Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-09-08
DR. sCHElL TALKS
To BROTHERHOOD
PRESIDENT OF |. w. MAKES Al
DRESS At THE IOWA CON.
FERENCE SESSIONS.

FIT. Madison, Sept 5.-The session
Of the Iowa conference of the M. +
church are full of interest each day t.
the large assemblage Of minister
present. A meeting of the Woman
Home Missionary society of the M. 3
church was held in the First church
The address was made by Miss Mar:
F. Smith of Kansas City, Mo.
At 3 o'clock In Santa Fe church !;
pipe organ recital was given by Prot
Roland Riggle of Omaha, Neb.
At 1880 the anniversary Of tn,
Freedman's society was held and tn,
meeting addressed by the Rev. Dr. +
s. Lovinggood Of Austin, Tex. In thi
address be gave the history Of the San
Huston college and told Of the spleu
did growth the work was making IL
the southwest.
At 8:15 the Rev. Dan Brummet, D
D., of Chicago. editor of the Epwortl
Herald, addressed the session ant
spoke of the way the paper was IN
fluencing the young people OF thu
land.
In the First church at 1880 a temp
erance meeting was held and an ad
dress delivered by Mrs. Ida B. Smith
state president of the w. G. T. u.
At 8:15 the anniversary Of thu
Brotherhood was held DR.. E. A. Schel
of Mt. Pleasant delivering the address
Conference Session.
At $3.50 Friday morning the bisnoI
called the meeting to order and aftel
hymn presented DR.. J. w. Hanchel
of New York, who gave the address
of the mornings devotons.
| After the minutes were read the
roll of retired ministers was callee
and twenty-nine men responded r
their names or were represented b.
some member Of the conference. A
| the close of this service DR.. ]. b
Hingeley Of Chicago, secretary Of the
conference claimant society, address,
ed the conference of these old men.
The probationers Of the first, sec
ond and third and fourth years were
called. They reported their work and
were disposed OF in the following
manner. ~
Advanced from the first to the sec
opd years course Of study-James
Pritchard, George r. Pottorf, Leslie A.
| Moore.
| From the second to the third-Lac,
c. Moore, William A. Odell, Russell q
| Nye, Albiner A. Heath.
From the third to the fourth--War,
rem H. Phillips, William Zabilkai
Charles E. Ellis, Edward r. Bartlett. !
Those who have passed from the
course of study and elected to elders
orders are Thomas j. Petit, James A
! Wilson and Jerry H. Krenn1eyer.
! Lacy c. Moore, William A. Odell
Russell G.. Nye and Albiner A. Heath
having been elected to deacsons, or.
ders were aclled to the altar and ad,
dress by the bishop.
In his address the bishop said that
the ministry is the best brotherhood
on earth. That no man should enter
it to earn living. That the minis.
| try was to spread scriptural holiness
over the land and the man who would
/ give himself to that would be kept IN
i the necessities of life and be blessed
in his service. He said that there
may be easy places in this work but
If there were these places were gained
only by going through the hard ones.
| No shirker can be happy; man can be
happy only by getting under the load
and showing the world that he can
carry it.
After the address the young men
took the vows and were elected mem
bers of the Iowa annual conference.
Announcements were made and the
conference was adjourned by the Rev.
Dr. Thompson of st. Louis, pronounc-
ing the benediction. Following the
adjournment a picture was taken OF
the conference.
At 1 o'clock Warden Saunders fav-
ored the ministers with free trip
through the penitentiary and concert
by the convicts.
The Iowa Wesleyan college banquet
was held last evening at o'clock.
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