Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-06

| to all the interests of the district. Our
| Sunday school work is advancing all along
| our lines. Our statistics as they shall ap
pear in our published minutes will present
| favorable showing as compared with
| former years.
While we have not been blessed with
what may be called general revival, we
| are gratifed to report seasons of special
interest at Grafton, Fargo, Moorhead,
Grand Forks, Sanborr and other points
| with large additions to our ranks.
Through the aid of the church extension
board, churches costing from $4,000 to 3d.
600 each, have been completed during the
year at Drayton, Sanborn, Pembina,
Grafton, Lisbon, Hawley, Warren, Vern-
| dale.
At Fergus Falls the old church property
was disposed of early in the year, and a
new church edifice is about completed and
will be dedicated during the present
month. Cost $1,000.
At Tower City the foundation of a new
church has just been laid, and the building
will be completed at an early day, to cost
$4,000.
At Reynolds, Oak. and Norton arrange
ments are completed to build churches this
fall, and at st. Thomas the friends are
seeking to secure lots and build ch urch
in that town the coming year.
The value of church property at Cas-
selton has been greatly increased by the
addition of cosy rooms and other external
and internal Improvements, and by
the completion OF one of
the finest parsonages in the
conference. The Jamestown church has
also been made more inviting by being
carpeted through and otherwise improved.
A model parsonage has also been erected
during tbs year at cost of $500, exclusive
of lot. At Grand Forks commodious
parsonage has been built, worth about
$4,000, including lot. At Bismarck the
parsonage so long upholstered has been
completed and made habitable. The
friends at Moorhead have dispensed with
chairs which have been used for five years
past. and have introduced modern style
pews with new altar and pulpit furniture,
at cost of 81, 100, most of which has been
provided for. The church at Manden, on
the west of the Missouri, has been pewed
and painted, and improved internally and
externally. The work is expanding on
our hands, and responsibilities increasing.
In this great country we must plan for
more aggressive work, and while it is our
policy to make the work self-sustaining as
soon as possible, it is our settled convlc-
ton that North Dakota must as early
as.possible be set eff as separate mission,
and for this part of the growing territory
there must be enlarged missionary appro-
prIations. Without this We cannot enter
the doors that are flying open On every
hand, and without this We cannot save the
work, at some points, from utter extinc
ton. The demands of this work and the
opportunities presented cannot possibly
be over estimated. Entire counties could
be pre-empted for Christisn Methodisn
had we the "men" and the money" In
many places our hands are tied in fruit
less efforts to make 'brick without straw"
First and last of all, our greatest need is
baptism of power in order to check the
dominant worldliness so common in new
country. We mast value our heritage and
give ourselves up to renewed conservation
to the great work Of saving men and build
ing up the body of Christ.
The Rev's Hobart, Hair and Chaffee
were appointed a committee to consider
the question of setting Off North Dakota
into separate missionary field.
In the matter of the division of the con-
ference territory there was appointed a
committee Of Rev's Lathrop, Mckinley,
Hobart, Van Anda, Martin and Starkey.
The forenoon session was then aa-
journed until 2 O'Clock p. N.