The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-01
DR.. CASES UNIQUE THEME
The Prominent Methodist
Divine Discusses on Men,
tai Diseases.
Grace Church Festlval-Receptio
to the Misses Oveatt-Dr.
Citizens Sermon.

The annual California conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church will be held
at Pacific Grove from the 11th to the 10Th
inst. inclusive. Bishop III. w. Warren
equally prominent as an ecclesiastic and
an astronomer, will preside. It will be q
conference of more than usual Importance
because of the election of six delegates to
the General Conference to be held in May
The question of the admission of women to
the General Conference will come up fol
discussion. The Lay Association will meet
on Friday afternoon following the opening
of the conference. Among the speakers oil
note from a distance will be DR.. M. S.
Hard, assistant secretary of the Church
Extension Society. DR.. Hard was class.
mate of Bishop Fowler's. DR.. ]. w. Ham.
ilton of Boston, representing the Freed.
mems Aid and Southern Educational
Society, and DR.. Homer Eaton of the
Methodist Publishing-house will address
the conference.
The Grace Church choir, which was re.
Gently reorganized and is now under the
dictatorship of William II. Holt, consists
of: First tenors--Frank Coffin, Clarence
Wendell, Algernon Aspland, Peter Lamar;
second tenors-Robert Smith, Leonard
bassos-D. M. Warde. F. G. B. Mills; sec.
ond bassos-Hugh Williamson, w. Nc
Donald.
A festival service will be held on the
first Sunday of each month, and the initial
service takes place with the following pro-
gramme this evening:
Organ prelude, "Barcarolle" (Bennett); pro-
cessiona! hymn, 491; 1.-The Church's One
Foundation A1gzTel; responses Tails
sis (Gounod); magnificent, Nunc dimittis, in F
(Fairlamb); anthem, LEAD, Kindly Light
words of hymn 433 Dudley Buck; hymn $50
tory, Odd psalm (Schubert); presentation OF
aims. Praise God from Whom all Blessings
Flow lFranc); vesper hymn, "Jesus, Meek and
service; ''Sacred concert on lake interrupted
by Thunderstorm (Chey. Sigismund New
komn.
A course of lectures on church history
will be delivered at the Church of the Adj
vent this fall and winter. They are ar
ranged as follows: September-The Rev.
E. j. Lion, ''The APOSTOLIC Church.; Sep
September IL. 1.-THE Church and the Gen.
tiles; September 20, 1.-THE Church at An
tioch''; September 81, .Close Of the Apos-
tohc Age" October-The Rev. Thomas J..
Lacey "The General Councils; October
4, "The Council of Nice or the Origin of
Creeds"; October IL, "Constantinople or
the Church's Teaching Concerning God
the Holy Ghost; October 10, 1.-THE Coun-
Gil OF Ephesus and the Incarnation;
October %, 1.-THE Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
Councils and Their Teaching Concerning
the Person of Christ,
November-The Rev. M. D. Wilson,
The Church of England; November /,
'The British Church.; November 8, ''The
Mission of st. Augustine; November Is.
THE Work of Theodore; November %,
THE Effect of the Roman Conquest on the
Church; November 90, Roman As
sumption, English Resistance.
December-The Rev. w. H. Moreland
and the Rev. f. j. Mynard, 1.-THE Refor-
nation; December 6, 1.-THE Antecedents
OF, the Reformation" December Is, 1.-THE