The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-20
M. E. CONFERENCE
HERE This week
Convenes Wednesday to Sc
lect Lap Delegates
VISITORS AND H OST S
Ministers to Be Entertained
in Wichita Homes.

The annual meeting of the Southwest
Kansas Conference convenes in the First
~ L church beginning next Wednesday.
Every four years. in addition 10 the as
senbllng of the ministers of the confer
ence, who meet annually, the several ap-
Dointments in the conference elect lay
delegates for the purpose of selecting lay
delegates to attend the general confer
ence. which convenes once in four years
and will meet this year in Les Angeles
in May. During the week there will be
ministers, their wives, some Of them, and
lay delegates to the number of about four
hundred. Wichita furnished two can
didates for delegate to the general con-
ference. They are. Mrs. E. c. Pollard.
wife of the pastor of the Emporia avenue
church and Hiram Imboden.
The program Of the sessions is as fol-
lows:
TUESDAY, MARCH %.
8 p m.-Lecture by Bishop John ".
Hamilton, ID. Ii. D.; subject, Mar
auders. Miracles. and Men of Mexico -
Rev. II. Watt, presiding.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH %.
9 a. DISCRIMINATION begin.
7:30 p. m.-Missionary sermon by Rev.
L. VI. Riley.
$50 p. m.-Epworth League Anniversary,
address by DR.. Dan B. Brummitt, Rev.
E A. Hoyt. presiding.
THURSDAY. MARCH q.
6:3O a. m.-Mornirg Watch service. led
by Rev. c. F English, North Ohio con-
ference Evangelist.
$50 a. m.-Opening session of confer
ence. Bishop Hamilton in the chair
200 p. m.-Statistical session.
300 p. m.-Anniversary of Sunday
School union and Tract societies. Ad-
dress by Dr.. a. P. George
400 p. m.-Pentecostal Meeting, led by
Rev. c. F. English.
1870 p. m.-Church extension anniver-
sary. Address by DR.. T. c. lift.
FRIDAY, MARCH ..
$50 a. m.-AIorning watch
$50 a. m.-Conference session. Meeting
Of Lay delegation at First Presbyterian
church.
200 p. m.-Womans' Home Missionary
society. Miss Josephine Corbin will
speak.
500 p. m-Womans' Foreign Missionary
anniversary. Rev. julius Smith, of Bur-
nah. will deliver the address.
400 p. m.-PenteeOstal service.
80 p. m.-Temperance anniversary.
Rev y b. Eastwood will preside Ad-
dress by DR.. J. T. Mcfarland, D. D,
pastor First Church. Topeka.
$50 p. m.-Freedmans Aid and South
ern Education Society anniversary.
Speaker to be announced later)
SATURDAY. MARCH 20
$50 a m.-Mornins watch.
$50 q. m.-Conference session.
200 p. m.-MemoriaI service. Rev. W
L. Dexter. chairman.
800 p. m.-Veteran's league. Recitation
by Miss Ernestine Pollard. Addresses:
Dr. W. T. Scott. Dr. Evers, Rev J. w.
Anderson, president.
400 p. m.-Pentecostal meeting.
7:30 p. m.-Educational anniversary.
Rev. Daniel II. Switzer in the chair Ad-
dressed by Dean \. c. Piersel, Phi. d.
of Mt Pleasant. Iowa.
SUNDAY, MARCH p.
$50 a. m-Morning watch.
a. Move feast, led by DR.. ]. c.
Hall.
1879 a. m.-Sermon by Bishop J. w.
Hamilton. Ordination Of deacons.
p. m.-First- Church Sabbath school.
o. A Boyle. superintendent
p. naturalization Of elders and con-
secration Of deacoGnesses.
D m.-Pentecostal meeting.
80 p. m.-Anniversary Of Missionary
Society. Addressed by Rev. J. 3 Trim
BILE, DID. Sioux City, Iowa.
MONDAY, MARCH 2S.
$50 a. m-Morning watch.
$50 a m.-Ccnference session
Many of the ministers who viii attend
the conference viii be accompanied by
their wives. in honor Of whom several
social affairs have been planned. Two
receptions Will be given. one on Friday
afternoon and one on Saturday. on Fri
dav the Womans' Home Missionary So
cieties of the Methodist churches of the
city will receive the visiting ladies at
the Deaconess home On Saturday after
noon a similar reception will he given by
the Foreign Missionary societies at the
home Of Mrs E T. Battin 49l North
Topeka avenue
The ministers and their wives and some
of the delegates will be entertained in
the homes Of the city. The following is