Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-10-19
Br,dvold, OF. G. Ponath, Robt. r. He'd

Brudvold, OF. G. Ponath, Robt. r. He'd
Ike. G.. A. Finch, n. l.. Rockwell, e
G.. Kinder, V. c. Merchant, B. H.
Morse, r Il. Greene, W. H. Tullis, P.
, A. Dean, /. e. Hammer, w. b. Hardy,
e. J. Reid, j. W. Danford, j. G. Morri-
son, f. J. Sacntjen, F.. A. Gossman, 0.
l.. Anthony, c. IF. Brindly, w. Il. Ma
hin, s. S. Wyand, A. l.. Suite, D. II.
Colvin, v, d. Cllatfin, H. f. Mcleod, B.
f. Donovan, V. A. Spicker, f. M. Isaac,
O C. Brown. J. c. Erb, M. G. Rumsey,
j. M. Taylor.
These are all here except b. M.
Isaac. who has joined the C%ongrega-
tionalists in California, ID. H. Colvin
and II. e. Mcleod, who belong to the
| Kansas conference: B. f. Donoval, to
the Northern Minnesota; V. A Spick-
er, to Puget Sound; V. D. Chafin. to
Korea; o. C. Grown, in school, and W.
II. Tullis, recently gone to Idaho.
Here is, any how, 40 per cent OF the
working force of this conference, so
/ will leave you to pass on my Judg-
ment in selecting men for membership
in conference. ] might also add in
this connection that | find no trouble
in getting young men to enter the min
istry.
. Improvement Made.
I will not take time to enulmerate
improvements made and buildings
made over and practically made new,
but suffice it to say that this feature
of the material advancement las not
been inconsiderable, but has touched
every piece of old property we have
had and has amounted to many thous-
ands of dollars, SO that our property
is practically all fresh and lev and in
fine shape and the pastors in many
instances are living in the best house
in town.
While doing all this, we have not
neglected the "Benevolences." For
several Years Bismarck district has
stood up close to the top in contrlbu-
tons. per capita, to our 'b~enevolences
and this year will go ahead of all. 9TH
er years. Brother Gress, our district
league president, informed me a few
days ago that the league of the dis
trict will contribute over $1100 this
veal W lUl SlSl llllS0lOllo, UAu loGiS
Taylor of the missionary board re-
ports that our campmeeting contribu-
tons to the various calls for foreign
missions amounted to over $1,000 this
year. Our aim has been one dollar a
member for each board Of missions.
From reports already handed in,
can safely say that W. will come near
er to it this year than ever before.
Bro. Earring told me last year that Our
district was in the lead on subscrip-
lions to the Northwestern and we
have made some advance this year.
While all our Sunday schools IRE fur
nished with the publications of our
church. w -
Our people are loyal to Metilodism
and all of our interests and no ,NaZa-
rent church has ever been organized
on either district that 1 have served
and we have had no serious spells of
Federation" In short; every church
under my jurisdiction is a Methodist
churci,I with a Methodist preacher
serving as pastor.
Evanglistic Work.
We have tried to keep evangelism
to the front and this year has seen
a revival on nearly every charge. In
most cases the pastors have been their
own evangelist or have helped EACH
ether. Our Brother Taylor has rem
dered good service along this line, as
has also Brothers lWeigele, Kimble
and others. Membership as a conse-I
quence of these meetings, will show
a substantial increase. The camp
meeting at jamestown this year was
greater than ever. We had 260 tents
filed with campers and a maximum
attendance of probably 1900 people.
TIE affairs from the first service were
crowded with seekers and those who
kept count say that more than 50H
people protested a definite experience
after seeking. Over so young men
and women offered themselves on the
last Sunday for mission work and
their names to Brother Taylor,
wnile, as already stated, laymen pledg-|
ed over $1,000 for the same aus
~Campmeeting expenses were all cas-
lily met and enough pledged to free
the plant from all debt. Over $14, 600
was raised at this cat1lpmeeting this
year. This ground belongs to the
Campmeeting association, and is one
of the finest grounds in America. The
officers are: S. A. Danford, presi-
dent: Paul Brown, treasurer, and If.