Western New York Conference
By H. W. Carr
The fifth annual session of the Western New York Conference convened at Burt, Feb. 2, 1911. The conference was represented by sixty-six delegates from twenty-two churches, besides four delegates at large. A good spirit of unity, courage, and progress characterized the meeting from first to last. With few changes, the officers of the previous year were re-elected. Elders O. A. Olsen, W. B. White, and C. H. Edwards rendered valuable assistance in the preaching services, and in planning the future work of the conference. There were many encouraging features in the reports of labor for the previous year. One item was an increase of more than fourteen hundred dollars in the general trust funds of the conference over the amount for the previous year. Elder G. P. Gaede, of Baltimore, Md., was present at the latter part of the meeting. He will connect with the German work in the city of Buffalo. At the close of the meeting, Brother M. M. Hare was set apart by ordination to the Christian ministry, Elder Olsen offering the prayer, and Elder White delivering the charge. The last two days of the meeting were spent in a church elders’ and church officers’ instruction meeting. As far as we could learn, all hearts united in offering praise to God for his blessing at this meeting, and all seemed to be filled with new courage as they separated for their fields of labor.