Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-08-09
st. Paul Host to
Over 200 MethOdists
From Several States
By Staff Correspondent

St Paul is host, this week, to
over two hundred ministers, lay
men and young church men and
women here to attend the Chicago
District Conference of the Metho-
DR.. S. Fl. Sweeney, of Chicago,
dist Church.
will preach tonight friday, in the
closing session of the Chicago
District Conference and Youth In
stitute meeting in the Camphor
Memorial Methodist Church, st.
Paul, since Tuesday night. Music
will be furnished by the Young
Peoples choir of the Hartzell Me-
mortal Methodist Church of Chi
cago, with rs voices, and the Pill
grim Baptist (St. Paul. Gospel
Choir.
BelOit Minister Spoke
Rev. Hermes Zimmerman, of
Beloit, Wisconsin, delivered the
sermon in the first service of the
Conference Tuesday night. Music
was rendered by the Mt. Olivet
Baptist and Camphor Gospel
Choirs.
Rev. Hermes Zimmerman was
elected secretary of the Confer
ence in the initial business session
on Wednesday morning. He sue
ceeds the Rev. Clarence T. R.
Nelson, pastor of the Camphor
Church, as secretary. The Com
munion Sermon was preached by
DR.. H. NJ. Carroll of Detroit We'd
nesday morning.
Greeted by Mayor
Mrs. Leon Peel, of Minneapolis,
led a discussion on the new
Women's Division of Christian
Service in the Wednesday after
noon session. Mayor John NJ. Nc
Donough, Rev. W. E. Waddlington,
Rev. G. L. Hayden, Superintendent
Peter MacFarlane, Miss Myrtle
Garden and Mr.. Clarence NJ.
Mitchell, Jr., brought greetings of
welcome to the Conference on
Wednesday evening. The Rev.
W. H. MacCallum of Gary made
the response for the Conference.
DR.. B. F. Smith, of Chicago, deliv-
cred an inspiring sermon after the
Welcome addresses. The Senior
and Gospel Choirs of the Camphor
Church sang. DR.. M. L. Harris,
the 33-year-old president of Phi
lander Smith College, of Little
Rock, Arkansas, made the closing
address of the Wednesday evening
meeting.
Mrs. Colby Speaks
Mrs. Ruth Gage Colby, of St.
Paul, well known worker for peace,
delivered an address on "The
Church and World Peace" on
Thursday morning. The All-Star
Musical, featuring the St. James
A. M. E. Church choir and several
Twin City soloists and musicians,
preceded the reception in honor
of DR.. and Mrs. P. T. Gorham, in
the Guild room of the church. DR..
Gorham is the presiding officer of
the Conference. Ministers and
their wives of the Conference and
of the Twin City Ministerial ALI
ance were in the receiving line.
Members of the Youth Institute
are in charge of the afternoon ses-
sion today friday. Mrs. Juanita
Jackson Mitchell is to be the
speaker at the Youth Luncheon at
600 P. M. today friday.
Approximately 200 delegates
from Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan,
Indiana and Minnesota, are in at
tendance at the Conference.
Thanks People of st. Paul
Rev. Nelson, pastor of the Cam
phor Church, expressed the graft
tude of the Camphor Church to the
ministers, members and friends
of the Churches in st. Paul for
their fine cooperation in caring
for the delegates of the Confer
ence in true St. Paul fashion.
Rev. Howard Spoke
Rev. A. r. Howard, Jr., Pastor
of the Border Methodist Church,
Minneapolis, was the speaker at
the special Morning Watch Service
of the Conference Friday morning,
at the Snail Lake Camp of the
Union Gospel Mission.