The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1912-05-03
METRONSTS TO
HAVE BIG meet
Bert Dubois of Liberal To
!. Represent This District

8. Represent inns DIStrlct
Beginning Wednesday, May 6,
a great concourse will gather at
Minneapolis, Minnesota, From
the first day Of May until the last,
the only lawmaking body In the
powerful and influential Methodist
Episcopal church, will work cease
lessly, making plans to promote
the cause of Christ more consist
emily and successfully than ever,
hearing reports from all the Meth
odiSt work throughout the world
and rejoicing together over the
achievements of the past four
years.
Each leap year this body gath
ers somewhere in general confer
ence on the first Wednesday in
May. The delegates come from
all over the world in proportion to
the number Of members, half lay
and half ministerial representa-
tlyes. 1t is the greatest Metho-
dist gathering and this years
quadrennial meeting will be the
most important yet held. Here
the bishops gather and plan and
report. Here the lay part of the
church draws nearer to the minis
terial and in meetings of their own
these hundreds who represent the
great throng of members meet and
plan how their part can be done
more effectively.
Southwest Kansas, as well as all
the rest of the state, will be repre-,
sented in Minneapolis. In Hutchin.
son last month, the conference ap-
pointed eight members to attend
and vote for US. This conference
is one of the largest in the church
in territory and in members. it is
not in the background by any
means. The preachers TO go are
President M ,,sman OF Southwest
C ,llege. Winfield; Rev ID. Yetter,
the Rev. W, B. Burns, supt. oil
the Winfield district; and the Rev
EASTWOOD, Wichita. Three OF tn,
lay delegates are }. T. Franks Of
Winfield, Mr.. Dubois of Liberal,
and Mrs. Shamleffer of Douglass,
the first woman ever made a dele
gate from this conference.
One of the many important
duties of this conference will be
the appointment of bishops to I'LL
the places of four who have died
since tie session in Baltimore in
1908. These are: Bishops Foss,
Mallieu GoOdson and Spellmeyer.
1t may also be decided to have
more bishops. The present mum
Der is 25, besides a number of mis-
sionary bishops who look after the
work in different foreign countries
The Methodist church has a
great publishing business, publish
ing a large number of papers and
books and doing millions of dollars
worth of business every year. The
managers and the editor will be
elected in Minneapolis. A Con.
ference Daily will be published all
through the session and give com.
plete verbatim reports from all the
fields as well as a record of the
business. This can be bought for
81 25 by subscribing with the Rev
Mr.. Barton.
The most interesting thing in
this great meeting, will be the
missionary enthusiasm. 7 h i S
church has thousands of mission.
aries in all parts OF the world, and
with its educational, hospital and
spiritual work, the field is covered
as thoroughly as possible with the
small number of workers. The
bishops will be at Minneapolis TO
tell of what they have just seen in
their visits. Some half dozen of
them just completed long tours Of
the field in time to embark for
America, many being on the sea
now.-W. NJ. G.