Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-09
METHODISTS WILL
COME IN FORCE FOR
YEARLYCONFERENCE
CONTINUED From First Pagel

| Barker.
Wednesday. March 1S--At $50 a M,
conference session opening with the
sacrament of the Lords Supper. con-
Quoted by Bishop Cranston. assisted by
the district superintendents: roll call;
organization of conferences; conference
memorial service: 2.30 p. m, confer
ence session; missionary sermon by
the Rev. A. c. Shue; 7.S0 p. M, ami
| versary of board of home missions and
church extension. the Rev. #. III. Brun.
stetter presiding; address by the Rev
{. Nj. Boswell. d. d.
! Thursday. March 19--At $50 a. m.
devotions, conducted by Bishop Grams
! ton; 8 a. m., conference session; 10
a. m., corporate session; lilo q. m.
reception to city ministerium; 2.30
p. m, anniversary of Epworth League
the Rev. Carl V. Drake. presiding:
speaker, the Rev. w. F. Sheridan,
m. Dickinson College alumni ban
quet at Rutherford's. S1S North Sec
ond street; 7.So p. M, anniversary
conference temperance society, the
Rev. George NJ. Womer presiding;
speakers, the Rev. E. ]. Moore, d. D..
/ State superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League; the Rev. Clarence True
| Wilson. d. D., representing church
temperance society.
| Friday, March 20-At $50 a. m,
devotions. conducted by Bishop Grams
ton; 9 a. m, conference session; repre-
sentations of the commission on
| finance; p. m, anniversary Women's g
| Home Missionary Society in senior
| Sunday school room of Grace Church.
Mrs. James Edgar Skillington presid-
ing: devotions, the Rev. w. w. Will
lard; reports of conference corre-
spending secretary, Mrs. Byron E. Sta
pies; conference secretary of supplies,
Mrs. George Leidy; conference treas
urer. Miss Sarah J. Richardson; special
music: address, Unprecedented OPP
portunities for Service" Mrs. Ward
Platt: offering; benediction; p. m.
commission on finance; 7.30 p. m, an
nlversary conference annuity society
and preachers aid society. the Rev. Nj.
K. Foster, d. D., presiding; addresses
by the Rev. NJ. X. Foster. D. D., and
the Rev. 7. S. Wilcox, ID. d.
Saturday. March 21.-At $50 q. m,
devotions, conducted by Bishop Grams
ton; a. m. conference session; 2
p m, mutual beneficial association in
lecture room; p. m, anniversary
Women's Foreign Missionary Society
devotional service, the Rev. II. c. Par
doe. d. D.; reports of the year; con-
| ference secretary. Mrs. T. II. Purdy;
! superintendent of young people, Miss
| Nlckerson; conference treasurer, Mrs.
d. A. Sloatman; solo. Mrs. Emily c.
Miller; address, Mrs. /. r. Headland;
collection; benediction; executive meet
ing Immediately following this meeting
in the. church parlor; p. m, Drew
alumni association banquet, Ridge
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
p. M. the Rev. II. r. Bender. d. D.,
presiding; lecture by the Rev. S. Parke
Cadman, d. D., Three Great Oxford
Leaders: Wycliffe, Wesley and John
Fl. Newman"
| Sunday. March 22--At 9 a. m, con-
ference love feast. the Rev. NJ. l..
Canoe, D. D., presiding: 1880 a. m,
sermon by Bishop Cranston; Las p. M,
session of Sunday school, j. p. Melick,
superintendent; addresses by members
or conference; p. m, ordination SER
| vice, conducted by Bishop Cranston;
4 p. M, anniversary board of Sunday
schools, the Rev. w. W. Watkins pre-.
siding; adress by the Rev. Mathew J.
Trenery, d. D.; 7.SO p. m, anniversary
board foreign missions. the Rev. NJ. f.
Swartz( d. D., presiding; speaker, the
Rev. ]. f. Goucher d. d.
Monday, March 23-At $50 a. m,
devotions, conducted by Bishop Grams
| ton; a. m, conference session; 23O
p. m, anniversary board of education,
the Rev. Alexander Lamberson presid-
ing; speaker, the Rev. William S. Bo-
ward, ID. D.; 4 p. m, anniversary gen.
eral deaconess board. the Rev. b. c.
Conner presiding; speaker, the Rev. D,
| w. Howell; 7.30 p. m, anniversary
Freedman's Aid and Southern Edu-
cation Society. the Rev. ]. w. Long
presiding.
The nineteenth annual session of the
Laymen's Association of the Central
Pennsylvania conference will be held
lin the Sunday school room of Grace
church, Saturday. March 81. The pro-
gram is as follows:
Devotional exercises, a. m, H. T
Ames; brief minutes of last session
presidents address; reports, (a) of the
secretary, (b) of the treasurer; ap-
pointment of committees; music, quar-
tet; report of the committee on sus-
tentation; the Working Out of the
New Financial Plainly Experience
| (by several brethren) general discus
sion; recess, IL m; devotional exer-
cises, $50 p. m; music; "The Prob
| lem of the Young People and the
Church." for the town church, S. w
Dickson, for the rural church, S. A
Ellis; music; city team work in the
county churches. W. Ii. Schwartz, c.
c. Shuey, DR.. L. T. Pattee, w. A,
Bouse, II. j. illegal; query box; mis-
cellaneous business; reports of the
officers; introduction OF new officers;
adjournment, p. m.
The boy scouts of Stevens Memorial
NJ. h. Church, in uniform, will be al
the Pennsylvania station on Tuesday
afternoon, March II, to direct mem
bers of the conference to their places
of entertainment.
| These places of entertainment are
all given in the conference directory
The conference stewards will stop al
the Bolton House The stewards are
H. B. Powell, L. T. Sharpless, w. w
Il. Shannon, +. W. Vandersloot, ]. s.
Burske. The conference visitors will
number about ten. II. B. Mitchell
| 600 North Third street, will entertain
Bishop Earl Cranston. the Revs. w. +.
Sheridan, Ward Platt. ]. G. Goucher
| D. D., w. S. Bovard. E. T. Wallower,
2101 North Front street, will entertain
the Revs. ID. w. Howell, M. j. Trenery.
Clarence True Wilson and j. E. Trim
BILE. Afford Kelley. 2124 North Third
street, will entertain the Rev. E. J.
Moore.
On Sunday. March 22. the visiting
Methodist ministers will preach in the
pulpits of the various denominations
Throughout the city. rhe Sabbath
Itinerary Is as follows:
Methodist Episcopal
Grace Church, a. m. conference
love feast, the Rev. NJ. L. Canoe, d. D.,
presiding; 1890 a. M, sermon, Bishop