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Nebraska Methodism as a great debtor to this great society.
Many of our charges, now vigorous and prosperous, could not have
become so without the aid of our Missionary Society. The fact that
since the organization of our Conference we have been receiving
from $4000 to $6000 annually to aid us in our work, demonstrates
out, dependence upon this society, and this together with the
knowledge that everywhere, both at home and abroad: the fields are
white with the harvest, should inspire both our ministry and laity
to heroic efforts to secure the largest possible missionary
collections. As a Conference we pledge hereafter a committee on
this most important and worthy interest.
J.
H. Brooks. Wm. Gorst. W. H. H. Pillsbury, J. W. Shank.
Methodist Hospital and Deaconess Home.
Whereas, the Methodist Episcopal Hospital and
Deaconess Home at Omaha is a greatly needed institution in our
midst, and from the facts gleaned from their reports this year, we
see it is no small agency for soul saving as well as for bodily
healing. And, Whereas, nearly all of the charity patients are from
the territory outside of Omaha, we therefore recommend that this
institution receive the systematic, and generous support of our
Conference, and to secure this result we recommend that, each
Presiding Elder's district, assume the support or at least one bed
it the annual cost of $250.00. And when assumed, that the
Presiding Elders apportion said amount to the several Charges of
the District, and that this collection be taken early in the
conference year and forwarded to the Hospital which bed shall be
at the disposal of said district for any patients within its
bounds. We also recommend that a conference board of nine be
chosen for this institution to serve during the coming conference
year and that the following persons constitute the board: Bishop
J. P. Newman, G. M. Brown. H. H. Millard, John Dale, A. F. Rector,
J. N. Gillan, Mrs. David Cole, Mrs. Curtis, Mrs. J. O. Phillipi.
And that five of this number constitute a quorum for the
transaction of such business as shall come before them. We further
recommend that our preachers take special care to secure young
ladies who will enter the work of Nurse and Visiting Deaconesses
in our Hospital. We also recommend that the names and postoffice
address of every Deaconess within bounds of the Conference be
furnished to the secretary for insertion in the Conference
Minutes. Signed,
T.
C. Webster, J. A. Roades, N. A. Martin, J. W. Jennings.
Memorial to Senate and House of Representatives.
The North Nebraska Annual Conferenece (sic) of the Methodist
Episco-
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pal Church, assembed (sic) at Norfolk. Neb., on the 6th day of
September, 1893, composed of 90 ministers, representing over
11,000 church members, respectfully petition it your Honorable
Body to immediately repeal the act passed on the 5th of May, 1892,
known as the Geary Law. We make this earnest petition, first on
the ground of justice and fair dealing. By solemn treaty agreement
the Chinese now in the United States are entitled to the same
treatment that is accorded to the citizens or subjects of the most
favored nation. The provision that they shall register and take
out certificates to assure their continued residence here,
producing the testimony of a white witness to their right to be
here requires of multitudes of them an impossibility, and yet
subjects them to imprisonment and deportation if they fail to
comply with the requisition. This requirement made of them alone,
in contradistinction to all other foreigners in the country, is a
palpable violation of the treaty.
We futhermore (sic) petition for the repeal of
this law because it endangers our interests in China. The
Methodist Episcopal Church has one hundred and twenty-five
missionaries in that Empire. It has churches, chapels, dwellings,
school buildings, hospitals, printing presses, and other property
to the amount of over $400,000. We have reason to fear that if the
provisions of this law are insisted upon, our missionaries and
property will be imperiled. The Christian sentiment of the country
is opposed to this enactment. and we urgently beseech its
immediate repeal.
Signed by order and on behalf of the
Conference,
D.
C. Winship, Secretary.
John
M. Walden, President.
Periodicals.
It is with hopefulness and pride that we
point to our church periodicals as being second to no other
denomination in number, cheapness and ability. We recommend them
to the kind consideration and support of our people. It is with
sorrow that we note the negligence of many of our laity in not
taking one or more of our church periodicals, many Methodists
taking literature of some other denomination on the plea of
cheapness, union and non-sectarianism. This we believe to be
disloyal to our church and ought to be condemned. It is with
pleasure that we note the prosperity and success of the official
organ of North Nehraska Conference, "The Omaha Christian
Advocate." We earnestly commend this paper to our clergy and
laity, as being centrally located, Methodistic in theology,
American in politics, and thoroughly christian in all its
teachings. it is cheap and obtainable by all who desire a
first-class church paper. The paper fully demonstrates the ability
of Dr. J. W. Shank, the editor, who in we all recog-
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nize as a in in who speaks as he conscientiously believes. We
believe that this paper ought to be circulated largely on every
charge in the North Nebraska Conference and that every pastor
should endeavor to increase his subscription list the coming year.
We heartily endorse the other church advocates for their ability,
usefulness and high christian character. We earnestly urge, our
young people to subscribe for the Epworth Herald, which is at the
forefront in literature and spiritual excellence, and meets it
long felt need among the young people of our church. We also
commend the "Methodist Review" and "Gospel in all Lands," as
worthy of our hearty patronage and co-operation and as being the
exponent of the highest christian thought.
Signed. F.
Ellis. W. H. H. Pillsbury. J. L. St. Clair.
Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Estimated Resources and Liabilities: |
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Campus and Buildings with Furnishings |
228,000 |
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Real Estate |
$152,930 |
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Notes secured by Real Estate |
12,225 |
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Endowment notes, subscription |
23,675 |
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Haish Endowment |
25,000 |
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Total Endowment |
$213.8341 |
213,830 |
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Real Estate |
$20,550 |
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Notes secured by real estate |
2,207 |
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Notes, subscription |
1,800 |
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Total General Fund |
$24,557 |
24,557 |
Total Resources |
$463,387 |
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Note to R. E. Moore, due Nov. 1st, 1893 |
$15,000 |
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Note to Burlington Bank, due July 16th, 1893 |
9,000 |
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Cadwallader mortgages (assumed to protect Uni.) due Nov. 1, '93 |
2,400 |
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Outstanding orders |
13,423 |
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Total liabilities |
$39,822 |
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Net resources |
$423,564 |
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Liabilities as per report June. 1893 |
$39,823 |
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" " " " " 1892 |
36,000 |
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Increase |
$3,823 |
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Whereas, Through the Divine providence and
blessing of Almighty God in giving life and health to us, we are
permitted to assemble in this, the twelfth session of the North
Nebraska Conference in the beautiful city of Norfolk. therefore,
Resolved, That with hearts filled with a deep sense of gratitude
we render to our heavenly father thanksgiving for the blessings
and prosperity given us, our families and our people. Resolved.
That we appreciate the wise counsel and helpful sympathy of our
Bishop, J. M. Walden D. D. LL. D., and thank him for his kind
Christian bearing in all his relations to us. Resolved. That we
thank the Methodist church and citizens of Norfolk, for the
cordial welcome they have given us into their midst, and for the
excellent and generous provisions they have made for our comfort.
Resolved. That we congratulate and thank the pastor, Rev. J. W.
Jennings, for the excellent manner in which he has provided for
and received the Conference. Resolved, That we thank the
Congregational church for the free use of their church building
for a part of our services. Resolved, That we thank the local
management of the F. E. & M. V. R'y, for the pleasant free
excursion they gave us to the beet sugar factory, and also to Rev.
J. W. Bovee, for arranging for the same and for our visit to the
insane asylum. Resolved, That we thank the officials of the beet
sugar factory and of the insane asylum for the favors shown in our
visits to these institutions.
C.
O. Larrison, William Gorst, John P. Roe.
Report of Committee on W. H. & F. M. Society.
Whereas, God has signally blessed our beloved
church in calling our noble Christian women into the great work of
bringing the glad news of Salvation to this lost world through the
organization of the Woman's Foreign and Home Missionary Societies,
and,
Whereas, In our Foreign work side by side with
the missionaries of the parent board are the noble christian
workers of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, who in
sacrifice and toil, are doing valiant work for God and humanity.
And,
Whereas, The needs of our country have been
placed upon the hearts of the Christian women of the Woman's Home
Missionary Society of our church, who with loving zeal and wise
action have responded in their missionary endeavor in our large
cities and Southern States, or through their supply department,
have encouraged many of our tolling missionaries on the frontier
to carry forward the work of the Lord in these needy places. We
therefore unite in thanksgiving to God for these organizations. We
bid them God-speed in their con-
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secrated work for Christ and his Kingdom. We commend to our
churches these organizations and believe that they, rather than
any outside combinations should have the loyal support of our
people. We will welcome to our charges any conference organizer
whom they in their wisdom may see fit to send among us. We
recommend to our people the Mother's Jewels Home, at York, Nebr.,
and also the supply bureau of this organization as worthy of their
kind assistance and support. Signed,
E.
W. Errickson, J. B. Priest, J. T. Crooks, R. C. McReynolds.
Sabbath Observance.
Be it Resolved, That we are profoundly
grateful to Almighty God for the institution of our Sabbath Day,.
and we urge its religious observance by all men, both by precept
and practice, and especially would we emphasize this upon the
leaders of God's church. 2d. We protest against the inroads of
continentalism. Our national greatness was achieved by that
sterling morality that is the hand-maid of the American Sunday.
The Sabbath that is a holiday has been the chief instrument in the
hands of despotism for degrading the people. 3d. We unalterably
oppose the course that has been pursued by the directorate of the
World's Columbian Exposition in regard to the opening of the fair
on the Sabbath. as disgraceful and outrages the public opinion in
America, as fully expressed in the national congress. 4th. We
reccommend (sic) "The Sabbath for Man," by W. F. Crafts, as a
compendious statement of our views on the Sabbath question, and a
very valuable cyclopedia of information that should be in every
Pastor's study and the home of every Christian. Signed,
R.
N. Throckmorton, W. H. La Vake, W. H. Linn, F. Crane.
State of the Church.
We view with great thankfulness the fact that
the past Conference year has been one of almost universal revival,
and a very evident spiritual advance, while we especially rejoice
over the advent of over thirty-one hundred souls into the. Kingdom
of our blessed Christ. To Him be all praise and glory. With
gratitude we also note the determined efforts which have been made
to liquidate the indebtedness on the church property of the
Conference, and are glad that we can call your attention to the
figures representing a payment of church indebtedness amounting to
$34,840.00, and a less debt than last year of $2,366.00. Our
attention is directed to the past year as one of signal prosperity
and aggressiveness along all lines, yet we are impressed that the
coming year should be one of still greater advance, hence, we,
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Resolve. First. That we need the old-time
revival method and spirit of Methodism, and that we will seek
diligently for that power which shall make the coming year one of
revival. Second, that move prominence shall be given to prayer
meetings which are exclusively for prayer, to the class meeting,
to the family altar, to the disciplinary order of public service
and the spiritualizing of all our singing and worship. That more
prominence should be given to the care of the children of
Methodism, meeting the requirements of the discipline and the
demands of the future upon us, and providing for these as those of
whom we must give account. That more attention should be given to
our Quarterly meeting occasions that they may be as they have been
in the early history of our church "times of refreshing," indeed.
Third, That we view with the greatest satisfaction an increase in
benevolent collections of over $1200.00, and that we will during
the coming year, be still more faithful to the interests of the
church as found in these different causes, by presenting every
claim, by using the committees, and by the earnest endeavor to
bring to the next Conference our full apportionments. Fourth, That
we endorse the Deaconess movement as one of the instrumentalities
for bringing the Gospel to the masses, and that we commend to our
people and their benevolence the Methodist Episcopal Hospital at
Omaha. Fifth, that regarding the solicitation to send delegates to
the International Christian Conference, to be held in Chicago next
October, we suggest the election of one delegate and one
alternate. Signed.
J.
T. Knuckey, G. H. McAdam.
Sunday School.
We learn that the Conference paid to the
Sunday School Union this year the sum of $104, An increase over
last year of $21. Concluding from this report it is evident that
all the charges did not take a collection this year for this
purpose. Our apportionment for this year is $175. Considering this
society in its relation to the Methodist church, its immeasurable
influence in the early training of our coming twentieth century
Methodism, we recommend that a sermon be preached by all our
preachers at least once during the year, setting forth its
benefits, its wide-spread blessing to the race, its illimitable
power for good, thereby increasing the interest and co-operation
of the people as well as instructing them in the knowledge of the
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We also suggest that a special
effort be made this year to meet the entire apportionment.
Signed,
Geo.
M. Brown, H. C. Myers, N. A. Martin.
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We, your board of Conference Stewards, are obliged to report more claimants, and only little increase in the funds. We also report that the plan adopted by the Conference to increase the claimant's fund has not been heeded by the brethren, and we have no funds for distribution under that plan.
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From last year's fund |
$ 8 00 |
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From Conference Collections |
403 00 |
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From Chartered Fund |
25 00 |
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From Book Concern |
767 00 |
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Total |
$1203 00 |
Which has been applied as follows:
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CLAIMANT, ADDRESS. |
CUSTODIAN. |
AMOUNT. |
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D. T. Olcott, Columbus |
Himself |
$125 00 |
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Mrs. Adair, Denver, Col |
J. B. Maxfield |
125 .00 |
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Mrs. Fleharty |
J. Q. A. Fleharty |
125 00 |
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Mrs. Lemon, Omaha |
J. H. Maxfield |
100 00 |
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Mrs. Fowler, Aliens |
Ernest Fowler |
105 00 |
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Mrs. Rhone, Williamsport, PA |
D. C. Winship |
105 00 |
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Mrs. Gortner, Page |
D. Marquett |
105 00 |
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Mrs. Guthrie, Ann Arbor |
D. C. Winship |
100 00 |
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Mrs. Thompson, Albion |
W. M. Worley |
105 00 |
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J. R. Gearhart, Wausau |
Himself |
50 00 |
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Wm. Stanner, Plainview |
D. Marquett |
75 00 |
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D. C. Worts, Wood River |
Himself |
43 00 |
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W. Wilson's children, Chapman |
G. H. Moore |
40 00 |
Total |
$1203 00 |
We would recommend that the plan for the collection of
Conference Caimant's (sic) Funds of last year be adopted with this
amendment: that the last clause of said plan be stricken out and
the following inserted: Resolved: That each member of this
Conference not a conference claimant, be required to contribute
five dollars annually to the above funds: and any member unless
excused by the Conference from paying the said amount shall
forfeit his rights to any of the said fund, Signed,
B.
Blain, G. A. Lace, Wm. M. Worley,
Tracts.
Whereas. The Methodist Episcopal Church has an excellent tract publishing house, and Whereas, The proper distribution of tracts is a
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great help to the pastor in educating church members and
awakening the unsaved. Therefore, be it Resolved, That we pledge
our cooperation with the tract society, both in taking the annual
collection and in distributing the tracts as suggested by the
Discipline.
C.
N. Dawson, T. Charles, A. L. Nickel, R. J. Millard.
Temperance.
Whereas, No other evil like the gigantic
saloon evil confront the people of our land to-day, No place is so
holy, no institution so venerable or sacred, no ties so tender
that the blighting shadow of this crime does not bring destruction
and desolation. It empties the purse, taking food from the months
and clothing from the backs of women and children: it filches
character; destroys health, robs of life, and damns the soul. It
disorganizes labor; corrupts polities; menaces the very foundation
of government: is an enemy to God and man. No one thing is so
prolific of vice, poverty and crime as the sin of drunkard-making.
No enemy confronts the country to-day that is so insidious,
treacherous and powerful. and none against which the church should
more positively array herself than this, therefore, be it
Resolved, That this Conference re-affirm its
adherance to the resolution adopted by the last General Conference
and found in Section 24. Paragraph 8 of Appendix of the
Discipline, and that we rejoice at the progress that is being made
in uniting the different Christian denominations of the land in a
crusade against the rum traffic.
Resolved, That in all political matters that
pertain to the banishment of the saloon system from our
munincipalities, counties, state and nation, we are unalterably in
favor of prohibition: and that we will conscientiously vote as we
pray.
Resolved. That we approve the course of the
"Christian Advocate" in printing in parallel columns the platfcrms
(sic) of the various parties. and we recommend that our other
papers follow the same official course, and print with these
platforms the general conference resolution above refered to in
order that comparison may be easy.
Resolved, That we urge that the social purity
movement be encouraged in all our homes, and through the agency of
the White Cross League.
Resolved. That more attention should be given to
the evils of the tobacco habit: that, as ministers, we should
preach more earnestly and pointedly on this subject; and that our
young men and boys should be pledged against the use of
tobacco.
Resolved. That we believe that the truest reform
is that which grows out of genuine Christianity. That these bodies
are the temples of the Holy Ghost; it so be the Spirit of God
dwell in them: and therefore
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it is the duty of all men to keep the body pure. We believe
that Christian sentiment should crystallize into Christian laws.
Finally, we have confidence in the ultimate victory of right,
because the Lord of Hosts is our leader.
W.
H. H. Pillsbury. J. H. Johnson, D. R. Collings.
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