TUESDAY EVENING occurred the anniversary of the Missionary Society, Rev. Dr. D. K. Tindall presided and Rev. Dr. A. J. Palmer, Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary Society, delivered the address.

   WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON the anniversary of the Conference Missionary Society, President N. A. Martin, presiding; and J. M. Bothwell preached the Missionary Sermon. The following persons were re-elected: N. A. Martin, President; J. M. Bothwell, Vice-President; and Rev. Dr. C. N. Dawson, Secretary.

   WEDNESDAY EVENING was the anniversary of the Church Extension Society, Rev. G. A. Luce, presided, and Rev. Dr. W. A. Spencer addressed the meeting.

   THURSDAY AFTERNOON the Anniversary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was held. Mrs. Ida J. Moe presided, and Mrs. Mary Hawes Glover addressed the meeting.

   THURSDAY EVENING, J. B. Leedom, presided, Rev. Dr. J. W. Shenk, editor of the Omaha Christian Advocate, addressed the meeting in the interest of the Advocate; and Rev. Dr. J. B. Carns, State Superintendent of the National Anti-Saloon League, in the interest of that work.

   SPECIAL PRAYER MEETING was held Friday morning at 6:30 o'clock, that prayer might be made for our friends in Canada, in their contest for Prohibition.

   FRIDAY AFTERNOON the anniversary of the Woman's Home Missionary Society was held. Mrs. M. Uhl presided, and Rev. Dr. A. C. Welch addressed the meeting.

   FRIDAY EVENING the anniversary of the Educational Society was held. Rev. T. C. Webster, presided, and Rev. F. M. Esterbrook, Treasurer of the, Nebraska Wesleyan University; Rev. Dr. Wm. Gorst, and Rev. Dr. D. W. C. Huntington, Chancellor, addressed the meeting.

   SATURDAY AFTERNOON the anniversary of the Deaconess' Home and Hospital was held. Rev. G. A. Luce, presided, and Miss Jennie Jackson, Miss Lulu Clifton, and Rev. Dr. C. N. Dawson addressed the meeting. A spontaneous collection for the Building Fund was taken, amounting to $50.

   SATURDAY EVENING the anniversary of the Conference Epworth League was held. Rev. C. C. Cissell, presided, and an address was made by Rev. Dr. F. M. Sisson, President of the Conference Epworth League. A collection for the janitor was taken, amounting to $7.

   SUNDAY MORNING at 9 o'clock the Conference Love Feast begun, conducted by Rev. Jabez Charles. It being learned that two of the preachers had lost their horses in a fire Saturday night, a collection was taken amounting to $126.93.
   At 10:30 the Bishop took charge of the services, assisted by the resident pastor and Rev. J. E. Moore. The Bishop preached from the text, "Jesus, the King of the Jews;" subject, "The Kingship of Jesus."
   After the sermon the Bishop proceeded to the ordination of Deacons, viz: Walter L. Elliott, Harry G. Kemp, Ronald J. McKenzie and James G. Galloway.

   SUNDAY AFTERNOON occurred the ordination of the following Elders: William A. Rominger, Elmer E. Shafer, Cyrus P. Cheeseman, William K. Gray, Loten R. DeWolf, and Albert L. Gray.

   SUNDAY EVENING the anniversary of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Educational Society was held. Rev. Dr. G. W. Martin, presided, and Rev. Dr. W. H. W. Rees, Assistant Corresponding Secretary, delivered the address. A collection was taken for the Society amounting to $50.

MEMOIRS.

   Rev. NATHANIEL HEWITH GALE was born near Plattsburg, in Clinton County, New York, June 30th, 1830, where he grew to manhood. During the Civil War he enlisted in the 96th New York Volunteers, serving as regimental quartermaster. At close of the war he came west and followed the profession of teacher in public schools and academies until 1876, when he joined the Des Moines Conference and was sent as a missionary to New Mexico, In 1879 he was transferred to the Nebraska Conference, but was continued as missionary in New Mexico, being stationed at Albuquerque. On the organization of the North Nebraska Conference, in 1881, he became one of its charter members, but continued in New Mexico until September, 1882, when he was stationed at Blair where he served two years as pastor, during which time the now church edifice was erected at a cost or $7,000.00, in which the Annual Conference held its session in September, 1884, at close of which he was stationed at Fullerton, where he served as pastor until early spring of 1885, when he was appointed Financial Agent of the North Nebraska Conference Seminary and removed to Central City where he remained until September, 1885, when he was stationed as pastor at Neligh where he served one year, then took a supernumerary relation and removed to Central City, remaining there until 1891, when he moved to Colorado, but continued his supernumerary relation in the North Nebraska Conference.
   Brother Gale was married to his now bereft widow in North Bend, Neb., October 15, 1879. His faithful wife accompanied him in all his itineraries until his departure for the "rest that remaineth to the people of God."
   On June 6, 1898, while returning home from Quarterly Meeting in Granada, Colorado, near which town he resided, his horse became unmanagable, resulting in fatal injuries to Bro. Gale, the spirit taking its leave of the body June 10, 1898.
   His wife and two children survive him and reside in Granada, Colorado. The Church loses a faithful minister.

   MRS. ESTHER CATES (nee Thomas), was born in Trubo, Cornwall, England, March 3, 1811, and died in Ogden, Utah, February 20, 1898. Converted in her eighteenth year, she lived to the end in the hope of Christ, and her

death was triumphant. She married Rev. Samuel Cates, in London, England, March 15, 1863. They came to the United States in 1864, and her husband united with Rock River Conference.
   They labored in traveling ministry for sixteen years in Rock River Conference, five or six years in Minnesota Conference, and six years in the North Nebraska Conference.
   In their last field of labor in Elm Creek, Nebraska, Mrs. Cates health completely failed. Since July, 1894, the decline had been steady and unarrested. Death was inevitable; she waited for it as for the morning. In this period the home had been in Ogden, Utah, near the home of their children. There were six sons and one daughter, one of the sons died in his eighteenth year.

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