Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-25
EIGHTH SESSION Oh
MARsAALLTOWN DISTRICT
HELD HERE.
REV. DR.. T. e. FLEMING
TO PRESIDE At SESSIONS
Between Fifty and Sixty Ministers and
Laymen Of the District Will Be in
Attendance - Or. n. o. Pratt, OF
Tar,a, to Tell Interesting Story Of
His Conversion Wednesday Night.

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ming Wednesday. and lasting thruout
Thursday, the twenty-ei ghth semt-an-
nual session OF the Marsla!ltown dis
trict conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal church. Rev. DR.. T. +. Flem-
ing. of this city, superintendent or the
district. will preside az the sessions.
three Of which Will be he'd daily
morning. afternoon and evening. Be-
tween nifty and sixty pastors and lay
men Of the district will be in attend
ance. that number having spoken for
entertainment TO be furnished by the
members Of the local church.
The opening service, "Wednesday
morning. will be in charge Of Rev. Dr.
Fleming and will be followed by the
opening sermon by Rev. F. G. "ftzig-
man. Of Conrad Business. disciplinary
and examinations will follow.
In the afternoon devotions will be
in charge of Roscoe Sires. OF Toledo
Ten Minute papers on the general sub
iect of Our Public Worship Will be
given on sub-topics 5 follows: me
Use of the Hymnal,' J. B. Jones
Geneva: Public Prayer" \. T. Bishop.
Iowa Falls; Special Music. p y.
DweIlo. State Center: The Sermon,
B. r. Keister, Roclwell The Invita-
ton" Thomas Carson. Sheffield.
A series Of ffteen-minute addresses
on Master Minds OF Methodisn,." Will
follow. with sketches OF John Wesley
by H P. Barnes. Gilman; Francis As
hurry. by T. B. Cooper. Pleasant Ridge:
and Matthew Simpson, by T. NJ. Nell
sen. Gladbrook.
Eminent Methodist Women" will be
the subject Of ten-minute papers by
Mrs. Dewitt Clinton. of Hampton, who
will tell of Susanna Wesley; Mrs. L. c.
Clark. OF Mason City. who will speak
on Barbara Heck, and Mrs. o. D. Ell
lett, of Chelsea, who Will tell or
Frances Willard
Or. Pratt to Tell Of Conversion.
The feature Of the evening session,
and what will doubtless prove to be
the principal address Of the opening
day. will be recital by Rev. DR.. II. Q.
Pratt, Of Tama, of how he came to be
converted
Rev. Mr.. Pratt, who was a former
pastor here and has occupied pas
rorates in all Of the larger cities Of the
Upper Iowa conference, has an inter-
esting story in his conversion. He was
q former lawyer at Charles City. and
was elected 70 congress from the
Fourth district
AS a man of the world Mr.. Pratt was
q prominent figure, as was also MS
brother. George II. Pratt. also lawyer
at Charles City, but not in poliuics
The mother of the two boys had longed
to see her sons converted, and had
irayed long and increasingly that they
might be brought to accept the faith
4 Mrs. Van Colt, then prominent
evangelist. was holding meetings in
Iowa and it was during these meetings
that both the Pratt brothers became
converted. Both became Methodist
ministers, one prominent in the Upper
Iowa and the other in the Northwest
Iowa conference. Rev George II. Pratt
died a, NJ orningside last Year.
DIR. H .. Pratt joined the Upper
Iowa conference shortly after he was
converted, which WAS just before his
term in congress expired. He was pas
tor here from 1883 until S93. His
pastOrates include, in the order that
they We're served, Waterloo. Toledo.
CEDAR Rapids Marshal.town, Iowa City.
VI cunt Vernon. Davenport, Manchester.
Iowa Falls. and Tama.
! The church choir Will give special
( music at the evening session and Rev.
Jesse Cole will give the prayer.
Dr.. Stuntz Comes Tomorrow.
! DR.. Homer {. Stun1Z. of New York
I first assistant secretary OF the board Of
foreign missions, will deliver the clos
ing address Thursday evening Dr.
Stuntz VIII reach the city Wednesday,
evening. It is generally expected that
| Or. StuntZ will be elected as q bish OII
of tn. church at the 1912 general con-
. ference