Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-01
METHODISTS ARE
OVER TOP HERE;
TEAM IS ACTIVE
With 354 Young People Regis
tered For Work City
Makes Good Record

The Methodist Headquarters team
which is holding Christian activities
| conferences in all the Methodist dis
| tricts of the country. last Sunday
held one of the most successful
young peoples meetings in Ridge
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
| ever held in the Harrisburg District.
The team consists of Chaplain j.
V. Thompson, Secretary of Young
Peoples Work of the Board of Sun
| day Schools of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church; Miss Dorothy T..
Mead, of Chicago, in charge of the
| social work program of the Board
of Sunday Schools; DIR. G. Franklin
Ream, executive secretary of the
Life Work Bureau for the entire
Methodist Episcopal Church, and
DR.. Robert Brumley, executive secre-
tary of Life Work Service and In
stitutes for the Central Office of the
Epworth League.
This team has held eighteen con-
ferences to date and the largest en-
rollm1nt up to the Harrisburg Dis
trict Conference to date was 145.
Harrisburg, as usual, broke all
| former records and set n new high
water mark by having three hun
| dred iifty-four young people, between
the ages of eighteen and twenty-five,
or thereabouts, register.
Auditorium Filled
The spacious auditorium OF Ridge
Avenue Church was filled to over
| flowing at the morning service. This
largo Dndinnnn hnnrH (Nhanlo in
! Thompson preach q sermon taken
from the text concerning the wise
and foolish virgins. that portrayed
| great necessity for preparedness and
training of Christian young men and
women so that when the opportun-
| ity for real service for the Kingdom
comes they will be ready to re-
| spond.
Between four and five hundred
people attended the afternoon serv-
| ice. which was in charge of the
young people of the district. with
Leon Simonetti, President of the
| Teen Age Union of Harrisburg, pre-
| siding. The young people who spoke
were William Ray Chapman, Edu-
| cational Director of Grace Church ;
] Charles Baumeister, OF York; Miss
| Miriam Brown, Junior League Super
| intendent of the Harrisburg District
| Epworth League, and Miss Dorothy
! Rishel. of Camp Curtin Church.
Adjourns For Fellowship
Chaplain Thompson brought to
! the delegates some of the materials
and methods that could be used in
young peoples work and Miss Mead
very forcefully portrayed what rela-
| tion the young people should have
to the local church program. The
conference adjourned at $50 for a
Fellowship Period of one-half hour.
when the delegates from the various
i.charges were introduced to each
| other, and due to the certain seat
ing arrangements, practically every
one got an opportunity to shake
| hands with each of the delegates
and learned their names and their
location.
Dinner Is Served
| Promptly at six o'clock dinner
was served to the delegates with Mr..
and Mrs. George Phillips, as caterers.
| The tables were artistically deco
rated by the local Ridge Avenue
Decorating Committee, as was the
main church auditorium.
Promptly at seven o'clock Miss
Mead took the young women into
q conference on subjects pertaining
| to their particular lines of action,
and Chaplain Thompson took the
i young men in for n separate con-
| ference. Both of these leaders of
| young people gave straight-from-
| the-shoulder talks on the physical
relationship of young people towards
each other and towards the church
and community.
Make Forceful Addresses
At 7.30 o'clock the conference re-
! convened, and a large number of
visitors joined with the convention
delegates in listening to an address
| by Chaplain Thompson on "Ameri-
canizing America" followed by an
address by DR.. J. Franklin Ream,
on Life Service"
Both of these addresses were
forceful and no thoughtful young
! person could attend especially this
! feeling a great desire to studiously
look himself or herself in the face
| and see if there was any possibility
/ of them really being of any service
| for the Kingdom either in the Home
or Foreign field.
DR.. Hickman Presides
DR.. Edgar r. Hickman, Superin-
! tendent of the Harrisburg District
/ presided at all the meetings of the
convention, and the Rev. ]. Merrill
| Williams, of Camp Hill, conducted
the devotional periods. with Charles
w. Boil, Executive Chairman of the
Conference, and the Rev. e. c. Ke-
boch, Sunday School Specialist for
| the Board of Sunday Schools, having
charge of the general arrangements
Promptly at 9.15 the conference was
adjourned, and DR.. George Preston
| Mains, treasurer of the Episcopal
| Fund of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and former publisher of the
| Methodist Book Concern of New
York city, pronounced the benedic.
| ton.
CHAS. WHO'LL,
| Executive Chairman,
| A -;