Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1917 — M. E. Conference Will Open In Valparaiso Next Week. [ARTICLE]

M. E. Conference Will Open In Valparaiso Next Week.

The Northern Indiana Conference of the M. E. church will meet next Monday in Valparaiso, to continue its sessions until the following Monday. This is the meeting at which all assignments for the year are made for all pulpits in this section of Indiana. Rev. Thomas Nicholson, of Chicago, will be the bishop, and Rev. Ai H. Lawrence, of Winamac, the secretary of the conference. It has four districts—Crawfordsville, Greencastle, Lafayette and South Bend; 186 preaching charges and 195 members. Its average pastoral payment last year was $1,156, though St. Paul’s Memorial church of South Bend, paid $4,000 to its pastor. Rev. A. C. Knudson, of Boston, will give a series of addresses on Old Testiment characters. The AntiSaloon League meets on Thursday afternoon.