Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — MEETING [ARTICLE]

MEETING

Of the Indiana Free-Will Baptists To be Held Here Sept. 22 to 26, Inclusive. An Important Gathering of Religious Workers. Tlie tenth annual session of th© Indiana Free Will Baptist Association will be held at Rensselaer beginning next Wednesday evening Sept, 22nd and continuing until the following Sunday evening. In connection with the Association meeting is also held the church’s annual Ministers’ and Laymen’s Conference; the Women’s Missionary Society and the A. C. F. Society. The latter being the young people’s society, in that denomination. This meeting is the most important yearly event in the church, and always brings 20b or more people together, frorii all parts of the state. Extensive programs of the exercises of all the different sections of the meeting have been printed and circulated. The Ministers’ and Laymen’® Conference, will occupy Wednesday evening and the morning and afternoon sessions of ThursdayThe Association program, proper, occupies the session of Thursday evening, and most of the morning; and afternoon sessions of Friday and Saturday. The A- C. F. Society will execute programs Friday evening and Sunday afternoon. The Women’s Missionary Society will render their program on Saturday evening,

All the leading ministers of the denomination in the state are expected to be present and to take part in the exercises and also several from outside points. Dr. A. T, Sally D. D„ of Hillsdale, College, Mich., and one of the very foremost orators and teachers in the church will speak Thursday forenoon, on the subject of the ‘‘Relation of the Church to Social and Political Reforms,” and on Saturday forenoon he will deliver a sermon. D. B. Reed, D. D., also of Hillsdale'College and a great leader in the church will deliver an address Thursday afternoon on the subject ‘ From whence shall a minister derive the material for his sermons? Rev. M. C. Miner, of Evansville, Wisconsin, once the pastor of the church at Rensselaer and afterwards a missionary to some Asiatic countries, will speak on the subject of the “Relation of Home to the i Foreign Mission Field.” Rev. H. M. Ford, of Hillsdale, general secretary of the entire denomination, is another of the ■great men of the church, who have ' places on the program. Mrs. Estella R. Fullmer, the ; leading female preacher of this state,“in this denomination, is also assigned a prominent part in the . various exercises. .