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Methodist Conference.
The 117th session of the Baltimore Annual
Conference of the MethodistEplscopal church
convened IN St. Paul's NJ K. church, Hagers.
town, Rev. r. M. Moore, pastor, on Wednes.
day, March 81, and continues until Tuesday,
April Q, inclusive.
About $50 ministers and several hundred
laymen will be In attendance.
The sessions of the conference will be
highly interesting. Some important church
legislation will DO brought up including the
question of pastors limit, which has been
under consideration for some time.
A most notable feature of the conference
will be the reunion of the Baltimore and
Central Pennsylvania conferences In Hagers.
town on Monday, April /. The Pennsylva.
mia conference will he in session at Cham.
bersburg at the same time of the Baltimore
conference in Hagerstown. About 900 min.
listers, including 300 from Chambersburg, are
expected to be present
The laymen's convention of,h conference
will be held In the chapel on Friday, March
20, with the sessions In the morning and
afternoon.
The program of the conference is as follows
Tuesday, March 20.
7S0 p. m.-Conference Epworth League
Anniversary, Rev. Jas. r. Wood. presiding.
CONFERENCE PROPER.
Wednesday, March 81.
m-Opening session of Conference,
Sacrament of the Lords Supper.
$50 p. H-Woman's Home Missions So.
ciety. Anniversary address by Rev.. Wesley
Hill. d, D., pastor Grace church, Harrisburg
subject, -Four Years Among the Mormons."
m-Evangelistic service.
730 p. m.-Anniversary of Sunday Schools
Union and Tract Societies.
Thursday, March %.
circumference session.
$50 p. m.-AnniversaryW omens Foreign
Missionary Society. Addresses by Rev. A.
w. Rudisell, D. D., Miss Grace Stephens,
both OF Madras, India, and Looboonagam
Animal.
4p. m.-Evangelistlc service.
7:3O p. m.-Anniversary Freedman AID
and Southern Educational Society, Rev. F.
J. Wagner, d. D., presiding. Address by
Rev. w. P. Thirkield d. y.
Friday, March 80.
Ga circumference session.
$50 p. m.-Anniversary Twentieth Cen
fury thank offering, Rev. J F. Goucher, D.
D., presiding. Address by Rev. Edmund NJ.
Mills, d. ID.
4p. -Evangelistic service.
790 p. m.-Anniversary Missionary, Rev.
W s. Edwards, D. D., presiding. Address
by DR.. II. K. Carroll
Saturday, March 30.
Ga. m.-Conference session.
$50 p. m.--Temperance mass meeting
Rev. joel Brown, presiding. Addresses by
Hoo s. K. Nicholson, of the Anti.Saloon
League, and the Rev. L. B. Wilson, d. D.
m.-Evange service.
7g0p m--Anniversary Church Extension
Society, Rev. II. r. Naylor, D. D., presiding
Address by Rev. w A. Spencer, d. d.
Sunday, March 81.
Ga. m.-Conference Love Feast
1890 a m,-Preaching by the Rev. Bishop
Earl Cranston, d. d.
m-Ordlnation service
Monday, April
Ga m-Conierence session. Reunion of
the Baltimore and Central Pennsylvania
Conferences,
1890 o m-Program; Rev. Bishop Earl
Cranston presiding:
Hymn; Il Love Thy Kingdom. Lord"
Prayer, led by Rev. Gideon Day; [Still;'
Hymn; Faith of our Fathers, Living
Address Of welcome Bishop Cranston;
Response, by Bishop Foss;
Addresses of ten minutes each by mem.
bers of the two conference as follows:
Revs. s. A. Wilson, B. B. Hamlin, W.
H. Chapman, Samuel Creighton, G. W.
Cooper, r. Hinckle;
DoxologY
Benediction, by Rev. John 2 Lloyd.
m-Rev. Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, d. D.
presiding
Hymn. "Blest be the Tie that Binds"
Prayer. Rev Jos r. Wheeler;
Hymn, "How Firm a Foundations"
Love feast or general experience meeting
in charge of Bishop Thomas Bowman;
Doxology;
Benediction. by Rev. M. A. Turner
7:3O p Morgan recital by Mr.. Leroy
Haslup. organst of Brown Memorial Pres,
byterlan Church, Baltimore
m-Lccure by the Rev. Robert Stuart
Macarthur, d. D L. l.. D., of New York,
subject. American Outlook upon the Goth
Century"
Tuesday, April Q
circumference session.
CA8roH RIA.
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