The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-10-05
M.E.cONFANCE
HELD LAST WEEK
WATERFOWL WAS HOST TO THiR-
TY-SECONO ANNUAL MEET
ING HELD IN STATE
BISHOP MITCHELL PRESIDING OFFICER
Several Hundred Ministers and Dele
gates Enthusiastic Over Work
of Church

The thirty-SecOnd annual conference
of the NJ. f. church in South Dakota
was held in Watertown last week I'M
der the able leadership of Bishop Nit
chell who was elected to the episco-
pacy at Saratoga Springs at the gen.
eral conference last spring. Several
hundred ministers and lay delegates
were present.
DR.. Kline, Of Portland, Ore, paid
tribute to the daily press of America.
Nearly 100 great dailies and thirty
leading magazines refuse liquor ad-
vertisements in their columns. He
paid a great tribute to the press as a
strong ally of the church.
District superintendent p. o. Bunt,
Aberdeen; w. S. Shepherd, Mitchell;
c. E. Matteson, Rapid City, and O.. e.
Boyce, WATERFOWL, reported the years
work in their districts.
Progress has been the note of the
conference. The Dakota univel sity,
Methodist hospitals, church improve
ments and evangelism are being push
ed in the state.
The laymen took a larger interest in
church affairs and the saloon is being
hard pressed with the expectancy Of
state prohibition this fall.
Rev. w. S. Shepherd, of Mitchell,
and o. E. Boyce, of Waterfowl, each
complete their respective s~ix-year
terms as district superintendent this
fall.
was Bishop Mitchell's lecture. "The
Original Idiot" and his sermon on
Sunday morning. Bishop w. F. Old
ham and Mrs. w. Perry Eveland, wife
of the deceased Bishop Eveland, also
made addresses during the conference.
DR.. O.. w. Fifer, of Denver, Colo,
gave the home missionary address. He
told how most of the churches of
Methodism and a large proportion of
the ministry had received, at some
period OF their work, missionary help
from the Home Missionary society. He
spoke of the Importance of the rural
field since it is the key to our city
work. 1t is from the country that a
major part Of the leaders in the city,
and in American industrial, social, and
religious life come.
DR.. J. p. Jenkins, a member of the
Dakota conference, but now serving
in the interests of the Board of Educa-
ton of the church, spoke concerning
his field work, and said that Dakota
Wesleyan university was never so
we'll organized, from an educational
standpoint, as when DR.. w. G. Sea-
mar retired from the position of presi-
dent. DR.. Seaman has done a con-
spicuous work as president and was a
worthy successor of CDR now Bishop
Thomas Nicholson.
DR.. G. V. Gilliland, acting president
of Dakota Wesleyan university, stated
that the university is an accredited
junior, or third year, can go to the best
universities and be graduated the fol-
lowing year without any conditions.
The report of Orien f. Boyce, dis
trict superintendent of the Waterfowl
district is partially reproduced as fol-
lows:
For the sixth time l bring the re-
port of the WATERFOWL district. The
six years have been full of labors.
Some things have beer accomplished,
and many things that should have
been done are still waiting other hands.
81 have been associated with men Of
sterling worth. Two men have gone
through the entire term with me, one
of them remaining in the same field
and the other records one move. IT has
been a joy to my soul to mingle with
these men in their homes. And these
preachers wives! They must have
been fore-ordained before the founda-
ton of the world to be Methodist
preachers wives.
Things Achieved
I'VE have built eight p%arsonages
and purchased another, the total valu-
alton being $4,000. Another parson-
age is in the course of construction.
We have built three churches, with a
valuation Of $87, 900. 100, and have dedi-
Gated another previously built. We
have spent for church and parsonage
improvements $37.748, while we have