Evening star., 1935-06-01
METH0D|STS PLAN
CONFERENCE HERE
Foundry Church to Be Host
to Baltimore ParIey
This Week.

The 151st session Of the Balu-
more Annual Conference will convene
In Foundry Methodist Episcopal
Church. of which DR.. Frederick Brown
Harris Is the minister. next Tuesday.
There will be about 800 ministers in
attendance at the sessions, June
to 10, and an equal number Of lay
men for the sessions on Friday and
Saturday. Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes
of the Washington area will preside
and will deliver a devotional ad
dress at noon each day. He will also
preach on conference Sunday morn
Ing. June 9.
The conference will open Tuesday
evening with a memorial service for
the ministers of the conference and
wives of ministers who have died. The
memorial address will be made by DR..
Harris.
Senator elect Rush D. Holt of West
Virginia will make the address at
the luncheon meeting of the Commits
sion on Social Service. in the church
dining hall, Wednesday. At the an
niversary of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society, presided over by
Mrs. Joseph M. M. Gray as president,
wednesday afternoon, DR.. Harold G.
Moulton, president Of the Brookings
Institution, will speak on Isolation
or Cooperation" The ministers will
be addressed at 4 O'Clock by DR.. Ed
win Lewis, professor of theology,
Drew University His subject is THE
Ancient Faith and the Modern
Church"
Asbury Pilgrimage.
In commemoration of the 150th
anniversary Of the laying Of the corner
stone of Cokesbury College by Bishop
Asbufy on Wednesday, the conference
will make pilgrimage to the Asbury
Statue at Sixteenth and Mount Pleas
ant streets at Sis. Then the minis
tiers and the wives Of ministers will
be served a buffet supper at the
American University. as the guests of
Chancellor and Mrs. j. M. M. Gray
and the faculty.
The public meeting at the church
the auspices of the Conference Com
mission on Social Service. Senator
Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota will
speak.
The meeting Thursday at 2:30 will
be under the auspices of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society, Mrs. Joy
Elmer Morgan presiding. The address
will be made by Miss Ruth Esther
Wheaton, editor of the paper Woman's
Home Missions, which is published in
Cincinnati. A tea and reception will
be rendered Miss Wheaton in the
Let's Educational Building at pm.
The conference lecture Thursday
evening will be by DR.. Merton S. Rice,
pastor of the Metropolitan M. E.
Church, Detroit, Mich.
There will be the opening united
session of the ministers and laymen
Friday at 9 am. During the united
sessions, which will be held in the
afternoon Friday and Saturday. dele
gates will be elected to the General
Conference Of the church, to be held
In the Summer of 1896. The united
session Friday evening will be de-
voted to the presentation of the work
OF the various boards of the church,
as follows:
The Board of Foreign Missions, by
Rev. Albert E. Day of Baltimore; the
Board of Home Missions, by Rev.
Francis e. Bayley Of Baltimore; the
Board OF Education, by Rev. John C.
MILAN, conference director of reli-
gious education: the Board of Pen
sions and Relief, by Rev. Edward L.
Watson of Baltimore; the Board of
Hospitals and Homes, by Mrs. Joy
Elmer Morgan of Washington: the
Board of Temperance, BY Deets Pick
EFT Of Washington. The address of
the evening will be delivered by Bish-
op William Fraser Mcdowell,
Young Peoples Council.
The eighth annual young peoples
council will meet in Hamline Church
Friday evening and will continue in
session during Saturday. The ami
versary service will be held in Foun-
dry Church at 8 pm. Saturday, when
DR.. Carl c. Rasmussen. pastor OF the
Luther Place Memorial Church, will
make the address.
The annual meeting of the Confer
ence Brotherhood will be held in the
First Baptist Church, beginning at
Gas am. Saturday. Addresses will
be made by DR.. Joseph NJ M. Gray,
1.-THE Practical Necessity of Brother
hood; Rev. John K. Cartwright of
the Catholic Church of the Immacu-
late Conception on THE Unknown
God" and Louis Gutenberg, on Mans
1nhumanity to Man. The devotions
at noon will be conducted by DR..
Harris Of Foundry Church.
The conservation and ordination
service will be conducted Sunday at 3
o'clock by Bishop Hughes. Bishop
Charles Wesley Burns of the Boston
area will speak at the Sunday night
service.
The conference will close June 10
with the reading Of the appointments
Of the ministers for the next confer