The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-03-13
Former Mankato. Ministers to
Attend Baltimore Meet.
GATHERING HELD IN MAY
Quadrenniai Session Is to Continue
Through Entire Month, Many
Important Matters Pending.

| Winona Herald: Winona will enjoy
the exceptional honor next May OF
having two of its citizens 90 on to
Baltimore as delegates to the quad.
rennial general conference OF the Meth
adist Episcopal church. These delegates
, will be Rev. DR.. Frank Doran, pastor
of the Central Methodist church OF
| this city, and Rev. DR.. +. NJ Rule
presiding elder of the Winona district
these being two out of the four min
isterial delegates from the Minnesota
conference to the general conference
The other two ministerial delegates
are Rev. DR.. j. i. Stout, presiding
elder of the st. Paul district, and Rev
III. c. Jennings, one of the publishing
agents of the Western Methodist Book
Concern. The four lay delegates are
Hon. w. A. Sperry of Owatonna, j. +.
F.; Clemens of st. Paul, j. L. Mitchell of
Austin and a gentleman from Amboy.
! The sessions of the conference will
open on May 6 and continue through
the month of May, being held at
Lyric hall Dr. Doran is member
of the missionary committee, which
has some important matters to con-
,, slider One of these will be to recon-
mend to the conference whether spec
ial missionary bishops shall be elected
or whether the work shall be carried
on under the direction of the general
superintendent.
A matter that is likely to cause
considerable discussion will be that of
the consolidation of the educational
societies of the church. This was or
dered at the last general conference
of the church four years ago, but the
societies have refused to combine and
they will present their reasons for re-
fusals so to do to this conference, and
believe they will be able to make out
so strong a case that the order for
One request to be presented to the
conference will be that of the German
Methodists that one of the new bish-
ops to be elcctd be a man from their
branch of the church who will be able
to 90 to Germany and preside at the
foreign conferences there without hav-
ing to engage the services of an in
terpreter. There are many things to
commend this request and it is con-
sidered very likely it will be granted.
DR.. Doran of this city is in receipt
of letter from Rev. H. c. Jennings,
one of Minnesota's delegates to the
general conference. Mr.. Jennings has
been visiting Baltimore making some
preliminary arrangements for the con-
ference and in speaking of this visit
says:
"Last week l was in Baltimore clos
ing up some matters regarding the
printing of the daily Advocate, etc.,
and looking about the old town for a
dav or two. The hall in which the
conference is to be held I think will
answer our purposes very well. 1t is
a little too small to accommodate a
large crowd of visitors. We shall have
about eight hundred delegates and
enough Others belonging to the con-
ference to put the whole number up
to or near about one thousand. There
will be total seating capacity of
about twenty -four hundred. Very soon
announcement will be made as to
choice of seats for our wives and 9th
er people who get seats and who must
pay for them in order to keep them,
although there will be large number
of free seats"
Mr. Jennings is now at work on the
report to the conference of the West
ern Methodist Book Concern, 1t is I'M
derstood this will be of gratifying
character, showing the past year to
have been prosperous in spite of the
financial furry and the attempted boy
colt by the International Typogfaphi-
cal union. and that a substantial sum
will be able to be turned over to the
superannuated ministers fund.
Rev. s. f. Kerfoot of this city will
also attend the meeting in Baltimore,
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