Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-22
CONFERENCE OF
M. f. CHURCH.
Convenes In Monumental City
On April 3. Local Delegates.
WEEKS CELEBRATION.
Plans Under Way For Mission
Work. Will Culminate In
Weeks Celebration.

The Baltimore Spring Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
opens on April 3rd. at Caroline St NJ.
E. Church, the Rev DR.. G. Leroy
White pastor. Bishop W, F. Mcdowell
presiding
Wednesday, the first day of the Con
ference viii be devoted to Centenary
plans. DIR. George Elliott, DR.. d. d.
Forsyth, Bishop ]. w. Bashford, and
Dr. f. NJ North will attend as special
speakers.
The ministerial delegate from the
First NJ +. Church, this city, is the
pastor, the Rev Dr. Harry Wilson
Burgau. and the lay delegates from
this church are Mr. William f. Childs,
Mr. Charles C. Feldmeyer and Prof
William J. King.
The minister from Maryland Avenue
NJ T. Church Will be the pastor, Rev.
Dr. William l. McKcnney Three lay
delegates will also be sent from this
church,
Plans for the Centenary celebration
OF the mission work of the Methodist
Episcopal Church will be given a con-
spicuous position on the conference
program.
World wide plans for world wide
Methodism is the slogan of this Cen
tenary program, which will present to
the Methodists Of America a birds eys
view of the responsibilities of Metho-
dism for the next one hundred years
A nation wide campaign is on foot
to arouse al the Methodists of Amer
lea 10 a consciousness of what
their church is already doing in the
field of home and foreign missions. 1t
is not money-raising campaign.
Reused by the worlds tragic need
for a large scale constructive program
to counterbalance in some small de-
gree the waste and destruction of the
war, and to carry on constructively
this process of making the world safe
for democracy. the Joint Centenary
Commission of the Methodist Episco-
pol Church plans TO pledge $S0,000,00O
during the next five years to put the
work Of its Foreign and Home Mis-
sions On an efficiency basis.
This figure of so millions is not a
rough guess of the amount needed, but
has been reached as the result of most
scientifically prepared estimates OF
the minimum amount which would
meet TN pressing needs in each field
Several years ago, in preparation for
the Centenary, detailed questionnaires
were sent out to the financial commit
| tees in charge OF each mission area
These missionaries were filled in by
men on the spot, and were subject tC
review and the o. X of the Bishop il
! charge Of each area.
They were then sent back to cen
trail financial committee who wen
over them carefully. comparing them
and making any cuts or changes tha
seemed possible The ret result Of al
this careful and expert preparation
has been the decision TO pledge 81
millions
The Centenary will eliminate in :;
weeks celebration in Columbus, Ohio
in June, 1919. A pageant will give
dramatic picture of the status of Meth
odist missions ali over the world. Th
most prominent missionaries ant
! speakers in the Methodist church viii
gather TO tell of their work.
The celebration will receive addi
tIonal impetus from the fact hat it i
a Joint celebration in moro sense thar
/ one. 1t rapresentes a combination no
only of the Boards of Home and For
eipu Missions OF the church, but tn
. yT 81, - n
Methodist church in America has beel
secured The Methodist Episcopa
Church South and the Methodist Epis
copal Church will hold common cele
bration for the first time since tbei
separation began in 1917