Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-17
M. E. CONFERENCE
ELECTS DELEGATES
DR.. James II. Morgan, President
Dickinson Chosen: to Raise
$375,000 For Schools
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! Altoona, Pa, March 17.-At to days
session of the Central Pennsylvania
Methodist Conference the Revs. H. l..
Jacobs, of Williamsport; E. NJ. Stew
ems, of Huntington, and DR.. James Fl.
Morgan, president of Dickinson Col
lege, Carlisle. were elected delegates
to the General Conference. Three
more delegates are to be elected and
another ballot was ordered the result
| OF which will be announced later.
Bishop Cranston delivered an able
address on the "Unification of Meth
| odlsm, which would bring together
the Methodist Episcopal Methodist
Protestant and Methodist Church,
south, in one body. He said it was
hardly possible for Methodist Chris
tians to accomplish much toward end
ing the great war in Europe if they are
unable to settle their own differences
of minor importance.
Altoona, Pa, March IA jubilee
campaign plan to raise S75O0OO for
DICKINSON College and the Williams
port Dickinson Seminary, $S75,00O of
TINS tund to be raised in the Central
pennsylvania conference OF the Meth
odlst church, was started here yester-
day at the sessions of the conference
IN the Eighth Avenue Methodist
church, when the report of the jubilee
committee was read
Half million dollars for Dickin-
SON and quarter of million. for
Williamsport, is the amount which is
wanted, and the total is to be raised
from June this year to February, 1918.
when the hftieth anniversary of the
BOARD OF education of the church will
be celebrated. 1t will also be the
l5Oth anniversary of Methodism and
the 4OOth anniversary of Protestant
ism
The jubilee will be featured by a
whlrlWind campaign to raise millions
OF dollars for the educational inter-
ests Of the church. The Central
pennsylvania conference adopted the
plan submitted yesterday in the re-
port. 1t was also decided that none
OF the money should be raised by
appropriations on any of the charges
in the conference districts.
The Rev. c. w. Karns, of Carlisle.
secretary for annuity fund, presented
his report. mentioning the gifts of
DR.. and Mrs. S. c. Swallow, or a cot
tage to the annuity fund, W. l.. Wood
cock of $4,000: Mr.. Grove, $1,000; NJ.
B. Rich. $1,000; bond and bequest,
SSO.699; from churches. $4,000;
500.
Conference was asked to adopt Sun
day, September 3, as annuity day.
when suitable program will be ar
ranged and offerings taken. A COM
mittee to superintend general confer
ence memorials was appointed. Dr.
J. +. Bell and DR.. c. A. Smucker, of
Harrisburg district were included
DR.. S. +. Evans, superintendent of the
Altoona district, read his report. Two
new churches were built; many i'm
provements were made, and 1850 con-
versions reported. Three deaths of
wives or widows of ministers were
reported, Mrs. d. d. Kaufman, Mrs.
Anna King and Mrs. Jesse Akers.
DR.. ]. Garland Penn presented to
the conference the interests of the
Freedmen's Aid Society. DR.. Wilbur
f. Sheridan of Chicago, addressed the
conference in the interests of the Ep-
worth League.
Z, The Rev. FL l.. Jacobs, the Rev. E.
NJ. Stevens and the Rev. NJ. X. Foster
were elected trustees of the conference
corporation.
To-day's Activities
The conference session this morn
ing was featured by the address of
Owen Hicks, the only surviving mem
ber of the class of 1866, who gave a
semioentennial talk on the progress
and work of the church during the
last fifty years.
The anniversary of the Women's
Home Missionary society was held
this afternoon, followed by a lecture
by Prof. Il. Watson Harmon, on THE
Self Mastered Life"
Bishop Earl Cranston will preside
this evening when the anniversary of
the Conference Annuity Fund will be
celebrated. with the Revs. Steadman
Applegate, Barnett II. Hart and C. w.
Karns, as speakers.
Balloting for delegates for the gen.
erat conference of the Methodist
church was started this morning AT
the sessions of both the ministerial
and the lay delegates.
The Laymen's Association met at Q
o'clock in the Second Presbyterian
church with the president, c. G. Shuey
of Bellefonte. in charge of the Love
Feast. The report of Watson Tyler of
Shamokin, secretary of the associa-
tion, followed after which balloting
began for six lay delegates and three
alternates to the general conference.
B. G. Galbraith, of Harrisburg, led
the devotions in the afternoon and
the session opened with the presidents
address, followed by the report of the
treasurer. Lincoln S. Bell, of Patton.
Committees were then appointed and
memorials and resolutions presented.
A symposium opened late in the
afternoon on The Sunday School of
To-day Is it Properly Preparing the
Methodists of Tomorrow? Can Our
Methods or Lessons be Improved?"
w. II. Sanford of Patton opened
the discussion together with William
Lee Woodcock. It was closed with an
address by Prof. i. +. Pattee, of State
College on the "Organized Sunday
School" The members adjourned