The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-20
WEST OKLKHOMA
N. F, CONFERENCE
OPENED TODAY 25O
IN ATTEN DAN CT
Bishop Edwin E. MOuzOn
of Dallas Formally Opens
the Tenth Annual
Session
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
SHOULD BE APPROVED BY EVERY
CHRISTIAN, SAYS. REV. KEN.
DALI IN HIS SERMON
LAST NIGHT
LEAGUE OF NATIONS

The tenth annual western Okla
homa conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, opened at
9 o'clock this morning with Bishop
Edwin B. Mouzon, of Dallas, presid-
ing More than $50 members are in
attendance. The conference comprises
members from the western half of the
state and seven presiding elder dis
tricts, including Ardmore, Oklahoma
City, Hooker Clinton, Mangum, Law
ton and Chickasha. The presiding
elders of each district constitute the
bishops cabinet" The conference
sessions will be held daily from 8
o'clock to IL noon. Each afternoon
the conference committees will meet.
There will be services conducted by
some prominent ministers each af-
ternoon and evening.
The entire day Thursday will be
devoted to Christian Education" in
preparation to the conferences parti-
cipation in the .church-wide education
al campaign which will be conducted
next year to raise S33,000,0OO.
DR.. Forney Hutchinson, pastor of
st. Luke's church at Oklahoma City
will have charge Of the devotional
exercises Of the conference.
The committee on statewide educa-
ton met this afternoon TO decide
on the location Of the proposed col
lege. The committee is composed
of the following members: Bishop Mou'
zon. Rev. J. n. Sims. Judge T. NJ
Robinson, DR.. T. p. Howell. all from
the western Oklahoma conference, Rev
John r. Abernathy, Judge Orlando
ern Oklahoma conference.
The bishops cabinet. composed ol
the presiding elders of each district
will meet daily with Bishop Mouzon
TO arrange appointments for tn
preachers. These appointments will b'
read Sunday evening or Monday morn
ing.
Last Nights Sermon
Rev. Wilmore Kendall, the blin'
preacher of Lawton, and who is
native of Ardmore, delivered n sermon
at the services last night. He spok
In an appealing manner of the great
ness OF Christ, both in the spiritua
and material things.
Speaking Of the need Of keeping tn
sons of mothers out of the throe
of war. and the coming generation
from needless slaughter, Reveren
Kendall said: 81 cannot understan
how any man with the spirit
Christ in him. can fail 10 approve
the league OF nations
"The constitution of the state G
Oklahoma" he said. in speaking Z
the conditions in this state, wa
held up, and praised by the entir
world. when Oklahoma was fir'
granted statehood. But today tn
condition of our state is u stencil
; and deplorable.
ITO every four marriages recorde
| in our state, there is one divorce.
our district courts, every 2sth cas-
, is divorce case"
Rev. Kendall stated that one
I these conditions was due to the fa'
! lnut Nnt people VI sNlhSllNh iAHNN
I treat the boys who fought in the la'
q war with proper care, and after the
4 return. the bad habits which they ha
n formed while In the service OF the
I country, still clung to them.
+ "The boys In France stated Re
3 Kendall. ibid not want the cigarett'
o which the people OF America pour'
L upon them. What the boys want'
:. was sacraments."
4 The speaker also took occasion
G denounce the modern dances. whiC
a he said, ARE OF such character tn
r. they would not have been tolerated
T. pagan Rome"
10 Rev Kendall spoke of the necessi
y of a Methodist college In oklahom
state universities and colleges
said. are doing splendid work. b
il is the business OF the universi
Y and college to teach facts. but fac
are not true-they are only the el
IL ments OF truth"