Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-10
Important Meeting Of Religious
Workers Held in Ottumwa.
ME1HODISTS PLAN FOR ACTIVE WORK
Conference Commission of the TWEEN.
tieth Century Movement Holds Ini.
tiaI Session-O Officers Elected and
Plans Made for Raising Funds.

The Twentieth Century Com.
$ mission of the Iowa M. e. Confer
s. ence, at its meeting in this city,
. accomplished the following:
$ Elected Rev. w. G. Wilson as
: its president;
- Partially decided for conven-
" ton in Ottumwa next June and
. appointed committee on program;
Pledged itself to earnest work
IS in spiritual advancement, i'm
provement of Wesleyan Univer-
sity, and to spreadof Christianity.
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The first meeting of the conference
commission of the Twentieth Century
Movement of the Methodist Episco-
pal church was he'd in the lecture
room of the First NJ. E. church in this
city yesterday afternoon. This COM
mission is body of men appointed at
the last annual meeting of the Iowa
conference of the Mehtdist Episcopal
church for the purpose of formulat-
ing plans for the work of the church
in the present century, and especial
ly for the raising of the Iowa por-
ton of $20,000,000, with which it is
proposed to defray the expenses of
carrying on the work of the TWEEN
| tieth Century Movement.
The primary outline of the work is
to collect the money by subscription
| from among the members of the
Methodist churches thruout the land
The enormity of the work undertak-
en- necessitates the cooperation of
every Methodist, but the workers will
feel fully repaid if they succeed in
raising the amount, for with it an al
most untold work can be accomplish
| ed for Christianity. Some doubt was
at first expressed regarding the like
| lihood of the amount being raised,
but this doubt has been dispelled, for
! already eight millions of the twenty
| millions of dollars have been raised,
and the work has not as yet been real
Fly commenced. Iowa subscribed
4 about $4,000, 100000 of which will be
used in the work of the Iowa Wesley
4 an University at Mt Pleasant.
The commission which met in OF
tumwa yesterday is composed OF mem
bers from the Ottumwa, Burlington,
! TUSCALOOSA, Muscatine and Keokuk dis
tricts of the Iowa conference. From
each district there are three commit
lteemen the presiding ender of
THE district, one pastor and
Eone layman. These representa-
tives were appointed at Bloom,
field last September, when the annual
conference was held, but this is the
a first meeting which has been held, and
active work will be commenced in a
short time. This commission repre-
u sents the southeastern portion of the
state, and the work is being carried
on in Iowa by three other like com
missions from the other conferences
The members of the commission
which met here yesterday are as fol
lows:
a Ottumwa notwithstanding Eldel
J. w. Lambert. of Mt. Pleasant, Rev
D.. C. Smith, of Ottumwa, and Chri:
Haw, of Ottumwa.
Oskaloosa misunderstanding Eide
w. G.: Wilson, of Grinnell; Rev. ]. w
Summerville, of Oskaloosa, and j. B
McCurdy, of Oskaloosa.
Muscatine misunderstanding Eide
~. C. w. Cox. D. D., of Washington
. Rev. C. L. Stafford, D. D., of Musca
tine, and A. NJ. Musser. of Muscatine
Keokuk misunderstanding Elder c
, S. Cooper of Keosauqua, Rev. ]. T
l Corley. of Milton, and A. @. Hargrov
J. of Keokuk.
]. Burlington Misunderstanding Eide
G.. M. futile, of Mt. Pleasant, Rev. f
], F. Hurlburt, of Burlington, and w. ).
Turner, of Burlington.
; Some of the members were unavoit
, ably absent from yesterdays meetin
. but those in attendance were as TO
lows: Revs. Tuttle, Wilson, Lamber
: Cooper, Smith, Corley, and lay men
I. IT, \ t., nj
ers, treasurer of the Iowa Wesleya