The San Francisco call., 1903-12-01
MANY DELEGATES
FOR CONFERENCE
Missionary Work to Be
Taken Up by Young
People.
Convention Will Be Held at
First Presbyterian
Church.

OAKLAND, Nov 3o-The Interde-
nominational Young Peoples Mission
ary Conference of the State will open
at the First Presbyterian Church on
Friday next and will run through Sat
urday and Sunday. This will be one
of the most important gatherings of the
kind ever held, for it aims to include
all denominations and the local ar
rangements are being made by the
Christian Endeavor Societies, the Ep-
worth League Alliance and the Baptist
Young Peoples Union, these being the
young peoples societies of all Of the
evangelical churches of Oakland.
In addition to the interdenomina-
tional feature of the gathering, it will
be one of the largest conventions ever
held in the West Local plans are be-
ing made for handling 1000 delegates,
and it is expected that fully this num-
Der will be present. Arrangements
have been made to entertain those dele
gates who come from any considerable
distance free of charge and many fami-
lies of Oakland have volunteered their
1OI llliS puIpOSSs
Rev. Dwight E. Potter, pastor of the
Union-street Presbyterian Church, is
at the head of the local executive COM.
mittee, with Earl S. Bingham as the
secretary There are many sub-com-
mittees, upon whose shoulders have
fallen different branches of the work
of making the arrangements. The work
of these committees has been earnest
and hard, but it is expected that the
results will justify the labor expended.
A NJ. Sutherland is at the head of
the committee of local arrangements,
with subsidiary committees under him
headed by the following named: Local
reception, Mrs s. A. Rutherford; deco
ration, Desaix McCloskey; registration,
Miss E. Stewart, .ushers, Hadley Clar-
rage; halls. Percy Bliss.
The general work Of the conference
has been divided between a large num-
Der of committees in order to make the
division of labor equal. OF these gen
eral committees the one on entertain
ment is the largest and most import
ant This committee has for it's head
Z. F. Wood, with Miss Ethel Mayor,
Earl D. White, r. ]. Burks, Roy Baker
and Harry Keifer as assistants.
The rest of the work of the meeting
has been divided among the following
committees:
Programme-Re Dwight E. Potter Rev
NJ Slaughter, Rev. Miles 3. Fisher, Rev.
Owen E. Hottie, w. NJ. Bird and Mr.. McFar-
lane Prayer cirele-Rev Owen E. Hottie H.
L. Sorensen Rev. NJ. Slaughter. Transporta-
tion-George p. Lowell. Train receptlon-Mrs
J. L. Crilley. Press-EarI s. Bingham. Pull
Arthur J.. Caldwell Music, special corre-
spondenee-Rev Miles B. Fisher. Promotion
W. NJ. Bird. F. w: Trower. E. 5. bingham
Mrs H. L. Kemp. W. II. Waste. Missionary
exhibit-Rev NJ. Slaughter
TOPICS OF DISCUSSION.
The meetings are to be given over to
the discussion of topics under the fol-
lowing heads: Friday morning, "Mis-
sions Based on Scripture Teaching;
Friday afternoon. Missions Based on
the Worlds Needs; Friday evening,
World wide Evangelization" Satur-
day morning, Motives and Spiritual
Power; Saturday afternoon, Ways
and Means; Saturday evening, "A
New Macedonian Cry; VIII You Go
or Send?" Sunday will be given over
to sunrise prayer meetings in the
homes and churches, followed by the
regular church services. The confer
ence VIII close with a meeting at
p. m, with the subject, THE Last
Words of Jesus" which are, "Ye shall
be my witnesses unto the uttermost
part Of the earthy
Among the most prominent speakers
at the conference will be: Rev. ]. Will
bur Chapman, Rev. Ng Poon Chew,
Rev. Charles r. Brown, Rev. H. H.
Bell, Rev. George c. Adams, Rev. A.
w. Rider Rev. George B. Smythe, Rev.
E. w. Work, DR.. Sara E. Wise, Rev. w.
c. Sherman, Colonel French and T. B.
Hutchinson. 1t is expected that Miss
Alice G. McMillin of San Jose viii be
the soloist of the convention.
The participants in the programme
will be:
Rev. George C. Adams, Marshall Black. Rev.
Z. Z. Baker. Rev. ]. N. Beard. Rev. H. II.
Stuart w. Booth, Rev. Thomas A. Boyer, Rev.
w. n. Brewster, Rev Charles r. Brown, Rev.
DURHAM, Rev. e. r. Ollie, Colonel French,
Rev. ]. A. Fraser. Rev. G. X. Glider. DR.. T.
Miss Alice McNillin, Rev. c. S. Nash Miss
]. k Partridge Rev. C. F. Reid Rev A. W.
Rider, J. NJ. Robinson; Clement P. Rowlands.
Alexander Stewart Rev W. X Guthrie. Rev.
George B. smythe Stanford Student volun-
teers Rev. Mr.. Storey, Rev. S. NJ. Freeland.
Rev. William Thomas, Hiram Van Kirk, Rev
H. J. vosburEh DR.. Sara E. Wise. Rev. D.
W. Work and L. T. Norton.
Marriage Licenses.
OAKLAND, Nov. 3O.-The following
marriage licenses were issued by the