Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-10-02
METHODIST CONFERENCE

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ladies' aids are doing heroic work on
many a hard frontier circuit. The
Lord bless the good women. They
| were last at the cross and first at the
tomb and have always stayed by the
staff"
Epworth League.
Our leagues are encouraging. We
had q splendid annual convention on
the Jamestown camp ground and all
the delegates with one or two cxcep-
items stayed for most of the camp.
Many pastors report revival fires
brought home by these league dele
gates. We can't ruin the league with
out the Holy Ghost. A definite Christ
ian experience for league officers will
soon put life into the league. Is
Sunday Schools. WIG ~ -
We have featured" Sunday school
work on the frontier and have tried
to keep pace with the best in Sunday
school effort. and method, keeping in
mind that the children belong to the
Lord and not to the devil and it is up
to us to keep them in the church.
Conservation is easier than reclama-
[tion.
Salaries and Tithing.
Since Tithing has been inaugurated,
salaries have been Increased and are
more easily raised. Some Of our
newest places lead III this matter.
'Hettlnger, where but h short time
ago, VIC had to depend largely upon
missionary money. surprised me Mt
the fourth quarter conference, bp vot-
ing unanimously to %relinquish the
missionary money and set the salary
at $1,000 besides the parsonage. This
puts Hettinger on the list as third
in rank on the district. Beach and
Mott also come up to near the best
with Bismarck and jamestown lead.
Ing and Dickinson close to them.
Our aim is to have no salary less
than eight hundred dollars besides
the house and a thousand IL possible.
We have tithers in greater or less
numbers ut Bismarck, Beach, Dickin-
son. Hettinger, jamestown, Wood
worth, Vashti, Underwood Guelph.
Ashley, Washburn, Goodrich, and
Turtle Lake, while all of our charges
lnggeeSM.consideriag the, plan favorably
and IRill sooner ors:later adopt it. A
spafffs5ssAaII revival is necessary to a
SAnancial: revival in every case. We
trolblefaboMt finances where.
there is Vital Goodness.
\ IN. Y 5S Our Needs.
tHf5 Nv need more men, not little men
ois timid men but men who are not
afraid Ito endure hardness as good
soldiers. We need. more missionary
money for strategic points on the
frontier. We need a church school on
the Missouri slope. The state in To-
eating public institutions located all
the schools in or near the Red River
and gave US the p%enitentiary
and reformitory. That seemed all
right, at the time but we are no long
er the short grass cattle country, the
home OF the COW boy, but a thickly
settled farming country with a people
rapidly, adjusting themselves to the
climate and soil and demanding col
ieges and advantages for their grow
ing sons and daughters. The Catho~
lies have a great institution at Rich
ardton, and the aPresbyterians at.
jamestown. + am told that the nor
NAL school at Valley City has 200
students and that Fargo
college a Congregational school has
more Methodist students than con.
EDUCATIONAL. Laymen with money AID
commercial clubs with splendid offers
have been %clammoring for a chance
to do something for somebody, If they
will plant q school of college grade
the Missouri slope. Brethren, let
lis not be- blind to progress and to
opportunity. We will have to answer
70 God. for every open door that we
fail to enter. l am not in favor OF
dividing our. conference, but whea our
state gets so big that one part does
not know or understand the other
part 1t divides itself. and falls apart
OF, Its own weight, Brethren, don't
bold us down but pray for us and
helrsns ana watch us grow.
The District.
The. district is q big one il terri.
tory, possibilities and problems. One
problem difficult Of solution is the
GENERALIZATION Of the american money
mad crowd who come to our frontier
for land. They. want churches bnt
ttsslRyy sBalk on pietySAnd the Methodist
program Of righteousness, and