The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-30
BISHOPS ADDRESS
STIRS MEIHODISTS
Event Of the Day in the Sessions
Of the Conference at
Mankato.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. .--s.
Mankato, Mimi, Sept. 30.-The Min
nesota Methodist conference was en-
gagged with routine business thru the
forenoon g session today. DR.. Forbes
Of Philadelphia, assistant secretary OF
the Church Extension society, addressed
the conference.
E. G.. Smith, Daniel Kellogg, Herbert
M. Hancock, William Babcock and Will
liam Smith were received on trial and
W. C. Hunter, J. E. Mccormick, T. E..
Thompson, William Valdez, Irving Hol-
man and Robert McKaig were admitted
into full membership. = -,
The event of the session was the bish-
op' s address to the class received in full
connection. Many were moved to tears
under the strong, earnest words of the
bishop.
Sunday School Anniversary.
At the anniversary Of the Sunday
School union the general secretary,
Rev. j. T. Mcfarland, delivered an in.
spring address upon the work in which
he is engaged. Money is collected in
| the well-to-do Sunday schools and
churches and is sent to places where
the people are too poor or not enough
interested to carry on such work, and
a school is maintained for the benefit of
the children, the future citizens Of the
A conference board of deaconesses
has been elected as follows: Mrs. John
Grove, Mrs. w. o. Hillman, Mrs. A. w.
Dunning, all Of st. Paul, and Revs.
F: B.. Cowgirl, Redwood Falls; M. G..
Shuman, Red Wing; S. A. Cook, Win
| dom; Peter Glare, Mankato; E. H.
Goodell, st. Paul, and G.. F. Stout, ST..
Paul. It will be the duty Of this board
to raise funds and superintend the con
struction of deaconesses' home in the
capital city. .-,a ".-
.. Progress at Hamline.
DR.. >Bridgman, president of Hamline
university, addressed the conference.
Twenty five graduates Of this univer-
sity are now preaching. "Ninety-fve
per cent Of our missionaries, he said,
leone out Of Christian colleges.'
Hamline university, DR.. Bridgman
continued eaaant ,f1pens this year Nth the BE
has an endowment of $250,000, but this
keep right on asking for endowments
| from laymen. Hamline university is
willing to be judged by it's product. It
is the aim of the institution to upbuild
Christian character as we'll as educate
the students. - .a-#
"Laymen' Conference.
Chairman H. E. Woods Of the Law
mans conference Of the Methodist
church of the St. Paul district called
the conference to order at .2:3O o'clock
room Of the Y. M. G. A. building. He
told of the work that was to be accom-
plished, and he urged the laymen to be
present at all the sessions.
Dr. j.. w. Andrews of Mankato wei.
coined the laymen to. the city. F. H.
Davis Of Blue Earth offered prayer.
George y; H 55l of st. Paul read an
and discussion followed. Superin-
tendent G. A. Merrill Of the state school
at Owatonna had paper on sfThe
Layman's Work, In and Out of the
church, and discussion followed J.
II. Bowers of Redwood Falls read pa
per on "Church Finances and Business
Methods and a discussion followed.
Late in the afternoon the lavmen adj.
| iourned to the Methodist church and
! listened to an eloquent sermon by DR..
H. G. Morrison Of Louisville, KY.
Freedman's Aid
DR.. w. p. Thirkield of Cincinnati,
| general secretary OF the Freedman g
Aid and Southern Education society,
|
sary Of that society last evening. The
work Of this society has reached mag
nitude never dreamed Of by those who
first devised the plan to help the newly
freed slaves and organized the society
soon after the close Of the war. Schools
and academies and colleges and indus
trial schools located at many widely
scattered points thruout the south are
under the management Of this society.
/ Over thirty trades are taught in the
industrial schools. Of which there are a
large number.
Many Changes Due.
There is much speculation among the
| preachers as to what their destination
may be when conference closes. Not
] for many years have SO many of the
ministers been on the anxious seat
as at this session. There will be
1 changes Of pastors at Central church
Winona and First church, st. Paul
/ Bishop Mcdowell began work with the
cabinet yesterday afternoon, and the
situation may be much clearer by
night.
FORMER BANKER IS CONVICTED.
Philadelphia, Sept. 30-Henry Lear
Il form Y,rosfdanf Of the DovloSfor Do