Smyrna times., 1920-03-17
METHOOISTS PREPARE FOR
CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK
ANNUAL SESSION WILL MEET
GRACE CHURCH, WILMINGTON
CHARLES }. Sudler and Walter W. Hvn-
son Are Lay Delegates from Here
Smyrna Ministers Will Attend


son Are Lay Delegates from Here
Smyrna Ministers Will Attend
Ihe fifty-second annual session of
the Methodist Episcopal Church will
convene in Grace NJ. E. Church. Ninth
ana West streets, next Wednesday
morning, March "a, with Bisbop Viii
ham H. Mcdowell of WASHINGTON
presiding, and DR.. ]. W. R. Sumwalt
as conference host. Sessions will be
hEeld each day in the morning with
anniversaries afternoon and night.
closing on the following Monday with
appointments of pastors for the en-
SUNG year. Asbury NJ. E. Church. of
Smyrna, will be represented by Chas.
>. Sudler, lay delegate, and w. w.
Hynson, alternate, to the lay confer
ence, and by Rev. R. P. Nichols. mas
tor of Asbury; Rev. T. E. Owens of
Smyrna Circuit and Rev. Milton Nc
Cam.
An anniversary exercise as in nre-
vlous years will be held next Tuesday
night preceding the opening of con-
terence. This year that meeting will
be devoted to the Epworth League.
The regular conference program is
far from complete and the committee
IN charge is hardly expecting to be
able to make any announcement be-
fore the latter part of next week. The
list of homes also is in a rather
chaotic state, but is rapidly being
filled up, and will be published in Will
mingtor newspapers this week. This !
year Grace Church will entertain the
entire ministerial membership of the
conference, but the lay members will
be entertained through a fund collect
ed from the various churches of the |
conference by the levying of a tax of
enc per cent on the amount paid for
the year for pastors salary in each
church. In accordance with a reso-
luton adopted at the last session of
the conference, held in Cambridge.
Md, year ago, beginning at o'clock
each day, except Sunday, an evangel-
istic service will be held.
Delegates to General Conference
A feature of special interest at this
session, both to ministers and laymen.
is the selection of four ministers and
four laymen to attend the quadren-
NAL session of the General Confer
snce of the Church, which will be held
IN Des MOines, Iowa, during the en-
tire month of May While it has for
number of years been the custom
20 select the district superintendents
as the ministerial delegates, there has
been a growing tendency to send
'ther> members of the conference, and
already, it is said, a number of min
Sters are expressing a willingness TO
make the Sacrifice" A number of
he laity have been mentioned already ,,
or this honor, prominent among
'hom is Resident Judge Henry C.
;Onrad of Georgetown. Among 9TH :
rs mentioned for lay delegates are: 6
Ohm D. Mullin, J. w. Coley, Caleb .
:. Burchenal, Henry r. Isaacs and :
saac NJ. Lenderman of the Whining
on district; Victor C. Kitchens, Judge :
Walter A. Powell and Harry Meyer .
+ the Dover district; Walter o. Hof- :
ecker and L. NJ. Price of the Easton
istrict, and William J. Downing of r
ne Salisbury district.
Few Ministerial Changes Expected 7
No changes are expected among the
district Superintendents at this ses- Il
on. So far Everything is up in the
If" as to appointments, not an un-
sual thing at this time, only more [
, than usual. If the District Super
tendents haev made up their states
icy are keeping it under cover where t.
ere is no danger of them being st
acked. m