Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-17
WILL
MAKE ADDRESS
HERE TONIGHT
Former Senator to Appear Be-
fore United Brethren Dele
gates and Visitors.

Albert J. Beveridge. former United
States Senator from Indiana, win speak
tonight before the delegates and visitors
to the twenty eighth quadrennial general
conference of the United Brethren
Church, which is in session at Tomlin-
son Hall The FIXTURE will be open to
the public am 20 admission Will be
charged. Mt rsveridges subject will be
THE Minister and His Task
Departments of home missions and
church erection of the United Breth-
rem Church will be consolidated I'M
recting the affairs of each division, fol-
lowing action taken today. The action
came through partial adoption of the re-
port of the committee on revision or
discipline, and followed a long debate.
Three other recommendations sof the
committee were rejected by the confer
ence. They were:
That the delegates. both ministerial
and lay, to the general conference shall
be elected by the members of their re-
speetive annual conferences in regular
session assembled next preceding the
meeting of the general conference.
That the Sunday school, brotherhood
and young peoples work be combined IN
der one board and one general secretary
to be known as the secretary Of re-
ligiOus education.
That the Sunday school, brotherhood,
young peoples work and board of edu-
cation work shall be combined under one
board and one secretary to he known as
the secretary of religious education.
The memorial adopted by the confer
ence. as reported back by committee,
would have placed the departments Of
home missions and church erection I'M
der one board and one secretary. OBJ
lection to this was raised on the floor,
becaUse, it was commended, both depart
meDCs are Of utmost importance to the
church, and the work is so great that 1t
could net be accomplished by one secre-
tary. A compromise was effected where
by the provision zone secretary" was
stricken from the memorial.
Adoption of the memorial was fav-
ored for economical reasons. and was
objected to because opponents said 1t
would hinder the progress OF the church
both in mission work and in adding new
fields to the church.
That memorial which would have
changed the method of naming delegates
to the general conference was easily de-
feated when 1t was shown that it had
been presented and similarly rejected at
the last general conference at Wichita,
Kan, in 1917
In speaking for the combination of the
Sunday school, brotherhood and young
peoples work with that Of education
T. L. Shuey, Dayton. Ohio, chairman Of
the committee on revision of discipline
declared that while he expected defeat Of
the memorials at this conference, he
would make the prediction that within
the next four or eight years the neces-
sity Of taking this action would be ap-
parent and that II would be done at one
Of the next two conferences.
1.-THE day viii come" said Mr.. Shuey,
when the church must make educational
work a unit from top to bottom. The
small amount of Christian training
which some young people receive IN their
homes. viii make this action necessary"
A second big meeting, to which the
public Will be invited viii be held on
Wednesday night. when William Jen-
nings Bryan, former Secretary OF State.
will speak on Brother or Brute" This
meeting will be free. also
The church can assume Its proper place
in the lives Of the people only when the
prestige of religions educational insti-
tutions is increased 70 the point where
they are accepted on n par with indie
pendent colleges and State universities
and when education and religion 90 hand
in hand Or. william e. Scbell, Dayton
Ohio, told an audience at the quadrennial
general conference In session at Tomlin-
son Hall last night.
DR. Scheu stated that religion and edu
cation were synonymous in the DAYS Of
old but that gradually the state had as
sumed the place Of the church. all the
latter gradually has lost caste. He de-
clared only to o per cent. OF the men
who devote thoir lives 10 the church are
graduates Of State or private schools.
Following the afternoon session yester
day. the delegates toured the city IN
automobiles provided by the Indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce The tomb of
James Wbitcomb Riley at Crown Hin
cemetery, Riverside Park and the Speed
way were visited. and drive through
the north side residential district was
made.