The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-10-04
HONOREDD R.YOUNC
He Is Elected President Of the
Lay Delegate Session.
MANKATO MEN AT MEETING
Clergy Devote Yesterday to
Religious Exercises.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Just before the adjournment of tn
Methodist conference at Marshall tC
day, the appointments were announced
Rev. S. F. Kerfoot is reappointed pre-
siding elder for the Mankato dis
trict; Rev. Peter Clare is returned t
the Mankato charge, and Rev. w.
Emery to the North Mankato charge
These appointments will be pleasing t
the congregations and Mankato peopl
generally.
The Law conference of the Mime
sofa conference district was held a
Marshall Friday and Saturday, AM
was attended by sixty delegates, o
whom three-John A. White, DR..
w. Andrews and DR.. j. s. Youns
were from Mankato. This was thu
third session of the lay conference
and it was shortened somewhat by
the length of the ministerial confer
ence, but good program was carried
out and it received greater recogni
ton than ever before from the minis
terial conference. 1t was received
standing by the latter and was ad
dressed cordially by the bishop.
Dr.. J. S. Young of Mankato wa.
elected president of the conference fol
the coming year, DR.. Beise of Window
secretary, and Sumner Sherwin of Lake
Crystal district vice president for Blue
Earth county.
Marshall, Mimi, Sept. 3O.-The exer
cises of the Minnesota conference OF
the Methodist Episcopal church were
entirely of devotional nature yester'
day and with the exception of the con-
ference love feast were held in the
high school auditorium. The conference
love feast this morning was held in
the Methodist church and was conduct.
ed by Bishop Goodsell. At the 1880
o'clock service Bishop Goodsell preach
ed the sermon. The sermon was pre-
ceded by an anthem by the choir
Nearer My God to Thee" with obi
cato by Mrs. Elmer c. Patterson
Scripture Lesson" solo by Mrs. S. E.
Whitmore, and songs by ladies' quar-
tet composed of Mrs. Patterson, Mrs
Whitmore, Mrs. F. C. Wheat and Miss
Helen Watson.
Bishop Goodsell took for his text
Cor. xiii, IL: "When l was a child
| spoke as child, l understood as a
child, l thought as a child, but when
| became a man l put away childish
things" The bishop spoke at length
of the distinction between childishness
and childlikeness, and urged his hear
ers to become childlike, but not child
ish.
At 3 D. m. was held a memorial
service in the memory of DIR. Griswold
who was presiding elder of the st
Cloud district at the time of his
death.
Following the memorial service HI
NJ. Hancock, w. G. Babcock, Albert
Bauman and others were ordained
deacons and Fl. w. Bedford, F. B. Hol
man, S. T. Bear and G.. E. Hunter
were ordained elders by Bishop Good
SELL
On account of the time consumed ir
the election of delegates to the con
ference on Friday the greater part OF
the program of the lay conference was
held over until Saturday. Papers were
read by w. H. Gold of Redwood Falls
on "How Can We Increase the Inter
est of the Young People in the
Church," ''The Ideal Layman," by c
B. Piper of st. Paul; ''What Shall thu
Midweek Service Include" by o. c
Gregg of Lind, and "The Organic
Union of Churches" by DR.. J. w
Andrews of Mankato.
At the business session DIR. A. w
Young of Mankato was elected presi
dent; o. c. Gregg of Lind, vice presi
dent of the Marshall district; DR.. A
C. Jacobs of Elmore, vice president
of the Mankato district; A. c. Fawcet
of Rochester, vice president of the Wi
mona district, and Professor A. 2
Drew of Hamline, vice president of TIN
st. Paul district; DIR. H. c. Bets,
of Window, secretary, and William NJ
Cviergh of st. Anthony Park, treas
urer.
The lay conference passed resolution
memorializing the general conference
to recognize the body as an electora
conference; also to reduce the size o
the general conference from $50 to SOC
Resolutions were passed recommendin;
tithing.
On invitation of the conference tn