Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-28
TAKE VOTE TONIGHT.
General Conference Delegates
to Be Selected at Baltimore.
FAVOR BOOK DEPOSITORY
Methodists to Urge Location of One
in Monumental City.
PRAISES CHURCH DEACONESSEs
Rev. DR.. Wedderspoon Of Foundry
Church Calls Them "God's
Ministering Angels"
PRAISES CHURCH DEAC0NEssEs
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. March 2S.-A wave of
enthusiasm ran through the Baltimore
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church this morning when the news was
made public that 200 ministers were pres
ent at yesterdays session in First Meth
od1st Episcopal Church. This breaks all
records for the first day Of the annual
gatherings.
1t was decided that the first ballot for
delegates to the general conference will
| be taken this evening. A further action
was the movement for Methodist book
depository to be established in Baltimore.
At o'clock the opening address was
made by Bishop Earl Cranston, presid-
Ing officer, after DR.. John F. Goucher
had led in prayer. Rev. B. F. Clarkson
moved that the ballot for delegates to the
general conference be taken tomorrow
| morning at 10 O'Clock. After decided de-
| bate an amendment was adopted fixing
| that the vote be held this evening i'm
! mediately following the reception. This
is the first time the question of select
| ing delegates has come up at the Balti-
| more meeting.
The report of the committee on the
establishment of a Methodist book de-
pository in Baltimore was adopted. 1t
| was urged In this report that the dele
gates to the general conference be in
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| the attention of the national conference
The committee, of which DR.. David II.
Carroll is chairman. was reelected.
Plea for Goucher College.
Goucher College, regarded as one of the
| finest institutions of higher education I'M
der the control of Methodism the ma
tional scope of it's work and the necessity
| for securing q million-dollar endowment
fund, were brought to the attention of the
| members of the conference last night,
when the anniversary of the board of
education was celebrated in First Church
In forceful addresses Bishop William
Fraser Mcdowell and Rev. DR.. Thomas
Nicholson, corresponding secretary of the
board of education. pointed to the neces-
sity OF the Baltimore conference rallying
to the support OF the institution, which
was declared to be the largest and finest
girls, school under the control Of the
Methodist Church east of Illinois. That
the college would be removed to the west
If the conference did not take advantage
of this opportunity to help 1t was the pre-
diction Of Bishop Mcdowell.
-. Is just a question Of whether you
can love the college more than do we.'
said Bishop Mcdowell, who comes from
the west. and in an address replete with
anecdotes and quaint figures of speech
pointed out the necessity of the Methodist
Church being an educational institution
~ GU have the place on the sofa and we
will not force you off, declared the bish-
OPP, but If you vacate we will occupy
it.
Would Raise $1,000, 900 Endowment
To aid the raising Of $1,CEO,OOO for
Goucher College, which is at present be-
ing urged for that institution, reso-
luton providing for the assessment of at
least % cents a year on all the $1,000
members of the conference to be used
for educational purposes was introduced
by Rev. DR.. j. c. Nicholson.
The introduction of this resolution fol-
lowed an interesting ten-minute address
by Rev. DR.. Thomas Nicholson, general
educational secretary of the church, i'm
which he declared that more and more
every year Methodist institutions were
Obliged to depend on outside aid to sup
port the schools and colleges in their
territory. and gave brief review of
| what had been done along that line in
other conferences.
He pleaded with every pastor to lay be-
| fore his congregation the need Of giving
something toward the educational fund
and closed by expressing the belief that
eventually members would give as much
| as 81 a year for their schools instead of
only % cents asked