Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-20
Maine MethOdists to As.
semb|e In Augusta.
Elaborate Plans Made For the
85th Annual Conference.
Bishop J. ". Hamilton Of Callfor.
mia Will Be Here TO Preside.

sions will begin Tuesday afternoon at
the Green street church and continue
over next Sunday, when there Will De
mass meetings in City hall and Whcn
the pullits of the local churches VII.
be occupied by eminent visiting clergy
men. The conference will be presided
over by Bishop Hamilton of Califor-
MIA. who was at Houlton last week to
preside over the Eastern Maine Con-
ference. His lecture on Friday evening
will be one of the features of the
week.
Among the other distinguished
speakers to be heard at the conference
are the following: The Rev. C. l..
Gooden, d. D., of New York City, pas
tor of the largest church in Metho-
dism. who speaks Wednesday night;
the Rev F.. NJ. Mills, D. D., of Gin
cinnati, who speaks on Saturday night;
the Rev. William Adams, d. d., of
Schenectady. n. Y, who speaks i'll City
hall Sunday night on The Pilot of the
Soul" Perhaps the most interesting
address of the conference, excepting
the bishops great lecture of Friday
night, will be the address of the dis
tiDguished Kentucky orator, George w.
Young Of Louisville, who will speak
Thursday at $3.50 p. M. Mr.. Young is
the assistant national superintendent
of the Anti-SaloOn League of America,
a Kentucky orator of the first rank,
the man who led in cleaning up the
Bourbon state and who has been the
organizing genius back of the things
which have been taking place in the
South.
The official program is as follows:
TUESDAY, APRIL q.
7.3G P. M.-Conference Sermon, Rev. r.
y. Joscelyn.
WEDNESDAY. APRIL 90
900 A. M.-Conference Session, Bishop
Hamilton presiding
200 2; M.-Address by Rev. G. E: Stokes.
$50 p. M-AddresS, Maine and Mis-
500 p. M-Address by Rev Charles L.
.Goodel. d. d., of New York City on
THE Minister and His Call.
THURSDAY, APRIL 90
800 A. M.-Conference Session, Bishop
Hamilton presiding.
Gocdel. D. D.. of New York City on
The Pastor and His Work"
$50 P. M.-Temperance Anniversary.
500 p. M.-Address by Rev. J. II. Fitz-
water, D. D.
FRIDAY, APRIL "a.
$50 A. M.-Conference Session, Bishop
Z. Hamilton presiding.
100 P. M-Electoral Conference of Lay
men in Penney Memorial Free Bap-
fist church, Grove street.
200 P. M-Address by Rev. c. L. Good
ell p, T., on The Pastor and His
Work.
3 81 P. M.-Addresses by Rev. Henry E.
Dunnack ard Rev. K. H. Schnctt.
s o. =. M.-Lecture in Green street church
by Bishop Hamilton on Some Folks
of Quality at BOSTON,
SATURDAY, AERIL %.
9.C A. M.-Conference Session. Bishop
Hamilton presiding. Il
2W P. M.-Missionary Address by Mrs.
Charles Parkhurst.
$50 p M.-NTissionary address by Bishop
Hamilton.
500 F. M-Anniversary of Freedmens
Aid and Southern Educational socie-
ties
SUNDAY, APRIL 26.
Sunday morning service held in City hall.
9oo A M.-Confererce Love Feast.
1870 A. M.-Morning Worship, service by
Bishop Hamilton
2.& +. M.-Men'orial Service in Green
7.sc P. M.-Address by Rev. Frank W.
Adams. D. T.. of Schenectady, N. Y, on
THE Pilot OF the Soul"
The consolidation of the two MethO-
dist conferences in Maine and the
lack of religious work in some por-
tons of the State will be the two
principal topics for discussion at the
conference. The consolidation of the
two conferences has been urged for
many years. Originally Maine was a
part of the New England conference
and was set off as separate confer
ence in 1924. 1t was divided in 1916 into
the Maine and East Maine conferences
on the line of the Kennebec river The
improved means of communication
started the agitation for re-uniting
them. Rev. w. T. Ogier. formerly pre-
siding elder of the Rockland district
in the East Maine conference, was an
earnest advocate of it. In the Maine
the principal work in that
direction the past year has been done
by Rev !. F.. Haley of the Pine street
church of Portland and Rev. Robert
A. COlpitts of the Congress street
church of Portland.
Last year the Maine conference ut
Auburn took long step towards the
by resolving that here
after the church at which the confer
ence met would not be expected to
furnish free board for any except the
officials and visitors from
the great UNCONVENTIONAL societies
The other topic. that of the lack Of
religious work in some portions of
Maine, is regarded by many as the
more important of the two. 1t includes
the question of providing workers who
car speak foreign languages and go
among the increasing foreign-b born
population in Maine and give them the
benefits of church associations, some
things that has been little done in this
State except by the Roman Catho-
lies
Another phase is that of non-self-
sustaining churches in small communi-
ties, some Of those being where two or
more evangelical denominations have
organizations in a community of de-
creasins population. The third phase |
is that of neglected communities, like |
the farming territory between villages |
or some of the people along a scantily
settled coast. 'rhe village will have
a church but the people outside will be |
left to take care of themselves.
The money question is at the bottom |
of both. the problem resolving itself |
in that of support for the things de-
sired