The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-03-26
NEW ENGLAND METnoDIsTs.
The Southern Conference I'm April.
The OfIicial Visitors.

The official visitors at the 55th session
OF the New England Southern Conference
TO be held April 3, at Chestnut street
M. IL. Church are as follows:
Rev. John M. Walden, ID. d., presiding
bishop.
Rev. j. w. Hamilton, ID. d., secretary
Freedme Aid and Southern Education
Society.
Rev. s. l.. Baldwin, ID. d., secretary Mis-
sionary society.
Rev. c. H. Payne, ID. d., LII. D., secre-
tary board Of education.
Rev. w. A. Spencer, ID. d., secretary
board OF church extension.
Rev. II. w. Rogers, ID. d., Phi. d., Drew
Theological Seminary.
Rev. Il. p. Raymond, ID. d., IL. d.,
president Wesleyan University.
Rev. W.. f. Warren, 8. t. d., LII. d.,
president Boston University.
Rev. j. NJ. Buckley, ID. ID. LII. d., editor
The Christian Advocate, Narragansett
Hotel.
Rev. Charles Parkhurst, ID. d., editor
Zion's Herald,
Rev. w. V. Kelly, ID. d., editor Method
ist Review, Narragansett Hotel.
Mr.. A. s. Weed, publisher Zion's
Herald, Narragansett Hotel.
Rev. Homer Eaton, ID. d., agent Metho-
dist Book Concern, Narragansett Hotel.
Rev. w. N. Brodbeck, ID. d., Boston,
Mass.
rev. Il. M. Nortn, ~. ~, Now iorh'
Mr.. II. A. Thayer, Methodist Book De-
pository, Boston, Narragansett Hotel.
Rev. 3. A. Keen, ID. d., conference evan
gelist.
Mrs. b. s. Potter, general organizer OF
the Woman's Home M Visionary Society.
Miss Atkinson, missionary from Japan.
The program OF conference services is
as follows:
The conference will open It's session at
8 a. M, Wednesday, April 3, with the holy
communion. Business sessions each day
from 9 a. m. to II m. Pentecostal services
aloo from to . a. m, and from to b
p. M, under the direction OF Rev. 3. A.
Keen, ID. ID.
Tuesday, April 2d-7:3O p. M, Anniver-
sary Epworth League, Rev. o. w. Scott to
preside. Address by Bishop John NJ.
Walden, ID. ID.
Wednesday-1:3 80 p. M, annual meeting
Preachers Aid Society 2;15 p. m, mission
meeting OF the Veteran Association,
vestry; 1880 p. m, anniversary Freedmen's
Aid and Southern Education Society, Rev.
Il. G. Bass. DID,, to preside; speaker, Rev.
j. w. Hamilton, ID.
Thursday-2:15 p. m, semi-centennial
discourse, Rev. Nj. j. Talbot, ID. D.; 1880
p. M, Anniversary Missionary Society,
Rev. w. V. Morrison, ID. d., to preside;
speaker. Rev. s. L. Baldwin, ID. ID.
Friday.2;l5 p. m, literary address,
Rev. j. M. Taber to preside; speaker,
Rev. X. w. Rogers, Ph. D.; theme, "The
Bible and the Buried Cities OF the
East; 2:15 p. no., lin First Presbyterian
Church) anniversary Woman's Home
Missionary Society, Mrs. I. ]. Everett to
preside; speaker, Mrs. b. s. Potter,
bloomington, ILL.,; p.m.-Anniversary
Education Society and Church Extension
Society, Rev. A. j. Coultas to preside;
speakers, Rev. c. III. Payne, ID. d., and
Rev. w. A, Spencer, ID. ID.
Saturday-2:15 p. m, temperance ad-
dress, Rev. III. ID. Robinson to preside,
speaker, Rev. w. N. Brodbeck, ID. d..
2:15 p. m. Tin First Presbyterian church,,
anniversary Woman's Foreign Mission
ary Society, Mrs. IL. ID. Robin
son to preside; speaker, Miss Atkinson
from Japan; 1880 p. m, Anniversary
Board of Conference Home Missions, Rev.
q. II. Bates TO preside. Speakers, r. s.
Douglass, Esq, and Rev. +. M. North,
ID. d., corresponding secretary New York
City Missionary Society.
Sunday-9 a. M, Tn Infantry HALL
Love Feast; 10:45 a. M, sermon by Bishop
John M. Walden, ID. D.. 3 p. m, memorial
service, and ordinations of deacons and
OF elders; 1880 p. m, Evangelistic ser
vices, in charge of Rev. S. A. Keen, ID. ID.