The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-02-24

William Dudley Foulke Will be
.smong the local speakers who will
welcome the nth North Indiana con-
uerence of the Methodist Episcopal
church. when it formally convenes in
the Grace NJ. e. church, Tuesday eve
ming, April g.
Committees Of the conference will
be in session for two days previous
to this. President Grose OF DePauw
university, will speak in the Grace
church on Easter Sunday, the opening
day of the conference, which will close
Monday, April IL.
Particularly interesting in connec-
ton with the 18th session in Rich
mond is the fact that the first session
was held in Centerville in 1S43 in the
Methodist church.
A pilgrimage to this historic town
will be a feature. The Richmond
Commercial club is arranging to fur
n:sh conveyance.
Richmond was selected for the con-
ference from Warsaw, Newcastle. and
Muncie. The Rev. o. L. Overdeer.
who was pastor of the Grace church
| in this city, at the time Of the last
meeting, presented the local invita-
ton.
Backing the invitation Of the church
were those of the city Ministerial as
ISOLATION, the Commercial club, and
ether organizations.
so Will Take Examination.
At least SO undergraduates and
young men just entering the ministry
will take the required annual examina-
ton in the Grace church on April 5
and with DR.. w. D. Arnold. pastor
Of the Grace church in Kokomo, and
TraSi6p0t Of the hoard nf examiners
presiding.
Several important banquets will
feature the sessions here, including
the educational banquet in the Reid
Memorial church dining rooms at $3.50
p. m, April 7, and the Lake Wawasee
Epworth league conference booster
banquet at the Reid church on Satur-
day at $50 p. m.
Lay electoral delegates, who will
number about 800, will meet early in
the week in the First M. E. church to
elect delegates to the general confer
ence of MethodiSm in Des Moines in
May.
Ladies of the First NJ. E. Church
will serve luncheon to the delegates
on Monday. Seven delegates to the
Des Moines conference will also be
| elected by the ministerial body in
session.
Rice Is HeadIiner.
M. S. Rice, pastor of the Detroit
NJ. E. church, considered one of the
largest in the world, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the Friday evening
session in the coliseum. The high
school orchestra will play and the
high school chorus of over 800 voices
will sing under the baton of Ralph c.
Sloane, director of music in the Rich
mond public schools.
Mrs. J. B. O'Conner of Centerville,
president of the preachers wives, wild
Ows' and daughters conference, will
preside at the meeting of that body
on Saturday at 10 a. m.
D. B. Jones, pastor of the WabasS
Street NJ. E. church, in Wabash, is
secretary of the conference, and the
Rev. David S. Jones of Marion, treas
urer, will have his office in the First
National bank during the conference;
the Rev. A. N. Backus, pastor of the
Grace NJ. E. church, and chairman of
the program committee announced
Tuesday.
Headquarters of the board of stew
ards will be in the American Trust
and Savings bank. Funds will be dis
tributed to retired ministers from this
office.
! Boundaries Are Given.
The conference is bounded on the
north by Michigan on the east by
Ohio; on the south by the Old National
Road, and on the west by Marion
County, and line running almost due
north from the center of the north
/ Marion county line to the Michigan
state line and passing between the
cities of South Bend and Mishawaka.
All churches in the cities and towns
along the National Road are included
within the conference. Within it's
boundaries is almost one-third of the
area of the state and more than one
third of the states population.
The Methodist Episcopal church is
the largest of all the Protestant
churches and has more than 100000
members, and with the Methodist