Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-17
TIE N. !. CONFERENCE
Program For the Annual Meet
ing of the Upper Iowa Con-
ference at Davenport
CANDIDATES FOR MINISTRY
A Number of Young Men Will be Ex-
anined for Admittance to the Con-
ference-Epworth League Anniver-
sary In Connection With the Confer
ence.
Special to Times-Republiean.

| The session will begin on Wednesday,
October 5, and will be presided over
by Bishop Isaac M. Joyce, ID. d., of
Minneapolis. The sessions will be held
in st. Johns Methodist church, Il new
edifice erected by the Methodists of
Davenport. The program follows:
Tuesday, October 4.
| Although the regular sessions Of the
conference do not open until Wednes-
| day, what is known as pre-confer-
ence session will be held Tuesday, De-
tober 4. AT this time the candidates
for the ministry, who have been UNDER
| going instruction for their position for
eight years, will be examined for their
| fitness to enter the ministry. This is
u work which always occupies the time
| the day before the conference opens.
| Tuesday evening the Epworth
League anniversary will take place
and an address will be delivered by l..
g. Clark, of Usage, Iowa. on the top
| ic, THE Twentieth Century Ep-
worthian"
Wednesday, October 5.
| $3.50 a. m. Communion services,
business session.
niversary, address by Rev. A. p.
| George, ID. D., l.. l.. D., ST. Louis.
p. m. Pentecostal service, Rev.
c. L. Durham, d. D., Delaware, o.,
presiding. This service will be held at
the same hour each day.
1880 p. m.-College Day exercises,
|
versity, Baldwin, kas.
Thursday, October s.
$3.50 a. m. - Devotional hour, DR..
Durham.
Business session.
D. m. - Anniversary of Women's
Foreign Missionary Society, address by
Miss Grace Todd, Chung King, China.
Miss Mazel Losing, of Dubuque, will
tell the story OF her call to foreign
fields.
1880 p. m.-Educational anniversary,
address by William +. Anderson, d. D.,
New York City, new secretary Of the
board of education.
Friday, October z.
$3.50 a. m.-Devotional hour and
business.
200 p m.-Anniversary Women's
Home Missionary Society, address by
Rev. E. j. Lockwood, D. D., on Social
Surgery
1880 p, m.-Grand musical event Of
conference, Marion Green, of Chicago,
celebrated basso cantante, will sing.
Fifty cents admission will be charged
at this service, the proceeds to help
defray the expenses of the conference.
Saturday, October 8.
| $3.50 p. m.-Devotiona1 hour and SER
mon.
2:3o p. Missionary sermon by
Rev. M. S. Rice, of Iowa City.
1880 p. m-General Missionary So
ciety meeting, address by George B.
Smith, San Francisco, Cal.
Sunday, October 9.
900 a. m.-Conference Love Feast
Rev. Robert A. Miller, of Clinton, pre-
siding.
1890 a. m. - Conference service
Bishop Isaac Joyce, d. D., LII. d., Min
neapolis.
Ordination of deacons
800 p. m.-Ordination Of elders by
bishop.
Conservation service-Dr. Durham.
I 1880 p. m.-Evangelistic sermon by
DR.. Durham.
Monday, October 10.
$3.50 D. m.-Devotional hour and bust
ness.
200 p. m.-Memorial service for all
ministers of conference who have died
during the year, under direction OF
Rev. w. M. Lennen, Conrad, Iowa
7:3O p. m.-Anniversary Church Ex-
tension Society, address by Rev. Will
lam D. Parr, D. D., Philadelphia.
Reading of appointment of members.
Adjournment.
Sunday Morning Assignments.
The assignment of visiting ministers
to other churches of the city has not
yet been completed, but many OF the
churches have applied for speakers for
that day of the convention and the fol-
lowing are the ones assigned for morn-
ing sermons and the church at which
they will preach:
Calvary Baptist church-Rev. L. j.
Bassett, D. D., president of the Upper
Iowa University at Fayette.
First Presbyterian Prof. o. B.
Waite, D. D., Cornell College.
Edwards Congregational = Rev. Fl.
M. Troy, Mt Vernon.
Unitarian-Rev. II. D. Atchison, D.
D., Dubuque.
Christian church-Rev. N. A. Mer-
shon, Cedar Rapids.
Temple Emanuel, Friday evening -"
Rev. Daniel McGuirk, D. D., Cedar
Falls.
Second Presbyterian - Rev. r. L.
Loveland, Waterloo.
First Methodist of Rock Island
Rev. Dewitt Clinton, D. D., of Vinton.
Evening Sermons.
The following are the evening as
signments for Sunday:
Calvary Baptist-Rev. r. D. Parsons,
D. D. Upton, Iowa.
Second Presbyterian = Rev. F. p.
Shaffer, Charles City.
First Presbyterian-Rev j. M. Bis
sell, D. D. Waterloo.
Edwards Congregat E. T.
Greuell, Hampton.
Christian church-Rev. w. G. Crow
der, West Union.
First Methodist church of Rock Is
land-Rey. S. II. Kennedy, Grundy
Center.
Ellsworth College Football.
Special to Tinas-hepublican
Iowa Falls, Sept. 1.-THE Ellsworth
College foot ball team is being put in
shape for the fall campaign which op.