Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-16
.CHURCHMEN PREPARE
FOR M. P. CONFERENCE
Sessions Open Tomorrow
+ Morning in St. Johns
Church.. Baltimore.

BALTIMORE. Md, May 16.-The quad
renniaI General Conference of the Meth
odist Protestant Church of America will
be opened at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing at st. Johns Church, st. Paul and
9th streets, by the president, Rev. DR..
Thomas Hamilton. Lewis, also president
of Western Maryland College, Westmin-
ster. Md.
From the thirty-five annual conferences
with churches in as many states are COM
ing the ministerial and lay delegates and
their alternates.
The greatest single event Of the confer
ence was to have been the mass meeting
Monday night at the Lyric, at which the
President of the United States, the Gov
ernor of Maryland and the mayor of Bal
timore were to speak. But this was
abandoned yesterday, and instead Mayor
Preston will extend the greetings of the
city to the delegates tomorrow night at
st. Johns Church, and Representative
Richard Pearson Hobson of Alabama will
speak at the church Monday night
The mass meeting was abandoned be-
cause President Taft found it necessary
to break his engagement.
Board Meetings Held.
Many of the leaders in the church came
W bdllulUIe ycSttIudy u atlenu the maj
meetings of the standing conference
boards. The executive board, which is an
advisory council to the president, and
over whose powers a fight will be made
on the conference floor, met last night at
the Hotel Emerson after nearly all the
day had been spent in rounding up the
members of this board.
President Lewis, Rev. D. c. Coburn and
Rev. M. ID. Jennings. the three men men,
- .al ra,,
ence, are all members of this board.
Besides these three the executive board
is composed of Rev. NJ w. Lineberry, of
Greenfield, Ind; T. E. Hodges, Buchanan,
and G. B. Moore of Pittsburg. There was
no time at the meeting last night except
to prepare for action this morning, when
it met at the Methodist Protestant Book
Concern, 316 North Charles street
Church Income Increases.
The home mission board met in the af-
ternoon, with all the members present, to
complete it's conference report This re-
port will show that the largest income in
the history of the church has been re-
ceived by this board since the last con-
ference and that the extent of it's work
has been greatly increased in every direc-
ton. The question of recommending to
the conference the consolidation of the
church extension board with the home
mission board was discussed at this meet
ing. but the decision reached was not d.
vulged.
Following are the delegates to the con-
ference from the Maryland district, which
includes the District of Columbia, the first
half of the names being ministers, and
the second half being laymen:
T. III. Lewis. president of General Con-
ference; w. r. Graham, H. L. Elderdice,
J. S. Bowers. president of the Maryland
Conference: F. T., Little, F. T. Tagg,
j. M. Sheridan, j. W. Kirk, w S. |
Phillips, G. w. Haddaway, F. C. Klein, |
Z. T. Benson, T. r. Woodford J. W. |
Trout, Daniel Baker. H. K Muller, T. p.
Fisher, c. w. Dexter, J. B. Jones, E. B. |
Fenby.' j. Bib Mills, H. R. Lewis, T. NJ |
Wilson, J. F. Harper, state senator; |
J. w. Herring, T. D. Bowers, A B. Slime |
Fred p. Adkins.