Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1922-09-28
PREACHERS TO
HEAR M'SPARRAN
National Association of
Local Ministers in Ses-
sion at Dover
PRESIDENT DAVIS
MAKES ADDRESS
Special 70 The EvenIng journal.

DOVER. Sept. 2s.-The sixty
fifth annual session Of the Nationa
Association Of Local Preachers Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
NJ. E. Church with 25 delegates
present. A larger number was pres
ent at today's sessions.
Last nights services opened with
song service conducted by the Rev
Z. H. Bookmyer. followed with the
administration of the Holy Commun-
ion. in charge OF the Rev. G. w
Engle.
The address OF welcome and re-
Spouse was deferred until this
mornings session. The Rev. J. w.
Colona, d. D., pastor OF Wesley
Church, welcomed the delegates and
the Rev. A. W. Davis, president of
the association responded with his
annual address.
The sermon last evening was
preached by the Rev. Charles ID.
williams. of Philadelphia. Follow
ing the sermon the report of the en-
tertainment committee was heard
and homes assigned TO the visiting
delegates.
Today's session was taken up
largely with the business of the as
sociation that Of election and admis-
sion OF active members, reception to
branch delegates. calling roll of
members who have died during the
year also roll OF living active MEM
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mittees and reports from officers and
committees.
Mayor Magee. OF Dover. welcomed
the delegates on behalf Of Dover.
AT this afternoons session the
Rev. Miss Rietta Emerson. OF Will
mington. gave an address. To-
nights services will be in charge Of
the Rev. r. w Carpenter. with the
sermon scheduled 70 be preached by
the Rev. f. NJ. Dilks, followed by
evangelistic service.
Governor Denney Is scheduled 10
address the preachers tomorrow af-
ternoon and tomorrow evening. John
A. McSparran. of Furniss, Pa. Dem
ocratic nominee for Governor of
Pennsylvania, is scheduled to make
an address Saturday morning at III
O'Clock. Bishop w. f. Mcdowell,
will address the conference. Satur-
day afternoon the ministers will
make a trip TO Barratts Chapel
where an historical address will be
delivered in the chapel by the Rev.
A. w. Davis.
President Davis in the course OF
his annual address said;
Long have I waited for this day.
When babe you good bye al Har-
risburg. Pa. one year ago, little did
I think I would greet you at the
capital of my home state.
small indeed are we, when COM
pared with the great Common
wealths from which many OF you |
have come. History has dealt kind /
~ with US. however, and we proudly /
boast OF Delaware. the First State 4
of the Union. When the great is
sue of the independence OF the
Colonies was at stake 1t was from
this place that Caesar Rodney. the
delegate, rose from his sick bed and
at daybreak began his famous ride
TO the seat OF the Continental AS
rtHAtll " tdcA lit ktIAu4Hk NOlt IOI
independence. invite you TO stop
over in Wilmington as you return
home and see Rodney Square. where
an equestrian statue viii commem-
crate this epoch in our national his
tory.
AT Cooch's Bridge we have I'M
veiled a tablet that marks the spot
where the Stars and Stripes were
FIRST unfurled in battle.
when William Mckinley, that
prince OF Methodist local preachers.
selected the Peace Commissioners TO
settle the Spanish-Amerioan war, he
called for Delaware's honored states
man and Jurist. Honorable George
Gray.
when Theodore Roosevelt select
ID his arbiters to settle the great
coal strike in 1902, he selected this
llustrious son OF Delaware as chair
nan Of that commission And the
Dem ocratic party never made
,reater mistake than It did In 1908
When It turned from this honored
fatesman along the Brandywine to
he peerless leader along the Platte. I
When President Harding was
ooking for a lawyer OF international I
equation TO represent our govern
nent in the foreign courts OF the !
vorld, he selected Delaware's Illus
rious son. John Bassett Moore.
when civic virtue and moral }
righteousness were at stake in our l
Government at Washing
on. ID. C.. in the enactment of the I
Eighteenth Amendment TO the Con- Q
titution. Delaware's noble sons
alisbury and Wolcott--were count G
d for Cod and Home and Native '
and. a
When the State legislatures be- I
AN to ratify that amendment in I
heir regular sessions and could not q
muster. the required number, in the !
ace OF great opposition our bonor