The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1919-09-19
DETROIT NE. CONFERENCE
Large Attendance and Strong Ad.
dresses Make Sessions In this City
Notable.

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dresses Make Sessions in this City
Notable.
The sixty fourth annual session of
the Detroit Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church was opened in
Owosso, Monnay. and has continued
through the week with attendance
during the time of nearly one Thousand
pastors and lay delegates. The sessions
of the conference were held in the First
M. E. church while the laymen's meet
ing was held this morning in the First
Baptist church. Noted men of the
church have been in attendance and
given wonderful inspiration by their
addresses.
Bishop e a., Hughes of Boston, one
of the best known churchmen, gave his
lecture. "The Children of the Msnse, y
to an audience that filed every avail.
able bit of space in the church Wednes-
day evening.
Bishop T. 8. Henderson of Detroit,
presided and made several wonderful
addresses, Each service was made
profitable by the bishops and pastors
from the metropolises Of the country.
DR.. M. S. Rice, of Detroit, one of
the most forceful speakers in the
Detroit conference, Tuesday afternoon
laid down the three principles which
he said every preacher must observe
to be success. They were, to preach
the Word of God, to appreciate his
task and to completely submerge
themselves in Jesus Christ.
The Tuesday address by Bishop
Hughes was deeply spiritual plea
for the revival of intercessory prayer
in the church, his text, "The Lord
turn the captivity Of Job when he
prayed for his friends" He said in
part, that after the numerous digres-
sions necessitated by the demands Of
the past five years the people Of the
church were hungry for purely spirit
ual preaching, hungry for God, and
that therein lay the church's great
contribution to the times.
Tuesday nights session was in the
nature Of a spiritual feast, in which
pastors gave expression to their
spiritual feelings and told of some of
their experiences. Bishop Henderson,
assisted by the district superintendent,
administered the sacrament of the
Lords Supper.
The annual memorial exercises for
deceased members of the conference
were held during the morning and
were in charge of Rev. Bready of Pom
tiac. Rev. Ward of Wyandotte, de-
livered the memorial sermon, and
spoke of the resurrection and of the
day when those who have passed on
shalltbe met in the better land. Rev.
Seth Reed, the oldest member of the
conference, occupied a place on the
rostrum and offered prayer. Mrs. D..
M. Christian and Mrs. Lillian Vogel
Harding rendered vocal duet and
Mrs. Harding solo.
A proposal by the directors Of the
stock company owning the Christian
Advocate, the official organ of the
Methodist church in Michigan, 70
liquidate the stock and turn over to
the Michigan and the Detroit confer
ence, the physical property, business
and good will of the paper, to be
operated by the conferences, was made
at the business session of the Detroit
conference this morning.
The offer was made by F. w. Fit
chit of Detroit, editor Of the paper,
on the authorization of the board of
directors. A committee of five was
named to consider the proposal and
report to the conference later. The
matter was laid before the Michigan
conference at it's meeting in Lansing,
which has just closed
Mr.. Fitchitt declared that the stock
amounted to $4,000 and that the ply
sical property was valued at $1,000.
This would be turned over to the two
conferences.
A notable figure was the venerable
DIR. Seth Reed of Flint, who rose in
response to the roll call for the seventy.
fifth time, Monday morning, having
been present at every session of the
conference since he began his ministry
in the year 1916, as a circuit rider in
the district of which Owosso was part.
On Sunday visiting pastor will oc-
cupy the pulpits of all Of the churches
in Owosso while the principal services
of the day will be at the conference
headquarters, the First M. e. church.
Sunday evening Rev. l.. d. Bowers, d.
d.. president of the Kansas Wesleyan
University, will speak.
The election of delegates to the Gen.
eral Conference, over which there was
feeling, was scheduled for this morning.
Lay delegates and pastors from smaller
cities have felt that they should have
greater proportion of the delegatas than
has been given them In the past.
CHAPMAN-HALL
Mrs. Anna Hall, formerly of Owos-