Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-09
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M. E. CONFERENCE
Harrisburg Will Send Clerical
and Lay Delegates TO
Altoona

Arrangements have been started in
delegates to the forty-eighth annual
session of the Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
The meeting will open March 10 in
the Eighth Avenue Methodist Church,
Altoona. At this conference six minis
terial delegates and six lay delegates
will be chosen from the Central Penn
sylvania Conference to attend the Gen
eral Conference sessions at Saratoga in
May.
Much of the interest in the local
conference centers in these twelve
delegates which will represent Central
Pennsylvania at the general sessions.
Among those spoken of for the
honor are DR.. James Henry Morgan,
president of Dickinson College, Car
lisle, and DR.. d c. Corner. president
of Dickinson Seminary. Williamsport.
DR.. Clarence True Wilson will speak
on the evening before the opening of
the conference. He is secretary of the
church temperance work and is one
of the few widely known speakers Sc
lected to give addresses during the
sessions. The business sessions of the
conference will be held in the morn
llSSs Will TIE dIltIllOOHS vi lllc COll-
ference week devoted to committee re-
ports and meetings of the branches of
conference boards.
Bishop Earl Cranston, of Washing
ton. d. c., will preside at the sessions.
Harrisburg will send ministerial and
lay delegates from Camp Curtin Me-
mortal, Stevens Memorial. Fifth Street
Grace, Ridge Avenue, Epworth and
st. PauIs Churches. 1t is not known
whether any changes in pastorates in
the city are contemplated. as two were
made last year. when the Rev. B. II.
Hart and the Rev. Joseph Daugherty
were transferred.
The Rev. DR.. Wilford p. Shriner,
pastor of Eighth Avenue Church, AL
toona, has begun preparations for the
entertainment and accommodation of
all of the delegates and has begun to
compile a conference directory con-
tanning the names of the delegates and
the places where they will stop.
The lay electoral conference will
meet in Second Presbyterian Church.
A function of this lay body will be to
vote on constitutional changes in the
law of the church. This year three
such changes will be submitted for
their vote and these same consti-
tutional questions will be before the
annual conference. which is wholly
made up of ministers
Though only forty-eight years of
age. the Central Pennsylvania confer
ence has grown and prospered so rap
idly as to be recognized now as one
of the leading conferences of Meth
odism. Over 100000 members and
probationers were reported at the ses-
sion last Spring, and the reports this
year will no doubt show decided in
crease. and a Sunday school member
ship of over 1926, 900. The confer
c1f nrnnnrtNr In nj
at nearly $5,000,000 and owns a num-
ber of church edifices that would be a
credit to any of the largest cities.
There is also a parsonage valuation of
nearly $4,000 There are 266 MEM
bers in the conference, with Is pro-
bationers. A large class will apply for
admission at this session. Over
benevolences and this in spite of the
depressing times. 1t is believed that
these causes will show q material in
crease at the present session.
There is always, in connection with
each conference session, either a lee
ture or some other form of entertain
ment. for which an admission is
charged, which furnishes the main
source of revenue to meet the eX-
penses Of the local church. This year
there will be a concert. and it will be
given by the Miller Trio, of Erie. This
trio is composed of three young girls,
who play the harp, violin and cello.
respectively. They are reputed to be
musical wonders and will no doubt
attract a large audience. The concert
will be given in the high school audi
torium on Saturday evening of confer
ence week, March IS. From every
point where they have been heard the
most enthusiastic reports come of their
brilliant work