The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-13
Kansas Conference Will Be in
Session Here Tuesday.
Bishop QuayIe of st. Louis Will
Address Opening.
400 MINISTERS WILL ATTEND
All Sessions To Be Held at First
Presbyterian Church.
Laymen'S Association of Kansas
Meets Friday and Saturday.

The annual meeting of the Kansas
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church will convene at 1880 O'Clock
Tuesday evening at the First Presby-
terian church. Four hundred minis
ters from all parts of Kansas will be
in attendance. Bishop W. A. Quayle,
of St. Louis, former president of
Baker university will deliver the prin-
cipal address. Ray Allen, of Detroit
will speak on the deaconesses board.
All sessions of the conference will
be held at the First Presbyterian
church. The Layman's association
will hold its annual meeting on Fri
day and Saturday and the Older Boys
conference will be held Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday. Two hundred dele
gates will attend each of these meet
ings.
The conference proper for minis
ters will be organized at $50 o'clock
byterian church. The secretary,
treasurer and statistician will be the
only officers elected. Bishop E. L.
WaIforf. of Wichita, will preside at
the meeting by virtue of his office.
approximately 100000 will be pre-
sented to the treasurer by the various
pastors.
Women to Meet Wednesday.
At 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon
the Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety will hold its anniversary meet
ing at the First Presbyterian church
Mrs. Dan Brummitt of Chicago will
speak.
The Rev. w. G. Hanson, of Chicago,
will address the board of Sunday
schools in session at 1880 o'clock We'd
nesday evening.
At 4 o'clock on the afternoons of
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and
at $3.50 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Prof. H. Franklin Rail-, professor, of
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university. of Evanston, Ill. will de-
liver a series of lectures on the preach
ing and public teaching mission of the
church.
Devotional Services.
Devotional services conducted by
o'clock each morning. Business ses-
sions will be held from $3.50 to 2
o'clock each morning.
At 2:S0 o'clock Thursday afternoon
addresses will be delivered by DIR.
George B. Dean of Philadelphia. a
member OF the board of home mis-
sions, and DIR. I. Garland Penn of
Cincinnati, secretary of the board of
education for negroes.
Bishop Waldorf and the six district
superintendents will hold a special ex-
ecutive session at o'clock Friday
afternoon.
The annual conference of the Lay
mans association will convene at $3.50
o'clock Friday morning at the First
Congregational church.
The members of the Ministers
Wives association will hold a recep-
ton Friday afternoon at the residence
avenue.
Older Boys Conference.
The Older Boys conference will
convene at $50 Friday afternoon
with a joint banquet with representa-
tives of the Epworth league and the
alI nj OF IQcly nr-ff
Chamber of Commerce.
The conference lecture will be de-
livered at o'clock Friday evening at
the First Presbyterian church by DR..
James Methodist church. of Chicago.
His subject will be BLACK Tulips or
THE Triumph of the True
The second meeting of the Older
Boys conference will be held at $50
o'clock Saturday morning at the First
Christian church. The Layman's as
sociation will meet at $50 o'clock Sat
day morning at the First Congrega-
tional church.
To Lay Cornerstone.
The feature of the conference pro-
gram Saturday will be the laying of
the cornerstone of the new First
Methodist church edifice. Bishop Wal
dorf will be in charge of the cere-
monies.
The afternoon meeting of the older
DOJS VIII D6 dL : 0U o CLOCK at repre-
sentative hall, state house. A state
official will address the boys.
Bishop Stuntz will speak on the
seminary work of the denomination
at 1880 o'clock Saturday evening.
The older boys will hold a session
at $3.50 o'clock Sunday morning at the
Chamber of Commerce. The confer
ence love feast will be held at $3.50
o'clock Sunday morning at the city
auditorium.
Meet at Auditorium.
The members of the Methodist
churches of Topeka and the dele
gates to all the conferences will hold
a joint service at IL o'clock Sunday
morning at the city auditorium. Bishop
Waldorf will preach at this service.
There will be a joint chorus consist
ing of the choruses Of all the Metho-
dist churches of Topeka.
The final session of the Older Boys
conference will be held at o'clock
Sunday afternoon at the First Presby-
terian church. The anniversary of the
founding of the Epworth League will
be celebrated with a meeting at 1880
o'clock Sunday evening at the First
Presbyterian church. Dr. ". G.
Gratis, of Chicago. will speak
The appointment of the ministers
to the various charges will be made
at session, which will convene Mon
day morning, March 20. Bishop wal
doTf and the six district superinten-
dents VIII hold conferences every
afternoon and evening of this week at
the National hotel to arrange the ap-