Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-05-07
CHURCH WORKERS
TO MEET HERE
Red River Conference of the Augustana
Synod Meets Here May 2l-25.-North
Star Commencement and Messiah
Concert May 23-Hundreds of Visit
ors Coming to the City.

Warren will be the host week after
next to the largest gathering of relig-
ious workers that has ever been as
sembled in the city, when the Red Ri
yer Conference of the Swedish Luther
an Augustana Synod will hold it's
seventh annual meeting here in con-
nectiOn with the closing exercises of
North Star College. There are thirty
five ministers and nearly one hundred
congregations in the conference, which
in territorial extent reaches from
Alexandria to the Canadian boundary
in Minnesota and includes besides
Fargo and Grand Forks and a few
other places in North Dakota. In adj
dition to the ministers who are all eA-
pected to attend the meeting, there will
also be one lay delegate from each con-
gregation. The Woman's Home and
Missionary Society Of the Conference
will also hold its annual meeting at the
same time and said organization will
be represented by a large number Of
delegates. Then the Commencement at
North Star College held during the
week will bring many parents and
friends Of students and teachers to the
city. Many hundred visitors from all
over the valley will come to Warren to
attend these festivities and the hos
pitality of the city will be taxed to the
utmost. The Swedish Lutheran con-
gregation in the city has had commit
tees at work for some time making ar
engagements for the entertainment of
delegates and other visitors.
The Conference will convene on We'd
nesday, May p, at 2 100 p. m. and will
close with impressive all day church
services on Sunday, May 25th. Devo-
tional and business sessions will be
held on all the others days, except on
Friday, May %, when no business ses-
sion will be held. On that day MAY
23) North Star will hold its annual
commencement at 10 o'clock a. m.
Prof. I. NJ. Anderson, A. NJ, of Angus
tana College, Rock Island, ILL.,, will de-
liver the commencement address,. In
the evening of that same day MAY 23)
at the High School Auditorium, the
Messiah chorus, composed of more than
fifty of Warren's best singers, under
the direction of Aug. /. Bystrom, will
render .Handels great production, The
Messiah, The rendition of this grand
oratOrio will, no doubt, attract lovers
Of high class sacred music from all
parts of the valley.
The closing exercises of North Star
College begin with Glass Day exercise
Saturday, May 18th, the baccalaureate
services will be held Oh Sunday, May
Is, and on Monday and Tuesday fol-
lowing, piano and vocal recitals will be
held at the college chapel. AS stated
above. the commencement is On May
23rd, at 10 a. m. ..5-
The officers of the Red River Con-
| ference are as follows: Rev. S. w.
| Swenson, Warren, President: Rev. F.
NJ. Ekman, Moorhead, Vice President ;
Rev. J. NJ. Persenius. Grand Forks, Sec
rotary; and Aug. Lundgren, Warren,
Treasurer.
! The officers of the Woman's Home
and Missionary Society are as follows
Mrs. James Moody, Roseau, President
Mrs A. E. Anderson, Evansville, Sec
rotary and Mrs. Aug. A. Johnson, War
ron Urea S1rer