Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-03-15

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The. presiding officer and General Sec
rotary Randall 1.-The speaker. The lat
ter's subject viii be The Mission Of
the Epworth League. Music Will be
by the East Greenwich academy cho-
rus and orchestra.
Wednesday.
Wednesday the conference will be
opened with holy communion, with full
service conducted by Bishop Ander-
son, to which the public is invited.
Music for this service will be by the
quartette from Trinity Union church.
Then will follow the organization of
the conference. the appointment of
committees and the actual business Of
the gathering viii be begun.
Immediately f0I0Wing the prelimi-
naries of organization, the annual me-
mortal service will be held at which
memorials on the death of three mem
bers of the conference during the last
year will be presented At 1130 May
or Henry Fletcher will address the
/ conference with welcome greetings to
the city.
In the afternoon at o'clock an
unusual feature will be introduced,
when the first of a series of three lee
turnes on Theology will be given by
Rev. Albert c. I<nudson, Ph.D., of Bos-
ton university. Prof Marcus D. BIZ
ell of BCston will preside at the first
lecture on Wednesday afternoon; Rev.
James l. Bartholomew of New Bed
ford on Thursday afternoon and Rev.
Edward f. Studley on Friday.
Wednesday evening will be held the
anniversary of the board of educa-
ton and East Greenwich Academy at
7.45 O'Clock, at which President L.
II. Murlin, DID, LID, of Boston uni
versity, will make an address on The
and music will be furnished by the
mems chorus and orchestra Of st.
PauPs church.
Thursday.
Thursday morning will he devoted
to the business sessions of the con-
ference during which it is expected
that the annual reports of the district
superintendent, Rev. A. J. Coultas
of New Bedford district, Rev. John
H. Newiand Of the Norwich district,
and Rev William 1. Ward of Provi-
dence district, respectively will be
read. In the afternoon at 2.30 o'clock
the anniversary Of the deac0nness
Loard will be held. with Rev. ]. Fran
els Cooper presiding. The speaker
VIII be Rev. Edgar j. Helms, pastor
of the Morgan Memorial chapel of
Boston, whose subject will be Some
Suggestions for the Solution Of the
City Problem. At 4 o'clock DR.. knud-
sen will lectl re.
In the evening at 7.45 will DE held
the anniversary of the Board of For
eign Missions, at which Rev. Albert E.
Legg will preside. The speaker will
be Rev. A. B. Leonard DID,, of New
York, secretary of the board of for
eign missions, The choir from the
Tabernacle church will furnish the
music.
Friday.
The morning service Friday will be
begun at $50 o'clock with the devo-
tional hour at 1880, at which time
the presiding bishop will deliver his
address to the incoming classes. At
this session the balloting for four cler-
ical delegates to the general confer
ence will be opened. The balloting
will continue until the four delegates
and four reserves are chosen.
Contemporaneously the quadrennial
lay electora! conference will be held
at the Church of the New Jerusalem,
across Trinity square from the place
of conference. Like the clerical con-
ference the lay conference will elect
four laymen to represent the laity at
The general conference, also four re-
serves,
A JOINT session is held later at which
the official announcements are made,
with an address by the presiding bish-
op. This will probably be held early
Friday afternoon. At o'clock will
| occur the last of the series Of lee
lures by DIR. Knudson.
! At 7.45 o'clock Friday will ,be held
the anniversary of the board of Sun
| day schools, with Rev. Charles A.
Stenhouse of MHddlbtloro presiding,
the speaker to be Edgar Blake, DID,
of Chicago, field secretary Of the
| board of Sunday schools. Music will
be by the choral society of Trinity I'm
| ion.
Saturday.
The morning session Saturday will
be devoted to business and at two
| o'clock will be held the anniversary
! Of the WW1nen's Foreign Missionary
| society, at which Mrs, W. II. Thurber
will preside, and Mrs. Mary N.nde
! Gamewell of North China, sister of
Rev. Edward S. Ninde. DID, Of Prov