Evening star., 1899-02-04
IN THE CHU R CHES

y number Of prominent Sunday school
workers of this city Will. It is expected. 20
10 Atlanta 10 attend the great International
Sunday school convention called TO meet
there The convention VIII represent 30
~""p Sunday school pupils and about
2pH.uo3 schools and viii meet April 81. to
continue until the 18th. About 1000 dele
gates from all parts Of the United States.
several South American countries. Canada.
Mexico. England and possibly India are ex-
pecJyd- Previous to the convention the in
ternatioual lesson committee. Rev. Dr. ].
D Potts Of Toronto. Ont, chairman. Will
meet there 10 map out the Sunday school
lessons for the next six years.
Important work 10 come before the COM
mittee VII be the study of what Sunday
school work should be done in the newly
acquired territory Of the United States ana
I'm cuba. Baptist Methodist and other de
E"minat-oual Sunday school boards have
already begun the establishment of Sun
Hawaii.
Work among the colored population Of
the south Will be given especial attention.
Mexico has only recently been taken into
the field, ana the work there must a So he
cgi+t,-errd- me convention does Tot draw
the line al color or race There Will be a
number OF negro delegates and in Viey; Of
TINS fact Two or three OF Atlauta's col0red
rittee
It was decided TO open the convention
win "a uSter meeting and chorus Of 10
WT voices al the Auditorium in FxpOsition
Park The entertainment committee head
Cc by H. H. Cabauuis. includes am0ul, it's
members former Secretary Of the Interior
iDAr smith and Ex-Governor Northeu. 1t
las SuheommitJees il each OF the 10
churches IN Atlanta.
Re- Dr. NJ ". HANNA Of this city
aSS'-.-'i i' .I-a re-edieation Sunday last Of
the EvaECeliral Lutheran Church of Fred
e.ICk city. which has been UNDERGOING 70
Ia-rs FOR several months. the chTrcF,
NflrH mas been repaired. improved and
o't-''-l-rH' Is pI Gothic design and an i'm
posing structure, with Two towering stee-
P.tS. tdch "1 which contains q set OF h,IlS
About the year 1T2g the first Lutheran
faInllles settled in the vicinity of Frederick
anu me urst house Of worship was erected
u. I't''' "ltH Kew David Gambler in
chaTSe- Rev Bernard Michael HanSihI
was the first resident pastor Of the church
Il Frederick, and the present pastor is
Rev llr. Luther kuhlrnau. who has served
sincs lAsi. succeeding the late DR.. George
a Diahl. who served his conareratign
about tbjrty-SiX years
The church has had eleven resident nes-
tors During the pastorate of Dr. Kuhlman
the congregation has given SCi2 col 70 OF
TINS amount the sum Of $12 4siT4 has haen
expended FOR missionary work
rom reports received in this city il
would seem that the demand being made by
the laymen of the Methodist Episcopal
IhErcn for equal lay representation in the
general conference Of the church has been
PF''ItlcHHy acceded to The matter will
b settled finally by the next general cor
ference, which meets at Chicago in MAY
1gOH. '
BY a resolution of the last general con-
ference the plan was submitted 10 the an
Iual conferences for their approval or re-
lection Nearly all the annual conferences
have now voted. and IL is conceded that
the plan mas met with the approval of a
large majority of them. If the conferences
yet to be heard from should vote adversely
II Is said the plan would not thereby be
defeated, so large is the majority in its
favor.
Before becoming a law of the church
however. equa! lay representation will have
10 receive the approval OF three-fourths OF
the annual conferences and the votes OF
two-th!rds Of the members of the general
conference.
Lay representation in the general confer.
ence was first granted in 1872.
7. J. Morgan of this city. secretary of the