Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-04-26
"A THERING OF METHODIST
CHIEFS AT WINoNA MAY FORM
ULATE MANY NEW IDEAS.
TO DISCUSS PLANS OF UNION
"south" and protestant" consoIida
ton With Methodist Episcopal to
" Be Big Factors at
+. #.", Session.

od1st College of Bishops which will
convene In WinOna late this month
may develop into one of the historic
ones in Methodism, interesting as
many as 100000 persons, not only
in the United States, but in various
parts of the world. The question OF
the unity of churches is to be the vital
point for consideration at the meet
ing. The consideration of the union
with the Methodist church South, a
matter which has been before the
methodists for two years, will be
threshed out and the proposition. form
ulated for the vote of the different
conferences and final ratification at
the Minneapolis meeting in 1912.
The Methodist Episcopal church
South, was separated from the parent
denomination in 1874, before the Civil
war, because Of differences which
arose regarding slavery and slave.
holding by members of the church.
It is possible, according to Rev.
Frank Doran of Winona, who is in
charge of arrangements for the meet
ing, that the Southern church will
send delegation here to confer with
the bishops and to fully discuss the
question of organic union. The union
Of the Protestant Methodist church,
which has it's strength in the New
England states, with the Methodist
Episcopal church is another PROPOSE
ton which will receive attention and
be brought to a focus. The fedora
ton Of all evangelical churches in the
United States, likewise will come up
for discussion.
interests Entire Country.
The meeting will be the most impor-
tant gathering to be held this year in
the United States by the Methodist
Episcopal church and is Of interna-
tional interest, since the decisions of
this body will have to do with the
special and routine deliberations of
the annual conferences which are to
be convened this fall in every nation
where the Methodists are represented.
At this meeting the rulings Of the
church dignitaries during the ecclesi-
asticai YEAR viii be reviewed and per.
manent laws will be recommended to
the general conference, which meets
taken from the decisions Of the pre-.
siding officials of the annual confer.
ence will be discussed and matters of
doctrine, comfy and federation will
receive due attention.
Will Name Bishops.
This convention will also appoint the
various bishops to the annual confer
ence over which they are to preside
during the next year. The church in
interests in the mission fields of the
world, it's spiritual outlook and the
educational institutions for which it is
sponsor will each pass in review.
The senior member of the board,
Bishop Henry w. Warren of Denver,
Colo, is the dean of the college of
bishops and will preside. The TWEEN
ty-eight Protestant churches Of Wi.
mona and their ministers have made
extensive preparations for entertain
ment. While here the bishops will &C.
cupy the various pulpits of the city.
An invitation has come from the
Olivet church Of Chicago for Bishop
Quayle to preach the dedicatory SER
mon of that church's new building and
raise the remaining $4,000 of indebt-
edness.
Six of the bishops will not be pres
ent because they are on a tour of
visitation of the foreign mission sta
tons of the denomination. They are:
Bishop F. Mcdowell of Chicago, who
is in India; Bishop James w. Bash
ford, who lives in Pekin, China, Bishop
William Burt, who lives in Zurich and
who is now holding a conference in
Bulgaria; Bishop Joseph c. Hartzell,
who is in Africa, and Luther B. Will
son of Philadelphia, who is at present
in Africa.
Rev. Mr.. Doran Is at present work
ing out the program, which will be
completed late this week.