Decatur Democrat, Volume 1, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1899 — Page 4

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CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE. | established, preachers sent to the frontier and d -voted men already in these fields of labor are provided with foot! and clothing. The Indians in their various reservations have been provided with schools and missions. Industrial Homes and Schools have been established in the south and splendid work has been done in connection with the Freedmans Aid Society among the negroes. Immigrants' landing upon our shores are carefully looked after. The last quadrenal report of these missions in New York, Boston and Philadelphia show that 3,560 steamers were met during the proceeding quadreninum, 25,000 lodgings provided and 100,000 meals served, and thousands provided with employment while hundreds have been sent to friends. On the Pacific eoast the Chinese and Japanese have been looked after as the native Americans who are in need of the society’s ministrations. Lecture bureaus and reading circles have been established, children's homes, hospitals, nurses training schools and Deaconess homes. This is a birds eve view of the work in the aggregate, and is m ide possible by the faithful discharge of duty by the indivdiual auxiliaries. In the North Indiana Conference the Sovietv is fortunate in having as its presiding officers, Mrs. W. H. Daniel'of our city. The local auxiliary has on its membership roll two conference officers. Mrs. Daniel and Mrs. J. W. Vail, treasurer, and one district officer. Miss Nellie Blackburn, recording secretary. Notes. There are 200,000 members of the Methodist Episcopal church in foreign missionary fields. "The very first impulse that comes into a truly converted soul is the missionary impulse." Dr. Leonard. Rev M. Mahin. the oldest member of the conference came in on the early Clover Leaf train yesterday ingDr. Leonard, missionary secretary, declared that whoever is opposed to foreign missions is opposed to Jesus Christ. Rev. U. A. Foster, under investigation upon charges of business crookedness is pastor at Bristol in Goshen District. Dr. H. A. Gobin, president of De Pauw University speaks with great fire and earnestness, and gives an air of novelty to what he has to say. Rev. A. A. Pittenger, under investi- ' gation on charges of immorality is a supernumerary member of conference who has been supplying the Blaine charge. The clear cut lines of the saintly face of Bishop Emeritus Bowman speak of intellect and spiritual life, as do the faces of few living men. That face is a benediction. Rev. R. D. Spellman is the patriarch of the conference. He is eheerful and sprightly, in full possession of his faculties. Many years ago he was pastor of this place. Bishop Andrews appears to lie a very emotional man. The first word he speaks gives one the impression of deep spiritual feeling, the contagion of which it is hard to resist.

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Dr- T. C. Beade. president of Taylor University at Upland, described a scheme by which that institution will furnish to married students a dwelling house to live in and will give them tuition in the I niversity all for sixty dollars a year. Rev. A. S. Preston, of Goshen who preached the conference missionary sermon yesterday afternoon has just closed his third year. He is a fine speaker and as a preacher and lecturer he has acquired an enviable reputation, and serves the Lord in singing as well as by preaching. When the proposal to omit the Presiding Elders’ reports from the published minutes was up, Dr. Herrick of Wabash declared that some of the Presiding Elders have great difficulty in writing a hand that any man can read. As Dr. Herrick has been a presiding Elder himself he knows whereof he speaks. When the roll of the conference had been called Bishop Andrew asked the usual question "Have any names been omitted?’’ Bishop Bowman created a laugh by declaring that his name had been omitted, whereat Bishop Andrews loudly called "Thomas Bowman.’’ The point to the joke is that Bishop Bowman was formerly a member of North Indiana Conference. Rev M. C. B. Mason, D. D. who will represent the Freedmen's Aid Society this evening, is not only an orator. but is himself a practical demonstration of the work he represents, having gone through our colored schools in the South and graduated from Gammon Theological Seminary. ! Doubtless his address will afford students of the race problem food for thought and will be particularly appropriate to the question of the development of other races who are now a part of our nation. A part of today will be devoted to the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. This society was founded in Boston, March 23, 1869. It is composed of eleven co-ordinate branches, which are entirely independent of each other. Each branch has its secretary who has the general supervision of the work in her territory. Each annual conference has its secretary Mrs. C. G. Hudson is secretary ol tqe North Indiana conference. On account of the accident which caused the loss of her right arm, Mrs. Hudson will not be here. This is a great disappointment, for she has a multitude of friends in this conference. The North Indiana Conference welcomes into their midst once more one of their members, James C. Murray D. D.. professor of Exegetical Theol , ogv in Gammon Theological Semin ary. He has beeuj connected witl that institution for the past fourteei ' years, and has seen the work grow largely. The school furnishes 1 ' thorough training for the colored ! ministers of our own and other de nominations, embracing a three year , course. A special feature is th [ Stewart Missionary Foundation so s Africa, founded in 1894 by W. F ; Stewart, A. M., of the Rock Rive Conference. Bro. Murray is enjoyin; his labors, is enthusiastic over th 1 work at Atlanta and praises the en I deavors of the colored preachers. M 1 C. B. Mason, secretary of the F. J and S. E. society, who will speak tomoi row evening is agraduateof thisschoc

The Stewart Missionary foundation for Africa was established as a department of the Gammon Seminary in 1894 by W. F. Stewart, A. M., of the Rock River Conference. For its en dowment Mr. Stewart has set aside six hundred acres of excellent farm land in central Illinois. Its work is to awaken an interest, spread intelligence and prepare candidates among the American Negroes for missionarywork in Afri -a. Three of the graduates of the seminary and their wives, largelv inspired by this work, have al readv gone to Africa as missionaries. One of them is in charge of our educational work in Liberia. A special library and museum on Africa have been collected and additions are constantly sought. The Foundation aims to keep in touch with the great missionary movements of other societies in this country and Europe which are working for the redemption of Africa. Rev. Murray intends to leave next Tuesday for Decatur to attend the annual M. E. conference. Rev. Mur ray has been a faithful worker in Albion and we are pleased to learn that he will probability be returned to this charge for another year. Albion NewAra. Charles H. Murray, born near Winchester, Randolph county, Ind., May 29 1855, of Methodist ancedents. (His father, Thomas Murray a methoclass leader ami steward for thirty years,)converted in early manhood 1874, educated at Roanoke Classic Seminary, licensed as an exhorter 1876 at Roanoke, licensed as a local preacher at Arcola Ind., 1881. Admitted on probation into the North Indiana conference 1882. on recommendation from the district conference held in Decatur Ind. Charges served: Geneva. New Haven, Markle, Trinity Church Ft. Wayne, Elkhart, Milford. New Paris, Wolcottville, and Osceola. Now located at Albion. Though considered an utter impossibility, he succeeded in building a fine church to be dedicated soon, property to lx- worth 55,000. Brother Murray is a sweet singer. Rev.J. J. Fred. The subject of this sketch is one of the rising young ministers of the North Indiana Conference. His has been a studious, hard working career. And though a young man his years have been spent in the services of the Master. When but a boy he served in the church as steward, recording steward, and class leader. At the age of seventeen he was licensed to exhort, at twenty-one he was licensed to preach. He spent some time at De Pauw University preparing tor his life work and entered the traveling connection at Muncie. Has served the Spencerville, Leo. New Burlington, Perkinsville and Geneva charges. He is now the beloved pastor of the latter charge. He was born in Hancock county. April 11, 1868.

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