Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-09-28

Tuesday morning. Oct 4, the TWEEN.
ty.seventh session of the North Da-
kota Annual conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church will convene
in the McCabe church in this city.
Nearly three hundred clergymen and
their wives are expected to visit the
Capital City at that time. The con-
ference will last one week, the clos
ing services being held Monday,
October 10, at 8 p. m, at which ses'
sion the bishop will read the appoint
ments and rcappintemnts of the
preachers to their various fields OF
labor for the coming year.
The members of the McCabe Meth
Odist church are exerting every ef-
fort to provide entertainment fbh
the large number of visitors who
will be in attendance, this being the
established custom. They are being
ably assisted in their endeavors by
the Commercial club, and it is to be
hoped that the entire citizen body
of the city will lend their aid In
furnishing free rooms and meals for
the guests.
year in one sense owing to the crop
shortage, and there has consequently
been considerable deficiency in pas
tors salaries in some sections. Many
of the visitors will have had to praC
tice self denial in order to pay their
railway fare to get here, and it is
Il necessity that they be under no
expense while in the city
All of the sessions of the confer
cnce will be open to the public and
all will be absolutely free. There is
to be a number of attractions which
will be Of popular nature, and every |
che should make it a point to attend
as many of the meetings as possible.
They will profit greatly thereby.
A large number Of the most prom |
inent speakers of the country will be
in attendance. Their addresses will
be of great interest to everyone, |
neither members Of the church or
not, and all are invited to attend,
regardless of UNCONVENTIONAL connec
lions.
Foremost among the prominent men
" no are to be here is the presid: 1g
bishop, Bishop John w. Hamilton, D.
d., l.. l.. D. The bishop is very
able orator. Before his election to
the Episcopacy he was pastor for
many years in Boston. His greatest
effort will be delivered Friday even.
ing. mention of which will be made
later.
The chief attraction of popular in
terest will be series of lectures to
be delivered by Prof George Freder-
lex Wright, D. D., l.. l.. d. F. G. S.,
editor of "Bibliotheca Sacra," and
professor of THE Harmony of Sci
ence and Revelation" at Oberlin col
lege. Oberlin college allows Prof.
Wright one-half of the year to him.
self and the other six months are
spent at the college with his classes.
The half year that is allowed him is
spent in original investigation in the
realm of geology, and kindred sci.
ence subjects.
The first lecture of the series will
be delivered Tuesday evening at $50.
The subject of his address is 'The
Glacial Period and the Flood" The
lecture will be illustrated with stere'
opticon views. The slides which the
professor will use are all made from
views taken by himself during his
own original researches, and illus
trate the effects of glacial actions in
the glacial period with reference to
the Biblical story of the flood. The
remaining lectures will be given on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday az
ternoons at o'clock. The subjects
are announced in the program which
is printed herewith. All of these sub
jects deal with questions about which
center the most intense theological
discussions of the present day and
will prove of tremendous popular
interest. 1t may be of interest to
the public to, note r. here that DR..
Wright is: not z Meth0dist, but Con-
gregationalsE: IND Is professor of the
greatest Congregational school in tae
country-Oberlin college.
Possibly Of even greater interest
to the general public will be the