Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-14
MINISTERS ELECT Men
TO Be ORDAINED SUNDAY

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and the committee brought the gree--
ings of the laymen to the ministers.
During the course of the procee l.
ings several brief addresses were
made by various representatives of
different departments of work. Dr..
Horace Reed of Jacksonville, a rep
resentative of the Womens MethJ-
dist college in that city, told OF thu
work of his institution. Dr. Charles
NJ Stewart spoke regarding the pro-
ceedings and work of the Garrett Bib
Iical institute at Evanston, which is
the only Methodist theological semi
nary in the west. J. o. Crandall, field
secretary of the general conference
committee on aggressive evangelism,
made a few remarks pertaining to the
evangelical work. An evangelical ser
vice under the committees direction
will be held at the church tomorrow
evening
Asks Aid for Church.
Rev. w. p. MacVey, pastor of the
Spencer Memorial church, from which
charge he will shortly deport to be-
come president of Hedding college,
asked the conference to aid him with
the raising of $4,000, the amount Of
final Indebtedness on the church, which
he has toiled hard to clear. He is
anxious to leave the church entirely
free from financial incumbrance. and
made this last effort III behalf of the
work. The raising of the amount was
placed by the bishop in the hands OF
DR.. Joe Bell of Watseka, who will aid
in the canvass for the final sum. The
morning session was adjourned follow
ing the announcements for the meet
ing of the afternoon.
Committees are Busy.
Those of the various committees
which have not already completed their
work met this afternoon and their
chairmen are hopeful of completing all
unfinished business. y mass of rou-
tine matter has been taken care Of by
the committee. most of which was in
their own control for action. Matters
of any importance were brought before
the general conference with the COM
mittees' recommendations. The aSSres-
sive evangelism committee met at |
O'Clock in the public library building.
The conference board of nine held i
meeting at the library at o'clock. \
meeting of the official board was called
for this afternoon at 1 O'Clock at the
library.
Minister'S Wives Meet.
The Ministers Wives association
met at 3 o'clock this afternoon i'll the
ladies' parlor of the church in the an
.uual' meeting. The association, com
posed entirely of the wives of. the
preachers, carries on various forms of
church work, and the reports of the
work done in the various districts for
the year aud the election of officers,
are the main business of each annual
meeting The officers of the last year
of the association We're: President,
Mrs S. Van Pelt; secretary, Mrs. J. Fl.
Ryan; treasurer, Mrs. George Afford.
In addition, vice presidents hold offices
in the various districts, Mrs. w. r.
Wiley of this city being one of these
officers.
Addresses on Schools.
This afternoon at O'Clock an adj
dress was delivered by Rev. J. Z.
Mercer. secretary of the conference
hospital department. At o'clock :
series of three discussions on confer
.ence schools was given. Rev. II. Fl.
Frost, president of the Grand Prairie
seminary, was the first speaker In,