Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-14
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but that will probably get straighten-
ed out on the reports. Brother hari
has done a great work on Fargo dls-
trict for the Superanuate preachers
Brother Karr says revivals make peo-
nile give "hilariously" and that when
the spirituaI tide runs highest ne
gets the most and gets 1t the easiest
The following places and amounts
renresent Bro. Karr's work on Fargo
district ND to date: Sheldon $4,000
Wheatland $4,000, Edgeley $2,6oo'
Lidgerwood $4,000, Cakes $4,000, Cas-
selton $500, Enderlin 5000, Wahpe-
ton $500, and few smaller amounts
making $4,000 from only ten chars'
es on Fargo district and the otner
charges not visited yet. This snow
inc makes the hundred thousand dol
lar proposition for the whole confer
ence look easy.
Sunday Schools.
Our Sunday School work is being
improved under the leadership OF
Brother Mcnamara and will show
increase along all lines. have visit
ed nearly all the schools, have insist
ed upon their using our own litera-
ture and have encouraged Methodist
Institutes instead of the ordinary
union affair that usually shoots at
nothing and hits it.
Leagues.
The League work is healthy and
encouraging. Wherever we have re-
vivals we have good Leagues; where
the spiritual life of the church runs
low the League dies. So here we
have the remedy. You can't keep
a League alive on monthly conse-
Grafton meeting or quarterly ice
cream social. Brother Hutcheson is
district president of the League and
gave us a good convention at Cakes
in July.
Periodicals.
have urged the taking of the
Northwestern Advocate everywhere
and the list will show considerable
increase over last year. I find that
the preacher has the key to this sit
uation and if he does not push the
canvass nothing is done. Brother
Craig got 10 new subscriptions at a
morning service at Lisbon, a like
thing could be done on every charge.
l think, however, that we take SO
many per capita as the average dis
tdict, possibly more. But we ought
to improve on this. DR.. Stewart is
giving us a great paper.-let's back
him up.
Salaries.
notice by last years minutes that
the salaries on Fargo district increas-
ed $15,uvu in four years or nearly
$4,000 a year. This year will keep
up the average of increase anyhow,
and I think will show that our pas
tors are getting nearly $4,000 more
salary than five years ago. The coun-
try is prosperous, our people are get
ting rich and this increase and this
increase is onlynormal and as it
ought to be. I might say, however,
that some one has to ''push" it, or it
would not come even with prosper
ity-and the pushing is not always
pleasant or conducive to popularity.
But once up, the salary rarely falls.
Women's Societies.
I want to accord again my deep
appreciation of the importance and
magnitude of the work performed by
the various societies of the elect SIS
tiers Of the church.
The life, the spirit, the aggressive
strength Of the church is largely de.
pendent upon the pruden "e, wisdom,
patient faithfulness and pyayerful de-
votion of these consecrateI, earnest
women. Their varied departments
of work should enlist the neartiest
support of all orr people. Many
churches now doing good work would
have been closed hal it not been for
some devoted Ladies Aid Society.
Many preacher would have done
his work in the biting cold without
fur coat or his family would have
been :nsuficient!y clothed if ii rad
not beer Ger consecrated sisterhced
in the form of a " II 81 : What
these home .'citt:..S have h.es to the
home felu The W r NJ :. has been
to the foreign field and the great
awakening so manifest throughout
the church is due in a large measure
to the energy and zeal of these Cod
1y women.
The District.
This district has the distinction of
being one of the largest in Metho-
dism and half of it anyhow has
grown up under my supervision. The
country "west of the river" has near
ly all been added within the past
two years and we now have twelve
preachers at work out there. The
Turtle Lake branch with Bowden
Hurdsfield, Goodrich, Denhoff, Nc.
Clusky, Mercer and Turtle Lake was
added to this district three yearsago
from Minot district. So while this is
my fifth report for Fargo district, it
is only my second or third report for
the majority Of the charges on the
district. Only new country could
thus rapidly change and consider il
a great privilege to be in at the be-
ginning Of things and have a chance
to help mould this great state for
y God. The privilege Of seeing over
5000 people converted and 1000 peo-