Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-19
METHODIST HAS
NOTED GROWTH HERE
' SAYS DISTRICT HEAD
Rss. Ds. Fasiek Urges More Use
Of Epworth League a.
"Soeial Center"
BIG SUM FOR MISSIONS
Saloon Is Doomed" Superintend-
ent Declares; Remarkable
Revival Results
To-morrow's Program


I! To-morrow's Program s
& MORNING - Dev0tfons. conduct ?
ted by Bishop Cranston, conference
SsessiOny Representations of the COM 2
1mtssi0n ON finance. 2
AFTERNOON Anniversary We 2
Smen's Home missionary Society in
SseniOr Sunday School room of Grace
1Chureh, Mrs. James Edgar skilitnR-
tsn p Rres,n,nE, M,,, devotion the ..nss Rev.
ience corresponding secretary, Mrs. {
jByrOn e. StaplesJ conference necre-
itary of supplies, Mrs. George Leidy, {
Sconference treasurer Miss Sarah j.
1RIchardsong special musici address, {
i"Unprecedented Opportunities for {
1Service,' Mrs. Ward PlattI offering' &
EVENING Anniversary confer
fence annuity society and preachers's
Z aid society, the Rev. Nj. X. Foster,f
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Reports of the Harrisburg and DAN
Vile districts were read this morn
ing at the session of the Central Penn
sylvania conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. in Grace Church;
secretaries of the various conference
interest were introduced. and the
Harrisburg Ministerial Association was
given reception by the conference
body.
Harrisburg Methodism Grows
Most important from local view
point Of the conference work of to-day
was the reading of the report of the
Harrisburg district by the Rev. A. s.
Fasick. OF Carlisle, district superin-
tendent.
Among other points brought out in
the report is that Harrisburg Meth
odisrn has been moving forward at
such pace that to-day the district is
alone giving to missions almost as
much as the entire Central PennSyl-
vania Conference was thirty years ago.
Speaking of the Sunday school work
OF the district, the Rev. Mr.. Fasick
said that this department is better or
ganized and doing more efficient work
than ever In the history of the con-
ference One of the things in which
the Sunday schools are lacking, says
Mr.. Fasick, is teacher training work.
Too Little Social Life
Entirely too little is being done in
the development of the social life of
the young people of the church, states
the superintendent. He says, in part,
in discussing the Epworth League:
''In this day of questionable and
harmful amuSementS the league ought
to be doing vastly more in the direc-
ton of the social life of the young peo-
pie. Moreover. in the rural districts
our Epworth Leagues ought to be So
cial centers.'
The report shows that large sums
have been paid on church debts In
this city and its vicinity. The amount
of money contributed to benevolences
during the year by the district Is also
shown to be quite large. In the work
of conversion reports indicate 1,727,
the largest in many years. Only five
charges report no conversions. The
number of full members now on the
rolls is 5,699. gain of 484.
Mr. Fasick points out that q great
wave Of temperance sentiment is pass
ing over the Harrisburg district, re-
sulting in the reducing of the number
of saloons. He declares:
1.-THE SALOON is DOOMED"
The report of the Harrisburg dis
trict in full is as follows:
"Thirty-eight years ago, in 1876, the
eighth sessions of the Central Penn
sylvania Conference met In Harrisburg
in Grace Church, DR.. C. A. Holmes,
pastor, being the host. The sessions
were held in the Opera House. Bishop
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