The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-04
HERE'S AN ARRAY OF
METHODIST FIGURES
Conference at Redwood Falls Is
a Worker-Reports Made and
Resolutions Adopted.
Special to The Globe.

5pGCldl 10 he NTlOD6.
REDWOOD FALLS, Mimi, Oct. g.
All that remains for the Methodist
conference to do is to listen to the APP
pointments which Bishop Fowler will
read after service tomorrow night.
Business was pushed through rapidly
today. After an executive session COM
mittees began to report and adoption
followed without delay.
The committee on state Of the church
reported satisfactory work in the adj
vancement of labor organization, the
shortening of the hours of labor and
the growing favor of arbitration as a
means of settling labor disputes. The
committee on education Endorsed the
present board and recommended as
conference visitors for the coming year
H. V Giverle, G. w. LutZ and w. N.
Jamison. The committee on freed
mems aid commended President Roose-
velts policy and pledged the confer
ence to stand by the society. The re-
port of the committee on temperance
charged that the laws regulating the
liquor traffic are being daily violated;
that the business tends to anarchy, and
that total prohibition is the only rem
edy. The report calls for a fair trial
of the anti-canteen law; declares OPP
position to the use of government
property for liquor selling purposes,
and favors the Hepburn law. The COM
mittee on ASbury hospital declares it
shame that the building has not been
completed, and recommends a collec-
ton for the purpose. F. NJ. Rule, Peter
Clare, F. E. White F. ]. Stout and w.
N. Jamison were appointed directors of
the hospital.
The report of the committee on
church extension asked an apportion-
ment among the churches of the
amount necessary to raise for the year,
and Endorsed the appointment of DR..
Robert Forbes as first assistant Secre-
tary of the board. According to the
statistical secretary's report for the
past year, there are 1891 church
members and 1,70S probationers, 40 To-
cal preachers, TIA deaths. 694 children
and SIG adults baptized, 233 Sunday
schools, with 1869 officers and teach
ers and 1887 pupils; 267 churches,
valued at $918,428, and 102 parSonages,
valued at $168,400 The report of the
board of stewards for the year showed
receipts of S9,791.5O, and disbursements
of $4,000. J. Blackhurst and J. w.
Robinson were elected to the board.
The treasurers report showed $685.
74S received for the benevolences, a
gain of 1882 over last year.
The report of the committee on the
Epworth league urged leaguers to read
church literature; commended Hamline
university. and recommended the cleo
ton of the following officers to Coop
crate with the cabinet: President,
Carl F. Miller, Luverne; first vice
president, T. P. Hanson, Winona; sec
ond vice president, Miss Ellen Wright.
Luverne; third vice president, Claude
Southwick, Albert Lea; fourth vice
president, Mrs. Eleanor Armstrong.
Chatfield; secretary treasurer. Miss
Gertrude Williams, st. Paul; junior de-
partment, Mrs. H. E. Woodin, Lake
Crystal.
relief endowment fund rec
commended the abolition of the annuity
fund plan and the substitution therefor
of ministerial relief society, which
shall have charge of a permanent en-
dowment fund of $4,000, which the
conference shall proceed immediately
to raise. The presiding elders were
instructed each to appoint a committee
consisting of three ministers and three
laymen, whose duty 1t shall be to see
that the fund is apportioned and raised. |
The examining board for next year
was appointed as follows: w. R. Kee-
sey, e. c. Treahout, w. J. Robinson. s.
A. Cook, w. N. Jamison, ]. M. Brown. |
p. H. Goodell, G. H. Quigley, B. c. Gill F!
lis, Thomas Hambly, G. A. Capoon, F. (,
A. Zone, M. G. Shunan, w. A Brown,
e. - OH SdIlp, =. w. hemQ6rer, j. Z. |
Coraig, S. e. Ryan, A. w. Brown and
o. w. Taylor. The 1904 class of the
relief committee was re-
elected as follows: Samuel Ellery
George N. Hillman and George A. Nc
Arthur.
This afternoon a temperance rail- was |
held. DR.. Robert Forbes addressed a |
meeting this evening on behalf of |
church extensions. Bishop Fowler and |
DR.. Longley, of ST. Paul, will preach to-
morrow. An Epworth league rally viii |
be held and the day will close with a |
Wesley bicentennial celebration.
Northern Conference.
DULUTH, Mimi, Oct. S.-The North
ern Minnesota conference today elect
ed Presiding Elders Fielder of Mime
apolis, and Clemens, of Anoka, as re-
serve delegates to the general confer
ence at Los Angeles. E. A. Cooke,
Henry Logan, John P. Manly, G. w. B.
Smell and Frederick Saloni were elected |
elders, and Ezra R. Stevenson, J. P.
Cummins and ]. J. Hallberg deacons.
Students continued in studies are r. |
z. Cummings, G. w. Ellis, Robert C. |
Johnson, Donald Mckenzie A. A. Mey- |
ers, j. w. Robinson, ]. A. Geer, N. E. J. |
Gratz, j. E. Watson, John S Kenyon,
5. L. Parish, Thomas J. Chaffel, C. H. |
McCren and Thomas Swinnerton.
Those who will maintain q superan- |
uated relationship with the church are: |
A. H. Abbott, L. D. Brewer, John Clark. |
John Doran, Levi Hall, Alonzo Hitch |
COCK, Noah Latrop, w. B. Molyneaux, |