Evening journal., 1917-04-02
THRONG At CONFERENCE
FOR sundays SERVICES
STAFF Correspondent.


STAFFORD. April 2-The Sabbath
services opened In ST. Johns Church
at o'clock yesterday morning. when
the Rev Robert X. Stephenson con
Quoted the Conference love feast.
Every available foot Of space except
the aisles. rigidly kept open for
emergencies. held a person. and the
throng overlooked TO the lawn sur
rounding tho church. People stood
on step ladders at various windows.
in order to hear the addresses. and
even trellls in the rear OF the
/ church, the normal occupation of
| which was TO support a number OF
! towering vines, supported many per
sons so that they could listen TO the
services 1t is doubtful IL Seaford
ever saw such a crowd in its limits,
and, had ST. Johns Church been three
times as large. il would hardly have
held the people who strove TO enter
It is no eXaggeration TO state that
never in the history OF Delaware has
so many automobiles been collected
together at any one time. But the
horse and buggy was fright smart
scarce" ills estimated 800 visitors
! were here.
Volunteer Traffic Squad.
Early in the morning. Mayor Jo
seph II. Cox arranged for the promp
handling OF the automobile traffic
and had on duty fifty young men o
the town as volunteer special police
, men. All day. without even leaving
their stations for meals the mayo
and his traffic squad" remained OF
the job, with the result that there
! was not single instance OF even .
] moments congestion Mayor Cos
! counted over $50 cars arriving i'm tho
, vicinity Of the church in two hours.
Governor John G. Townsend, Jr.
arrived on Saturday evening. and re.
+. manned here over Sunday He came
. from the big patriotic meeting in
, Philadelphia which he attended dur
4 ing the day.
Bishop Mcdowell breaches.
Bishop Mcdowell took as his tex
S the ninth verse of the sixth chapter
4 OF ST. John: There is lad here
= which hath five barley loaves and two
small fishes. hut what arc they amonl
so many?' His subject was Feeding
k the Multitude" which he applied 4
the problem OF the church today il
caring for all classes of mankind.
Save Souls Rather Than Carpet.
Some would have as solve tn
present foreign problems by scndln
n the foreigners back from whore the
H came" said the bishop. the Negr
y problem by segregation let the youn
people find their place the best wa
- they can, get their education whcr
they can buy il. We cannot turn IN
% church building into social centre
IT Il will wear out the carpets. TIL
l. church is tho place where they proac
, the Gospel Let the young people fin
~ their place elsewhere.
\. Some Of the official members {
i a charge where ] was stationed man
= years ago talked just that way.
10 told them if they preferred. savin
III carpets TO saving souls, ] should r.
!, main with them That kind of thin
:. let's out enough children ia an
- decade 10 double the membership (
10 the church il we kept them at HON
~ despite the efforts in our annui
n roundup TO get them back by r.
vivals'
-, Memorial Service Held.
y. At . O'Clock in the afternoon the a
-, nual memorial service was held. memo
~ ials being read upon the death duril
40 the Conference year, of the Revs,
- T.. Mart 'ndale, y. \ H. O'Bren. S.
Morgan and r. II. Lewis; Mrs c>Cli
tonia Browne, Wilmington, and Mrs.
s. Thompson, Smyrna.
The Rev. {. w. prcttyman read {
n Martmdalc memoir; r.. J.. Terry for y
1 O'Brieu: Robert Watt for DR.. Morga
u and y. Howard Gray that Of Dr. Levi
Y. s. Collins presented the memoir
ID Mrs Browne. and G. G. Williams
~ Mrs Thompsan.
no Ordination Service.
in This was followed by the impressi
re ordination service. when James \. Lea
90 and Zach w. Wells were ordained
40 elders. and Joseph A. Pignatiello, w
an ter a. Hcarne, Luther VI. Broadwf
IN Ralph c. Jones. John l.. Prcttyman a
80 Charles W. Sprv were ordained as dc
cons. The ordinations were conduct
bv Bishop Mcdowell.
n Ann iversaries Of the Board OF Sund
" schools and Of the Frcedman's Aid
NJ cietv were held during the cvesing. 2
All Rev. s y. Pilchard presided. and a
AZ dresses were delivered by J.. j. Mavce
n and the Rev. T. q. Hartman, d.. ID.
lg Jubilee Fund Campaign.
OK The educational jubilee commit
CT met in the Sunday school room of q
Methodist Protestant Church and O
feanized by electing Or. Alfred Smit
cha 'rman. and the Rev. F. J. Cochra
ne secretary.
Die Or. John W Hancher, OF New Yor
an delivered an address. in which he sa
:. that the educational jubilee alrca