Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20
PROGRAM ARRANGED FOR AN.
NuAL UPPER IOWA CONFER
ENcE At DUBUQUE.
PROMINENT DELEGATES
FROM AMONG LAITY
Bishop stuntz to Preside and Bishop
Henderson, Of Chattanooga, Tenn, to
Be Present - Conference TO Open
Wednesday, Sept. IS Several Hun-
dred Delegates to Attend.

sion Of the Upper Iowa conference OF
the Methodist Episcopal church will
convene at ST.. Lukes church, Dubuque.
Wednesday morning, Sept. Is, 1915.
The Rev Bishop Homer c. Stunt d.
D., resident bishop Of Buenos Aires.
Argentina, will preside, and the ses-
sion will continue until Monday, Sept.
20.
This conference will bring together
four or five hundred visitors, one-half
OF whom will be the clergy, few Of
whom will be accompanied by their
wives.
Friday of the conference week, the
laity composing the other half, will
convene in separate session.
The morning sessions will be opened
by brief devotional service of half
hour. followed by routine business. The
afternoons and evenings will be de-
voted to platform addresses by the
various secretaries Of the general so
cieties with headquarters in Chicago,
New York, Philadelphia and Cincin-
natl.
Bishop Theodore S. Henderson, D.
D., resident bishop of Chattanooga,
Tenn. will be a visitor on the open
ing day. Among the laity will be sew
eral district judges, doctors, lawyers,
bankers, farmers. merchants and ma
chanics.
Visitors to Preach
On conference Sunday (Sept. 1917 the
various pulpits will be filled by visit
ing clergymen Bishop Stuntz preach
ir,,or OF In ho nd
probably at Grandview avenue in the
evening. Not only will members of the
conference and lay delegates be pres
ent but also several thousand visitors.
The young men eligible to the dea-
cons and elders orders will be or
dained at ST. Luke's. These classes
will be quite large together with those
to be admitted on probation (twelve),
those beginning the four-year course
Of study.
Are Looking Forward.
The conference body looks forward
with very peculiar pleasure to the
coming of Bishop Stuntz, inasmqlch as
this is his home conference. He was
reared on Iowa soil and as young
man entered the itinerancy In the Up
per Iowa conference. Shortly there
where he spent eight years and later
was sent as superintendent to -the
! Philippine islands Then he was made
| general missionary secretary with
headquarters In New York. At the
general conference Of 1912 at Mime
apolis he was the first of eight new
| bishops to be elected on the two-thrd
vote. The body had over 900 delegates
from all parts of the world. He went
/ in on full flood tide of votes He was
closely associated with ex-President
Taft when Mr.. Taft was governor Of
The sE E'!!:::!:c>cc::nc Islands
st. Luke's church will provide en-
tertainment for about 300 people and
Grandview avenue about seventy.
It has been eighteen years since the
| annual conference meet at Dubuque.
The last one being in October. 1897,
and was presided over by Bishop Hen
ry White Warren. D. D.. LID. Of Den
yer. The Rev. w. A. Shanklin, D. D.,
was then pastor.
Conference Membership.
The mem bership in the area Of the
conference will number close to A.
900 and 100000 will be passed in from
the various pastors into the hands of
the conference treasurer to go to the
various bureaus to carry on the in
dustries Of the church at large.
st. Luke's church is making sub
stantial improvements and decorations
that will greatly beautify the property.
An automobile ride is being planned
for the visitors. "The Messiah" will
be rendered under the efficient leader
ship Of the Rev. DR.. Atchison. The
four soloists will all be children Of
Methodist ministers: Marian Green,
Mrs Genevieve Wheat-Baal. Miss
Olive Wheat and Mr.. Edward Atchi-
son. Dubuque. noted for her beautiful
scenery, which Is seldom equalled and
never surpassed anywhere in America,
with her people noted for their courte-
sy and hospitality. will! be alert and at
tentive and add new laurels to her al
ready splendid name