference is held. Publication of Minutes. Secretary and Statistician. Sabbath Observance. Hugh Kennedy, A. H. Coors, E. W. Laing, F. W. Haist, James Allen. State of Church.

J. B. Pinckard, A. O. Carman. Geo. A. Brown, J. W. H. Carlisle, L. Grosenbaugh. Sunday School and Tracts.

J. R. Wooton, T. H. Leaman, W. H. Moore. Temperance.

C. S. Wheeler, John Dobson,. . . .M. A. Oldt, Russell H. Bready. C. D. Fletcher, N. W. Weston, H. W. Thompson.

(153) Conference Boards for 1906

Presiding Elders.

Albion District—D. D. Martin. Lansing District—L. DeLamarter. Big Rapids District—N. L. Bray. KalamazooDistrict—M. M. Callen. Grand Rapids District—G. D. Chase. G'nd Traverse Dist.—A. T. Ferguson. Niles District—D. F. Barnes.

Board of Trustees.

W. M. Puffer, R. A. Wright, W. P. French, L. E. Lennox, J. I. Buell, P. J. Maveety, R. S. McGregor, R. E. Meader, M. M. Callen. Board of Stewards.

Chairman—D. C. Reihl. Secretary— I. T. Weldon. Treasurer—A. T. Luther. Term to Expire in 1906—H. D. Skinner, J. A. Bready, I. T. Weldon. Term to Expire in 1907—H. L. Potter, A. T. Luther, J. B. Pinckard. Term to Expire in 1908—J. W. Foy, J. C. Newcomer, W. P. Mosher. Term to Expire in 1909— F. M. Taylor, L. H. Manning, Joseph Dutton.

Board of Control of Deaconess Home.

John Graham, G. D. Chase, W. M. Puffer, Mrs. Jennie F. Knappen, Mrs. *J. C. Rickenbaugh, Mrs. Laura C. Aldrich, E. J. Phelps, Esq. D. F. Barnes, J. R. T. Lathrop.

Board of Examiners.

E. A. Armstrong, T. H. M. Coghlan, Thomas Cox, M. L. Fox, W. P. French, Hugh Kennedy, W. L. Laufman, J. T. LeGear, L. E. Lennox, A. F. Nagler, Charles Nease, J. F. Peschman, W. H. Phelps, W. M. Puffer, W. J. Wilson, J. R. Wooton, R. A. Wright. Conference Board of Church Extension.

John Graham, M. D. Carrel, J. F. Peschman, S. J. Throp, Earl Stokey, Geo. C. Whitworth, W. W. Barcus, M. L. Cook, Geo. Gundrum.

Board of Church Location.

ALBION DISTRICT. Chairman—Presiding Elder. John Dobson, S. C. Robinson, W. W Lamport. W. J. Webster, C. E. Singer, E. N. Parsons.

BIG RAPIDS DISTRICT.

Chairman—Presiding Elder. . W. H. Irwin, Louis Blanchett, Frank Cookson, I. B. Webster, O. W. Green, V. R. Davey. GRAND RAPIDS DISTRICT. Chairman—Presiding Elder. G. A. Odlum, R. J. Slee, James Gee, Joel Collins, M. L. Fox, W. W. Barcus.

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KALAMAZOO DISTRICT. Chairman—Presiding Elder. Farley, A. M. Gould, J. B. Peatling, R. S. McGregor, W. D. G. W. M. Hunt, Geo. L. Yaple. GRAND TRAVERSE DISTRICT. Chairman—Presiding Elder. Thos. Cox, J. C. Newcomer, H. H. Harris, Geo. Larder, Wm. McGregor, Claude Cole. lansing district. Chairman—Presiding Elder. A. D. Newton, W. P. Mosher, C. E. Hoag, E. C. Herolz, I. A. Warner, S. H. Rinker. niles district. Chairman—Presiding Elder. E. F. Newell, H. A. Lyon, James Atkin, W. W. Newman, Geo. Collins, M. Rouse.

Conference Societies

Epworth League.

President, Quinton Walker. Vice President, Hugh Kennedy. Secretary, J. C. DeViney Treasurer, C. A. Brown Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education. President, A. A. Geiger. Vice President, C. A. Jacokes. Secretary, B. H. Fleming. Treasurer, W. F. Kendrick

Missionary Society.

President, R. H. Bready. Vice President, Thos. Cox. Secretary, F. A. Chapman. Treasurer, W. F. Kendrick.

Temperance.

President, A. F. Nagler. Vice President, A. O. Carman. Secretary, J. R. Wooten.

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.

President Mrs. Lois L. Felker, Grand Rapids Corresponding Secretary Mrs. C. B. Carpenter Grand Rapids Recording Secretary Mrs. O. H. Perry Galesburg Treasurer Mrs. W. S. Keets Battle Creek

Woman's Home Missionary Society.

President Emeritus Mrs. A. A. Knappen Albion President Mrs. J. W. Hallenbeck Marshall Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Levi Master Grand Rapids Recording Secretary Mrs. J. W. Rose Kalamazoo Treasurer Mrs. Delos Fall Albion

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Miscellaneous

Trustees and Visitors to College. Trustees of Albion College— E. N. Parsons, Thomas Cox. Trustees of Northwestern University—W. I. Cogshall, L. E. Lennox. Visitors to Albion College—A. L. Toner, J. R. Wooton. Visitors to Boston University—W. A. Robinson, F. A. Chapman. Visitors to Drew Seminary—W. L. Laufman, A. T. Luther. Visitors to Garrett Biblical Institute—Two Years—J. B. Pinckard; One Year— L. H. Manning. Visitors to Women's College of Baltimore Arba Martin, J. M. Wolfe. Advisory Council Wesleyan Guild— G. A. Brown, S. C. Robinson. Conference Secretary for Sunday School Union. H. A. Lyon. Delegates to Tenth Annual National Anti-Saloon League Convention. S. C. Strickland, M. M. Callen. Alternates—D. F. Barnes, James Hamilton. Representative on National Board of Directors of Anti-Saloon League. M. M. Callen. Committee on Aggressive Evangelism. The Presiding Elders. Ministers—R. E. Meader, R. A. Wright, H. D. Skinner, W. F. Kexdrick, W. L. Laufman, W. E. Doty, C. E. Deal. Laymen Watson Smith, Jackson; H. M. Lowell, Reed City; J. X. Wilson, Grand Rapids; W. H. Scott, Traverse City; A. N. Lawrasox, Lansing; L. W. Burgderfer, Battle Creek; W. P. Harvey, Benton Harbor. To Preach Annual Missionary Sermon.

P. J. Maveety. Treasurer of American University Fund. M. Callen. Methodist Old People's Home.

P. J. Maveety, F. M. Taylor, L. H. Manning, Chas. Nease, G. S. Robinson. Laymen—W. R. Fox, C. C. Lathrop, L. W. Robinson, I. S. Morris. M. J. Bigelow. Representative in Michigan Federation of Churches. W. P. French. Triers of Appeals.

J. A. Bready, G. W. Gosling, J. R. Wooton, E. V. Armstrong, A. H. Coors. Committee on Bay View.

D. F. Barnes, M. D. Carrel, J. T. LeGear, D. D. Martin. P. J. Maveety. Trustees Michigan State Holiness Camp Meeting Association.

R. E. Meader, W. J. Wilson. Trustees Anti-Saloon League.

J. T. LeGear, N. F. Jenkins. District Missionary Secretaries. Albion District—A. O. Carman Homer. Mich. Big Rapids District Thos. H. M. Coghlan..."; Cadillac. Mich. Grand Rapids District—J. F. Peschman Whitehall, Mich. Grand Traverse District Hugh Kennedy Traverse City. Mich. Kalamazoo District—H. D. Skinner Otsego. Mich. Lansing District— G. S. Robinson Portland. Mich. Niles District—W. H. Phelps Three Rivers. Mich. (156) 5 ....

Sessions of the Michigan Annual Conference

From its Organization to the Present Time.

TIME. PLACE BISHOP. SECRETARY.

September 7, 1836. Mansfield, Ohio.... J. Soule H. O. Sheldon. September 6, 1837. Detroit, Mich R. R. Roberts Edward Thompson.

September 5, 1838 Tiffin, Ohio Beverley Waugh. . . Edward Thompson.

September 4, 1839. Ann Arbor, Mich. . . J. Soule Edward Thompson.

August 19, 1840. Marshall, Mich. . . . E. Hedding H. Colclazer. September 15, 1841 White Pigeon, Mich R. R. Roberts H. Colclazer.

August 17, 1S42 . Adrian, Mich T. A. Morris H. Colclazer.

August 16, 1843 . Ann Arbor, Mich. . . J. Soule J. S. Harrison.

October 2 1844. Coldwater, Mich. . . L. L. Hamline H. Colclazer. September 10, 1845 Detroit, Mich E. S. Janes H. Colclazer. September 23, 1846 Marshall, Mich.... E. S. Janes H. Colclazer. September 15, 1847 Ypsilanti, Mich T. A. Morris E. H. Pilcher.

September 6, 1848 Kalamazoo, Mich. . E. S. Janes E. H. Pilcher. September 1849 Adrian, Mich L. L. Hamline E. H. Pilcher. September 4, 1850 Albion, Mich T. A. Morris E. H. Pilcher. September 3, 1851 Monroe, Mich T. A. Morris E. H. Pilcher. September 15, 1852 Niles, Mich Levi Scott E. H. Pilcher.

September 14, 1853. Detroit, Mich Beverley Waugh. . . E. H. Pilcher.

September 13, 1854 Ann Arbor, Mich. . . O. C. Baker T. C. Gardner. September 1855 Flint, Mich E. R. Ames T. C. Gardner.

. October 1, 1856 . Coldwater, Mich. . T. A. Morris R. C. Crawford. September 16, 1857 Lansing, Mich Beverley Waugh... R. C. Crawford.

September 15, 1858 Kalamazoo, Mich. . E. R. Ames. R. C. Crawford.

September 14, 1859 Marshall, Mich. . . . E. S. Janes. R. C. Crawford. September 27 1860 Ionia, Mich M. Simpson T. H. Sinex. October 2, 1861 Battle Creek, Mich. E. R. Ames T. H. Sinex. October 1, 1862 Grand Rapids, Mich L. Scott T. H. Sinex. September 23, 1863 Jackson, Mich M. Simpson T. H. Sinex. September 28, 1864 Niles, Mich 0. C. Baker J. W. Robinson. September 13, 1865 Albion, Mich E. R. Ames L. R. Fiske. September 6, 1866 Hillsdale, Mich M. Simpson A. A. Dunton. September 11. 1867 Lansing, Mich D. W. Clark M. B. Camburn. September 3. 1868 Three Rivers, Mich. E. R. Ames M. B. Camburn. September 15, 1869 Grand Rapids, Mich L. Scott M. B. Camburn.

August 31, 1870 Coldwater, Mich. . . D. W. Clark M. B. Camburn. September 13, 1871 St. Joseph, Mich... E. N. Janes M. B. Camburn. September 18, 1872 Jackson, Mich E. R. Ames J. I. Buell. September 10, 1873 Ionia, Mich 1. W. Wiley J. I. Buell.

September 1874 Kalamazoo, Mich . . M. Simpson G. B. Jocelyn. September 1875 Battle Creek, Mich. L. Scott G. B. Jocelyn. September 13, 1876 Niles, Mich G. Haven G. B. Jocelyn. September 5, 1877 Grand Rapids, Mich S. M. Merrill A. R. Boggs. September 4, 1878 Three Rivers, Mich. J. T. Peck A. R. Boggs. September 10 1879. Ionia, Mich R. S. Foster H. M. Joy.

September 15, 1880 Muskegon, Mich. . . T. Bowman H. M. Joy. August 31 1881 Jackson, Mich. .... R. S. Foster H. M. Joy.

. . September 6, 1882 . Coldwater, Mich. E. G. Andrews W. I. Cogshall. September 1883 Albion, Mich W. L. Harris W. I. Cogshall. Sept ember io', 1884 Lansing, Mich W. X. Ninde W. I. Cogshall. Grand Sept ember 24 1885 . Rapids, Mich H. W. Warren W. I. Cogshall.

Sept ember 1 1886 Kalamazoo, Mich. . J. F. Hurst W. I. Cogshall. September 1887 Bay View, Mich .... W. X. Ninde I. R. A. Wightman. September 5, 1888! St. Joseph, Mich... S. M. Merrill James W. Reid.

September 11, 1889. Greenville, Mich. . . Cyrus D. Foss James W. Reid.

September 10, 1890. Muskegon, Mich. . . E. G. Andrews w. I. Cogshall. September 9, 1891. Grand Ropids, Mich J. P. Newman w. I. Cogshall. September 14, 1892. Hillsdale, Mich... C. H. Fowler p. J. Maveety. September 6, 1893. Grand Rapids, Mich T. Bowman p. J. Maveety. September 12, 1894. Jackson, Mich W. F. Mallalieu p. J. Maveety. September 18, 1895. Albion. Mich John F. Hurst p. J. Maveety. Lansing, September 16, 1896. Mich John M. Walden. . . p. J. Maveety.

September 15, 1897. Kalamazoo, Mich. . John H. Vincent. . . p. J. Maveety. September 14, 1898. Lansing, Mich S. M. Merrill M. M. Callen. September 13, 1899. Ionia, Mich C. H. Fowler M. M. Callen. September 12, 1900. Battle Creek, Mich. D. A. Goodsell M. M. Callen.

September 11, 1901. Muskegon, Mich . . H. W. Warren M. M. Callen. Traverse September 17, 1902. City. Mich J. N. FitzGerald. . . M. M, Callen. September 23, 1903. Jackson, Mich .... Cyrus D. Foss E. A. Armstrong.

September 14, 1904. Grand Rapids. Mich Chas. C. McCabe. . . E. A. Armstrong.

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~~And Post Office Address of Members, Probationers and Supplies.~~

The Secretary desires to have this roll correct, but without the help of the members it is impossible. Supernumeraries, superannuates, members who are in other than pastoral work, those ''left without appointment to attend school," and all whose post office address is different from the name or first name of their appointment, should communicate with the Secretary.

I fthis is not done the Secretary can do no better than to print the old address. Please notify the Secretary of any errors in the initials or spell- ing of names. All post office addresses are in Michigan unless otherwise stated, (a) Superannuate, (n) Supernumerary.

~~NAME. POST OFFICE. NAME. POST OFFICE.~~

~~(a) Aldrich, Willard . . . . Petoskey (a) Brockway, N. L Mason (a) Aler, Levi Cross Village Brown, C. F Delton Allan, G. E E. Jordan R. F. D. No. 2. Allen, James Centerville Brown G. A Allegan~~

~~Anderson, C. H Brown, N. P. . . . Bloomingdale White Pigeon Brown, Chas. A Morley Armstrong, E. A Ludington Brownlow, T. G. R., Scottville~~

Armstrong, E. V. . Kalamazoo Bryan, F. J Manton Arnold, Geo. R Bellevue Buell, J. I Grand Rapids (n) Aylesworth, W. W....8 Innes Buell, G. A Quincv Avenue, Grand Rapids. Buell, J. W Palo Baldwin, E. A Cassopolis Bullen, George .... Carson City Barnes D. F Niles Bulman, O. F Glenn (a) Barnes, G. S Petoskey (a) Burns, A. W Osseo (a) Barnes, N. M Delta (a) Calkins, L. W Sparta (a) Barnhart, C. L Sparta Callen, M. M Kalamazoo R. F. D. No. 19. Carlisle, J. W. H Shelby Carman, A. Homer (a) Beach, J. C Buchanan O R. F. D. No. 2. Carrel, M. D Big Rapids Beebe, C. L Colon (n) Cartland. A. T Cassopolis (a) Bennett, L. M Ann Arbor Chamberlain, H. C. Newaygo F. Coldwater Bennett, J. H Lowell Chapman, A Bennett, T. P Farwell Chase, G. D....209 Woodmere Court, Grand Rapids. Biery, J. G Martin Blanchet, L Shepherd Chase, J. C Woodville Bond, A. W Galesburg (a) Choate, W. H Albion Cilley, R. Grandville Bostwick, L. O. . .Trowbridge B "(n) Bouck, Elliott Portland Clapn. F. H Jackson Marshall Bowerman, J. F Girard Clark. Adam Clough, F. Gladwin Bradner, E. J . . . Loyalton, Cal. M Bray, N. L Big Rapids Coghlan. Thos. H. M.. Cadillac Bready, R. H Niles Cosshall. W. I Ionia Bready, Russell H Lowell (a) Colby. W. M Parma Coleixrove. D. Sarawac Bready. J. A Hillsdale O Bretts, John Lake City Cook. A. T -\llen (162) 1905] CONFERENCE ROLL 163

~~NAME. POST OFFICE. NAME. POST OFFICE.~~

~~Cook, J. C Lake Odessa (a) George, T. T. . . .Cedar Springs Cookson, Frank Leroy Glass, W. F Hesperia Coors, A. H Sparta Golden, O. J Perrinton~~

~~Cosner, F. M Pipestone Gosling, A. T. . . .Evanston, 111.~~

~~Cottrell, F. M Lansing Gosling, G. W. . . Edwardsburg~~

Cox, Thomas. . .Traverse City Gould, A. M Kalamazoo Craig, G. F Union City R. F. D. No. 2. (a) Crawford, R. C Byron Graham, John, 177 Buckeye St., Cronk, Delos Pentwater Grand Rapids, (a) Daugherty, M. A... 2135 Grant (a) Grosenbaugh, L....Boyne City Avenue, Denver, Colo. Griffith, A. M Alamo Davids, J. W Bowne (a) Gulick, J Albion Davis, E. W Remus Haist, F. W Evart Day, F. E Albion (a) Haight, Geo. L., Riverside, Cal. Deal, C. E Three Oaks Hallenbeck, J. W DeGraff, J. A Hart 110 High Street, Marshall DeLamarter, L Lansing Hamilton, as g. i2j5,.onHB6hs Demorest, F. C Albion Hamilton, Jas., 521 Sherman St. De Viney, J. C Gobleville Grand Rapids. Dietrick, J. C Bath Harris, H. H Kalkaska Dobson, John .Parma (n) Hart, A. F Greenville (a) Donaldson, Geo ... Kalamazoo Hart, J. W Grand Rapids R. F. D. No. 2. Hathaway, W. J Ganges Dorris. J. C Penfield (a) Haviland, D. S Greenville Doty, Wm. E.... Grand Ledge (a) Hawley, H. R Morley

Douglass, W. J Buchanan Hayward, J. W. . Breckenridge (a) Draper, G. C Chicago, 111. (a) Heath, Willard Saranac (a) Draper, 'James Hart R. F. D. No. 10. Duffey, M. W Freeport (a) Hewitt, S. P Kewadin (a) Dunton, A. A Battle Creek (a) Hickey, G. S Detroit Durham, J. P Norwood (a) Hicks, G. S....Wellfleet, Neb. • Dutton, Joseph... Mt Pleasant (a) Hill, T. J Phoenix, Ariz.

~~Eagle, Irving Tompkins (n) Hipp, H. G. . .Nashville, Tenn. Earl, Wellington ..Woodland (n) Hill, W. T Grawn (a) Edmonds, L. M.. Oconto Falls, Ploag, C. E Alma Wis. (n) Holden, C. W McBain~~

~~(a) Eldred, A. J Traverse City (n) Holmes, W. L. . .Grand Rapids (a) Eldred, A. N Colon (a) Hopkins, J. H. ... Rudolf, Fla.~~

~~Elmer, W. I Battle Creek (a) Horner, J. W. . . .Grand Rapids Emmons. J. H Climax (a) Howe, C. H Lamont (a) Engle, David Petoskey (a) Howe, G. W Albion~~

Exner, Wm. A. . . . Pottersville (a) Hovt, T Allen Fairbank, G. K Ludington Fluff, P. D Paris Fallis, Geo. V Schoolcraft Irwin, W. H Reed City Farrar, A. R Camden Jacokes, C. A Middleville Ferguson. A. T.. Traverse City Jamieson, Donald Luther Floyd, J. C..220 W. Fourth St., Jenkins, N. F Mason Cincinnati, Ohio. Jewett, John A Pokagon Fleming, Berton H (a) Tones, C. W Harriette Constantine (a) Jordan, H. D Albion Foote. J. E Ma-le Rarids (a) Judd, Wm Luther Ford, S. B... Coopersville Keene, C. L Bronson Fortner, W. A. A Penfield (a) Keillor, A. R Boyne City Fox, M. L Muskegon Kendall, N. H Evanston Foy, J. W Vick^burg Kendrick, W. F Greenville (a) Freeman, F. J Albion Kennedy, Hugh, Traverse City Freeman. R. D Litchfield Kenyon, L. B Potterville French, W. P Lansing Keplinger, P. R Bangor Geiger, A. A Jackson (a) Ketcham, A. E... South Haven 164 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

NAME. POST OFFICE. NAME. POST OFFICE. Killeen, George. .Grand Rapids Newton, A. D Okemos Kitzmiller, Walter R Nicholls, H. J Hope Hopkins Station Niles, F. L Reading (a) Klose, John.... 253 Turner St., Norcross, C. A Aurelius Grand Rapids. (a) Oden, J. R. ... Hollywood, Cal. (a) Knappen, A. A Albion Odium, G. A Grand Rapids Kruse, C. J Montague (n) Ogden, W. E Ionia Laing, E. W...75 South Ave., Oldt, M. A Edmore Battle Creek. (a) Orwick, J. F Jackson Laity, Thomas Plainwell Ottan, Chas White Cloud Lamport, W. W.. Leslie (n) Palmatier, C. H Delton Langrell, W. L Lacota Parsons, W. H New Buffalo Larabee, F. H Sherwood Partridge, U. E., Virginia City, Large, S. W Clarion Nevada. Lathrop, J. R. T., Grand Rapids (n) Pattison, L. N Ann Arbor (a) Latham, D. R...Abeline, Kan. Peschman, J. F Whitehall Laufman, W. L. .98 Turner St., Peating, J. B Mendon

Grand Rapids. Phelps, W. H. . . .Three Rivers Leamon, T. H Fennville Pinckard, J. B St. Johns Lee, D. R Madison, Wis. (a) Pitezel, J. H....216 Bank St., Le Gear, J. T Jackson Loraine, Ohio. Lennox, L. E.. Benton Harbor Pollock, Cecil E., Howard City Lendrum, F. A Jonesville (n) Porter, G. J Ravenna Lewis, G. E Frankfort Potts, J. H Detroit Luther, A. T Holland Potter, H. L Dowagiac (a) Lumber, E. T., 113 S. Van Bu- (a) Pratt, B. S Grand Ledge ren St., Bay City. (a) Prouty, W. A Albion Lyon, E. R Shepardsville Puffer, W. M Kalamazoo Lyon, H. A Hartford Quant, H. R. E Athens Manning, L. H Sturgis Quinn, C. A.. South Frankfort (a) Marsh, N. D Charlotte (a) Rawlinson, J. W. .576 Clinton Martin, Arba Petoskey Ave., Detroit. Martin, D. D Albion Reed, D. E Albion (a) Marzolf, J Grand Rapids Richtmyer, L. P Partello

Mather. E. O. . . .North Adams Riddick, I. H Cooper (a) Mathews, L. S E. Jordan Riehl, D. C Richland Maveety, P. J Battle Creek (a) Riley, Thomas Lansing Maxwell, G. W Clare Risley, C. S Elk Rapids McComb, A. H Kalkaska Robinson, G. S Portland McGregor, R. S .... Kalamazoo Robinson, S. C Hanover

~~Meader, R. E. . . .Eaton Rapids Robinson, W. A Bellaire (n) Merrill. C. M..72Mt. Vernon Rood, D. A Heck Hall, St., Boston, Mass. Evanston, 111.~~

(n) Messner, J. E Wayland Rood, H. L Casnovia Millard, G. R Springport (a) Rork. W. W Agnew (n) Miller, H. H., Alhambra. Cal. Rowland, W. D Lakeview (n) Miller. J. W. .. .Traverse City Ruoff, J. G (a) Mills. B. S Freesoil Sheehan, J. W Belding Moore, W. H Tekonsha (a) Sherman. G. W Petoskey (a) Moors, A. P Greenville (a) Shier. Richard. Berlin, R. F. D. Morris, A. J Jackson Silverthorne. B. A Butler

Mosher, W. P. . . . Vermontville (a) Sincleir, E. L.... White Pigeon Mount. G. L Yosilanti Simmons, A. W De Witt Mumford, A. W Paw Paw (a) Skinner, T. H. .San Diego, Cal. Nagler, A. F Jackson Skinner, H. D Otsego Nease, Chas..i4 Spencer Ave., Slee. R. T Rockford Grand Rapids. Slee. W. W 35 North Ave.,

~~Newcomer, T. C . . . . Mancelona Grand Rapids. Newell, E. F Lawton (n) Smith. Albert Concord 1905] CONFERENCE ROLL 165~~

~~NAME. POST OFFICE. NAME. POST OFFICE. (a) Smith, C. W Ferry Wade, H. V Pellston~~

Sprague, E. E. . . . Shepardsville Walker, Harry E Marengo R. F. D. No. 5. Walker, Quinton .... Lawrence (a) Sprague, J. A Kalamazoo (a) Ward, D. M Farmington Stafford, D. N St. Joseph Way, Alfred Ionia Stark, J. K Eagle R. F. D. No. 2. Steffe, J. W Greenville (a) Welch, R. C 124 Dearborn Stephens, A. A Sheridan Ave., Chicago, 111. (a) Stevens, E. G., Cranesville, Pa. Weldon, I. T Elsie (a) Stewart, A. K.... Bishop, Cal. Wesbrook, J. H Lowell (n) Streeter, Douglas.. Big Rapids Wheeler, C. S Battle Creek Strickland, S. C. ... Kalamazoo Wheeler, A. J Marcellus (n) Sturgis, A. H Rockford (a) White, J Galesburg R. F. D. No. 26. (a) White, J. E Middleville (a) Swift, W. J Lansing (a) White, J. W Union City (a) Tallman, I. B Watervliet Whitman, P. E (a) Tanner, E. A Grand Haven Harbor Springs

Taylor, F. M South Haven (a) Whitman, B. H . ... Charlevoix (n) Taylor, W. A ...Bellevue (a) Wigle, E Grand Rapids Tench, E Berrien Springs Wilcox, J. H Ithaca Thompson, H. W Coloma Wilks, Jos. .. .Wellington, Neb Thompson, W. H Williams, A. S Vandalia Pittsburg, Pa. Wilson, Isaiah. .. Grand Haven (a) Tindall, R. W Big Rapids Wilson, W. J Charlotte (a) Tiney, S. C Grand Rapids Wolfe, J. M St. Louis Toner, Arthur L Decatur Wood, E. W Kingsley (a) Treadgold, E Albion (a) Woodward, D. C Ovid (a) Trewin, Samuel Flushing Woodhull, W. S Trott, Arthur Hastings Franksville, Wis. Tuthill, G. W Nashville Wooton, J. Ralph Ovid Tuttle, N. S Orleans Wright, R. A Manistee (n) Upton, J. C Constantine Wright, Wm. H Oshtemo Valentine, J. S Burr Oak Wylie, H. E Lyons

~~(a) Van Antwerp. C. T. . Middleton Yinger, Geo Concord (n) Van De Walker, F. A.... Yost, Jesse J Albion Camden, N. Y. Yost, R. E Williamsburg~~

~~(n) Van Schoick, R. W. .Coldwater Young, Thomas. .. . Prairieville~~

~~Varion, George Barryton (n) Youngblood, L. D. . . .Wexford (n) Varnum, C. A Hillsdale Zedler, John Albion Vickers, J. W Charlevoix Total Full Members, 348.~~

~~Probationers~~

~~NAME. POST OFFICE. NAME. POST OFFICE. Bostwick, Allison M Douglass Kelsey, Chas. H Delta Branrd, Marshall A Bailey Lawrence, James W Augusta~~

Bready, Chas. J Stanton Meyer, Wm. H. . .Likeley's Corners Cross, Preston A Berlin Minor, Irving W Jackson Curry, Caleb E Jackson Phillips, Wade S Holton Hawks, Estus J Onondaga Robeson, Jas. B Wayland Irwin, Samuel W Scotts Shewell, Edward A Muskegon Jewett, Wm. M. P Hersey Starsell, G. Gilbert Galien Jensen, Jas. M Rosebush Twomley, Ernest Weidman Jewell, Stewart K Watters, Frank C Bear Lake Johnson, Wm. A., 605 N. Calhoun Wright, St., Baltimore, Md. Geo. E Mattawan

~~Jones, Walter L Stevensville Total Probationers, 23. . .~~

~~1 66 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE~~

~~/ocal reachers as Evan gelists~~

~~NAME. POST OFFICE. NAME. POST OFFICE. Allen, Geo. E Wheeler Jackson, G. R Quincy Colegrove, Will S. Grand Rapids Morehouse, F. E Jackson~~

~~Davis, R. J . . . Sand Lake Total Local Evangelists, 5. SUPPLIES.~~

~~NAME. POST OFFICE. NAME. POST OFFICE. Allen, Wm. A Chase Johnson, O. H Gilead Baldwin, F Banfield W. Kerdall, C. J Chippewa Lake Barnes, G. Evart W Kennedy, H. Bedford, O. C Eaton G Pomona~~

Long, . . Brownell, M. J Grawn W. W. Muskegon Heights Burge, Jesse Fife Lake Maltman, C. E Sherwood Carpenter, L. B Traverse City Mann, W. L Hubbardston Carpenter, W. H Mosherville Merring, W. P Cedar Springs Catterall, James Marion Marshall, C. W Fremont Chapman, Wm Byron Center McGinnis, J. B.. Cadillac, R. F. D. Chase, C. W Old Mission Nicholls, H. J Breedsville Chatfield, W. W Coral Nixon, Jas Terry Clapp, F. A Hastings Osborne, D. C Comstock Cornelius, J. H Pierson Parsons, A. C Big Rapids Crawford, D. C Millbrook Peters, A. C Seaford Crettenden, A. R. Coldwater Phillips, J. G Caledonia Day, G. B Beaverton Price, L. E Sears Deets, John D Northport Priestley, John So. Boardman Deighton, Fred Entrican Regan, S. V Mackinaw City Elias, W. A Petoskey Rochelle, J. W Kinderhook Fallis, W. B Whitneyville Seipp, Carl Crystal Valley Fisher, G. T Delton Sherwood, Chas Ashton Ford, F. S., Battle Creek, R. D. 0 Silkwood, B Keeler George. Enos Inland Sowter, T. C McBain Gray, E. F Aid en Steffe, D. E Frontier Haskin, Wm Manton Todd, Wm Ravenna Haywood, Charles Sunfield Vaughn, Elmer Winn Heetebry, John Stittsville Viner, A. H Coleman Herbert, W. H Benzonia Wallace, A. W Burlington Halcomb, Amos, Belmont R. D. 15 Watkins, W. A Harrietta Halcomb, W. H Irving Webster, W. H. W Ashley Hurd, W. W Waconsta Weston. N. W., Ithaca. R. F. D. 5 Jerrett, Howard Leaton Total Supplies, 64.

~~Recapitulation.~~

~~Full Members 348 On Trial 23~~

~~• • 1 Total Conference Members .- -37~~

~~Supplies, 6-43 Evangelists, 5 (Non Members) 69~~

~~Grand Total 440 Conference Rules of Order~~

Rule i. The Conference shall meet at 8:30 a. m., spending 30 minutes in devotional exercises, and adjourn at 12 M., but may alter the time of meeting at its discretion. 2. The President shall take the chair precisely at the hour to which the Conference stood adjourned, and cause the same to be opened by devotional exercises, including reading of the Scriptures, singing and prayer, and shall have the journal of the preceding session read and approved. 3. The President shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Conference, but in case of an appeal the question should be taken without debate. 4 He shall appoint all committees not otherwise ordered by the conference, but any member may decline serving on more than one committee at the same time. 5. All motions and resolutions introduced by any member shall be reduced to writing, if the President, Secretary, or any member requests it. 6. No motion shall be considered unless seconded. 7. A motion to adjourn shall be in order at any time, and shall be decided without debate. 8. When a motion, resolution, or report is read by the Secretary, or stated by the President, it shall be deemed as in possession of the Confer- ence, but any motion or resolution may be withdrawn by the mover at any time before the decision or amendment. 9. No new motion1 or resolution shall be made until the one under consideration is disposed of, which may be done by adoption or rejection, unless one of the following should intervene; which motion shall have precedence in the order named, viz. : The previous question, indefinite postponement, laying on the table, reference to a committee, postponement to any given time, amendment, or substitute. 10. Whenever any motion or resolution shall have passed, it shall be in order for any member who voted in the affirmative to move for a recon- sideration. 11. No member shall be allowed to vote on any question who is not within the bar at the time when said question is put by the President, except by leave of the Conference, or when such member has been necessarily absent. 12. Every member who shall be within the bar at the time the question is put, shall give his vote, unless the Conference, for special reasons, ex- cuse him. 13 When any member is about to speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the Conference, he shall arise from his seat and respectfully address the President. 14. No person shall speak more than twice on the same subject, or more than five minutes at one time, without leave of the Conference, nor shall any person speak more than once until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken. 15. No member shall be interrupted when speaking, except by the President to call him to order when he departs from the question, uses personalities or disrespectful language, but any member may call the attention of the President to the subject when he deems a speaker out of order, or any other member may explain when he thinks himself misrep- resented. 16. It shall be in order to move that the question shall be taken without further debate, on any measure pending before the Conference, except in cases where character or Conference relations are involved, and if sustained by a two-thirds vote, the question shall be so taken. (167) Conference Rules

Rule i. No person shall absent himself from the session of the Confer- ence without leave, unless he be sick or unable to attend. 2. The Secretary shall keep a journal of the Conference proceedings, which he shall cause to be published in the annual minutes, and, when so published, it shall be the official journal of this Conference. He shall edit the minutes and all memoirs, and shall make contracts for the publication thereof for the next ensuing annual Conference. He shall have charge of the journal and Conference files, and forward them to the seat of the next annual Conference. He shall cause to be deposited with the librarian of Albion College the ancient documents of this Conference. 3. All committees whose reports are to be printed in the minutes shall present their report in writing to the Secretary, otherwise the Committee on Publication is not required to insert such reports in the minutes. 4. All candidates for readmission, for admission on trial, for admission on credentials from other churches, for admission into full membership, and for recognition of orders shall be required to appear before the Con- ference Board of Examiners and furnish such information as may be desired, touching their general qualifications for the ministry. 5. All cases involving change of Conference relations shall be referred to the Committee on Conference Relations, all withdrawals included. 6. A member of Conference accused of offenses against the law and discipline of the Church is entitled to a copy of the charges and specifications to be relied on for the prosecution of the complaint, together with a notice of the time when the accused will be called upon to answer said charges and specifications. A failure to serve a copy of said charges and specifications a reasonable length of time before the same shall be presented for adjudication must be satisfactorily explained by the prosecution before the trial can proceed. 7. Conference visitors shall be allowed fifteen minutes in which to address the Conference. Presiding Elders' reports shall be limited to ten minutes, and reports of committees, except the Board of Stewards, to five minutes. 8. In the distribution of Conference Claimants' Funds, the action of the Board of Stewards shall be final. Provided, that in case the applicant is dissatisfied with the action of the Board, he or she may appeal to the Con- ference. 9. The Stewards shall give a general report of their work to the Con- ference, and furnish the Conference Secretary for publication in the minutes answers to disciplinary questions Nos. 27 and 28. Widows of deceased ministers who have never traveled with their husbands shall be temporary claimants, and shall be referred to the Board of Stewards, who shall decide each case from year to year. 10. The Stewards shall announce the time and place that allowances may be received by claimants. Allowances not called for personally shall be sent to claimants by mail or authorized messenger. 11. The memorial service for deceased members of the Conference and the deceased wives of preachers shall be a special order for the second day of the Conference session, at 10 o'clock a. m. 12. The hearing of the report of the Conference Trustees and the Treas- urer and Field Secretary of the Trustees, and the transaction of business in connection therewith shall be the special order for 10 o'clock a. m. of the third day of the Conference session. (168) Journal of the Michigan Annual Conference 1905

~~FIRST DAY.~~

~~Wednesday, September 6, 1905.~~

~~The Michigan Annual Conference convened for its seventieth annual session in the Lawrence Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Charlotte,~~

Michigan, W. J. Wilson, pastor, Wednesday, September 6th, 1905. Bishop I,. B. Wilson took the chair at 9 a, m. and read the third chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians. The hymn "Oh Could I Speak the Matchless Worth," was sung. The Bishop assisted by the Presiding Elders, the pastor and Dr. E. S. Dunham, administered the sacrament of the Lord's Suppe.r. The hymn "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name" was sung and the

Bishop gave a brief opening . address in which he referred to the death of Bishop Joyce who was to have presided at the conference. Roll Call.—E. A. Armstrong, the Secretary of the last Conference called the roll, to which 196 members and 12 probationers responded as

~~follows : Conference Roll Call.—James Allen, C. H. Anderson, E. A. Armstrong, E. V. Armstrong, Geo. R. Arnold, W. W. Aylesworth, D. F. Barnes, C. L.~~

~~Barnhart, C. L. Beebe, J. H. Bennett, J. G. Biery, L. Blanchet, N. L. Bray, R.~~

~~H. Bready, Russell H. Bready, J. A. Bready, John Bretts, N. L. Brockway, C. F. Brown, G. A. Brown, N. P. Brown, Chas. A. Brown, T. G. R. Brownlow, F.~~

J. Bryan, J. I. Buell, G. A. Buell, J. W. Buell, A. W. Burns, M. M. Callen, J. W. H. Carlisle, A. O. Carman, M. D. Carrel, A. T. Cartland, H. C. Chamber- lain, F. A. Chapman, G. D. Chase, R. B. Cilley, Adam Clark, F. M. Clough, T.

~~H. M. Coghlan, W. I. Cogshall, J. C. Cook, A. H. Coors, F. M. Cottrell, Thos.~~

~~Cox, G. F. Craig, R. C. Crawford, J. W. Davids, E. W. Davis, C. E. Deal,~~

~~J. A. DeGrafF, L. DeLamarter, F. C. Demorest, J. C. DeViney, John Dobson,~~

J. C. Dorris, G. C. Draper, M. W. Duffey, J. P. Durham, Joseph Dutton, Irving Eagle, Wellington Earl, W. I. Elmer, Wm. A. Exner, G. K. Fair- bank, A. T. Ferguson, J. C. Fioyd, Burton H. Fleming, S. B .Ford, M. L.

~~Fox, . W. Foy, R. D. Freeman, W. P. French, W. A. Frye, A. A. Geiger, A. T. Gosling, G. W. Gosling, A. M. Gould, John Graham, G. W. Grimes, F. W.~~

~~Haist, J. W. Hallenbeck, Jas. Hamilton, H. H. Harris, J. W. Hart, W. J.~~

Hathaway, J. W. Hayward, Willard Heath, W. T. Hill, G. W. Howe, P. D. Huff, W. H. Irwin, C. A. Jacokes, Donald Jamieson, N. F. Jenkins, John A. Jewett, C. L. Keene, W. F. Kendrick, Hugh Kennedy, P. R. Kiplinger,

~~Geo. Killeen, Walter R. Kitzmiller, Jno. Klose, C. J. Kruse, E. W. Laing, T.~~

~~(169) :~~

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Laity, W. W. Lamport, W. L. Langrell, F. H. Larabee, W. L. Laufman, T. H. Leamon, L. E. Lennox, A. T. Luther, E. R. Lyon, H. A. Lyon, L. H. Manning, N. D. Marsh, Arba Martin, D. D. Martin, E. O. Mather, P. J. Maveety, G. W. Maxwell, R. S. McGregor, A. P. Moors, A. J. Morris, G. L. Mount, A. W. Mumford, A. F. Nagler, Charles Nease, J. C. Newcomer, A. D.

Newton, F. L. Niles, G. A. Odium, J. F. Peschman, J. B. Peating, W. H. Phelps, J. B. Pinckard, Cecil E. Pollock, H. L. Potter, W. M. Puffer, H. R. E. Quant, C. A. Quinn, D. E. Reed, L. P. Richtmyer, I. H. Riddick, D. C. Riehl, Thos. Riley, C. S. Risley, G. S. Robinson, S. C. Robinson, W. A. Robin- son, D. A. Rood, H. L. Rood, W. D. Rowland, J. W. Sheehan, G. W. Sher- man, B. A. Silverthorne, A. W. Simmons, H. D. Skinner, R. J. Slee, W. W. Slee, E. E. Sprague, J. K. Stark, A. A. Stephens, S. C. Strickland, F. M. Taylor,

~~W. A. Taylor, E. Tench, H. W. Thompson, Arthur L. Toner, G. W. Tuthill, J.~~

~~S. Valentine, Geo. Varion, J. W. Vickers, H. V. Wade, Harry E. Walker, Quin- ton Walker, Alfred Way, I. T. Weldon, C. S. Wheeler, A. J. Wheeler, P. E.~~

~~Whitman, J. H. Wilcox, A. S. Williams, Isaiah Wilson, W. J. Wilson, J. M.~~

~~Wolfe, E. W. Wood, J. Ralph Wooton, R. A. Wright, Wm. H. Wright, H.~~

~~E. Wylie, Jesse J. Yost, R. E. Yost, Thomas Young.~~

~~Probationers.—Thos. P. Bennett, Leroy O. Bostwick, Franklin H. Clapp, Don O. Colegrove, Frank Cookson, Samuel W. Large, James W.~~

~~Lawrence, Frederick A. Lendrum, George E. Lewis, Harry J. Nicholls, Clarence A. Norcross, Edward A. Shewell.~~

~~The Conference rose and stood while the Secretary read the following names and announced that they were deceased~~

~~E. D. Bacon, J. R. Bowen, J. N. Dayton, H. P. Henderson, J. W. Hol- lowell, D. W. Parsons, W. R. Stinchcomb, and O. D. Watkins.~~

~~Organization.—On motion of L. E. Lennox, E. A. Armstrong was re- elected Secretary by acclamation and nominated for his assistanes, William~~

A. Taylor, C. S. Wheeler, G. A. Brown, and J. G. Biery, and they were elected. G. S. Robinson was re-elected Statistical Secretary by acclamation and nominated the following assistants who were elected: F. M. Cottrell, F.

A. Lendrum, C. A. Norcross, C. J. Bready, E. W. Davis, T. P. Bennett, H. L. Rood, F. H. Larabee, S. B. Ford, W. A. Robinson, P. E. Whitman, H. H. Harris, G. V. Fallis, F. M. Clough, W. Earle, H. E. Wylie, H. A. Lyon. C. L. Beebe and Q. Walker. W. F. Kendrick was re-elected Treasurer by acclamation and nominated the following assistants who were elected : G. K. Fairbank, G. W.

~~Maxwell, R. J. Freeman, J. B. Peatling, and C. E. Pollock. G. A. Odium was re-elected Biographical Secretary by acclamation. i9°5] JOURNAL 171~~

~~Standing Committees.~~

~~The Secretary called the list of Standing Committees, and after revision the following was adopted:~~

~~Auditing.—A. S. Williams, R. D. Freeman, F. H. Larabee.~~

Bible Cause.—A. W. Simmons, J. H. Emmons, W. A. Exner. Book Concern Accounts.—H. E. Wylie, H. A. Lyon, F. L. Niles. Church Extension.— C. E. Pollock, W. W. Slee, S. W. Large, W. H. Wright, W. W. Lamport. Al- Conference Claimants.—J. W. Hallenbeck, A. J. Wheeler, James, len, D. C. Reihl, A. M. Gould, J. S. Valentine, H. W. Thompson.

~~Conference Relations.— E. O. Mather, R. H. Bready, J. I. Buell, Hugh~~

Kennedy, J. C. Cook, A. W. Mumford, J. B. Pinckard. Delegates to Fraternal Bodies.—Pastors where Fraternal Bodies meet. District Conference Records.—A. A. Geiger, Joseph Dutton, H. L. Rood. Education.—W. W. Aylesworth, G. R. Arnold, S. C. Robinson, L. H.

~~Manning, J. M. Wolfe, Geo. Varion, J. F. Peschman.~~

~~Epworth League.— F. J. Bryan, J. C. DeViney, W. E. Doty, C. L. Beebe, C. A. Norcross.~~

Freedman's Aid and Southern Education.— G. W. Maxwell, J. H. Wil- cox, W. A. Robinson, F. A. Lendrum, J. E. Foote. Memoirs.—A. T. Ferguson, Albert Smith, G. A. Odium, D. C. Reihl, G. A. Brown, G. W. Sherman, G. L. Mount. Periodicals.— C. E. Hoag, E. A. Baldwin, T. G. R. Brownlow.

~~Public Worship.—D. D. Martin and W. J. Wilson. Publication of Minutes.—Secretary and Statistician.~~

~~Sabbath Observance.—J. W. H. Carlisle, R. D. Freeman, D. E. Reed, N. P. Brown, W. H. Parsons.~~

~~State of the Church.—Isaiah Wilson, J. T. LeGear, L. Blanchett, A. H. Coors, F. H. Bryan.~~

~~Sunday School and Tracts.— E. V. Armstrong, Geo. Bullen, H. A. Lyon.~~

~~Temperance.—R. E. Meader, E. W. Davis, Arthur Trott, A. H. McComb,~~

~~L. O. Bostwick, L. B. Kenyon, W. J. Douglass.~~

~~20th Century Fund.—F. A. Lendrum and J. W. Lawrence were elected assistant treasurers of the Twentieth Century Conference Claimants' Fund.~~

Committee on Nominations.—The motion prevailed that the Presiding Elders name a Committee of one from each district on Nominations. The following were nominated and elected: R. E. Meader, T. H. M. Coghlan, John Graham, R. A. Wright, F. W. Haist, W. P. French, A. T. Ferguson.

~~Stewards.—On motion H. D. Skinner was substituted a member of the Board of Stewards in place of A. H. Sturgis. 172 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

Conference Rules.—On motion of James Hamilton, Rule 12 of the Con- ference Rules was amended so that it requires the report of the Field Secretary and the Treasurer at the special order for 10 a. m. of the third day of the Conference session. On motion the "Conference Rules" as amended and the "Rules of Or- der" of the last Conference were adopted.

Bar Fixed.—On motion the Conference Bar was made to include the whole auditorium of the church. Twentieth Century Fund.—M. D. Carrel moved that the Conference authorize the pastors to report the interest on the Conference Claimants Fund in accordance with the blanks furnished by the Statistician. The motion was laid on the table by a vote of 72 to 67. Committee on Missions.—On motion of G. W. Gosling, the Presiding Elders were appointed the Committee on Missions. Twentieth Century Fund.—A. M. Gould moved that the reports of the Twentieth Century Conference Claimants Fund shall not be made by the pastors but that the principal and interest shall be reported by the treasurer of that fund, giving each charge credit. N. F. Jenkins moved an amendment that the Statistician be requested to print the reports in the Minutes in accordance with the blanks sent the pastors by the Statistician. On motion of W. I. Cogshall, the previous question was ordered, when the motion as amended was adopted.

~~Methodist Review.—On motion W. H. Wright was appointed to solicit subscriptions for the Methodist Review. Clark Memorial Home.—James Hamilton presented the following resolution :~~

Resolved, That a committee consisting of John Graham, L. E. Lennox, and M. L. Fox be appointed to draft rules and regulations for the management of the Clark Memorial Home and report Friday at the hour of Special Order for report of the Conference Trustees at which time said Home will formally be presented to the Conference, and that the Commit- tee be also requested to report nominations of a Board of Management for the care and conduct of the Home, to be elected by the Conference.

John Graham moved an amendment that James Hamilton and J. I. Buell be added to the Committee. The resolution as amended was adopted. Thirteenth Question.—The character of each of the following Presiding Elders was passed and they reported their respective Districts: D. D. Mar- tin, Albion District; N. L. Bray, the Big Rapids; G. D. Chase, the Grand Rapids; and M. D. Carrel, the Grand Traverse. Hugh Kennedy on behalf of the pastors of the Grand Traverse Dis- trict in a very pleasing address presented the retiring Presiding Elder, M. D. Carrel, with a fine roller top desk as a token of appreciation from his brethren. M. D. Carrel responded with appropriate remarks, assuring his brethren of his heartfelt gratitude. On motion the time was extended. 1905] JOURNAL 173

~~Announcements were made, the Doxology was sung and the Conference adjourned with benediction by Riley C. Crawford.~~

~~SECOND DAY.~~

~~Thursday, September 7, 1905.~~

The Conference convened at 8:30 a. m. The hymn "How Tedious and Tasteless the Hour" was sung and a season of prayer followed. E. S. Dun- ham spoke on Prayer as a Luxury and Labor. At 9 a. m. the Bishop took the chair.

~~Minutes.—The Secretary read the minutes of the last session and they were approved.~~

~~Roll Call.—The Secretary called the names of those who were absent from the first session and twenty-eight members and two probationers responded.~~

G. R. Arnold.—M. M. Callen presented the case of Geo. R. Arnold who asked that an investigation be made concerning certain complaints touching his moral character, and moved that the case be referred to a special committee of fifteen for investigaton and it was so ordered. The Presiding Elders were authorized to nominate the committee, and the following were elected : J. W. Hallenback, J. B. Pinckard, R. S. McGregor,

~~A. T. Ferguson, J. W. H. Carlisle, L. E. Lennox, W. A. Frye, W. P. French,~~

~~Thomas Cox, Adam Clark, J. I. Buell, W. J. Douglass, J. E. Foote, G. W.~~

~~Gosling, W. J. Hathaway. Opportunity was given for challenge, but the Committee was accepted by the accused. The Conference elected W. M.~~

Puffer as Chairman and appointed P. J. Maveety Counsel for the church and recognized W. I. Cogshall as Counsel for the defense. The Secretary nominated F. A. Lendrum as assistant secretary to take the minutes of the investigation.

~~Delinquents.—The Statistician and the Treasurer read the list of charges that were delinquent and of those that had errors in their reports.~~

~~S. C. Tiney.—The case of S. C. Tiney was referred to the Committee on Conference Relations.~~

Thirteenth Question.—The. character of M. M. Callen was passed and he reported the Kalamazoo District. Introductions.—Homer Eaton, publishing agent of the Book Concern, was introduced and addressed the Conference. At the close of his address he presented the Presiding Bishop with a very fine copy of the Methodist Hymnal, the first copy printed of that edition.

J. H. Fitzwater, of Delaware, Ohio, was introduced and addressed the Conference in the interest of the Church Extension Society. Dr. John Pearson, of Cincinnati, agent of the American Bible Society, was introduced and addressed the Conference. 174 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

J. R. T. Lathrop, a transfer to this Conference from Oregon Confer- ence was introduced. The Secretary announced that he had received from the Bishop a check from the Book Concern for the Superannuate Fund of $2,493 and from the Chartered Fund a check for $22 which were passed to the Chairman of the Board of Stewards.

Memorial Service.—The hour of 10:30 having arrived the order of the day was taken up, being the memorial service. A. T. Ferguson, Chairman of the Committee on Memoirs, presided. A hymn "Asleep in Jesus" was sung, the Conference recited the twenty- third psalm, John Graham led in prayer, and the chairman read the list of the deceased as follows : Orlin D. Watkins, Horatio P. Henderson, Wil- liam R. Stinchcomb, John W. Hollowell, James M. Dayton, Elisha D. Ba- con, Daniel W. Parsons, James R. Bowen, Mrs. F. C. Demorest, Mrs. Geo. A. Brown, Mrs. I. H. Riddick, Mrs. E. W. Wood, Mrs. Salmon Steele, Mrs. G. W. Howe, Mrs. Elisha Marble, Mrs. James Webster, Mrs. S. W. Large,

~~Mrs. D. S. Haviland, Mrs. Addis Albro, Mrs. E. D. Bacon. J. H. Potts then gave a most appropriate Memorial Address. "Nearer My God to Thee" was sung and the service closed.~~

Bishop Joyce.—The Bishop read a letter from Mrs. Bishop Joyce and added a few suitable remarks. M. M. Callen moved that the Conference extend greetings of love and .sympathy to Mrs. Joyce, and that the Chairman of the Committee on Memoirs and the Secretary of the Conference be appointed a Committee to send such greetings. The motion was. unanimously adopted. The Bishop requested M. M. Callen to lead the Conference in prayer.

~~Question Thirteen.—The characters of L. DeLamarter and D. F. Barnes were passed and they reported the Lansing and Niles Districts respectively.~~

R. W. Van Schoick.—D. F. Barnes moved that R. W. Van Schoick be granted a superannuated relation and his case be referred to the Board of Stewards for favorable consideration. The rules were suspended and the motion was adopted.

~~Conference Relations.—The cases of J. C. Beach, Wm. Judd, Geo. L.~~

~~Mount, A. M. Griffin. J. C. Chase, A. P. Moors, and J. W. Hart were referred to the Committee on Conference Relations.~~

~~W. J. Getty.—The Secretary read a communication from the Northwest~~

Nebraska Conference requesting that the relation of W. J. Getty be changed from Supernumerary to effective in order that he may be transferred and that he be transferred to that Conference. A motion prevailed granting the request, and the Bishop later announced such transfer.

Memorial Funds.—James Hamilton offered the following resolution : Resolved, That E. J. Phelps, Treasurer of the Endowment Fund. M. M. Callen, and W. M. Puffer be appointed a committee to prepare a list of the Memorial Funds for publication in the Minutes. M. M. Callen moved an amendment that the name of James Hamilton be added to the Com- mittee. The resolution as amended was adopted. : :

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Sabbath Desecration.—The Secretary read the following communication : To the Michigan Annual Conference Dear Brethren:—The Big Rapids District Conference, at a session held on the Reed City Camp Grounds, August 15, 1905, unanimously adopted the following resolution, and by their direction it is presented to you before its publication in order that you may join with us in this protest against a notable example of Sabbath desecration. Respectfully, W. F. Kendrick, Sec'y B. R. District Conference. The following is the resolution Whereas, At the recent encampment of the Michigan National Guard at Ludington, the Sunday, instead of being hallowed as a day of rest and worship, was made a gala day with a grand review of the troops by the Governor of the State; which display brought thousands of excursionists to share in this desecration of the Sabbath; and Whereas, Such unnecessary parades tend to increase the too prevalent disregard of the laws of God and of our divinely given day of rest, disturb- ing religious services, injuring the physical and moral character of our citizens, corrupting the habits of our youth and violating the conscience of the Christian men who are members of the National Guard; therefore, Resolved, That we, as Christian people and citizens of Michigan, feel deeply humiliated by this action of our governor and our military authori- ties, who by their participation in such disregard of the American Sabbath have inflicted shame upon our commonwealth, and have set an example of Sabbath desecration that deeply wounds the moral sentiment of a large part of our people, at the same time that it incites to lawlessness and dissipa- tion. Resolved, That these resolutions be sent to the Governor of the State, and that they be published in the Michigan Christian Advocate, and that the Michigan Annual Conference be requested to take similar action. M. D. Carrel moved that the resolutions be adopted and that in addition they be given to the Associated Press. The motion was unanimously carried. On motion the time was extended. Wm. B. Pope, P. E. of Sault Ste. Marie District, of Detroit Conferenoe, was introduced. Announcements were made, the Doxology was sung and the Conference adjourned with the benediction by M. D. Carrel.

~~THIRD DAY.~~

~~Friday, September 8, 1905.~~

~~The Conference convened at 8:30. The hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" was sung. A season of prayer followed led by N. L. 176 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

~~Brockway and others. E. S. Dunham spoke on the question "Is a Revival Ever an Accident?" The Bishop took the chair at 9 a. m.~~

~~Minutes Approved.—The Secretary read the minutes and they were approved.~~

~~J. H. Po'tts.—J. H. Potts, editor of the Michigan Christian Advocate, addressed the Conference presenting a check for the Conference Claimants Fund of $1,559-57.~~

~~Memorial Address.—A motion prevailed requesting J. H. Potts to pub- lish the memorial address which he gave yesterday in the Michigan Chris- tian Advocate.~~

~~G. B. Day.—On motion of N. L. Bray the Secretary was authorized to correct an error in the minutes of 1895 to indicate the fact that Geo. B. Day was an Elder in the Free Methodist Church.~~

~~Editor of Advocate.—A motion prevailed requesting the Bishop to~~

~~appoint J. H. Potts editor of the Michigan Christian Advocate. On motion of the Presiding Elders the following were referred to the~~

~~Committee on Conference Relations : John D. Deets, John W. Miller, J.~~

~~C. Chase, John Graham, W. A. Taylor, A. H. Sturgis, J. C. Upton, A. T. Cartiand~~

~~Question Thirteen.—The following effective Elders were called, their~~

~~characters passed and those present reported their collections :~~

~~A. L. Cook, J. W. Davids, P. R. Keplinger, W. J. Wilson, Geo. Yinger,~~

~~I. H. Riddick, R. E. Meader, J. M. Wolfe, J. A. Bready, A. O. Carman, J.~~

J. Yost, J. T. LeGear, Addis Albro, A. A. Geiger, A. F. Nagler, W. W. Lamport, R. D. Freeman, Adam Clark, E. O. Mather, John Dobson, L. P. Richtmeyer, G. S. Robinson, F. L. Niles, A. S. Williams, Irving Eagle, R. H. Bready, T. H. M. Coghlan, G. A. Brown, W. F. Kendrick, W. D. Row- land, G. K. Fairbanks, E. A. Armstrong, Wm. Judd, C. W. Holden, C. A.

~~Brown, W. H. Irwin, Geo. Varion, W. J. Hathaway, Louis Blanchett, Don-~~

~~ald Jamieson, F. H. Larabee, H. L. Rood, D. C. Riehl, S. B. Ford, J. R. T. Lathrop, W. W. Slee, Russell H. Bready, John Graham, Chas. Xease, W.~~

~~L. Laufman, J. F. Peschman, G. W. Grimes, R. B. Cilley, J. A. DeGraff,~~

~~Arthur Trott. Chas. Otton, W. F. Glass, A. T. Luther, J. H. Wilcox, A. H. Sturgis, C. A. Jacokes, Geo. Killeen, W. I. Cogshall, H. C. Chamberlain.~~

~~Delos Cronk, R. J. Slee, J. W. H. Carlisle, J. H. Westbrook, A. H. Coors,~~

~~T. H. Bennett, G. A. Odium, E. E. Haring, W. A. Robinson, W. W. Ayles-~~

~~worth, J. W. Vickers, R. E. Yost, C. S. Risley, P. E. Whitman, A. H. Mc-~~

~~Comb, E. W. Wood, J. C. Newcomer, R. A. Wright, F. J. Bryan. J. P. Dur-~~

~~ham, H. V. Wade, H. FI. Harris, Hugh Kennedy. Thomas Cox. J. W. Miller,~~

~~C. A. Quinn, H. R. E. Quant, C. F. Brown, P. J. Maveety, C S. Wheeler, W. I. Elmer, W. A. Taylor, W. L. Langrcll. J H. Emmons. C. H. Anderson,~~

~~T. H. Leamon, N. P. Brown, Thomas Laity. J. B. Peatling, G. L. Mount.~~

~~J. C. DeViney. A. M. Gould, E. V. Armstrong, W. M. Puffer, J. B. Pinchard,~~

~~J. G. Biery, W. H. Wright, H. D. Skinner, J. C. Dorris, W. A. A. Fortner.~~

~~F. W. Haist, Thomas Young. F. M. Taylor. J. W. Foy. W. R. Kitzmiller, :~~

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~~J. C. Dietrick, C. E. Hoag, J. W. Sheehan, Geo. Bullen, A. W. Simmons, E. E. Sprague, Ira T. Weldon, Isaiah Wilson, M. L. Fox, Wellington Earle,~~

J. C. Cook, W. P French, H. E. Wylie, J. E. Root, N. F. Jenkins, Geo. W. Tut- hill, A. D. Newton, N. S. Tuttle, J. R. Wooton, J. W. Buell, G. A. Buell, L. B. Kenyon, S. C. Robinson, R. S. McGregor, W. A. Exner, A. A. Stephens,

~~E. W. Laing, W. P. Mosher, E. R. Lyon, O. J. Golden, A. J. Morris, L. E.~~

~~Lennox, Edwin Tench, W. J. Douglass, C. L. Keene, J. S. Valentine, A. T.~~

~~Cartland, James Allen, F. A. Chapman, H. W. Thompson, C. L. Beebe, J. C. Upton, A. L. Toner, H. L. Potter, G. W. Gosling, H. A. Lyon, E. F.~~

Newell, A. J. Wheeler, W. H. Parsons, A. T. Ferguson, A. W. Mumford, W. A. Frye, L. H. Manning, E. A. Baldwin, W. H. Phelps, C. E. Deal, G. F. Craig, W. H. Moore, E. L. Sincleir, Quinton Walker, John Zedler, D.

~~E. Reed, J. W. Hallenbeck, J. H. Potts, James Hamilton, D. R. Lee, J. C.~~

~~Floyd, W. H. Thompson, S. C. Strickland, E. J. Bradner, A. K. Stewart, N. E. Gibbs, Joseph Wilks, B. A. Silverthorn, W. S. Woodhull, A. T. Gosling.~~

W. H. B. Urch.— R. E. Meader offered the following resolution which was unanimously adopted Whereas, The Rev. W. H. B. Urch has for some years served this conference with great efficiency in some of its most prominent pulpits and has been transferred to the Oklahoma conference; Therefore, Resolved, That we hereby express our high appreciation of Brother Urch and wish him prosperity in the field to which he has gone, and that we extend to his successor at Albion, the Rev. Frank E. Day, D. D., a cordial welcome to our ranks. R. E. Meader, L. E. Lennox,

~~J. R. Wooton, Chas. Nease.~~

Introductions.—J. M. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advocate of New York, was introduced and addressed the Conference. R. C. Crawford, an aged superannuated member of the Conference, made brief remarks. W. F. Anderson, Secretary of the Board of Education Society, was introduced and addressed the Conference. Mother Struble, 94 years of age, who has been a Methodist eighty years was introduced to the Conference and the Bishop spoke words of greeting in behalf of the Conference.

~~Order of the Day.~~

~~Trustees Report.—E. J. Phelps, Treasurer of the Conference Board of Trustees, presented his report (see Reports). James Hamilton, Secretary, presented his report (see Reports).~~

Hamilton.—P. J. Maveety, offered a resolution of thanks to Secretary Hamilton for his very efficient service and requested that the Bishop re- appoint him, which was unanimously adopted by a rising vote.

~~Phelps.—W. I. Cogshall offered a resolution of thanks to E. J. Phelps :~~

~~178 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905 for his efficient service as treasurer, which was unanimously adopted by a rising vote.~~

Clark Memorial Home.—The special committee appointed on the M. J. Clark Memorial Home reported through its secretary, M. L. Fox (see Reports), which was unanimously adopted. James Hamilton read a list of all donors who had given $500 or more to the Twentieth Century Conference Claimants Endowment Fund, this year, and offered the following resolution of thanks to the donors which was unanimously adopted.

Resolution of Thanks to Donors of Memorial Funds for Benefit of Con- ference Claimants. Resolved, First, that the sincere thanks of the Michigan Annual Confer- ence be tendered the following persons, all of the State of Michigan, for

~~the gift of memorial funds of $500.00 and upwards : Daniel A. Hall and wife, Orange, $1,000.00; Frederick Kendrick and wife, Grand Rapids, $500.00;~~

John J. Wynn and wife, Grand Haven, $500,00; Ruth A. Dunn, Saranac, $500.00; Charles Underhill and wife, Shephardsville, $500.00; T. L. Swart- hout and wife, Ovid, $500.00; George E. Bartlett, South Lowell, $500.00; Frank S. Baldwin, Sand Creek, $500.00; John G. Cowan and wife, Grattan, $500.00; George Olsen and wife, St. Joseph, $500.00; Susannah Miller, St. Joseph, $500.00; W. S. Burns and wife, Norwood, $500.00; George G. Whit- worth, Grand Rapids, $500.00. The last named gave us $500.00 last year so that $1,000.00 now stands to his credit in the Endowment Fund. Resolved, Second, That this resolution be spread upon our record and a copy of same be forwarded to the above named generous donors to our Conference Claimants Endowment Fund. James Hamilton.

A. J. Eldred.—L. E. Lennox offered the following resolution which was unanimously adopted with a rising vote Resolved, That this Conference express its sincere regrets at the absence of our aged, highly esteemed and much loved brother, Rev. A. J. Eldred, and tender him our sympathy and love in his affliction and feebleness of his declining years. Trusting and praying that the loving Heavenly Father will cheer, comfort, sustain, and richly bless him with His presence and grace. The Secretary is instructed to forward to Brother Eldred a copy of this resolution. L. E. Lennox, M. D. Carrel,

~~P. J. Maveetv. A. P. Moors, A. M. Gould.~~

Findley Church.—J. S. Valentine was heard in behalf of a struggling church at Findlay on the Burr Oak charge. Seventy-five dollars was needed to complete the payment of a $500.00 debt and a collection was taken amounting to $77.45. 1905] JOURNAL 179

Albion College.— Dr. Samuel Dickie, President of Albion College, was introduced and addressed the Conference and presented his annual report. (See Reports.) John Graham moved that we re-affirm our resolution of last year that we raise ten cents per member for the cause of education and that it be turned into the treasury of Albion College, and the motion prevailed.

Board of Insurance.—Frank L. Hart, Field Secretary of the Board of Insurance, was introduced and addressed the Conference. D. F. Barnes moved that a committee of seven be appointed on church insurance, which was carried. On motion the Presiding Elders were authorized to nominate the committee who were elected as follows : A. O. Carman, G. W. Maxwell, Chas. Nease, Arba Martin, H. R. E. Quart, N. F. Jenkins, C. L. Beebe.

~~Aggressive Evangelism.—Dr. J. P. Brushingham, of the Rock River conference, was introduced and addressed the Conference in the interest of aggressive evangelism.~~

~~Resolutions.—W. L. Laufman moved that a committee on resolutions be appointed consisting of J. I. Buell, J. W. Hallenback, and J. K. Stark, and they were elected.~~

Arnold Case.— C. S. Wheeler moved that the special committee that is considering the case of Geo. R. Arnold be instructed to admit no one to its sessions except such persons as sustain relations to the case making their presence necessary. The motion prevailed.

~~Examiners. —The Bishop announced the appointment of Hugh Kennedy~~

and W. J. Wilson as members of the Examining Board to fill vacancy. N. E. Gibbs.—The Bishop announced the transfer of N. E. Gibbs to the California Conference. Announcements were made, the Doxology was sung and the Confer-

~~ence adjourned with the benediction by J. M. Buckley.~~

~~FOURTH DAY.~~

~~Saturday, September 9, 1905.~~

The Conference convened at 8:30 a. m. The hymn "Walk in the Light" was sung, a season of prayer followed and E. S. Dunham spoke from Ro- mans 6:11. The Bishop took the chair at 9 a. m. Minutes Approved.—The Secretary read the Minutes of the previous session and they were approved. Committee of Insurance.—On motion W. H. Irwin was substituted in the place of G. W. Maxwell as a member of the Committee of Insurance.

~~P. E. Reports.—W. I. Cogshall moved that the Secretary be empowered to omit the printing of the reports of the Presiding Elders in the Minutes. The motion was lost. ———~~

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~~Question 23.—The characters of the following were passed and they~~

~~were continued in the superannuated relation :~~

~~E. A. Tanner, F. J. Freeman, N. M. Barnes, C. T. Van Antwerp, J.~~

~~Gulick, A. N. Eldred, L. S. Matthews, B. S. Mills, C. L. Barnhart. J. H. Hop- kins, Eli Wigle, G. S. Hickey, R. W. Tindall, C. W. Smith, T. T. George,~~

~~T. J. Hill, J. W. Horner, G. W. Sherman, E. T. Lumber, W. M. Colby, L.~~

~~N. Edmonds, E. G. Stevens, I. B. Tallman, L. M. Bennett, J. R. Oden, N.~~

~~L. Brockway, R. C. Welch, C. W. Jones, Joshua White, J. K. Stark, C. H.~~

~~Howe, G. W. Howe, W. J. Swift, H. D. Jordan, David Engle, A. E. Ketch- am, Jacob Marzolf, A. A. Knappen, D. C. Woodard, D. R. Latham, George~~

~~Donaldson, J. H. Pietzel, B. S. Pratt, W. A. Prouty, Thomas Riley, W. W. Rork, E. Treadgold, R. Shire, G. C. Draper, N. D. Marsh, R. C. Crawford,~~

~~James Draper, A. P. Moors, A. A. Dunton, A. J. Eldred, H. R. Hawley, D.~~

S. Haviland, S. P. Hewitt, G. S. Hicks, J. Hoyt, B. H. Whitman, J. W. Rawl- inson, G. S. Barnes, J. E. White, J. A. Sprague, I. H. Skinner, S. C. Tiney, L. W. Calkins, Willard Heath, W. H. Choate, Samuel Trewin, M. A. Daugh- erty, J. F. Orwick, A. R. Keillor, Willard Aldrich, D. M. Ward, John Klose,

Levi Aler, J. W. White, A. W. Burns, Geo. L. Haight. At the request of the Bishop M. D. Carrel offered prayer in behalf of these honored servants of the Church. On motion of their Presiding Elders, E. L. Sincleir and Louis Grosen- baugh were referred to the Committee on Conference relations.

Question Five. (a) —The characters were passed of Edward A. Shewell, Caleb E. Curry, Wm. A. Johnson, Geo. R. McDowell, Samuel W. Irwin; those present reported their collections and they were continued in the studies of the first year.

(b) —The characters were passed of J. W. Lawrence, James M. Jensen; the former reported his collections and they were advanced to the studies of the second year. The characters were passed of Irving W. Miner and Wm. H. Meyer, and they were continued in the studies of the second year.

~~Question Six.—Charles D. Fletcher, Herbert T. Gilpin, Chester M. Loo- mis were discontinued at their own request.~~

Question Seven. (a) —The characters were passed of Samuel W. Large, C. A. Norcross, T. Porter Bennett, George E. Lewis, Leroy O. Bostwick. Don O. Colegrove; they reported their collections, were advanced in their studies, answered the disciplinary questions, were a'dmitted into full membership and elected to Deacon's orders.

(b)—The characters were passed of Franklin H. Clapp, Henry J. Nich- olls, Frank Cookson, Frederick A. Lendrum; they reported their collections, were advanced in their studies, answered the disciplinary questions and were elected into full membership, being already deacons.

~~Question Eight. (b) —The characters were passed of Harry E. Walker.~~

~~Nelson H. Kendall, Maynard A. Oldt. John W. Hayward, Geo. J. Porter. Edwin W. Davis, Willard E. Ogden; and they were continued in the studies of the third year. ——~~

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Question Nine. (a) —The characters were passed of Cecil E. Pollock, W. R. Kitzmiller, Berton H. Fleming, Donald Jamieson; they reported their collections and were advanced to the studies of the fourth year. The characters were passed of Charles A. Quinn, Geo. D. Yinger, Frank M. Cot- trell; they reported their collections and were advanced to the studies of the fourth year, conditioned on two studies. The characters were passed of Ora F. Bulman, James F. Bowerman, Dwight A. Rood, Wm. E. Doty, Fred C. Demorest, Jacob G. Ruoff, F. M. Clough; they reported their collections, and were continued in the studies of the fourth year.

~~Question Ten. (a)—The characters were passed of Joseph Dutton,~~

Charles J. Kruse, Alfred Way, Quinton Walker, George V. Fallis, Matthew W. Duffey, Wm. T. Hill, Arba Martin, Thomas G. R. Brownlow, George R. Millard, Charles L. Keene, John A. Jewett; they reported their collections, completed their studies, and were elected to Elder's orders. (b)—The character of Upton E. Partridge was passed, he completed his studies, being previously ordained an Elder.

W. E. Ogden.—W. I. Cogshall moved that we request Willard E. Ogden to locate, which was carried. Question Eleven.—The following were duly recommended and elected to local deacon's orders : Lewis E. Price, Arthur L. Ellsworth, W. H. Hol- comb, John Heetebry, Chester M. Loomis, Wm. Haskin. Question Twelve.—The following were duly recommended and elected to local elder's order: James Catterall, Fred Deighton, Wm. H. Herbert. The Conference rose and sang the hymn "I Love Thy Kingdom Lord;" the Bishop made a few remarks concerning the work at the Conference of Evangelist Dunham and an offering was taken in his behalf.

Missionary Sermon.— P. J. Maveety as a question of personal privilege addressed the Conference and in view of the extra work placed upon him by the Conference in the work of the Trial Committee requested to be excused from preaching the Missionary Sermon this afternoon. On motion his request was granted, and the Bishop announced his re-appointment to preach the Missionary Sermon at the next session of the Conference.

~~Floyd Excused.—J. C. Floyd was excused from further attendance at this session of the Conference that he might represent the Missionary Society at the Cincinnati Conference.~~

Northwestern University.—Thomas F. Holgate, acting president of the Northwestern University, was introduced and addressed the Conference in behalf of that institution. The Conference rose and sang the hymn "Nearer My God to Thee," and at the request of the Bishop W. I. Cogshall led in prayer. On motion the time was extended.

Bishop's Address.—The following names of the class for admission into full membership were called and they came forward : Samuel W. Large, Clarence A. Norcross, Thomas P. Bennet, George E. Lewis, Leroy O.

~~Bostwick. Don O. Colegrove, Franklin H. Clapp. Henry J. Nicholls, Frank :~~

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Cookson, Fred A. Lendrum. The Bishop addressed the class, asked them the disciplinary questions and formally received them into full membership. Introductions.— N. L. Rockey, a missionary from India, was introduced. Dr. F. H. Sheets, of Chicago, representing the Missionary Society, was introduced. Announcements were made, the Doxology was sung and the Conference adjourned with the benediction by Riley C. Crawford.

~~FIFTH DAY.~~

~~Monday, September 11, 1905.~~

Conference convened at 8 a. m. E. S. Dunham led the devotional services and spoke from John 15:14 "If ye love me keep my commandments." The Bishop took the chair at 8:30 a. m. Minutes Approved.—The Secretary read the minutes of the last session and they were approved. On motion the announcement that had been made on Sunday that the Conference would convene at 8:00 was authorized. Arnold Case.—The Committee in the case of the trial of Geo. R. Arnold reported through its chairman, W. M. Puffer. (See Reports.) On motion of M. M. Callen, the character of Geo. R. Arnold was passed and he reported his collections. Question 30.—On motion of G. W. Gosling the place of holding the next session of the Conference was referred to the Board of Presiding Elders with power. References.—On motion of the Presiding Elders the following persons were referred to the Committee on Conference Relations : Wm. T. Hill, W. L. Barth, Wm. A. Elias, F. M. Cosner, W. W. Aylesworth, A. K. Stewart, E. E. Haring. The Committee on Conference Relations was excused for the purpose of acting on the cases above referred.

~~J. I. Buell.—Russell H. Bready stated that at the next Conference J. I. Buell will have completed fifty years of service and moved that he be in-~~

vited to preach an appropriate sermon at that time, and it was unanimously carried. Time of Conference.— E. A. Armstrong offered the following resolution which was unanimously adopted Resolved, That we respectfully request the Board of Bishops to fix the time for the next session of the Michigan Conference as near as possible and not before the middle Wednesday of September. E. A. Armstrong, R. A. Wright.

~~R. H. Bready, J. B. Pinckard, Joseph Dutton, N. L. Bray, M. M. Callen. W. F. Kendrick. G. D. Chase. M. D. Carrel. 1905] JOURNAL 183~~

Bay View.—D. F. Barnes moved that a Committee of five be appointed to act with a similar committee to be appointed by the Detroit Conference to consider the interests of Bay View and our responsibility to that institution, and it was carried.

Aggressive Evangelism.—D. D. Martin moved that the Conference adopt the report of the Committee on Aggressive Evangelism which was read in the Sunday afternoon meeting, and the motion carried. (See Reports.)

~~Special Appointments.—On motion by their several Presiding Elders the~~

Bishop was requested to make the following appointments : John Graham as Conference Financial Agent for Albion College; D. R. Lee, as instructor in the University of Wisconsin; J. W. Hallenbeck, D. E. Reed, and

J. H. Bennett as Conference Evangelists; F. C. Demorest and John Zedler as professors in Albion College; W. H. Thompson, as State Superintendent of the Children's Home Society, of Pennsylvania; S. C. Strickland as Con- ference Temperance Agent; J. C. Floyd as Field Secretary of the Mission- ary Society; andWm. A. Johnson as Professor in Morgan College, Balti- more.

To Attend School.—On motion of their several Presiding Elders the Bishop was requested to leave the following persons without appointments to attend some one of our schools : A. T. Gosling, S. W. Irwin, D. A. Rood, A. H. McComb, W. S. Woodhull, and N. H. endall. Old People's Home.—The Committee on Old People's Home reported through its chairman, P. J. Maveety, which was adopted. (See Reports.) On motion the Cabinet were requested to nominate the five persons men-

tioned in the report. , Recognition of Elders' Orders.—On motion the orders of the following persons were recognized as local preachers : O. C. Bedford, as an Elder from the Congregational Church; T. C. Sowter, as an Elder from the Baptist Church in Canada; and Carl Seipp, as an Elder from the Wesleyan Church.

Federation of Churches.—L. DeLamarter moved that W. P. French be appointed to represent us in the Federation of Churches. The motion prevailed. On motion the Chairman and Secretary of the Board of Stewards were excused in order that they might complete their report.

Amendment of Rules.— G. W. Gosling moved that Conference Rule 4 be amended by adding the words "and for recognition of orders," to follow the sentence "for admission into full membership." It was unanimously adopted.

~~Garret Biblical Institute.—The visitors to Garrett Biblical Institute re-~~

~~ported by A. J. Wheeler. On motion of W. I. Cogshall the report was recommitted.~~

~~Change of Relation.—The Committee on Conference Relations reported through its chairman, E. O. Mather, and the report was adopted fixing re- : :~~

~~184 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905 lations as follows~~

A. M. Griffith, J. W. Hart, and J. C. Chase from supernumerary to effective. E. L. Sincleir and Wm. Judd from effective to superannuate, and cases be referred to the Board of Stewards for claims this year. L. N. Pattison continued in the supernumerary relation.

~~J. K. Stark from superannuate to effective.~~

~~J. C. Beach from supernumerary to superannuate and referred to the Board of Stewards for favorable consideration.~~

~~W. T. Hill, A. T. Cartland, J. C. Upton, J. W. Miller, W. W. Aylesworth, A. H. Sturgis, and W. A. Taylor, from effective to supernumerary.~~

S. C. Tiney continued in the superannuated relation it being understood that he relinquish all claim on the Conference Claimants Fund. Louis Grosenbaugh from supernumerary to superannuate. A. K. Stewart from effective to superannuate. W. T. Hill.—On motion the Secretary was authorized to give to W. T. Hill a letter of recommendation as a member of this Conference to the brethren in England where he will spend some time soon.

~~Readmitted.—On motion F. M. Cosner was readmitted into membership upon his certificate of location and placed in the studies of the fourth year, he being already a deacon.~~

W. A. Elias.—The Committee reported that recognizing the worth of W. A. Elias they recommend that the Presiding Elder be authorized to employ him for the coming year as a supply. Withdrawals.—E. E. Haring and W. L. Barth were granted their request to withdraw from the ministry and membership of the Methodist Church to enter the ministry of another church, their credentials to be properly endorsed.

~~Statistics.—The Statistical Secretary presented his report, which was adopted. (See Statistics.)~~

~~Excused.—On motion J. R. T. Lathrop was excused from attendance upon subsequent sessions.~~

J. I. Buell.— G. D. Chase moved a suspension of Rule 5 and that J. I. Buell be made effective and that the Conference request the Bishop to appoint him agent of the Tract "Society. The rule was suspended and he was made effective. W. A. Frye.—The Bishop announced the transfer of W. A. Frye to the New Jersey Conference and the transfer of D. N. Stafford from the New Jersey Conference to this Conference. ris- J. I. Buell moved the following resolution which was adopted by a ing vote Whereas, Our beloved brother, Rev. W. A. Frye, has been transferred by Bishop Wilson to the New Jersey Conference and has been appointed

~~pastor of the St. Paul Church in Trenton. N. J., therefore. Resolved, That while we congratulate him on his attainment to such an .~~

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important field of labor in an Eastern city, we deeply regret his severance from this body. For twenty-one years he has been among us and his entire ministerial life has been identified with this Conference. We have noticed his advancement from time to time with much pleasure. He has worthily occuplied important positions among us, filling some of our great pulpits with acceptibility and showing himself to be an able minister of the Word. We admire his scholarly attainments, hail him as a Christian gen- tleman and brother, and bid him God speed, and wish him eminent success in his new field of labor.

~~J. I. Buell, . John Graham, W. P. French.~~

~~Resolutions.—The Committee on Resolutions reported through its~~

chairman, J. I. Buell. At James Hamilton's request a motion prevailed eliminating all reference to his own work in the resolutions. The resolutions as amended were unanimously adopted. (See Reports.)

~~Afternoon Session.—E. A. Armstrong moved that we have a session of the Conference at 2 p. m., which was carried.~~

Transfers.—The Bishop announced the transfer of W. H. B. Urch to Oklahoma Conference, the transfer of F. E. Day from Oklahoma Con- ference to this Conference, and the transfer of Addis Albro to the De- troit Conference.

~~Treasurer's Report.—The Conference Treasurer presented his report and it was adopted. (See Reports.)~~

~~Question 22.—The characters of the following were passed and they~~

~~were continued in the supernumerary relation : C. M. Merrill, J. W.~~

~~Steffe, C. A. Varnum, A. F. Hart, H. G. Hipp, J. E. Messner, F. A. Van De Walker, Hale H. Miller, Elliot Bouck, W. L. Holmes, Albert Smith, C. H.~~

~~Palmatier, L. D. Youngblood, L. N. Pattison, Douglass Streeter, Geo. J. Porter, Willard E. Ogden, R. W. VanSchoick.~~

~~On motion J. E. Messner was requested to locate.~~

Stock Selling.—P. J. Maveety moved that there be a committee of three appointed upon the subject of ministers engaging in the promotion of companies and the sale of stock, to report to this Conference. The motion

prevailed, and the committee was named as follows : P. J. Maveety, R. S. McGregor, and W. I. Cogshall. The Bishop appointed W. I. Cogshall to preside in the afternoon session. Announcements were made, the Doxology was sung and the Conference adjourned with the benediciton by G. W. Howe.

~~FIFTH DAY.~~

~~Monday Afternoon Session, September 11, 1905.~~

~~The Conference convened at 2 p. m. with W. I. Cogshall in the chair. 186 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

~~The hymn "A Charge to Keep I Have" was sung. G. W. Gosling led in prayer.~~

Deaconess Home.—Mrs. W. J. Aldrich, superintendent of the Aldrich Memorial Deaconess Home, read the report of the Board of Trustees. John Graham moved an amendment to the report so that the date of the collection be changed from the second Sunday in November to the second Sunday in December, which was carried and the report as amended was adopted. (See Reports.) John Graham presented the report of the Board of Control of the Deaconess Home which was adopted. (See Reports.) Committee Reports.— G. W. Maxwell presented the report of the Com- mittee on Freedman's Aid Society; Isaiah Wilson the report of the Com- mittee on the State of the Church; E. V. Armstrong on Sunday Schools and Tracts; and R. E. Meader presented the report of the Committee on nominations. They were all adopted. (See Reports.)

Introduction.—L. N. Moon, of the Detroit Conference, was introduced. Elections.—On motion the Secretary cast the ballot of the Conference for Conference Trustees as follows: W. M. Puffer, P. J. Maveety, J. I. Buell, L. E. Lennox, M. M. Callen, R. S. McGregor, W. P. French, R. A. Wright, R. E. Meader; for Trustees of the Michigan State Holiness

~~Camp Meeting Association: R. E. Meader and W. J. Wilson; and for~~

~~Trustees of State Anti-Saloon League: J. T. LeGear and N. F. Jenkins: and they were declared elected.~~

Temperance.—R. E. Meader presented the report of the Committee on Temperance which was adopted. (See Reports.) G. W. Gosling moved that the Conference Temperance Society be requested to secure from the W. C. T. U. one of the speakers for the temperance anniversary next year. Education.—W. W. Aylesworth presented the report of the Committee on Education which was adopted. (See Reports.) On motion the Secretary cast the ballot of the Conference for E. N. Parsons and Thomas Cox as trustees of Albion College; and for W. I. Cogshall and L. E. Lennox for trustees of the Northwestern University; and they were elected. Boston University.—J. T. LeGear presented the report of the visitors to the Boston University School of Theology, which was adopted. (See Reports.) Periodicals.— C. E. Hoag presented the report of the Committee on Periodicals which was adopted. (See Reports.) Insurance.—A. O. Carman presented the report of the Committee on Church Insurance, which was adopted without printing. Committee Reports.—A. W. Simons presented the report of the Com- mittee on the American Bible Society, and it was adopted: J. W. H. Car- lisle the report on Sabbath Observance, which was on motion recommitted. of the Conference Claimants.— T. W. Hallenback presented the report 1905] JOURNAL 187

~~Committee on Conference Claimants. On motion it was so amended as to make the apportionment 30 cents a member instead of 50 cents a member. The report was adopted as amended.~~

Auditing Committee.—A. S. Williams presented the report of the Com- mittee on Auditing Accounts which on motion was amended so as to add $5.00 for the services of F. A. Lendrum. The report as amended was adopted. E. A. Armstrong moved that a collection for Conference expense be taken this evening, which was carried.

Reports.—F. J. Bryan presented the report on the Epworth League; G. O. Odium as Biographical Secretary presented his report; A. A. Geiger the report on District Conference Records; and C. E. Pollock the report on Church Extension. They were adopted. (See Reports.)

~~Temperance Agent.—S. C. Strickland, Temperance Agent, presented his report which was adopted without printing.~~

~~Book Concern Accounts.—H. E. Wylie presented the report of the Com- mittee on Book Concern Accounts which was adopted. (See Reports.)~~

~~Episcopal Residence Fund.—The Conference Secretary read a communication from the Treasurer of the Episcopal Residence Fund.~~

~~E. A. Armstrong moved a vote of thanks to J. E. Jacklin and the Michigan Christian Advocate for their faithfulness in aiding the raising of the Episcopal Residence debt. Carried.~~

Conference Claimants Distribution.—James Hamilton offered a resolution concerning the distribution of the Conference Claimants Funds. On motion of E. A. Armstrong its consideration was postponed until the evening session.

~~On Motion Conference adjourned till 7:30 this evening with benediction by N. L. Brockway.~~

~~FIFTH DAY.~~

~~Monday Evening Session, September 11, 1905.~~

~~The Conference convened at 7:30 p. m. with Bishop Wilson in the chair.~~

Hymn 534 was sung. Prayer was offered by J. S. Valentine. Minutes Approved.—The minutes of the morning were read and approved with slight correction. The minutes of the afternoon session were read and approved. Admission on Credentials.—George Ervin Wright an Elder from the Free Baptist Church was presented for admission on his credentials. The Board of Examiners and the Presiding Elders reported and on motion of

~~P. J. Maveety he was received on trial and placed in the studies of the second year, being already recognized as a local elder. 1 88 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

A. M. Bostwick an Elder from the United Brethren Church was presented for admission on his credentials. The Board of Examiners and the Presiding Elder reported and on motion of M. M. Callen his orders were recognized and he was received on trial in the studies of the first year. Alfred R. Farrar an Elder from the United Brethren Church was presented for admission on his credentials. The Board of Examiners and the Presiding Elder reported and on motion he was received into membership in the Conference, recognized as an Elder and placed in the studies of the third year. D. D. Martin moved that the rules be suspended for the purpose of recognizing the parchments of Andrew W. Bond, which was done The Presiding Elder presented the case and moved that he be received into membership in the Conference and his orders as an Elder be recognized. The motion prevailed, the Bishop asking the disciplinary questions.

~~Credentials Surrendered.—The parchments of Daniel Covert, a local Elder, were surrendered.~~

~~M. F. Loomis.—The Bishop announced the transfer of M. F. Loomis to the Southwest Kansas Conference.~~

~~J. W. Steffe.—D. D. Martin moved that the rules be suspended for the purpose of changing the relation of J. W. Steffe from supernumerary to effective, which was carried, and he was made effective.~~

Candidates for Admission.—The following were duly recommended and presented to the Conference, passed in their examinations, and were admitted on trial: Stewart K. Jewell, Wm. M. P. Jarrett, Wade S. Phillips, Charles H. Kelsey, Ernest Twomley, James G. Robeson, Preston A. Cross,

~~Marshall A. Braund, Walter L. Jones, Frank C. Watters, Charles J. Bready,~~

Estus J. Hawkes, C. Gilbert Stansell. Orders Recognized.—The Bishop called forward those whose orders were to be recognized as Elders as follows and asked them the necessary disciplinary questions: Allison M. Bostwick, O. C. Bedford, Thomas C. Sowter, and Carl Seipp, and their orders as Elders were recognized.

~~C. W. Holden.—N. L. Bray moved that the rules be suspended and C. W. Holden's relation be changed from effective to supernumerary, and it was done.~~

Stewards' Report.—D. C. Reihl, Chairman of the Board of Stewards, presented his report which was adopted. (See Reports.) On motion of D. E C. Reihl, J. B. Pinkard was substituted in the place of . L. Sinclir on the Board of Stewards, as the latter is now on the superannuated list.

~~Sabbath Observance.—J. W. H. Carlisle re-presented the report of the Committee on Sabbath Observance, which was adopted. (See Reports.)~~

~~Stock Selling.— P. J. Maveety presented the following report which was~~

adopted : Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of many members of the Con- ference that some of our number have identified themselves with specula- 1905] JOURNAL tive enterprises and have gone about selling the stock of these concerns to our people, as well as to others, and in most instances these enterprises have proved failures and their stock worthless, thus causing grievous financial loss and embarassment to the investors, and also bringing reproach and discredit upon our ministry; therefore, Resolved, That whenever any member of this Conference shall accept a position with any such enterprise or shall become its agent or representative for the sale of its stock, he shall withdraw from membership in this Conference. R. S. McGregor,

~~P. J. Maveety, W. I. COGSHALL. G. E. Allen.—The Bishop announced that the transfer of George E. Al- len from the Andes Conference to this Conference.~~

P. J. Maveety Presiding.—The Bishop requested P. J. Maveety to take the chair in his absence, and retired with the Presiding Elders. Conference Claimants Funds.—James Hamilton read the resolution in regard to Conference Claimants which he had presentel in the afternoon, the consideration of which had been postponed until the evening session.

D. C. Riehl offered an amendment to the resolution. J. R. Wooten offered a substitute for both the resolution and the amendment and it was adopted as follows: Resolved, That the Conference Board of Trustees be authorized to solicit and receive Funds for Conference Claimants, which shall be turned over to the Board of Stewards to be administered solely on the basis of years of service.

~~On motion the Conference adjourned until Tuesday morning at 8 a. m. The Doxology was sung and the benediction was pronounced by L. N. Moon a member of the Detroit Conference.~~

~~SIXTH DAY.~~

~~Tuesday, September 12, 1905.~~

~~Conference convened at 8 a. m. with W. M. Puffer in the chair by appointment of the Bishop. The hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Bless-~~

~~ing" was sung. J. S. Valentine led in proyer.~~

Pittsford Church.—P. J. Maveety presented a bond from the Osseo Church for $400.00, a trust fund derived from the proceeds of the sale of the Pittsford Church, which is now held by the Osseo Church. The bond was ordered to be kept by the Conference Board of Trustees, and was placed in their hands.

~~Garret Biblical Institute.—The report of the visitors to the Garret Biblical Institute as corrected was presented and accepted without reading! :~~

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Drew Seminary.—The Secretary read the following resolution which was adopted Whereas, Drew Theological Seminary is one of the schools of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church of many years standing, and, Whereas, Conference visitors from the Michigan Annual Conference are

appointed to other Methodist schools and seminaries, therefore, be it Resolved, That such visitors be appointed from this Conference to Drew Theological Seminary. * (Signed) A. T. Luther, F. H. M. Coghlan, W. M. Puffer, F. A. Chapman,

~~P. J. Maveety,~~

~~J. I. Buell.~~

Book Sale.—J. W. Buell moved to authorize the pastors to sell Book Concern books and any part of their own libraries to their laymen. The motion prevailed. Bishop Wilson took the chair. Minutes Approved.—The minutes of Monday evening session were read and approved.

Nominations.—D. D. Martin on behalf of the board of Presiding Elders presented the nominations of the special Committee on Bay View and for the Old People's Home and the regular nominations. (See list of nominations.) On motion the Triers of Appeals were elected and the Conference by vote approved the other nominations.

~~Transfer.—The Bishop announced the transfer of G. W. Grimes to the Ohio Conference.~~

~~Drew Visitors.—On motion W. L. Laufman and A. T. Luther were elected the official visitors to Drew Theological Seminary.~~

~~File of Minutes.—The Secretary read a communication from the Ryerson Library of Grand Rapids requesting a file of the Minutes. On motion W. L. Laufman was placed in charge of the matter.~~

G. R. McDowell.—The Bishop announced the transfer of G. R. Mc- Dowell, a probationer, to the Northwest Iowa Conference. Missionary Apportionments.—On motion the Presiding Elders' report appropriating Missionary Money was approved.

Collection.—D. F. Barnes spoke appreciative words of the generous entertainment given the Conference by the ladies of the Charlotte M. E. Church, and suggested that the members of the Conference make a voluntary offering to the ladies to assist them in meeting the expense incurred. An offering of $38.15 was promptly made. Mrs. Emma Shepherd, a representative of these elect ladies, was intro duced to the (Conference. :

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Fourth Year Diplomas.—The class of the fourth year having completed their course of stady were called forward and after a brief and appropriate address by the Bishop he presented them with their Diplomas. The following communication was presented and read

Brothers of the Michigan Conference : The ladies of the Aid Society of the M. E. Church, of Charlotte, desire to express their heartfelt gratitude to you for your very generous gift of the morning, and your many hearty words of appreciation which has done so much to lighten our ardous task and make it a real plesaure, and we all truthfully unite in saying your Christly bearing among us has been a blessing and a benediction. God bless you all. (Signed) Gene Foreman, President of the Ladies' Aid.

~~Official Journal.—W. I. Cogshall moved that the published Minutes be the official journal of the Conference and it was carried.~~

~~J. P. Durham moved that after the reading of the Minutes devotional exercises and the announcement of the appointments, the Conference stand adjourned without day.~~

Minutes Approved.—The Secretary read the Minutes and they were approved. M. D. Carrel led in prayer, the hymn "Jesus the Name High Over All" was sung, the Bishop read the appointments and the Conference adjourned with the benediction by R. C. Crawford.-

~~The foregoing is a correct and official record of the proceedings of the Michigan Annual Conference for 1905.~~

~~Sunday, September 10, 1905.~~

The Annual Love Feast was held at 9 o'clock in charge of D. F. Barnes. The Conference Stewards under the direction of their chairman, D. C. Riehl, served the congregation. A refreshing and profitable service was held. 192 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

The collection for the Conference Claimants was taken and amounted to more than one hundred dollars. At 10:30, following the usual opening exercies, Bishop Wilson preached an able sermon from Ephesians 4:11 and 13. Then were ordained the deacons. In the afternoon occurred the ordination of Elders, following which the Committee on Aggressive Evangelism had charge of the service. D. D. Martin presided. Addresses were given by M. M. Callen, Bishop Wilson and Evangelist Dunham. At the opening of the evening service occurred the consecration of deaconesses, and Dr. Dunham preached. 1905] ANNIVERSARIES 193

~~Anniversaries at the Session of 1905.~~

~~TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.~~

Tuesday evening, 7 130. Rev. S. C. Strickland presiding. The lesson was read by Thomas Laity and prayer was offered by E. W. Davis. The -address on the work of the Anti-Saloon League was delivered by Rev. G. W. Morrow ,D. D., State Superintendent of the Michigan Anti-Saloon League.

~~EPWORTH LEAGUE.~~

~~Wednesday, 2:00 p.m. H. A. Lyon presiding. F. E. Morehouse led in prayer. An address on "The Place of Young People in the Church" was given by Rev. George Elliott, D. D., of Detroit.~~

~~WOMAN S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.~~

~~Wednesday, 3:00 p. m. Mrs. J. W. Hallenback, president. R. S. Mc-~~

~~Gregor conducted , the devotions. Rev. G. A. Trever, D. D., of Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., spoke on the work of the society.~~

~~CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY.~~

~~Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. P. J. Maveety conducted the service. C. S.~~

~~Wheeler led in prayer and Rev. J. H. Fitzwater, D. D., of Delaware, Ohio, delivered an address on Church Extension.~~

~~SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.~~

~~Thursday, 2:00 p. m. E. V. Armstrong presided. J. G. Biery offered the prayer and Rev. A. P. George, D. D., of St. Louis, Mo., was the speaker.~~

~~WOMAN S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.~~

~~Thursday, 3:00 p. m. Mrs. C. B. Carpenter presided, and W. T. Lauf- man led in the devotions. Miss Mary McKinley, of Darjeeling, India, gave the address.~~

~~EDUCATIONAL AND FREEDMAN's AID.~~

Thursday, 7:30 p. m. F. H. Clapp was chairman of the meeting. The scripture lesson was read by W. P. Mosher and prayer was offered by T. H. M. Coghlan. Addresses were delivered by Dr. Wm. Dawe, of Albion Col- lege, Dr. G. A. Trever, of Atlanta, Ga., and Wm. F. Anderson, D. D., of New York City.

~~CONFERENCE CLAIMANTS SOCIETY.~~

~~Friday, 2:00 p. m. A. J. Wheeler presided. I. B. Tallman led in prayer.~~

~~Addresses were delivered by J. R. T. Lathrop, James Hamilton and J. S. Valentine.~~

~~MISSIONARY SOCIETY.~~

~~Saturday, 7 130 p. m. J. W. Hallenbeck was chairman and A. O. Car- man offered the prayer. Rev. F. H. Sheets, D. D., of Chicago, delivered the missionary address. Certificate of Ordination~~

~~This is to certify that on the tenth day of September, A. D. 1905, I ordained, under the election of the Michigan Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the following named persons as DEACONS:~~

Thomas P. Bennett, Leroy O. Bostwick, Don O. Colegrove, Samuel W. Large, George E. Lewis, Clarence A. Norcross, Arthur L. Ellsworth, William H. Holcomb, John Heetebry, William Haskin, Chester M. Loomis, Lewis E. Price; and at the sarne time, and in the same place, assisted by Elders present, I ordained the following named persons as ELDERS: Thomas G. R. Brownlow, Joseph W. Dutton, Matthew H. Duffey, George V. Fallis, William T. Hill, John A. Jewett, Charles L.

~~Keene, Charles J. Kruse, Arba Martin, George R. Millard, Alfred Way, Quinton Walker, James Catterall, Fred Deighton, and William H. Herbert.~~

~~Done at Charlotte, Michigan. President.~~

~~Certificate of Consecration~~

~~This is to certify that on the tenth day of September, A. D. 1905, I consecrated as DEACONESSES:~~

~~Mrs. Lou Stevens Abbott, Miss Julia Statira Willson, Miss Mary Elizabeth Hubert, Miss Ida May DeWitt, Miss Bertha May Clark, Miss Blanche Adelaide King.~~

~~Done at Charlotte, Michigan. President. Disciplinary Questions~~

Who have been Received by Transfer and from what Conference? D. N. Stafford from New Jersey Conference; F. E. Day from Okla- homa Conference; George E. Allen from Andes Conference. Who have been Readmitted?

~~F. M. Cosner located by Michigan Conference, 1898.~~

Who have been Received on Credentials, and from what Churches? George Ervin Wright as an Elder from the Free Baptist Church; Alfred R. Farrar as an Elder from the United Brethren Church; Allison M. Bostwick as an Elder from the United Brethren Church; Andrew W. Bond as an Elder from the Congregational Church.

~~Who have been Received on Trial? (a) In Studies of the First Year:~~

~~Charles J. Bready, Allison M. Bostwick, Marshall A. Braund, Preston~~

~~A. Cross, Estus J. Hawkes, Walter L. Jones, William M .P. Jerrett, Stewart K. Jewell, Charles H. Kelsey, Wade S. Phillips, James B. Robe- son, G. Gilbert Stansell, Ernest Twomley, Frank C. Watters.~~

Who have been Continued on Trial? (Figures indicate year received.) (a) In Studies of First Year: Caleb E. Curry ('02), Samuel W. Irwin ('03), William A. Johnson ('96), Edward A. Shewell ('04). (b) In Studies of Second Year: James M. Jenson ('03), James W. Lawrence ('04), Irving W. Mi- nor ('02), William H. Meyer ('02), George E. Wright ('05). Who have been Discontinued? Charles D. Fletcher, Herbert T. Gilpin, Chester M. Loomis.

Who have been Admitted into Full Membership? (a) Elected and Ordained Deacons this year: T. Porter Bennett, Leroy O. Bostwick, Don O. Colegrove, Samuel W. Large, George E. Lewis, Clarence A. Norcross. (b) Elected and Ordained Deacons previously: Franklin H. Clapp, Frank Cookson, Frederick A. Lendrum, Henry

~~J. Nicholls.~~

~~What Members are in Studies of Third Year?~~

~~(a) Admitted into Full Membership this year: T. Porter Bennett, Leroy O. Bostwick, Don O. Colegrove, Samuel H. Clapp, Frank Cookson, Samuel W. Large, Frederick A. Lendrum,~~

~~George E. Lewis, Henry J. Nicholls, Clarance A. Norcross, Alfred R. Farrar.~~

~~(195) 196 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

~~(b) Admitted into Full Membership previously: (Figures indicate year entered this class.) Edwin W. Davis ('99), John W. Hayward ('02), Nelson H. Kendall~~

~~('03), Williard E. Ogden ('95), Maynard A. Oldt ('03), George J. Porter C02), Harry E. Walker ('04).~~

~~9. What Members are in Studies of Fourth Year? (Figures indicate year~~

entered this class.) Ora F. Bulman ('04), James F. Bowerman ('04), Frederick M. Clough C04), Frank M. Cottrell ('05), William E. Doty ('04), Fred C. Demo- rest ('04), Berton H. Fleming ('05), Donald Jamieson ('05), Walter R. Kitzmiller ('05), Cecil E. Pollock ('05), Charles A. Quinn ('05), Dwight A. Rood ('04), Jacob G. Ruoff ('99), George D. Yinger ('05), F. M. Cosner C05).

~~10. What Members have Completed the Conference Course of Study? (a) Elected and Ordained Elders this year:~~

Joseph W. Dutton, Charles J. Kruse, Alfred Way, Quinton Walker, George V. Fallis, Matthew W. Duffey, William T. Hill, Arba Martin, Thomas G. R. Brownlow, John A. Jewett, George R. Millard, Charles L. Keene. (b) Elected and Ordained Elders previously: Upton E. Partridge.

~~11. What others have been Elected and Ordained Deacons? (a) As Local Preachers: Lewis E. Price, Arthur L. Ellsworth, William H. Holcomb, John Heetebry, Chester M. Loomis, William Haskin.~~

~~12. What others have been Elected and Ordained Elders? (a) As Local Deacons: James Catterall, Fred Deighton, William H. Herbert.~~

~~13. Was the Character of each Preacher examined? This was done strictly as the name of each preacher was called in open Conference.~~

~~14. Who have been Transferred, and to what Conferences?~~

Wm. J. Getty to N. W. Nebraska Conference; Addis Albro to De- troit Conference; W. A. Frye to New Jersey Conference; W. H. B. Urch to Oklahoma Conference; M. F. Loomis to Southwest Kansas Conference; G. W. Grimes to the Ohio Conference: Geo. R. McDowell to Northwest Iowa Conference: N. E. Gibbs to California Conference.

~~15. Who have Died? Elisha D. Bacon, James R. Bowen, James N. Dayton, Horatio P. Henderson, John W. Hollowell. Daniel W. Parsons. William R. Stinch- comb, Orlin D. Watkins.~~

~~16. Who have been Located at their own Request? None. .:~~

~~1905] DISCIPLINARY QUESTIONS 197~~

~~17. Who have been Located? None.~~

~~18. Who have Withdrawn? E. E. Haring, W. L. Barth.~~

~~19. Who have been permitted to Withdraw under Charges or Complaints? None.~~

~~20. Who have been Expelled? None. si. What other personal Notation should be made?~~

~~The orders of the following were recognized O. C. Bedford as an Elder from the Congregational Church; Thomas~~

~~C. Sowter as an Elderi from the regular Baptist Church i nCanada; Carl Seipp as an Elder from the Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America.~~

~~22. Who are the Supernumerary Preachers? (Figures indicate years in~~

~~this relation.)~~

A. T. Cartland (1), J. C. Upton (1), J. W. Miller (1), A. H. Sturgis (1), William T. Hill (1), W. W. Aylesworth (1), Wm. A. Taylor (1), C. M. Merrill (1), C. A. Varnum (5), A. F. Hart (4), Henry G. Hipp (3),

J. E. Messner (3), F. A. Van De Walker (3), Hale H. Miller (3), Willard E. Ogden (3), Elliot Bouck (3), W. L. Holmes (3), R. W. VanSchoick (3), Albert Smith (2), Charles H. Palmatier (2), L. D. Youngblood (2),

~~L. N. Pattison (2), Geo. J. Porter (2), Douglas Streeter (2), C. W. Holden (1).— (25).~~

~~23. Who are the Superannuated Preachers?~~

~~Wm. Judd, J. C. Beach, L. Grosenbaugh, E. L. Sincleir, A. K. Stew-~~

~~art, E. A. Tanner, F. J. Freeman, N. M. Barnes, C. T. VanAntwerp, J.~~

~~Gulick, A. N. Eldred, L. S. Matthews, B. S. Mills, C. L. Barnhart, J. H. Hopkins, Eli Wigle, G. S. Hickey, R. W. Tindall, C. W. Smith, T. T.~~

~~George, T. J. Hill, J. W. Horner, G. W. Sherman, E. T. Lumber, W. M.~~

~~Colby, L. N. Edmons, E. G. Stevens, I. B. Tallman, L. M. Bennett, J. R. Oden, N. L. Brockway, R. C. Welch, C. W. Jones, Joshua White, C. H.~~

~~Howe, G. W. Howe, W. J. Swift, H. D. Jordan, David Engle, A. E. Ketcham, Jacob Marzolf, A. A. Knappen, D. C. Woodward, D. R. La-~~

~~tham, George Donaldson, J. H. Pietzel, B. S. Pratt, W. A. Prouty, Thomas Riley, W. W. Rork, E. Treadgold, R. Shire, G. C. Draper, N. D. Marsh, R. C. Crawford, James Draper, A. P. Moors, A. A. Dunton,~~

~~A. J. Eldred, H. R. Hawley, D. S. Haviland, S. P. Hewitt, G. S. Hicks,~~

~~J. Hoyt, B. H. Whitman, J. W. Rawlinson, G. S. Barnes, J. E. White,~~

~~J. A. Sprague, I. H. Skinner, S. C. Tiney, L. W. Calkins, Willard Heath.~~

~~W. H. Choate, Samuel Trewin, M. A. Daugherty, J. F. Orwick, A. R.~~

~~Keillor, Willard Aldrich, D. M. Ward, John Klose, Levi Aler. J. W. White, A. W. Burns, George L. Haight.— (85) MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

~~24. Who are the Triers of Appeals?~~

~~J. A. Bready, G. W. Gosling, J. R. Wooten, E. V. Armstrong, A. H. Coors.~~

~~25. What is the Statistical Report for this year? See Statistics.~~

~~26. What is the Aggregate of the Benevolent Collections ordered by the General Conference, as reported by the Conference Treasurer?~~

~~$58,533.25.~~

~~27. What are the Claims on the Conference Fund?~~

~~$27,500.00.~~

~~28. What has been Received on these Claims, and how has it been Applied?~~

~~$15,521.00 (see Report of Board of Stewards).~~

~~29. Where are the Preachers Stationed? See Appointments.~~

~~30. Where shall the Next Conference be held? Left with the Presiding Elders with power. Michigan Conference Appointments— 1905~~

~~These appointments are all in the state of Michigan. Figures indicate year of pastoral service.~~

~~Albion District.~~

~~Presiding Elder : D. D. Martin, Albion. Third Year.~~

~~Albion F. E. Day i Haven F. H. Clapp 4 Allen Ida Stiles A. F. Nagler 2~~

Supplied by C. A. Varnum 2 North Street. . Caleb E. Curry 3 Aurelius C. A. Norcross 3 Jonesville F. A. Lendrum 2 Burlington Leslie W. W. Lamport 7 Supplied by A. W. Wallis 1 Liberty To be supplied Butler B. A. Silverthorne 1 Lickey's Corners... G. L. Mount 1 Cambria To be supplied Litchfield R. D. Freeman 2 Camden A. R. Farrar 1 Marengo H. E. Walker 1 Charlotte W. J. Wilson 3 Marshall Adam Clarke 4 Concord G. D. Yinger 2 Montgomery Devereaux To be supplied Supplied by J. J. Yost 1 Eaton Mosherville Supplied by O. C. Bedford 2 .Supplied by W. H. Carpenter 2 Eator Rapids R. E. Meader 4 North Adams E. O. Mather 3 Eckford Osseo, Supplied by A. W. Burns 2 Supplied by F. F. Fitchett 1 Parma John Dobson 3 Frontier Partello L. P. Richtmeyer 2 Supplied by D. E. Steffe 2 Quincy G. A. Buell 1 Hanover S. C. Robinson 2 Reading F. L. Niles 4 Hillsdale J. A. Bready 3 Springport G. R. Millard 2 Homer A. O. Carman 3 Tekonsha W. H. Moore 1 Jackson, Cooper Street Tompkins Irving Eagle 2 A. J. Morris 1 Waldron Dimond I. W. Miner 2 Supplied by J. W. Hallenbeck 1 First Church J. T. LeGear 5 Wheatland To be supplied Greenwood Ave., A. A. Geiger 2 Winfield E. J. Hawkes 2

~~F. C. Demorest and John Zedler, professors in Albion College, members Albion Quarterly Conference.~~

~~J. H. Potts, editor Michigan Christian Advocate, First Church, Jackson Quarterly Conference. D. E. Reed Conference evangelist member Albion Quarterly Conference.~~

~~J. W. Hallenback, Conference evangelist, member Marshall Quarterly Conference.~~

~~E. J. Bradner, Jos. Wilks, U. E. Partridge, L. B. Kenyon, missionaries in Nevada Mission.~~

~~J. G. Ruoff, missionary in New Mexico English Mission.~~

~~J. J. Yost left without appointment to attend school.~~

~~(i99) 200 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

~~Big Rapids District.~~

~~Presiding Elder: N. L. Bray, Big Rapids. .Fourth Year.~~

Ashton Lakeview W. D. Rowland 1 Supplied by Charles Sherwood 1 Leaton Barryton George Varion 1 ..Supplied by Howard Jerrett 2 Beaverton Leroy Frank Cookson 2 Supplied by G. B. Day 1 Ludington, First Big Rapids M. D. Carrel 1 E. A. Armstrong 2 Big Rapids Circuit Jefferson Street and Wesley..

~~Supplied by A. C. Parsons 2 G. K. Fairbank 1~~

Cadillac...... T. H. M. Coghlan 2 Luther Donald Jamieson 1 Cadillac Circuit Marion ...Supplied by J. B. McGinnis 1 ..Supplied by James Catterall 2 Chase McBain Supplied by Wm. A. Allen 1 Supplied by T. C. Sowter 1 Chippewa Lake McClure To be supplied Supplied by C. J. Kendall 1 Millbrook Clare G. W. Maxwell 2 Supplied by D. C. Crawford 2 Coleman Morley C. A. Brown 2 Supplied by A. H. Viner 3 Mt. Pleasant Jos. Dutton 5 Coral Paris P. D. Huff 3 ..Supplied by W. W. Chatfield 1 Pierson Crystal Valley Parma John Dobson 3 Supplied by Carl Seipp 1 Supplied by J. H. Cornelius 2 Edmore M. A. Oldt 3 Reed City W. H. Irwin 2 Entrican Remus E. W. Davis 5 ...Supplied by Fred Deighton 2 Rosebush J. M. Jensen 1 Evart F. W. Haist 1 Sanford and Averill Evart Circuit Supplied by A. C. Peters 1

~~Supplied by G. W. Barnes 1 Scottville. . . .T. G. R. Brownlow 1~~

~~Farwell T. P. Bennett 1 Sears. . . .Supplied bv L. E. Price 2 Ferry Shepherd L. Blanchet 2~~

Supplied by Jas. Nixon 2 Stanton C. J. Bready 1 Gladwin F. M. Clough 1 Stanwood Greenville W. F. Kendrick 4 ...Supplied by C. E. Waltman 1 Greenville Circuit... J. W. Steffe 1 Weidman S. K. Jewell 2 Harrison To be supplied White Cloud Charles Ottan 1 Hersey W. M. P. Jerrett 1 Winn Hope and Edenville ..Supplied by Elmer Vaughn 1 H. J. Nicholls 1 Woodville J. C. Chase r Howard City C. E. Pollock 3 Grand Rapids District.

~~Presiding Elder: G. D. Chase, 209 Woodward Court, Grand Rapids. Third Year.~~

~~Bailey and Ashland Cedar Springs~~

M. A. Braund 2 . . .Supplied by W. P. Manning 1 Berlin and Lamont, P. A. Cross 1 Coopersville S. B. Ford 3 Bowne J. W. Davids 1 Freeport M. W. Duffcy 3 Byron Center and Dorr Fremont Supplied by William Chapman 2 ...Supplied by C. W. Marshall 2 Caledonia Grand Haven Isaiah Wilson 1 ....Supplied by J. G. Phillips 2 Grand Rapids, Division Street.. Cannonsburg To be supplied J. R. T. Lathrop 2 Casnovia and Kent Citv Epworth W. W. Slee 3 H. L. Rood 3 Fcakins Memorial. G. A. Odium 1 1905] APPOINTMENTS 201

Joy Memorial. .. .Geo. Killeen 1 Wood Avenue.. E. A. Shewell 2 Plainfield Ave....Chas. Nease 2 Muskegon Heights and Lakeside Second Street, W. L. Laufman 2 Supplied by W. W. Long 2 Tenth Avenue J. W. Hart 2 North Muskegon, To be supplied Trinity To be supplied Newaygo. ... H. C. Chamberlain 2 Grandville R. B. Cilley 2 Pentwater Delos Cronk 2 Hart J. A. DeGraff 2 Ravenna, Supplied by Wm. Todd 1 Hastings Arthur Trott 3 Robinson To be supplied Hastings Circuit Rockford R. J. Slee 5 Supplied by F. A. Clapp 1 Saranac ...To be supplied Hesperia W. F. Glass 2 Shelby J. W. H. Carlisle 4 Holland A. T. Luther 3 South Lowell J. H. Wesbrook 3 Holton W. S. Phillips 2 Sparta A. H. Coors 2 Irving Spring Lake To be supplied ..Supplied by W. H. Holcomb 1 Wayland J. G. Robeson 1 Lake Odessa J. C. Cook 1 Whitehall J. F. Peschmann 1 Lowell Russell H. Bready 1 Whitneyville and Snow Middleville C. A. Jacokes 4 Supplied by W. B. Fallis 1 Montague C. J. Kruse 1 Vergennes and Keene

~~'. Muskegon Central ... . M. L. Fox 1 . . . .To be supplied~~

D. R. Lee, instructor in the University of Wisconsin, Joy Memorial, Grand Rapids, Quarterly Conference. James Hamilton, secretary of Twentieth Century Conference Claimants' Endowment Fund, Division Street Quarterly Conference, Grand Rapids. John Graham, Conference Agent Albion College, Division Street Quar- terly Conference, Grand Rapids.

~~J. H. Bennett, Conference evangelist, member Lowell Quarterly Confer- ence.~~

~~J. I. Buell, tract agent, Division Street Quarterly Conference, Grand Rapids. W. S. Woodhull, left without appointment to attend school, member Muskegon Central Quarterly Conference.~~

~~Grand Traverse District.~~

~~Presiding Elder: A. T. Ferguson, Traverse City. First Year.~~

~~Alanson To be supplied Empire To be supplied Alba To be supplied Fife Lake~~

Alden. . . .Supplied by E. F. Gray 2 Supplied by Jesse Burge 3 Bear Lake F. C. Watters 1 Frankfort G. E. Lewis 2 Bellaire W. A. Robinson 2 Freesoil To be supplied Benzonia Grawn ...Supplied by W. H. Herbert 3 Supplied by M. J. Brownell 1 Boyne City Harbor Springs.. P. E. Whitman 2 ..Supplied by L. Grosenbaugh 2 Harrietta

Boyne Falls To be supplied . . .Supplied by W. A. Watkins 1 Central Lake.... To be supplied Inland, Supplied by Enos George 1 Charlevoix J. W. Vickers 2 Kalkaska H. H. Harris 1 Charlevoix Circuit Kewadin To be supplied To be supplied Kewadin Indian Mission Clarion and Horton Bay To be sullied S. W. Large 2 Kingsley E. W. Wood 3 Cross Village .... To be supplied Lake City and Jennings East Jordan G. E. Allen 1 John Bretts 3 Elk Rapids C. S. Risley 2 Levering To be supplied 202 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

Mackinaw City ....Supplied by W. A. Elias 2 Supplied by S. V. Ragan 1 Pomona Mancelona J. C. Newcomer 2 ...Supplied by H. G. Kennedy 1 Manistee R. A. Wright 2 Sherman To be supplied Manton F. J. Bryan 3 South Boardman Manton Circuit ....Supplied by John Priestly 3

~~..Supplied by William Haskin 5 South Frankfort. . . . C. A. Quinn 2 Northport Stittsville Supplied by J. D. Deets 3 ...Supplied by John Heetebry 2~~

Northport Indian Mission Thompsonville. . .To be supplied To be supplied Traverse City, Asbury Norwood J. P. Durham 3 Hugh Kennedy 7 Old Mission First Thomas Cox 2 Supplied by C. W. Chase 1 Fourteenth Street Pellston..... H. V. Wade 3 Supplied by L. B. Carpenter 1

~~Petoskey, First. . . . Arba Martin 3 Wexford To be supplied Grace To be supplied Williamsburg R. E. Yost 1~~

~~Indian Mission - . . .~~

~~Nelson H. Kendall and A. H. McComb, left without appointment to attend school.~~

~~Kalamazoo District.~~

~~Presiding Elder : M. M. Callen, Kalamazoo. Fourth Year.~~

Alamo A. M. Griffith 1 Glenn and Casco, O. F. Bulman 1 Allegan G. A. Brown 1 Gobleville J. C. DeViney 3 Athens H. R. E. Quant 3 Hopkins Station Athens Indian Mission W. R. Kitzmiller 1 H. R. E. Quant 3 Kalamazoo, Damon, A. M. Gould 8

~~Augusta J. W. Lawrence 1 East Avenue. . E. V. Armstrong 2~~

Banfield . First W. M. Puffer ; 5 ..Supplied by W. F. Baldwin 1 Simpson R. S. McGregor 1 Battle Creek, First, P. J. Maveety 3 Kendall To be supplied Maple Street C. S. Wheeler 3 Lacota W. L. Langrell 1 Upton Avenue.... W. I. Elmer 2 Martin J. G. Biery 3 Bellevue G. R. Arnold 1 Mendon J. B. Peatling 1 Bloomingdale N. P. Brown 1 Oshtemo W. H. Wright 3 Bradley Indian Mission Otsego H. D. Skinner 4

~~. . .Supplied by Jos. Shaganaby 2 Parkville~~

Climax..... J. H. Emmons 3 . . . .Supplied by A. L. Ellworth Comstock Penfield J. C. Dorns 3 ....Supplied by D. C. Osborne 2 Plainwell Thomas Laity 1 Cooper and Spring Brook Prairieville Thomas Young 3 I. H. Riddick 1 Richland and Cressy, D. C. Riehl t Delton and Cloverdale Saugatuck Supplied by G. T. Fisher 2 Supplied bv A. P. Moors

Douglass A. M. Bostwick 1 Schoolcraft . . G. V. Fallis 3 Fennville T. H. Leamon 3 Scotts E. W. Laing 1 Fulton C. F. Brown 3 Sonoma. Supplied bv F. S. Ford 2 Galesburg W. A. Bond 1 South Haven F. M. Taylor 5 Ganges W. J. Hathaway 1 Trowbridge L. O. Bostwick 2 Vicksburg J. W. Foy 2

~~J. C. Floyd, Field Secretary Missionary Society, member Kalamazoo, First, Quarterly Conference. S. C Strickland, Conference Temperance Agent, South Haven Quarterly Conference. 1905] APPOINTMENTS 203~~

W. A. Johnson, professor in Morgan College, Battle Creek, First, Quar- terly Conference. S. W. Irwin, Battle Creek, First, and A. T. Gosling, Kalamazoo, First, left without appointment to attend school.

~~Lansing District.~~

~~Presiding Elder : L. DaLamarter, Lansing. Fifth Year.~~

Alma C. E. Hoag 3 Ithaca J. Hi Wilcox 1 Ashley Lansing, Central... W. P. French 3 Supplied by W. H. W. Webster 2 First F. M. Cottrell 1 Bath J. C. Dietrich 2 Lyons H. E. Wylie 3 Belding J. W. Sheehan 3 Maple Rapids J. E. Foote 5 Berlin and South Berlin Mason N. F. Jenkins 3 D. O. Colegrove 2 Middleton and Sethton supplied Breckenridge. . . J. W. Hayward 2 To be . Carson City George Bullen 3 Nashville G. W. Tuthill 3 Crystal Okemos A. D. Newton 2 Supplied bq W. W. Hurd Orange Alfred Way 2 Delta C. H. Kelsey 3 Orleans N. S. Tuttle 2 DeWitt A. W. Simmons 3 Ovid J. R. Wooten 3 Duplain E. E. Sprague 3 Palo J. W. Buell 2 Eagle J. K. Stark 2 Perrington O. J. Golden 3 Elm Hall Portland G. S. Robinson 1 Supplied by R. F. Cornell Potterville W. A. Exner 1 Elsie I. T. Weldon 3 St. Johns J. B. Pinckard 1 Emerson St. Louis J. M. Wolfe 2 Shepardsville E. R. Lyon 1 . . . .Supplied by N. W. Weston 2 Grand Ledge W. E. Doty 1 Sheridan A. A. Stevens 2 Gresham To be supplied Sunfield Hoytville Supplied by Charles Hayward 2 Vermontville P. Mosher Supplied by J. W. Miller 1 W. 4 Hubbardston Wacousta 1 Supplied by W. L. Mann 1 Supplied by W. W. Hurd Ionia W. I. Cogshall 1 Woodland Wellington Earl 1

W. H. Thompson, State Superintendent of Children's Home Society, Pennsylvania, member Lansing Central Quarterly Conference. D. A. Rood, left without appointment to attend school, member Lansing Central Quarterly Conference.

~~Niles District.~~

~~Presiding Elder : D. F. Barnes, Niles. Third Year.~~

Bangor P. R. Keplinger 1 Cassopolis E. A. Baldwin 1 Benton Harbor.... L. E. Lennox 3 Centerville James Allen 2 Berrien Sorings ... Edwin Tench 3 Coldwater F. A. Chapman 3 Breedsville Coldwater Circuit ....Supplied by H. J. Nicholls 1 ..Supplied by A. R. Crittendon 1 Bronson C. L. Keene 2 Coloma and Watervliet Buchanan W. J. Douglas 6 H. W. Thompson 5 Burr Oak J. S. Valentine 2 And one to be supplied 204 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

Colon C. L. Beebe 3 Marcellus A. J. Wheeler 3 Constantine B. H. Fleming 1 Mattawan G. E. Wright 1 Decatur A. L. Toner 3 New Buffalo W. H. Parsons 3 Dowagiac H. L. Potter 6 Niles R. H. Bready 1 Edwardsburg and Smith's Chapel Paw Paw A. W. Mumford 3 ' G. W. Gosling 3 Pipestone F. M. Cosner 1 Galien G. G. Stansell 2 Pokagon J. A. Jewett 1 Gilead Sherwood and Leonidas ...Supplied by O. H. Johnson 2 F. H. Larabee 1 St. Joseph D. N. Stafford 1 Girard J. F. Bowerman 2 Stevensville W. L. Jones 1 Hartford H. A. Lyon 2 Kinderhook Sturgis L. H. Manning 3 Three Rivers W. H. Phelps 2 . . . .Supplied by W. Rochelle 1 J. Three Oaks C. E. Deal Keeler and Silvercreek 3 Union City G. F. Craig 2 Supplied by E. Silkwood 2 Vandalia A. S. Williams 1 Lawrence Q. Walker 2 White Pigeon.... C. H. Anderson 1 Lawton E. F. Newell 3

~~Of Interest.~~

Number of pastors serving first year in present pastorate in Number of pastors serving second year in present pastorate 94 Number of pastors serving third year in present pastorate 66 Number of pastors serving fourth year in present pastorate 9 Number of pastors serving fifth year in present pastorate 13 Number of pastors serving sixth year in present pastorate 2 Number of pastors serving seventh year in present pastorate 2

~~Number of pastors serving eighth year in present pastorate 1~~

~~Total number of charges supplied 298 Average of above pastorates 2.12 years. :~~

~~rea surer s Report~~

~~Receipts.~~

From collections in the churches: DISTRICT. CASH. VOUCHERS. TOTALS. Albion District $ 7,455.25 $ 5,260.00 $12,715.25 Big Rapids District 5,198.50 2,193.00 7,391-50 Grand Rapids District 8,752.50 7,737-0O 16,489.50 Grand Traverse District 3,125.25 3,739-00 6,864.25 Kalamazoo District 7,613.50 4,528.00 12,141.50 Lansing District 7,789.50 10,194.25 17,983-75 Niles District 5,424.00 4,315.00 9,739-00

Totals $45,358.50 $37>966.25 $83,324-75 From other sources Book Concern Dividend $ 2,493.00 Chartered Fund Dividend 22.00 The Michigan Christian Advocate 1,559-57 Conference Trustees Interest. 2,860.00 Bissell Fund Interest Division St 150.00 Sunday Collection for Conference Claim- ants 100.61 Special Gift for Conference Claimants, L. N. Pattison 5.00

Collected by J. G. Biery for Minutes... 100.00 Collected for Conference Expenses 42.05 Collected for Findley Church, Burr Oak Charge 77.45 Collected for Evangelist E. S. Dunham 65.00 Collected for Commission on Aggressive Evangelism 16.00

~~Total Cash from other sources.... $ 7,490.68~~

~~Grand Total—Cash $52,849.18 Grand Total—Vouchers $37,966.25~~

~~Grand Total—Cash and Vouchers . . . $90,815.43~~

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~~Disbursements.~~

~~OBJECTS. CASH. VUU V^XXIliKo. TATAT1U1AL, To Missionary Society $24,468.00 $ 4>339-°°~~

'7/1 To Church Extension Society 2,640.00 10 1 .00 0 t nn r To Freedman's Aid and S. E. Society. 2,091.00 423.00 0 t /< nn To Board of Education, Children's Day Fund 1,274.00 a 68 on T 7/19 nn To Tract Society 4.76.00 14 00 /ton nn To Sunday School Union 6qq ko on nn 7^0.50 To Bible Society 0*7 nn if\z cn To Episcopal Fund 1,800.00 10.00 1,810.00

To Albion College 2,038.00 yyu.uuf \(^r\ nn 0 r\oQ nn To Albion College, 20th Century Fund, 6.00 6.00 To Bd. of St'ds for Conf'ce Claimants, IK KQZ l8 t c cnc t8 To Woman's Home Missionary Society, 7.00 7,057. 00 *7 nn To Woman's Foreign Miss'n'ry Society A.6 2^ y,ou/.uur\ Qat nn 9>o53^5 To General Conference Expense, Fund, A A 00 44 ,n0 To E. A. Armstrong, Pub. Minutes... I'XA 7K 334-75 To Conf. Trustees, 20th Century Fund, I KO t 0 oon nn /ice of 382.00 273-2 5 To Other Collections To Findley Church, Burr Oak Charge, 77.45 7745 To Evangelest E. S. Dunham 65.OO 65.00 To Com's'n on Aggressive Evangelism, l6.00 16 00

To Grand Rapids Deaconess Home. . . . 7.00 7.00 To G. S. Robinson, Statistic'n Expenses, 9.80 9.80 To E. A. Armstrong, Sec'y's Expenses, 2.25 2.25 To. W. A. Taylor, Asst. Sec'y Expenses, 8.00 8.00 15.00 15.00 7.00 7.00

~~Total $52,849.18 $37,966.25 $90.81543~~

~~(Signed) W. F. Kendrick, Treasurer. Stewards' Report~~

~~Claims on Conference Fund $27,500.00 Paid 56 per cent, of Claims.~~

~~RECEIPTS.~~

~~Collections in Churches $ 8,405.00 Michigan Christian Advocate 1,559 57 Book Concern 2,493.00 Chartered Fund 22.00 Bissell Fund 150.00 Board of Trustees—Twentieth Century, Parkhurst, Mrs. O. F.~~

~~Pierce, Martha J. VanHorn, Susan A. Folsom, W. Scott Brown, and P. S. F. S. Funds 2,860.00 L. N. Pattison, Special 5.00 Conference Collection 100.61 Cash in Contingent Fund 96.00~~

~~Total $15,691.18 Last year... 15,932.01~~

~~Decrease $ 230.82~~

~~DISBURSEMENTS.~~

~~Printing Stationery, etc $ 31.95 Distributing to Conference Claimants 15,521.00 Cash in Contingent Fund 100.00 Cash in Expense Fund 38.23~~

~~Total $15,691.18 Respectfully submitted. Daniel C. Riehl, Chairman.~~

~~I. T. Weldon, Secretary. A. T. Luther, Treasurer.~~

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~~MINISTERS.~~

~~NO. NAME. POST OFFICE. AMOUNT.~~

1 Aldrich, Willard Bay View $140.00 2 Aler, Levi Cross Village 84.00 3 Barnes, G. S Petoskey 84.00 4 Barnes, N. M Hubbardston 140.00 5 *Barnhart, C. L Sparta 6 Beach, J. C Buchanan 140.00 7 Bennett, L. M 451 Elizabeth St., Ann Arbor 167.00 8 Brockway, N. L 44 Walton St., Muskegon 223.00 9 Burns, A. W Osseo 84.00 10 Calkins, L. W Sparta 209.00 11 *Choate, W. H Albion 12 Colby, W. M Parma 223.00 13 Crawford, R. C Byron 223.00 14 Daugherty, M. A 4872 Osceola St., Denver, Colo 84.00 15 Donaldson, Geo Kalamazoo, R. F. D. No. 2 112.00 16 Draper, G. C 100 Washington .St., Chicago, 111 140.00 17 *Draper, J Hart 18 Dunton, A. A 39 Harrison St., Battle Creek 140.00 19 Edmunds, L. M Oconto Falls, Wis 112.00 20 Eldred, A. J Traverse City 223.00 21 Eldred, A. N Colon 167.00 22 Engle, D Petoskey 181.00 23 Freeman, F. J Albion 195.00 24 George, T. T Cedar Springs 167.00 25 Gulick, J mi E. Porter St., Albion 195.00 26 Haight, G. L 159 Main St., Riverside, Cal 140.00 27 Haviland, D. S Lakeview 181.00 28 Hawley, H. R Morley 154-00 29 Heath, Willard Traverse City 98.00 30 Hewitt, S. P Kewadin 112.00 31 *Hickey, G. S 67 King St., Detroit 32 Hicks, G. S Farnam, Neb 112.00 33 Hill, T. J Phoenix, Ariz 56.00 34 Hopkins, J. H Golden, Colo 112.00 35 Horner, J. W 1 Barclay PL, Grand Rapids 15400 36 Howe, C. H Lamont 126.00 37 Howe, G. W 202 S. Mountain St., W. Bay City 195 00 38 Hoyt, J South Valley, N. Y 140.00 39 Jones, C. W 42 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids 126.00 40 Jordan, H. D Albion 167.00 41 Judd, Wm Luther 167.00 42 Keillor, A. R Boyne City 112.00 43 Ketchum, A. E South Haven 112.00 44 Klose, John 253 Turner St., Grand Rapids 112.00 4.5 *Knappen. A. A Albion 46 Latham, D. R Abilene. Kan 223.00 47 *Lumber. E. T 211 North Sherman St., Bay City " " 48 Marsh, N. D 317 John St.. Charlotte 167.00 49 Marzoff, J Grand Rapids, R. F. D. No. 9 11200 50 Matthews, L. S Fast Jordan 98.00 51 *Mills, B. S Freesoil 52 Moors, A. P Greenville 167.00 53 Oden. T. R Hollywood. Cal 167.00 54 *Orwick. J. F Jackson 55 Pitezel, J. H 2t6 Bank St.. Lorain, Ohio 223.00 1905] APPOINTMENTS

~~NO. NAME. POST OFFICE. AMOUNT.~~

56 Pratt, B. S Grand Ledge 140.00 57 Prouty, W. A Albion 223.00 58 Rawlinson, J. W 516 Clinton St., Detroit 140.00 59 Riley, T 315 Washington St., Lansing 98.00 60 Rork, W. W Agnew 154.00 61 Sherman, G. W Petoskey 223.00 62 Shier, R Berlin, R. F. D. No. 1 223.00 63 Sincleir, E. L White Pigeon 140.00 64 *Skinner, I. H 802 Kearney St., San Diego, Cal 65 *Smith, C. W Morley 66 Sprague, J. A 220 W. Main St., Kalamazoo 84.00 67 Stevens, E. G Cranesville, Pa 140.00 68 Swift, W. J 765 Franklin St., Lansing 154.00 69 Tanner, E. A Grand Haven 154.00 70 Tallman, I. B Pendleton, Ore 98.00 71 Tindall, R. W Big Rapids 140.00 72 *Tiney, S. C Soldiers' Home, Grand Rapids 73 Treadgold, E Forest, Can 112.00 74 *Trewim, S Flushing 75 VanAntwerp, C. T Lakeview 167.00 76 Ward, D. M Farmington 126.00 77 Welch, R. C Chicago 167.00 78 White, Joshua Galesburg 126.00 79 White, J. E Middleville 112.00 80 White, J. W Union City 167.00 81 Whitman, B. H Boyne Falls .' 195-00 82 Wigle, E Grand Rapids 83 Woodward, D. C Ovid 56.00 *Relinquished claim. *Relinquished claim. ^Relinquished claim.

~~WIDOWS.~~

~~NO. NAME. POST OFFICE. AMOUNT.~~

1 Aldrich, Mrs. W. J 401 Lyon St., Grand Rapids $84.00 2 Ambrose, Mrs. J. C Auburn, Cal 84.00 3 Bangs, Mrs. F. B Eaton Rapids 43.00 4 *Barrett, Mrs. Wright.. 1 120 S. West St., Kalamazoo 5 *Beard, Mrs. E 193 88th St., New York 6 Bowen, Mrs. J. R Lyons 100.00 7 *Boynton, Mrs. J Stanton 8 Burns, Mrs. D 1212 Jackson St., Albion 154.00 9 Camburn, Mrs. M. B...36T6 Lake St., Chicago 56.00 10 Clubine, Mrs. J Albion 140.00 11 *Cogshall, Mrs. I Coldwater 12 *Cook. Mrs. W. T Phoenix, Ariz 13 *Copelin, Mrs. W. M... Sonoma 14 Dayton, Mrs. T. N Coldwater 112.00 15 Dissett, Mrs. E. H 524 12th St., Detroit 56.00 16 *Elder, Mrs. W. W McPherson, Kan 17 Force, Mrs. J. P Galesburg 112.00 18 *Foster, Mrs. W. S 16 Liberty St., Poughkeepsie, N. Y 19 Garlick, Mrs. L. M Menominee 43-00 20 Gilbert, Mrs. G. L 610 S. Adams St., Marion, Ind 84.00 21 Gillett, Mrs. D. D 226 Pierce St., Lafayette, Ind 181.00 2IO MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

~~NO. NAME. POST OFFICE. AMOUNT.~~

22 Glass, Mrs. F 628 Cheny St., Grand Rapids 56.00 23 Greenstead, Mrs. J 413 Webster St., Traverse City 43 00 24 Green, Mrs. D. A Traverse City 154.00 25 Griffin, Mrs. L. J Shelby 84.00 26 ^Hamilton, Mrs. S. L. .720 Bacon St., Los Angeles, Cal 27 Henderson, Mrs. H. P.. Albion 56.00 28 Hills, Mrs. J Wauwatosa, Wis 112.00 29 Hunsberger, Mrs. A. .. .Atlantic City, N. J 56.00 30 Janes, Mrs. F. N Williamston 84.00 31 Jennings, Mrs. J 310 Fitch St., Albion 43.00 32 *Johnson, Mrs. W. W...169 Buckeye St., Grand Rapids 33 Jones, Mrs. J 1811 Edmondson Ave., Baltimore, Md.. 70.00 34 *Joy, Mrs. H. M Grand Rapids 35 *Kellogg, Mrs. E. L Traverse City 36 Kitzmiller, Mrs. S 122 Cedar St., Kalamazoo 70.00 37 Knott, Mrs. J. B 169 Cedar St., Lansing 112.00 38 Lee, Mrs. G. D Whittier, Cal 167.00 39 *Lyon, Mrs. T Homer 40 Mason, Mrs. Uri 302 E. Porter St., Albion 112.00 41 Master, Mrs. L 147 S. Union St., Grand Rapids 56.00 42 McCoy, Mrs. F. L 2421 Gledwood, Toledo, 0 29.00 43 McKee, Mrs. S. D 154 North St., Allegan 195.00

44 Middleton, Mrs. R. N . . . Mancelona 195 00 45 Nix, Mrs. F. H Ovid 70.00 46 Odle, Mrs. E. L Reed City 84.00 47 Parsons, Mrs. D. W. ... Soldiers' Home, Grand Rapids 112.00 48 Pengelly, Mrs. R 141 Calumet St., Kalamazoo 70.00 49 Perrine, Mrs. W. H Valley City, N. D 112.00 50 *Perry, Mrs. O. H Galesburg 51 Quincey, Mrs. J. A....Caro 70.00 52 Reid, Mrs. J. W 472 Turner St., Grand Rapids 181.00 53 Roberts, Mrs. J 506 Michigan Ave., Albion 167.00 54 Rolfe, Mrs. A. A 1288 W. 25th St., Los Angeles, Cal 140.00

~~55 Smith, Mrs. M. W. F. . . 1001 Cass St., Albion 126.00 56 Steele, Mrs. W. M Albion 70.00~~

57 Stickcomb, Mrs. W. R. . Schoolcraft 112.00 58 Tanner, Mrs. J. H Paw Paw 112.00 59 Taylor, Mrs. I Hillsdale 181.00 60 Thomas, Mrs. C. G. ... Ellsworth, Kan 61 Tubbs. Mrs. C. D Paw Paw 84.00 62 VanWycke, Mrs. A. J... 186 Buckeye St., Grand Rapids 140.00 63 Wallace, Mrs. I. W Addison 84.00 64 Weeks, Mrs. G. W 1326 Chicago Ave.. Evanston. Ill 29.00 65 Wightman, Mrs. T. R. A. Box 93, Muskegon Heights 167.00 66 Yokum, Mrs. A. H Minong, Wis 112.00

~~Special.~~

~~Wakefield, Mrs. A Middleville $ 50.00 *Relinquished claim. Relinquished claim. Relinquished claim. Missionary Appropriations~~

~~Albion District.~~

~~White Work. Total, $100.00 Burlington $20.00 Deveraux 40.00~~

~~Winfield • 40.00~~

~~Big Rapids District.~~

White Work. Total, $1,108.00. Ashton $60.00 Ferry $ 60.00 Barryton 70.00 Hersey 62.00 Beaverton 120.00 Luther 80.00 Chase 70.00 McBain 60.00 Chippewa Lake 60.00 Marion 50.00 Coleman 60.00 Millbrook 60.00 Entrican 60.00 Weidman 60.00 Evart Circuit 75-00 Stanton 100.00 Indian Work Total, $150.00.

~~Leaton Indian Mission $75.00 Rosebush Indian Mission 75-00~~

~~Grand Rapids District.~~

~~White Work. Total, $350.00. Casnovia $60.00 Newaygo $75-00 Grand Haven 40.00 Ravenna 50.00 Holton 40.00 Spring Lake 45-00 North Muskegon 40.00~~

~~Grand Traverse District.~~

~~White Work. Total, $1,500.00.~~

Alanson $60.00 Grawn 40.00 Alba 60.00 Harrietta 70.00 Alden 40.00 Inland 40.00 Benzonia 40.00 Kingsley 50.00 Boyne Falls 80.00 Lake City and Jennings ... .$ 40.00 Charlevoix 40.00 Mackinaw City 60.00 Clarion and H. Bay 60.00 Manton Circuit 60.00 Cross Village 60.00 Old Mission 60.00 Fife Lake 40.00 Pellston 50.00 Freesoil 40.00 Petoskey, Grace 100.00

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~~Sherman 40.00 Thompsonville 60.00 So. Boardman 40.00 Traverse City, 14th St 100.00 So. Frankfort 40.00 Pomona 50.00 Stillwell 40.00 Frankfort 40.00 Indian Work. Total, $250.00.~~

~~Kalamazoo District.~~

~~White Work. Total, 160.00. Douglass $40.00 Cooper and Spring Brook 40.00 Kendall 40.00 Saugatuck 40.00 Indian Work. Total, $100.00. Athens Indian Mission $50.00 Bradley Indian Mission 50.00~~

~~Lansing District.~~

~~White Work. Total, $162.00. Crystal $162.00~~

~~Niles District.~~

~~White Work. Total, $120.00. Burr Oak $120.00~~

Recapitulation by Districts. WHITE WORK. Albion District $ 100.00 Big Rapids District 1,108.00 Grand Rapids District 350.00 Grand Traverse District 1,500.00 Kalamazoo District 160.00 Lansing District 162.00 Niles District 120.00

~~Total . . . . T $3,500.00 INDIAN WORK.~~

~~Big Rapids District $150.00 Grand Traverse District 1,500.00 Kalamazoo District 100.00~~

~~Total $500.00~~

~~I approve the above. Reports of Committees.~~

~~Aggressive Evangelism.~~

We are glad to report to you at this time that within the past year there have been over 7,500 conversions within the borders of our Annual Confer- ence, and that our report will show a net gain to us in membership of about 1,700. God has signally blessed our labors. We recommend the continuance of the Commission on Aggressive Evangelism by this Conference for the ensuing year and that such commission should be definitely organized. We recommend as membership composing such Commission, the Board of Presiding Elders, one pastor and one layman from each district, which pastor and layman are to be nominated by the Presiding Elder of the district. The officers of such Commission shall be a President, Recording Sec- retary, Corresponding Secretary, and Treasurer.

There shall be two standing committees : First, a Committee on Finance. Second, a Committee on Evangelistic Services. The Committee on Finance shall consist of the laymen who are members of this Commission. The Committee on Evangelistic Services shall consist of the Presiding Elders, a Corresponding Secretary and one pastor from each district. This Commission shall meet for definite and thorough organization not later than November first next, the time and place for which meeting is to be determined by the Presiding Elders. The members of this Commission for each district shall organize their own district for work at as early a date as possible after the adjournment of this Conference. Each district organization shall have the right to formulate such plans of work for the coming year as shall seem wise to itself in order to secure the largest possible result. While the largest responsibility for the success of the work of this Com- mission rests upon the Board of the Presiding Elders, yet each pastor must assume and share a responsibility to a degree in accordance with his sphere of influence and field of labor. Quoting now the words of the last General Conference utterance upon this plan of organized effort: "The purpose of the Commission shall not be construed as supplanting, but rather supplementing, existing evangelistic forces of the Church. It shall seek to awaken and develop the evangelistic spirit among our ministers and laymen. It shall be educative in

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this direction, hoping to bring the whole church into co-operation for the saving of men, till the prayer is realized, 'Would all the- Lord's people were prophets.' The Commission shall emphasize the fact always, that while a variety of methods will doubtless be useful, chief reliance must be placed not upon human and visible mechanism, but the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit."

We are grateful for the presence of Rev. J. P. Bushingham, D. D., the Secretary of the General Conference Commission on Aggressive Evangel- ism, in attendance upon this session of our Annual Conference, and also for his helpful suggestions pertaining to the work and purposes of such Commission and we agree to co-operate heartily with him and his fellow officers of the larger Commission in securing the greatest results possible in soul winning. We are especially glad to know that our own presiding officer, Bishop L. B. Wilson, has been added to the Executive Board of the General Con- ference Commission on Aggressive Evangelism. We bespeak for the results of the plans and labors of this Commission in the year to come, great things and blessings from our God, in the work of enlarging His Kingdom and the salvation of souls. Respectively submitted.

~~J. F. Peschman, Chairman. N. F. Jenkins, Secretary.~~

~~Albion College.~~

~~Albion, Mich., September 7. 1905.~~

~~To the Michigan Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church :~~

~~Brethren : —The following summany will indicate something of the work of your institution at Albion for the past year. attendance.~~

~~College of Liberal Arts 234 Sub-College Students 74 Conservatory of Music 183 School of Painting 38 Business Department T29~~

~~658 Deduct for re-counting 184~~

~~Total 474 FINANCES.~~

Value of buildings, grounds and appliances $250,000.00 Productive Endowment 257.600.00 The net income realized on this productive endowment for the past six years has slightly exceeded 5^4 per cent. That is to say, after paying all expenses of handling the fund, including taxes, repairs, traveling expenses, insurance, etc., we have turned over to the Treasurer of the Board of Trus- : :

1905] REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 215 tees net interest exceeding five and one-fourth per cent, on the entire principal sum. The exact figures for the past six years are as follows For the fiscal year ending June, 1900 $13,500,00 " " " " " " 1901 12,500.00 " " " " " " 1902.., 13,000.00 " " " " " " 1903 13,500.00 " " " " " " 1904 13,500.00 " " " " ' " " 1905 14,500.00

~~INCOME.~~

Omitting from the income of the past year all sums paid on account of the debt fund, we may summarize as follows Students Fees .$16,141.47 Interest on Endowment Fund 14,500.00 Thank Offering, Educational Collection and sundry sources 9,99775

Total $40,639.22 While we are constantly under the pressure of demands for expansion in our work, we are yet able to run upon our present basis of operations and keep the expense account within the income.

~~THE DEBT.~~

As you are aware, our debt which was provided for in the latter part of 1902, is a funded debt and the last of our obligations will not mature until July of 1907. Up to date, all obligations have been taken care of as fast as they arrived at maturity and unless the shrinkage upon the subscriptions shall be unprecedented, we may expect to see the institution absolutely without an outstanding obligation before the close of 1907. More than $65,- 000.00 of our paper has already been retired.

~~THE EDUCATIONAL COLLECTION.~~

I am not unmindful of the burdens which our generous people throughout the state are called upon to bear, and yet there is a growing conviction in my, mind that in proportion to other causes and in view of the magnitude of the interests involved, our Church fails to do what ought to be done for the support of Christian education. Last year, the two Conferences in this state gave for missions $54,285.00, and for education through the regular educational collections $7,592.00, being something more than $7.00 for missions to $1.00 for education. My plea would be not for less money to be contributed to the missionary cause, but for more money for the cause of Christian education. When I consider the fact that Albion College is represented in the missionary fields of India, China, Japan, Korea, the Philip- pine Islands, Mexico, and South America, and when I note the marvelous missionary spirit among our students and the number who are offering themselves for the missionary field, I am more than half persuaded that even for the promotion of the cause of missions itself, a more liberal support of our educational institutions is demanded. 2l6 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

~~RELIGIOUS AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE.~~

We believe that both the religious life and the intellectual life of Albion College are maintained upon a high plane. We have classes for Bible study both in the regular curriculum and sustained as voluntary work by the students themselves. We have classes for the study of the various mission fields; we have the Volunteer Band, the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., and our regular Thursday evening prayer meeting is attended by a large proportion of the student body.

The scholastic work of the institution is in the hands of a faculty both competent and faithful. During the past year we have given considerable attention to intercollegiate debates and have had two debates with other institutions, one with Washington and Jefferson College, of Pennsylvania, and one with Kalamazoo College. In both instances our debating teams were victorious and in each instance received the unanimous decision of the judges in their favor. We are again able to make an excellent report in the matter of the Rhodes Scholarship examinations. One of our young men goes to Oxford this fall as the second Rhodes scholar from Michigan, and up to date, of all institutions in the state, Albion College stands at the head of the list, measured by the test of these examinations.

~~IN GENERAL.~~

We urgently invite members of this Conference to visit us as frequently as possible and to carefully inspect the quality of work being done in your institution. We solicit and we believe we deserve the earnest, prayerful, and practical support of every Methodist, minister or layman, in the state. Respectfully submitted, Samuel Dickie, President.

~~The Aldrich Memorial Deaconess Home.~~

~~The Board of Control of the Aldrich Memorial Deaconess Home and Training School submits the following summary of the report of the Board~~

of Trustees and would adopt it as their report. This report amply states the condition of the Home, its degree of prosperity, its management and the work it has accomplished. We would recommend that the day named in the report for the taking of a collection be observed, and that as far as practical each minister preach a sermon on the deaconess work in the church. John Graham, W. M. Puffer, G. D. Chase,

~~P. J. Maveety, Mrs. Laura C. Aldrich.~~

The Board of Trustees of the Aldrich Memorial Deaconess Mome and Training School, thro their Secretary send greetings, and herewith present their fourteenth annual report. 1905] REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 217

God has been very gracious to us, and has given us our most prosperous year in every way. A lively and growing interest in the great Deacon- ess work is manifested throughout our conference, and also in our great Commonwealth, and the demands for deaconess workers are more and more pressing; if we had twenty-five students to station each year, there would be no lack of appointments, and there would still be places unsup- plied.

~~THE SCHOOL.~~

As the years have passed the general interest in our school has continued to increase and as the character and work of the students who have gone out from our school comes to be more and more known, there is an increasing demand for our workers. We can all appreciate the advantages of "producing what is wanted by the people!"

~~THE FACULTY.~~

~~Our faculty have been very much interested in their work, and have given much thought and time to the work of instruction as shown by the excellent standing of the students.~~

~~THE CLASS.~~

There were seven graduates in the class this year, and all have received their appointment for labor, and will enter upon their duties soon after the Annual Conference. There will be six to be consecrated at our Confer- ence who have reached the required age and have been properly recommended by the quarterly conferences of the churches to which they belong as also by the Supt. and board of Managers of the Home.

~~SCHOLARSHIPS.~~

Friends of Methodism, we still must insist on the necessity of making our greatest efforts in the line of scholarships. Letters are coming every day, telling of God's call to the Writers to consecrate themselves to His Service, and of their acquiescense, but stating also their financial inability! The call of God must be herald that He has or will prepare the way. Surely God is speaking in unmistakable tones to His people today. "Cast up the highway, gather out the stones, prepare ye the way of the people!" We note with pleasure that the Epworth Leagues are taking up this work, and several have shown commendable zeal in their effort. The Mercy and Help department should be colleagues with the deaconess work, Do not forget our sisters and daughters whom God is calling into this

wide field; Do what you can to make it possible for them to respond to His call. We wish here to record that we have carried on our enlarged work chiefly through the largely increased scholarships, the more students the more scholarships, and thus the greater success.

~~THE HOME.~~

~~Our building has been kept in good repair, but our increasing numbers 218 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

make pressing claim for more room. We started our work with the first and second floors completed, ample then for our accommodation, but soon the place became "too straight for us," we then finished our third floor, giving us room for 12 or 15 more workers; these rooms we have enjoyed for five years, and again comes the demand for "more room!" To meet

this necessity our Board of Trustees passed a resolution specifying that it is the sense of this Board that the Home^be enlarged to meet the demand for the advancement and growth of our school, and that the Superinten- dent be authorized to solicit subscriptions for the same, at an approximate cost of $3000.00. This the superintendent hopes to carry out after the session of the An- nual Conference and we bespeak for her the sympathy and co-operation of the Ministers of the Conference. This addition will give us room for 15 more workers, will enlarge our Dining Room, give us a music room,

~~and a store-room which is greatly needed.~~

~~CURRENT EXPENSE.~~

With our large household our expenses have been necessarily greatly increased, but as we have had a larger number of schorarships than ever before, we have lived through the year, meeting all the current demand and paying one Hundred and twenty-five dollars on overdrawn balance at beginning of year.

~~BEQUESTS.~~

1. —We have been especially favored' this year in bequests. Miss Marie L. Phillips of Hubbardston, Michigan, passed away from us last November, leaving the bulk of her property to three "residary legatees," of which one was the Deaconess Home. This will probably net the Home not less than

~~$700.00, also in this bequest is furniture that will go far in furnishing the new part that shall be builded.~~

2. —Mrs. Mary J. Scuddcr who has but recently gone from us,' has also left a bequest of $1000.00 to the Home. These bequests come very oppor- tunely, and will be a blessing much appreciated by the anxious toilers and well-wishers of the Home.

~~TRAINED WORKERS.~~

We have and shall send out during the year the following trained workers, viz: Mrs. Ida L. McCoy, to be Superintendent of the Toledo Dea- coness Home; Miss Irene Cummings, parish worker in Denver, Colorado Conference; Mrs. Lou Stevens Abbott, to superintend the Holloway Deaconess Home at Bridgeport, Ohio; vice, Mrs. Moors, resigned. Miss Ida May DeWitt, parish worker at Wichita, Kansas. Miss Alice Cary Rabb, Kindergartner at Detroit. Michigan. Miss Blanche Adelaide King, parish worker at Buffalo, N. Y. Miss Julia Statira Wilson, Kindergartner at Baltimore, Maryland. Miss Mary Elizabeth Hilbert, parish worker at Detroit, Michigan. Miss Bertha May Clark, will be retained as teacher both in the Home 1905] REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 219 and in the settlement work in our city and Miss Park will carry forward the work of an evangelist in our Conference, while Miss Aurand may enter the Hospital for another year's study. Miss Kahlo is still retained as assistant to the Superintendent. We could speak highly of our workers for all have given satisfaction in the various departments of their chosen work, while Miss Park has won many laurels for her fidelity and tact in this her initial year of service.

~~MICHIGAN CONFERENCE ACTION.~~

By action of this Conference it was recommended that a collection be taken for the Deaconess Home at some time during the year. In con- sonance with this action our Board sent out an appeal in April 1905, from which we realized but very small returns. We hope it may be kept upon the heart of the Church as a permanent thing, and we recommend that the second Sunday in December be set apart as Deaconess Day throughout our Conference and that a collection be taken for the support of the institution.

~~THE OUTLOOK.~~

We have eight seniors to begin the work of another year while we have eight applications already in for entrance as juniors this year and a good prospect of others soon. We may certainly send a note of Thanks- giving to our Father for he has surely put the seal of His approval upon our Home and the School its work and its workers.

~~By order of Board of Trustees adopted August 29, 1905, as their official report. John Widdicomb, President. Laura C. Aldrich, Secretary.~~

~~Auditing.~~

~~Your committee has examined the accounts of the Conference Treasurer, also the vouchers of the Presiding Elders for missionary money disbursed to the various charges and find them correct.~~

We approve the following bills : Expenses of Statistician $ 9.80 Expenses of Secretary 10.25 Expenses of Arnold Trial 7.00 Donation to Janitor, Conference Church 10.00 Donation to Janitor Congregational Church, 5.00

~~Total $42.05 A. S. Williams, R. D. Freeman, F. H Larabee.~~

~~The American Bible Society.~~

No more comprehensive statement of the necessity of translating and publishing the Bible is found than these, "All Scripture is given by inspira- 220 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905 tion of God," and "The Bible is God's Word." We therefore commend most heartily the work of the American Bible Society. With an income of $496,194.00 last year ($132,000.00 by collections) it published and distributed 1,770,891 volumes, 700,000 volumes of which were sold or given within the United States to immigrants, foreign residents, and frontier settlers.. The officers of this society are alive to advantageous places and conditions of distribution as their Bible supplies to the Japanese soldiers, their strong coporteurage force in South American states, and the means and measures of disbursement in China, the Phillipines, the Levant, and mission stations in general show. We appreciate the united action by the world's great Bible Societies and representatives of Protestent Churches in the work of translating so that in each language translated there is one Bible, the Protestent Bible, and not various denominational Bibles. The harmony of interpretation as well as the lessening of cost to translate appeals favorably to use. We note with regret, however, the loss of support for this society during recent years that has so curtailed its work that certain interested national leaders felt impelled to issue a special address to the whole people for funds to aid the society in its work. Our own Conference in 1904 gave $82.00 more than in the previous year; «only $19.00 gain this year. Although the American Bible Society has the whole or portions of the Bible translated into about no languages and works conjointly with the British and Foreign Bible Society which has the entire Bible translated into 130 languages and the New Testament into nearly 130 others and portions of Scrip- ture translated into yet another 100 languages so that by exchange and purchase every published language demanded can be supplied by them, there are 1,600 languages and dialects of 400,000,000 people that have no transla- tions whatever of God's Word. This society is a chief auxiliary of the missionary societies. Their work has grown rapidly in recent years and their success prompts a much greater demand on this society for supplies. But while our contributions for missions have grown with the increase of missionary opportunities the larger demand upon the Bible Society is met by a decreasing financial support We therefore recommend that some increase in apportionment to this society be made beyond our present 20 per cent, of the sum raised for missionary work and also that this collection be regarded not as an unimportant affair, but for its real worth the gathering of seed grains for the sowing of mission fields. We further recommend the General Conference suggestions of 1904 that special programs and addresses be held in our churches at least annually with the Bible and the American Bible Society for themes of consideration. A. W. Simmons, Wm. Exxer.

~~J. H. Emmoxs.~~

~~Biographical.~~

~~Last year our Conference enrollment was: Full members. 348: probationers, 22; supplies. 79; evangelists, 4. Total. -153. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 221~~

~~Of the full members eight passed to their final reward during the year thereby swelling the honor roll of our promoted brethren to 184.~~

Their average age is 73, the youngest being 61 and the oldest 80. The sum of their years in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Chruch is 309 years, an average of 38 5-8. The average age at the time of conversion was 15, one being only 5 years old. One was born in Michigan, one in Ohio and six in York State.

~~MEMORIAL SERVICE.~~

The Memorial Service was held at 10 a. m., September 7th, under the direction of A. T. Ferguson. It was largely attended. The hymn "Asleep in Jesus" was sung, the twenty-third psalm was repeated by the congregation and John Graham led in prayer. Dr. J. H;. Potts delivered an able and impressive memorial address after which all departed feeling the truth of the words "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord." Geo. A. Odlum.

~~Book Concern Accounts.~~

~~We believe in the Book Concern of the Methodist Episcopal Church.~~

We believe in the kind of literature it is putting before the Church, and rejoice in the great prosperity that is attending this important branch of our connectional work. We urge our pastors, churches, Sunday Schools and members to patronize this, our own Book Concern. But we are pained to know that many accounts, some of them of long standing, are as yet unpaid among us. This year, with all its prosperity, has failed to show a very large reduction in the number and amount of these unpaid accounts. The Concern generously allows a year's time before accounts are considered

~~due. Can it be that this fact itself tends to a looseness in regard to obliga-~~

tions, and a feeling that all other debts may be paid first and if there is anything left the Book Concern must be satisfied with this? No business house in the world is more liberal in its terms to patrons, and yet many of us seem not to make our plans to promptly meet the condition imposed. We notice, in looking over the list of accounts past due, that a large percentage belong to superannuated men. It will be seen at once that this fact becomes an embarassment to the men themselves because of lack of income to meet the obligations, and becomes an embarassment to the Book Concern and if not finally paid reduces the fund from which they themselves, as superannuates, are drawing by just that amount. Therefore we exhort our brethren to use all diligence in meeting their obligations promptly and by all means to avoid the calamity of going upon the superannuated list with a debt due the Book Concern. (Signed) H. E. Wylie, H. A. Lyon, F. L. Niles.

~~Boston University School of Theology.~~

~~This School of the prophets is unique in its location, being situated on 222 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

Beacon Hill, only a short distance from the State House, and within a few rods of Boston Common, "The most historic pleasure ground on this continent, a noble expanse of forty-eight acres of green turf and tall forest trees, in the very heart of the Puritan City." Its surroundings are of rich historic value, being located in a city of great commercial importance, a city of learning, the home of libraries, churches, and colleges. The building is a splendid edifice, seven stories in height, with a brown- stone front. It contains a reception room, a library, a chapel, lecture rooms, gymnasium, Dean's apartments, and furnished rooms for one hundred students. Like many another great institution of Methodism, this Scliool has had from the beginning to struggle with poverty. The total assets, productive and unproductive do not exceed $250,000.00, not sufficient to meet the current expenses, hence the School has been compelled, from time to time, to appeal to its friends for aid. Your committee, in company with representatives of other Conferences, visited the School on the seventh and eighth of March, and during the two days had ample opportunity to study the institution in its every day proceedings, in recitations and lectures. This occasion afforded a better chance for observation than the week of a hurried and crowded annual examination could furnish. After two days of careful observation and painstaking in- quiry, supplemented by individual investigation through the year, the visitors are unanimous in the conviction that the Church is to be congratulated upon the present status of the School. The ideals of this School are thus set forth in the Year Book: "Unwav- ering insistence upon those vital and experimental doctrines of Sacred Scripture which have given to the Wesleyan evangelical movement its world-wide power; liberty of opinion as to non-essentials; frank and open discussion of the burning questions of the time as related to criticism and apologetics, to the end that the Christian minister of the new century may know how to cope with its new foes, and, in obedience to apostolic injunction, be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh for the hope that is in him." The faculty of this School is composed of men who are clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church (twenty in number) in love with her institutions, and economy, and devoted to the interests of the young men under their instructions. They are men who have given years to the study and investigation of the Sacred Scriptures and allied branches of learning. Their breadth and scholarship, their up-to-date researches, their understand- ing of the preparation needed for the ministry, and their devotion to the best interests of the Church render them eminently safe instructors and advisers of the young men under their tuition.

The religious life of this School is strong, wholesome and healthy. Ninety-six of the students have had pastoral charges during the year, and report gracious revivals under their ministration. Regular daily devotions are held throughout the scholastic year. Prayer meetings are held each week led by the professors and students in rotation. The situation of the School in the midst of a dense municipal population of a million souls 1905] REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 223 enlists practically every student throughout his course in some kind of aggressive Christian work. The past year has been one of the most prosperous in its history. The whole number of regular matriculates enrolled being 194. Of these 122 are college graduates. These students come from twenty-nine different states of the Union, with a few representatives from the foreign world. At the commencement in June a class of thirty-six men were graduated. With the exception of a few who remain for graduate work, every one of this class is placed in a field of usefulness. We note with satisfaction and approval the constantly widening range of electives. After the first year the students may now choose from a wide range of electives in the theological school itself, and receive full credits for electives pursued in other departments of the University. We note with pleasure the courses to be added, embracing such subjects as, "Child Na- ture," "Sunday School Methods," "Psychology of Religion," "Homiletic Richness of the Bible." We heartily endorse the spirit and work of this great School; and believe

~~that it deserves the support of Michigan Methodism. Hugh Kennedy,~~

~~J. T. LeGear.~~

~~Church Extension Society.~~

Whereas, The great need of our people in the South, West and North- west, where there are hundreds of church organizations without churches, is apparent; and Whereas, Of the twenty-eight thousand Methodist Episcopal Churches now in existence, fourteen thousand have been aided through this society

~~until to-day Episcopal Methodism is daily erecting three churches; and Whereas, While the Church permits this board to ask one dollar for~~

~~every four asked by the Missionary Society, it really asks but one dollar for every eight and actually receives but one dollar for every sixteen that society receives; and~~

~~Whereas, The last General Conference made it possible through the Church Extension Society to assist in the erection of parsonages both by~~

donations and loans, a possibility which is very gratifying and beneficial to Methodism; therefore, Resolved, That we desire the cause of church extension to be presented on its merits by the pastors of this Conference to their several congregations before the Christmas holidays, and that a more earnest effort be made to bring the contributions up to the full apportionment; and Resolved, That we desire the presiding elders to emphasize this action at their fall District Conferences. W. W. Slee, S. W. Large, W. H. Wright, W. W. Lamport. C. E. Pollock. 224 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

~~The M. J. Clark Memorial Home.~~

Resolved, First: That the Michigan Annual Conference accept with profound gratitude the gift of M. J. Clark and wife, of a Memorial Home for Conference Claimants located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and pledges the generous donors that it will carry out their wishes to the best of its ability.

Resolved, Second : That a board of management be elected for the care and conduct of the Home, consisting of seven laymen and five ministers, members of the Michigan Annual Conference. Of the laymen four may or may not be members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the only re- quirement being that the traditional two-thirds majority of the whole Board be maintained. The following persons are hereby nominated as the charter members of this Board:

~~Laymen: Mr. M. J. Clark, Mrs. M. J.Clark, Mrs. M. R. Bissell, Mrs. Chas. Burkey, Mr. John Widdicomb, Mr. John Blodgett, Mr. George G. Whitworth.~~

Ministers : James Hamilton, John Graham, G. D. Chase. A. M. Gould, N. L. Bray. Resolved, Third: That the Board of Management shall be authorized to draft rules and regulations for the management of the Home under the following restrictions and limitations :

~~1. No debt shall be incurred beyond the provisions made for it in the annual budget.~~

2. The Executive Committee of the Board of Management shall present an annual report to the Conference through the President or Secretary of the Board, setting forth the number of inmates, the expense of main- tenance, condition of property; together with a complete financial exhibit.

~~3. The Superintendent of the Home shall always be a member of the Michigan Annual Conference.~~

~~4. No person addicted to the tobacco habit or indulgent in any other objectional habit shall be admitted to membership in the Home.~~

5. A widow who shall have married a member of the Conference after his superannuation shall not be deemed permanently eligible to the privi- liges of the Home. 6. The Board of Management shall have power to fill vacancies in the interim of the Annual Conference, make such by-laws as may be necessary for the transaction of its business, and through its executive committee shall present the nominations for new members of the Board (who shall constitute one-fourth of the whole number) for the election by the Con- ference from year to year. The charter members of the Board shall hold office as follows :

Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Clark and James Hamilton, four years: Mrs. M. R. Bissell, G. D. Chase, and John Widdecomb, three years: Mrs. Chas. Burkey, N. L. Bray, and John Blodgett, two years: A. M. Gould, George G. Whitworth, and John Graham, one year:

~~J. 1. Buell, L. P. T.cwis, and Fdgar A. Fletcher, alternates.~~

~~Resolved, Fourth : That these resolutions shall be spread upon out 1905] REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 225 records and the Secretary be requested to forward a copy of the same to~~

~~Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Clark, Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Signed) John Graham, L. E. Lennox,~~

~~J. I. Buell, James Hamilton, M. L. Fox, Committee.~~

~~Conference Claimants.~~

We rejoice in the great increase of thoughtful and intelligent interest in the truly great and holy work of properly providing for our superannuates and those dependent upon our Church for support and comfort in age in- firmity or helplessness.

We rejoice that the practical manifestation of this interest is shown in the increased contributions in the churches and the steady growth of the Endowment Fund. Particularly we desire to express our gratitude for the gift of the Home for Superannuates by Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Clark of Grand Rapids. But our work is not completed, the Conference has not been entirely canvassed by our Conference Agent, Rev. James Hamilton, and the amount has not yet been reached that we need to place this cause on a proper financial basis. Therefore, Resolved, First, that we will more than ever welcome Rev. James Hamil- ton to our charges in the prosecution of this work as convenience will allow; and, Second, we will earnestly exhort our membership to give as an average thirty cents as a minimum as their annual offering and as much more as the Lord has prospered them. We also recommend that the Sunday before Thanksgiving be designated as Conference Claimants Day, when the needs and merits of this cause be earnestly presented to our people by all our pastors and that we do not rest until some amount be secured from every member of our churches and congregations for this noble cause.

~~J. W. Hallenbeck,~~

~~A. J. Wheeler,~~

~~J. S. Valentine, D. C. Reihl, H. W. Thompson.~~

~~District Conference Records.~~

~~The Committee on District Conference Records desire to report that we have examined such records and find them well kept and correct. A. A. Geiger,~~

~~. H. L. Rood, Joseph Dutton, Committee, 226 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

~~Education.~~

~~The rapidity with which Methodism refined the masses which in an~~

~~early day flocked to her doors is one of the marvels of history. Every- where in the work of Methodism sprang up churches, schools and teachers, hospitals and physicians, theology and theologians.~~

That the Church produced the school the book and the newspaper is not an accident, but an inherent necessity. Religion furnished the first upward impulse of the race. It inspired research and assimilates all truth.

Education therefore is related to religion as a part of the whole. The preacher finds himself confronted by an illimitable range. He cannot know too much. To-day as never before the preacher will succeed by the intrinsic worth of his own thought. We must teach when we preach. To use the recent trenchent words of Dr. C. J. Little : "The preacher of the twentieth century must know the people of the twentieth century; their needs, their difficulties, their besetting sins, their amazing opportunities. He must be trained to be wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove, to be mighty in the Scriptures, a master of assemblies, a guide to the faithful and a leader of communities." We urge that our young men make thorough educational preparation, that they be not deterred by financial or other difficulties, nor hastened into active life by a seeming stress of work or an urgent call for men, nor, above all, be deluded by those blind leaders who say that education and culture are not prerequisites of successful preaching.

~~We urge our pastors to push the Children's Day Collections with all vigor and to devote all the money thus obtained to the purposes of the Board.~~

We commend the Board of Education. Last year 1,957 young people were aided in the school work. Since the beginning this society has aided over thirteen thousand students. Within our own Conference 67 were aided last year to the amount of $4,067.00. Our contribution was $1,719.90. Our educational institutions seem to rank second to none in requirements, in thoroughness of work, correctness of views, and above all in the Christian influences thrown around the student.

We especially commend as nearest to us in point of miles Northwest- ern University, Garret Biblical Institute and our own Albion College. We urge our pastors to be on the lookout for opportunities to turn students toward our own schools.

While we promote all the interests of our own schools we must not be unmindful of the much larger number of Methodist young people in our state schools. Our Church in some way should make her influence potent in these centers. We endorse the Wesleyan Guild of Ann Arbor and suggest that careful attention be given to our students in the normal schools and the Agricultural College. We urge that pastors see to it that our students entering these schools have letters of introduction to the Metho- dist pastor of the community and that he be sent their names. We submit REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 227

~~the following nominations for Trustees and Visitors to our educational institutions: (to be found under "Miscellaneous"). (Signed) W. W. Aylesworth, L. H. Manning, Geo. Varion,~~

~~J. F. Peschman, S. C. Robinson,~~

~~J. M. Wolfe.~~

~~Epworth League.~~

According to the year book, the Epworth League has a total enrollment of 22,163 Chapters. Thirteen thousand and fifty are senior and 9,113 are junior chapters. Nine hundred seventy-five charters were issued during the year; of these 175 are renewals. Besides this number there are many organizations which have not obtained charters. From our Conference statistics we gather the following: There has been a decrease of one in the number of chapters, but an increase of 2,543 members. Of this increase only 232, less than 10 per cent., are church members. In junior work an increase of 19 chapters with an increased membership of 1,121 brings a more hopeful feature into the picture. We note with gratitude, an increase of about 3,000 in the general enrollment of the "Morning Watch," a fair number being added from our own Conference. We commend the movement to the fostering care of our pastors. Believing that a thorough acquaintanct with the Holy Scriptures is essen- tial to effective Christian labor, we rejoice in the increasing number of Bible study classes.

The interest in missionary work is deepening with the years, and is matter for heartfelt thanksgiving. Once more the Epworth Herald merits our attention. We cannot too strongly commend the deep spiritual tone which pervades its utterances, while its vigorous advocacy of civic and temperance reform is cause for rejoicing, and cannot fail to exercise a far-reaching influence upon the practical life of our League. Our present support of the Herald is in the proportion of one sub- scriber to 15 of our membership. Shall we not press the claims of the Herald upon the attention of our Leaguers? While our Leagues continue to be a source of strength and hopefulness to the Church, there appears to be some weak points which invite attention. Reports, not a few, come to us, of the perfunctory character of the devotional meeting. It is all too common for the mere reading of afew clippings to displace the earnest study and presentation of the topic; prayer to occupy a subordinate place, and the recitation of a familiar verse of scripture to do service in place of direct personal testimony to the saving power of Christ. We have sufficient organization, but a more fervent spiritual life is es- sential to its successful operation. 228 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

Mindful of the social instincts of youth, we conceive it the part of the Church to pay careful attention to their needs, and to make liberal provision for social fellowship and pure entertainment under religious auspices. In response to a request from the State Cabinet, that we nominate a committee of ministers from this Conference to meet with the State and District Cabinets in a Workers' Conference at Lansing on September 28th,

~~we submit the following names for your approval : A. A. Geiger, H. D. Skinner, C. E. Hoag, W. H. Irvin, C. S. Risley, H. A. Lyon, and W. W. Slee.~~

~~Respectfully submitted. F. J. Bryan,~~

~~J. C. DeViney, W. E. Doty, C. L. Beebe, C. A. Norcross.~~

Report of Field Secretary of Conference Claimants Endowment Fund. The canvass of the small circuits—small numerically and financially, but not territorially—to which my labors have been confined this year was regarded in the light of an experiment. It was thought by many that they could not contribute an amount sufficient to make it profitable to keep an agent in the field. But when charges like Grand Haven, Gresham, Orange, Shephardsville, Duplain, South Lowell, Norwood, Lawrence, and Berlin gave respectively, $1,100.00, $1,510.00, $1,800.00, $1,910.00, $835.00, $1,350.00 $1,010.00, $700.00 and $650.00 they definitely settled the fact that no one can tell in advance where gifts for this cause Can, or cannot be found. While the labors of the year have, upon the whole, been satisfactory, this should be said in explanation of some phases of the report.

1. —Of necessity, where there is a struggle to maintain a church organization, the gifts to our cause could not be largely interest-bearing. 2.—Fewer charges were canvassed owing to the wide range of territory covered by many of these circuits, and the difficulty of reaching the people, especially in the severe winter weather.

3.—As a result of the strain and exposure of this kind of work, coupled with efforts to help the brethren in revival services, on the 4th day of March my left arm went "asleep" and remained so most of the time for ten weeks. The doctors said "nerve exhaustion" and insisted I must cease work for a while. This I could not, or at least did not. consent to do. T did slow down, however, and took small charges near my home so as to be able to return to Grand Rapids every week for medical treatment. This seemed to have the desired effect and I am glad to report in my usual health.

The following is an exhibit of the work done : Cash and interest-bearing notes $ 7.164.35 Non interest-bearing notes to, 170.00 Annual subscriptions to Endowment Fund (estimated) .... too.oo Annual Distribution Fund 55 00 Real estate 50,000.00

~~Total $67,480.35 J 905] REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 229~~

You will observe there is a slight discrepency of $50,000.00 more or less between the Treasurer's report and that of the Field Secretary. The reason for this is, the Treasurer closes his books September 1st and the Sec- retary keeps his open until the last day in the afternoon. In regard to the magnificent gift of $50,000 for which this real estate stands, no one deserves credit but Mr. Clark himself. It was the prompting of his own generous heart. My part was simply to unfold to him a vision I had of a memorial arch leading up to a stately home and venerable men and saintly women who had been too busy during active life to make money, and now dependent, going in and coming out of that fine mansion. From the first it commanded itself to his judgment and generosity. After some time for reflection he gave me his promise to deed us this valuable property, the title to which I now have the great pleasure of handing to the Treasurer of our Board of Trustees. From the first, Mrs. Clark, who is a member of our Division Street Church, Grand Rapids, warmly espoused our cause and encouraged her husband in making us this princely gift. The Home is situated on Sherman Street, Grand Rapids, on the highest point of land between Reed's Lake and Lake Michigan. A more eligible site could not be found in the state.

As it now stands it is capable of accommodating about twenty persons. A detached building which remodeled will answer for the Superintendent's home and substantially twenty acres of land come into our possession next March, and the Home proper the first day of next September.

But this gift, magnificent as it is, does not measure Mr. and Mrs. Clark's interest in our superannuated ministers. They purpose in conjunction with the Board of Management to make this one of the most beautiful spots on earth. The entire 20 acres is eventually to be made into a park, with walks and drives, fountains and lakelets, trees and flowers; the building enlarged so as to accommodate seventy-five or one hundred persons, and an endowment adequate to care for our "invincible veterans." May God spare them to work out these generous plans, and may they live long to enjoy the results of their benefaction. My work these last five years though ardous and difficult has been made a joy by the enthusiastic support of my brethren, the generous co-operation of our people, and now by this munificent gift from a friend of our pioneer Methodist preachers. Respectfully submitted, James Hamilton.

~~Freedman's Aid and Southern Education.~~

The Methodist Episcopal Church has no work of greater importance than her mission to the eleven millions of depressed and ignorant people, white and black, in the South. The rebellion was crushed and slavery was abolished as the result of civil war, but the great task of relieving the South land from the blighting effects of slavery is yet before us. The land that was mighty to smite in war must be mighty and gracious to uplift in peace. The immortal Lincoln gave credit to Methodism for bearing a large share of MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905 the burdens of war, and the immortal spirit of Lincoln now calls upon Methodism to extend a helping hand to those who still suffer. This mission is to American people; hence the appeal is to our own patriotism and yet since the salvation of Africa at home is vitally connected with the salvation of Africa abroad, the appeal is to our Christian missionary spirit. Since the America is in a peculiar sense the light of the world, a call to save Ameri- ca is a world wide mission.

The Freedman's Aid and Southern Education Society is engaged in the intellectual, industrial and moral elevation of every seventh man, woman and child in our land. Your committee has examined the reports of this society's work and believe that it is being done with great efficiency. The money contributed by the Church is expended with marvelous economy and the results are beneficial and far-reaching. The society cannot hope to reach directly these eleven millions of people; but the Christian teachers and PREACHERS, PHYSICIANS and LAWYERS, MERCHANTS, MECHANICS, FARMERS and home-makers, who by thousands go out from the schools of this society into all parts of the South, are as leaven which, in time, we trust, will leaven the whole lump. We call the attention of pastors to the fresh and inviting tracts and leaflets that have been issued and will be furnished by the society, free of charge, to the pastors applying for them. Also the Christian Educator, a valuable magazine, will be sent free, for one year, to every one contributing one dollar or more to this cause. We recommend that the Sunday nearest to Lincoln's birthday be observed in all our churches and that the collection for this society be taken on that day. The apportionment to the Michigan Conference to be raised the ensuing year for this cause is $5,000.00. The amount raised this year is $2,51900. Let every pastor try to raise his full apportionment. Respectfully submitted. G. W. Maxwell, Wm. A. Robinson,

~~I. H. Wilcox, James E. Foote.~~

~~Garrett Biblical Institute.~~

Garrett Bibical Institute continues in its onward course of excellence usefulness and acceptability to the Church. ' This is shown by the large attendance of students during the last year. Compared with the other great theological schools of the church, Gar- rett has gone to the very front as is shown by the following figures: Students attending Drew, 168; Students attending Boston. 181; Students attenting Garrett, 189. The last commencement brought together an unusually large attendance of Conference visitors. 26 Conferences being represented and 38 visitors present. The number of graduates this year was 36, making the total number of graduates 872, of which 59 are missionaries in the foreign field. During the past year the students have contributed over $500. for mis- :

1905] REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 231 sionary purposes and in the various revival meetings they have held, have witnessed between 400 and 500 conversions. Next year the Institute will be 50 years old, having begun work in Old Dempster Hall in 1856 and graduated its first class in 1858. It purposes to make next commencement one of very peculiar interest and asks the attendance of every Alumnus, every Conference visitor and all other ministers and laymen who can conveniently attend. The facilities for self support equal, if they do not excell, any thing on the continent or in the world. About $4000. of the funds of our Ed- cational Society are annually distributed among needy students, while about 50 of the men of the higher classes are constantly employed as pastors in Chicago and vicinity at salaries at from $350.00 to $700.00. So that no young man feeling himself called to the ministry and sent by our Conference to "one of our schools" for mental and spiritual preparation for his great work need seriously hesitate because his funds are low. We quote a few lines from the report of the Board of Visitors "The Faculty of the school is comprised of Christian scholars who by precept and example inspire the students to a faithful and aggressive evangelism while teaching them to investigate and interpret intelligently and thoroughly the gospel message. In every department we find evidences of careful candid and reverent research. We join cordially in the repeated and unaminous testimony of former visitors, heartily recommending the Institute to every young man called of God to the Christian Ministry, and we bespeak for the school the prayers and the generous support of all our people."

~~A. J. Wheeler.~~

~~Old People's Home.~~

Your committee appointed at the last session of the Conference to confer with a similar committee from the Detroit Conference on the subject of an Old People's Home would most respectfully report. Two meetings of the joint committees were held, one at Lansing, on Feb- ruary 1st, 1905, and one at Albion, on June 19th, 1905. The joint committee unanimously agreed that such a Home was desirable and decided to recommend to each Conference the establishment of one, for its own territory, with the further recommendation that in this the Conferences be not involved thereby in debt. In accordance with the recommendations of the joint commission your committee recommend that this Conference endorse the movement for an Old People's Home within the bounds of the Michigan Conference, and that a commission of live ministers and five laymen be appointed at this session with authority to receive offers of cash and real estate for that purpose; and when said commission shall be in possession of sufficient real estate and funds to establish and maintain such Home without incurring debt, they shall have authority to establish the same; and further, that they shall constitute a Board of Management for the same until the following session 232 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

~~of this Conference; and that the Field Secretary of the Twentieth Century Fund for Superannuates be authorized to solicit funds for the Home.~~

~~P. J. Maveety, James Hamilton, F. A. Taylor, F. A. Chapman, Committee.~~

~~Periodicals.~~

We endorse the declaration of Dr. J. M. Buckley, made to this Confer- ence, that no secular publication or undenominational religious periodical gives reliable information concerning the movements of Methodism. When we further consider that our great doctrines as to religion and our great ideals as to life are peculiar, and a dissemination of them indispensable to our progress as a Church, we see the necessity of a wider circulation of our publications. The ideal would be "A Methodist paper in every home." No greater victory in pastoral endeavor could be won. We are persuaded that the time has come when no Methodist Sunday School should use other than our helps and supplies. And no preacher in this Conference should be without the "Christian Advocate," the "Methodist Review" and the "Michigan Christian Advocate." T. G. R. Brownlow. C. E. Hoag.

~~Resolutions.~~

Resolved, That we deeply lament the death of Bishop Isaac W. Joyce, D. D., LL. D. We are, however, honored by the coming of Bishop Wilson and we extend to him our most cordial greeting. Resolved, That we add our acclaim of gladness to that of the whole civ- ilized world, that the war between Japan and Russia is ended. Resolved, That we express our high gratification that the terms of peace were settled in our own country, and we recognize the boundless influence of our great President, Theodore Roosevelt, in his persistent and wise intercession to bring about such a desirable consummation. Resolved, That in the new Hymnal a most complete and desirable manual song has been produced which is well adapted to the needs of our churches. We will do our utmost to introduce it in them all. Resolved, That we hail with greatest pleasure the coming of Bishop L. B. Wilson to preside over the deliberations of this body. We hereby express a fervent wish for his long and happy life and sincerely ask that he come again as soon as possible. Resolved, That we extend our hearty thanks to the members of this church and congregation for the cordial and highly satisfactory entertainment which they have furnished us during our sojourn among them. We hereby express our thanks to members of other churches who have kindly opened their homes to aid in our entertainment. Resolved, That we hereby express our high appreciation of the brotherly 1905] REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 233

and painstaking manner with which Dr. W. J. Wilson, pastor of this church, has provided for the entertainment and comfort of this Conference. Resolved, That we recognize with much pleasure the efforts of the Mich- igan Christian Advocate to furnish full reports of the proceedings of this body, and we hereby thank its editorial management for the same. Resolved, That we tender our hearty thanks to the secular press for the courtesies shown to us. Resolved, That the careful and laborious efforts of the Secretar}r of this Conference, Rev. E. A. Armstrong, in so correctly keeping the minutes, together with his able assistants; and also the Statistician and Treasurer and their equally able assistants, are deserving of our grateful recognition and we extend to each of them our hearty thanks. Resolved, That our thanks are due, and they are hereby extended to the ladies of this church for the elaborate preparation which they have made for furnishing meals to us, and the complete, bountiful and cordial manner in which they have served them.

~~J. I'. BUELL,~~

~~J. W. Hallexbeck,~~

~~J. K. Stark.~~

~~Sabbath Observance.~~

We believe it to be the universal conviction of the Christian world to-day that the supernatural sanction of religion has been the mightiest force in all the ages in elevating the minds and morals of men. The constant tendency of the secular to trench upon the sacred domain of the spiritual has always been felt. And this tendency is nowhere more manifest today than in the attitude of the secular world toward the Christ- ian Sabbath. The attitude of disregard in which the day is held by thousands of business men is seriously threatening its very existence, and the calm indifference of some Church members renders the situation still more alarming. Sunday excursions, Sunday business, Sunday newspapers, Sunday thea- ters, and worldly pleasures and dissipations, are all in open violation of both the. divine and civil law. We urge upon the ministry and laity of the church the duty of resisting these tendencies, which like a great tidal wave, threaten to wipe out all lines of distinction between the sacred and secular. And we call upon Christian men who are holding positions of influence and power in the great corporations to listen to the appeals that have come to them from the five great brotherhoods of railway employees, asking that their rights to sacred and domestic joys and Sanctuary privileges be re- spected.

Under present conditions we feel that if the labor unions should strike against Sunday work, they would champion a cause that would command the sympathy and support of the Church, and of all right thinking people of the land. We urge our people to carefully refrain from all those forms of work or pleasure on our Christian Sabbath which are incompatible with a reverent and rightful keeping of the day. 234 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

~~In view of the importance of this question to our Christian civilization~~

and the life of the Church, be it Resolved, That we protest against the unlawful encroachments of the Sec- ular world upon this hallowed institution. Resolved: That we pledge ourselves as ministers of the Gospel and friends of the workingman to wage a vigorous warfare against business methods for selfish gains, which rob the laborer of the privilege of Sunday rest and worship, and that we extend our sympathy to the thousands who are now obliged to yield to those unjust demands in a Christian land, or relin- guish their positions as bread earners. Resolved, That we as ministers call upon men as often as practicable to discountenance the Sunday Newspaper, Sunday visiting and every form of diversion or business that violates the Fourth Commandment.

~~J. W. H. Carlisle, N. P. Brown, D. E. Reed, W. H. Parsons, R. D. Freeman, Committee.~~

~~State of the Church.~~

Touching the financial condition of our Church we greatly rejoice in the advance made in the erection of new buildings, and the valuable improvements of our parsonages and churches as indicated in the luminous reports of the Presiding Elders and the Conference Statistician. Offerings for missions show a gratifying increase from year to year, but we fear that other benevolences are not as vigorously and successfully pushed. The increasing interest and munificent support of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Societies, and the splendid work they are doing must and does rejoice the hearts of our people in all lands. The Deacon- ess work commends itself to every member of church, and the Master himself who went about doing good has graciously approved of this method of winning souls. We are pleased to know of the excellent work done in our College at Albion and very heartily approve of the evangelistic band work of the students. We thank God for the theological seminaries of our Church and for the trained men who guide the footsteps of candidates for the holy ministry, but we deplore the tendency of some of our teachers to fall in line with the destructive criticism of the Word of God. The Lord Jesus Christ made no mistakes and the writers of the New Testament were inspired by the Holy Ghost to write infallible books. The teachers and preachers who tone down the "Thus saith the Lord," and declare that the vengeance of our God and the wrath of the Lamb are unauthorized and worn out declara- tions of the divine disapproval of sin may receive the friendship of lukewarm Christians and the mammon of unrighteousness, but will never be able to convict men of sin and add to the roll of the saints those whose names are written in the Book of Life. "Covet earnestly the best gifts." Human learning can never take the 1905] REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 235 place of a sound conversion and the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire. This is the greatest gift of God to the minister of the cross of Jesus. Filled with the fulness of God the Christian workman reaches the greatest efficiency in the kingdom of our blesses Lord and Savior. We deeply deplore the fact that many of our members neglect the mid- week prayer service, the Sunday School, and class meeting. It is reported also that a few who call themselves Methodists do not abstain from harm- ful amusements, but frequently attend theatres, dancing and card parties. These evil practices are disastrous to our beloved Church, and we believe a discreet enforcement of discipline in some instances would be a blessing. We rejoice in the united effort of the churches to rouse the moral and religious sentiment of the Nation in defense of the purity of the home and stability of the marriage relation. In no state in the Union is this more needful than in our own beloved Michigan. We call the special attention of our ministers to the law of our Church as contained in paragraph 66. But while we see some things we deplore we rejoice that we find many things to commend. The spiritual condition ofMethodism is improving. Many of our ministers have received the abiding presence of the Holy Ghost, and through them the water of life flows freely to thirsty souls in all our charges. The last General Conference appointed a Commission on Aggressive Evangelism which is doing excellent work for Christ. This is a move in the right direction and we heartily endorse it. The revival program prepared by the Commission is a good one and if thoroughly worked in every district in our Conference would result in a glorious manifestation of revival power. We are happy to report the salvation of 7,615 souls in our Conference this year. Multitudes were converted and added to the Kingdom of our blessed Lord at our camp meetings in Michigan and assemblies in tents within the bounds of our Conference. Let us continue these great gather- ings and hold fast to the main purpose of our Church, the salvation of sinners and the spread of scriptural holiness throughout all our borders. Methodism is emphatically evangelistic in spirit and purpose. Brethren, let us keep our appropriate place in the front rank of the Lord's hosts and nobly do our part in conquering this world for our Lord and Saviour. Isaiah Wilson,

~~J. T. LeGear, Louis Blanchet, A. H. Coors,~~

~~F. J. Bryan.~~

~~Sunday Schools and Tracts.~~

The recent interesting and instructive address of Dr. A. P. George, Field Agent of the Sunday School Union, gave to the Conference facts which should awaken increased interest in, and a more hearty co-operation with, the work which this society is doing in providing Sunday Schools advantages where they are most needed. The fact that in some portions of our 236 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

land from fifty to seventy-five per cent, of children of school age have never been in a Sunday School, emphasizes the need of doing our utmost in pro- moting the work of the Sunday School Union. Our Tract Society likewise rightfully claims a large share in the thought and benevolence of the Church. A single tract has often been blessed to the awakening and salvation of a multitude of souls, and has been productive of a harvest of ever increasing fruitage. The fact that one-half of the contributions to our Tract Society are returnable in tracts to the church so contributing, is an added incentive to increased activity in the blessed work of distributing these "leaves of healing." This society also pays one-half of the expense of the Sunday School papers circulated among the freedmen. Your committee submits the following:

1. We are convinced that the income of the Sunday School Union should be largely increased. To this end we urge, (1), that the apportionment to the churches should be not less than one-twentieth the amount apportioned for missions, and that an earnest effort me made to meet these apportion- ' ments; (2), we commend the plan proposed by the Secretary, that in our Sunday Schools an offering be made by every class during the year for the Sunday School Union. 2. We commend to our people the whole series of our Sunday School publications, and strongly disapprove the substitution of any other publications for our own in our Sunday School work. We congratulate the Church on the enlargement and improvement of the Sunday School Journal; its introduction so far as possible into all our families would be a stimulus and help to Bible study.

~~3. We are gratified with the announcement that arrangements have been made for an advanced course of Bible study.~~

~~4. We call attention to the request of the Sunday School Union that a full list of our Sunday School superintendents, with their post office addresses be published in our Conference Minutes.~~

5. We recommend that the Rev. H. A. Lyon be appointed Sunday School Secretary of this Conference to co-operate with the Secretary of the Sunday School Union in all matters relating to Sunday School interests. 6. We urge increased attention to a judicious circulation of the publications of our Tract Society, and we bespeak for this important interest an equitable share of our benevolent collections. Respectfully submited. E. V. Armstrong, Geo. Bullen, Temperance.

The Church is forever the enemy of the saloon in every form and place. Our slogan is "The saloon must go"—no license, no compromise, but total annihilation. No store on the street for the sale of intoxicating beverages. No tippling at the drug stores. No beer in soldiers' homes. No canteen in the army or navy. No delivery of original packages in prohibition territor}'. Total abstinence for the individual and total prohibition for the state. 1905] REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 237

~~We believe it lies within the province and power of the Church to bring about this result. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil. Therefore,~~

Resolved, That we make and use every possible legal provision to crip- ple and destroy this evil business. To this end we call upon all our people to encourage and co-operate with officers of the law in the enforcement of existing measures for the regulation and restriction of the business and call upon all our citizens to attend the primaries and see to it that nominees for the various officers arei men who can be depended upon to use their influence and office against the liquor traffic, and do all in their power to support such men at the ballot box regardless of party affiliations.

In view of the excellent results of the local option law where it has been enforced for a period of years, as for example, in Van Buren County, we recommend that our pastors and churches co-operate with all movements to take advantage of this law to secure county prohibition wherever possible;

That in view of the fate of the Hudson local option bill we ask our people to use every effort to secure the election of such men to our state legislature as will support a similar measure in its next session;

~~That we respectfully petition the state legislature to submit to the voters of Michigan an amendment to the constitution to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages;~~

~~That we commend the 58th Congress for its attitude toward the anti- canteen law and call upon our own senators and representatives to insist upon giving this law a fair trial;~~

~~That we endorse the Galliger-Stone amendment to the statehood bill for the proposed new state of Oklahoma providing for a prohibition clause in the state constitution; and~~

~~That we call for the early passage of the Hepburn-Dolliver bill.~~

Resolved, That, while we have thus given much space in this report to the legal phase of this problem, we yet place the greater emphasis upon the gospel as the most effective and the really fundamental means of securing the desired end, and therefore we pledge ourselves to renewed and unrest- ing activity in winning boys and girls and men and women to Christ as the most direct and effective way to triumph over this despicable foe of all righteousness.

To this end we respectfully call your attention to the provisions of the Discipline, paragraph 43, with reference to the organization of temperance societies in each charge and each Presiding Elder's district.

~~Resolved, That we endorse the work of the American Anti-Saloon League and of the Woman's Christian Tepmerance Union.~~

~~That we endorse the work of our Conference temperance agent, S. C. Strickland.~~

~~That we recommend the observance of the last Sunday in November as 238 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

~~Temperance Sunday in accordance with the Discipline. Respectfully submitted. R. E. Meader, Arthur Trott,~~

~~W. J. Douglass, L. O. Bostwick, E. W. Davis.~~

~~Trial Committee.~~

~~The Trial Committee in the case of Geo. R. Arnold met in the Baptist~~

Church in the city of Charlotte, Thursday, September 7th, at 3 p. m. The sessions of the Committee continued through the afternoon and evening of Thursday and Friday, September 7th and 8th, and in the afternoon of Saturday, September 9th. There were present at the sessions of the Trial Committee W. M. Puffer, who was appointed by the Bishop as president; F. A. Lendrum, one of the

secretaries of the Conference, as secretary; P. J. Maveety, who was appointed by the Conference as counsel for the Church, and W. I. Cogshall, who was appointed as counsel for the defendant; Walter S. Pullen, the complainant; Geo. R. Arnold, the defendant, and several witnesses, and the

~~members of the Trial Committee who were W. J. Douglass, J. W. Hallen-~~

~~beck, A. T. Ferguson, W. P. French,. J. W. H. Carlisle, W. A. Frye, J. B. Pinckard, R. S. MacGregor, Thomas Cox, Adam Clark, G. W. Gosling, W.~~

J. Hathaway, J. I. Buell, J. B. Foote, and L. E. Lennox. As L. E. Lennox did not learn of his appointment until after a large part of the testimony had been taken he withdrew after being present a few minutes at the third session. After taking of testimony and the argument of counsel the Committee considered the case. Votes were taken according to the method provided

as follows : First—Is the first specification sustained? The vote was: Not sustained. Second— Is the second specification sustained? The vote was, Not sustained. The charge was therefore not sustained. W. M. Puffer, President. Fred'k A. Lendrum, Secretary. : : :

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~~Trustee Treasurer's Report.~~

~~Annual report of E. J. Phelps, Treasurer Board of Trustees, at close of business August 31, 1905. Amount of funds at this time Capital Stock $100,143.26 Profit and Loss Account 16,223.34~~

$116,366.60 Made up as follows Notes interest bearing $ 37,776-39 Notes non-bearing interest 29,210.40 Kalamazoo National Bank 4,105.66 C. M. Himebaugh 4.15 Real Estate 7,050.00 Bonds 2,000.00 Bank Stock 70.00 Mortgages 36,150.00 $116,366.60

~~SUMMARY FOR THE YEAR.~~

~~Fund at beginning of the year was $100,143.26 Added during the year as follows~~

~~Notes non-interest bearing 29,210.40 Cash Annual Distribution Fund 46.22 Cash General Fund 242.14 Interest Received 2,197.20~~

~~$18,955-56 Deduct from this: Secretary Salary $2,118.86 Expense Account 253.21 Annuities 210.00 Notes charged off 130.00 Other items 20.15 $2,732.22~~

~~Leaves a gain of $ 16,223.34~~

~~Making the total fund $116,366.60 Presiding Elders' Reports~~

~~Albion District.~~

~~D. D. Martin, Presiding Elder.~~

The forces and equipment of Albion District have for the most part served in the special line of aggressive evangelism. As a result more than 2,000 have sought Christ a pardoning Saviour at our altars, and about an equal number have declared themselves seekers for the grace and experience of entire sanctification. Some definite advancement also in other directions has been realized on almost every charge. There have been a few changes in the pastorate during the year. Early in the year an exchange was effected between Hanover and St. Louis, which has been satisfactory to all concerned. A student appointed to the Wheat- land charge became weary in his work, and Bro. Bready, the pastor at Lib- erty, has filled the place by preaching four times each Sunday. Rev. A: L. Cook, our pastor at Allen, received a call to the Second M. E. Church at Baraboo, Wisconsin. He decided to go before counseling us and afterward repented when it was too late. Rev. C. A. Varnum, of Hillsdale, was appointed to the charge and has served well. In the month of Jul}- an exchange was effected between Dr. W. H. B. Urch, our pastor at Albion, and Dr. F. E. Day, pastor of the First Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. All parties interested cheerfully gave their consent and both brethren are well settled on their new charges, and our work at Albion is full of promise for the coming year. Conference Evangelist David E. Reed has spent the most of the year on Albion District serving fifteen charges in revival effort. Large ingather- ings to the Church and general uplift to the work has accompanied his efforts. We most cheerfully commend him to all the churches, the Pre- siding Elders and pastors as a workman that needeth not to be ashamed.

Conference Evangelist J. W. Hallenbeck resides at Marshall and has wrought well on many fields throughout the conference. The problem in connection with this most important field of work in the conference is the adequate support of the evangelist so that he can maintain himself and family while working where he is most needed. Evangelists F. E. More- house, Geo. E. Allen, and Charles F. Barrett have also assisted in the work. Two elect ladies, Miss Carrie Parks, of the Deaconess Home, Grand Rapids, and Miss Jennie Tree, of the Lucy Rider Meyer School. Chicago, are worthy of mention, for their work on several fields has been fruitful of large results. The value of deaconess work in the country as well as in city charges has been emphasized and we are pleased to record that a large

(24o) 1905] PRESIDING ELDER'S REPORT * 241 number of promising young women have offered themselves for this work, some of whom have already entered school in special preparation. Our effective ranks have not been broken by death nor seriously interfered with by sickness. Rev H. P. Henderson, an honored superannuate residing in Albion, has been promoted to his reward. The wife of Prof. Demorest, of Albion College, exchanged earth's hopes for heaven's happi- ness, leaving a beautiful home wrecked and sad, the memory of her graces and affection the only comfort of husband and children. Mrs. I. H. Rid- dick was suddenly called from her husband's side in the work to the reward of the faithful. Her life was filled with every grace to make her loved and useful in the Church and in the home. For forty years Bro. and Sister Howe had walked together, much of the time in the service of the Church. One was taken and the other left. Bro. Howe needs our sympathy in his loneliness. Mrs. James Webster, a widow of one of the sainted members of this Conference, has but recently joined the host of the departed. Thus the reaper hath gathered from our number this year. Other changes have come to the family life of several of our pastors. The Rev. W. H. Meyer has taken to himself a wife. A prospective Bishop came to the home of Bro. and Sister Meader in time to join the last session of the annual Conference. Others that bid fair for conference membership have come to the homes of the pastors at Haven Church, North Street Church, and Diamond Church, Jackson. We are also glad to report a new found joy in the parsonage at Concord with the same ministerial prospect. Albion College has enjoyed a good year. Dr. Dickie has returned from an extended tour in Europe, and is planning largely for the work this year. You will hear from him concerning college matters at some time during this session. The teaching force is strong and adequate, the student body representative of the best young life in the state. I desire to commend the college in its plan of sending gospel teams composed of singers and preachers to do evangelistic work in our churches during the vacation seasons. This movement has been fruitful of much good and should be encouraged by all our pastors. The music department also offers to our churches the finest popular and sacred concerts that can be obtained. The lecture bureau offers the best platform talent at very moderate cost. Every charge in the conference and state should take advantage of these opportunities to bring the work at Albion before our people. A wave of enthusiasm should go over Michigan Methodism for Albion College. The proper relation of the children to the Church has been brought to the attention of parents and teachers. Our many publications and wholesome religious literature has been pressed upon our people in our revival meetings and at other times. The lists of the Michigan Christian Advocate have been considerably increased, and a large number of our churches will be early supplied with the new hymnal. Several important district meetings have been, held this year. The revival conference held at Reading in October gave inspiration to the evangelistic work for the year. The District Epworth League Convention held in Hillsdale in November was a success in every way. and proved helpful to our League work. Several sub-district conventions were held in the 242 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905 spring, and were fruitful of good in keeping alive interest in the Epworth League during the summer months. We have been trying to emphasize the work with the boys and girls and on several fields the genius of the pastor's wife has made the work a marked success. The Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Societies have each held district meetings, and some new auxiliaries have been added to each. The District Missionary Convention under the leadership of Dr. Floyd was filled with arousals that will show results in the missonary offering. The Michigan State Holiness Camp Meeting at Eaton Rapids, under the leadership of Dr. M. M. Callen, is a mighty factor in maintaining high standards of spiritual life in the church. The greatest meeting yet held was this year, and the results will be far reaching. The North Quincy Camp- meeting Association, with Dr. J. W. Davids, as president, enjoyed the best meeting in their history. Bros. Reed and Morehouse were the evangelists, and many of our pastors and other workers gave them strong support. A new gospel tent was purchased at the opening of the summer campaign which has been used in Jackson, at two camp meetings, and in the village of Allen where a gracious meeting just closed. Bro. Reed has had charge of the tent and has been assisted during the campaign by Bro. J. A. Oakes, a gospel singer from Albion College. The results prove this a good investment. The charges that might be named as having the most general revivals are Allen, Amboy, Cambria, Montgomery, Eaton Rapids, Homer, Haven Church, Ida Stiles Memorial Church, Litchfield, Marengo, Osseo, Parma- Partello, Quincy, Reading, Springport, Tekonsha, and Winfield; but there is not a charge but has not gathered some fruitage from this general movement. On the first Sunday of this year our splendid edifice at Hanover was reopened having been thoroughly renewed within and without, new ceilings, new porches, a new lighting plant, and new organ; all of which had been well provided for by the* voluntary contributions of the people. Later in the autumn the Haven Church, Jackson, was reopened with its new and commodious Sunday School apartments, the entire church having been redecorated and in other ways made new at an expense of $3,000.00. all of which was amply provided for. Still later in autumn the church in Cambria was reopened after having been made practically a new building. To affect this transformation called for great sacrifice from the heoric few who maintain our work in Cambria. They now have a fine property, church and parsonage, and have enjoyed a prosperous year. In the early spring a new- pipe organ was dedicated in the church at Marshall. The money was all in the bank to pay the bill as soon as the organ was finished. It is a thing of beauty and joy forever. The congregation are a unit in ascribing the credit to the pastor. On the second Sunday in August the church at Marengo was reopened with special services, the sermon being delivered by Dr. Day, the new pastor at Albion, the interior of the church having been renewed at considerable expense, all of which is provided for. A fine new barn graces the parsonage lot at Litchfield and a fresh coat of paint beautifies their temple of worship. The church at Springport is being re- PRESIDING ELDER'S REPORT 243

seated and otherwise improved. It will be ready for occupancy about No- vember 1st. The subscription for the new church at Horton is growing and this enterprise is an assured success. The building sentiment is being kept alive at Quincy and a new church at that place will soon take the place of the present historic edifice. A new heating plant has been installed at Homer, also at the Griffith Church on Thompkins charge. New bells are calling people to worship at Ewing Church on Frontier charge, and at Charlesworth on the Springport charge. The new steam heating plant at Eaton Rapids is a success and nearly paid for. New porches and sidewalks have improved the church property at Waldron, Likelys Corners, and Osseo. Old indebtedness has been reduced at Albion, Eden, Charlotte, Eaton Rapids, Hillsdale, Homer; First Church, Jackson; Greenwood Avenue, Jackson; Leslie, and Parma. While Adam Clark was preaching in our church at Lyon Lake from the text, "Fear Not Little Flock," the roof caught fire. He finished his sermon in great composure when the whole building collapsed and the people barely escaped with their lives and the finest country church in the district was in ashes. The "Little Flock" with heroic courage are building and early in the new year will have a new church of cement and slate that will not easily consume. The lightning caused some damage to the churches at Burlington, Winfield, and North Street, Jackson. Spontaneous combustion destroyed the parsonage barn at North Adams. A good insurance policy will help out in each case. The general benevolences have received careful attention and we believe the reports of the pastors will fully equal any previous year. The old debt on the district parsonage has been fully paid and the property improved. The brethren have joined heartily in maintaining the evangelists on the district also in the purchase of our new district tent. Pastors' salaries will be very generally paid in full with a good increase over last year, and there is no pastor on the district but could return to- his field for the ensuing year to the profit of his people and to the work. Not many changes will be necessary to adjust matters on Albion District. All now in the effective ranks will continue in the work the coming year and several of those on the superannuated and supernumerary lists are asking the privilege of serving this year. Many students are asking a place to work while attending school and a large number of preachers from both conferences in the state are requesting fields near the college. Several young men from our own and other communities are asking a place in our ranks. Our

section of the state is generally prosperous and there is little to embarass us except possibly an over supply of those desiring to enter the pastorate. We are, however, trusting that the needs on the other districts will relieve this congestion. With so much to encourage us we look forward to the new year with renewed hope and courage and expect greater victories for the cause we serve. Big Rapids District.

~~N. L. Bray, Presiding Elder.~~

~~With gratitude to Almighty God for life and Providential care I present 244 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

this report of the work in Big Rapids District for the year now closing. Our parsonages have been preserved from the messenger of death with the single exception of the home of Bro. G. A. Brown, of Evart, whose be-

~~loved wife passed to her reward on the night of October 6, 1904. The husband and the sons were left sad and lonely, but confident in the full assur-~~

ance of the resurrection unto eternal life. Domestic cords have been tightened and the joy of the home has been increased in the parsonages at Howard City, Barryton, Mt. Pleasant, Le Roy, Cadillac, Coleman and Beaverton, into each of which there has come a beautiful new babe. The territory comprised within Big Rapids District is subject at times to conditions which greatly embarrass our work, and one of these conditions has prevailed during the year to an extent that has seriously hindered the work of the church. I refer to the low price of potatoes, a crop upon which the farmers very generally depend for the support of their families. Hundreds of carloads of this staple product have perished because they were not worth the cost and labor of transportation, and I fear that in con- sequence the general benevolences and the salaries of the pastors will suffer. I am confident that no class of men have worked harder or faced the situation with more earnest expectation of success than have the preachers of that country; and in a few places creditable gains have been made in the contributions, of the people for both purposes, but we have all felt the pressure of the times. Another disadvantage under which we labor is the early coming of our conference and the late harvest in that northern country, which accounts for the small returns yet available from the present season's abundant crops. It may not be inopportune to here express our conviction that the raising of salaries, benevolences, and in fact all church

~~financies is too generally postponed until the people are spring poor. The~~

~~fact is, that one-half of the available money, especially in the rural districts~~

is in circulation in the first quarter of the conference year; and both pastor and stewards would act wisely in giving attention to gleaning during the fall months. We began the year with general satisfaction in respect to the adjustment of men to the work; every charge being satisfied to have the pastor as-

signed to it. The work began with commendable zeal in all of the charges. The new church at Avondale in the Evart circuit was dedicated on November 27, 1904. and the necessary amount subscribed to cover the indebtedness. A new church at Elbridge Center on the Crystal Valley charge has been built at a cost of $2,000.00. Another new church is about ready for dedication at Remus, and will represent an investment of $3,000.00. Chapels worth $600.00 each have been built on Weidman and Marion charges. A new church costing from $1,200.00 to $1,500.00 will soon be completed at Sylvan on Evart circuit. Gilmore church on Farwell charge burned near the holidays, and, unfortunately, without any insurance. On the Edensville charge a new parsonage has been built at a cost of $1,100.00. $700.00 of which has already been provided. And in addition improvements to the amount of $1,000.00 have been made on the church at the head of this circuit. Debts have been paid at several places. At Entrican, $200.00; at Cadillac. 1905] PRESIDING ELDER'S REPORT 245

$300.00; at Weidman, $100.00; and at Edmore, $300.00. At Ashton horse sheds costing $100.00 have been built; Entrican has expended $100.00 on a like improvement; and Weidman $150.00. Improvements upon church property have been made at the following places; Big Rapids, First Church, $200.00; Crystal Valley, $50.00; Greenville, $100.00; Seaton, $60.00; Scott- ville, $325.00; Gladwin, $100.00; White Cloud, $200.00; Claire, $214.00; Cole- man, $234.00; Greenville circuit, $50.00; Ludington, First Church, $200.00; Ludington, Jefferson Avenue, $112.00; Marion, $100.00; McBain, $100.00; McClure, $1,100.00; Millbrook, $250.00; Mt. Pleasant, $250.00; Remus, $800.00; Rose Bush, $1,100.00; Seers, $160.00; Shepherd, $100.00; Stanton, $200.00; Stanwood, $140.00, and Winn, $187.00. At Morley, Pearson, and Reed City also substantial improvements have been made. The aggregate of expenditure on the district for debts, buildings and improvements will be upwards of $18,000.00. While our general benevolences, through the failure of crops last year and the low price of potatoes, may possibly fall below the collections of some previous years, yet we desire to commend our people at many points for holding up their contributions and in some cases over-running previous years; notably, Big Rapids First Church, Cadillac, Clare, Evart, Ferry, Greenville, Howard City, Ludington, McClure, Mt. Pleasant, Sears and Winn.

Our district united with the Grand Traverse District in a very helpful missionary convention which was held at Cadillac on the border line between the two districts, and at which Dr. Floyd and his corps of returned missionaries were present and participated, disseminating missionary intel-

~~ligence among our preachers and so many of our people as found it con- venient to attend. The convention proved a blessing in enlarging our con- ception of the needs of the world.~~

Early in the conference year we held a very successful session of our district conference in the city of Big Rapids under the inspiration of which the churches of the whole district were started with a spirit of revival, resulting in an aggregate of not less than 1,600 seekers at our altars, a gross report of 1,320 conversions, and 900 probationers. The falling off in the number of probationers may be attributed to various causes. In the cities of Big Rapids and Mt. Pleasant, our two educational centers, many of the converts from among the students went out over the state and doubtless united with the churches elsewhere, while the home church did not increase numerically thereby. And many of our converts in other places united with sister churches. The charges reporting one hundred conversions or over are: Big Rapids, First Church; Clare, Farwell, McClure, Gladwin, and Coleman; while large revivals at Barryton, Cadillac circuit, Big Rapids circuit, Edenville, Entrican, Howard City, Luther, Sears, Sanford, Leeton and Rose Bush, have greatly strengthened these churches. Nearly every charge within the bounds of the district reports more or less conversions and accessions. The District Epworth League under the general direction of W. H. Irwin and G. W. Maxwell deserves much credit for these general results. 246 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

Our district camp meeting, commencing on August 10th, was a scene of very helpful religious exercises. On the whole the labor of the year has been arduous; the travel, extend- ing into parts of fourteen counties, has been excessive; the demands upon the Presiding Elder's time so constant that almost every moment found something to be done; the weather of the winter was severe, the roads for many months were obstructed by the snows, and the train service all through the winter was greatly interfered with; the large number of un- ordained men on charges made it necessary for the Presiding Elder to be present at many times and places to administer the sacraments; and so the embarassments and difficulties of our work multiplied; but, notwithstanding, we have found grace and strength for our work, and our ministry has been one of joy and not of complaint. The relations between the Presiding Elder and the pastors and people at all times and in every particular, have been most agreeable. The pastors have been faithful and loyal and we have greatly enjoyed the hospitality of their homes. And now with hearty thanks to God for His unfailing mercies and abundant blessing upon the work and the workers; rejoicing to still have a place in the fighting ranks ;- with courage to hope, believe and labor for the future; and with an increasing love for the Church and the gospel we submit to you this our annual report.

~~Grand Rapids District.~~

~~G. D. Chase, Presiding Elder.~~

Two ministers on Grand Rapids District have passed this year to their eternal reward—the Rev. E. D. Bacon, a superannuate, and much beloved member of this Conference, and the Rev. Daniel W. Parsons, Chap- lain of the Michigan Soldiers' Home, a brother whose genial presence will be greatly missed at this Conference. About three weeks ago Parsons, Chaplain of the Michigan Soldiers' Home, a brother whose genial presence will be greatly missed at this conference. About three weeks ago Mrs. E. D. Bacon also received the final summons and passed on to join her husband in the better world. Death also entered the parsonage home at Coopersville and bore away the infant child of Rev. and Mrs. S. B. Ford. A few of our pastors have been interrupted in their work by serious ill-

ness. Early in the year the health of the Rev. J. F. Peschmann became so seriously impaired that he was compelled to resign his charge at Tenth Avenue, Grand Rapids, and seek a complete change of employment. The year's rest has been greatly beneficial to him, and he reports for work again with at this conference. The Rev. J. W. Hart has supplied Tenth Avenue great acceptability. The Rev. W. F. Glass, pastor at Hesperia. aften an earnest and prolonged evangelistic campaign, broke in health, and for a time his recovery seemed extremely doubtful; but God heard the earnest prayers offered in his behalf, and raised him up. About two months ago Bro. Glass resumed his work. The Rev. A. H. Sturgis. pastor at Lowell, has suffered poor health during the entire year, and at last has decided upon a year's rest from the active work. 1905] PRESIDING ELDER'S REPORT 247

In the early spring the Rev. E. E. Haring discovered a more inviting field of labor in the Congregational ministry, and resigned his charge at Wayland to accept the pastorate of the Congregational Church at Moline.

~~The Rev. J. G. Robeson, a student at Albert College, was secured to fill the vacancy, and has completed the year's work with credit to himself and satisfaction to the charge.~~

~~EVANGELISTIC WORK.~~

During the year emphasis has been placed on aggressive evangelism. Our pastors have been loyal to the precept of John Wesley in regarding it their chief business to save souls. In many cases, under great difficulties and in the presence of many distracting influences, pastors have rallied their people to earnest prayer and consecrated effort for the salvation of the lost; and as a result about twelve hundred conversions are reported by the pastors of the district. Over nine hundred have been received into the Church on probation. Second Street, Grand Rapids, has had the most remarkable revival in its history. The meetings were conducted by the pastor, Rev. W. L. Laufman, and he has had the satisfaction of receiving one hundred and seventy-five into the Church on probation. Many other fruitful meetings have been held, and the churches greatly refreshed and strengthened.

~~CHURCH PROPERTY.~~

The new church at Whitehall was dedicated the first Sunday of the conference year, and the entire cost of the structure provided for in reliable subscriptions. A few weeks later the church at Lake Odessa was dedicated. This is an exceptionally -fine building for a town of the size and is easily worth $15,000.00. The whole amount needed was pledged, and $6,000.00 has been paid this year. A new church is in process of erection at Rothbury, under the supervision of the Rev. G. A. Odium, pastor at Whitehall. It is expected that the building will be ready for dedication soon after conference. Trinity Church, Grand Rapids, has purchased a fine $4,000.00 residence, as a home for its pastor; and Hastings is building an elegant, well planned par-

sonage to cost $3,000.00, of which amount nearly $2,000.00 is already provided. Tenth Avenue and Feakins Memorial Church, Grand Rapids, have each purchased a new location in anticipation of new church buildings in the not distant future. Our churches at South Lowell and Ravenna have been extensively repaired and improved at a cost of about $600.00 apiece. Grandville has put new circular pews into the church, and made other improvements to the extent of nearly $400.00. Church debts have been reduced as follows: Wayland, $100.00; Lowell, $200.00; Holland, $945.00; Division Street, Grand Rapids, $1,333.00.

~~BENEVOLENCES.~~

The securing of our benevolent collections this year has been attended with peculiar difficulties. In the northern part of the district financial prosperity depends on peaches and potatoes. Last year the peach crop was a failure, and potatoes failed to command a price that would pay for market- ing. As a result money has been scarce. The district was visited also by a 248 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

most destructive flood, which wrought ruin to growing crops, destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property, and inundated the west side of Grand Rapids, particularly affecting our two west side churches. Notwith- standing these adverse conditions, the benevolences will be nearly or quite up to last year's mark. Besides the regular benevolences, the Conference Claimants Endowment Fund has been generously augmented by the offerings of the district. The indefatigable James Hamilton has gathered over $60,000.00 for this fund from Grand Rapids District alone this year. Fifty

thousand dollars of this amount was contributed recently by Mr. M. J. Clark, of Grand Rapids, in the shape of a magnificent residence, with twenty acres of valuable land, on the east side of the city, the property to be used as a home for our retired ministers and their widows. Taking out this princely gift, $11,000.00 was contributed by the charges of the district to the worthy cause represented by Bro. Hamilton.

~~DEACONESS HOME.~~

The Aldrich Memorial Deasoness Home and Training School is in a most prosperous condition. In fact, the prosperity of recent years has become an embarassment. More room is imperatively needed to accommodate the constantly increasing number of students applying for admission to this institution. The work done during the past year has been of a high character, and a class of eight trained deasonesses was graduated at the close of the school year. The problems connected with the work on this district are doubtless similar to those encountered elsewhere. We have our city problem, occasioned by the manifold distractions of the world, resulting in indifference toward the Church. We have our country problem occasioned by the constant tide of population from the country to the city, and the fact that large sections of our agricultural area are being settled by people of foreign tongue. It may seem a little strange, but on Grand Rapids District the problem of the foreigner is more serious in the country than in the city. We have our financial problems occasioned chiefly by the unsystematic giving of our people, the general failure of stewards to do their duty in the early part of the year, and a wild spectacle of "frenzied finance" at the close of the year. These problems, always a part of the larger problem of bringing people to Christ and building up His kingdom, have been bravely attacked by our pastors and their people. The brief synopsis here given of

~~the results of their efforts is evidence that their labors have not been without a large measure of success.~~

~~Grand Traverse District.~~

~~M. D. Carrel, Presiding Elder.~~

The last of six busy years, the shortest of them all. and in many ways the pleasantest of them all, is closed. In no other one of the six years, have the relations between charges and preachers, and the relation between all these and the Presiding Elder, been so universally pleasant. And while

it has been a year of unusual financial stringency, especially in our rural 1905] PRESIDING ELDER'S REPORT 249 charges, because of the extremely low prices realized for farm products, the societies have been more than usually prompt in meeting their obligations both to the local work, and to the wider enterprises of the great Church. It may not be without interest, as indicating in some degree the development of Methodism in that upper corner of our conference territory, if we compare a few items from the statistical tables of 1899 the year in which the now closing administration began, with the corresponding items from the tables of last year. (The figures for this year are not yet available.) The minutes of 1899 show 47 charges and an aggregate membership, including probationers, of 4,777- There were reported last year 54 charges, and an aggregate membership of 6,518, an increase of 1,741 during the five years. In 1899 there were 97 Sunday Schools, with an enrolment, including officers, teachers and pupils of 7,574; in 1904 we have 109 schools, and an enrolment of 9,140, an increase of 1,596. In 1899 we contributed $24,740.00 for ministerial support, including pastors, Presiding Elder, Bishops, and Conference Claimants. In 1904 the aggregate contributed was $32,663.00, an increase of $7,923.00. In the item of pastors salaries alone the increase is $7,088.00, while the contributions to the Con- ference Claimants Fund has gone from $470.00 in 1899 to $800.00 in 1904, an increase of nearly one hundred per cent. Under the head of Church Property, the records show 27 new churches built and dedicated, and a dozen others so completely remodeled, enlarged and otherwise improved that a rededication was thought altogether proper, and ten new parsonages either built or purchased, and several of the old ones so completely made over that former occupants would scarcely recognize them. These things speak volumes for the loyalty of our laymen, and the devotion of our consecrated women to the interests of the Church. In 1899 the aggregate value of church and parsonage property was estimated at $125,520.00. In 1904 at $231,000.00. An increase in the estimated value of our holdings, of $105,980.00. Of course, you could hardly expect such an increase in the value of property without some increase in the column of indebtedness. In 1899 the amount of indebtedness reported was $9,626.00. In 1904 the amount reported is $13,330.00. I submit, not a bad showing—increase of property valuation nearly $106,000.00, increase of indebtedness only $3,704.00. The minutes show that we have actually paid on indebtedness during these five pears, $20,417.00, or an average of over $4,000.00 each year.

It would not have been altogether strange, if, in the stress of building much needed churches, and improving our facilities for work, and caring generally for our local interests, we had neglected somewhat the calls from without. But what do the figures say? Take the single item of missions. In 1899 the district contributed to missions, including the contributions of the W. F. M. S, and the W. H. M. S., $1,989.00. In 1904 the aggregate was $4,065.00, an increase of $2,076.00, or nearly 200 per cent., and the aggregate of all the benevolences more than doubled during that period. Only three churches have been dedicated this year, all of them early in the year. One at Pellston, and two on Sherman charge—at Mesick and Bagnell. Some new enterprises are under way, and still others contem- 250 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905 plated. On account of serious nervous disability W. W. Aylesworth was compelled to resign his pastorate at Boyne City soon after Conference. We were so fortunate as to have a good substitute near at hand in Louis Grosenbaugh, who took up the work, and I need not say, has succeeded admirably. A project for the remodeling and enlarging the church, was already under way. After careful consideration, it was finally decided to change the plans, dispose of the old building, and erect a new modern church on the site. This is now well under way, and in the early winter or late autumn, they will dedicate a beautiful church costing $15,000.00 or $18,- 000.00. This means a splendid and greatly needed equipment for a wide- awake and rapidly growing society, one of the most vigorous communities of Northern Michigan.

The friends at Boyne Falls have completely renovated their church—new paper, new carpets, new pews, new furnace, making it one of the most attractive church homes on the district, and then with a heroism seldom surpassed, have erected a beautiful modern parsonage right beside it. The old church at Mancelona, under the leadership of J. C. Newcomer, has been made as good as new, with new foundation, new roof, new windows, new carpet, and wall beautifully decorated. Frankfort, so long a forlorn hope, has, under the leadership of the indomitable Lewis, experienced a veritable resurrection from the dead. It began with a splendid revival which shook the whole town; the end is not yet, but already more than $1,200.00 has been expended in improving church and parsonage, and a new day has dawned upon a discouraged people. But where shall I stop? How I would love to call the whole familiar roll, from Alanson to Williamsburg, and tell of all the Gideons, the Baraks, the Davids also, and the Deborahs as well, who through faith and faithfulness, have "Subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, stopped the mouths of lions and turned to flight the armies of the aliens." But time and your patience would fail me. Let me sum it all up by saying that the fortunate man who comes this autumn, to the super- intendency of Grand Traverse District, will find, not only as loyal a constituency as any Presiding Elder ever served, but an equipment for the work of the church surpassed by few if by any of even the older districts of the Conference.

The year has been marked by a special and very fruitful revival interest. Some of the charges began special revival services immediately after Con- ference, and there have not been many weeks since, that have not seen some of them so engaged, and with more than usual success. In some instances evangelists have given helpful assistance, but some of the most remarkable meetings have been held by the pastors assisted only by their own people, with an occasional sermon from some neighboring pastor. Among the charges reporting the largest number of conversions, may be mentioned Manistee, Frankfort, Kingsley, Asbury Church. Traverse City. Lake City, Wexford, Grawn, Mancelona, Kalkaska, Pellston. Levering. Benzonia, Thompsonville. Stittsville. But there are very few charges on the district that will not report trophies won in special revival effort. Our Ministerial Association held at Petoskey in November, and the District Epworth 1905] PRESIDING ELDER'S REPORT

League Convention held at Mancelona in June, were both characterized by an intense evangelistic spirit and purpose. Not wholly have our parsonage homes escaped the bereavements which sooner or later come to all earthly homes. You will remember that just before Conference last year, our parsonage at Kingsley with nearly all its contents was destroyed by fire. Bro. and Sister Wood found temporary shelter, the best available in a crowded community, and the heroic little society began at once the erection of a new parsonage. But in spite of apparently rugged health, the shock and exposure seemed more than Sister Wood could endure. She never saw the new home. Long before its completion she had removed to the "Building not made with hands." Her loss is deeply felt rtot only in the lonely home, but in the community, where she was greatly loved.

Then a little plant of scarce a year's growth just budding into strength and beauty, was transplanted from the home of Bro. and Sister Whitman, at Harbor Springs, to the garden of the King. And, later, Frances Lillian, a sweet child of six summers, daughter of Bro. John Bretts, went up from the parsonage at Lake City, to join the mother who had preceded her but a few months, in the City of God. And in the month of June, Mary, wife of Bro. S. W. Large, after many months of invalidism, preaching rare sermons of patience and faith to the many friends who came to her bedside, fell asleep in the parsonage at Clarion. Two honored women, for many years retired from active service have also left us during the year. Mrs. Salmon Steele, who resided at Northport, and Mrs. E. M. Marble whose home was at Harbor Springs. Bay view camp meeting and assembly were well attended and the program gave general satisfaction. The Association is at present considering plans for broadening the scope of its work. I am fully convinced that the delightful, restful, healthful climate of Littel Traverse Bay, ought to be held and utilized for the invigorating, both physically and spiritual, of a great army of Methodist workers, during the vacation season. It need not com-

~~pete with any other association in the state. Its mission and field is unique,~~

~~and I think it ought to have the support of the two Conferences.~~

Our Indian work under the leadership of the Rev. W. A. Elias, who had charge of all the missions east of Grand Traverse Bay, and the Rev. John D. Deets at Northport, has been vigorously prosecuted, and while attended with many and peculiar difficulties, has not been without results. Conver- sions have been frequent as the faithful missionaries have held services in the forest camps, and the little chapels of the missions. The great annual gathering in the encampment at Northport held in August was larger than ever before. Dr. Carlos Montezuma, a converted and educated Apache, member of the faculty of Rush Medical College, Chicago, Dr. James H. Potts, Judge Mayne, of our own judicial circuit, and others delivered addresses which were intensely practical and were greatly enjoyed. We ought to have a much larger missionary appropriation for this branch of our work. It has been a constant source of sorrow and humiliation to me that our great Church is doing so little for these people to save them from the 252 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905 sins of intemperance and licentiousness, for which contact with the white race is largely responsible. I cannot close this my last report as Presiding Elder of Grand Traverse District, without a word of grateful tribute to the faithful brethren of the ministry and Laity, whose loyal co-operation has made possible whatever of success has attended these six short years. From the bottom of my heart

I thank them for unnumbered courtesies and unwearied kindnesses. I shall cherish the thought of them so long as memory endures. I shall watch with deep interest the progress of Methodism and the Kingdom of Christ on all the half-hundred charges whose names have come to be as familiar to me as those of my own household. May God bless Grand Traverse District and pour the richest treasures of His abounding grace upon every community. And unto Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen and amen!

~~Kalamazoo District.~~

~~M. M. Callen, Presiding Elder.~~

There has been but one break in the ranks of Bishop McCabe's appointees on the Kalamazoo District this Conference year. W. A. A. Fortner, who had been doing work in Nevada mission, was appointed to Penfield circuit, but finally decided that in view of the condition of his health he would not be able to perform the labor incident to a large circuit of six appointments. Rev. W. D. Fallis, of Canada, was secured as supply and the work has been well conserved by his faithful ministry. Death has come to none of the homes of the pastors, and with very few exceptions, good health has been the Father's benediction to the preachers and their families. Rev. W. R. Strinchcomb, an honored and greatly beloved superannuated member of this Conference, went to sleep in Ann Arbor before

~~waking up in glory. His death occurred March 3, 1905. His funeral services was held in the M. E. Church, of Schoolcraft, under the direction of the~~

writer. Revs. G. V. Fallis, L. N. Pattison, J. A. Sprague, J. W. Foy. and others assisted in the services. Rev. C. H. Anderson was for a portion of the year seriously afflicted with a complicated form of rheumatism which interfered with his pastoral work, but his condition is now much improved. Rev. G. L. Mount having finished his thirty-fourth consecutive year in the effective ranks of this Conference and having left a most holy influence wherever he has labored will at this session ask for a supernumerary relation, and Rev. A. M. Griffith now sustaining this relation will ask to be made effective. Two splendid new churches have been completed and dedicated this year on the Kalamazoo District. The one at Mendon cost $8,000.00 and is a modern brick structure built according to plans furnished by Archi- tect Fairchild, of Kalamazoo. Methodism has long needed this building,

the saints have prayed for it. and the pastor, Rev. F. M. Cottrell. with his faithful board of trustees has at last brought about the cherished desire of God's people at that place. The dedication occurred April 0. TO05. Rev. 1905] PRESIDING ELDER'S REPORT 253

Wm. Dawe, D. D., Field Agent for Albion College, preached at both the morning and the evening services and managed the finances. The entire cost of the church was provided for with the exception of about $500.00, and at the close of the evening service the church was dedicated by the Presiding Elder. Last Sunday what is probably the most beautiful church in the Michigan

Conference was dedicated at Allegan. A few years ago it was said that Allegan Methodism "needed everything." Now they have one of the best parsonages in the Conference, and everybody who sees it says it is a "perfect gem" of a church. A conservative estimate of the valuation of church and parsonage property now would be $20,000.00. The church is built of stone with slate roof and imposing tower, stands on a most prominent corner of the public square and has architectural exterior beauty when seen from any standpoint. The auditorium has bowled floor with circular pews finished in mahogany. The chapel can be used as a part of the auditorium when needed. In addition there are ladies' parlors, pastor's room, choir room, kitchen and other conveniences. The interior decorations and fin- ishings are in exquisite taste. The entire cost of the building including furnishings will approximate $19,000.00. On dedication Sunday Bishop L. B. Wilson, D. D., LL. D., preached at the morning service a most help-

ful sermon on the blessedness of giving and Mr. J. W. Powell had charge of the finances. The people responded liberally, but no one knew anything as to the aggregate. In the afternoon at a Sunday School rally nearly $500.00 more was subscribed by the classes of the Sunday School. At the evening service the Presiding Elder preached and again the people responded liberally and it was then announced by Bro. Powell that the whole amount has been pledged. The church was then formally dedicated by the Presiding Elder. A very large share of the credit for this great achieve- ment will always be laid at the feet of Rev. G. R. Arnold, the pastor, who has not only put more than $500.00 of his own money in the enterprise, but, with sublime devotion to the cause of Christ and Methodism in Allegan, with persistent and untiring energy, amid difficulties and discouragements seemingly insurmountable has led his people to this great victory. The trustees of the First M. E. Church, Kalamazoo, have purchased a lot in what is known as Hay's addition in the southeastern part of the city in the confident expectation that in the near future the lot will be used for another Methodist Church in Kalamazoo. Damon Church, Kalamazoo, is planning to build, having purchased a lot and built sheds, all of which are paid for. Maple Street Church at Battle Creek has built during the year a $2,300.00 parsonage. Plainwell has also rebuilt and enlarged her parsonage at an expense of $1,700.00. Not counting the two Indian missions thirty-eight of the forty-two charges on the Kalamazoo District now have parsonages and the most of them are good ones. Otsego has provided for her parsonage indebtedness to the amount of $936.00, and has also received a gift of $500.00 which will be used in beautifying and improving the church and parsonage property. Indebtedness has been provided for as follows: Maple Street, $1,200.00; 254 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

Oshtemo, $500.00; Bellevue, $450.00; South Haven, $400.00; First Church, Battle Creek, $350.00; Hopkins Station, $300.00; Athens, $125.00; Simpson Church, Kalamazoo, $125.00; Delton and Cloverdale, $100.00; Lacota, $60.00; East Avenue, Kalamazoo, and Fennville, $50.00 each; and others in smaller amounts. First Church, Kalamazoo, has made extensive repairs and improvements on the chapel, ladies'parlors, dining room and other smaller rooms at an expense of $1,500.00. This with improvements on the auditorium last year

puts that splendid property in better shape than it has been in a great many years. First Church, Battle Creek, has rebuilt and repaired the church organ and made other improvements at an expense of $750.00. Other repairs have been made as follows: Athens and Oshtemo, $400.00 each; Douglass, $350.00; Fulton, $300.00; Otsego and Sonoma, $250.00 each; Hopkins Sta- tion, $205.00; Richland $20.00; Kendall, $170.00; Schoolcraft and Athens Indian Mission, $150.00 each; Banfield, $145.00; Fennville, $125.00; Prai- rieville, $119.00; Galesburg and Gobleville, $110.00 each; Pennfield, $100.00; Martin, $75.00; Vicksburg, $70.00; Simpson Church, Kalamazoo, Lacota and Parkville, $50.00 each; and Bloomingdale, $45.00. I had hoped that this year on account of the abundant fruitage and harvests there would be no deficit in the salary of the preachers and I believe there will be less this year than last year, yet I fear a few of the preachers will be embarassed by shortage. The early date of our Confer- ence will in some cases contribute to this, especially in that section of the district where the people depend so largely on the peach crop from which they derive meager returns before the middle of September, and yet even there no great difficulty has been experienced where the stewards have worked out a good financial system and put it in operation early in the year. Lack of system, delay and neglect of duty on the part of those having the finances of the church in charge will account for substantially every shrinkage. During the year a District Missionary Rally was held at Vicksburg under the general direction of Dr. J. C. Floyd who brought to his assistance

Rev. James Lyons and Rev. D. L. Thoburn and Rev. J. N. West all of India. The rally was well attended, enthusiastic and helpful. This was followed up by a series of thirty-six local rallies with a program covering an afternoon and evening which in most cases were fairly well attended. The pastors of the district co-operated fully in planning for these rallies and give much time and thought to their success. As a result of these special efforts together1 with the faithful and in some cases heroic efforts of the pastors we are able to hold the district well toward the top in the missionary column. Ten years ago Kalamazoo District contributed $1,850.00 for missions. This year we will go well over the $5,000.00 mark making the largest missionary offering ever made by the district. Some of the most marked increases are as follows : First Church, Kalamazoo, $50.00, which brings the offering of this church up to a grand total of $1,000.00 for the first time in its history; South Haven, $50.00: Simpson Church, Kalamazoo, $35.00; Trowbridge, $27.00; Martin and Hopkins Station, $25.00 each; Fennville, $22.00; Allegan and Vicksburg, $20.00: Richland. $15.00; with 1905] PRESIDING ELDER'S REPORT 255 others with smaller sums, but representing in some cases greater efforts and sacrifice. The statistics will I think show that the other benevolences have not been neglected. Notwithstanding that there is so much said and written on the subject of Aggressive Evangelism, and the spirit of revivals is in the air, I am not prepared to say that this has been pre-eminently a revival year on the District. The pastors have been left free to use their own judgment as to whether they would be their own evangelist or arrange for co-operative work with other pastors or employ special evangelists. All three of these methods have been employed and so far as I can discover there is no disposition to take up the "hue and cry" against so called "professional evan-

~~gelists" whose office is as fully authorized in our economy as that of the Presiding Elder. Thirty pastors report revivals and ten report none. The~~

aggregate number of conversions reported is nearly 700 with 500 received on probation. We are not satisfied. We rejoice in all that has been accomplished. We give God the glory. We renew our consecration and promise better service for another year.

~~Lansing District.~~

~~Louis DeLamarter, Presiding Elder.~~

The Heavenly Father has favored our district this year with a gracious revival of religion. Our pastors have honored the Holy Spirit, and He, in turn, has honored them with His presence. We asked for a thousand converts, and He has given us one thousand three hundred and sixty-nine. The preachers have been earnest*faithful, and constant. Not a month of this Conference year has passed without a revival meeting in progress some- where on the district. The most notable revivals, in number of converts and per centage of membership, have occurred at Alma, Breckenridge, Duplain, Eagle, Emerson, Grand Ledge, Ithaca, Lansing Central, Lansing First, Orange, Orleans, Potterville, St. Louis, Shepardsville, Vermontville, and Woodland, each of which charges has brought more than the pro rata of the thousand converts asked for the district. The revivals have been earnest, thorough, and reasonable, without foam or fanaticism. Only seven pastors report no conversions—which is their grief, but not their fault; for they are deeply spiritual men of God, wholly given to the ministry of the truth. The accessions to our churches this year aggregate 505 full members and 903 on probation. In the ninety-two societies on Lansing District, we have 8,392 full members, 766 probationers, 9,228 Sunday School scholars, 2,691 Senior and 709 Junior Epworth Leaguers. Our benevolent collections will show an increase over last year, though

~~I fear not very large. We held a successful Missionary Convention, under~~

the leadership of Rev. J. C. Floyd, D. D., Field Secretary, who rendered valuable service, and gave great inspiration to our work. Dr. Floyd has been on our district program four times, and he is wanted again for similar service. 256 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

Our material prosperity has been gratifying. The value of our church property on Lansing District is reported at $423,969.00. Nearly every charge has made substantial improvements on church property. We have dedicated four churches this year, all free of debt. On the Okemos charge, under the successful pastorate of A. D. Newton, the church at Holt has been entirely remodeled at a cost of about $2,000.00, all provided for on the day of dedication. The society at Crystal, where we have maintained preaching for about forty years without a house of worship, at last has a new church, costing $2,400.00, dedicated free of debt. Pastor Hurd deserves great credit for his success in this his first pastorate. Lansing Central, besides carrying on a gracious revival in which 176 persons were converted, and from which 158 probationers were received, has completed a beautiful new parsonage, valued at $10,000.00, partially paid for. At Lansing First, the new church, costing $9,250.00, was dedicated in January free of debt, with a good margin in secure pledges. Pastor Doty has been congratulated on all sides. Belding scored a great victory on May 14th when the fine new church was dedicated with more than enough good pledges to cover the cost of $30,000.00. For beauty, strength, and adaptibility to Christian work, I know of no church in our Conference which excels this. With commendable zeal, untiring energy, and unwavering faith, Pastor Sheehan has brought this enterprise, which seemed almost impossible, to a successful issue. On the Duplain charge, the church at Bannister is being remodeled at a cost of $1,000.00, nearly completed. On the Orange charge, the LeValley church has been extensively repaired at an expense of $1,000.00. Portland has new furnace, new basement, arid new bell, at a cost of $800.00. Gresham charge reports painting church and parsonage and erecting horse sheds, costing $418.00. On Berlin and South Berlin charge, the parsonage has been finished on the lower floor, the church papered, etc., costing $239.00. At Potterville, a new barn, horse sheds, carpet, etc., have been provided, costing $325.00. The aggregate value of improvements on church property this year is reported to be $29,403.00. The Quarterly Conference of our church at St. Louis has voted to erect a new church to cost not more than $8,000.00. Subscriptions are well under way for this enterprise. We have held six districts conventions of various kinds this year. The Woman's Missionary Societies, the Ladies' Aid Societies, the Sunday Schools and the Epworth Leagues are doing good work. The presence of the representatives of these societies in our Quarterly Conferences is an inspiration to our work. Long Lake Camp Meeting, located on the territory of Lansing District, was a success in every way. The attendance was large, the meeting was spiritual, the work good, the results excellent. About 60 conversions are reported. A fine new auditorium has been erected this year, accommodating about T,ooo people; four new cottages have been built, and other improvements made. The hotel must be enlarged before another meeting. Our pastors were assisted in the meeting by Bishop Mallalieu. Dr. Floyd, Dr. Thirkield, Dr. Buell, Evangelist Allen, Deaconess Park, and Dr. Long. The motto of our camp meeting expressed in sermon, song, prayer, and testimony, was: "Saved for service; fully saved for fullest service." a

~~1905] PRESIDING ELDER'S REPORT 257~~

The ministerial force of our district consists of 34 pastors who are effective members of the Conference, seven supplies, seven superannuates (two of whom are supplies), four supernumeraries, fourteen local preachers and three exhorters.

Death has visited our ranks in the release of Rev. J. R. Bowen from a lingering illness. He passed away September 3rd, at his home in Lyons, where he was loved and honored by the entire community. His obituary has been prepared by his pastor. Serious illness has afflicted the family of Rev. R. S. McGregor, whose daughter Blanche suffered many weeks from typhoid fever, but she has now recovered. E. W. Laing, appointed to Sun- field charge, asked to be released from work in February, which was granted, and Charles Hayward was appointed to supply the work. He has rendered excellent and acceptable service. In this hasty review, we note with pleasure and recognize with gratitude the favor of God upon a loyal membership and a consecrated band of ministers of our Lord.

~~Niles District.~~

~~D. F. Barnes, Presiding Elder.~~

In beginning this report of my second year's work on the Niles District, I first of all express my gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His loving care over us co-workers together with him. There has been no death among the effective ministers of the district. Our dear brother, C. E. Deal, under the power of a low fever, to all human appearance went very near death's gateway, but through God's mercy came back, and has been quite restored to his accustomed health. Our young brother, M. C. Bishop, who was supplying Breedsville for the year, was stricken in the summer with diphtheria which so affected him as to frus- trate his plans in his work and his studies. He was expecting to ask admission on trial at this session. Besides these exceptions the health of the workers has been good. For myself I am glad to say I have not lost a service, not even an hour from sickness in the two years' work on this district.

Rev. J. N. Dayton, so long and favorably known in this Conference, and who so reluctantly retired to the resting list at our last session, has not responded to his name here. He has been promoted. To-day he mingles his voice with the angels and brethren who have preceded him, in praise to God in that better country. His illness was brief, but his suffering was severe. It was my privilege to visit him a few days previous to his death. He was hopeful of recovery, but firm in his trust in God. Out on my district at the time of his death I failed to get the message sent me, and was not present at the funeral. He was a brave, clean, conscientious man. and rests as only such can. As pastors we have worked harmoniously and faithfully and have rejoiced together in conflict and conquest. We have here a noble band— brotherhood of noble men in the ministry and laity, most of whom seem well pleased with their heritage. 258 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

In some respects we are at disadvantage—we have no large cities to give us prestage, neither large legacies to swell our benevolent lists. We are generous enough, however, to rejoice with such as have, and are waiting, working that we too may forge out greater things. It has been my aim, together with those associated with me, to so administer that every part of the work should be carefully and faithfully served.

1. The Church property in nearly every case is well cared for. Churches and parsonages in numerous cases have been refitted, repaired, repainted and well insured. Some new ones have been completed, and besides we have several most excellent church propositions under way. We are aiming not only to preserve the property, but what is more to make them more inviting to all who now worship in them or who may be more easily induced to do so. To go more fully into the detail of all this work

~~would be trying to your patience, and unnecessary, as it will all appear in the statistical reports of the pastors who have done so much in bringing these things to pass.~~

2. I gave much attention to the matter of increase in salaries of the pastors in early part of the year. This labor was not lost, as more than one-third of the charges advanced from $25.00 to $200.00 each. The effort has been made too, to get the church to pay the salary weekly—not simply to use the weekly offering plan, but to pay weekly. I think six of our charges have done this, and wherever done, pastors and people are happier. I have assurance from some others that they will adopt this plan the coming year. We need work and change here as well as in any other directions. We see no reason why a pastor and his family should be greatly inconvenienced and humiliated for want of the comforts in the home when to get them he may have to go to the bank and borrow, when at the same time the Church may owe him $50.00 or $100.00. If any interest is to be

~~paid let the Church pay it in such cases, and not the pastor.~~

3. I expect the reports of pastors will show a very good advance in monies raised for benevolent purposes. I think much more thought has been given to this work than I have known before, and more work, personal work, directed with greater wisdom. The reports will show. We hope for greater advance with each added year. The District Missionary Convention with Dr. Floyd and his helpers was of great help to us.

4. A census of 33 of Niles District preachers shows that they gave personally 10 per cent, of their own Benevolent Collections. Of this group five preachers gave over 27 per cent, of their collections. One preacher gave 44 per cent., and none gave less than five per cent. Thirteen of these 33 men are tithers. If preachers and members will adopt the plan of tithing, we will soon solve many of our financial problems.

5. The work of our Sunday Schools is nothing to be ashamed of. It is well done. The schools are in good condition. In many of our charges the work of the Epworth League is very good and very helpful. I have planned to be in at least one Sunday School and one League meeting each Sunday. This is the rule. I enjoy this and am enabled to study conditions and in some instances have the privilege of making suggestions. 1905] PRESIDING ELDER'S REPORT 259

6. There have been some very precious revivals on the district. Not so many or so far reaching as we could wish. They have assured us that the day of old fashioned conversions is not past. That when the Church is ready we may have now as in olden time refreshing seasons. We need them now as much as ever, and only as we are ready and willing to use them and foster them will we bring men and women to the kingdom. In this connection I may report one of the very best of camp meetings at Crystal Springs. We had an excellent and able body of helpers, including Bishop Mallalieu, five who was . with us days and did us most excellent service. From the opening of the meeting to the close there was a very blessed spiritual condition. I have been in very many camp meetings, and

good ones, but I do not think ever in a better one than this. I have been where there was more vocal and cyclonic demonstration, but not more spiritual or helpful. We are planning for a better one, however, for the coming year. Years ago we gave up the idea of waiting for the "week of prayer" as the time, at least in Michigan, to begin revival work. We think possibly the best time of all the year for pastors to take their vacation is following the week of prayer, the most difficult time in the year to do church work. So again we have began our planning for campaigning at once at the opening of the Conference year, and are pledging together our best service for this branch of our work. In all missionary works, aid society work, and the general work of the Church here as well as everywhere the women of the Church are most loyal and helpful. Our young men and young women are in line and more are coming, and the grade of work they are doing is excellent. Thanks to all the helpers for their hearty co-operation and greetings for greater results in the year to come.

~~Memorial Funds for Conference Claimants.~~

~~Wm. Scott Brown $9,651.00 Ezra Bostwick 8,300.00 Frank H. Stuart 2,000.00 Miss Susie Moore 664.00~~

~~Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Wright. . 500.00 Chas. H. Wheelock 500.00 Wm. S. Calkins 500.00 Mrs. M. R. Bissell 500.00~~

~~Mrs. Martha J. Van Horn 250.00 Mrs. O. F. Pierce 436.00 Mrs. Susan A. Folsom 100.00~~

~~Parkhurst Fund . Preachers Savings Fund Society 260 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [190~~

~~Memoirs.~~

~~Rev. Elisha D. Bacon.~~

Elisha D. Bacon was born at Conesns, Livingston county, New York, April 28, 1830, and died at Grand Rapids, Michigan, May, 23, 1905. He was the fifth of a family of twelve children, six sons and six daughters. Two of his brothers became ministers. He was married to Hannah C. Knight at Mt. Morris, New York, in 1853. To this union was born eight sons and one daughter, all of whom survive except two of the sons, one of whom died in infancy and the other, Gilbert H., who having served in the Cuban war died at Atlanta, Georgia, August 21, 1898, of malarial fever. The devoted and faithful loving moth-

ei passed to the better world October 9, 1891. Bro. Bacon again entered the marriage relation in 1893, taking for his wife Mrs. Mary M. Phillips, widow of Rev. G. A. Phillips, a deceased member of the Michigan Conference, and she has since followed him to the spirit world. Bro. Bacon was converted when but five years of age. A brother aged seven taught him how to give his heart to God when they were alone by themselves. In 1862 he came to Mich- igan and took up his residence in Decatur. His ability was at once recognized by the church in that place and he was licensed to exhort the following July, and the next autumn was received as a probationer in the Conference held at Jackson. In 1865 he was ordained deacon by Bishop Ames, and 1867 elder by Bish- op Clark. For twenty-three years he continued in the active ranks. His fields of labor being in the order named: Law- rence, Coloma, Sparta, Alaska, Cannonsburg, Liberty, North Adams, Mosherville, Leroy, Tompkins, and Concord. At the Conference of 1886, Bro. Bacon took a superannuated relation and moved onto a farm near Grandville, where he resided until 1891, when he moved to Grand Rapids, where he continued to reside until the time of decease. Bro. Bacon was a devoted minister of the Lord Jesus. On the fields he served his memory is greatly revered. He was faithful in his ministrations. All the interests of the Church 1905] MEMOIRS 261

were well cared for under his labors. He attended to details. Had no hobbies. One line of work was not pushed to the neglect of others. His succussors found that the fields had been well cultivated. It was easy and pleasant to take up work

as he left it. All classes had the utmost confidence in him. Wherever he lived, whether on charges or in retirement he had wonderful spiritual influence. People looked to him as a wise counsellor and all gathered from the page of his rich experience. His illness was accompanied by much pain at times, but faith and hope sustained him. He had a treasure ahead and the

~~thought of soon enjoying it buoyed up his spirit. The power of Christianity to support, comfort and cheer, under the most trying circumstances were fully exemplified in his experience.~~

~~His deportment impressed others. His family saw it and was~~

~~profited thereby. Neighbors noticed it and went from the sick~~

chamber convinced of the truth as it is in Jesus, so he still "brought forth fruit in old age." A noble family of consecrated sons survive him. The funeral of Bro. Bacon was attended by the city pastors in a body. The service was under the direction of Presiding Elder Chase. Dr. Graham offered prayer and Dr. Buell gave the address, basing his remarks on Psalms 37:37: "Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace." His remains rest in the beautiful Oak Hill cemetery awaiting the resurrection of the just. Albert Smith.

~~Rev. James R. Bowen.~~

Rev. James R. Bowen was born in Nunda, Livingston Coun- ty, New York, April 21, 1834. He was raised on a farm. He attended a district school and the Nunda Academy. At the age of fifteen he was converted, joined the church and from that time directed his attention to religious work. In 1856 he began a special course of study at the Providence Conference Sem-

inary at East Greenwitch, R. I., and taught one term of school in that state. In 1826 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Pratt. For a year he followed the trade of painter, doing both plain and ornamental work, for which he developed a genius which brought to him much work of this kind throughout the rest of his life. The civil war was now beginning, and in 1862 he enlist- ed in the 130th N. Y. Volunteer Infantry, which regiment was transferred, a year later, to the Cavalry department, and became 262 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

known as the famous 1st New York Dragoons. The regiment participated in all the battles under Sheridan while in the East- ern Department, from the battles of the Wilderness to the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. Of this regiment Mr. Bowen wrote and published, in 1900, a comprehensive and interesting history, which has had a wide circulation among members of the regiment and their friends.

In 1876 Mr. Bowen removed to Three Rivers, Michigan, where his wife died three years later, upon which event he closed up all secular business and gave himself to religious work as an exhorter and then a local preacher in the Methodist Epis- copal Church. In 1880 he was appointed as supply of the Ken- dal charge, and the following year preached at Sears. On Sep-

tember 3, 1882, he was again married, this time to Miss Celia A. Bunnell, of Lyons, Michigan, and a few days later they went to his new appointment at Elm Hall, where he served two years. His subsequent appointments were as follows: 1884, Sheridan; 1885, Coral; 1886, Freeport; 1887 and 1888, Fowler; 1889 and 1890, Coleman; 1891 and 1892, Sanford. In 1893 he superannuated and located at Lyons, Michigan, which continued to

be his home until his death on September 3, 1905. Fifteen minutes before midnight of the 23rd anniversary of his second marriage, he passed in to eternity, after many weeks of suffering, during which he was consious of the approaching end, and

often spoke of it, but always with resignation and trustfulness. To his pastor he said "The consolations of the Gospel which I have proffered to others are now mine. Tell my friends that I am suffering in body, but happy in the Lord." Until a few weeks before his death he had been active in the work of the Church, attendant upon its services, teaching a class in the Sun- day School, and contributing to the support of the Church in its various departments. He was an earnest, zealous man. As a preacher he never refrained from saying what he believed to be the truth through a desire for gain or popularity. He was especially earnest in the work of temperance and was a constant antagonist of the liquor traffic. He was. in 1898, a candidate of the Prohibition party for State Senator. He was gift- ed as a writer, and his handywork as an artist with the brush may be seen on more than one Church edifice which he beauti- fied. For more than twenty years a close friendship had existed between him and the late Rev. D. W. Parsons. An under- standing had existed between them that the survivor should attend the other, but when Brn. Parsons died Bro. Bowen was 1905] MEMOIRS 263

confined to his home awaiting his summons. In his younger years Bro. Bowen was intimately associated with Rev. E. D. Bacon, whose death preceded his by only a few weeks. Thus close together have these three brothers in the Gospel and in Michigan Conference fallen. H. E. Wylie.

~~Rev. James N. Dayton.~~

~~James N. Dayton was born of Revolutionary and Puritanic~~

stock in Harpersfield, New York May 1, 1828, and died at his home in Coldwater, May 27, 1905. The Dayton family came from England to America in 1639 and settled in New England. The great-grandfather, Michael Deighton, was one of the founders of the Congregational church in Watertown, Connecticut, where he died after having served as captain in the Revolutionary war. The parents, Anson Dayton and Parmelia Graves, were godly people and trained their children in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord. James was one of ten children born to them, and in early youth was soundly converted, always believing his conversion to be a direct answer to his mother's prayers. While yet in his teens he was licensed to exhort, and for nearly sixty years preached the gospel. In 1853 he entered Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, New York, and graduated from that institution in 1857. Soon after graduating he was married to Miss Martha Bartlett and came to Michigan. Here he engaged first in teaching, one year in the village of Bronson, during which time his wife died, and the next year he taught in Hillsdale. In 1859 he entered the Michigan Conference, and in i860 was united in marriage with Miss Eva Leonard, of Rochester, New York. To Mr. and Mrs. Dayton were born a son and a daughter, both of whom died in childhood. Bro. Dayton as a man was upright and honest to the core. He abhorred shams. His convictions were of the stalwart type; without swerving, or catering to the opinions of any, he did what he believed to be right and accepted the con sequences. As a preacher he was fearless, logical and strongly evangelistic. In his sermons he emphasized the doctrines of the Church, and warned his hearers to flee from the wrath to come. The Dayton family gave to the Methodist Episcopal Church eight ministers, one of whom was at one time presiding elder of the Saratoga District in the Troy Conference. In the forty-five years of his effective relation with the Michigan Con- ference he served the following charges in the order given: 264 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

Kelloggsville, Muskegon, Newaygo, Hastings, Whitneyville, Saranac, Greenville, Ovid, Quincy, Constantine, Bronson, Au- gusta, Hart, Mattawan, Marcellus, Fremont, Clare, Pierson, North Muskegon, Wayland, Ada, Cannonsburg, Caledonia, Grandville, Vandalia, Galien, Gilead and Bronson. At the last session of the Conference he took a superannuated relation and located in the city of Coldwater, where in the few remaining months of his life he endeared himself to the pastor and people with whom he was associated. His sweet spirit, his devotion to the Church, his love for the Master, with his telling testi- monials and powerful prayers made an impression that will be lasting. Several times he occupied the pulpit with great acceptability. His last sickness came upon him suddenly and was very severe. For nearly six weeks he battled bravely, and believed that he would recover until the day before his death, when the writer broke the news to him that death was very near at hand. At first he seemed somewhat surprised, but not at all disturbed. He said, "It is all right! God knows best!" After breathing a prayer to God in which he committed his companion to the divine care, he relinquished his hold on earth and began to reach forth for the crown of rejoicing. His death was beautiful. Although speechless and evidently uncon- scious of his surroundings, his face in the last moment was

haloed as if with sunbeams that lingered a little after the breathing ceased, and then gradually faded away. He is sur- vived by the companion of nearly forty-five years, two sisters, Mrs. C. G. Robinson and Miss Eliza Dayton, of Hillsdale, and one brother, Col. John Dayton, of Williamsport, Pa. The funer- neral services were held at the late residence, Monday, May 29, the writer officiating, assisted by Dr. VanSchoick! former presiding elder, and Rev. C. L. Keene, of Bronson. The interment was made in the family valut in Forest cemetery at Toledo, where the remains of the two children with those of the father now await the dawning of the morning when the dead in Christ shall rise. F. A. Chapman.

~~Rev. Horatio P. Henderson.~~

Horatio P. Henderson was born in Pamelia. New York, September 26, 1824. In 1831 the family moved from New York to Ohio, settling near Cleveland. His early advantages were very limited, but his intense do- 1905] MEMOIRS 265

sire for an education led him to improve to the utmost all he had, and in every sense he was a self-made man. In 1845 he was married to Miss Mary Dewey, of Brooklyn, Ohio. To them were born four children, two of whom died in childhood. The other two are Mrs. Ida L. McCoy, of Grand Rapids, and Mrs. E. R. Schram, of Kalamazoo. His active work as a minister of the gospel 1 covered a period of thirty-five years, 1851-1886. His natural reticence, together

with the consciousness of his lack of early advantages, made him hesitate somewhat when the church urged him to enter the ministerial ranks. But after acting for some time as a supply with marked success, he yielded to the solicitation of his brethren, and entered the Erie Conference in July, 1851, and from that time until 1868, with the exception of one year, was a member of that Conference. That one year he transferred to the Kentucky Conference, and was stationed at Lexington, Ky. It was the winter of i865-'66, just after the war, when the sectional feeling was at its height. He was able while there to get the M. E. Church reorganized and more firmly established, and then returned to Ohio. 266 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

In 1886 he transferred to the Michigan Conference. His wife dying in 1869, he was married some time after to Mrs. Rhobie Granger. Being left a widower a second time in 1882, he was subsequently joined in marriage to Mrs. Addie Bristol, who lived only a few years, when he was left alone once more. In May, 1891, he married Miss Sarah Ribble, of Romeo, who survives. During his declining years, she gave to him all the care and sympathy that a loving wife could do. His work in the Michigan Conference was at the following places: Allegan, Paw Paw, Jonesville, Big Rapids District, Galesburg, Cedar Springs, Plainwell, Litchfield, and Springport. Naturally of a genial and sunny disposition, he always looked on the bright side of things, and helped others to do so. A severe attack of grip in 1894 left hi m much weakened in his constitution. Two days before his death pneumonia was developed, and very soon did its fatal work upon his feeble constitution. He fell asleep in Jesus at 10:30 a. m., January II, 1905- Those who knew him best loved him best, and he will long "be remembered by what he has done." The funeral services

were held at the home, January 14, in charge of Presiding Elder D. D. Martin, who delivered an impressive address on "The Faithful Minister." Rev. A. A. Knappen in well chosen words gave an affectionate tribute to the memory of his old friend. The lessons were read by Revs. Demorest and Tanner, the

first prayer was offered by Rev. I. H. Riddick. The pastor said a word appreciative of the devotion of his brother to the local church and concluded the service with prayer. Loving hands bore all that was mortal of Bro. Henderson to the Riverside cemetery, where he awaits the resurrection of the just. James Hamilton.

~~Rev. J. W. Hollowell.~~

~~John Wesley Hollowell was born in Yates county, New~~

York, October 6, 1828, and died at the home of his son near Roscommon, Michigan, March 11, 1905, at the age of 76 years. He came from good old Methodist ancestry and godly parents. He was converted in early boyhood and united with the M. E. Church, to which he ever remained faithful and loyal. At the age of sixteen, fearing an attack of sickness, he went to sea on a New Bedford whale ship. He followed the sea for six years, rising to be first mate of a merchant vessel; then in order to be nearer home, he repaired to the great lakes where 1905] MEMOIRS 267

financial success attended his efforts. In 1861 he married Sarah Jane Eaton, and the first year of their married life she spent with him on board the schooner Fortune, of which he was captain and owner. But the sea was treacherous, the life of wife and child precious, and so he soon sold his boat and settled on a farm near Three Rivers. There, six years later, he was called to the ministry. To

~~quote his own account : "I heard the voice I heard in youth~~

~~and early manhood : 'Go thou, and preach the kingdom of God.' It was the last call. I feared, trembled, obeyed. My mistakes, my failures, bury in the grave with me; my suc-~~

cesses, my achievements, let another hand , chronicle." He joined the Michigan Conference in 1870 and served at Wa- keshma for three years, then at Pierson, one, then on account of failing health, he superannuated. In 1879 he moved to Oscoda county, and endured all the hardships of pioneer life. With a measure of returning health, he again took up ministerial work, and for ten years carried the gospel to a people remote from all religious privileges, until failing strength made labor impossible. After the death of his devoted wife, he made his home with his son, from which place he passed to the home eternal. G. A. Brown.

~~Rev. Daniel Westlake Parsons.~~

This well-known, efficient and beloved minister of the gospel of Christ, passed to his eternal reward from his home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Sunday evening, July 30th 1905, after a severe illness of nine months. He was born in Coldwater, Michigan, November 14th, 1843. He was married to Miss Susie Cary, October 14th 1865. He was the father of six children—three sons and three daughters. The three sons and one daughter passed away in childhood, and the wife and two daughters now survive him. His oldest living daughter is the wife of Rev. W. F. Rice, a missionary in South America and now stationed in Lomas,

Buenos Ayres, South America. The other living daughter is the wife of Mr. F. A. Howard also of Lomas, Buenos Ayres, South America. Brother Parsons was a member of the Michigan Annual Con- ference thirty-six years including his two years of probation, he having joined it in that relation in 1869. Previous to entering the conference on probation, he travelled two years under the supervision of the Presiding Elder. His appointments were: 268 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

Ferry, two years; Sable River, one year; Blue Lake, two years; Crystal Valley, two years; Bowne Center, three years; Pewamo, one year; Lyons, three years; Schoolcraft, three years; Howard City, two years; Presiding Elder of Big Rapids District, six years; evangelist, two years by appointment of the Bishop; Tenth Avenue, Grand Rapids, five years, and Chaplain of Mich- igan Soldier's Home, four years and three months. Honored by his bretheren of the conference he was elected to membership of the General Conference which met in Omaha in 1892.

Thus there is an epitome of his work in the Christian Min- istry. But this does not tell the full story of his well rounded and useful life. He was a "Prince in Israel," not that he was endowed with hereditary honors, but was a prince because he moved among his fellow men with the noble and kindly bearing of a brother. He was a loyal and true citizen evincing his patriotism by enlisting as a private soldier in the army when the war of the rebellion broke out, and continuing in the service until peace was declared, suffering nine months of detention in hospital because of personal sickness. As a due appreciation of his valuable service in the army, and because of his superior qualification for the place, he was appointed Chaplain of the Michigan Sol- dier's Home in Grand Rapids, and filled the position with great acceptability up to the time of his death. In his own home he was loved and honored as an appreciative and faithful husband and an affectionate and considerate father. His forty years of married life were happy years. The Gospel Ministry was to him the most important sphere of effort in his life. Here was his throne of power, here his chief efforts were centered, and here was where his greatest victories were won. Measured by the true standard, his was a successful ministry. During the thirty-six years of his ministry, he reached results which fully demonstrated that his work was accepted of God, and the Church was honored by a faithful and worthy representative. His mission was a direct utterance of gospel truth, an earnest appeal to the Church to take higher grounds in Christian experience, and a constant pleading with sinners to be reconciled to God. The membership in all his pastorates were built up and strengthened in all their religious life, and large numbers of sinners were converted under his ministry. His in an eminent sense was an evangelistic ministry. A due recognition of this fact was seen in the vote of the conference asking for his ap- 1905] MEMOIRS 269

~~pointment as Conference Evangelist, and well demonstrated in splendid results which were reached during his two years of~~

service in that relation. It is not an idle speculation that hundreds of rescued souls will rise up in the judgment to call him blessed. His six years of Presiding Eldership of Big Rapids District, proved him to be a man well qualified to perform the duties of that high office. His kindness and helpfullness to young ministers was beautifully portrayed by several young men who paid grateful tribute to his worth at his funeral. He was one of the founders of the Epworth Assembly at Ludington, and that orginization will be a perpetual monument to his wise foresight and faithful labors.

During his last illness, covering a period of nine months, and most of that time attended with physical pain, he demonstrated in his experiences the comforting power, and sustaining influence of the Christian religion which he so long had

preached to others. He was peaceful and happy, and when it became evident that the end was near, he talked with great composure and hopefulness of his triumphant and final home-going. Often while on his bed of suffering he said to his wife and daughter Lois, "Sing the song that I love so well": "I shine in the light of God, ETis image stamps my brow; Through the valley of death my feet have trod, But I reign in Glory now."

A few days before his death when Dr. J. C. Floyd was visiting him, he gave him the following message to bear to his brethren in the ministry: "Tell the brethren that I love them still. 'All is well.'"

~~Thus worthy he lived, and thus peacefully he died, and his released spirit has gone to join the grand army of the redeemed in the glory-world.~~

The funeral services were held in Division Street M. E. Church, Grand Rapids, on Tuesday August 1st, a large assembly being present. A company of old soldiers from the Sol- diers' Home came to honor the memory of their beloved deceased Chaplain. Sixteen of the ministers of the conference were present, viz: G. D. Chase, W. I. Cogshall, Charles Nease, W. L. Laufman, Russell H. Bready, Albert Smith, G. W. Grimes,

~~J. Marzolf, John Klose, J. H. Wilcox, A. T. Luther, C. L. Barn- hart, C. S. Wheeler, Charles Ottan, A. H. Coors, and J. I. Buell. 270 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

Presiding Elder Chase conducted the services, making appreciative remarks on the life and character of the deceased, and referring with much emotion to the solemnity of the hour, and the loss to the church and the world in the death of this highly useful and faithful minister. The singing was led by Mrs. Rev. Albert Smith in very appropriate selections. The formal memorial address was delivered by the writer. Dr. Charles Nease, and Rev. W. L. Laufman read the scripture lessons. Rev. A. T. Luther offered prayer. Highly appreciative addresses were presented by Revs. C. L. Barnhart, A. H. Coors,

~~C. S. Wheeler and Dr. W. I. Cogshall. The interment of the~~

~~remains was in Shelby, Michigan, Revs. J. A. De Graff and G. A. Odium attending.~~

~~J. I. Buell.~~

~~Rev. William Robert Stinchcomb.~~

~~As was written of one of the worthies of the Apostolic~~

~~Church so may it truthfully be said of the Rev. William R. Stinchcomb "He was a good man, full of the Holy Ghost and of faith."~~

~~Our dear brother was born in Melmore, Ohio, April 10,~~

1831. He passed to the unseen March 4, 1905. He was soundly and happily converted in the year 1849. He felt the conviction of duty to preach the gospel soon after that event, but like many others did not yield to that call for a number of years. He was for some time a student in Ohio Wesleyan University. Among his instructors were such men as Edward Thomson and William E. Harris, both of whom became honored Bishops in our Church. On the 31st day of March, 1861, he was married to Miss Katherine Ellerton. Three daughters blessed this happy marriage—Mrs. Mary Campbell, of Ann Arbor, Mrs. Jennie Briggs, of Schoolcraft, and Mrs. Laura Birket, of Mishawaka, Indiana. Bro. Stinchcomb spent several years in teaching in Ohio and afterward in this state. He came to Woodland, Michigan, in 1865, where he resided until he began his life work of preaching the gospel. He joined the Michigan Annual Conference on trial at its session in Jackson in 1872. In 1874 at Kalamazoo he was received into full membership and ordained deacon by Bishop Matthew Simpson. Tn 1876 at Niles he was ordained elder by Bishop Gilbert Haven. His first appointment was at Monroe Centre on Grand Traverse District, a heavy pioneer charge. But his courage and ability were equal to the task. 1905] MEMOIRS 271

sinners were converted and the church strengthened and enlarged during his entire three years of pastoral work there. His work on this first charge demonstrated his faith and fitness for the great work of the gospel ministry. His other appointments were Elk Rapids, Cadillac, Parkville, Schoolcraft, Grand Traverse District, a full term; Marshall, Marcellus, Cassopolis, Paw Paw, Greenville Circuit, and Lakeview. On all these charges he was a soul winner and led the church up to a higher and better life.

Bro. Stinchcomb was a student and a thinker, tie was a great reader. He was thoroughly familiar with the latest treat- ises on metaphysics and theology. Never happier than when delving into the mysteries of mind and matter. Those who knew him intimately could well appreciate Dr. Ninde's account of that last forenoon visit in his study at Ann Arbor. He was at home on the great theme of the immortality of the soul, and we do not wonder that he grew eloquent "and his face glowed" in its discussion. There were times when he preached with great power and true eloquence. He was a tender, sympa- thetic pastor, wise in counsel and loving in admonition. But 2/2 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

few could bring together those who had long been separated by misunderstanding like this wise, earnest pastor. He was a manly man far removed from the sanctimonious and syco- phant. He hated sham and shoddy with his whole heart. He was a true friend, hospitable, generous, big hearted. He lived God, his country, his church, with true devotional affection, and also his neighbors. On the great questions of moral reform you always knew where to find him. He was conservatively radical as the wise and true always are. Bro. Stinchcomb was very popular on all of his charges, loved and looked up to, not only by his church but by the community generally. He was recognized not only as a man of profound religious convictions and experience, but also as a man of affairs and one who knew men, and how to deal with

them under smost delicate circumstances. He was genial, brotherly and kind, and for these qualities of mind and heart he was highly prized as a friend by all who came to know him intimately. But what shall we say of his home that shall adequately ex-

~~press what it was to him and those within its sacred precincts.~~

Only one intimate in that home can fully appreciate what it was to his wife and daughters. His love and care were persistent, never becoming weary, a constant source of patient watch- fulness and tender support. A wise, faithful brotherly man has gone to his reward; suddenly dismissed from the cares and duties of this life and conducted to the delights and glories of the heavenly world. Earth and loved ones are poorer, but heaven is richer and more attractive to those who remain here. A brief service was held at the home of his daughter in Ann Arbor where he died conducted by Dr. E. S. Ninde, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Ann Arbor, and the remains were brought to Schoolcraft for burial. On Wednes- day, March, 8th, final services were held at the M. E. Church, upon which occasion the following brethren of the Michigan Conference were present and participated: M. M. Callen, Presiding Elder of Kalamazoo District; L.

~~N. Pattison, of Ann Arbor; P. J. Maveety, of Battle Creek; J.~~

~~A. Sprague, George Donaldson, and J. B. Pinckard. of Kala- mazoo; H. D. Skinner, of Otsego; G. R. Arnold, of Allegan;~~

~~J. W. Foy, of Vicksburg, and G. V. Fallis, pastor of the local church. A. P. Moors. 1905] MEMOIRS 273~~

~~Rev. Orlin D. Watkins.~~

Orlin Dwight Watkins was born on the nineteenth day of December, 1830, in Naples, Ontario County, New York, and departed this life on the 17th day of September, 1904, at his home in Traverse City, Michigan. His parents were of the old Puritan stock, and were among the first to settle in that part of Western New York. In 1837 he removed with his parents to St. Joseph County Michigan, and in 1839 to Noble Coun- ty, Indiana. The education of the boy began in his fourth year. So easily and readily did he learn that he was admitted to a gram- mar school at the age of seven. Soon after this a college was established by the Presbyterians at Ontario, Lagrange County, Indiana. While the older children of the family were transferred to this school, young Orlin was kindly told that he. was expected to stay at home, look after the farm and care for the parents in their declining years. The young boy felt that it was right to care for his aged parents, and with a willing heart yielded to this plan; but his thirst for knowledge was so great that oft times, after the work of the day was done, he might be seen in the chimney corner pursuing his studies by the light of the fire, with an earnestness and zeal that never fails of success. In the winter of 1841-2 in a revival meeting under the united efforts of the Methodists and the Presbyterians, he was thoroughly converted to God, and in the following Spring entered Lagrange College to prepare for the work of the Ministry to which God had unmistakably called him. He very soon found much trouble in harmonizing his own views with the Presby- terian faith. For this reason he withdrew from their communion and soon after united with the M. E. Church, and from that day there was no more wavering or trouble but standing on the sure foundation rock of full and free salvation by the blood of Christ, the song of his soul was "On Christ the Solid Rock I Stand; all Other Ground is Sinking Sand." In the year 1854 he was most happily married to Miss Mary

J. Lee. In 1864 he was appointed General Superintendent of Sunday School work in the counties of Noble and Lagrange, by the S. S. A. for those counties. In 1865 he was licensed as a local preacher and appointed by the Presiding Elder to Angola charge, North Indiana conference. At the following session of the Annual Conference he was admitted on trial and assigned to the Ossin charge where he remained for the full term of 274 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

three years. Brother Watkins labored in the North Indiana conference about fourteen years, and then transferred to the Michigan conference where he did faithful service for the master until called to his reward. His devoted wife preceded him to the better land by about 15 years. Two daughters and several sons survive to mourn the loss of a noble father and true man of God. The funeral was held in the First M. E. Church, Traverse City, by the writer, September 12th and his body was laid to rest in beautiful Oak- wood Cemetery, Traverse City, to await the resurection of the just. W. Heath

~~Mrs. Addis Albro.~~

~~This elect lady, and unusually interesting character, died in~~

~~Detroit, Mich., August 12, 1905. She was born in Schoharie. X.~~

Y., April 6, 1859. In early youth she was converted and united with the Re- formed Dutch Church. From the time of her conversion down through the whole of her subsequent years she manifested unmistakable evidence of the genuineness of the new life. In her young womanhood she gained that intellectual training which so well fitted her to occupy the high sphere of life which came to her in maturer years, and which she so delightfully graced to the very close.

She was married to Addis Albro on February 19, 1878, and soon thereafter removed with him to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he had become professor in Fort Wayne College. There she with her husband united with the Wayne Street Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1879 her husband was licensed to preach and in that same year he joined the North Indiana Conference. From that time on to the close of her life she faithfully and devotedly performed the duties of an itinerant's wife. In pastoral work she usually accompanied her husband and was highly popular and successful. She was queenly in her home, and the imperial adornment which she always furnished there was that of a ''meek and quiet spirit," and her husband and children rise up to call her blessed. Her noble character is indellibly stamped upon her children. In her home she always had a welcome for all who might enter. Her perfect ease and grace of manner; her charming per- 1905] MEMOIRS 275

sonal beauty; and her kindly bearing made it a delight to be in her presence. Her unwavering faith in God, and her love for God's Word were always distinguished characteristics in her life. In the last four days of her life when facing the terrible ordeal through which she was to pass in the serious surgical operation which proved to be fatal, she was cheerful and trustful of God's abounding grace. As she went to the operating room she said with a smile, to her husband, "If the dear Lord desires to take

~~me home in this way, it is all right." Several times after the operation, as she realized that she must leave her family, she~~

said : "I don't understand it, but it is all right." At daybreak as her spirit was taking its flight, she seemed to say to her family who were all about her bedside, "Let me go, for the day breaketh." It was the dawn of an eternal day to her. She was the mother of one daughter and three sons who, with her husband survive her and sadly mourn her loss. Her remains were buried in the historic "Old Stone Fort Cemetery" at Schoharie, New York, within sight of her birth- place and near the scenes of her childhood, where she and her husband spent their early youth.

~~J. I. Buell.~~

~~Mrs. E. D. Bacon.~~

Mrs. Bacon died in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on August 17th 1905, aged seventy-one years, two months and seventeen days. She was born in Gananoque, Ontario, June 1st, 1834. Her early life was spent in Canada where she had excellent school advantages. In her young girlhood she was converted and joined the Methodist church of Canada, changing to the Methodist Episcopal church when she came to the United States. She had been twice married. Her first marriage was to Rev. G A. Phillips, a former member of Michigan Conference, but

who died in Lyons, Michigan, November 4, 1877. By this marriage she became the mother of five children, four of whom now survive her and deeply mourn her loss. While the wife of Brother Phillips she was in the years of her younger womanhood and strength, and during all of those years she exhibited those qualities of excellence which distinguished her as a woman of great worth and a model wife. Intelligent and progressive she was actively engaged in study- ing the problems of her time and engaging with great hearti- 2?6 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

ness in whatever form of work she found to do. Her devotion to the interests of the church of her choice was boundless; her "integrity to the doctrines of the Bible knew no abatement; and the ties which bound her to the cause of the blessed Master found no severance. While her health and strength remained good she was a faithful and much loved Sun- day School Teacher, and scores of children and youth have attended with delight upon her teachings. In each of the woman's Missionary Societies of the Church and in other religious organizations she was a prominent member. In her home life she was queenly and was a devoted and loving wife, always conducting domestic affairs with discretion. She was a wise, considerate, and an affectionate mother and her children call her blessed. In 1893 her second marriage was to Rev. E. D. Bacon who passed to his reward only a few weeks before her. She was not an idler in the church, but attended the public services and the prayer meetings when she could, and worked as much as her strength would allow. During the last four or five years of her life she was an invalid for the greater part of the time. While she was unable to communicate much with her friends towards the last, there was an abiding evidence that the end was peace. Her funeral was held from the home of her daughter, Mrs.

Schaufele, in the city of Grand Rapids. August 20, 1905. Rev. J. W. Hart, pastor of the Tenth Avenue Church where her membership, and that of her late husbands had been held, preached the sermon. Three sons of Bro. Bacon did the singing, and the services were most impressive. On the Monday following the remains were taken to Ionia for burial.

~~J. I. BUELL.~~

~~Mrs. Geo. A. Brown.~~

~~Metta May, the beloved wife of Rev. George A. Brown, of Evart, Michigan Conference, died at Harper hospital. Detroit,~~

~~on the night of October 6, 1904, at about 9 o'clock.~~

~~She was the daughter of the late Mr. J. B. Alward. of Cam- den. This brief but beautiful life commenced a little over thir-~~

ty-five years ago, on January 1, 1869, in McComb, Ohio. She came to Michigan with her parents when yet in her infancy, settling in the neighborhood in which she grew up to womanhood, and where her body now rests awaiting the call of the Master. She was educated in the schools of her home village 1905] MEMOIRS 277

and the high school at Reading, Michigan. After three terms of teaching, she graduated with honor from the tri-state normal at Angola, Indiana. At the age of fifteen she was converted and united with the M. E. Church at Camden during the pastorate of the Rev. Thomas Nicholson. Her Christian life was one of active endeavor from its commencement. About ten years ago she was married to Rev. George A. Brown, who for the two years previous has been her pastor, and from that time to the day of her death she was the faithful keeper of the itinerant's home—four years at White Pigeon,

and six years at Evart. Eight years ago the responsibility of motherhood was laid upon her. This was repeated again and again until three bright boys, three precious jewels, adorned their home, respectively Alward, Wesley and Beverly. With the coming of the children the young mother felt keenly sensi- ble of her duty to meet the obligations that grow out of life's

relations. Thus she counted it her highest God-given duty to be a good mother. She gave herself to her children, never being absent from them more than a few hours at a time. She made home a loved and happy place for the family, "The heart of the mother was the school room of her children." For a —

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few years she had given almost undivided attention to the household. Recently, however, she began to take up again some of the active work of the church and Sunday School. But alas, how short the service. While the willing, loyal spirit whis- pered, "What wouldst thou have me do?" the Master replied, "Come up higher and behold my glory." Very early in life Metta tasted the cup of sorrow in the death of her mother. Seven years ago her father died. At last came the severest test of her life, when under the wasting hand of the terrible disease she surrendered all that was dear

to her on earth to the keeping of others. From the time it was ascertained that she could not recover she faced the end bravely,calmly, and cheerfully. She said to her husband before going to the hospital, "I am not afraid to die, but I don't want to leave you and the boys." She admonished her loved ones at the hospital not to feel badly, saying, "See how happy and con-

~~tented I am." She often repeated the beautiful words of the twenty-third psalm. The end came, the battle is over, but the~~

victory is hers through Jesus Christ her Lord. The funeral was conducted by the writer at the Camden Methodist Church, in the presence of a large company of relatives and friends, assisted by the pastor of the church. Rev. P. R. Keplinger. and Revs. D. E. Reed, John Biery and R. D. Freeman. N. L. Bray.

~~Mrs. Frederic Coe Demorest.~~

~~Estella Hibbs was born in Lynnville. Jasper county. Iowa.~~

July 7, 1872. Converted in childhood, she united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which her parents were members. Her higher education was obtained at the Iowa State Nor- mal and at Penn College. Towa. after which she became a teacher in her native town. While thus engaged, she met Rev. Frederic Coe Demorest. then pastor of the M. E. Church of that place, and on the TOth of October, 1894, they were united in marriage. Shortly after this Mr. Demorest returned to the teacher's profession which he had left to enter the ministry. The faithful wife, a wonderful helpmeet, although preferring to live quietly in one place, a home lover, cheerfully accompanied her husband in his itinarary as a teacher in our Church schools three years at Mt. Pleasant. Towa. two years at Onarga. Til.. 1905] MEMOIRS 279

where he was president of the Grand Prairie Seminary, and three years as president of the Southwest Kansas College, at Winfield, Kansas. In September, 1903, they moved to Albion, Michigan, where Mr. Demorest occupies the Chair of Latin in Albion College. From this place she passed to her eternal home

on October 6, 1904, just four days before the consummation of ten years of married life. Mrs. Demorest was the mother of two children, Dorothy, eight years, and Lois Aileen, three and one-half years, both of whom survive. Sustaining a serious accident in her youth she never fully recovered, for silently the strength of what was otherwise a splendid physique, was being sapped. While her life was one

of almost continual and acute suffering, it was characterized by wonderful cheerfulness and helpfulness. Her constant study seemed to be the comfort of others. Two services were held in commemoration. One was at the home in Albion, conducted by Presiding Elder Martin, assisted by President Dickie and the pastor, Rev. W. H. B. Urch; the other at the home church in Oskalooso, Iowa, conducted by

~~Rev. J. W. Somerville, assisted by President Rosenberger, of~~

Penn College, and Rev. J. C. W. Coxe. In accordance with her own request, her remains were laid to rest in Forest cemetery, Oskaloosa, which place had become the parental home. At the last service her favorite hymn "My Ain Countrie" was used with remarkable appropriateness. She possessed to the last a triumphant faith, and went home in the confident assurance of redeeming grace. D. D. Martin.

~~Mrs. D. S. Haviland.~~

Alary J. Camburn-Haviland was born in Lockport, New York, Augst 24, 1830, and died in Lakeview, Michigan, July 8, 1905, aged 74 years, 11 months and 14 days. She came to Michigan with her parents in 1831, while, as yet it was a territory. Their home in the wilderness was reached by following an Indian trial for the last several miles of the journey. Amid these primitive surroundings our sister spent her girlhood days. Here she attended her first school. After qualifying herself for teaching, she became a successful teacher for several terms in the public schools of her county. She was converted at the 280 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

~~age of 15 and at once became a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, of which she was a faithful and active member until death.~~

She was married to the Rev. D. S. Haviland November 6, 1849. Their first home was in Raisin township, Lenewee county, Michigan. In 1852 they removed to the vicinity of Grand Rapids, where they resided six years. At the end of that time, at the call of God, and through the Division Street Church, of Grand Rapids, they entered the itinerancy of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For nearly forty-eight years she shared with her devoted husband the labors, privations and triumphs of that glorious vocation.

Mrs. Haviland was a sister of the late Rev. Ira H. Camburn, of the Detroit Conference, and an aunt of the Rev. A. T. Cam- burn, of the same Conference. She was also a cousin to the Rev. Myron B. Camburn for many years a member of the Michigan Conference.

Our sister was sick for about four months, and during nearly all that time her sufferings were most intense, and yet she would say, "This is nothing to what Jesus suffered for me." She often repeated the twenty-third psalm, and the old hymn, "Jesus Lover of My Soul." Other Scriptures and familiar hymns were often upon her lips during these months of pain. Repeatedly she prayed, "O, my Father, bid me come to Thee." Often she would stretch out her hands and plead to be released from her sufferings. She was ready, ripe and anxious to depart and be with Christ, "which is far better."

The funeral services, at her request, were held at the home and were conducted by her pastor the Rev. G. K. Fairbank, assisted by the Revs. S. W. La Du, of Coral, and A. P. Moors, of Greenville. The many beautiful flowers which covered the casket told the story of friendships, sympathy and love, of in- dividuals, members of the church, the O. E. S., and the W. R. C, of which organizations she was a member.

~~She was borne to her final resting place by her two sons,~~

~~Charles and Lucian Haviland, her two sons-in-lay, F. J. Baldwin and H. S. Blanding, and her two grandsons, E. A. Haviland and Roy Blanding.~~

~~In the beautiful cemetery at Lakeview her precious dust was laid away, to await "the resurrection of the just." 1905] MEMOIRS 281~~

~~Our dear Bro. Haviland has the abiding comfort of a Glo- rious Presence and an Immortal Hope. A. P. Moors.~~

~~Mrs. G. W. Howe.~~

Lucy Osborn Howe was born in Livonia, New York, July 26, 1839, and died at Albion, February 12, 1905. The Michigan Conference has lost one of its most devoted preachers' wives. She was married October 28, 1855, to the Rev. G. W. Howe, and for half a century was the brightness and strength of that good man's home. In the spring of 1867 Bro. Howe joined the Indiana Conference. In 1883 they transferred to Michigan Conference. Two years ago they came to Albion establishing themselves in a modest home on the outskirts of the city. Last summer Sister Howe showed signs of failing health, and although she

was not so ill as to give up her place in the household duties, it was decided by a council of surgeons that an operation must be performed. She submitted, but the doctors discovered that abdominal cancer had so developed that its removal was an im- possibility. The wound made in the effort to help her soon healed, and Sister Howe recovered sufficiently to get about the house for a time, but the dreaded disease made rapid progress, and she soon fell asleep in Jesus. Her sufferings while waiting the coming of the Master were very severe. Not a murmur escaped the sufferer's lips. Her patience was very touching and strongly moved all who visited the sick room. Everything that love could suggest or affection devise was done to alleviate as far as possible the tedium of the last months. Released from parish duty her devoted husband was able to minister can- stantly to her, and her son Harry was often at home. Sister Howe was one of six sisters, only one of whom now lives, Mrs. Jennie Miller, of Albion. The funeral services were held at the house conducted by the pastor, Rev. W. H. B. Urch; and the presiding elder, Rev. D. D.

Martin, assisted by Revs. A. A. Knappen and I. H. Riddick. Sister Howe was converted when only twelve years old, and for over half a century adorned the gospel of Christ her Saviour. She understood the art of making the minister's home a place of refuge and strength in which the husband always found rest

~~and courage. She was strong not only in the home, making it lovely with an attractive presence, but had qualities that fitted 282 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

her to be her husband's assistant in parish work. In revival seasons she had rare tact in dealing with souls, as many whom she had led into the kingdom could testify. If she pleased her Lord, that was reward enough for her. During her residence at Albion she was devoted to the interests of the Church. Her pastor found her an inspiration. Her last prayer at the mid-week service will not soon be forgotten. Her last word to the pastor was that he would pray for God to be constantly revealed to her. She has her highest joy—she now sees Him face to face. She is mourned by a devoted husband, a loving sister and two sons, Gilbert and Harry. Many other sorrow while waiting to meet in the blissful beyond. D. D. Martix.

~~Mrs. S. W. Large.~~

~~The death angel visited the parsonage at Clarion, Michigan,~~

on June 19, and carried away the gentle spirit of Sister Large, wife of our pastor, Rev. S. W. Large. Mary Margaret, daughter of Wm. H. and Cynthia Foster, was born at Vergennes, Michigan. March 31, 1876. The family moved to Sparta when she was fourteen, and two years later over-study brought on illness. The breaking down of her nervous system culminated in paralysis, and she soon became deaf and blind. After four months she began very slowly to regain strength and the use of her faculties. In the course of about three years she recovered her health. In the meantime she removed to Bellaire with her mother and family.

~~August 31, 1898, she was married to Rev. S. W. Large, then a student at Albion. The following January she accompanied him to Albion, where he attended college a few mouths. During~~

the first year after returning from college she was taken ill and has been an invalid ever since. In November, 1900, Rro. Large was appointed pastor at Alden. Bro. and Sister Large served this charge two years. They then served two years at Grace Church, Petoskey. Last Conference they were sent to Clarion.

Sister Large united with the M . E. Church September 8, 1896. under the pastorate of Rev. Ralph T. Flewelling. She became active, took a deep interest in her husband's work and gave him valuable assistance. Her Christian experience was characterized by an abiding faith. She was not afraid to die. She was an intense sufferer, but was always cheerful. She saw a silver 1905] MEMOIRS 283

lining in every cloud. She was very industrious, often working at embroidery or sewing even while confined to her bed. In spite of the fact that she was unable to walk during the most of her long sickness the parsonage was always a home for the church people, and the ladies of the church spent many pleasant hours at her bedside. These were hours of helpfulness and cheer both for herself and her friends, by whom she was greatly beloved. Whenever any question was raised as to the why or wherefore of her long illness, she always replied, "It is the

Father's will; it is all right." Nothing could shake her faith in the love and kindness of her Heavenly Father. She leaves a husband, a little son about three years old, her mother, two sisters, four brothers and a host of friends. The funeral services were conducted at Bellaire by the presiding elder. Rev. M. D. Carrel, assisted by the writer. Wm. A. Robinson.

~~Mrs. Olevia A. Marble.~~

Olevia Ann Korah Marble was born at Clarkstown, Monroe County, N. Y., April 24, 1827. She was the daughter of Oliver and Matilda Korah. She moved with her parents to Michigan in 1835. Her mother died when she was but eleven years old, and she assumed for two years the responsibility of a mother to her three sisters and brother, who were then adopted by their uncle and she went to live with her grandfather Manfield who lived in Plainwell. She was converted at the age of sixteen and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was married to Elijah Mar- ble April 24, 1845. They settled first at Gobleville where they lived for three years and then moved to Rice Creek where they remained for ten years. While here Mr. Marble was licensed as a local preacher and the next year was given the Marengo Circuit. In 1858 he became an itenerant of the Michigan Con- ference. Twenty-four years ago they moved to Harbor Springs where he supplied the pulpit for three years. Here Mr. Marble died March 9, 1894. Mrs. Marble spent the days of her widow- hood at her beautiful home on Bluff Street at Harbor Springs. She was active in Christian work until old age compeled her to discontinue her labor of love. She passed on to Glory, May 4. 1905- During the last few weeks of her illness she was a great sufferer but she displayed christian fortitude and with her last audible speech repeated a portion of the twenty-third psalm 284 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

~~following it with the text, "He will never leave me nor forsake me" and closing with "Glory! Glory be to God!"~~

The funeral services occurred at Harbor Springs, May 7, conducted by Rev. P. E. Whitman. She was buried at Nashville, by the side of her husband. She leaves a son, Erving Marble, of Nashville, and a daughter, Mrs. Lee, of Harbor Springs. P. E. Whitman-.

~~Mrs. Isaac H. Riddick.~~

~~Mrs. Martha J. Riddick was born near Kingsville, Ontario,~~

~~December 2, 1846, and died in Albion, Michigan, November 9, 1904.~~

Her parents were John J. and Ann E. Wigle, both devoted and honored members of the Methodist Church of Canada. She openly confessed Christ in her early childhood, and was an exceptionally devoted Christian. Constitutionally hers was an ardent nature; and purified by the cleansing blood of Christ, and kindled to a flame of holy zeal by the constraining love of Christ and a passion for souls, her life was singularly useful. At the age of twenty she was untied in marriage to the Rev. Wm. P. Maywood, of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Can- ada, who subsequently came to Michigan and became a member of the Detroit Conference. His health failing he with his family removed to Denver, Colorado, where he died, and where his remains now rest. Of this union four sons were born, three of whom reached mature age. Mrs. Maywood with her children returned to Michigan and settled in Caro. Her three sons became students in Albion College. The eldest, Scott, three years ago preceded his mother to the better land. Her other two sons are Charles, of Hastings, and Ames, of Marquette, where

he is pastor of the Methodist Church. On Ferbuary 17, 1886, Mrs. Maywood and Rev. Isaac H. Riddick were joined in marriage by Rev. E. Wigle, a brother of Mrs. Maywood, Mr. Rid- dick being then pastor of the Methodist Church at Caro. Two sons, Foster Wigle and Paul Merrill, blessed their union and are now students in the Albion high school. At the time Mrs. Maywood and Mr. Riddick became husband and wife, Mr. Riddick, by previous marriage had four children, one son, Carlos W., of Winamac, Indiana; Florence A,, wife of Samuel E. Boys, of Plymouth, Indiana; Mary T. and Hattie E., now seniors in Albion College. All of these sons and daughters are members of the Methodist Church. As a wife and mother Mrs. Riddick was a woman of grace and 1905] MEMOIRS 285

affection, who succeeded in blending the several family interests so that those not children of her life were children of her love, and all alike mourn for her as a mother. As a pastor's wife, she never failed or disappointed. She was greatly loved by the people of Devereaux, where her husband is now pastor, as she has been in other fields. With an unwavering faith, great peace and an unclouded hope, the passing of this godly woman was more like a translation than a death. The funeral was held from the family residence on Maple Street, Albion, conducted by Presiding Elder D. D. Martin, assisted by several clergymen from Detroit and Michigan Con- ferences. The precious form was laid to rest in the beautiful Riverside cemetery at Albion. D. D. Martin.

~~Mrs Salmon Steele.~~

Adelaide Ruth Lambert was born at Ware, Mass., March 8, 1816, and died at Northport, Michigan, January 30, 1905. Having been well trained in the schools of her native city she engaged in the work of teaching until her marriage to the Rev. Salmon Steele in 1838. Shortly after this event she came with her husband to Michigan, and for more than sixty-five years walked hand in hand with him, heroically sharing in all the toils and privations of a pioneer Methodist preacher's life. In 1849 Bro. Steel was pastor of the church at Traverse City, and at the same time Presiding Elder of Grand Traverse Dis- trict. The country was very sparsely settled, and the district comprised the territory lying between Mackinac and Grand Haven. When the duties of the district called her husband away

from home, as was frequently the case, Sister Steel would fill his pulpit and always with great acceptability. And when he was at home looking after the local interests, she would be traversing the wilds of the new region carrying the gospel to men and women who otherwise would not have had the consolations of such ministrations. Three years were spent with her husband in the copper country, where this sainted woman did most excellent work as an evangelist among the miners and lumbermen. The first Sunday School in Northern Michigan was organized by sister Steel in Northport, in 1858. This school stands today as a monument of her zeal. In her home life Sister Steel exhibited the best qualities of a wife and mother. She understood the value of love in fash- 286 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905

ioning the character of the children God gave her, as the lives of those children, of whom there were seven, but of whom only one, Wilbur F., is now living, testify. During the closing years of her life she grew gradually blind, but her soul became more and more luminous so that to those about her her face seemed to reflect like a mirror the glory of God. Her sick room was the vestibule of heaven. She passed away as quietly and sweetly

~~as if going into a slumber. The obsequies were held in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Northport, and she was laid to rest by the side of her partner in toil. A. H. Coors.~~

~~Mrs. James Webster.~~

~~Eliza Ann Webster was born at Montpelier, Vermont, May~~

23> 1839, and departed this life at the home of her son at Chicago, Illinois, June 30, 1905. Mrs. Webster was a child of God from her earliest years, and when at the age of nineteen she was married to Rev. James Webster, she was prepared both by her intellectual culture and by her religious experience to fulfill the important duties of an itinerant preacher's wife. From the day of her marriage until the sad parting hour when the earthly union was dissolved by the death of her beloved husband, she was his devoted helpmeet, and did much to alleviate the inevitable difficulties and hardships of a preacher's experience. She was a woman of more than usual culture and refinement, who won her way among all classes of people to whom her husband ministered. She worked shoulder to shoulder with him, and contributed much to his success in the pastorate. She was in the itenerant ranks for about thirty years of which nearly twenty-seven were spent in connection with the Michigan Conference. After the superannuation of her husband they made their home at Albion. Mich- igan, where he died about three years ago. The local church was the richer in spiritual power by their coming and they being dead are yet speaking by the influence of their devoted Chris- tian lives. Mrs. Webster's health gradually failed and she went to the home of her son, Mr. A. F. Webster of Chicago, where, ministered to by willing hands, she spent the last days of her earthly life, and peacefully passed into the unseen, sustained and comforted by a precious hope of the everlasting life. Her mortal remains were brought back to Albion, where after appropriate memorial services, they were deposited in the cemetery to await the resurection of the just. Two sons, A. F. Webster MEMOIRS 287

of Chicago and W. C. Webster of New York, and a daughter, Mrs. Kathrine Ripley of Montague, Michigan, survive her and with filial affection own her blessed influence upon their lives and characters. A. T. Ferguson.

~~Mrs. E. W. Wood.~~

Anna Robbins was born in Tilbury, Canada, April 8, 1876, and died in Kingsley, Michigan, December 9, 1904, aged 28 years, 8 months and 1 day. She with her parents came to Michigan in 1893 and settled near Manton, where she was married to Zeba Lanphear on July 28 of the same year. To them were born three sons, Jay, Hec- tor and Don, who are now left in lonely orphanage. On De- cember 22, 1901, her husband died and she took upon herself the burden of support for herself and the little boys. In September, 1902, under the labors of the Crusade Band she was converted and united with the Free Baptist Church in Manton, proving a faithful member. On July 28, 1903, she was united in marriage to Rev. E. W. Wood, of the Michigan Conference. She transferred her membership to the M. E. Church, and became an earnest laborer with her husband in his work. Her affectionate nature made her quite popular with children, and she held meetings for their instruction. In the ladies' aid society her help was invaluable, and in pastoral work she was indeed a helpmeet to her husband. After the burning of our parsonage September 10, we put the few articles of their household goods that were saved into the only vacant rooms in town, and the coldness and unsanitary conditions of these rooms contributed largely to her death. She expected to move into the new parsonage in a couple of weeks, but went instead to the "house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Her illness was of brief dura- tion, but her sufferings were intense. Young, vigorous and full of zeal, we expected much of her, but the Master called ere the noon had come, and she went to her rest. The funeral service was held in the M. E. Church at Manton on Sunday, December 11. The service was conducted by the writer, an old friend of

~~Bro. Wood, assisted by Rev. F. J. Bryan, the pastor at Manton. A large congregation attested their sympathy with Bro. Wood. A. L. Thurston.~~

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~~Chairman Charles Nease. Secretary—W. H. Phelps.~~

~~Registrar—W. L. Laufman.~~

~~A. F. Nagler, J. R. WOOTEN, T. H. M. COGHLAN, M. L. Fox,~~

~~Hugh Kennedy, W. J. Wilson, R. A. Wright, W. M. Puffer, E. A. Armstrong, Thomas Cox,~~

~~W. P. French, J. F. Peschman,~~

~~J. T. LeGear, L. E. Lennox.~~

~~Rules Governing Examinations.~~

1. Four examinations shall be held during the year; viz., on the second Tuesday of December, April, and August, and on the Tuesday preceding the opening session of the annual Conference. No examinations will be granted at other times than the dates specified for regular examinations. All "conditions" SHOULD BE MADE UP AT THE DECEMBER EXAMINATION. 2. Sermons and essays must not be signed, and should be submitted at the times indicated in the "Plan of Examination." or sent to the Registrar within ten days thereafter, for which candidates shall be given receipts.

3. All examination papers shall be written in the presence of a member of the Board of Examiners or of a Supervisor appointed by the Chairman, and shall not be signed. The Supervisor before whom the work is done shall certify to the same by use of the blank furnished him by the Registrar, shall give receipts to the candidates for their papers, and forward the papers to the proper examiners.

~~4. All examination papers shall be written upon light-weight paper, furnished by the examiner at each examination. The paper shall be letter size, written upon one side only.~~

5. All papers, sermons, essays, etc., shall be the property of the examiners, but may be returned if postage and request accompany the same. 6. Each candidate shall file with the Registrar, on the Tuesday preceding the opening session of the Annual Conference, a written statement that he has read all the books "To Be Read."

~~7. Each candidate shall pay an annual fee of one dollar at the time of the first examination of the year.~~

~~(313) — .~~

~~314 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

8. No person will be recommended by the Board to pass from the studies of one class into those of the next year conditioned on more than one study, unless three-fourths of the members present shall vote for such recommendation.

9. All candidates for admission on trial or for full membership shall meet the Board on the evening of the first day of the Conference. 10. All who have taken examinations during the year are requested to meet the Registrar at 4 p. m. on the first day of the Conference to receive their standings on the Registrar's book.

~~EXAMINATIONS WILL BE HELD DURING THE YEAR AS FOLLOWS :~~

Bay View—First day of camp meetings; Arba Martin, supervisor. Benton Harbor—December 12, April 10, August 14; L. E. Lennox, examiner. Clare—December 12, April 10, August 14; G. W. Maxwell, supervisor Grand Rapids—December 12, April 10, August 14; W. L. Laufman, examiner. Ionia—December 12, April 10, August 14; W. I. Cogshall, supervisor Jackson—December 12, April 10, August 14; J- T. LeGear, Examiner. Kalamazoo— December 12. April 10. August 21; W. M. Puffer, examiner. Lansing—December 12, April 10, August 14; W. P. French, examiner. Ludington—December 12. April 10, August 14; E. A. Armstrong, examiner. Muskegon—December 12, April 10, August 14; M. L. Fox, examiner. Petoskey—December 12, April io, August 14; Arba Martin, supervisor. Reed City—December 12. April 10, August 14; W. H. Irwin, supervisor. Traverse City—December 12, April 10. August 14; Thomas Cox. examiner.

~~Plan of Examinations~~

~~Admission on Trial. DECEMBER EXAMINATION.~~

~~. —English Branches~~

~~a. Elementary English . b. Principles of Rhetoric~~

~~c. Outlines of History Thomas Cox.~~

~~APRIL EXAMINATION.~~

~~2. —A Manual of Bible History R. A. Wright. 3.—A Manual of Christian Doctrine T. H. M. Coghlan 4. —A Plain Account of Christian Perfection W. H. Phelps. 1905] BOARD OF EXAMINERS 3*5~~

~~AUGUST EXAMINATION.~~

~~5. —The Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church J. F. Peschman. 6.—John Wesley the Methodist J. R. Wooton. 7. —Written Sermon M. L. Fox.~~

~~Studies in the First Year. DECEMBER EXAMINATION.~~

~~I. —Introduction to the Holy Scriptures L. E. Lennox.~~

~~APRIL EXAMINATION. 2 —Systematic Theology W. M. Puffer.~~

~~3. — Lectures on Homiletics E. A. Armstrong. AUGUST EXAMINATION.~~

~~4. — Student's American History J. F. Peschman. 5. —Written Sermon M. L. Fox.~~

~~Studies in the Second Year.~~

~~DECEMBER EXAMINATION.~~

~~1. — Introduction to the Holy Scriptures L. E. Lennox.~~

~~APRIL EXAMINATION.~~

~~2. —Systematic Theology W. M. Puffer.~~

~~3. —Lessons in Logic J. R. Wooton. AUGUST EXAMINATION. 1~~

~~4. —A Short History of the English People Wm. J. Wilson. 5. — Essay W. H. Phelps.~~

~~Studies in the Third Year.~~

~~DECEMBER EXAMINATION.~~

~~1. — Biblical Hermeneutics A. F. Nagler.~~

~~APRIL EXAMINATION.~~

~~2. —Outlines of Descriptive Psychology T. H. M. Coghlan. 3. —Outlines of Universal History W. P. French. AUGUST EXAMINATION.~~

~~4.— History of the Christian Church J. T. LeGear. 5. —The Land of Isreal R. A. Wright. 6.—Written Sermon M. L. Fox. 6.—Essay W. H. Phelps.~~

~~Studies in the Fourth Year.~~

~~DECEMBER EXAMINATION.~~

~~t. —Ground of Theistic and Christian Belief Hugh Kennedy. :~~

~~3 i6 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1905~~

~~APRIL EXAMINATION.~~

~~2.—Analogy of Religion L. E. Lennox. 3.—Christian Ethics Charles Nease. AUGUST EXAMINATION. 4- —Outlines of Universal History W. P. French.~~

~~5.—History of the Christian Church J. T. LeGear.~~

The examiners for Local Elders Orders are A. F. Nagler, W. J. Wilson, and Hugh Kennedy. All candidates for Local Elder's Orders will be required to pass a written examination; and the Board urges that they take the examinations during the year. Let each candidate write the examiners and arrange for the same. Examiners A Manual of Christian Doctrine, A. F. Nagler.

Lectures on Homiletics, W. J. Wilson. Life and Epistles of St. Paul, Hugh Kennedy. The examiners for Local Deacon's Orders are Thomas Cox, W. P. French, and W. H. Phelps. Examinations for Local Deacon's Orders will be held on the second day of the Conference at 2 p. m. Attention is called to the fact, that "Local preachers who are candidates for Deacon's Orders are required to pass a satisfactory examination at the Annual Conference in review of the entire four year's course prescribed for Local Preachers."

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~~Albion College : Journal 169-192 President's Report 214-216 Memorial Funds for Confer- Trustees Elected 156 ence Claimants 259~~

~~Anniversaries 193 Memoirs : Appointments 199-204 Bacon, Rev. Elisha D 260 Boards, Conference 154 Bowen, Rev. James R.... 261-262~~

~~Committee Reports: Dayton, Rev. James N. . . .263-264~~

Aggressive Evangelism. . .213-214 Henderson, Rev. H. P.... 264-266 Albion College 214-216 Hollowell, Rev. J. W 266-267 Aldrich Memorial Deacon- Parsons, Rev D. W 267-270 ess Home 216-219 Stinchcomb, Rev. Wm. R., 270-272 Auditing 219 Watkins, Rev. Orlin D... 273-274 American Bible Society, 219-220 Albro, Mrs. Addis 274-275 Biographical 220 Bacon, Mrs. E. D 275-276 Book Concern Accounts, 221 Brown, Mrs. Geo. A 276-278 Boston University School Demorest, Mrs. F. Coe .. .278-279 of Theology 221-22^ Haviland, Mrs. D. S 279-281 Church Extension Society 223 Howe, Mrs. G. W 281-282 W. T. Clark Memorial Large, Mrs. S. W 282-283

~~Home . .224-225 Marble, Mrs. Olivia A.... 283 -284~~

~~Conference Claimants . . . 225 Riddick, Mrs. Isaac H 284-285 District Conference Rec- Steele, Mrs. Salmon 285-286~~

ords . 225 Webster, Mrs. James 286-287 Education 226-227 Wood, Mrs. E. W 287 Epworth League 227-228 Memorial Service 174 Report of Field Secretary Miscellaneous 156 of Conference Claimants Missionary Appropriations, 211-212 Endowment Fund 228-229 Officers. Conference...... 152

Freedman's Aid and South- Ordination, Certificate of. . . 152 ern Education 229-230 Ordination, Service 191-192 Garrett Biblical Institute, 230-231 Presiding Elders, Reports of: Old People's Home 231-232 Albion District 240-243 Periodicals 232 Big Ranids District 243-246 Resolutions 232-233 Grand Rapids District .... 216-248 Sabbath Observance 233-234 Grand Traverse District. .248-252 State of Church 234-235 Kalamazoo District 252-255 Sunday Schools and Lansing District 255-257 Tracts 235-236 Niles District 257-259 Temperance 236-238 Probationers 165

Trial Committee . . . v 238 Reports of Committees . . . .213-239 Trustee Treasurer's Report 239 Rules of Conference 168 Conference Boards 154 Rules of Order 167 Conference Committees .... 153 Sessions of Conference 157 Conference Officers 152 Societies of Conference 155

Conference Roll 162-166 Statistics : Conference Societies 155 Albion District 290-292 Deaconess Home 216-219 Big Rapids District 293-295 Deceased Members 158-161 Grand Rapids District.- .. .296-298 Disciplinarv Questions 195-198 Grand Traverse District. .299-301 District Missionary Secre- Kalamazoo District 302-304 taries 156 Lansing District 305-307 Evangelists 166 Niles District 308-310 Examinations, Plan of 314-316 Recapitulation 311-312 Examinations, Rules Gov- Supplies 166 erning 313 Stewards' Report 207-210 Examiners, Board of 313 Treasurer's Report 205-206 Ji BIG HELP TO ALL WHO WRITE

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~~A Porch Corner— Kpworth Cottage of Dr. J. R. T. Lathrop, pastor Division Street M. K. Church, Grand Rapids.~~

About as many ROCK RIVER CONFERENCE men are on this list. Among them such well known pastors as Drs. Ouajle, Swift and Brushingham. Bishop Berry, Secretary Thirkield and College Presidents Plantz and Storms are cottage owners, and these are only a few of the many church leaders who summer at Epworth Heights. Do you not want to join this goodly company. If so, write the Secretary ELVIN SWARTHOUT, Grand Rapids. Art Glass LH. STAFFORD MFG. CO. IONIA, MICHIGAN For Churches and Residences

~~Memorial Windows a Specialty~~

~~We also Repair Windows~~

~~MAKERS OF FURNITURE FOR THE CHURCH, SCHOOL, ASSEMBLY ROOM, OFFICE and HOME~~

~~Get our prices before you buy.~~

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~~Dealers in~~

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~~Albion College A Coeducational Institution~~

~~A College of Liberal Arts~~

~~A Conservatory of Music A Business Department~~

~~A 4\ f% 4 4 T^V A Sub-College Department A School of Painting A School of Oratory A Well Equipped Gymnasium A Fine Athletic Field~~

~~A large Variety of courses~~

~~lead to the Degree of~~

~~Bachelor of Arts.~~

~~Table Board varies from $2.00 to $2.50 per week. Board with room, heat and light from $3.00 to $4.00. Many Students are Self-Supporting.~~

~~For Year Book address the President,~~

~~Samuel Dickie, Albion, Mich. 3 0112 105576984~~

~~Let us send you FREE this EPWORTH PIANO BOOK~~

If you ever expect to buy a piano you will be glad to get this book for it tells the very things you need to know if you want the finest and best piano for the money you pay. Do you know, for instance, what makes some pianos so much sweeter and richer toned than others? This book tells. Do you know why the action or touch of some pianos is so much smoother, quicker and more responsive than others? This book tells. Do yoa know what the sounding board does to the tone to make it sweet and musical, and why hand-made sounding boards are better than those made by mach- inery? This book tells. Do you know what is the differenco between the factory price and the retail price of a good piano? This book tells. Do you know how to avoid paying the retail price, which of course includes all the middle profits and expenses amounting to from $50 to f150? This book tells. Do you know that by buying the piano direct from the man who makes it you can save all that useless expense? This book tells. Do you know how easy it is to have us send you a piano on trial—so you can take your own time to examine it, test it and try it in your own home, until you are sure it is right in every particular before you need to pay a cent or obligate yourself in any way? This book tells.

Now if you want this interesting piano book, just write us something like this—"Send me free that Epworth Piano book as advertised in The Michigan Conference Minutes.' ' —Address thus: Williams Organ and Piano Co. 57 Washington St., Chicago.