The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-19
METHODISTS ARE
ENCOURAGED
Rosy coIored Reports Made to
Conference at Ogden.
MEETING OF MINISTERS
OPENING OF THIRTY FOURTH
ANNUAL GATHERING.


Ogden. Aug. 1S-The thirty-fourth
annual session Of The Utah mission OF
the Methodist Episcopal church was
opened this morning at the First
Methodist church in Ogden. Bishop
Earl Cranston was in attendance and
conducted devotional exercises at the
opening. Bishop Henry Spelimeyer
arrived during the day and in the
evening delivered an address for the
mission workers and for the general
public.
After the devotional exercises in the
morning. the business session was Eeiu.
Under the organization of the MsthO-
dist church Utah is still denominated
as a mission. The various pastors ana
teachers at work here derive their au-
thority from various subdivisions of
the church called conferences The
business of this mission Is practicaiiy
of tie same character as that OF
state conference.
Reports Are Encouraging.
The preliminary business yesterday
was confined to the reports OF the pre-
siding elders and pastors of the mis-
sion and to the appointment or COM
rnittees. The report of Rev. F. e.
Mork, presiding elder for the Rlchileid
district. had in il a note of triumph
that speaks encouragingly for Meth
odism in Utah. In fact all reports
submitted were of nature TO en-
courage. and uniformity of hope and
purpose characterized the reports read
at this mornings session
D. NJ. Helmick was elected secretary,
G. NJ. Hansen, assistant secretary ;
Samuel Allison. statistical secretary;
z. J. Heckner, assistant; H. J. Talbot,
treasurer: II. K. Bailey, assistant.
Tie following conference committees
for 1904 We're elected:
Foreign missions, which INCLUDE the
regular. and the Woman's Foreign
Mission society. d NJ. Helmick, J.
F. Price. G. +. McCarger.
Home missions, which include church
extension, W. II. NJ. s, 5. 5. L, Tract
society and Deacon's Work, 7. p.
Cook and Richard Wake.
Education. which includes F. A, 5.
E. and local and general educational
work. c. J. Heckner, J. W. Balm ana
r. z. Gilpin-
Reform, which includes temperance
and Sabbath reform. s Wanless, J. 8
Anderson and s. Allison
Church publishing interests. H L.
Hansen. @. F Cook.
Resolution, D. Benjamin Young, D.
Auditing committee. Samuel Blair, ].
". Hansen.
Committee on publishing minutes.
the secretaries
Ministers Present.
Those present were; Samuel Ali
son. j. W. Balm, Samuel Blair, 5. X.
Bailey. q. T. Cook, 7. p. Cook. H L.
Hanson. ]. N. Hanson, &. J. Heckner,
D. NJ. Helmick. +. r. Mork, J. II Wor-
rail-. J. S. Anderson. &. z McCarger,
:. A. Wanless, J. T. Price, Richard
Wake.
The auditorium of the church was
fairly well filled in the evening and
Bishop Spellmeyer preached a power
full sermon from the text. Seek Ye
the Word of God" The bishop argued
that the Bible was the only book that
had endured through all ages and that
satisfies all the demands Of man. His
sermon was followed with the closest
attention and at the close a resolution
thanking him was unanimously passed.
He viii not remain during the confer
ence. but leaves for the west tOmOr-
row.
Tomorrow programme a. m,
business session; . p m, anniversary
Woman's Foreign Missionary society;
.. M, anniversary Women's Home
Missionary society: 8 p. NJ, anniver-
sary Church Extension society Ad-
dress by Rev. DR. Forbes