Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1916 — Quarterly Conference of M. E. Church Well Attended. [ARTICLE]

Quarterly Conference of M. E. Church Well Attended.

The quarterly conference of Trinity Methodist church Monday evening was largely attended. The district superintendent of the Lafayette district, Rev. W. E. McKenzie, D. D., presided. The report of the pastor, Dr. Paul C. Curnick, showed the church to be in a most flourishing condition. During the year there have been about one hundred new members taken into the church. The congregations have been the largest in the hi story of the church. -J. J. Hunt reported for the Sunday school. C. Ross Dean for the Brotherhood. Mrs. F. H. Hemphill for the Woman’s Home Missionary Society, and Mrs. Wm. Frye for the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society. The Ladies’ Industrial Society made their report through Mrs. Hunt. The Epworth* League report showed the largest attendance of young people that the League has ever had. The quarterly conference was delighted with the administration of the new superintendent, Dr. McKenzie.