Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-15
u. B. BISHOP
WILL RETIRE
The Rev. DR.. w. M. Weekley
Has Served as Church Off
cial For 81 Years

Wichita, Kan, May IS. - Bishop
w. NJ. Weakley. of the East District
of the United Brethren Church, re-
tired from the bishopric of the
church at the General conference af-
ter making a stirring address on OF
terbein, the founder of the Church.
DR.. Weakley had served the church
in official capacity for thirty-four
years, as presiding elder, secretary of
the church society and bishop, being
in the latter office three terms, or
twelve years. Also Or. c. Whitney.
secretary of the Board of Home Mis-
sion, at Dayton, Ohio. after reading
Inns quadrennial report, announced
his quadrennial report. announced
which he had filled fro mthe organi-
2ation of that special department of
the church sixteen years ago. He
had served in various other general
capacities of the church for twenty
eight years. The occasion of the
withdrawal Of these officials was very
affecting and left a deep impression
on the membership of the confer
ence. During the incumbency of DR..
Whitney over four hundred mission
churches had been established and
aided. resulting in the addition of
$4,000 members.
The different phases of the Home
Mission work before the denomina-
ton were forcefully discussed by the
home missionaries. the Rev. II. b.
Dork, the Rev. G.. L. Mcdonald, DR..
r. j. White, and Miss Nellie Perkins,
who has charge of the work among
the Spanish Americans at Velarde
and Santa Cruz, New Mexico.
DIR. w. f. Schell, educational sec
retary, and DIR. A. C. Siddall, secre-
tary of the church erection society,
made reports of their work, the lat
ter reporting ninety-four new church
enterprises aided with loans amount
ing to over 100000 and total fund
of over S350,0OO, with an increase of
over $4,000 during the quadren-
mum.
DR.. J. T.. Fout. manager Bone
brake Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, re-
ported for that institution, and Dr.
S. s. Hough, foreign missionary Sec
retary, gave a summary of his work,
reporting 167 missionary workers,
and siXty-four churches with a men,
sion fields. He announced the COM
pletion of Miller Seminary for Girls
at Siu Lam, China. the finest build
ing in the foreign field, costing near
ly 100000 as memorial to Eliza
beth Kumler Miller. of Dayton,
one of the pioneer missionary wo-
men of the church. The benevolent
institutions of the denomination were
represented by the Rev. II. J. KitZ-
miller, superintendent of the Quincy
Orphanage and Home at Quincy, Pa;
the Rev. j. \. Eby for the Baker
Home at Otterbein, Cal, and DIR. j.
r. King, superintendent. and DIR. j.
NJ. Phillippi, secretary OF the Otter
bein Home, Lebanon, Ohio.
y resolution was introduced by
Bishop c. j. Kephart to the general
conference of the United Brethren
Church. representing a constituency
of 100000, and was sent to President
Wilson urging the passage of ma
tion-wide prohibition as a war meas
ure, conserving the material re-
sources. the manhood and woman
hood of the nation for the great
struggle for human liberty and
worldwide democracy. Bishop c.
NJ. Matthews in an address to the
conference pledged support of the
Christian constituency of the
church to President Wilson as a
Christian statesman, even while de-
ploring the bloodiness of war.
The reports of the bishops received
by the conference, show an increase
in membership of $4,000 during the
quadrennium. and all other interests
in the same proportion.
DR.. w. r. Funk. agent of the
United Brethren Publishing House,
Dayton, which has grown to be one
of the largest denominational pub
fishing houses in the country, made
his report of the four years busi-
ness of that plant, which showed
profit of S130.00O, and total assets
of. over $65O,000.