The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-03-03
Great Missionary Convention

Methodists of South Dakota and
Northwest Iowa are planning an i'm
pOrtant Missionary Convention to be
held in Sioux City, Iowa, March 10.
The of the convention is to
bring together conference and district
officers of the different organizations
of the church, the pastors and repre-
| s~entatives from the local churches
and young peoples societies within
the bounds of the Northwest Iowa and
Dakota conferences, for the consider
alton of some of the problems funda-
! mental to the Christian occupation of
the unevangelized nations and also
for prayer, fellowship and discussion
of methods and the best helps avail
able for fulfilling the great mission
airy purpose of the church.
Among those who have been as
signed parts on the program are:
Bishops E. G. Andrews, J James Mills
Thoburn, Joseph F. Berry and Will
liam F. Mcdowell: DR.. +. H. Sheets,
OF Chicago, Assistant Secretary of the
Missionary Society: DR.. f. d. Game
we'll, of New York, Executive Secre-
tary of the Open Door Emergency
Commission of the Missionary So
ciety: DR.. George Heber Jones, OF
New York, Secretary of the Station
Plan Of the Missionary Society; DR..
E. NJ. Randall, of Chicago, General
Secretary of the EpwOrth League: Mr..
S. Earl Taylor, of New York, Field
Secretary Of the Young Peoples De-
partment of the Missionary Society:
DR.. c.. M. Boswell, Corresponding
Secretary Of the Church Extension
and City Missionary Society of Phil
adelphia, Pa: DR.. j. B. Trimble, of
! Kansas City, Field Secretary of the
Missionary Society: President John
r. Goucher of the Woman's College,
Baltimore, Md: President Thomas
! Nicholson, of Dakota Wesleyan Uui-
versity, Mitchell, S. Oak; DR.. George
". Isham, Field Secretary and Treas
urer Nebraska Wesleyan University:
the Rev. Charles Edwin Brandt,
pastor First Presbyterian Church,
Wichita. Kan: DR.. Julius Smith,
missionary, Rangoon, Burma. Lead
mo pastors and laymen OF Iowa and
South Dakota Methodism will also
have important places on the program.
A feature of the convention will be an
extensive Educational Exhibit
The convention is under the manage
ment of the Rev. DR.. j. B. Trimble,
one of the Field Secretaries of the
Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal church, assisted by a com
petent and active Executive Com
mittee. The convention will be a
delegated body.
The Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, under
whose auspices this Convention is to
be held. was organized ir 1919. Dur
ing the first year of its history the
receipts were 1923 as compared with
81, -04, 525, the receipts for 1904.
Foreign missionaries are working
under the Society in Africa, Borneo,
China, Europe Federated Malay
States, India, Korea, Mexico, Philip
pine Islands and South America.
The Home Mission work, done in
every state and territory of the union,
besides in Porto Rico and Hawaii,
includes that among the following
peoples:-Welsh. Swedish, Norweg-
ians, Danish, Germans, French,
Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, Bo-
hemians, Hungarians, Finnish, Jap
anese, Chinese, Koreans, and Ameri-
can Indians, besides the negroes and
native white people of the United
States. According to the latest COM
piled statistics, there are in the
foreign field 30 Conferences and Mis-
sions, 1913 missionaries, 3,463 native
preachers. 2l6, SOP church members,
and 237 ,675 Sunday School scholars.