Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-09
REPORT OF KARRT SHOWS
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REPORT OF KARI :. SHOWS
Continued from page 81
Or.u T.: Tour,r'"ue was yraduatrd
ard elected t. elders orders.
lhu.lla~ Burden was continued in the
fourth year.
Ih,mu> T.. Turner WIS continued il,
TIC fourth year and was given the sup
vrruncrarv relation and referred to the
: board OF stewards.
Edwin Rurlign was continued in the
: fourth year.
John f. Mckinney was transferred
to the Dakota conference
! Edwin Lewis was continued in the
; fourth year and left without appoint
' mcnt to attend school.
Walter 'Iullis was graduated and
elected to elders orders.
| Elmer +. Strccvcy was to be Or
; daincd on election by another confer
| cncc.
The following were elected and or
,!aincd dcacun>: Oral c. Brown. George
A. Finch. Clayton NJ Prior. VIM c.
Iumc VIM Huff. Noah H. EIollo>. NJ.
: \ Robins, John NJ Reid, Herbert r.
Strong.
: W. X. Hardy. Walden P. A1ahin and
: T.. J. Sachtjvn were elected to deacOns
orders under the missionary rule.
On motion. the committee on pub
fishing the conference minutes was ap-
pointed rs follows J. q. Mori>ron. J.
! |. Asher, :. +. lIaltvard. II. P. Cooper,
~ W. Brown cN-OttlClO
Cha>. y. Boswell, corresponding sec
rotary OF the Board OF Home Mission
and Church Extension. was introduced.
VIM H. Pasco. from the Montana
conference. and Miss Ora d. Paul, rep
rc>cn,a,ivc OF the hospital, were in':o-
lurcd and spoke on their work.
! Miss Carrie Barge of Tacoma, field
secretary for young peoples work, was
! introduced and addressed the confer
cncc.
! Mrs. Syndcr was introduced
I DR.. Harris. pastor of the local Pres
bytcrian church, was introduced and
pronounced the bcncdlction.
The conference business session was
/ resumed III the afternoon. The treas
urcr's report of the conference claim
ants endowment fund was read by
James Anderson. The report of the
auditing committee was read by J. Il.
! Jackson.
| Rev. Alexander Karr read his re-
port as secretary of the conference
claimants endowment fund. 1t is so
full of good pertinent to the work that
it is here given:
"A most encouraging feature of the
work of the year has been the express
| sion of interest and good will met on
every side. Seldom do | meet man
who is not in sympathy with Our move
ment | have found men not interested
in any department Of church work who,
nevertheless, have recognized their OBJ
legation to the men who have given
their lives in the service of Jesus Christ,
endeavoring to carry his gospel into
the hearts of lost men. They realize
man who has failed, but a man who
has succeeded in a battle nobler than
any with material rewards, and they
| admit that his last few years should
be filled with honor and peace, that his
happiest days and his time of completest
freedom from anxiety as to temporal
need should be the time of his old age
and physical helplessness
When our undertaking was launch
ed two years ago, we had no capital but
our faith in God, in the people and in
ourselves We had not dollar in our
treasury. No wealthy man came for
ward to make us conditional pledge
or to guarantee a shilling. Today we
1,,-o c,cl ND o1oIroe r.
over $22,o0o. with fully half our state
still uncanvassed. We have an annua
interest INCOME provided of more thar
$4,000. We have warm place in the
sympathy of our people We have the
guarantee that never again, in this gen
Grafton at least, can the lamentable anc
shameful conditions which have hereto
fore prevailed arise We still have faith
in God, in the people and in ourselves.
six hundred working days have
passed since the enterprise originated
Making liberal allowance for all item
of expense incidental to our canvass, WI
nave secured daily $l25oO, an average
of $3.50 an hour for every hour of ev
cry ten hour day. We have accomplish
ed this result, not by begging or b,
counting the favor of any man, but b,
a simple, straightforward statement O
facts and conditions, and plain set
ting forth of the duty of the church
followed by systematic canvass .
every field.
81 wish to especially call your at
tention to the method I have adopted
and the character of the pledges Sc
cured I take no public offerings O
subscriptions and, so far as have bee,
able to learn, I am the only agent ii
the endowment work who does not d.
So By this method I get no pledge
prompted by enthusiasm or the feelin,
of the moment. Neither do 1"make an
attempt to swell the totals by srbscrip