Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-05
METHQD|STS VOTE
| ON LAYMEN TODAY
/
Poll to Decide Position on
i Admission to National
Conventions.

The position OF the Methodists of
Washington, Virginia and Maryland
concerning the question of the admis-
sion of laymen to the national conven-
| tions of the church was to be deter
mined today by the lay electoral con-
ference OF the Baltimore Annual Com
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in session at the Foundry
Church, Sixteenth and Church streets.
Whether or not laymen will be adj
United will be decided by q poll Of the
results of the vote Of the hundred or
more lay electoral conferences in the
United States, the matter having been
, handed down to the actual members Of
the church by the general convention
ut its last session.
/ The lay conference for this district
Is in session only one day. being held
F., In conjunction with the 145th meeting
j of the Baltimore Annual Conference
. here all week.
Today the annual conference Is in
closed executive session considering the
admission to the ministry of candidates,
who, ii their applications are accepted,
will be ordained at the Foundry Church
Sunday.
Rural Pastors Convene.
Bishop Herbert WEIGH, who is pre-
siding, made his daily devotional ad-
dress preceding luncheon. At 2:45
O'Clock this afternoon the Rural Pas
tors Association of the annual confer
ence convened and were to be addressed
by William Knowles Cooper. general
secretary of the Y. M. G. A. Mr.. Cooper
was to speak on Men and the Church. =
An inspirational mass meeting in
the interest of prohibition and law en-
forcement is to be held tonight, and
DR.. Clarence True Wilson,, secretary of
the Board of Temperance, Prohibition
and Public Morals, and DR.. Ernest H.
Cherrington of the Anti-Saloon League
will speak
: Prohibition was also the keynote at
yesterday afternoons session of the
Laymen's Association of the conference
George H. Crabbe, superintendent OF
the Anti-Saloon League of Maryland,
condemned Gov. Richie of Maryland
for his stand on prohibition. calling on
members of the association to make
every effort to elect in 1880 dry
governor and dry Legislature"
Dry Diplomats Urged.
The association passed a. resolution
requesting the President and United
States Government to attempt to have
diplomats appointed by foreign coun-
tries who will be favorable to the
eighteenth amendment and who will
''observe the laws of the United States"
Other speakers yesterday afternoon
included Rev. William w. Davis, secre-
tary of the Lords Day Alliance; DR.. j.
c. Galpin of the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics of the Department Of Agri-
culture, and Lucius C. Clarke, chan
cellor Of American University.
Offlcers of the association elected yes
terday are J. Ford Laise, Bunker Hill,
Md, president; ]. l.. huber, $500 On
tario road, secretary; Luther L. Derrick.
3701 Grant road, treasurer, and the
following vice presidents: C. C. Duke,
Baltimore; w. Harry Jones, Baltimore;
Joseph Lane, Baltimore; e. F. Dixon.
Cumberland, and Robert c. Tracy, the
Jefferson apartments
The new executive committee in
cludes Harry L. Price, Baltimore; F. v.
Coggins, Baltimore: DR.. George C.
Shannon. Baltimore: E. E. Bradley,
Hagerstown. and William E. Springer,
Chevy Chase, Md.