St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-03
LUTHERANs in COUNCIL.
Opening Session of the minnesota
Conference at Zion Church.

Opening session Oh the olTnueSOCa
Conference at Zion Church.
The twenty-third annual meeting Of
the Minnesota conference of the Evan
gelical association Of North America
opened at am. yesterday in Zion
Evangelical church, Bancroft and
Winifred streets. West st. Paul,
Bishop r. Dubs, D. D. presiding,
The proceedings opened with
prayer, after which an address was de-
liyered by the bishop who dwelt on the
trials and duties Of ministerial life, and
impressed on the young clergymen
present that these were as nothing COM
and So or during His residence here
on eal The bishop concluded by
saying lat true minister of the
gospel, :. ust live his life in, to and for
God. There were Hfty-seven ministers
in attendance when the conference
opened. aud large number are eX-
pected to arrive to-day and tomorrow
to participate in the revival service to
be held Sunday in the Clinton Avenue
Methodist church, which has been
offered and accepted for the occa-
sion, owing to the Zion church build
ing being utterly inadequate for
the purpose. The only business of i'm
portance transacted at yesterdays ses-
sion OF the conference was the balloting
upon numerous young aspirants for
holy orders. Messrs Otto Shultz, A.
lawan and c. f. Rachel were voted for
as elders, and will be ordained by the
bishop on Sunday. The following are
eadaatss for Admission SSdDsr to the
.E F.iat,s August Reek, e. a. Tesoh Oh,
j. NJ. Baintanger. F. G. Draeger, Peter
Koch, Albert Utzinger, G. W. Walt
hansen, W. Guides, Silas GoetZ and F
walter. the last four having been voted
ordination as deacons yesterday after
noon. and will be ordained by the
bishop and presiding elders on Sunday.
Rev. j. Manthey and E. j. Hielscher
were appointed as trustees dur
.ing the afternoon session. The
bishop appointed Fl. Obs as
chief secretary, and C. W. Walthausen.
w. Yuedes, Silas Goetz and j. Walter
as assistant secretaries. The work of
appointing committees was proceeded
with, and resulted as follows: COM
mittee on sermons for the week. Revs.
A. StrOhmeier, H. E. LinseN, g.. HusSer,
and j.. l.. Stagner. Committee on cor.
srespondence consisting of the bishop
and presiding elders, the same commit
tee acting on the matter OF bounda-
ries. Committee on quarterly con-
ference journals: Revs. A. Knebei, A.
Hulster, Joseph KienholZ, f. Emde,
+. G. Schmidt, A. Saler and +. Moede.
Committee on finance: Revs. c. Brill,
L. Passer, 81. Hensel. Z. F.. Rachel. G.
Duebendorf and M. Vetter. Committee
on ways and means: h. Bunse, A. T.
Hielscher, w. LEM. &. Britzens, H.
Isker and julius Graeben. Sabbath
and temperance committee: Revs. j.
Gongoll, G. H. Siebold, c. F. Lydow,
F. Arendt. J: /. Leder. =. Fl.
Bauman and 81. PlantikOw. An eloquent
and appropriate sermon was preached
by the bishop last evening at Zion
church, the building being crowded to
the doors. and dozens OF people stand
ing in the aisles and hall, while
many more were turned away.
The text Of the bishops SER
mon was taken from the second
epistle of ST. Paul to the Corinthians,
s'For God who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness, hath shined in
our hearts to give the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ" The address was
listened to throughout with deep inter-
est by the large audience assembled. 1t
is expected that the conference will
complete all business Oh hand in time
for an adjournment on Saturday. A de-
cisiOn was reached that the next annual
conference will he held at Blue Earth,
MIMI, May 1, 1890.