The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-05-04
 CONFERENCE
 MEETS HERE
Visiting Pastor to Occupy PuIpifs Sunday : Pro-
 gram AnnounCments :.

High officials in the Methodist denomination are announced as preachers Sunday in several Chan mel area pulpits. They have been in Juneau since Thursday in con- nection with the annual session of the Alaska mission of the Methodist lChurch.
 Bishop Bruce R. Baxter of Port land, general superintendent of Methodist work in Alaska and three Pacific Northwest states, will breach the conference sermon at II a. m. in the Methodist church. At the same hour, Dr. Earl R. Brown of New York City, execu- tive secretary of Methodist home missions, will occupy the pulpit of the Northern Light Presbyterian church
 Two special services are announc- ed for 10 a. m. Sunday. Dr. Will jam Vernon Middleton of Philadel- phia, executive secretary of Meth odist church extension, will preach at that early hour in the Method ist church at Douglas. He will be accompanied there by the Rev. Robert s. Treat, pastor of both the Juneau and Douglas churches. At this sane hour the Juneau Meth lodist Sunday School will hear Miss Bertha McGhee, missionary at Hope land Moose Pass.
 At I p. m, Sunday, Bishop Bax- ter will address the Methodist Youth Fellowship. This will be an open meeting to all Channel area youth.
 Unusual Feuture
 i At D. m. the sermon will be by Dr. Brown. An unusual feature will be the ordination of Rev. Mer- lin Day from Indiana, enroute to the pastorate of the Federated Church at None. This ordination will be conducted by Bishop Baxter, assisted by the visiting dignitaries and Rev G. Edward Knight, of Anchorage, superintendent of the Alaska mission. Insofar as avail able records indicate, this will be the first time Methodist ordina- tion has been conducted in Alaska.
 Bouquet Held
 Friday night the local church held a banquet honoring Bishop Baxter and the other guests from Outside. Don c. Foster, general l superintendent of the Alaska Ma tive service, was toastmaster.
 Addresses of welcome were giv- ] en by Gov Ernest Gruening and i Mayor Waino Hendrickson. They were accompanied by their wives ] The welcome address for the Ju- neau Ministerial Association was by the Rev. Robert Soboleff, pas tor of the Memorial Presbyterian church.
 All the visiting ministers and missionaries present from through out Alaska were introduced. Short talks were made by Dr. Brown, Dr. Middleton, Miss Miriam V. Ristine of New York, executive secretary, bureau of social welfare of the Methodist Woman's Division of So- cial Service; and Ernest w. Peter son of Portland, Ore, an associate editor of the Oregon Journal. Bishop Baxter gave the main ad- dress.
 Following the banquet, Gov and Mrs Crushing invited Bishop Bax- ter and otEer distinguished guests from the Outside, to be their guests for a motor ride to Mendenhall Glacier and Aux Lake. The visitors were thrilled with the marvellous scenery This was the first time the New Workers ever experienced !, a glacier closeup.
 f TonigatS Program,
 Tonight's conference program features an address by Miss Ris- tine, who is spending three weeks in Alaska, studying social welfare work She is to inspect the Meth odist mission at Nome and the work of the Jesse Lee Home at Seward. This afternoon, the ~Wo- mans Society held their Territor- ial business session, with Mrs. Gertrude E. Knight presiding.
 MT. Peterson is scheduled to leave this afternoon via Alaska Airlines for an air tour to Anchorage, Sew ard and Fairbanks. He is presi-
 dent of the Methodist Western Jurisdictional Council, which super Ivises certain phases of Methodist ] work in Alaska, Hawaii and 1o
 western states. He is here to make ; a first hand study of Methodist
 responsibility in Alaska during the immediate postwar period, and tc
 obtain data for projecting To- year religious development program
 within the Territory