The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-14
BEGINS WORK TODAY
Methodist Conference Will Be-
gin With Holy Communion.
ADDRESSES OF WELCOME
Will be Delivered by Gov.
Stanley and Rev. Thayer
ADDRESSES OF WELCOME

The Southwest Kansas conference will
be formally opened for business at the
First M. E. church with the observance
of Holy Communion at $50 o'clock this
morning, after which the Rev. Henry E.
Thayer, pastor of the Plymouth Con-
gregational church, will deliver the adj
dress Of welcome on the part Of the
churches of the city. Governor Stanley
will welcome the ministers on behalf Of
the city. Bishop Vincent will deliver the
response for the conference ministers.
This will be followed by the general roll
call and organization for the business of
, the conference.
Al 2:3O a statistical session will be held,
and at o'clock the anniversary of the
Sunday School Union and Tract society
will take place. This will be a very in
1eresting meeting. The Rev. Dugald Nc
Cormick will preside and the Rev. A P.
George will deliver the anniversary adj
dress.
At 4:S0 the Rev. Harry F. Ward will
lecture, the general topic being THE
Gospel of Social Redemption" and lee
ture No. being 1.-The City Wilderness
and the Way Out"
The anniversary of the Missionary so
ciety will comprise the evening session,
beginning at 1870 O'Clock. The Rev. B.
Eangle will preside. Rev. A B. Leonard,
ID. D., viii deliver the address. He is one
of the strong men of the church and his
lecture address viii be one of the best of
the week. All the services and lectures
will be free to the public and everybody
Is invited to attend.
Ministers We're arriving all day yester-
day and there were busy times at the
church, the time being taken up in as
signing the visitors to the places where
they were to be entertained during the
week The regular examinations not
completed at the mid-year meeting for
that purpose were conducted in the class
rooms. These rooms. several in number,
have been set apart for various branches
of the conference work, and the church
Is admirably arranged for such work.
The informa ton bureau, book concern &C
counts and book room are in room A,
book room in room B, DeaconeSs board
meetings to be held in room c, station
cry and stenographer in room D, board
of stewards in room r., charieties in
room F, all on the east side Of the
church. On the west side are the benev-
oIences in room No !, education in room
Q, reforms in room g. Epworth League in
room 4. womans work in room 8, book
concerns periodicals in room 6. The
basement has been neatly arranged for
la ,rTi g,+ al
men are a fine body of men. and bear
evidence that preachers are well fed and
well clothed in Kansas. There were
many Of them in the church yesterday
renewing acquaintances. each telling an
other what had happened to his old
friends since he had left the charge years
ego. The preachers scarcely ever refer
to the death of a wife, or good old sis
ter Of the church in the cold way
in which the world uses the term. MY
wife went to Heaven last January" said
one old soldier of the cross to another,
referring to the death Of his wife, and
there were many such expressions as this
in the course of conversation yesterday.
BISHOP VINCENTS LECTURE.
Bishop vincent delivered his great lee
ture to a splendid audience last night
and he was most enthusiastically receiV-
ed. All the lower floor was occupied and
the galleries on either side Of the church
were comfortably filed. 1t is estimated
that fully 500 people attended the lecture
Bishop Vincent was introduced by Gov
ernor Stanley. who came down from To-
peka TO attend the conference and de-
liver the address of welcome on behalf Of
the city this morning. Bishop Nincents
lecture was truly a study OF the church
life Of the future and was received with
the deepest manifestation of feeling and
interest by his fellow ministers. His
ideas of the future church life are on
the lines of progress wholly and in some
instances far in advance of the church
of the present day. With the eye Of
prophecy the great thinker seems to look
far into the nature of human action and
human tendencies and he shapes the
church of the future to meet the pro-
greSsive element that he believes will
characterize every other avenue of life
Bishop Vincent said in part: Man is
created and lives for the future. l be-
neve in progress. 1t is not gained through
any inherent power in man, but comes
from higher source. Everything is in