Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1914 — CONFERENCE-DATE HAS BEEN SETTLED [ARTICLE]

CONFERENCE-DATE HAS BEEN SETTLED

Methodist Ministers Will Convene at Trinity Church On September Twenty-Ninth. Lafayette Journal. Trinity church will entertain the annual session of the Northwest Indiana M. E. conference this year. The session will open on September 29 to close on October 5. Bishop William F. McDowell, of Chicago, will preside. When the conference met at Trinity church in 1894, Bishop McDowell was secretary of one of the boards and delivered an address. Fears are expressed that the hotels of the city will not be able to furnish lodging for all the ministers and laymen who will attend the eonference, and the Methodists ’of Lafayette and West Lafayette will be asked to throw open their homes for the entertainment of the visitors. The conference will hold its business sessions in the morning and the different departments of church work will be given the afternoons and evenings. The cause of the Sunday School, the Home and Foreign missions, the Epworth League, the Freedmen and the Preachers’ Aid society will have eloquent advocates. There are five districts in the conference and all will be well represented. The assignment foT the next year will be the most important work of Bishop McDowell and these assignments will be read the last day of the conference.