Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-03
eEMl.ANNuAl 8E0oloN or MAR
sAALLToNN DISTINCT
APRIL as.27.
MORNING, AFTERNOON AND
EVENING sEssIoNs HELD
Rev. Or. Homer G. Sturtx, 81 New
York, Whs 10 Likely 70 D Made .
Bishop at Next General Conference,
10 on Program For ciesins Meeting
superintendent Fleming to Preside.

ASA a. uASSA ~ SOAiASA SASO " sAAS
Upper Iowa conference Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church will be held in
this city on Wednesday and Thursday,
April rs and 81. The conference is a
semi-annua affair. the ministers OF
the district getting together each
spring and fall for two-days' session,
The conference will take place at the
Methodist church. and sessions will be
held in the morning. afternoon and
evening Of each day. At the closing
meeting. Rev. Homer 8. Stuntz. OF New
York. a former Iowan and resident Of
Mount Vernon, will appear on the pro-
gram. Rev. Mr.. Stuntz is first assist
ant secretary Of the board Of foreign
missions, and it is expected that at the
session Of the general conference IN
May, 1912, he will be elected bishop
Mr.. Stuntx is an uncle Of Harley s.
Stuntz, formerly Of this city, now OF
Panama.
The program for the conference,
which has been arranged by a COM
nnittee composed Of Revs. S. E. Ellis.
T. H. Potter, H. B. Barnes. and 7. p.
Fleming, has been prepared. Rev. Mr.
Fleming, who is superintendent OF the
district, will preside over the confer
ence The program is as follows:
Wednesday, April 2e.
MORNING SESSION.
Opening service-T. E. Fleming, Mar
shalltown.
/ Sermon, "a Man Full of Faith and
the Holy Spirit"-F. G. Witzigman
Conrad.
Business, disciplinary and examina-
tons.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
observation-disclosures Sires, Toledo
Our public worship (ter minute pa
pers)-.'The Use of the Hymnal," ]. B.
Jones, Geneva; Public Prayer" A. T.
Bishop. Iowa Falls; Special Music"
P. N. Dwelle, State Center; The Ser
mon," B. B. Keister, Rockwell; The
Invitation" Thomas Carson. Sheffield.
Master minds Of Methodism (ffteen-
minute papers)-"John Wesley" II. p.
Barnes, Gilman; Francis Asbury," T.
B. Cooper, Pleasant Ridge; Matthew
Simpson" T. M. Nielsen, GladbroOk.
Eminent Methodist women ften-
minute papers)--"Susanna Wesley
Mrs. Dewitt Clinton, Hampton: Bar
bara Heck" Mrs L. c. Clark, Mason
City: Frances Willard" Mrs. q. D.
Elicit. Chelsea.
EVENING SESSION.
1870 Special Observation-Disclosures
choir.
Prayer-Rev. Jesse Cole, Marshall
town. &
Address, 1.-THE Story Of My CONVEX
sion"-H. o. Pratt, Tama.
MoRNING SESSION.
Prayer meeting, A. N. Conklin, Whit
ten.
s:O0-Disciplinary business. reports,
other business.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Devotions-J. B. Metcalf, Rhodes.
2:15-Our Problems (ten-minute pa
pers)-"The Sunday Evening Problem.
C. L. Nye, Toledo: THE Delinquent
Church Member" L. c. Clark, Mason
City: THE Country Church" G. F.
Kelley, Steamboat Rock; The Boy
Problem" w. C. Keller, Grundy Center.
woodrow Wilson's "Refrocking the
Minister"-DeWitt Clinton, Hampton.
Things that Unmake the Minister
~. .. Robinson, Reinbeck.
1.-The Minister'S Reading"-O. D.
Elicit, Chelsea.
The Church Of Tomorrow. p,
Potter, Albion.
1.-THE Model Sunday School Teacher
u. L. Marks. Iowa Falls.
Closing BUSINESS
EVENING SESSION.
Song and prayer service-C. A. Gil
bert, Union
Address-Rev. H: c. Stuntz. d. D.,
New York, hrsS assistant secretary
board Of foreign missions.