The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-11
TO DANCE OR
NOT To DANCE
That Is the Question That Is
. Confronting MethOdists.
VIII Be Decided at Quadrennial
Conference in May.
TO ASSEMBLE At SARATOGA
Whether or Not to Unite With
Southern Church
Is Another Matter Coming Up
for Settlement.
TO ASSEMBLE AT SARATOGA

'.To dance or not to dance" that
is the question that Kansas delegates
to the general quadrennial conference
of the NJ. E. church at Saratoga be-
ginning May l will have to face.
Shall the followers of Wesley lend
their assent to the awful contortions
of the .'Narragansett Naughty or the
hula-huIa tactics of the Pigeon
Walk" is one of the chief questions
that will confront Methodist delegates.
And while it is impossible to get
definite statement of their position on
the matter, it is understood that the
Kansas delegation is against the
church's lending it's sanction to dane
ing.
The discussion of "the amusement
question" has aroused much pre-con-
ference excitement. Ministers all over
the country have been getting out
pamphlets for-and mostly against
the conferences repeating the stand of
the church against "ungodly amuse-
ments." To a large extent the stand
is the west against the east, the latter
generally taking more tolerant posi-
ton on the terpsichorean subject.
Whether or not the Methodist
church shall unite with the Methodist
Episcopal church, south-popularly
entitled the NJ. E. church south of God
is probably the most vital question
to come before the conference. If the
two churches Unite it will give the
church membership of approximate
ly six and half million.
The benevolent activities of the
| church and their control will occupy
much of the attention of the delegates.
| Also the question whether the colored
people OF the church shall be led by
! their own bishops will be settled
| Following are the Kansas delegates
! to the general conference:
Southwest Kansas Conference.
Ministerial - Frank E. Mossman,
president Southwestern college, Win
field; S. II. Switzer district superin-
tendent. Hutchinson district; A. B.
! Hestwood. district superintendent,
| Wichita; L. z. Shines, district superin-
tendent, wichita: A. e. Kirk, pastor
Wichita. Reserves: Dugald McCor-
mick district superintendent, Great
Bend: r. A. Dadisman, district super
intendent, Pratt.
Lay A. Cragun. Kingman; E. R
! Burkholder, Mcpherson; NJ H Scan
drett. Liberal; Mrs. Fannie Lynch
Winfield; Hiram Imboden, Wichita
| Reserves: c. T. Franks, Winfield
James Clayton. Great Bend w. c
Deter, Nickerson.
Northwest Kansas Conference.
MinisterialEJohnF F. Harmon, pres.
ldent Kansas Wesleyan university Sa-
| lima, Kan; c. w. Stevens district sl1.
perintendent Ellsworth district. Sa.
lima, Kan; III. NJ. Templin, district SUI
perintendent Mankato district. Man.
kato, Kan. Reserves: Attree Smith
pastor, Beloit, Kan; NJ. f. Loomis
district superintendent. Colby, Kan.
Lay-Judge j. c. RuppenthaI Rms.
sell, KAN; D. II. Stafford, banker
Mankato, Kan; c. S. Buchanan. mer.
chant, Smith Center, Kan. Reserves
G. A Kemp, Winona. Kan; H. H
Woolrie, Osborne, Kan; c. c. An
drews, Smith Center. Kan.
Kansas Conference.
Ministerial Delegates-W. C. Han
son, district superintendent Kansa:
City district; Edwin Locke, pastor Eu
cid Avenue church, Topeka; H. E
Wolfe, district superintendent Topeka
district; II. ]. Coker, field secreta r,
board of home missions and church
extension; Wilbur N Mason, presiden
of Baker university: John MacIean
district superintendent Manhattan
district; Benjamin Young. pastor Firs
church, Topeka; George SatterIee
pastor at Pittsburg; ]. d. Smith. dis
trict superintendent Emporia district
Reserves: B. NJ. Powell, S. L. Buck
ner.
lay Delegates. L. Taylor, Pitts
burg; Judge John Marshall, Topeka
0. g. Markham, baldwin; A. P. Myers
Emporia; S. 5. Glasscock, Kansa
City; Senator A r. Kinkle. Counci
Grove; c. M. Jones, Robinson: 7 e
Funnel, Clay Center Reserves: Mrs
M. E. Amrine. Council Grove; Mis-
Florence NJ. Snow, Neosho Falls: Mrs
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