Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-10-16
THE APPOINTMENTS
Conference Appointments Announ-
Ced at Meeting Sunday
Night.
State Was RedistriCted and the
Minot District Was
Created.
Presiding Elder Burns Succeeds Rev
Henry Witham in Fargo
District.

After prayer by Presiding Elder
Witham, Alfred Dickey gave the ad
dress of welcome to the ministers at
tending the conference at the Metho-
dist Episcopal church Wednesday
evening. Mr.. Dickey said that he
welcomed the ministers not alone on
behalf of the congregation of the To-
cal M. E. church, but also on behalf
of all right minded citizens of James.
town. He said there had been some
remarkable changes in the past year
and half since the conference last
met. At that time people were in a
bad way as the result of poor crop.
1t was Mr.. Dickey's opinion that a
conference never met in a country
where there was more prosperity than
in North Dakota right now. The
speaker said were he to choose a SER
mon to preach to ministers it would
be that ministers should insist on
their congregations studying the BIZ
BILE more closely. He referred back to
the old times in Jamestown when M.
E. services were held in the depot and
contrasted it with today, when the
congregation was privileged to wor-
ship in such a beautiful structure.
The response was by Rev. H. p.
Cooper, who spoke in happy vein.
He believed that the progress made in
jamestown was general throughout
the state. He believed that prosper
ity in North Dakota did not always
help the church in spiritual way, as
sometimes people were SO busy caring
for the great crops that they forget
religious affairs. He Illustrated this
by a story of a Presbyterian mission
ary in Western Canada who was asked
by person in the east what in his
opinion was the greatest hindrance to
the progress of his work. He wrote
back, ''The two greatest hindrances
are wheat and Methodists." Rev.
Cooper was loudly applauded.
DR.. Stuntz of Manila was not able
to be present, and DR.. King of South
Africa talked at some length.
Thursday Bishop Goodsell and
the presiding elders administered the
Lords supper and in the afternoon
Rev. J. A. Strachan Of Park River
gave the conference sermon.
The conference was addressed on
Thursday evening by Deaconess Kate
NJ. Cooper Of Ashbury hospital, Min
neapolis. Friday morning devotional
service was conducted by Rev. H. c
Klingle. Following this was examina'
tion of ministers, conducted by Bishop
Goodsell. The presiding elders of the
districts assisted in the work of ascer-
tanning the standing of the ministers
who we're absent. The results OF the
examination Of Wednesday were an
nOunced. AS a rule the standings OF
the ministers were high. The exam
ination matters were finished up be.
fore noon and some other business
taken up DR.. G. +. Sharp OF Ashbury
hospital addressed the conference
briefly on the subject of contributions
to the hospital. The representative
of the church extension branch ex-
planned how matters stoUd and urged
ministers to have congregations pay
loans promptly in order that the
money might be used for new churches.
There was quite a discussion in regard
to this matter.
In the afternoon DR.. Julia A. Don
ahue of China addressed the confer
ence. She is a pleasing speaker and
her talk of the work in the land of the
Boxers was very interesting.
Rev. G. A. Mcnamara of LarimOre
presided during the temperance ami
versary observance which followed
| the address of DR.. Donahue. Rev.
Mcnamara is the pioneer preacher OF
the conference and with one exception
the Oldest protestant minister in
active work in North Dakota. He is
one of the ministers ordained at the
first conference held in jamestown in
1883.
Rev. J. S. Miller presided at the
Penecostal meeting at 4:3O o'clock.
The Methodist conference is over
and a large number of the ministers
in attendance left for their new
charges Monday. The state was