Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-26
STATE CONFERENCE
coNGREGATIoNALIsTs w I'LL
! GATHER IN DUBUQUE MAY
&. is, IS, II, 10
ottumwa Churches VIII be Represent
3 ed at the Meeting, Which Is Made
Memorable by Two Unusual Facts
The Complete Program.

Memorable by Two Unusual Eacts-
The Complete Program.
The First and Second Congregation.
al churches of this city will be repre-
sented at the sixty-seventh annual asso-
citation of the Congregational churches
of Iowa in Dubuque May is, 16, IL and
49,. The delegates to the meeting will
be selected within short time. Pro-
grams for the event have Just been
issued and are now being distributed
among the Congregational ministers
about the state.
This session of the Congregational
association of Iowa is made memoir
able by the fact that it is the seventh
eth anniversary of the beginning Of the
work in the state at Dubuque, in 1886,
and also that it is the twentieth ami
versary of the Woman's Home Mission
airy union.
The program arranged is as follows:
Tuesday, May Is.
Twentieth anniversary of the Wo-
mans Home Missionary union Of Iowa.
Morning.
9:00-Conference OF workers.
10:00-Opening exercises. Devotion
al.
10:20-Appointment of committees.
10:30-Rcport of officers and COM
nittees.
Afternoon.
2:0O-Devotional
2:15-"What God Wrought in the
EyS,,et FTNy, m n
2:30-"What God Wrought in the
Last Ten Years." Mrs. M. Rev.
2:45-Memorial services for those
who have passed away.
3:15-Greetings for other missionary
organizations.
3:30-Address by Mrs. B. W. Firman
of Chicago, president of the National
Federation Of w. H. M U.
4:3O-Address by Mrs. M. w. Mills,
principal of the Schauffler Memorial
Bible Training school, Cleveland, o.
On Wednesday at $3.50 a. M, the
union will continue its session in the
chapel of st. Lukes Methodist Episco-
pal church, corner of Main and
Twelfth.
+ Program Of General Association.
Tuesday, 1880 p. m.-First church.
Choir: Mrs. Cornelius M. Steffens,
organist; Miss Maude Marshall, So
prano; Miss O'Rourke, contralto; Carl
Basler, tenor; Graham Smith, basso.
Organ Melody" (West).
Address of welcome.
Response by the retiring moderator.
"Hark, Hank My Soul"
(Shelley).
VsrfNr,
dar Rapids.
Tenor solo-"My Soul is Athirst for
Cod" (GauD, by Carl Basler.
Prayer-Merle A. Breed, Monticello.
Anthem" Rock Of Ages" (Buck).
Sermon Wilson Denny. Charles
City. "a Supreme Need for Twentieth
Century Service" l.. Tim, iv. z.
+ Communion service-Robert S. Os-
good, Belle PLANE; Malcolm Dana, Ma
quoketa.
Summit Church.
Sermon-"The Central Fact in the
Kingdom Of Cod John v. II. Lemon
B. Xix, Marshalltown
Communion service-A. W. Sinden,
Nashua; F. A. Zickafoose, Onawa.
Organ Festal Marche"
(Calkin).
Emmanuel Church.
Sermon In Germany Our Duty as
Christians" Pastor William j. Suckow,
Manchester.
Wednesday Morning, May is.
8:00-Business. Organization. Elec-
ton of officers. Reports of state Off
GERS Appointment Of committees. Re
ports of standing committees.
9:30-Devotional hour. "The Call to
Prayer for the Twentieth Century
Ernest E. Day, Spencer.
10:3O-"The Coming Unity of the
Churches" G. c. Williams, Keokuk
11:00-Woman's hour. Addresses
by Mrs. Ida Vose Woodbury. and Mrs
NJ w. Mills, Cleveland, Ohio; Miss
Bement of China.
12:00-Adjournment.
Afternoon.
1:30-Business
"The Christian Nurture for the
Twentieth Century," Henry W. futile
chairman.
2:oo-"The Contributions of Psy
chology to Evangelism" Prof. j. d
Stops, Grinnell.
| 2:2o-"Christian Responsibility fol
the Youth in Our Colleges" Horace L
Strain, Iowa City.
i 2:4O-"Christian Endeavor as ar
i, Evangelising Agency" Hugh Mexican
j Waterloo.
i 3:00-Discussion
/ 3::30-"The Teaching Function O
the Church." Frank K. Sanders, Bos
ton, Mass
4:o0-Report of the state sunda.
!: school superintendent.
! 4:20-Report of the state Sunda!
! school committee.
4:40-Business.
Summit church, 4:oo-sunday schoo
rally.
Evening.
First Church. 1890
Organ Prelude-"Andantino" lie
) mare).
. Scripture reading.
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