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Methodist Episcopal Church..
Minutes of the ^4orth Indiana
Annual Conference of the
Methodist Eoisconal Church
MINUTES
OF THE
North Indiana Annual
Conference
OF THE
MethoclisL^i:^iscopaI Church
Seventy-fifth Session held at Warsaw, Indiana,
April 3-8, 1918
Published by the Secretary
By order of the Conference as the Official Journal
Allen County F
900 Webster S..
fO Box 2270 , ,
I V I C? fort Wayne. IN 468|o|l
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CINCINNATI:
THE METHODIST BOOK CONCERN PRESS
7t 9A21 5
CONTENTS.
I. Conference Chronological Roll. . . 225
II. Officers of the Conference 228
III. Officers of Conference Societies. 229
(a) Conference Boards 229, 230
Board of Church Location 229
Board of Control, Deaconess
Work 229
Board of Education 229
Board of Examiners 229
Board of Finance 229
Board of Foreign Missions .... 230
' Board of Home Missions and
Church Extension 230
Board of Stewards 230
Board of Sunday Schools 230
(b) Officers of Conference Organi-
zations 220, 231
Conference Association Preach-
ers' Wives, Widows, etc.... 230
Conference Temperance Soci-
ety 230
Preachers' Aid Society 230
Veterans of the Cross Fellow-
ship 230
Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society Officers 230
Woman's Home Missionary So-
ciety Officers 231
IV. Conference Committee 232, 233
(a) Standing Committees 232
(b) Special Committees 232, 233
(c) Assignments for Next Session 233
(d) Special Appointments and Elec-
tions 233
V. Disciplinary Questions 234-238
VI. Appointments 239-243
VII. Daily Proceedings 244-268
Memorial Service 263
Ordination Service 263
VIII. Reports 269-318
(a) District Superintendents. . .269-294
(b) Standing Committees and
Boards 294-305
Aggressive Evangelism .... 294
American Bible Society 295
Boai-d of Control, Deaconess
Work 296
Church Literature 296
Education 296
F'oreign Missions 298
Freedmen's Aid Society .... 298
Hospital 299
Memorial Home 300
Parsonage and Furniture.. 300
Social and Moral Questions. 300
State of the Country 301
Sunday Schools 302
Sustentation 302
Temperance 302-304
Woman's Foreign Mission-
ary Society 304
Woman's Work in the
Church 305
(c) Special Committees 305-311
Cabinet Resolutions 305
Committee on Resolutions.... 305
Commission on Rural Church. 306
District Conference Journals. 306
Educational Commission . . . 306-308
In Service of Our Country 308
Local Church Resolutions 308
Preachers' Aid Society 309
Unmarked Graves 309
Wesley Foundation 310
(d) Treasurers 311-315
Conference Treasurer's Sum-
mary 311
Board of Stewards 312
Conference Corporation 313
Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society 314
Woman's Home Missionary
Society 314
(e) Miscellaneous 315-318
Accounts of Secretary 315
Secretary Preachers' Aid 315
Preachers' Aid 316
Sustentation 317, 318
IX. Plan of Conference Examina-
tions 319,. 320
X- Memoirs 321-332
Ervin, Mrs. Elizabeth M 331
Ervin, J. E 327
Lacy, Mrs. Melissa E 327
Lamport, Mrs. Jennie B 325
Paschall, J. W 321
Patterson, A. M 329
Peck, Mrs. Sarah 323
Roahrig, Mrs. Emma A 324
Singer, I. W 325
Smith, Mrs. Lavinah 322
Stephens, Mrs. Elizabeth B... 326
Stephens, P. S 332
Stewart, W. S 330
Welch, J. W 321
XI. Roll of the Dead 333-336
(a) Members of the Conference 333-335
(b) Widows of Deceased Members 336
XII. Sessions of Conference 337
XIII. Miscellaneous 338-362
(a) Alphabetical Roll 338-344
Memoranda Blanks 345, 346
(b) Amended Const. P. A. Soc. 347-350
(c) Apportionm. of Benevolences 351
(d) List of Bishops 352, 353
(e) General Conf . Delegates 354
(f) Laymen's Association 355
(g) List of Local Preachers 358
(h) Wesley Foundation 360
XIV. Historical 363-382
Appointment Record 363-382
XV. Statistical Tables 383-418
(a) Statistician's Report 383-398
(b) Treasurer's Report 399-413
(c) Circuit Salary 414-418
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Presiding Bishop. Chicago, Illinois.
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CONFERE^XE SECRETARY. ReDKEY, INDIANA.
(I) Cfjronological 3^aU of tfje i^ortl) Snbiana
Conference.
The Non-Effectives are in Italics.
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MEMBERS. i
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MEMBERS. 1
NO.
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1
1859
C. E. Disbro.
50
1885
1
J. A. Beatty. '
99
1893
H. Lacy.
2
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E. F. Hasty.
51
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L. M. Krider. !
100
"
D. S. Jones.
3
"
W. E. McCarty.
52
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W. W. Brown.
101
"
M. Pell.
4
1867
S. C. Miller.
53
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E. Davis.
102
"
D. T. Stephenson
5
"
W. H. Peirce.
54
1886
T. F. Freeh.
103
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J. T. Bean.
6
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W. Peck.
55
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A. L. Lamport.
104
"
J. M. B. Reeves.
7
1868
T. H. C. Beall.
56
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L. Reeves. i
105
1894
R. L. Semans.
8
"
C. H. Wilkinson.
57
"
L. A. Sevits.
106
"
W. B. Freeland.
9
1869
F. A. Robinson.
58
1887
B. S. HoUopeter.
107
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T. J. Johnson.
10
"
W. F. Walker.
59
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W. E. Murray.
108
"
E. J. Magor.
U
1870
G. H. Hill.
60
II
S. Powell.
109
"
F. J. Speckien.
12
E. L. Semans.
61
"
J. 0. Bills.
110
1895
S. F. Harter.
13
1871
A. J. Carey.
62
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J. M. Haines.
111
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W. A. Griest.
14
"
J. V. Terflinger.
63
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A. S. Preston. '
112
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R. J. Wade.
15
1872
G. B. Work.
64
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A. W. Lowther
113
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J. E. Ferris.
16
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R. C. Jones.
65
II
H. C. Harman.
114
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E. L. Jones.
17
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J. W. McDaniel.
66
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J. W. Potter.
115
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J. L. Murr.
18
1873
R. H. Smith.
67
1888
C. M. HoUopeter.
116
1896
E. M. Foster.
19
1874
J. B. Cook.
68
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D. V. Williams.
117
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A. J. Duryee.
20
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J. M. Rush.
69
II
F. M. Lacy.
118
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J. 0. Campbell.
21
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J. S. Cain.
70
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M. A. Harlan.
119
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L R. Godwin.
22
1875
C. H. Brown.
■ 71
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D. H. Guild.
120
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D. Wells.
23
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H. A. Ewell.
72
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J. P. Chamness.
121
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E. E. Trippeer.
24
1876
J. K. Walts.
73
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/. F. Bailey.
122
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0. A. Trabue.
25
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A. S. Wooton.
74
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I. E. Price.
123
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E. Naftzger.
26
"
J. W. Cain.
75
1889
U. S. A. Bridge. 1
124
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G. R. Grose.
27
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J. A Ruley.
76
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A. G. Neal. i
125
1897
L. P. Pfeifer.
28
1877
B. Sawyer.
77
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J. H. McNarv.
126
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M. L. Hardingham.
29
1878
R. S. Reed.
78
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J. L. Gillard.
127
1898
F. P. Morris.
30
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J. T. Fettro.
79
1890
J. C. White.
128
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F. F. Thornburg.
31
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W. D. Parr.
80
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A. A. Turner.
129
"
B. F. Hornaday.
32
1879
L. J. Naftzger.
81
"
J. W. Oborn.
130
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L. A. Swisher.
33
"
T. M. Guild.
82
"
J. F. Radcliffe.
131
1899
W. T. Arnold.
34
1880
C. E. White.
83
"
J. J. Fred.
132
"
J. H. Runkle.
35
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C. E. Line.
84
"
J. A. Patterson.
133
"
G. F. Osbun.
36
"
M. Swadener.
85
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5. Billheimer.
134
"
J. H. Palmer.
37
1881
C. U. Wade.
86
"
E. H. Taylor.
135
1900
C. M. Hobbs.
38
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M. F. Stright.
87
1891
J. Z. Barrett.
136
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E. A. Bunner.
39
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F. G. Browne.
88
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C. Tinkham.
137
"
E.E. Wright.
40
"
J. E. Williams.
89
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M. C. Pittenger.
138
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E. C. Dunn.
41
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S. C. Norris.
90
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A. L. Weaver.
139
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H. B. Gough.
42
1882
C. H. Murray.
91
II
G. H. Myers.
140
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R. T. Laslie.
43
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F. M. Stone.
92
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J W. Walters. |
141
1901
E. E. Lutes.
44
II
J. C. Murray.
93
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J. Phillips.
142
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A. Gates.
45
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0. V. L. Harbour.
94
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J. F. Porter.
143
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W. M. HoUopeter.
46
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J. W. Bowen.
95
1892
E. B. Westhafer.
144
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F. A. Hall.
47
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S. Light.
96
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J. W. Tillman.
145
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H. L. Liddle.
48
1883
M. S. Marble.
97
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F. M. Kemper.
146
"
A. H. Hirsch.
49
M. R. Peirce.
98
1893
W. W. Martin.
147
V. B. Hargitt.
225
226
North Indiana Conference
[1918
148 1902
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152 1903
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MBMBI2KS.
P. Polhcmus.
li. E. Parker.
C H. Smith.
J. J. Fischer.
A. II. H.ukus.
T. M. Mill.
P. H. Walter.
\V. K. Hamilton.
F. B. Kishtr.
J. C. Ciraham.
ir. .\[. Amos.
W. C. Asay.
G. W. Martin.
I. C. VVoodrulT.
J. W. Zcrbe.
//. E. McFarlane
G. v.. Hughes.
I. K. Wv.int.
M. C\ Wright.
R. Burns.
C. B. Dougherty.
F. P. Jolinson.
H. Boase.
C. B. Sweeney
B. Kendall.
M. B. Graham.
C. J. Everson.
C. A. Hile.
H. L. Overdeer.
R. I. Black.
H. W. Park.
C. B. Croxall.
CM. Vawter.
C. A. Hunt.
R. C. Ballard.
C. L. De Bow.
P. E. Green wait.
E. J. Maupin.
W. E. Loveless.
M. F.. Barrett.
J. F. Lutey.
H. E. Forbes.
F. A. Le Master.
H. S. Nickerson.
S. B. Stookey.
G. F. Hubbartt.
W. W. Sweet.
J. W. Gruber.
Frank S. Burns.
L. G. Carnes.
NO., S3
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198
1907
199
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231
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232
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233
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234
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235
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i 237
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: 238
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239
1910
240
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' 241
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242
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! 243
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244
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245
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246
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247
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MEMBERS.
J. S. Newcombe.
EC. Fisher.
B. E. Jones.
E. S. Riley.
G. K. Garrison.
A. D. Burkett.
O. B. Yo ng.
U. S. Hartley.
L. H. Ice.
.\. F. Ho^an.
R. W. Stoakes.
D. A. J. Brown.
W. E. Pittenger.
A. Singer.
0. T. Martin.
W. E. McPheeters
1. O. Powell.
j. R Stelle.
L. Myers.
W. B. Hardy
E. E. Dc Witt.
C. G. Yeomans.
W. H. Harrison.
W. W. Wiant.
H. A. Homer.
E. Dickson.
L. W. Kemper.
R A. Morrison.
M . E. Shattuck.
R. W. Rogers.
S. I. Zechiel.
W. E. Hogaa.
R. S. Shaw.
H. C. Powell.
C. W. Anderson.
J.I. Jones.
J. C. Wengatz.
E. B. Megenity.
M. O. Lester.
R. E. Zeigler.
W. B. Morgan.
J. C. Valentine.
A. E. Lcese.
C. W. Chadwick.
L. Huddleston.
L. G. Jacobs.
E. C. Hallman.
W. T. Daly.
E. M. Dunbar.
J. B. O'Connor.
1
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1
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248
1910
249
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250
251
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252
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253
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254
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255
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256
1911
257
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258
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259
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260
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261
11
262
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263
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264
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265
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266
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267
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268
1912
269
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270
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271
II
272
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273
1913i
274
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275
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276
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277
1914
278
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279
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280
II
281
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282
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283
1915
284
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285
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286
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287
1916
288
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289
1917
290
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291
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292
1918
293
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294
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295
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296
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MEMBERS.
K. H. Carlson.
B. M. Beckdolt.
A. C. Hoover.
C. B. Thomas.
Joseph Grimes.
J. F. Blocker.
C. E. Smith.
Thomas Davies.
C. A. Cloud.
F. S. Hickman.
C. A. Byrt.
E. J. Wickersham.
F. E. Friblcy.
J. F. Edwards.
K. R. Thompson.
J. O. Hochstedler.
L. F. Ulmer.
F. A. Shipley.
R. V. Johnson.
F. S. Young.
F. H. Cremean.
C. W. Montgomery
J. H. Richardson.
A. C. Wischmeier.
E. D." Imler.
E. H. Kennedy.
C. E. Bash.
D. C. Beatty.
R. H. Wehrly.
V. L. Clear.
T. S. Haddock.
A. F. White.
J. M. Jordan.
Edgar Moore.
V. C. Rogers.
A. K. Love.
R. R; Detweiler.
J. S. Phillips.
L. C. McFarlin.
W. O. Power.
G. E. Whitten.
F. W. Launer.
P. B. Leach.
J. W. Hanger.
W. V. Meredith.
N. E. Smith. -
A. E. Scottin.
C. B. Tuttle.
N. A. Gilliland.
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Chronological Roll
227
PROBATIONERS.
NO.
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MEMBERS.
NO.
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MEMBERS.
NO.
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MEMBERS.
1
1912
C. L. Schwartz.
16
1917
C. A. McPheeters.
31
1918
J. B. Sparling.
2
1914
M. M. Thornburg.
i 17
B. D. Nysewander.
32
R. C. Plank.
3
"
A. J. Armstrong.
18
G. A. Snider.
33
E. E. Franklin.
4
1915
L. W. Stone.
19
A. P. Teter.
34
J. F. Stephenson.
5
"
F. J. Robins.
20
C. F. Jones.
35
C. G. Cook.
6
" •
L. 0. Winslow.
21
A. R. Sanks.
36
E. G. Giggy.
7
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W. Roahrig.
22
H. R. Carson.
37
V. E. Stoner.
8
"
C.S. Miller.
23
H. A. Wann.
38
D. J. Imler.
9
"
J. Pfeiffer.
24
F. R. Hill.
39
J. M. Stewart.
10
"
G. N. Callaway.
25
J. L. W.Uiams.
40
P. B. Smith.
11
1916
W. H. Mena i?h.
1 26
J. A. Land.
41
S. L. Yoder.
12
"
J. A. Morrison.
1 27
E. L. Gates.
42
B. R. Pogue.
13
"
E. Antle.
28
H. E. Cos.
43
L. D. Hershberger.
14
"
R. S. Jones.
29
J. H. Royer.
44
R. R. Henderson.
15
11
B. H. Franklin.
33
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F. Chelan.
(II) ©ffitcrsi of tlje Conference.
PRESIDENT.
TIIDMAS NICHOLSON. D.D., LL.D., .
58 E. Washington Street, Chicago, Ilhnois
SECRETARY.
DORIK V. WILLIAMS Redkey, Indiana
ASSISTANT SECRETARY.
William A. Griest.
STATISTICIAN.
JOHN C. WHITE Marion, Indiana
ASSISTANT STATISTICIANS.
Peter H. Walter, Edward E. DeWitt, Leroy W. Kemper, Jesse O. Hoch-
stedler, Jesse M. Jordan, Valorous L. Clear, Merrill O. Lester.
TREASURER.
D.'WID S. JONES Marion, Indiana
ASSISTANT TREASURERS.
Reuben R. Detweiler, Charles B. Dougherty, George F. Hubbartt, Charles B.
Croxall, Fremont E. Fribley, George E. Garrison, Frederick H.
Cremean, Bert E. Jones, Maurice E. Barrett.
REGISTRAR.
U. S. A. BRIDGE Fort Wayne, Indiana
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS.
W. W. Martin, Fort Wayne District Fort Wayne, Indiana
Raymond J. Wade, Goshen District Elkhart, Indiana
B. S. Hollopeler, Logansport District Kokomo, Indiana
James A. Beatty, Muncie District Muncie, Indiana
Somcrville Light, Richmond District Richmond, Indiana
M. S. Marble, Wabash District Marion, Indiana
CONFERENCE CORPORATION AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
L. J. Naftzger, President. T. M. Guild, Vice-President.
D. V. W^illiams, Secretary. C. U. Wade, Treasurer.
N. B. — This Conference is legally incorporated, and can receive devises
and legacies for any benevolent object, such as the Preachers' Aid Society,
DePauw University, Missions, Education in the South, etc. Will our pastors
remember it and direct attention to it?
228
(Ill) (Btlittv9i of Conference ^otietieg.
(a) CONFERENCE BOARDS.
BOARD OF CHURCH LOCATION.
Fort Wayne District.— W. W. Martin, Charles Tinkham, W. T. Arnold,
A. A. Berry, J. W. Sale.
Goshen District. — R. J. Wade, H. C. Harman, A. L. Lamport, E. Star-
buck, Francis Bowser.
Logansport District. — B. S. Hollopeter, A. W. Lowther, J. F". Radcliffe,
J. E. F'ulwider, Fred S. Trees.
Muncie District.— J. A. Beatty, D. T. Stephenson, W. W. Brown, C. H.
Neff, Charles A. Wood.
Richmond District. — S. Light, O. A. Trabue, R. C. Jones, H. M. Kramer'
C. Burt Orr.
Wabash District.— M. S. Marble, A. C. Wischmeier, J. L. Gillard, B. A.
Helm, R. O. Bixby.
BOARD OF CONTROL OF DEACONESS WORK.
First Year.- H. Boase, F. P. Johnson, Mrs. J. W. Vail.
Second Year. — F. F. Thornburg, A. L. Weaver, Mrs. A. J. Gernhart.
Third Year. — J. A. Patterson, J. F. Lutey, Mrs. L. H. Bunyan.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
George R. Grose, Chairman; M. C. Wright, Secretary; C. H. Smith,
H. L. Overdeer, W. B. Freeland.
Laymen. — F. B. Wilkinson, Logansport; Frank Walker, Anderson;.
A. E. Carroll, Knightstown; P. A. Allen, Bluffton; O. J. Neighbor, Wabash;
C. F. Miller, Nappanee.
BOARD OF EXAMINERS.
W. B. Freeland, Chairman; U. S. A. Bridge, Registrar; C. L. DeBow,
Secretary; Benjamin Kendall, W. T. Arnold, G. F. Hubbartt, C. G. Yeomans,
H. L. Overdeer, F. A. Hall, J. L. Gillard, Arthur Gates, R. L. Semans.
BOARD OF FINANCE.
Fort Wayne District. — W. W. Martin, L. W. Kemper, A. G. Neal.
Laymen. — A. B. Cline, Dr. M. E. Klingler.
Goshen District.— R. J. Wade, D. H. Guild, F. A. LeMaster.
Laymen. — J. D. Coppes, D. C. TurnbuU.
Logansport District. — B. S. Hollopeter, E. E. Trippeer, Benjamin Kendall.
Laymen. — C. W. Beecher, G. E. Meek.
Munice District. — J. A. Beatty, Sherman Powell, J. W. Potter.
Laymen.— D. O. Skillen, R. S. Truitt.
Richmond District. — S. Light, R. L. Semans, W. W. Wiant.
Laymen. — Horace Kramer, Dr. J. F. Cofield.
Wabash District.— M. S. Marble, L. A. Swisher, T. M. Guild.
Laymen. — Arthur Jay, M. B. Stultz.
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BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.
DlfUlctSupu. Missionary Sccrcuriea. Ep. L.ag. Presf s. ^ ^aymen.
W. W. Martin. F. A. Hall, J- Olinger. John Va.l.
R I Wa.lc C. L. DcBow. R. R- Detweiler. C. L. Munger.
B.' S. Hoilo,K-ter. C. H. Smith. 0. T. Martin. C. L D.Uey.
J \ Beaitv P.E.Grecnwalt. J.H.Walker. O. N. Cranor.
S Light ■ H. L. Overdeer. Mrs. A. H. Backus. O. J. Current.
M.S. Marble. J. T. Bean. J. J. Fischer. E. E. Youse.
BOARD OF HOME MISSIONS AND CHURCH EXTENSION.
District SuiKTiiitendents, and E. O. Ebbinghouse, Arthur Jay, J. C.
Schadc.
BOARD OF STEWARDS.
A. G. Neal (1919), J. C. Graham (1919), L. M. Krider (192Uj, Charles
Tinkham (1920), David Wells (1921), W. E. Hamilton (1921).
BOARD OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
District Superintendents, and W. C. Asay, Arthur Gates, T. M. Guild,
1.. J. Naftzgcr.
(b) OFFICERS OF CONFERENCE ORGANIZATIONS.
Conference Association of Preachers' Wives, Widows, and Daughters.^
President, Mrs. H. C. Harman, Goshen; Vice-Presidents, wives of the Dis-
trict Superintendents; Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. J. B. O'Connor, Centerville.
Conference Temperance Society. — President, J. A. Patterson; Vice-
President, F. P. Morris; Secretary, Herbert Boase.
Preachers' Aid Society. — President, Leslie J. Naftzger; Vice-President,
B. S. Hollopeter; Secretary, C. U. Wade; Treasurer, B. F. Schroyer; General
Secretary, R. A. Morrison; Managers, Hardin Rhoades, Benjamin Glasscock,
B. F. Schroyer, Edward E. Trippeer, William T. Janney, C. U. Wade, R. A.
Morrison, L. J. Naftzger, A. B. Cline, and the District Superintendents.
Veterans of the Cross Fellowship. — President, C. H. Brown, Kokomo;
Vice-President, S. C. Norris, Culver; .Secretary-Treasurer, M. F. Stright,
Ashley. All retired members of the Conference, their wives, and widows of
deceased members of this Conference are members. Meets the third day
of session, 1919.
W. F. M. S. CONFERENCE OFFICERS.
Secretary. — Mrs. Florence C. Binford, Greenfield.
Treasurer. — Mrs. O. E. Mohlcr, 1133 Elmwood Avenue, Fort Wayne.
Secretary Special Work.— Mrs. A. B. Cline, Bluffton.
Superintendent Young People's Work. — Mrs. A. H. Backus, Dunkirk.
Superintendent Children's Work. — Mrs. G. W. Bucklin, Muncie.
Vice-Presidents. — Mrs. L. E. Turner, Richmond, Ind.; Mrs. W. R.
Working, Anderson, Ind.
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W. H. M. S. CONFERENCE OFFICERS.
President Emeritus.— Mrs. L. H. Bunyan, Richmond.
President.— Mrs. J. C. White, Marion.
Honorary Vice-President.— Mrs. J. C. Murray, San Juan, Porto Rico.
Vice-Presidents.— Mrs. E. L. Daniel, Decatur, and Mrs. A. B. Cline
Blufifton.
Recording Secretary.- Miss Ora Conrad, Richmond.
Corresponding Secretary.— Miss 011a G. Davis, Middletown.
Treasurer. — Mrs. J. W. Vail, Decatur.
I
IV) Conference Committeesi-
(a) STANDING COMMITTEES.
Aggressive Evangelism.-D. H. Guild, J. O. Powell, J. F. Edwards,
C. G. Ycomans, G. M. Vawter, R. G. Ballard.
American Bible Society.-A. C. Wischmeier, J. G. Valentine, H. G.
Powell, W. T. Daly, E. J. Wickersham, G. B. Sweeney.
Church Literature.-E. M. Dunbar, J. R. Stelle, A. E. Leese, D. G.
Beatty, I. R. Godwin, R. E. Zeigler.
Conference Relation.-F. A. Hall (1919), J. T. Bean (1919), W. W.
Wiant (1920), H. L. Overdeer (1920), O. A. Trabue (1921), G. L. Debow (1921).
Education.— R. L. Semans, B. E. Parker, W. T. Arnold. J. A. Patterson,
J. [.. Gillard, G. H. Smith.
Foreign Missions.— G. U. Wade, A. H. Backus, T. M. Guild, Sherman
Powell, T. M. Hill, M. Pell.
Freedmen's Aid.— W. G. Asay, Ed. Dickson, L. G. Games, R. H. Wehrly,
G. B. Dougherty, J. W. Gruber.
Hospital.— F. F. Thornburg, L. J. Naftzger, A. S. Preston, P. E. Green-
wait, J. L. Radcliffe, J. O. Gampbell.
Memorial Home.— F. P. Morris, D. A. J. Brown, W. H. Harrison, F. A.
LeMasters, H. A. P. Homer, A. F. Hogan.
Ministerial Qualifications. — H. S. Nickerson, L. A. Swisher, J. F. Lutey,
H. G. Harnian, Ben Kendall, G. E. Line.
State of the Country. — G. R. Grose, A. W. Lowther, Arthur Gates,
D. T. Stephenson, J. F. Porter, J. G. White.
Sunday Schools. — L. G. Jacobs, R. J. Burns, E. A. Bunner, E. M. Foster,
J. J. Fred, B. E. Jones.
Sustentation. — Karl R. Thompson, E. G. Dunn, J. S. Newcombe, B. H.
Franklin, (". W. Ghadwick.
Temperance and Moral Questions. — J. W. Potter, O. T. Martin, J. G.
Graham, M. G. Wright, J. J. Fischer, J. S. Phillips.
(b) SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
Auditing Committee.— E. L. Jones, J. H. Runkle, M. G. Wright, J. F.
Radcliffe, F. A. LeMaster, J. H. Palmer.
Commission on Education for Indiana. — W. W. Martin, G. U. Wade,
W. B. Freeland.
Commission on Social Service. — R. L. Semans, K. R. Thompson, B. E.
Parker, A. W. Lowther, D. T. Stephenson.
Committee on Conference History. — G. U. Wade, B. Kendall, J. F.
Lutey, A. H. Backus, H. A. P. Homer, E. M. Dunbar, M. B. Graham, R. V.
Johnson.
Committee on Resolutions.— J. W. Potter, H. G. Harman, G. B. Work,
T. M. Hill.
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District Conference Journals. — C. E. White, R. C. Ballard,*J. C. Wood-
ruflf.
Rural Church. — Fort Wayne Dist., B. F. Hornaday, M. G. K'mes;
Goshen. V. L. Clear, John Coppes; Logansport, LeRoy Myers, Ira Keasling;
Muncie, P. E. Greenwalt, I. V. Busby; Richmond, R. C. Ballard, Carl Tucker;
Wabash, H. L. Liddle, W. H. Eckman, and District Superintendents.
Taylor University. — W. B. Freeland, W. W. Martin, J. A. Beatty,
C. E. Line, F. A. Hall.
Unmarked Graves. — Cyrus U. Wade, J. K. Walts, Ft. Wayne District;
M. F. Stright, Goshen District; C. H. Brown, Logansport District; W. H.
Peirce, Muncie; M. A. Harlan, Richmond; David Wells, Wabash.
Wesley Foundation. — W. D. Parr, C. E. Line, W. B. Freeland.
(c) ASSIGNMENTS FOR NEXT SESSION.
Program for Next Session. — The District Superintendent of Logansport
District, and the pastor of First Church, Peru.
(d) SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS AND ELECTIONS.
Trustees Elected.
DePauw University.— A. B. Cline (1919), R. S. Todd (1919), W. H.
Charles (1920), Hardin Rhoades (1920), W. D. Parr (1921), M. B. Stultz
(1921).
Memorial Home.— J. A. Beatty (1919), C. E. Line (1919), A. May
(1919), F. M. Pressnal (1919), C. U. Wade (1920), B. S. Hollopeter (1920),
W. W. Martin (1920), J. W. Sale (1920), M. S. Marble (1921), A. H. Sapp
(1921), O. A. Pulley (1921).
Methodist Hospital and Deaconess Home of the State of Indiana. —
W. D. Parr (1919), Edwin A. Rutenber (1919), Sherman Powell (1920),
A. B. Cline (1920), L. J. Naftzger (1921), C. B. Jenkins (1921).
State Anti-Saloon League. — W. W. Martin, O. A. Trabue.
Taylor University. — John C. White, John O. Campbell.
Visitors Appointed.
Boston School of Theology. — J. F. Edwards.
DePauw University.— R. L. Semans (1919), C. E. Line (1920), F. A.
Hall (1921).
Drew Theological Seminary. — F. P. Morris.
Garrett Biblical Institute. — Charles Smith.
Illinois Woman's College. — W. A. Griest.
Memorial Home.— W. T. Arnold, J. C. White, F. A. LeMaster.
Taylor University. — Leslie J. Naftzger.
(V) ©igclpUnarp ©ueStiong^
1. Is this Annual Conference Incorporated According to the
Requirement of the Discipline?
It is.
2. Who have been Received by Transfer, and from what Con-
ferences?
Arthur J. Armstrong, N. Montana; Thomas Davies, Dak.;
J. Austin Lord. N. W. Ind.; William V. Meredith, Detroit; Edgar
Moore, N. W. Ind.; Walter B. Morgan, N. W. Ind.; David L. Mac-
Farlane. Cent. III.; Lewis C. McFarlin, N.-E. Ohio; John F. Porter,
Rock River; Chester L. Schwartz, Ind. ; Chas. Emory Smith, Ind. 11.
3. Who have been Readmitted?
None.
4. Who have been Received on Credentials, and from what
Churches?
Newton A. Gilliland, Elder Wesleyan Methodist Church; Albert
E. Scotten, Elder Methodist Protestant Church; Noah E. Smith,
Elder Wesleyan Methodist Church of America; Charles E. Tuttle,
EldiT Iniled Brethren Church. 4.
5. Who have been Received on Trial?
(a) In Studies of First Year :
Clarence G. Cook, Estill E. Franklin, Ernest G. Giggy, Ralph
R. Henderson, Leo D. Hershberger, D. Joseph Imler, Barton R.
Pogue, Ralph C. Plank, Philips B. Smith, John^B. Sparling, James F.
Stephenson, John M. Stewart, Victor E. Stoner, Samuel L. Yoder. 14.
(b) In Studies of Third Year under the Seminary Rule:
(Discipline, 1[176, § 2.)
None.
6. Who have been Continued on Trial?
(a) In Studies of First Year:
George N. C^illaway, Fred R. Hill, Chester A. McPheeters, Clyde
S. Miller, Justin A. Morrison, Julius Pfeiffer, James H. Royer, Alfred
R. Sanks, Lewis W. Stone, Alvin P. Teter, Mont. M. Thornburg,
Harry A. Wann. 12.
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(b) In Studies of Second Year:
Edward Antle, Herman R. Carson, Fred Chelan, H. Earl Coe,
Benjamin H. Franklin, Edwin L. Gates, Charles F. Jones, Russel S.
Jones, Joseph A. Land, William H. Menaugh, Bertrand D. Nyse-
wander, Weber Roahrig, Fitz James Robins, Chester L. Schwartz,
George A. Snider, James L. Williams, Leslie O. Winslow. 17.
(c) In Studies of Third Year:
Arthur J. Armstrong. 1.
(d) In Studies of Fourth Year :
None.
7. Who have been Discontinued?
Isaac N. Corn. 1.
8. Who have been admitted into Full Membership?
(a) Elected and Ordained Deacons this year:
Edgar Moore, William O. Power, Vernie C. Rogers, George E.
Whitten, Frank S. Young. 5.
(b) Elected and Ordained Deacons previously:
None.
9. What Members are in Studies of Third Year?
(a) Admitted into Full Membership this year:
Edgar Moore, William O. Power, Vernie C. Rogers, George E.
Whitten, Frank S. Young. 5.
(b) Admitted into Full Membership previously:
Carl E. Bash, Newton A. Gilliland, Floyd W. Launer, Perry B.
Leach, Albert E. Scotten, Noah E. Smith, Charles B. Tuttle, John C.
Wengatz. 8.
ID. What Members are in Studies of Fourth Year?
Reuben R. Detweiler, True S. Haddock, Frank S. Hickman,
Jesse M. Jordan, Arthur K. Love, John M. Stelle. 6.
II. What Members have Completed the Conference Course of
Study?
(a) Elected and Ordained Elders this year:
Charles W. Chadwick, Valorous L. Clear, Ernest B. Megenity,
Henry C. Powell, Alvin F. White, Ernest J. Wickersham, Owen B.
Young. 7.
(b) Elected and Ordained Elders peviously:
None.
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(c) Elected and Ordained Elders under the Seminary Rule.
a)isciplinc, H 179, §3.)
None.
12. What others have been Elected and Ordained Deacons?
(a) As Local Preachers. (Discipline, H 176, § 1.)
Walter W. Kritler (to be ordained elsewhere).
(b) Under Missionary Rule. (Discipline, H 176, § 4.)
None.
(c) Under the Seminary Rule. (Discipline, H 176, § 2.)
None.
(d) Under Chaplaincy Rule:
Frod R. Hill, J. Austin Lord. 2.
13. What others have been Elected and Ordained Elders?
(a) As Local Deacons. (Discipline, T[ 179, § 1.)
George N. Callaway, George L. Jordan. 2.
(b) Under Missionary Rule. (Discipline, H 179, § 4.)
None.
(c) Under Chaplaincy Rule:
Fred R. Hill, J. Austin Lord, David L. MacFarlane. 3.
14. Was the Character of each Preacher examined?
Yes, in open Conference.
15. Who have been Transferred, and to what Conferences?
Silas L. Gates, Colorado; George L. Conway, W. Va. ; George H.
Crafts, N.-E. Ohio; Charles W. Jeffras, N. Eng.; Alfred H. Kenna,
N. W. Ind.; J. Austin Lord, N. W. Ind.; William A. McCurdy,
W. China; David L. MacFarlane, Cent. 111.; C. Claude Travis, Rock
River. 9.
16. Who have Died?
Joshua E. Erwin, John W. Paschall, Alexander M. Patterson,
Isaac W. Singer, Philip S. Stephens, William S. Stewart, John W.
Welch, 7.
17. Who have been Located at their own Request?
George W. Bailor, Emory A. Hartman, Harry M. Johnson. 3.
18. Who have been Located?
None.
19. Who have Withdrawn?
None.
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20. Who have been permitted to Withdraw under Charges or
Complaints?
None.
21. Who have been Expelled?
None.
22. What other personal Notation should be made?
(1) Those whose Orders have been recognized without Admission to the Annual Conference;
(2) Those whose Credentials have been restored;
(3) Those formerly Expelled, but now Restored by the action of a Judicial Conference or of
.the General Conference.
(1) Harry B. Roberts, a Local Deacon, New Light Christian
Church.
23. Who are the Supernumerary Ministers, and for what num-
ber of years consecutively has each held this Relation?
William M. Amos (1), John F. Bailey (2), John Z. Barret (6),
James O. Bills (2), Rolla L Black (3), Joseph M. Haines (4), Ernest
C. Hallman (1), Madison A. Harlan (6), Charles M. Hollopeter (3),
Clarence A. Hunt (6), Frederick J. Speckien (5). 11.
24. Who are the Retired Ministers?
T. H. C. Beal (21), S. Billheimer (9), J. W.^Bowen (1), C. H.
Brown (10), W. W. Brown (9), F. G. Browne (6), J. S. Cain (8),
J. W. Cain (2), A. J. Carey (10), J. B. Cook (5), EH Davis (11), C. E.
Disbro (19), H. A. Ewell (15), J. T. Fettro (8), T. F. Freeh (5),
G. E. Garrison (1), O. V. L. Harbour (7), E. F. Hasty (13), G. H.
Hill (11), F. M. Kemper (11), F. M. Lacy (3), R. T. Laslie (5), W. E.
McCarty (11), J. W. McDaniel (28), H. E. McFarlane (5), J. H.
McNary (1), S. C. Miller (21), C. H. Murray (8), S. C. Norris (8),
William Peck (25), M. R. Peirce (3), W. H. Peirce (12), M. C. Pitten-
ger (11), R. S. Reed (13), J. M. B. Reeves (4), Lewis Reeves (8),
F. A. Robinson (25), J. A. Ruley (3), J. M. Rush (12), B. Sawyer
(12), E. L. Semans (10), L. A. Sevits (3), R. H. Smith (10), M. F.
Stright (6), J. V. Terflinger (18), J. W. Tillman (12), W. F. Walker
(10), J. K. Waltz (8), C. H. Wilkinson (7), J. E. Williams (3), A. S.
Wooton (11), G. B. Work (2). 52.
25. Who are the Triers of Appeals?
C. U. Wade, W. T. Arnold, U. S. A. Bridge, R. L. Semans,
C. H. Smith. Reserves: H. C. Harman, C. E. Line.
26. What is the Annual Report of the Conference Board of
Home Missions and Church Extension?
$34,803.
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27. What is the Annual Report of the Conference Board of
Foreign Missions?
S5 1.539.
28. What is the Statistical Report?
Sir tlu' Statistician's Report.
29. What is the Conference Treasurer's Report?
Sir the C'onfcrc'iice Treasurer- s Report.
30. (a) What is the Aggregate of the Benevolent Collections
ordered by the General Conference, as reported by the Conference
'Treasurer?
$152,569.
(b) What is the Aggregate of the Benevolent Collections
ordered by the Annual Conference, as reported by the Conference
Treasurer?
$35,969.
31. What are the Claims on the Conference Funds?
For Annuity distribution, 2,333 years multiplied by the Dis-
ciplinary rate of $17.42 per year, $40,640. For Necessitous distri-
bution, $365. Total, $41,005.
32. (a) What has been Received on these Claims?
From the Book Concern, $5,015. From Annual Conference In-
vestments, $4,735. From Pastoral Charges, $27,683. Total, $37,433.
(b) How has it been Applied?
See Stewards ' Report.
33. What amount has been apportioned to the Pastoral Charges
within the Conference, to be raised for the Support of Conference
Claimants? («i 336.)
$29,000.
34. What amount has been paid by the Conference Treasurer
to the Board of Conference Claimants for Connectional Relief?
$1,103.
35. Where are the Preachers Stationed?
See List of Appointments.
36. Where shall the Next Conference be held?
Peru, Miami County, Indiana.
(VI) appointments.
Names in Small Capitals are Elders; in Roman, Deacons; in Italic, Probationers;
( ) are Supplies. The figures indicate the year of service in the appointment.
FORT WAYNE DISTRICT.
\V. \\'. Martix, D. S., 3, 1720 Crescent Ave., Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Angola M. Pell 3
Ashley (Darrell Stoakes) 3
Auburn F. A. Hall 3
Auburn Ct (E. J. Glendenning) 2
Bluffton \V. T. Arnold 6
Bluffton Ct E. J. Maupin 3
Bobo /. F. Stephenson 1
Coesse F. A. Shipley 1
Decatur F. F. Thornburg 3
Decatur Ct P. B. Le.\ch 2
Fiat (Pennville P. 0.)..A. E. Scotten 1
Ft. Wayne —
First A. G. Neal 2
St. Paul J. F. LuTEY 1
Simpson .U. S. A. Bridge 2
Trinity M. C. Wright 2
Wayne St J. F. Porter 1
Ft. Wayne Ct J. M. Stewart 4
Fremont L. W. Kemper 4
Garrett Charles Tinkham 8
Geneva. D. A. J. Brown 1
Geneva Ct G. A. Snider 3
Hamilton B. F. Hornaday 2
Harlan L. G. Carnes 2
Hoagland R. S. Jones 2
Hudson S. I. Zechiel 1
Huntertown J. R. Stelle 3
Kingsland W. M. Hollopeter 1
Leo (P. O., Grabill) . . .E. M. Foster 3
Monroe L. M. Krider 1
Monroeville John Phillips 1
Montpelier J. O. Powell 2
New Haven H. C. Powell 3
Orland J. K. Wyant 2
Ossian W. E. Hamilton 2
Pleasant Mills K. R. Thompson 1
Poneto E. E. Wright 2
Ray B. D. Nysewander 1
Spencerville (Glen Bryan) 2
W^oodburn V. C. Rogers 1
YorkCt.(FremontP.O.).W^ B.Hardy 2
SUPERNUMERARIES.
C. M. Hollopeter Grabill 3
C. A. Hunt Riverside, Cal. 6
RETIRED MINISTERS.
W. E. McCarty Shoals 11
M. C. Pittenger Coesse 11
B. Sawyer Mansfield, O. 12
M. F. Stright Ashley 6
J. K. W.\lts Ft. Wayne 8
GOSHEN DISTRICT.
R. J. Wade, D. S., 4, 529 West Franklin St., Elkhart, Ind.
Albion J. C. Graham
Avilla L. Huddleston
Benton F. S. Burns
Bourbon T. M. Hill
Bourbon Ct A. A. Turner
Bristol R. R. Detweiler
Butler Robert J. Burns
Corunna H. Earl Coe
Cromwell N. E. Smith
Elkhart—
St. Paul's C. B. Croxall
Simpson Memorial. . . .R. C. Plank
Trinity D. H. Guild
Etna Green Edwin Dickson
Goshen —
First H. C. Harman
St. Mark's A. L. Lamport
Goshen Ct (Thurman Mott)
Howe C. A. Hile
Inwood W. E. Loveless
2
Kendallville
. F. A. LeMaster
3
1
Kimmell
S.L. Yoder
2
2
LaGrange
C. L. DeBow
3
1
Leesburg
. .Herbert Boase
2
1
Ligonier
. .G. F. Hubbartt
1
2
Middlebury
E. S. Riley
1
2
Milford
. . . . R. V. Johnson
2
1
Mishawaka
B. E. Parker
2
1
Mishawaka Ct . .
. . . (R. L. Lundry)
1
Nappanee
R. E. Zeigler
2
2
New Paris
. .J. Hochstedler
1
2
North Webster . .
V. L. Clear
1
2
Osceola
J. M. Jordan
2
6
Pierceton
G. E. Whitten
1
South Milford . . .
. . . (R. W. Michel)
1
2
Stroh
. . . (Garfield Dawe)
1
2
Syracuse
. . .F. H. Cremean
1
1
Tippecanoe
A. P. Teter
1
4
Topeka
. . . .S. B. Stookey
1
2
1 Valentine
/. H. Royer
2
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Wakarusa. W.B.Morgan 1
W.irsaw L. J. Naftzger 2
W :f..iw Ct W. H. Mcnaugh 4
W.itorlmi S. F. Harter 4
W.iwaka C. F. Jones 1
Wolcottville W. T. Daly 3
SUPERNUMERARIES.
I. M. Hainks Warsaw 4
RETIRED MINISTERS.
J.S.Cain Warsaw 8
A. J. Carey Warsaw 10
J. B. Cook Warsaw 5
E. F. Hasty Los Angeles, Cal. 13
F. M. Kemper Escondido, Cal. 11
C. H. Murray Leesburg 8
E. L. Semans Warsaw 10
C. H. Wilkinson Rome City 7
LOGANSPORT DISTRICT.
B. S. lioi-LOi'ii lER, D. S., 6, 717 West Sycamore St., Kokomo, Ind.
Alto H. W. Park 1
.•\inboy E. H. Kennedy 2
Anoka and Bethel . . . (C. E. Dunlap) 4
(P. O., Logansport.)
.Arcadia E. D. Imler 2
.Atlanta LeRoy Myers 1
Bo.xley C. A. Byrt 2
Bunker Hill C. W. Ch.\dwick 4
Bethel (T. A. VanCamp) 1
(P. O., Converse.)
Center J. C. V.\lentine 2
Cicero John B. Sparling 1
Converse H. A. P. Homer 3
Denver A. F. White 2
EI wood W. A. Griest 2
Forest R. W. Rogers 5
Frankton J- W. Hanger 3
Galveston A. E. Leese 2
Gilead N. A. Gilliland 1
(Macy, R. R. No. 2.)
Goldsmith H. R. Carson 1
Greentown O. T. Martin 3
Green Oak and Zion . (O. W. Michel) 1
(Macy P. O.)
Hillisburg A. J. Armstrong 1
Hobbs and Aroma ...U.S. Hartley 3
Kempton C. L. Schwartz 1
Kokomo —
Beamer Chapel, E. B. Megenity. 2
Grace W'. B. Freeland 4
Main E. E. Trippeer 2
Logansport —
Broadway A. W. Lowther 4
Market J. F. Radcliffe 2
Wheatland Ave. W. C. As.\y 2
Macy Thomas Davies 1
Mexico F. W. Launer 3
Miami (John Parker) 1
NewWaverly A. J. Duryee 1
Peru C. H. Smith 4
Richland A. K. Love 1
(Converse, No. 3.)
Roann C. W. Montgomery 2
Russiaville G. W. Martin 1
Santa Fe (Peru, 10) .... E. C. Fisher 3
Sharpsville L. G. Jacobs 2
Sheridan J. F. Edwards 1
Tipton B. Kendall 2
Twelve Mile (Everett Nixon) 2
Walton (J. H. Brown) 1
West Middleton Edgar Moore 2
Windfall B. M. Bechdolt 2
SUPERNUMERARIES.
W. M. Amos Atlanta 1
F. J. Speckien Kokomo 5
RETIRED MINISTERS.
T. H. C. Beal Cicero 21
C. H. Brown Kokomo 10
C. E. DiSBRO Greentown 19
G. E. Garrison Macy 1
O. V. L. Harbour Laketon 7
F. M. Lacy Cicero 3
H. E. McFarlane Russiaville 5
S. C. Miller Peru, R. D. 21
S. C. NoRRis Culver, R. D. 8
William Peck Frankton 25
J. M. B. Reeves Converse 8
J. V. Terflinger Galveston 18
A. S. Wooton Greentown 11
MUNCIE DISTRICT.
J. A. Beatty, D. S., 3, 223 North Hackley St., Muncie, Ind.
Albany
Albany Ct
Alexandria . . .
Alexandria Ct
Anderson —
First
Grace
.J. H. Palmer 4
.0. B. Young 1
. .E. C. Dunn 3
. . .E. G. Giggy 2
.J. W. Potter 3
, (L. H. Nixon) 1
Indiana Ave (Herbert Perry) 1
Noble St E. J. Wickersham 2
Park Place P. B. Smith 2
Carmel CM. Hobbs 4
Daleville and Mt. Zion, H. E. Forbes 1
DeSoto P. H. Walter 3
Eaton C. B. Dougherty 2
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Fisher's C. G. Cook 1
Fortville E. M. Dunbar 3
Gaston E. E. DeWitt 3
Hartford City-
Grace Sherman Powell 2
Grant St. & Florida, (Mont Oliver) 1
Ingalls (J. W. Borders) 2
Jolietville Edivard Antle 1
Lapel P. E. Greenwalt 4
Matthews (A. G. Kiger) 2
Middletown J. H. Runkle 1
Muncie —
Avondale G. N. Callaway 2
High St D. T. Stephenson 3
Madison St J. S. Newcombe 1
Normal City. . . . Preston Polhemus 3
Whitely B. R. Pogue 2
New Burlington B. E. Jones 1
Noblesville C. E. Line 3
Noblesville Ct L. C. McFarlin 1
Pendleton J. A. Patterson 2
Perkinsville J. L. Williams 1
Roll G. F. OsBUN 2
Seima V. B. Hargitt 3
Shideler (E. L. Miller) 1
Summitville C. G. Yoemans 3
Summitville Ct.
(Ross E. Hutsinpiller) 1
Westfield J. L. Murr 1
Yorktown W. H. Harrison 3
SUPERNUMERARIES.
J. F. Bailey Anderson 2
J. Z. Barrett. . . .Bradentown, Fla. 6
RETIRED MINISTERS.
W. W. Brown Muncie 9
Eli Davis Albany 11
J. W. McDaniel Muncie 28
J. H. McNary Albany 1
W. H. Peirce Muncie 12
R. S. Reed Muncie, R. D. 5 13
Lewis Reeves Hartford City 8
F. A. Robinson Muncie 25
J. A. RuLEY Lansing, Mich. 3
L. A. Sevits Albany 3
R. H. Smith Alexandria 10
W.F.Walker. Irvington, Indianapolis 10
J. E. Williams Indianapolis 3
RICHMOND DISTRICT.
Somerville Light, D. S., 4, 215 South 14th St., Richmond, Ind.
Cambridge City R. C. Jones 4
Centerville J. B. O'Connor 2
Charlottesville E. A. Bunner 1
Chester and Middleboro,
Louis Ulmer 1
Dublin and Straughn . . .V. E. Stoner 2
Dunkirk A. H. Backus 2
Economy R. C. Ballard 3
Farmland L. H. Ice 1
Fountain City R. "R. Henderson 2
Greenfield O. A. Trabue 3
Hagerstown J. W. Gruber 2
Kennard C. E. Smith 1
Knightstown W. E. Hogan 1
Lewisville J. S. Phillips 1
Losantville W. O. Power 3
Lynn M. B. Graham 1
Markleville E. H. Ta\xor 2
Maxwell (O. P. Van Wy) 2
McCordsville Fred Chelan 1
Mill Grove Joseph Grimes 1
Modoc (C. A. Mitchell) 1
New Castle W. W. Wiant 3
Parker C. B. Sweeney 5
Pennville A. F. Hogan 3
Philadelphia E. L. Gates 2
Portland A. S. Preston 5
Portland Ct E. E. Franklin 1
Redkey D. V. Williams 2
Richmond — First R. L. Semans 2
Grace H. L. Overdeer 2
Third (J. C. Erwin) 2
Ridgeville D. C. Beatty 2
Salamonia Joseph A. Land 2
Saratoga L. P. Pfeifer 2
Shirley G. E. Hughes 1
Spiceland C. W. Anderson 1
Union City : .Arthur Gates 2
Williamsburg (Ira D. Rife) 1
Willow Branch B. H. Franklin 2
Winchester H. S. Nickerson 3
Winchester Ct Weber Roahrig 2
SUPERNUMERARIES.
J. O. Bills New Castle 2
R. I. Black Columbus 3
E. C. Hallman Lynn 1
M. A. Harlan Union City 6
RETIRED MINISTERS.
S. Billheimer Hagerstown 9
F. G. Browne Newcastle 6
G. H. Hill Indianapolis 11
R. T. Laslie Spokane, Wash. 5
M. R. Peirce Greenfield 3
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WABASH DISTRICT.
M. S. MvRBLE, D. S., 6, The Colonial, Apt. "H," Marion, Ind.
Ai,r„„ I R.Godwin 2 I North Manchester. .. .J. J. Fischer 4
l,uJLs A I^. \Vi:\vER 1 I Point Isabel Arlington Singer 1
lCis.'.'--(KennlHhB. McCoy) 2 1 Roanoke .... -. C. B. Thom.vs
Burket • •''^>^«v L.vcY 1 | Silver Lake J F Blocker 1
Churubusco R. H. Wehrly 2 I Sims (A. L. Myers) 2
eh"nlEo"Ct.".V. . . .K. V. Johnson 3 ■ South Whitley. M. L. H..vrdingh..m 3
Columbia Citv • • J- T- I^E.VN 4 Svvayzee H. L. Liddle I
F^innount . . J- J- Fred 5 ! Swcetser A. D. Burkett 3
C,\s Citv A. C. Wischmeier 2 i Uniondale F. J. Robins 1
; \ Upland M. E. Barrett 1
"r ?f-V . 1 A Sw.sHFR 3 VanBuren J. O. C.vmpbell 5
lir.st (. hurch L. A. J^WISHER >*.,., u r- ^ T i\/r r^rnn 'i
St.l'aul (k.Lovvvll Wilson) 1 l ''^^^''^'^r^''' F f' fuTES 1
,, • ,.,,1% \v P MiiDPw ^ ' Middle St b. t. lutes 1
'''"","«^*'" ^' ( V W„,TK 1 Wabash St J. L. Gill.xrd 3
T-^7"-, C A Cloud Warren M.O.Lester 2
La ontame ...... . -^^^^^^^^^v^l \ ; Warren Ct (K. A. Hawkins) 1
Larwill'. F. S. Young 1 | RETIRED MINISTERS.
Marion— First J. C. White 2 1 J. W. Bowen Marion 1
Grace D. S. Jones 1 ' J. W. C.vin DeLand, Fla. 2
HiRhland J. P. Ch.\mness 2 H. A. Ewell Dayton, O. 15
Home Park D. J. Imler 2 J. T. Fettro South Whitley 8
Ninth St J. W. Zerbe 2 T. F. Frech Huntington 5
.\Lirkle F. P. Morris 3 J. M. Rush Riverside, Wash. 12
.Mcntone D.wio Wells 1 J. W. Tillm.\n . . . North Manchester 12
Mt. Etna C. B. Tuttle 1 G. B. Work Warren 2
SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS.
George R. Grose, President DaPauw University; Mishawaka Quarterly
Conference.
C. U. W.\DE, Endowment Secretary, DePauw University; Broadway, Logansport,
Quarterly Conference.
Fred B. F"isns't, Chairmin of the India Mass Movement Commission of the
Board of Foreign Missions; High Street, Muncie, Quarterly Conference.
H. B. Gough, Professor DePauw University; First Church, Anderson, Quar-
terly Conference.
F. M. Stone, Executive Secretary of the Endowment Campaign of Garrett
Biblical Institute; Trinity, Elkhart, Quarterly Conference.
W. W. Sweet, Professor DePauw University; Greenfield Quarterly Conference.
E. L. Jones, Superintendent and Financial Secretary, Memorial Home; War-
ren Quarterly Conference.
W. D. P.\rr, Secretary Conference Church Extension; Grace Church, Kokomo,
Quarterly Conference.
R. A. Morrison, General Secretary Preachers' Aid Society; High Street,
Muncie, Quarterly Conference.
A. H. Hirsch, Professor of History, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa;
First Church, Richm:)n:l, Quarterly Conference.
G. H. Myers, Agent Centenary Missionary Jubilee; Decatur Quarterly Con-
ference.
Fremont E. Friblsy, Student Pastor, Purdue University; High St., Muncie,
Quarterly Conference.
J. W. W.vlters, with the World Evangelistic Department of the Board of
Foreign Missions; Warsaw Qaarterly Conference.
MvDisoN Sw.vdener, National Stafif of the Anti-Saloon League of America;
First Church, Marion, Qjirterly Conference.
C. J. EVERS3V, 'Financial Agent Anti-Saloon League; Normal City, Muncie,
Quarterly Conference.
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E. B. Westhafer, Conference Evangelist; Normal City, Muncie, Quarterly
Conference.
J. W. Oborn, Conference Evangelist; Warsaw Quarterly Conference.
Earle Naftzger, Conference Evangelist; Warsaw Quarterly Conference.
T. J. Johnson, Field Secretary Indiana Methodist Hospital; First Church,
Ft. Wayne, Quarterly Conference.
J. C. Woodruff, Field Secretary Preachers' Aid Society; First Church, Goshen,
Quarterly Conference.
The following were appointed missionaries: John Wengatz, to Africa; J. Ira
Jones, to Japan; E. J. Magor, to Utah; J. E. Ferris, to Arizona; J. C. Murray,
to Porto Rico; I. E. Price, to Nevada.
The following were left without appointment to attend school: Chester A.
McPheeters, Alfred R. Sanks, Harry A. Waun, Clyde S. Miller, L. D. Hersrhberger,
Justin A. Morrison, Lewis \V. Stone, Mont M. Thornburg, F. S. Hickman, T. S.
Haddock, C. E. Bash, Julius Pfeifer, J. H. Richardson.
•The following were appointed to army service: Fred R. Hill, W. E. McPheeters,
W. V. Meredith, A. C. Hoover, W. Earl Pittenger, M. E. Shattuck, R. S. Shaw,
R. W. Stoakes, Leslie O. Winslow, Karl H. Carlson.
(VII) Bail? ^roceebingS.
JOURNAL OF THE NORTH INDIANA ANNUAL
CONFERENCE, METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH.
FIRST DAY.
Warsaw, Indiana, Wednesday, April 3, 1918.*
The North Indiana Annual Conference convened in its seventy-fifth
session in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, V/arsaw, Indiana,
Bishop Thomas Nicholson, D.D., LL.D., presiding.
At 8.30 A. M. the Bishop called the Conference to order, and
requested the singing of hymn No. 560,
"And are we yet alive,"
and the national anthem,
"My country, 'tis of thee."
These were both sung, the audience standing during the singing of
the national anthem.
Prayer was offered by J. E. W^illiams, D.D.
The Bishop called the attention of the Conference to Indiana's
progress in temperance work, and also commented on the progress
that Illinois is making at this time. The Conference sang "Praise
God, from whom all blessings flow."
The Bishop conducted a very helpful and interesting Bible study
from the first five verses of the first chapter of the Book of Joshua,
and offered pra^'er.
Judge Francis E. Bowser, of the Kosciusko County Circuit Court,
welcomed the Conference in behalf of the local church in an address
resplcndant with Christian spirit, to which the Bishop made suitable
antl happy response.
The Lord's Supper. — Bishop Nicholson called the District Super-
intendents and the pastor of the local church to conduct the sacra-
ment of the Lord's Supper. After they had administered the elements
to a large number of communicants, he led in the use of the Lord's
Prayer, in which the congregation joined. After this the Conference
sang the first hymn, "O for a thousand tongues to sing!" thus closing
this service.
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Roll Call.— At the request of the Bishop, D. V. Williams, Sec-
retary of the last session, called the roll of the members deceased
since the last session. The Conference stood while the following
names were read: John W. Welch, Joshua E. Ervin, William S.
Stewart, Alexander M. Patterson, John W. Paschall, Isaac W. Singer.
Prayer was offered by C. U. Wade.
The Secretary called the roll of the members of the Conference,
to which the following responded:
W. Peck E. L. Semans, A. J. Carey, R. H. Smith, J. B. Cook,
J. S. Cain, C. H. Brown, J. T. Fettro, W. D. Parr, L. J. Naftzger,
T. M. Guild, C. E. White, C. E. Line, C. U. Wade, M. F. Stright,
F. G. Browne, F. M. Stone, M. S. Marble, M. R. Peirce, J. A. Beatty,
L. M. Krider, A. L. Lamport, B. S. Hollopeter, S. Powell, J. O. Bills,
J. M. Haines, A. S. Preston, A. W. Lowther, H. C. Harman, J. W.
Potter, D. V. Williams, F. M. Lacy, M. A. Harlan, D. H. Guild,
U. S. A. Bridge, A. G. Neal, J. H. McNary, J. L. Gillard, J. C. White,
A. A. Turner, J. W. Oborn, J. F. RadclifTe, J. J. Fred, J. A. Patterson,
C. Tinkham, A. L. Weaver, E. B. Westhafer, W. W. Martin, H. Lacy,
D. S. Jones, M. Pell, D. T. Stephenson, J. T. Bean, W. B. Freeland,
T. J. Johnson, W. A. Griest, R. J. Wade, E. L. Jones, J. L. Murr,
L R. Godwin, D. Wells, E. E. Trippeer, O. A. Trabue, G. R. Grose,
L. P. Pfeifer, F. P. Morris, F. F. Thornburg, B. F. Hornaday, L. A.
Swisher, W. T. Arnold, J. H. Runkle, G. F. Osbun, J. H. Palmer,
E. A. Bunner, E. E. Wright, E. C. Dunn, E. E. Lutes, A. Gates,
F. A. Hall, P. Polhemus, C. H. Smith, J. J. Fischer, A. H. Backus,
T. M. Hill, P. H. Walter, W. E. Hamilton, J. C. Graham, W. C. Asay,
G. W. Martin, J. C. Woodruff, J. W. Zerbe, G. E. Hughes, J. K.
Wyant, M. C. Wright, R. Burns, C. B. Dougherty, F. P. Johnson
H. Boase, C. B. Sweeney, B. Kendall, M. B. Graham, C. J. Everson,
C. A. Hile, H. L. Overdeer, H. W. Park, C. B. Croxall, C. M. Vawter,
R. C. Ballard, C. L. DeBow, P. E. Geenwalt, E. J. Maupin, W. E.
Loveless, M. E. Barrett, J. F. Lutey, H. E. Forbes, F. A. LeMaster,
H. S. Nickerson, S. B. Stookey, G. F. Hubbartt, J. W. Gruber, L. G.
Carnes, J. S. Newcombe, E. C. Fisher, B. E. Jones, E. S. Riley, G. E.
Garrison, A. D. Burkett, U. S. Hartley, A. F. Hogan, D. A. J. Brown,
A. Singer, J. O. Powell, J. R. Stelle, L. Myers, E. E. DeWitt, C. G.
Yeomans, W. H. Harrison, W. W. Wiant, H. A. Homer, E. Dickson,
R. A. Morrison, R. W. Rogers, S. I. Zechiel, W. E. Hogan, H. C.
Powell, C. W. Anderson, E. B. Megenity, M. O. Lester, R. E. Zeigler,
E. Leese, C. W. Chadwick, L. G. Jacobs, W. T. Daly, E. M. Dunbar,
J. B. O'Connor, B. M. Bechdolt, A. C. Hoover, C. B. Thomas, Joseph
Grimes, J. F. Blocker, C. A. Cloud, C. A. Byrt, E. J. Wickersham,
J. F. Edwards, K. R. Thompson, J. O. Hochstedler, L. F. Ulmer,
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V A. Sliii>lr\. K. \. Johnson, F. H. Cremean, C. W. Montgomery,
A. C. VVischnuicr, K. H. Kennedy, D. C. Beatty, V. L. Clear, A. F.
White, J. M. Jordan. A. K. Love, R. R. Detweiler, J. S. Phillips,
J. W. Han^'er.
The following probationers answered the roll call: F. S. Young,
\'. C. Rogers. C E. Whitten. K. Antle, R. S. Jones, B. H. Franklin,
W. C). Power. B. I). Nysewander. G. A. Snider, A. P. Teter, C. F.
Jones, H. R. C"arson, J. L. Williams, J. A. Land, E. L. Gates, H. E.
Toe. J. IL R(ner, F. Chelan.
Organization. On motion of Somerville Light, Doric V. Williams
was re-elected Secretary, and on his nomination William A. Griest
was re-elected assistant.
On motion of J. A. Beatty, David S. Jones was re-elected the
Treasurer o{ the Conference, with the privilege of nominating his
assistants, and on his nomination the following were elected: C. B.
Dougherty, C. B. Croxall, F. H. Cremean, G. E. Garrison, B. E.
Jones, M. E. Barrett, R. R. Detweiler.
On motion of W. D. Parr, the bar of the Conference was made to
include the auditorium, except the seats under the south gallery.
On motion of M. S. Marble, John C. White was re-elected Statis-
tician, with the privilege of naming his assistants. On his nomina-
tion the following were elected assistants: Peter H. Walter, Edward
E. DeWitt, Leroy W. Kemper, J. O. Hochstedler, J. M. Jordan, and
V. L. Clear, Merrill O. Lester.
On motion for a Committee on Privileges of the Floor, W. B.
Freeland, H. L. Overdeer, and E. E. Trippeer were constituted this
Committee.
Standing Committees. — B. S. Hollopeter read the list of Stand-
ing Comjuittees nominated at the last session of the Conference,
which were changed and adopted as follows:
Aggressive Evangelism. — J. O. Powell, C. G. Yeomans, R. C. Ballard, L. G.
Jacobs, M. B. Graham, G. W. Martin.
American Bible Society.— C. E. White, E. C. Hallman, J. F. RadclilYe, J. F.
I.iitcy, \V. T. Dal\-, J. L. iMurr.
Conference Relations.— Chas. H. Smith, O. A. Trabiie, F. A. Hall, J. T. Bean,
\V. W. Wiaiit, H. L. Overdeer.
Church Literature.— R. C. Jones, E. M. Dunbar, Ephraim Leese, M. Pell,
Leroy Hiiddleston, VV. E. Loveless.
Education.— W. B. Freeland, B. E. Parker, U. S. A. Bridge, C. E. Line, W. T.
Arnold, R. L. Semans.
Freedmen's Aid Society.— U. S. Hartley, J. R. Stelle, Edwin Dickson, P. H.
Walter, C. W. Anderson, L R. Godwin, E. H. Kennedy.
Foreign Missions.— C. U. Wade, T. M. Guild, Sherman Powell, ]. C. White,
E. S. Riley, II. C. Harman, A. H. Backus.
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Hospital.— F. F. Thornburg, H. W. Park, B. M. Bechdolt, P. E. Greenwalt,
J. O. Campbell, L. J. Naftzger, M. E. Barrett.
Memorial Home.— W. T. Arnold, C. U. Wade, F. A. LeMaster, C. W. Chad-
wick, D. C. Beatty, A. J Duryee.
Ministerial Qualifications. — Arthur Cates, J. A. Patterson, C. L. DeBow, H. S.
Nickerson, J. L. Gillard, C. W. Montgomery.
Parsonage and Furniture. — T. M. Hill, R. W. Rogers, B. E. Jones, C. B. Sweeney
J. J. Fischer, D. A. J. Brown.
Social and Moral Questions. — P. Polhemus, E. E. DeVVitt, J. F. Edwards,
J. O. Hochstedler, Lewis Ulmer, K. R. Thompson.
Sunday Schools. — R. J. Burns, W. M. Hollopeter, Benjamin Kendall, E. A.
Banner, E. M. Foster, G. E. Hughes.
Sustentation. — G. E. Garrison, L. W. Kemper, C. B. Croxall, C. M. Hobbs,
A. L. Weaver, H. Lacy.
Temperance. — A. S. Preston, H. C. Powell, J. W. Walters, E. E. Lutes, J. S.
Phillips, A. G. Neal.
Woman's Work in the Church. — W. M. Amos, W. E. Hogan, B. F. Hornaday,
O. B. Young.
SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
Auditing Committee.— E. L. Jones, J. A. Runkle, M. C. Wright, J. F. Radcliffe,
F. A. LeMaster.
Committee on Conference History. — C. U. Wade, Benjamin Kendall, J. F.
Lutey, A. H. Backus, H. A. P. Homer, E. M. Dunbar, M. B. Graham.
Committee on Weslejjf Foundation, Purdue University. — District Superin-
tendents, W. D. Parr, C. E. Line, W. B. Freeland.
Committee on Resolutions.— T. M. Hill, J. W. Potter, H. C. Harman, G. B.
Work, Chas. Tinkham.
Commission on Social Service. — R. L. Semans, H. L. Overdeer, B. E. Parker,
A. W. Lowther, D. T. Stephenson, D. H. Guild.
District Conference Journals. — C. E. White, J. C. Woodruff, R. C. Ballard.
Committee on the State of the Country. — Geo. R. Grose, A. W. Lowther,
W. W. Wiant, J. C. White, C. L. DeBow, J. F. Porter, L. A. Swisher.
Committee on Soldiers from the Conference and Parsonage Homes. — D. H.
Guild, C. Tinkham, A. H. Backus, H. A. P. Homer, J. H. Palmer, C. B. Thomas.
The Bishop introduced to the Conference Peter M. Feldtmose,
his private secretary.
The Bishop read the following telegram from G. H. Myers, who
was just sailing for India in the interests of the Board of Foreign*
Missions:
"Greetings to yourself and the brethren. May God
grant great Conference session. Sailing Vancouver
Empress of Russia. — G. H. Myers."
On motion of J. C. White, the Secretary was instructed to wire
Brother Myers a suitable reply, in care of the Board of Foreign
Missions.
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The program prepared by the Committee was adopted as the
official program of this Conference session, and the hour of the morn-
ing session was fixed at 8.30, and the closing hour at 12.15.
Tlie Bishop requested the District Superintendents, W. W. Mar-
tin, of the Fort Wayne District; R. J. Wade, of the Goshen District;
H. S. Hollopetcr, of the Logansport District; J. A. Beatty, of the
Muncie District; Somerville Light, of the Richmond District, and
M. S. Marble, of the Wabash District, to stand. They answered in
a s;\tisfactory manner the Disciplinary Questions contained in par-
agraph 87. Their characters were passed, and B. S. Hollopeter read
the report of the Logansport District.
On motion of George Richmond Grose, President of DePauw
University, the following resolution was passed, and the Secretary
was ordered to send a copy to President Wilson:
To Presiuknt Woodrow Wilson,
Washington, D. C:
Recognizing the gravity of the present hour in the Nation, and
the burdens resting upon the President, the members of the North
Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, representing
over 200,000 citizens, desire to assure you of their prayers for divine
guidance and of their loyal support in the vigorous prosecution of
the war until a righteous peace may be established throughout the
world.
M. S. Marble reported Wabash District.
M. A. Harlan was appointed agent for the Methodist Review.
The list of Supernumerary preachers, as printed in the Minutes,
was referred to the Committee on Conference Relations.
Introduction. — I. Garland Penn, Corresponding Secretary of the
Freedmen's Aid Society, was introduced, and spoke in the interests
of that organization.
Thirty-Sixth Question. — On motion of C. H. Smith, Question
Thirty-six, "Where shall the next Conference be held?' was made
the order of the day for to-morrow morning, immediately after the
reading of the Journal.
The committees were called, announcements made, and Con-
ference adjourned, with the benediction by Charles A. Kelly, of the
Rock River Conference.
Afternoon Session.
The Conference convened at 1.30, Bishop Nicholson in the chair.
He announced the second hymn, "Come, thou almighty King," which
was sung, and prayer was offered by C. U. Wade.
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Reports. — On motion of the Secretary, the pastors were requested
to conform to the requirements of the DiscipHne in reporting their
Disciphnary collections, and also to report whether there had been
an increase or decrease in the membership on their charges and in
the periodicals taken.
R. C. Ballard called the attention of the Conference to the meet-
ing of the Indiana Dry Federation in Indianapolis, and offered the
following, which was adopted :
To THE Indiana Dry Federation,
Indianapolis, Indiana:
The North Indiana Conference sends greetings, and is with you
for a dry State and Nation.
Signed :
R. C. Ballard,
C. U. Wade,
H. S. NiCKERSON.
On motion of Brother Ballard, the Secretary of the Conference
was requested to send a copy of the foregoing to the Federation.
After C. U. Wade had called the attention of the Conference to
the fact that the time for the Diamond Jubilee was not until next
year, on motion of S. Light, the observance of the same was deferred
until that time, and Brother Wade was requested to deliver the
address on that occasion.
Credentials. — M. S. Marble presented the credentials of J. H.
Neher, a local elder, which, on motion, were filed with the Conference.
Sale of Property. — On motion of R. J. Wade, the trustees of an
abandoned church property on the Middlebury charge were authorized
to sell the same and apply the proceeds on the repair of the Middle-
bury parsonage.
Reports. — The following District Superintendents reported the
work on their respective Districts: Somerville Light, Richmond
District, and R. J. Wade, Goshen District.
Draft. — The Bishop announced a draft from the Book Concern
for $5,015, which was ordered endorsed and turned over to the Board
of Stewards for distribution to the Conference Claimants. In con-
nection with this announcement, he read brief excerpts from the
report of the Book Concern.
Representation. — Charles A. Kelly, of the Rock River Conference,
was introduced to the Conference, and represented the work of the
Board of Conference Claimants.
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Absence.--C)n nioiion, the foUowing^ere granted leave of absence
for to-morrow: A. G. Neal, T. J. Johnson, F. A. Hall, and F. A.
I.eMaster.
The amiounci-ments were made and, on motion of the Secretary,
tin- ronfcrence adjourned, to meet at 8.30 to-morrow morning. The
l)eiK'dictioii was pronounced by H. C. Harnian.
SECOND DAY.
Thursday, April 4, 1918.
Conference conxened for devotional services at 8.30 A. M., with
Bishop Nicholson in charge, who announced hymn No. 78, "Holy,
hoK-. holy. Lord Cn)d Almight>'," which was sung, and C. E. Line
led in pra\er. The Bishop conducted the morning Bible study from
Deut. 32. 15-20. and discussed the same under the theme "Some
marks of Spiritual decline, and how to keep spiritually efficient."
At the close of the study he offered prayer for the baptism of divine
power.
Journal. The Journal of the forenoon and afternoon sessions of
yesterda>- was read and approved.
Absentees. — The Secretary called the roll of absentees, to which
the following answered: J. A. Ruley, W. E. Murray, J. P. Chani-
ness, J. Phillips, R. L. Semans, S. F. Harter, E. M. Foster, J. O.
Campbell, M. L. Hardingham, C. M. Hobbs, H. L. Liddle, V. B.
Hargitt, B. E. Parker, W. M. Amos, Frank S. Burns, L. H. Ice, R. W.
Stoakes, O. T. Martin, W. B. Hardy, J. C.Valentine, L. Huddleston,
G. B. Work, F. E. Fribley, E. D. Imler, R. H. Wehrly, F. W. Launer,
P. B. Leach. Probationers: G. N. Callaway, W. H. Menaugh.
On motion of the Secretary, further calling of the roll was ordered
omitted.
J. A. Beatty announced the death of P. S. Stephens, the second
member in seniority in the Conference.
On motion, the Secretary was requested to send greetings to
W. F. Walker, who spent more than thirty years as a missionary in
Cliina.
Leave of absence was granted the following: F. P. Morris, Sher-
man Powell. J. C. White, E. C. Dunn, P. E. Greenwalt, and W. W.
Wiant.
Order of the Day. -The time having arrived for the order of the
day, Question Thirty-six, "Where shall the next Conference be held?"
was called. Invitations were received from First Church, Peru, and
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Grace Church, Richmond. These churches were respectively rep-
resented by their pastors, C. H. Smith and H. L. Overdeer. The
Conference, by a vote of 131 to 67, accepted the invitation of the
Peru church, which invitation, on motion of H. L. Overdeer, was
unanimously accepted.
The Secretary was requested to send letters of greeting to F. B.
Fisher, F. M. Kemper, C. H. Wilkinson, and J. W. Bowen.
Preachers' Aid. — ^The time having arrived, according to the Con-
stitution of the Preachers' Aid Society, for the Annual Meeting, the
Conference adjourned, and the Preachers' Aid Society convened,
with Bishop Nicholson in the chair.
On motion of B. S. Hollopeter, W. B. Freeland, U. S. A. Bridge,
and A. G. Neal were constituted the Committee on Nominations.
C. U. Wade, Secretary of the Society, read his report, which was
ordered printed in the Minutes of the Conference. The Treasurer
was authorized to draw a check to the amount of $4,735 in favor of
the Board of Stewards for distribution among the Conference Claim-
ants. The Bishop read a letter from J. W. Cain, the former General
Secretary of the Society.
C. U. Wade read the amended constitution as proposed by the
Board of Managers, which constitution and by-laws was adopted
by more than a two-thirds vote. On motion of C. U. Wade, it was
ordered printed in the Conference Minutes.
R. A. Morrison, General Secretary, addressed the Society in the
interests of the work. At the request of the Bishop, R. J. Wade
spoke with reference to the campaign in the interest of the Confer-
ence Claimants being launched in the Chicago Area.
R. A. Moi rison read his report as General Secretary, and, on
motion, the requests contained therein were granted and an abridged
report printed in the Conference Minutes.
The Committee on Nominations reported the following list of
officers and board managers for the Society for the ensuing year,
who, on motion, were elected: President, L. J. Naftzger; Vice-
President, B. S. Hollopeter; Secretary, C. U. Wade; Treasurer, B. F.
Schroyer; General Secretary, R. A. Morrison; Executive Committee,
C. U. Wade, J. A. Beatty, Hardin Rhoades, and W. W. Martin;
Members of the Board of Managers, B. S. Hollopeter, M. S. Marble,
R. J. Wade, Somerville Light, W. W. Martin, J. A. Beatty, C. U.
Wade, R. A. Morrison, L. J. Naftzger, B. F. Schroyer, Benjamin
Glasscock, Hardin Rhoades, Edward E. Trippeer,^A. B. Cline, and
William F. Janney.
The Society requested the appointment of R. A, Morrison as
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General Secretary, and J. C. Woodruff as assistant. On motion, the
Preachers' Aid Society adjourned.
Conference Business. — The Conference business was resumed, and
W. \V. Martin rc-ad his report of the Fort Wayne District.
The Hishoj) announced hymn No. 420, "True-hearted, whole-
hearted," which was sung.
It was announced that a photographer desired to take a picture
(.f the Conference, and, on motion, it was ordered to adjourn the
afternoon session at 2.50 o'clocic for this purpose.
J, A. Beatty read his report of the Muncie District.
George Richmond Grose, President of DePauw University, was
introduced, and represented the work of that institution.
Introductions. — The following were introduced: Elmer L. Wil-
liams, representing the Board of Temperance and Public Morals;
M. H. Appleby, District Superintendent of the South Bend District,
Northwest Indiana Conference; H. R. DeBra, Superintendent of
Home Missions of the Calumet District; E. H. Richards, missionary
from Africa.
David Wells and W. E. Hamilton were re-elected members of the
Board of Stewards for a term of three years.
The committees were called, the announcements were made, and
the benediction was pronounced by Elmer L. Williams, of the Rock
River Conference, and the Conference adjourned, to meet at 1.30 P. M.
Afternoon Session.
The Conference met at 1.30, with Bishop Nicholson in the chair.
He announced Hymn No. 355, "Love Divine," which was sung, and
H. R. DcBra offered prayer.
E. H. Richards, D.D., a returned missionary from Africa, addressed
the Conference in the interests of "The World Outlook."
H. R. DeBra addressed the Conference in the interest of the needs
of the Calumet District.
Introductions.— J. W. Lake, Superintendent of the local Con-
ference, United Brethren Church, and C. E. Kolb, a pastor in the
United Brethren Church, were introduced to the Conference.
Fourteenth Question.— The Fourteenth Question, "Was the
Character of each Preacher Examined?" was called, and the following
effective elders of Ft. Wayne District reported, according to action
of the Conference, the District Superintendent having said that
there was nothing against any of them: M. Pell, F. A. Hall, W. T.
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Arnold, E. J. Maupin, Joseph Grimes, F. F. Thornburg, P. B. Leach,
A. G. Neal, L. M. Krider, U. S. A. Bridge, M. C. Wright, J. F. Porter,
L. W. Kemper, Charles Tinkham, J. F. Lutey, B. F. Hornaday,
L. G. Cams, D. A. J. Brown, E. M. Foster, John Philhps, S. I. Zechiel,
J. O. Powell, H. C. Powell, J. K. Wyant, W. E. Hamilton, E. E.
Wright, K. R. Thompson, W. B. Hardy. They were passed in char-
acter.
In reply to the question of the Bishop, R. J. Wade, District Super-
intendent, said that there was nothing against any effective elder in
Goshen District. The following reported their work according to
the action of the Conference: J. C. Graham, C. A. Cloud, F. S.
Burns, R. W. Stoakes, Robert Burns, C. B. Croxall, K. H. Carlson,
D. H. Guild, Edwin Dixon, H. C. Harman, A. L. Lamport, C. A.
Hile, W. D. Loveless, F. A. LeMaster, C. L. DeBow, Herbert Boase,
T. M. Hill, G. W. Martin, R. V. Johnson, B. E. Parker, J. O. Hoch-
stedler, R. E. Zeigler, J. C. Woodruff, W. B. Morgan, G. F. Hubbartt,
W. E. Hogan, H. W. Park, J. W. Bowen, S. B. Stookey, L. J. Naftzger,
S. F. Harter, A. A. Turner, W. T. Daly. There being nothing against
any of them, they w^ere passed in character.
The Bishop asked B. S. Hollopeter if there was anything against
any effective elder in Logansport District, and he replied that there
was nothing against any of them. The following reported their
charges according to the requirements of the Conference: E. H.
Kennedy, E. D. Imler, W. M. Amos, C. A. Byrt, J. C. Valentine,
H. A. P. Homer, W. A. Griest, R. W. Rogers, J. W. Hanger, A. E.
Leese, LeRoy Myers, O. T. Martin, A. C. Hoover, U. S. Hartley,
A. J. Duryee, W. B. Freeland, E. E. Trippeer, A. W. Lowther, J. F.
Radcliffe,\v. C. Asay, G. E. Garrison, C. H. Smith, C. W. Mont-
gomery, J. F. Edwards, E. C. Fisher, L. G. Jacobs, E. S. Riley, Ben-
jamin Kendall, B. M. Bechdolt, and Thomas Davies. They wxre
then passed in character.
J. A. Beatty, District Superintendent of Muncie District, in an-
swer to a question of the Bishop, said that there was nothing against
any effective elder in his District. The following reported their work
as ordered by the action of the Conference: J. H. Palmer, H. E.
Forbes, E. C. Dunn, J. W. Potter, J. L. Murr, W. M. Hollopeter,
C. M. Hobbs, P. H. Walter, C. B. Dougherty, E. M. Dunbar, E. E.
DeWitt, Sherman Powell, G. F. Osbun, P. E. Greenwalt, W. E.
Pittenger, D. T. Stephenson, D. S. Jones, Preston Polhemus, C. E.
Line, J. A. Patterson, B. E. Jones, V. B. Hargitt, O. B. Young, C. G.
Yeomans, E. E. Lutes, and W. H. Harrison. There being nothing
against any of them, they were passed in character.
Richmond District was called, and Somerville Light, District
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Supcriiitoncleiit, said that there was nothing against any effective
cUUt in liis District. The following reported their charges according
to the action of the Conference: R. C. Jones, J. B. O'Connor, A. H.
Backus, R. S. Shaw, M. R. Peirce, R. C. Ballard, J. S. Phillips, O. A.
Trabue! J. W. Grubcr, J. H. Runkle, M. E. Barrett, E. C. Hallman,
K. H. Taylor, C. W. Anderson, F. A. Shipley, W. W. Wiant, C. B.
Sweeney, A. F. Hogan, A. S. Preston, Henry Lacy, D. V. Williams,
R. L. Scmans, H. L. Overdeer, D. C. Beatty, L. P. Pfeifer, E. A.
Buiiner, Arthur Gates, L. F. Ulmer, and H. S. Nickerson. These
were passed in character.
The Bishop asked M. S. Marble, Superintendent of Wabash Dis-
trict, if there was anything against any effective elder in his District,
and he said that there was nothing against any of them. The follow-
ing reported their work on their charges as directed by Conference
action: I. R. Godwin, L. H. Ice, J. H. McNary, R. H. Wehrly, F. P.
Johnson, J. T. Bean, J. J. Fred, A. C. Wischmeier, L. A. Swisher,
W. E. Murray, A. L. Weaver, G. E. Hughes, M. B. Graham, C. M.
Vawter, J. C. White, David Wells, J. P. Chamness, J. W. Zerbe,
F .P. Morris, J. S. Newcombe, J. J. Fischer, C. B. Thomas, J. F.
Blocker, Arlington Singer, M. L. Hardingham, H. L. Liddle, A. D.
Burkett, Leroy Huddleston, F. H. Cremean, J. O. Campbell, C. E.
White, T. M. Guild, J. L. Gillard, and M. O. Lester. They were then
passed in character, as there was nothing against any of them.
When the names of J. W. Bowen and J. H. McNary were called,
on request of their respective District Superintendents, they were
referred to the Committee on Conference Relations, with a recom-
mendation to be placed in the Retired Relation. W. M. Amos and
E. C. Hallman were referred to the same Committee by their re-
spective District Superintendents for Supernumerary Relation.
M. S. Marble stated to the Conference that E. A. Hartman had
requested a Certificate of Location, and, on his motion, the case was
referred to the Committee on Conference Relations, with that rec-
ommendation.
The following, engaged in special work, were passed in character:
George R. Grose, C. U. Wade, Fred B. Fisher, H. B. Gough, F. M.
Stone, W. W. Sweet, E. L. Jones, W. D. Parr, R. A. Morrison, A. H.
Hirsch, W. E. McPheeters, G. H. Myers, F. E. Fribley, J. W. Walters,
Madison Swadener, C. J. Everson, E. B. Westhaver, J. W. Oborn,
Earle Naftzger, T. J. Johnson, J. Ira Jones, E. J. Magor, J. E. Ferris,
J. C. Murray, and I. E. Price.
Transfer.— When the name of Silas L. Gates was called, his transfer
to the Colorado Conference was announced.
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On motion of the Secretary, all special appointments requiring
Conference action were referred to the Cabinet for recommendation.
Introduction. — John Thompson, Superintendent of City Church
Extension Society, of Chicago, Illinois, was introduced to the Con-
ference.
After the announcements were made, the Conference adjourned,
with the benediction by George R. Grose.
THIRD DAY.
Friday, April 5, 1918.
Conference convened at 8.30 for devotions. Bishop Nicholson in
the chair. He announced Hymn No. 539,
"Awake, my soul, to joyful lays,"
which was sung, and prayer was offered by President M. Vayhinger,
of Taylor University. The Bishop read the Scripture lesson from the
eighth chapter of Romans, beginning with the 12th verse, upon which
he made very helpful comments, closing the devotional service with
prayer.
Journal. — ^The Secretary read the Journal of yesterday's sessions,
which was approved.
Sixth Question. — "Who have been Continued on Trial?'' was
asked. The following were passed in character, represented by their
District Superintendents, made their reports, were reported in their
studies by the Registrar:
(a) In Studies of the First Year: Fred R. Hill, Chester A. Mc-
Pheeters, James H. Royer, Alfred R. Sanks, Justin A. Morrison,
Alvin P. Teeter, Harry A. Wann, George N. Callaway, Clyde S.
Miller, Julius Pfeiffer, Lewis W. Stone, and M. M. Thornburg.
(b) In Studies of the Second Year: Herman R. Carson, Fred
Chelan, H. Earl Coe, Edwin L. Gates, Charles F. Jones, Joseph A.
Land, Bertrand D. Nysewander, George A. Snider, James L. Wil-
liams, Russell S. Jones, Edward Antle, Benjamin H. Franklin, William
H. Menaugh, Weber Roahrig, Fitz James Robbins, and Leslie O.
Winslow.
(c) In Studies of the Third Year: Charles W. JelTries, Arthur J.
Armstrong.
Transfers. — The following were announced as transferred out:
William McCurdy, to the West China Conference; Alfred H. Kenna,
to the Northwest Indiana Conference. The following were announced
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as transferred in: Arlhur J. Armstrong, from the North Montana
Conference, on trial in the Studies of the Third Year; Chester L.
Schwartz, from the Indiana Conference, on trial in the Studies of the
Second Year, and Edgar Moore, from the Northwest Indiana Con-
ference, who was advanced to the Studies of the Third Year and
elected to Deacons' Orders.
Tenth Question. — "What Members are -in the Studies of the
Fourth Year?'' was asked. The following were passed in character,
reported their charges, were reported in their studies by the Registrar:
Reuben R. Detweiler, Jesse M. Jordan, Arthur K. Love, True S.
Haddock, and Frank S. Hickman.
Eleventh Question. — "What Members have Completed the Con-
ference Course of Studies?" was called, and the following were passed
in character and reported in their studies by the Registrar: Elected
to Elders' Orders and graduated from the course of study — Charles
\V. Chadwick, Valorous L. Clear, Ernest B. Megenity, Henry C.
Powell, Alvin F. White, Ernest J. Wickersham, and Owen B. Young.
John R. Stelle was continued in the studies of the fourth year.
The orders of Harry B. Roberts as a local deacon in the Newlight
Christian Church were recognized, on motion of Somerville Light.
On motion of B. S. Hollopeter, J. Austin Lord was announced as
transferred from the Northwest Indiana Conference, and was elected
to Deacons' and Elders' Orders under the Chaplaincy Rule.
David L. MacFarlane was announced transferred from the Central
Illinois Conference, and elected to Elders' Orders under the Chap-
laincy Rule.
Walter Krider was reported in his studies by the Registrar, and,
on motion of W. W. Martin, was elected to Deacons' Orders as a
local preacher, to be ordained elsewhere.
On motion of B. H. Hollopeter, Newton A. Gilliland was ad-
mitted into full membership from the Wesleyan Methodist Church,
placed in the studies of the third year, and his orders as an elder
recognized.
Albert E. Scotten, on motion of W. W. Martin, was admitted
into full membership in the Conference, placed in the Studies of the
Third Year, and his orders as an elder from the Methodist Protestant
Church recognized.
On motion of M. S. Marble, Charles B. Tuttle was elected to full
membership in the Conference, placed in the Studies of the Third
Year, and his orders as an elder from the United Brethren Church
recognized.
Eighth Question.— " Mio have been Admitted into Full Member-
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ship?" was asked. The following were passed in character, repre-
sented by their respective District Superintendents, made their
reports, were reported in their studies by the Registrar, and rec-
ommended by the Committee on Ministerial Qualifications, passed
to the Studies of the Third Year, and elected to full membership
and deacons' orders: William O. Power, Vernie C. Rogers, George
E. Whitten, Frank S. Young, and Edgar Moore. They were called
forward, answered the Disciplinary questions, addressed by the Bishop
relative to the work of the ministry, and received into full member-
ship in the Conference.
Leave of Absence. — On motion, J. J. Fred, J. C. Valentine, and
W. E. McPheeters were granted leave of absence. Brother Mc-
Pheeters spoke a few words to the Conference with regard to his work
as chaplain in the army and the fine moral tone of the enlisted men
at Camp Taylor, at which camp he is stationed.
C. Emery Smith, whose name had been omitted, was passed in
character.
Twenty-Third Question. — ''Who are the Supernumerary Preach-
ers?'' was asked, and the following were passed in character and
continued in this relation on recommendation of the Committee on
Conference Relations: J. Z. Barrett, J. F. Bailey, J. O. Bills, C. M.
Hollopeter, J. M. Haines, and F. J. Speckien.
On recommendation of the Committee on Conference Relations,
G. W. Bailor, E. A. Hartman, and H. M. Johnson were granted cer-
tificates of location at their own request.
On recommendation of the Committee on Conference Relation,
R. I. Black and C. A. Hunt were continued in this relation, with the
request to locate at the end of the year.
M. A. Harlan, at his own request, was continued in this relation
by a two-thirds vote of the Conference.
Change of Relation. — On recommendation of the Committee on
Conference Relation, the following were passed in character, and
were changed from effective to supernumerary: E. C. Hallman and
W. M. Amos.
J. W. Bowen, at his own request, was changed from effective to
retired.
On recommendation of the Committee on Conference Relations,
J. H. McNary was continued in effective relation.
Representations. — F. M. Stone, Executive Secretary of the En-
dowment Campaign of Garrett Biblical Institute, spoke in the
interests of that school.
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E C Wareing, editor of the Western Christian Advocate, was
introduced, and addressed the Conference in a very happy, con-
gratulatory speech for its support of the Advocate.
G Franklin Ream, religious work director of the Board of Educa-
tion, was introduced, and addressed the Conference in the interests
of that Board.
Charles M. Stewart, President Garrett BibUcal Institute, was in-
troduced, and spoke a few words to the Conference.
Twenty-Fifth Question.— " Who are the Triers of Appeals?" was
askeii. and the Bishop announced the following: C. U. Wade, W. T.
Arnold, U. S. A. Bridge, R. L. Semans, and C. H. Smith. Reserves:
M. C. Harman, and C. E. Line.
At the request of M. S. Marble, E. L. Jones was excused to attend
the funeral of one of the guests of the Memorial Home.
F. M. Rule, Field Secretary of the Illinois Woman's College, was
introduced, and spoke in the interests of that Institution.
Committees were called, announcements were made, and the
benediction was pronounced by President Stewart, of Garrett Bib-
lical Institute.
FOURTH DAY.
Morning Session.
Saturday Morning, April 6, 1918.
The Conference convened for the devotional service at 8.30 A. M.,
Bishop Nicholson in charge. He announced Hymn No. 315, "Nearer,
My God, to Thee," which was sung, and D. H. Guild led in prayer.
The Bishop read for the morning lesson from the Book of Exodus,
chapter 24, verses 1 and 2, and gave expositions on the theme of
"Seeing God," and closed the devotions with prayer.
Journal. — The Secretary read the Journal of yesterday's session,
which was approved.
The Bishop read a communication from F. J. Hasenstab concern-
ing his mission work among the deaf mutes of this area, and presented
a check for $2, the pro rata amount of his collections for Conference
Claimants, which check was ordered turned over to the Board of
Stewards for distribution.
Order of the Day. — ;The resolution on the publication and dis-
tribution of the Conference Minutes was presented by D. T. Stephen-
son, and, after discussion, on motion of C. E. Line, was laid on the
table.
Temperance. — The Temperance Committee's report was read by
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A. S. Preston, and also the supplementary report, both of which were
adopted, and the supplementary report was also adpoted by the
laymen present.
J. C. White presented a request from the semi-annual meeting
of the Board of Trustees of Taylor University, located in Upland,
Indiana, namely, that the Conference appoint a committee of five of
its members to act in connection with a like committee appointed
from the membership of the said Trustees, to investigate the plans
whereby this institution of learning may possibly become a part of
our Conference interests, and, on his motion, the following were
appointed: W. B. Freeland, W. W. Martin, J. A. Beatty, C. E.
Line, and F. A. Hall.
The Committee on the Wesley Foundation, Purdue University,
made their report through W. B. Freeland, which was adopted.
Recognition of Orders. — On motion of R. J. Wade, Noah E.
Smith was received into the Conference from the Wesleyan Meth-
odist Church of America, his orders recognized as an elder, and he
was assigned to the Studies of the Third Year.
On motion of B. S. Hollopeter, Isaac C^rn, a probationer, was
discontinued.
On motion of B. S. Hollopeter, the relation of G. H. Craft was
changed from Supernumerary to effective, and the Bishop then an-
nounced his transfer to the North-East Ohio Conference.
Fifth Question. — "Who have been Received on Trial?'' was
asked. John B. Sparling was represented by his District Superin-
tendent, recommended by the Logansport District Conference, the
Registrar reported his examinations, was recommended by the Com-
mittee on General Qualifications, and admitted into the Conference
on trial in Studies of the First Year,
Twenty-Fourth Question. — "Who are the Retired Ministers?''
was called. The following were passed in character and continued
in this relation: T. H. C. Beall, S. Billheimer, C. H. Brown, W. W.
Brown, F. G. Browne, J. S. Cain, J. W. Cain, A. J. Carey, J. B. Cook,
Eli Davis, C. E. Disbro, H. A. Ewell, J. T. Fettro, T. F. Freeh,
O. V. L. Harbour, E. F. Hasty, G. H. Hill, F. M. Kemper, F. M. Lacy,
R. T. Laslie, W. E. McCarty, J. W. McDaniel, H. E. McFarlane,
S. C. Miller, C. H. Murray, S. C. Norris, William Peck, M. R. Peirce,
J. M. B. Reeves, M. C. Pittenger, R. S. Reed, W. H. Peirce, Lewis
Reeves, F. A. Robinson, J. A. Ruley, J. M. Rush, B. Sawyer, E. L.
Semans, L. A. Sevits, R. H. Smith, F. M. Stright, J. V. Terflinger,
J. W. Tillman, W. F. Walker, J. K. Walts, C. H. Wilkinson, J. E.
.Williams, A. S. Wooton, and G. B. Work.
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Introductions.-Dr. Sol. C. Dickey, representing Winona, spoke
to llu- ronfercnce regarding the work of the Bible Institute.
When the name of T. F. Freeh was called, his pastor reported his
recent loss by fire, and the Conference sent its sympathy.
C I^. Guthrie, D.D., Assistant General Secretary of the Epworth
League, was introduced, and represented that work, and W. B.
Frccland spoke regarding the Wawasee Institute.
Ralph Ward, of China, was introduced, and represented the
C\MUenarv Missionary Movement.
F. E. Fribley reported his work as student pastor at Purdue
IniviTsit}'.
The report of the Joint Educational Commission was read by
W. W. Martin, and, on his motion, was adopted.
President Vayhingcr, of Taylor University, spoke in the interests
of that institution.
F. R. Hill, on motion of B. S. Hollopeter, was elected to Deacons'
and Elders' Orders under the Chaplaincy Rule, and spoke of his work
at Camp Shelby.
Sale of Church.— On motion of J. A. Beatty, the Conference
authorized the sale of Fall Creek Church, on the Ingalls Charge, the
money derived from said sale ($166.62) to be divided equally between
Ingalls and Fortville Churches.
On motion of R. J. Wade, the pastor of the senior member of our
Conference was appointed a committee to send the greetings of the
Conference to the absent retired members.
Announcements were made, and the Conference adjourned, to
meet at 1.30 in joint session with the laymen.
The benediction was pronounced by Charles E. Guthrie.
Afternoon Session.
Conference met at 1.30 in joint session with the Laymen's Asso-
ciation, Bishop Nicholson presiding. He announced Hymn No.
334, "My faith looks up to Thee," which was sung, and prayer was
then offered by Professor B. W. Ayers and W. D. Parr.
In extending a welcome to the laymen meeting with us in joint
session, the Bishop spoke in a happy manner of the intimate relation
they sustain to the forward movements in the church. To his words
of welcome Mr. E. E. Starbuck, president of the Laymen's Associa-
tion, made a suitable reply, and assured the Conference of the sincere,
hearty, and continued co-operation of the laymen with the ministers,
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Somerville Light then delivered a stirring address on the pro-
gram of the Chicago Area. A. B. Cline, of Bluffton, in an address
that stirred deeply the hearts of all in this joint meeting, urged the
greatest of spiritual equipment, the baptism of the Holy Spirit as
an essential and adequate equipment, on the part of both preachers
and laymen, for the carrying out of this great forward movement
inaugurated by the Centenary Commission.
Prayer was offered by Bishop Nicholson, after which the following
delivered short, stirring addresses: Judge F. E. Bowser, of Warsaw,
on "Co-operation;" E. S. Vandemark, on "Evangelization of the
Country Church;" B. F. Hornaday made some very helpful remarks
upon the country church problem. F. P. Bothwell, of Ligonier, gave
a short talk. Ralph Ward, of China, spoke with reference to the
Centenary program.
Bishop Nicholson spoke briefly upon the possibilities of the world
program. Then the following resolution was read by F. W. Greene,
of Syracuse :
We, the preachers of the North Indiana Conference and members
of the North Indiana Conference Laymen's Association, in joint
session, having heard with high appreciation the patriotic and re-
ligious sentiments as expressed by Bishop Nicholson and others,
ministers and laymen who are in leadership in this Conference, do
hereby express our full endorsement and enthusiastic approval of
the same.
We note with keen interest the program formulated and adopted
by the Conference of District Superintendents of the Chicago Area
last February, with Bishop Nicholson presiding, as the program of
Methodism for the Chicago Area for the year 1918. We note that
it is a program necessitated by the present-day world situation. It
is also the result of a careful survey of the moral, religious, and social
conditions now prevailing in large cities and in rural communities.
As such, it makes a compelling appeal to every loyal Methodist to
give unstinted co-operative support to our Bishop and others identified
with him in leadership, to the end that this Conference may make
the largest possible contribution to the intellectual awakening,
political purifying, moral deviation, and spiritual illumination and
consequent social and industrial betterment of all the people of this
great area.
To the faithful working out of this program, which calls for the
unqualified loyalty of every citizen to the President of this Republic
in winning the war, as a patriotic duty to be cheerfully performed;
also for the recruiting and training of our ministry, the promotion
of moral and religious education in Sunday school and Epworth
League endeavor, campaigns for endowments and Christian steward-
ship, the solution of problems peculiar to life in our great cities, the
development of the moral and religious resources of our rural com-
munities, the maintenance of the central mission of the church, which
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is worlil-wide evangelism, we pledge the full measure of our devotion
ill united and co-operative endeavor.
Frank W. Greene, A. R. Beyerle,
E. Starbuck, W. N. Lee,
A. A. Rasor, a. B. Cline,
B. W. Ayres, Somerville Light,
J, D. CopPES, B. S. Hollopeter,
J. W. Stackhouse, M. S. Marble,
G. E. Meck, James A. Beatty,
H. S. Current, W. W. Martin,
M. O. Abbey, R. J. Wade.
R. J. Wade offered the following resolution, which was adopted:
The Centenary World Program of American Methodism challenges
attention on every hand, the hearty co-operation of all laymen and
pastors.
The call of the last General Conference for a celebration of the
Missionary Centenary during the years 1918 and 1919 is being an-
swered by statesmanlike vision by our bishops and missionary leaders.
The nation has been thrust into world obligations of undreamed
significance. In these days of world-wide destruction we give our-
selves unusually to this great world program of construction. The
world is to be made safe for democracy and democracy made safe
for the world by the regenerating power of the preached gospel of
Christ.
The resolution was unanimously adopted by a standing vote,
and the joint session stood adjourned.
FIFTH DAY.
Sunday, April 7, 1918.
The Annual Conference Love Feast was opened at nine o'clock,
in which G. B. Work, who was in charge, was assisted by Lewis Reeves,
Charles E. Disbro, M. F. Stright, and J. S. Cain. J. S. Cain an-
nounced the first hymn, "O for a thousand tongues to sing," after
the singing of which prayer was offered by Lewis Reeves. M. F.
Stright read the Old Testament lesson, and the New Testament
lesson was read by Charles E. Disbro. After a large number of both
ministers and laymen had testified, in which a fine spirit prevailed,
the Love Feast was brought to a close.
Public Worship.~At 10.30 the public worship was opened by
the pastor of the church, the Rev. L. J. Naftzger, announcing the
first hymn, "O for a thousand tongues to sing." Prayer was offered
by Dr. Mantel. The splendid choir of the church rendered beautiful
music under the leadership of Mr. Elmer Funk, choir director.
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D. T. Stephenson read the Scripture lesson and Everett Naftzger
sang a solo.
Bishop Nicholson preached a soul-stirring sermon from Matt.
22. 46, "What think ye of Christ?" and closed the service with
prayer, after singing Hymn No. 180, "All hail the power of Jesus'
name." The Bishop pronounced the benediction.
Memorial Service.
The Conference met for the memorial service at 2.30 P. M., with
D. V. Williams, the Secretary, in charge. The hymn "My faith looks
up to Thee" was sung, and prayer was offered by C. H. Brown.
Miss Geraldine Dunn sang a solo, and W. A. Griest, the Assistant
Secretary, read for a Scripture lesson the eighty-seventh Psalm.
Rev. R. C. Plank and wife sang a beautiful duet.
The Secretary read a brief review of the memoirs of J. W. Welch,
P. S. Stephens, J. W. Paschall, I. W. Singer, F. M. Lacy, J. E. Ervin,
A. M. Patterson, William S. Stewart, and Mrs. Sarah Poland Peck,
Mrs. Weber Roahrig, Mrs. A. L. Lamport, Mrs. Melissa E. Lacy,
and Mrs. J. E. Ervin, deceased within the last year. The sermon
was preached by Rev. C. E. Line, D.D. His subject was "The Anni-
versaries Kept in Heaven," from the text "The Lord shall count,
when he writeth up the people, that this man was born in Zion."
The Secretary called attention to the fact that one of the supplies.
Rev. A. M. Wickman, had died this last year, and his District Super-
intendent, M. S. Marble, spoke briefly of his life and work.
Ordination Service.
Immediately at the close of the memorial srvice, Bishop Nich-
olson took charge of the ordination services, and at his request the
Secretary called the names of the following: Edgar Moore, William O.
Power, Vernie C. Rogers, George E. Whitten, Frank S. Young,
J. Austin Lord, and Fred R. Hill, and presented them to the Bishop
to be ordained deacons. After they had taken the vows the Bishop
ordained them deacons.
The Secretary called the following to the altar and presented
them to be ordained elders: Charles W. Chadwick, Valorous L.
Clear, Ernest B. Megenity, Henry C. Powell, Alvin F. White, Ernest
J. Wickersham, Ow^en B.Young, George L. Jordan, George N.'Callaway,
J. Austin Lord, David L. MacFarlane, and Fred R. Hill. After
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the.e had take., their vows, the Bishop, with the assistance of the
District Superintendents and other elders, ordamed them elders
The Bishop called the deacons who had been ordamed, as well as
tlH-ir wives and friends, to the altar for a consecration service, m
which George R. Grose and James A. Beatty led m prayer
The ordination service closed with the benediction by the Bishop.
gttiiniiiiiuiaiiiiiiiiii
Certificate of (l^rbination
This Certifies, That at Warsaw, Indiana, on April seventh,
nineteen hundred eighteen, I did ordain, under election of
the North Indiana Annual Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, the following:
As Deacons.— Fred R. Hill, J. Austin Lord, Edgar Moore,
William (). Power, Vernie C. Rogers, George E. Whitten,
and Frank S. Young.
As Elders.— George N. Callaway, Charles W. Chadwick,
Valorous L. Clear, Fred R. Hill, George L. Jordan, J. Austin
Lord, David L. MacFarlane, Ernest B. Megenity, Henry C.
Powell, Alvin F. White, Ernest J. Wickersham, and Owen B.
Young.
Presiding Bishop.
SIXTH DAY.
Monday Morning, April 5, 1918.
Conference convened at 8.30 A. M., Bishop Nicholson presiding.
He announced Hymn No. 212, "Zion stands with hills surrounded,"
which was sung. He read for a Scripture lesson the 46th Psalm, and
made very helpful remarks on the same. Prayer was made by G. B.
Work. Hymn No. 428 was sung, "Must Jesus bear the cross alone?"
At Bishop Nicholson's suggestion, a vote of thanks was extended
Brother McCartcr for his splendid service as head usher of the local
church.
The Journal of Saturday's sessions was read and approved. The
Journal of Sunday's services and 'sessions was read and approved,
and the memoirs prepared by the Secretary were adopted as the
official memoirs.
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On motion of the Secretary, the Cabinet nominated the standing
committees for next year and was requested to apportion the Con-
ference Benevolences for this year to the Districts. B. S. Hollopeter,
for the Cabinet, read the Hst of standing committees for next year
(See Hst.) ;2003564
M. S. Marble moved that all requests to the Board of Home Mis-
sions and Church Extension for Missionary Appropriations be re-
ferred to the Cabinet, with power to act.
Publication of Minutes. — On motion of D. H. Guild, the Sec-
retary was ordered to have printed five thousand copies of the transac-
tions of this Conference session, together with the reports and sta-
tistics, as the Official Journal, and to distribute the same to the Dis-
tricts pro rata with the number of members in full connection, and
to send a copy to each retired member living without the bounds of
the Conference, and a copy to each Conference widow; and that one
hundred dollars be added to the expense account of publishing the
Minutes of the Conference, to be given to the Secretary as part pay
for his services as Secretary.
Change of Relation. — On motion of their respective District
Superintendents and the recommendation of the Committee on
Conference Relations, G. E. Garrison and J. H. McNary were granted
the retired relation at their own request.
Fifth Question. — The Fifth Question, " WJw have been Received
onTrial?" was called. The following were introduced, reported in
their studies by the Registrar, recommended by the Committee on
Ministerial Qualifications, represented by their respective District
Superintendents, and admitted on trial in the Conference in the
Studies of the First Year: James F. Stephenson and John M. Stewart,
recommended by the Fort Wayne District Conference; Ralph C.
Plank, Samuel L. Yoder, and Leo D. Hershberger, recommended by
the Goshen District Conference; Clarence G. Cook, Ernest G. Giggy,
Phillips B. Smith, and Barton R. Pogue, recommended by the Muncie
District Conference; Estill E. Franklin, Victor E. Stoner, Ralph R.
Henderson, recommended by the Richmond District Conference; and
D. Joseph Imler, recommended by the Wabash District Conference.
Second Question. — Question Two, "Who have been Transferred,
and from what Conferences?" was asked, and the Bishop formally an-
nounced the transfers of the following: Arthur J. Armstrong, from the
North Montana; Edgar Moore, Walter B. Morgan, and J. Austin Lord,
Northwest Indiana; Chester L. Schwartz and Charles Emery Smith,
Indiana; David L. MacFarlane, Central Illinois; William V. Meredith,
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Detroit; Lewis C. McFarlin, North-East Ohio; John F. Porter, Rock
River, and Thomas Davies, Dakota.
The following were formally announced as transferred out: Silas
L. Gates, Colorado; William A. McCurdy, West China; Alfred H.
Kenna and J. Austin Lord, Northwest Indiana; C. Claud Travis,
Rock River; George L. Conway, West Virginia; David L. MacFarlane,
Central Illinois; George H. Crafts, North-East Ohio, and Charles W.
Jeffras, New England.
The Committee on the State of the Country made a report, which
was adopted by a rising vote. "My country, 'tis of thee" was sung.
The Committee on Ministers and Sons from Our Parsonage Homes
in the Anny made report, which was adopted. On motion of W. D.
Parr, it was ordered that the list be printed in the Conference Minutes.
At the request of the Bishop, prayer was offered by Leslie J. Naftzger.
It was ordered that those reporting the number of stars on their
service flags should report to H. A. P. Homer the number.
Program for Next Session.— On motion of the Secretary, the
Superintendent of Logansport District and the pastor of First Church,
Peru, were constituted a Committee on Program for the next session
of this Conference.
On motion of D. V. Williams, the Bishop was asked to appoint
the pastor of First Church, Elwood, a fraternal delegate to the State
meeting of the Methodist Protestant Church, which meets in Elwood
next fall.
C. U. Wade offered a resolution relative to Preachers' Aid Work,
which was adopted. (See Resolutions.)
Leslie J. Naftzger, President of the Conference Corporation and
Board of Trustees, asked authority of the Conference to invest $700
of the funds of the Corporation in Liberty Bonds, which authority
was granted.
M. S. Marble, in behalf of the Cabinet, read complimentary res-
olutions relative to the presidency of Bishop Nicholson, which was
adopted by a standing vote.
The statistician read report of totals, which report was ordered
printed in the Minutes.
On motion of L. J. Naftzger, it was ordered that copy of the
Treasurer's report be handed to the District Superintendents at an
early date.
First Question.— The First Question, "Is this Annual Conference
Incorporated According to the Requirements of the Discipline?" was
asked, and answered, "It is."
On motion of T. M. Guild, the Secretary was authorized to edit
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and condense wherever necessary all reports, not changing essentials
in them.
T. M. Guild moved an extension of time, in order to hear the
reports. Time was extended.
Reports. — The following reports were read and adopted, and
where there were nominations, these were elected. Aggressive Evan-
gelism, Bible Society, Education, Freedmen's Aid, and Stewards.
(See Reports.)
On motion of R. J. Wade, the Secretary was requested to devise
plans whereby the reports of the Standing Committees might be
made early in the session next year, and printed, if possible, for the
study of each member of the Conference.
The Treasurer read the report of totals, which was adopted and
ordered printed in the Minutes.
The Conference granted the Board of Stewards the authority to
disburse the funds due childless deceased claimants.
Questions 31-34 were asked and answered. (See Disciplinary
Questions.)
A resolution relative to the unmarked graves of deceased members
of this Conference was adopted. (See Resolutions.)
On motion of J. C. White, a collection was ordered and taken for
the Janitor of the local church, on account of the splendid condition
in which he had kept the church during the Conference session. The
collection was taken, and amounted to $21.52.
On motion of V. L. Clear, a committee consisting of the District
Superintendents and one pastor and layman from each District was
ordered raised to consider the problem of the country church. (See
Special Committees.)
Reports. — The following reports were read and adopted. (See
Reports.) Hospital, Memorial Home, Parsonage and Furniture,
Social and Moral Questions, Sunday Schools, Sustentation, Woman's
Work.
On motion of Preston Polhemus, the officers of Conference Cor-
poration and Board of Trustees were re-elected. (See List.)
On motion of L. J. Naftzger, it was ordered that the amount
apportioned to the different charges for the hospital be the same as
last year.
Commission on Education for Indiana. — On motion, the following
were constituted the members of the Commission on Education for
Indiana: W. W. Martin, C. U. Wade, and W. B. Freeland.
Mr. J. C. Shade read a resolution from the local church, which so
nicely entertained us during the session. (See Resolutions.)
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Complimentary rt-solutions were read and adopted by a standing
vote. M. S. Marble called the attention of the Conference to the
fart that, as Treasurer of the Flood Fund, he had turned over to the
Board of Stewards the balance on hands, amounting to $242.99, to
be used as an emergency fund. ^
The Committee on District Conference Journals read a report,
which was adopted.
t)n motion of B. S. Hollopeter, it was ordered that the Auditing
Committee be requested to report at the opening of the next session
of this (^inference.
The Secretary read the following letter from the White House,
which letter, on motion, the Conference ordered printed in the Min-
ni^^s. The White House,
-, „ e Washington, April 6, 1918.
My Dear Sir: & > j-
The President asks me to thank you very warmly for your courtesy
in sending liim a copy of the resolutions adopted by the North Indiana
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is grateful for
the prayers and support of your associates and yourself, and he
genuinely appreciates this heartening message.
Sincerely yours.
Signed: Jos. Tumulty,
Rev. Dr. D. V. Williams, Secretary to the President.
Secretary of the Conference,
Warsaw, Indiana.
No further business being brought to the attention of the Con-
ference, on motion of the Secretary, it was ordered that, after con-
ducting of the devotional services and the reading of the appoint-
ments, the North Indiana Annual Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church stands adjourned sme die.
The Journal of this day's session was approved without reading,
The Journal of the present session of the Conference was adopted
as the Official Journal of its proceedings.
Devotions. — The Bishop spoke briefly of the work of the present
session and offered prayer.
He read the list of appointments, the long meter Doxology was
sung, he pronounced the benediction, and the North Indiana Annual
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church stood adjourned
without day.
c^-THjb
President.
Secretary.
(VIII) aaeportg.
(a) DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS.
Wallace w. Martin.
FORT WAYNE DISTRICT.
Wallace W. Martin, District Superintendent.
Bishop Nicholson and Brethren: Our task at this moment is a pleasure-
able one. We bring glad tidings of good things. For two years in succes-
sion each minister's home in Ft. Wayne District has been spared the toll of
death. We have three retired ministers liv-
ing within this district: M. C. Pittenger, of
Coesse; M. F. Stright and J. K. Walts, of
Ft. Wayne. Each of these is a loyal helper
to his pastor, and faithful to all the interests
of the kingdom.
The severity of the winter, at times al-
most impassable roads, the fuel situation,
have imposed hardships, interfered with
special services, and have introduced new
conditions, but uncomplainingly our pastors
and laymen have been true soldiers of the
Lord Jesus Christ and have made these diffi-
culties stepping stones to larger achieve-
ment. We have announced our creed. In
Ft. Wayne District we believe that when the
world is depending upon America as never
before, and when the American Government
is depending upon the church as never be-
fore, it is no time for the church to retreat.
And we are not retreating.
Changes in Pastors. — On July 15
Brother L. G. Games, of Poneto, and Brother E. E. Wright, of Harlan, were
exchanged in appointments, the pastors and charges consenting to the ar-
rangement.
On September 15 C. A. McPheeters, a probationer of this Conference,
was relieved of the Hoagland charge that he might attend school, and
Brother Russell S. Jones, also a probationer, was appointed to this charge.
At the same time Arthur C. Emmons, who was supplying the Spencer-
ville charge, was relieved of his work, and Glen Bryan was appointed in his
stead.
October 15 Dr. C. Claud Travis, for eight and one-half years the well-
loved pastor at Wayne Street. Ft. Wayne, was transferred by Bishop Nichol-
son to the Rock River Conference and stationed at First Church, Englewood,
and J. F. Porter, of that Conference, formerly a member of this Conference,
was returned to us and stationed at Wayne Street.
Church and Parsonage Property. — On the sixth day of May we dedicated
the beautiful rural church at St. Joe, on the Ft. Wayne Circuit. This was
quite an undertaking for only thirty-five members, the number reported by
J. M. Stewart, pastor, at our last Conference session. The cost of the build-
ing was $6,400, and of this $3,500 was unprovided for. At the afternoon
session we were able to announce that $4,100 had been pledged. At night
we conducted evangelistic services and eleven people came forward and
united with the church. Fine revival meetings have since been held and
the membership of the church more than doubled this year. All but $1,850
has been paid at this time. Brother Stewart believes in prayer, and this and
other achievements are some of his tokens of answer to prayer.
On September 23 our commodious and modern church at Hudson was
dedicated by Dr. A. E. Smith, of Ada, Ohio. The cost was about $12,000,
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II f tSnno was needed to meet indebtedness. On the total cost of
7h ^"iz t^-r t:t ^:^r^i;!L^ til/ t-:i:es^-f l|f ^
:!ru;3"cnh in'th'^hrds of the^asu^rer of the'-Board of Trustees to pay all
''^'''shJTrtly after Conference last spring a property at Bluffton was pur-
chnsed^ns a parsonage for the Bluffton Circuit, and this has been remodeled,
., d the pasto^ E. JMaupin, and his family have been occupying this com-
frlable parsonage home. xWelve hundred dollars has been raised and paid
"" ^lirKronri'u/t'hl'action of the Quarterly Conference of the Ashley
charge a prope'rty has been contracted for, and the pastor, Darrell Stoakes,
and wife are occupying this parsonage. . ,. ,,
Geo L Conway has been successful in providing the entire amount
needed ($i,8oo) to finish paying for the new parsonage erected at Pleasant
* ' FifYeerhundred dollars has been paid on the debt at Ossian, $2,000 on
the debt at Garrett, $1,000 on the debt at Leo, and $900 on the debt at i're-
The Huntertown church has been repaired and frescoed at an expense
of $1 000; the Wayne Street church has installed a new heating plant in the
parsonage at an expense of $1,200; $800 in cash has been raised and applied
to the new building fund at Trinity, Ft. Wayne.
Methodist Literature.— The Sunday schools at Ft. Wayne District want
the strong meat of the gospel they find in our own Sunday-school literature.
We are gtad to say that the most of our pastors feel the same responsibility
with regard to taking of subscriptions for our church papers as they do for
our benevolences. The circulation of the Western Christian Advocate has
increased, the net gain in subscriptions being 207.
Revivals, Church Membership, Pastoral Labor. — About one thousand
conversions and reclamations are reported. Considering the fact that in
many places our pastors were prohibited from holding any meetings, we are
thankful for even this number. The largest number of converts reported is
by Glen Bryan, on the Spencerville charge, 100. Jos. Grimes, Coesse, reports
80; B. D. Nysewander, Fiat, 68; J. M. Stewart. Ft. Wayne Circuit, 63; G. A.
Snider, Geneva Circuit, 56; F. A. Hall, Auburn, 55; A. G. Neal, First Church,
Ft. Wayne, 55; M. C. Wright, Trinity, 48; Chas. Tinkham, Garrett, 45; E. J.
Glendenning, Auburn Circuit, 41; L. G. Carnes, Harlan. 41; G. Dawe, Kings-
land, 35; L. W. Kemper, Fremont, 31; G. L. Conway, Pleasant Mill, 28; and
others less than 25.
The advance reports of pastors indicate that 1,271 names have been re-
corded as full members this year, and that for various causes 821 have been
removed. While the margin here is not large, it is a margin on the right
side of the ledger.
It is a time to stress pastoral visitation and evangelism. When sons are
at the front and hearts at home are tender, when usual methods of evangelism
are partially forbidden, there is no barrier to a minister's pleading and
prayers with the people in their homes and in offices.
Ministerial Support. — When on circuits allowance has been made for
changes in the charges, the advance for pastor's cash salary for the churches
now constituting the charges is as follows: First Church, Ft. Wayne, $500;
Ray, $400; Bluffton Circuit, $325; First Church, Bluffton, $300; Huntertown,
$300; Garrett, $250; Simpson, Ft. Wayne, $200; Leo, $200; Decatur Circuit,
$200; Hamilton, $200; York, $200; Coesse, $162; Trinity, Ft. Wayne, $150;
Fiat, $150; Auburn Circuit, $125; Decatur, $100; Geneva Circuit, $100; Fre-
mont, $100; Harlan, $roo; Ossian, $100; Woodburn, $100; and Montpelier at
the close of this year adds $100. Lesser increases have been made at Ashley,
Geneva, Spencerville, and Kingsland (26 out of 40 charges) ; a total advance
in cash salary for pastors of $4,587, and twenty-one charges have already
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planned for advance next year. With the average cost of living having ad-
vanced 30 per cent in 1916, and 25 per cent more in IQ17, we are in no danger
of keeping iip in salaries with the advance cost of living.
District Meetings. — The pastors' and stewards' meeting held in May;
the Settlement Day and Evangelistic Conference in December; the Central
Meeting conducted by all the district superintendents in September; the Fall
Benevolence Campaign, with J. J. Kingham, J. M. Yard, and S. W. Edwards
as missionary helpers; the Epworth League convention in Garrett; the
meetings of the W. F. M. S. and the W. H. M. S., and the National Board
of Control of the Epworth League, all in Simpson Church, Ft. Wayne, and
the District Conference in First Church, Ft. Wayne, with Bishop Nicholson
and other distinguished representatives of General Conference Boards of
our church, have widened the vision of our people and laid fundations for
further achievement.
Christian Stewardship. — After conference with our capable missionary
secretary, F. A. Hall, it was agreed that we should undertake to do some-
thing for Christian Stewardship. Consequently F. F. .Thornburg was ap-
pointed as Christian Stewardship secretary. During our fall missionary
campaigns we gave Christian Stewardship a leading place. November 25 was
set apart as enlistment day for Christian Stewardship. The immediate re-
sult has been the enlistment of twelve hundred men and women in Ft. Wayne
District. Thus we have anticipated the Christian Stewardship campaign in
connection with the Centenary campaign. We can care for all national in-
terests in this critical war time and also meet the obligations of the church
when all our people recognize themselves as stewards of God in material
things.
Benevolences. — Last year we reported that Ft. Wayne District would
take its place along with Goshen District with a "pull up" in each charge for
the eight benevolent boards. By a margin of one dollar one charge failed,
though all apportionments were met and the pastor thought this constituted
a "pull up." Perhaps prophecy is vain, but all pastors report an increase for
the eight boards. Last year fifteen charges were in the all-star class. This
year, according to reports, thirty charges will pay the full apportionments
or more. Two more churches in the district have adopted the parish-abroad
plan: First Church, Ft. Wayne, is supporting J. J. Kingham, and First
Church, Decatur, E. W. Detrich. Only churches that agree to meet all ap-
portionments in full are -asked to take a pastor abroad. The following
charges in the district pay more than $1,000 this year to the eight benevolent
boards: Simpson, Ft. Wayne, $1,022; Hamilton, B. F. Hornaday, pastor,
$1,385; Wayne Street, J. F. Porter, pastor, $1,580; First Church, Auburn,
F. A. Hall, pastor, $2,041; First Church, Decatur, F. F. Thornburg, pastor,
$2,Toi; First Church, Ft. Wayne, A. G. Neal, pastor, $2,110; First Church,
Bluffton, W. T. Arnold, pastor, $5,234. We are confident that Bluffton will
lead the Conference this year, but pledges already taken provide for an in-
crease next year. The following charges are reported by their pastors as
having reached the full apportionment: Angola; Ashley; Auburn. Circuit;
Coesse; Fiatt; Trinity. Ft. Wayne; Fremont; Garrett; Geneva, Geneva Cir-
cuit; Harlan; Hoagland; Hudson; Huntertown; Leo; Monroe; Monroeville;
New Haven; Orland; Spencerville; York Circuit. I was called this morning
by the district missionary secretary and told that the men of our district
had gone over the figures and that a certain sum would put all charges in
the all-star class, and that he would sign note with two or three and_ get the
money. We will not do this now, but we will assure that as a first increase
for next year.
Last year the Ft. Wayne District led the districts of the Conference in
increase, a gain of $3,409 for the eight boards. We are informed by Dr.
Hollingshead, apportionment secretary, that in the four years ending in 1917
the North Indiana' led the fifty-one spring Conferences of Methodism in in-
crease for the eight boards. He also informs us that the Ft. Wayne District
passed to the first place in all the districts of these fifty-one Conferences.
Last fall I wrote Bishop Nicholson that we were expecting that within four
years the district would double its gifts to these great boards. From the
reports given me the gain in the district this year has been $10,032, which,
added to the gain of $3,409 of last year, makes a gain of $13,441 for the two
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eain of 100 per cent over the $12,693 paid in 1916, with
discussing the Centenary program, who said, "I do not have to stop with
$10,000. nor $1^.000. nor $20,000, nor $25,000 on this big prograni. The pas-
tors and laymen of Ft. Wayne District have caught the spirit of the Cen-
tenary movement, believing that it is in the order of divine Providence that
when the world is in the melting pot we should be getting ready in earnest
for tlic rccunstnulion of the world.
Ft. Wayne Methodism.— We are undertaking to solve the problems of
.Methodism in the second city of the State. ^, , tt r 1
J F Porter came in October to Wayne Street Church. He was to fol-
low a very popular and successful pastor, who for more than eight years had
mini-^tered to this people. Difficulties had arisen early in the year. The
situation has been met. The outstanding success in the past year had been
on benevolences, biit this year is better than Dr. Travis' best.
A. G. Neal, at First Church, has had a remarkable year. The gifts to
benevolences have been almost doubled. He not only reports the largest
membership in the district. 1,230, but the largest net gain in members, 115.
Simpson Church has been served the past year by U. S. A. Bridge. The
already phenomenal record of this church on benevolences has been sur-
passed this year. All financial obligations have been met promptly. Ap-
proximately $3,000 has been raised to pay on principal and interest on debt.
The Sunday school here leads the other Methodist Sunday schools of Ft.
Wayne in average attendance. One hundred new members have been re-
ceived during the year.
Manfred C. Wright, reared in Ft. Wayne, a worker in the shops, last
spring returned to his home town and home Conference to become pastor of
Trinity Church. The first few weeks of the Conference year were critical in
this church, but Brother Wright's Christian manliness, his open optimism,
his fine pulpit utterances, and his pastoral fidelity have brought a church to-
gether with united purpose to do the real work of the kingdom. He has
had 1/5 accessions and fine increase in his benevolences.- The churches of
Ft. Wa3me have made a religious census within the year and we are launch-
ing a federated movement, and already Ft. Wayne Methodism asks that the
secretary of our Methodist preachers' organization. Brother L. M. Krider, be
furnished the names of all Methodists moving to Ft. Wayne, and he will
distribute these names according to addresses to various pastors.
The Methodist Hospital. — Our campaign for the Methodist Hospital in
Indianapolis brought subscriptions of $4,100 on an asking of $3,000, and
$2,537 of this amount has been paid.
After careful investigation, in which all the district superintendents of
this Conference shared, it was concluded to appoint a committee of seven
to confer with the Board of Trustees of the Methodist Hospital Association
of Indiana with regard to the purchase of the Ways Sanitarium as a hospital
for the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was felt that the Methodist hospital
work of the State should not be competitive, but» cooperative. The superin-
tendent of the Ft. Wayne District. R. J. Wade, A. G. Neal, Dr. J. S. Mc Curdy,
A. A. Berry, D. N. Foster, and F. F. Thornburg were named as the committee.
We found that the Hope Hospital Association was suspending operation
because of certain difficulties that had arisen, and that they were heartily in
sympathy with a movement for a Methodist hospital, and to give their time
and counsel, as well as available funds, for such purpose.
_ The ^Ways Sanitarium is a six-story building, fireproof, 104 rooms;
with Its own heating, lighting, and water system, and already in operation
as a hospital. It cost, with ground, building, and furnishings, $260,000; was
estimated by architects to be worth $300,000. It could be bought for $260,000,
and the builders, Dr. and Mrs. McBeth, would give $3S,ooo cash on this
proposition, and give reasonable terms for the balance. When the repre-
sentation was made to the Board of Trustees at Indianapolis, a committee of
nine— three from each Conference— was chosen to meet at Ft. Wayne and
make some recommendation to the trustees at a future meeting. The result
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has been that the Methodist Hospital Association of Indiana has agreed to
the purchase of this building and the operation of this Methodist Hospital
on the condition that Ft. Wayne and vicinity shall raise $100,000 and the
Methodist Hospital Association assume the remaining indebtedness of
$125,000. That was March 26. The executive committee of Hope Hospital
have undertaken the leadership in this movement, and already there is avail-
able in cash and subscriptions the sum of $50,000. Such a Methodist institu-
tion is needed in this section of Indiana. The American Government has
already designated this building as the hospital to care for her wounded and
sick soldiers. We are confident that these conditions will be met at an early
date, and our Methodists will have the best-equipped hospital in this section
of the State. The North Indiana Conference has always been true to the
interests of all Methodist institutions for this State, when not one of them
has been located within our Conference, and we have assured our brethren
of the Hospital Board that if a Methodist hospital is located in the largest
city of our Conference they may depend still more upon our loyalty. For
some time Dr. T. J. Johnson was manager of the Hope Hospital and has
given much assistance to this movement.
With profound gratitude to God for his help and guidance, with a deep
sense of what the cooperation of pastors and laymen of Ft. Wayne District
has meant we close this our second report.
GOSHEN DISTRICT.
R. J. Wade, District Superintendent.
Bishop Nicholson and Brothers: Goshen District's report for the Con-
ference year is a record of achievement, a true story of victorious advance on
all fronts. Difficulties of unusual character have been encountered. Ob-
stacles pertaining to an extraordinarily se-
vere winter, the most distressing fuel short- .^'Tf^-'iS^rasfc^
age ever experienced, greatly aggravated in
northern counties, the mterruption by rea-
son of war's demands, the contribution to
Liberty's altar of life, time, strength, and
money in unstinted measure; these have all
been ours and yours.
Mastering the Situation. — Recognizing
early that we faced a serious situation in the
church, I appealed to pastors and laymen
after this manner: "The evidence of great
generalship lies in ability to turn seeming
defeat into decisive victory. Napoleon,
when report was brought early in the day
of a repulse, said, 'One battle lost, there is
time to win another.' We are prevented in
most charges from carrying on proposed
and usual evangelistic campaigns because of
shortage of fuel. Combination of services
on one week day and union Sunday evening ^' J* Wade.
services are in the new order."
I argued that "yesterday extravagance, gluttony, drunkenness, licentious-
ness, selfishness threatened American life. We were rapidly traveling dan-
gerous paths. To-day all is changed. The banner we bear is pure. Men and
women seem to want to be good. They want to be of service. They want
to help fight the common enemy. They are coming back to God, whether
in the trenches, training camps, or home territory. The church is exalted
as never before. Men are hungry as not for long. It is easier to talk and
live religion than yesterday. God help us meet men's needs now. We must
be to-day the Christian disciples of a new civilization. We must reach men
with Christ."
That appeal met ready response in the hearts of the thirteen thousand
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laymen and forty-five pastor men of Goshen District. There have been no
slackers amcHR the ministry, and few famt hearts anywhere.
Revivals and Membership.-Almost every charge will report an mcrease
in mcmhersh.p. many reaching the ten-per-cent goal. At the pastors and
^ ewards' meeting hold in St. Mark's, Goshen, the very begmmng of the
venr t e year's program was made to include an earnest efifort to enroll m
each' charge during the year no less than ten new preparatory members.
A few years ago the statistics for the entire connection revealed the astound-
ing di<;closurc of ^700 churches failing to enroll, with twelve months effort
of pastor and people, a single new probationer North Indiana Conference
and Goshen District furnished some of those churches. Brethren, it ought
No L-ihernacle meetings have been held and few evangelists have been
einploved, though these agencies are never to be disparaged. liddie
Thomas assisted D. H. Guild at Trinity, Elkhart, for three weeks m revival
services Sixty-five dedicated their lives to Christ on the closing Sunday;
thirty-two the Sunday previous; 120. all told. Total conversions and renewals
for the year at Trinity register 140; 46 were received on Easter._
Evangelist Thomas also assisted in a brief successful meeting at Wa-
Passion Week services of exceedingly valuable character were held in
the majority of our churches following the area program. Easter witnessed
the rcccption'of 53 members at First Church, Goshen; 24 at Nappanee; 39 at
Mishawaka: t8 atSt. Mark's, Goshen; 6 at Corunna; 21 at Albion; 13 at Bris-
tol; 2 at Avilla; 3 at Cromwell; to at La Grange; 5 at North Webster; 22 at
Osceola; 3 at Stroh; 7 on the Warsaw Circuit; 8 at Wolcottville; 2 at In-
wood; 18 at Butler; 2 at Etna Green; 7 at Kendallville; 6 at Wakarusa; 5 at
Tippecanoe.
The most outstanding revival record is that of Osceola, J. M. Jordan,
pastor. In spite of snow and blizzard three meetings were held at the three
appointments, resulting in 29 conversions at Bamarack, 30 at Jamestown,
and 22 at Osceola. W. B. Morgan and G. E. Whitten exchanged help in
North Webster and Cromwell, resulting in 32 conversions at Cromwell and
39 at North Webster. W. E. Hogan led to victory at Syracuse, with 51 con-
Versions for the year. A union meeting at Wakarusa, Evangelist Phelps in
charge, largely supported by our people, brought 14 decisions. J. W. Oborn
assisted at Benton, with 10 conversions, while conversions at New Paris
number 15. Brother Oborn has just closed a revival campaign in Clarion,
Pa., where 95 conversions occurred. The year for him, as for other special
evangelists, has not been as productive as usual because of inability to hold
campaigns; nevertheless a total of 125 conversions is reported. When J. C.
Woodruff was released, January i, to become an assistant in the Conference
Claimants field. Brother Oborn completed the year at New Paris, with very
satisfactory results. Brother Earle Naftzger has had a fruitful year in evan-
gelistic work in various fields until September 15, when he engaged in Y. M.
C. A. war work at Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas, and reports "during the
six and one-half months more than one thousand personal interviews, five
hundred decisions, and six hundred renewals."
Evangelistic effort resulted in conversions and definite decisions as fol-
lows: St. Paul, Elkhart, C. B. Croxall, pastor, 35; Bristol. R. R. Detweiler,
pastor, 12; Howe, C. A. Hile, pastor, 28; Goshen Circuit, A. P. Teter, pastor,
20; Nappanee, R. E. Zeigler, 35; Wolcottville, W. T. Daily, 16; Etna Green,
E. Dickson, 25; Pierceton, G. F. Hubbartt, 20; Tippecanoe, H. W. Park, 10;
Bourbon, R. W. Stoakes, 17; Ligonier, T. M. Hill, 12; Middlebury, G. W.
Martin, 20; Milford, R. V. Johnson, 2; Stroh, L. D. Hershberger, 6; South
Milford, V. L. Clear, 12; Elkhart, Simpson. R. C. Plank, 10; Kendallville,
F. A. I.e Master, 24; Goshen, St. Marks, A. L. Lamport, 26; Albion, J. C.
Graham, 10; Corunna, C. F. Jones, 7; Cromwell, G. E. Whitten, 34; Elkhart,
Trinity, D. H. Guild, 140; Goshen, First, H. C. Harman, 21; Inwood, W. E.
Loveless, 7; La Grange, C. L. De Bow, 9; North Webster, W. B. Morgan,
39; Osceola, J. M. Jordan, 74; Warsaw Circuit, R. S. Brown, 15; Butler, R.
Burns, 5; Waterloo, S. F. Harter, 20; Wawaka, A. A. Turner. 2; Wolcottville
W. T. Daley. 16; Warsaw, L. J. Naftzger, 40; Wakarusa, S. B. Stookey, 15;
Mishawaka, B. E. Parker, 30. Total conversions reported to date, 781.
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Conference Claimants Campaign. — Pioneering the way to secure the
complete endowment needed for Conference claimants in North Indiana
Conference, Goshen District at first looked longingly toward its proportion,
$50,000 — one-sixth of the $300,000 at first thought practicable to be raised in
this campaign. Open-minded, broad-visioned laymen recognizing a long
overdue debt, virtually said that it ought and should be paid now.
The raising of the asking of entire Methodism last autumn from $10,000,-
000 to $20,000,000 automatically increased our goal to $100,000 per district.
This gave us the opportunity we coveted. We are now working on the last
$1,000 of the larger goal.
It was further discovered that $1,000,000 of endowment in the North
Indiana Conference would permanently care for every claimant without an-
nual apportionments to the charges. Our ultimate goal therefore is $150,000,
and toward that we now address our efforts. It will ultimately be secured.
A few churches have been slightly canvassed. In no one has the last dollar
been secured. Some very large contributions are in prospect. Immediately
after Conference we will address ourselves anew to the task.
Goshen District has been greatly blessed in the leaders who have worked
with us in the campaign. Brother Morrison's coming has been a benediction
to every home and charge. Two were reclaimed in connection with the so-
licitation of Brother J. C. Woodrufif on the first charge to which he was sent.
He has secured subscriptions large and small, and proved to be the exact man
for the place. The General Board has loaned us for considerable time my
former college classmate, J. Frank Anderson. The latest letter from a pastor
concerning his work says: "Brother Anderson is a prince. Had one conver-
sion yesterday in the home after we got an after-death bond for $500, the
husband of the home."
The campaign has been worth everything that it has cost in spiritual
blessing. Malachi's promise has again been fulfilled: "Bring ye all the tithes
into the storehouse, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will pour you out a bless-
ing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."
Every minister and widow of a minister residing here in Warsaw has
given liberally; one an after-death bond of $5,000, covering a large part of
carefully husbanded outside resources.
This charge, under the magnificent leadership of Dr. L. J. Naftzger,
greatly beloved, like his predecessor, both within and out of the church, has
contributed over $10,000 to this fund, as has Etna Green, E. Dickson, pastor,
while Nappanee, Goshen (First), and Trinity, Elkhart, are pushing close for
the honors.
Births and Deaths. — The two of our veterans who had been longest on
the retired list have gone home: "Father" Welch, aged ninety-four, third
oldest in Methodism, spiritual father to my father; and J. W. Paschall, good
and true servant. These men were honored among us and are mourned by all.
Death entered the parsonage at Bourbon during the session of the last
Conference, conveying to the eternal home the accomplished wife of Brother
R. W. Stoakes, and in August, after long and severe illness, the devoted com-
panion of Brother A. L. Lamport, of St. Mark's, Goshen, was likewise sum-
moned. June 3 ended the earthly visit of Robert Ernest Davy, aged three
and one-half years, who had been an angel guest, since the mother's death,
in the home of Brother and Sister G. F. Hubbartt, of Pierceton. Charles
Todd Jones gladdened the hearts, for a little less than three months, of the
home keepers in Corunna parsonage.
Kenneth Henry Graham was the first child to be born in the fine, new-
Albion parsonage April 18. The first visitor to see life in the new Bourbon
Circuit parsonage is Joe Gordon Menaugh, while Margaret Elizabeth Brown
has engrossed the parents' attention on Warsaw Circuit since October 14.
Sickness, with hospital visitation, has been the portion of the homes of
Brother and Sister J. C. Graham, W. E. Hogan, R. A. Morrison, C. A. Cloud,
J. M. Jordan, F. A. Le Master, B. E. Parker, and J. W. Bowen. Brother
Bowen had hoped to complete forty years in the active ranks, but rheuma-
tism and neuritis compels the relinquishment of the pastorate at this session.
He had for six months, midst great pain, carried on the work of the charge.
He is now seeking help at the Mt. Clemens Sanitarium and desires to be
remembered to and by the Conference.
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Parsonages.-The parsonage debt was extinguished at Corunna under
the leadership of Brother C. F. Jones; extensive repairs were made at To-
nrki while Brother W. T. Daly has managed the building of a fine new
Cingah. parsonage, costing $3,500. at VVolcottville Into the Milford par-
sonage, slu.rtlv after Conference, came the beau iful bride of Brother R. V.
Johnson Pastor, wife, and people have had a delightfully successful year.
Eowcrth League.— Among the new things in Goshen District is a ven-
ture in j..urnalisin by the Goshen District Epworth League. The new paper,
The Reveille, ably edited by R. R. Detweiler; is well named and bespeaks
the spirit of our young Methodist hosts t^- . • . 1 ^
More than two hundred registered from Goshen District last summer at
the Wawasee Epworth League institute, while even more will profitably
spend July 1=^ to 22 this year at the same place. Last year s enthusiastic Ep-
worth League convention was held at Pierceton; this year we are to be
guests of Nappanee. , . m ^ t •
The W. H. and W. F. M. S. conventions convened at Nappanee and Lig-
onier with usual attendance but unusual interest and the best reports ever.
Debts.— Some old things have passed away. Church notes have been
burned at Wolcottville and Cromwell. Splendid payments have been made
at Warsaw. Etna Green, Bourbon, Tippecanoe. Nappanee, Jamestown, La
Grange, and St. Paul, Elkhart.
Church Building.— The rebuilding of churches for the new day was some-
what interrupted by the war. Summit, on the Avilla charge, C. A. Cloud,
pastor, after considerable repairs, was reopened November 18, the district
superintendent raising the balance needed. Osceola, J. M. Jordan, pastor,
raised the church building and arranged a fine basement for all purposes
at an expenditure of $1,223. The reopening was December 30, in charge of
the district superintendent. All money had previously been provided. Pleas-
ant View, W. H. Menaugh, pastor, constructed a fine basement, and Benton,
R. Burns, pastor, installed a furnace and placed new windows in the church.
V. L. Clear, at South Milford, led his people in a successful campaign to
add two rooms for Sunday-school and community service to the church.
The rededication was on a cold day in December; it was, however, a day of
great victory, the district superintendent and pastor looking after the neces-
sary finances.
The biggest enterprise of the year was at Leesburg. What can be done
with $16,500 in these times in the way of church building may be discovered
by an interurban trip north six miles to Leesburg. Herbert Boase is the
proud pastor, and the people are proud of Herbert Boase. The dedication
occurred last Sunday, the district superintendent in charge, assisted by the
pastor and Rev. C. H. Murray, Rev. J. S. Cain, Rev. J. T. Fettro. All money
had been provided for previously. Three were received into the church, and
the church is ready to begin a new era.
Salaries. — Increase in pastor's support as a matter of justice in these
days of increased cost of living is recognized by all. This was stressed in
Quarterly Conferences and at the December Settlement Day in Bristol, with
which was combined an evangelistic institute, a meeting of power and help-
fulness, the atmosphere of which Dr. Dean, of the Department of Evangelism,
said he wished could permeate Methodism. Salaries have been increased
this year, or in process of arrangement, as follows: First Church, Goshen,
$500, H. C. Ilarman, pastor; Bristol, $100, R. R. Detweiler; Goshen Circuit,
$75. A. P. Teter; Etna Green, , E. Dickson; Butler, $100, Robert Burns;
Waterloo, $200, S. F. liarter; Bourbon, $100, R. W. Stoakes: Bourbon Cir-
cuit, $100, W. H. Menaugh; Leesburg, $100, Herbert Boase; North Webster,
$200, W. B. Morgan; Syracuse, $200, W. E. Hogan; Howe, $100, C. A. Hile;
I>a Grange, $150, C. L. De Bow; Valentine, $100, J. H. Royer; Corunna, $100,
C. F. Jones; St. Mark's, Goshen, $100. A. L. Lamport; Middlebury, $roo,
G. W. Martin; Benton, $200, Frank Burns; Milford, $100, R. V. Johnson;
Topeka, $100. J. W.^Bowen; Wolcottville, $100, W. T. Daly; Elkhart, Simp-
son, $150, R. C. Plank; with others to follow, some charges by reorganization.
The new church at Stroh, L. D. Hershberger, closed each quarter with
local budget and benevolences in full to that date. An Epworth League
and W. H. M. S. have been organized. Ten hundred and fifty-eight dollars
was secured in the Conference Claimants campaign.
Benevolences.— A record unique in Methodism has again been achieved
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in Goshen District. For the third successive year every charge "pulls up" in
the benevolences. The outstanding record of Mishawaka last year has been
surpassed this year bj^ several hundred dollars in the remarkable achieve-
ments under the leadership of Brother B. E. Parker. No less significant are
the results in a number of other charges, as the printed records will disclose.
We have not reached the goal of full apportionments in every charge, but
we are Methodists and we are going on to perfection. On last Sunday night
the auto of the president of the Laymen's Association of the Conference car-
ried me rapidl}' toward the one danger spot occasioned by the sickness and
absence of the pastor. The laymen are coming to be as interested as the
pastors in a steady, irresistible advance to win the world to Christ and God.
As General Pershing's men — our men; God bless them! — marched Easter
day to the blood-stained fields of Picardy with songs upon their lips, so must
we march with jubilant contributions to the saving of the world.
Centenary and Stewardship. — The Centenary sounds like the trumpet
call of God. We mast be ready. I shall never forget the awakening to the
overwhelming responsibility for the world's need so vividly portrayed at
Niagara Falls last September, and count it one of the privileges of a lifetime
to have been a member of that World Program Committee. The church has
the men, the organization, the money. What is needed is a revival of stew-
ardship. Voiced bj^ Dr. R. L. Cushman in our District Conference, that
which we propose is, if possible, with you in Conference-wide campaign to
call for our proportion of "a million tithers in Methodism." This is the
preparation we immediately need for the larger church of to-morrow. For
this we shall "mobilize" this year.
Mobilization. — Our mobilization campaigns last fall were uniformly suc-
cessful, reaching in very large measure our entire constituency. The total
attendance exceeded twelve thousand. We are convinced that the church
must mobilize as thoroughly as the Government. There is no possible rea-
son whj' every member of every church should not be definitely committed
to some particular work to be performed through his church. Let the church
mobilize its membership for Christian service much as the Government is
mobilizing its citizenry.
Patriotism and the Flag. — To the country's call our Methodist people
have responded in generous measure. Our pastors and laymen have been
leaders in every Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., Thrift Stamp, Liberty
Loan, and War Chest drive. The pulpit has rung with patriotic messages.
Sons of the manse have been given. Service flags hang in practically all of
our churches. Goshen District has contributed 615 boys from our Methodist
constituency, representing church trustees, stewards, Sunday-school super-
intendents, Epworth League presidents, and every ofificial position, while one
of our own ministers, Ross W. Stoakes, proposes to serve the flag under the
Fosdick Commission, just as Karl H. Carlson patriotically enlisted in No-
vember as a private in the medical department and is to-day stationed at
Camp Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., a member of Ambulance Co. 35.
Heaven's choicest blessing on him and all who have gone or go!
Shall we not pray, with Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews:
"God speed Old Glory wdien she takes the road to France!
Through the thundering of the legions, where the bugles play Advance,
God speaks: 'The fight is mine. Carry you my conquering lance.'
God speed Old Glory on!
"God send Old Glory first and foremost in the fight!
Fling her far, O God of battles, in the van, for the right.
Lift our hearts up to our freedom's flag of red and blue and white.
God fling Old Glory far!
"God guard Old Glory clean through battle grime and sweat!
Consecrate the men who serve her so that none may e'er forget
How the honor of the colors lies within his keeping yet.
God guard Old Glory clean!
"God bring Old Glory home in honor, might, and pride!
Battle-black and bullet-slashed and stripes streaming wide.
Gorgeous with the memories of men who greatly died —
God bring Old Glory home!"
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B. S. HoUopeter.
LOGANSPORT DISTRICT.
B. S. HoUopeter, District Superintendent.
Bishop and Brethren: The events of the past year have been strange and
out of the ordinary. Our state of mind has been undergoing a change from
^ pr. -c-lovin^ .clf-conlident people to one whose emotions have been fanned
' into a holy passion against those who have
outraged humanity, perverted civilization,
and made victims of the innocent and help-
less. This has had a very distinct influence
on the religious mind of a people and^a new
sense of responsibility for the world's wel-
fare is coming to the church. We are get-
ting a new interpretation of the magnitude
of our task. The practical way in which the
various activities of the church are meeting
the demands of the hour gives very hopeful
promise for the future.
Logansport District is keeping pace with
the spirit of the hour. Four of our very
promising young men have ansvvered the
call of our country and put their lives upon
the altar. W. E. McPheeters is now a very
useful and popular chaplain at Camp Taylor,
Kentucky. M. E. Shattuck is with the Ma-
rine Corps in France. A. C. Hoover is do-
ing service in the Evacuation Hospital at
Camp Greenleaf, Georgia. Fred R. Hill will
not accept exemption from the draft and is in training at Camp Taylor and
is to become a chaplain. My wife and I have broken the alabaster box of
ointment in the giving of our two sons to fight for our righteous cause.
From the homes of many of our laymen splendid young men have gone forth
to meet the uncertainties of this awful warfare. A service flag occupies a
prominent and rightful place in all of our churches. Some of these stars
have already turned to gold, indicating the supreme sacrifice. Our ministers
have done their full share to crystallize public sentiment into patriotism.
They have been first in Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. drives. They have helped
the Liberty Loan and the conservation of resources. They have spoken in
no uncertain sound on the great topics of the day.
Sorrow has entered the homes of some of our retired ministers during
the year. Early in June, Mrs. Sarah Feck, the faithfvil companion of Rev.
William Peck, of Frankton, was called to her home above, and leaves our
afflicted brother with only a sweet memory of their long companionship.
On October 15, Mrs. F. M. Lacy, of Cicero, was freed from a body of suffer-
ing and went home to rest with God, where pain and sorrow never comes.
Brother Lacy waits in great loneliness for the day of reunion. July 6, Mrs.
Lovena Smith, of Chili, widow of R. J. Smith, came to the end of a long and
useful life. On January 20 the sweet and gentle spirit of W. B. Stewart, of
Logansport, went home to God. Brother Stewart was one of the best be-
loved men of the North Indiana Conference and died at a ripe old age, sur-
rounded by his devoted children and a host of friends in the Market Street
Church.
Early in the Conference year the bishop transferred Edgar Moore from
the Northwest Indiana Conference to fill a vacancy at West Middleton. He
entered upon his work with great zeal and will bring the best report their
charge has made for years. When Fred R. Hill, of Twelve Mile, was drafted
for army service, Everett Nixon was appointed to take his place. Brother
Nixon has greatly endeared himself to this people, who desire his return.
A. J. Armstrong was secured for Hillisburg when A. C. Hoover entered the
training camp. Brother Armstrong was reared in a parsonage home and
gives promise of a successful career as a Methodist preacher.
New Churches and Improvements.— While Rev. E. S. Riley was at the
Conference session, one year ago, the Sheridan people razed their old church
to the ground. On November 4 they dedicated a new and one of the best-
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planned churches in the Conference. The church cost the sum of $46,000 be-
sides the ground on which it stands. The plans emphasize the Sunday-school
feature without sacrificing its churchliness. Dr. W. D. Parr was master of
ceremonies at the dedication of this truly great building. With this fine
equipment Sheridan charge is sure to take rank among the best in the Con-
ference. Atlanta's new church has been slowly coming to completion, and
they now expect to be ready to dedicate in May. W. M. Amos has added
another to the long list of beautiful churches to his credit. This self-sacri-
ficing people deserve great credit for building a larger and better church
where the old one burned down. Greentown has rebuilt their church at a
cost of $12,000, and they now have a fully modern building with a full base-
ment, steam-heating system, and enlarged auditorium and good Sunday-
school equipment. O. T. Martin has been the master spirit in all this good
w^ork. A grand reopening day was held February 17, at which F. A. Hall,
a former pastor, preached both morning and evening. It was dedicated
March 24 by Dr. Parr.
The Kemp Memorial Church, at Tipton, was reroofed, frescoed, and
otherwise improved at a cost of $2,500. Ben Kendall, the pastor, secured
the money for this improvement and is deservingly popular with his people.
They have put his salary at $1,900 for next year.
It has been a year in which the people have given much attention to the
comfort of their pastors by providing proper homes for them. At Broad-
way, Logansport, A. W. Lowther secured a gift of $6,000 for the purchase
of a- new parsonage, which is located one block south of the church. This
gift was made by Miss Carry Haney, tlie lady who last year gave $7,000 to
free the church from debt. This splendid lady has since been taken to her
reward. She also left an endowment that will perpetuate her support for
current expenses.
Richland built a fine bungalow parsonage for their pastor at a cost of
$2,000. It is a beautiful home. Harry A. Wann, the pastor, will ask to be
left without appointment to attend Drew Seminary. At Bethel, a country
church that was formerly a point on the Amboy Circuit, a new parsonage has
been completed at a cost of $1,500. T. A. Van Camp is the pastor of this
people. W. E. Hogan dedicated this parsonage March 3, at which time he
raised a small balance due on the building. L. G. Jacobs has improved the
parsonage at Sharpsville by installing a furnace, building a new veranda,
garage, all at a cost of $1,200. The parsonage home at Beamer Chapel, Ko-
komo, has been enlarged by adding a second story of four good rooms. It
is now a modern home, with furnace, bath, electric lights, and all conven-
iences of a city home. G. E. Meek and Dr. W. D. Parr, of Grace Church,
have been promoting the good work at Beamer. Extensive improvements
were made on the Center Church by J. C. Valentine. A new basement was
put under the church, a new furnace installed and otherwise improved at a
cost of $1,400. Brother Valentine had a good revival at Nevada and will
pay all his benevolences in full.
Pastors' Salaries. — Seventeen of the pastors in the distrct have had an
increase in salary this year, amounting in all to $2,400. Among those who
have shared in this increase are W. B. Freeland, of Grace Church, Kokomo;
E. B. Megenity, Beamer Chapel, Kokomo; J. C. Valentine, of Center; E. H.
Kennedy, of Amboy; C. E. Dunlap, of Anoka; A. E. Leese, of Galveston;
G. E. Garrison, of Macy; John F. Edwards, of Russiaville; Edgar Moore,
of West Middleton; C. W. Chadwick, of Bunker Hill; U. S. Hartley, of
Hobbs, and L. G. Jacobs, of Sharpsville. The estimating committees of sev-
enteen of the charges have already reported raises in salaries for next year
amounting to over $2,600.
Benevolent Collections. — The Educational campaign, put on last fall
in the interest of our regular Disciplinary and Conference collections, was
the most far-reaching in its results and the best we have ever had. The co-
operative movement carried forward by the district superintendents of the
Conference was especially helpful in the Logansport District. Our meeting
was held in Main Street Church, Kokomo, and was attended by hundreds
of our most influential laymen from every part of the district. This large
church was full from ten o'clock in the morning till the close of the evening
service. The five district superintendents that spoke made very inspiring
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-.J.lresses far exceeding their eflforts at any other district meeting during the
ic-ck The laymen have been expressing their high appreciation of this great
lortiniT ever since. Nine groups had been organized to carry this campaign
•d Nation into every ch'urch in the district. This was done by forty-six
Iov.il and faitliful pastors. Twenty-one thousand people received a burning
, -s age concerning the great Benevolent Boards o our church The good
rcsnlt.s are clearly seen in a splendid increase in all the collections of the
vear Twenty-three of the charges will pay all benevolences m full, and all
the charges will pull "up" over last year's record, with two exceptions
The Epworth Leagues of the district have continued the support of Rev.
I F Cottingham. a district superintendent on the Philippine Islands. Grace
'Church. Kokomo, supports a district superintendent in Bolivia, b. A.
Peru Church supports a missionary also on the parish-abroad plan, ihe
duplex svstem of collections has added greatly to the stability of our giving
to the great Benevolent Boards of the church. The campaign that was put
on for $3,600 for the Indiana Hospital was a great success. Every charge
met its apportionment in full, and more. Forty-five hundred dollars was se-
cured; $2,852 has been paid in cash.
Revivals.— Notwithstanding the many difficulties under which our pas-
tors labored this year, the revival fires have been burning. The spiritual life
of our people has been deepened and 752 have been converted. The net in-
crease in the membership has been 596. J. F. Edwards, of Russiaville, had
a good revival at each point on the charge, at which sixty were converted
and joined the church. The salary will be put at $1,300 if he returns. E. E.
Trippeer has had twenty conversions and eighty-nine accessions at Main
Street, Kokomo. This church has been put on a good financial basis and its
benevolences increased 35 per cent over last year. The Sunday school has
an average of five hundred, and the congregations are the largest in the his-
tory of the church.
The tabernacle meetings this year have not been a great success. Each
year's observation confirms a deep conviction that I have had for years, that
the one true way to promote evangelism is for the pastor of each individual
church to conduct his own meeting.
The subsidiary organizations of the church have done their full share
to make this year's work a success in the Logansport District. The Ladies'
Aid has been especially helpful. They have raised $14,500 during the year,
and have contributed in many other ways to the welfare of the Kingdom.
The W. F. M. S. has had a prosperous year, meeting all their obligations
and added five new auxiliaries to their number. The W. H. M. S. has been
aggressive and given a good account of themselves. They will hold their
Conference convention at Grace Church, Kokomo, this year.
Paying of Debts. — Four years ago Logansport District reported $74,260
indebtedness. All but $4,100 of the debts that then existed have been paid.
Two thirds of the debts made since then have been paid. Only one large
debt remains, and that was made this year. Windfall deserves special men-
tion for the way they have handled their financial problems. With a mem-
bership of about two hundred they built a church that cost $27,000 and a
parsonage that cost $3,000. Four years from the day they dedicated they
paid the last dollar of debt. B. M. Bechdolt, the pastor, this year has led
in the final round-up for the last $5,000. It was all collected in cash by Sep-
tember 30, and this was made a great day for this heroic church. They have
set Brother Bechdolt's salary at $1,200 for next year. W. A. Griest has re-
duced the debt at Elwood.
District Meetings,— The Epworth Leagues of the district held a very
helpful convention at i\Iacy in June. The attendance was large and a good
program was rendered. Dr. Fred B. Fisher very ably represented our mis-
sionary interests at that meeting. Our Leaguers furnished their full share of
students at the Wawasee Institute at their annual meeting in July.
Our District Conference was held at Bunker Hill, Felsruary 27 and 28
and March i. We were fortunate in having an excellent program. Two of
the addresses were made by Bishop Nicholson. These addresses were strong
and very timely. They gave us a real uplift. We were also favored by the
presence and addresses of Drs. J. W. Van Cleve, G. B. Dean, W. H. Hollings-
head, R. S. Cushman, and U. G. Leazenby. Four were given license to preach
and nineteen had their license renewed.
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Prospective. — It requires a steady nerve and an overmastering faith to
look steadfast!)' into our future. Unless our hearts be aflame with the pas-
sion of our Lord, and unless we catch the spirit of sacrifice from him, we will
not be sufficient for these things.
The initial Centenary drive will be put on in the Logansport District the
first four weeks of the new Conference year. This will be the drive of Chris-
tian Stewardship, as outlined by Dr. Cushman, of the Centenary Commission.
We hope this will prepare the way for the very important matters that are
to follow.
I feel a deep sense of appreciation to the pastors of the district for the
faithful and loyal support they have given me in all the work we have tried
to do. If the work has prospered, it is because of their faithful labors.
MUNCIE DISTRICT.
James A. Beatty, District Superintendent.
Dear Bishop and Brethren: In making my second annual report of
Muncie District I am recording the doings of the most momentous year of
our Conference and of American history. In saying this I am perfectly con-
scious of the stirring events of our begin-
ning as a nation and the crucial daj's of the
Civil War and the marvelous inventions of
the past centurj'.
In these fighting days the church is re-
counting some victories. God's truth is
marching on. Of the twenty-nine Confer-
ence men and eleven supplies appointed by
Bishop Nicholson one year ago at Hunting-
ton thirty-four have remained at the task
and ready to make outstanding reports.
Three of our young men answered to the
call of their country and have gone into
Y. M. C. A. army work. Earl Pittenger was
released from Middletown August 21, and
since the first of January has been in France.
Under the date of September 5 Bishop Hen-
derson transferred W. V. Meredith from the
Detroit Conference and Bishop Nicholson
appointed him associate pastor at High
Street, jMtmcie, where he did splendid work
until he was released to go into the Y. M.
C. A. army work and is now in El Paso, Tex.
Noblesville Circuit, was the third to be released, February 10, for this pa-
triotic service and is in San Antonio, Tex. These young men are among the
bravest of the brave.
Three of our pastors have made the large contribution of four noble
sons to our country's service to make the world safe for democracy. They
are as follows: Drs. J. H. Palmer and Patterson, one each; and Rev. C. M.
Hobbs, two.
W. M. Hollopeter was released from Noble Street, Anderson, June 10,
on account of the delicate condition of his wife's health. After supplying
the charge for two months, E. J. Wickersham, having completed his course
at De Pauw Universit}^ was placed in charge, and in a few months' tirne
has brought the charge to a good state of efficiency, offering an increase in
salarj' of $200 for next year. J. L. jNIurr was released from Indiana Avenue,
Anderson, September 9, and was immediately appointed to take up the work
at Middletown, and is closing out a good j^ear. Homer W^right, a local
preacher from the Indiana Conference, was secured to complete the year at
Indiana Avenue. Arthur Carroll took his leave from Grace Church, Ander-
son, the last of October to accept a good promotion in Iowa. L. H. Nixon,
a student in Taylor University and a son of one of our prominent pastors in
Detroit Conference, was appointed to complete the year. E. E. Crabtree
James A. Beatty.
H. A. Kirk, supply on the
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gave up his work on the Summitville Circuit, and Ross Hutsinpiller is now
'" "" Death Toll.-While death has not invaded our parsonage homes the
death toll has been unusually heavy in the ranks of our retired families. The
rs call was made Friday night. August 31, when Dr. Isaac W. Singer was
released from a bed of suffering of several months' duration His patience in
suffering, as he looked longingly into eternity, was just what we might ex-
pect from a man who had so worthily exemplified his Christ in his life and
tcacnng. ^^^^^^ g g^^.^ j^^j j.^g^ stepped across the threshold into the
new year when the Master called him to that better home for which he was
so well prepared. Beautiful in their lives together, six weeks later bister
Ervin joined him on the other side. They were weeks of waiting and [onging
for when he was gone she could not control her desire to be with him and
her dear Lord. Brother Ervin was one of the strong, princely men of our
Conference, with the Word written on the tablets of his memory and beauti-
fully exemplified in his every-day life. , . , • u
Three weeks later. January 23, God let down another of his twenty thou-
sand chariots and invited Rev. A. M. Patterson to step in. He was ready
and waiting. He had been having peeps into heaven and was charmed with
the outlook and longed to be there. He wrought a good work in our
Conference.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens, wife of Rev. Phillip S. Stephens, of Lapel, after
a brief illness in the late autumn was called from labor to rew-ard, leaving
Brother Stephens, at his advanced age, sorrowing and lonely. The death of
Rev. Phillip S. Stephens was announced the second day of our Conference.
Rev. P. E. Greenwalt and Rev. Charles Tinkham went to Lapel to conduct
the funeral.
Retired Preachers. — Muncie District is blessed and helped and honored
by having fourteen retired preachers and their families enrolled with us.
Four of them are living outside the bounds of the district. Dr. W. F. Walker,
who served thirty-one years as a missionary in China, is now sick in our
Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Sister Walker writes, he served a
church two and a half miles out from their home in Irvington and many
times walked the entire distance. He received several people into the church,
which added to his happiness.
Special Appointments. — Our Quarterly Conferences are honored by
having five of our members in special service: Dr. Fred B. Fisher, executive
chairman India Mass Movement Commission; Prof. H. B. Gough, teacher in
De Pauw University; Rev. C. J. Everson, field secretary of the Anti-Saloon
League; Rev. E. B. Westhafer, Conference evangelist; Rev. Fremont E.
Fribley, student pastor in Purdue University.
Hospital. — The district completed its hospital campaign this year. Our
apportionment of $5,000 was fully met, with a surplus of $110. Dr. T. J.
Johnson, our Conference field secretary, was a most efficient helper. This
campaign has made many friends for the hospital, as our gifts have tied us
up more closely to it. Under the wise superintendency of Dr. C. S. Woods
this institution is having a phenomenal growth. The cash paid in on pledges
this Conference year totals $2,966.85.
Church Improvements. — Early in the Conference year Dr. John Wesley
Potter and his ofiicial board set out for extensive improvements in First
Church, Anderson. New art-glass windows have been installed, which re-
produce Hoffman's "Christ Answering the Doctors," "Christ at the Door,"
"Christ in Gethsemane." The church was revamped throughout, redeco-
rated, woodwork cleaned and given a coat of dull varnish; the old carpet
was discarded and the floor resurfaced and stained to correspond with the
oak furniture; new electric lights were added, giving the church a beautiful
and artistic appearance. Extensive improvements were made in the base-
ment, enlarging the dining-room and equipping the various departments of
the Sunday-school work. The total cost was $6,600. There was an accumu-
lated mdebtedness of $3,000. September 16 was reopening day, when Dr.
Potter preached and raised $11,000, which gave them a fine margin for shrink-
age and interest This is now one of the best equipped, most attractive
churches in our Conference. The total amount of money raised and paid this
year was over $18,000.
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Daleville has secured a parsonage property at a cost of $1,000, and now
they will claim some good preacher to take up his abode with them. Mrs.
A. G. Kiger took the lead in this fine movement and furnished a good portion
of the money to make it possible.
Pendleton has installed a fine new pipe organ costing $2,500. This
charge increased its pastor's salary $500 and has gone forward with leaps
and bounds. With this splendid equipment for music and good gospel ser-
mons by Rev. J. A. Patterson, pastor and people are mutually happy.
Notwithstanding the high cost of building material and lack of laborers
Rev. Bert E. Jones launched a building enterprise on the Perkinsville charge.
The heroic people at Harvey's Chapel rebuilt their church, putting in a fine
basement and otherwise making a modern, up-to-date church out of it. The
cost was $3,500. It was the happy privilege of the district superintendent
to rededicate this church December 16, and this rural community is now
equipped to do a larger service for the King.
Avondale, Muncie, has completed a fine basement, placed a new piano in
the church, fitted up a bathroom in the parsonage with modern equipments
at a cost of $1,150. Rev. G. N. Callaway is the aggressive pastor leading this
people out on a larger program.
]\Iany other churches have made improvements with smaller amounts, the
total of which is $23,919.
Debts Paid. — This does not seem to have been an exceptionally good
year for relieving indebtedness. Only $10,113 have been paid, and most of
that from three churches, viz.: Grace Church, Anderson; Lapel; and F'irst
Church, Noblesville.
Revivals and Membership. — Evangelistic services have been seriously
interfered with this year on account of the severity of the winter and the
fuel shortage. Some great campaigns were launched at High Street, Mun-
cie. with Dr. Honeywell and his part}^; First Church, Noblesville, with Evan-
gelist Eddie Thomas; and Summitville, with Dr. Ostrom. Every pastor
seemed to be imbued with the evangelistic spirit and began his meetings
with fine prospects, but when about ready to reap results they were cl'osed
down for lack of fuel or kept from the services because of extremely low
temperature, or because the streets and highways were blocked with snow
so people could not reach the church. Some of the pastors wisely held their
meetings early and others after the extremely cold weather. Many of the
churches observed Passion Week with good results.
Over seven hundred conversions and reclamations have been reported,
as follows: Albany, 20; Albany Circuit, 27; Alexandria, 15; Alexandria Cir-
cuit, 15; First Church, Anderson, 50; Indiana Avenue, 15; Park Place, 27;
Daleville and Florida, 25; De Soto, 40; Eaton. 18; Fortville, 41; Jolietville,
40; Avondale, Muncie, 22; High Street, 50; Norm^al City, 11; First Church,
Noblesville, 55; Noblesville Circuit, 15; Shideler, 36; Summitville, 14; Sum-
mitville Circuit, 17; Yorktown, 15. Other charges report smaller numbers.
Church Organizations. — We are still encouraged with the forward move-
ment pf our Sunday schools. They are all using our church literature except
two, and they persist in their disloyalty. We are more and more coming to
the graded system, which means a higher state of efficiency.
The pastors report thirty-five Epworth League Chapters, with an en-
rollment of over fifteen hundred members. These young people have raised
about $1,100 missionary money, and many of the chapters are invaluable sup-
ports to the pastors. A great program is being planned for June 18 to 20 at
our district convention to be held in Alexandria.
The Junior League reports show 15 Chapters, with an enrollment of 746.
The women's societies are keeping pace with the aggressiveness of the
times. The Ladies' Aid Societies have done their usual good work in ex-
pending about $10,000 in improving churches and parsonages.
The Woman's Foreign and Hom.e Missionary Societies have gone for-
ward with unusual rapidity, raising a total of $6,552. The Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society at High Street, Muncie, accounts for $1,261 of this
amount, making an average of $6 plus per member for this auxiliary.
Finance and Benevclence. — Twenty-two charges in the district increased
their pastoral support by $4,465; other increases in ministerial support makes
a total of $4,765. The churches are calling for an efficient ministry, and if
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,.. ... be .net there ...t ^ -^ade^a^es.^-. ^^e ^-^^onal ^an.
paign. P'-^P^'-'y f"''°^^i5t PsTreet M example of this fact.
satisfactory result.. "'« . ^V^^f^V-'J this year, this great church has m-
creased her ministerial buppui i, i j current expenses, all ap-
and an executive secretajT at $ Sooper)^^^^^^^^ other benevolences,
portioned benevolences f^''^^^ of $i 43, helped the suburban churches
olVof ttis\K l^et a^/dTve a%^^^^^^^ the treasury. .It is the pur-
pose of this great church next year to maintain a missionary m the foreign
''"''^The campaign for our benevolences has been q-uite out of the ordinary.
\t the beghS of the year we fixed our goal, "All benevolences paid in
hi 1 '■ We irve worked steadily to that end. Dr James M. Taylor furnished
," 1 fine missionary team, which proved both educational and inspirational.
F^uhtrrop meetings we;e held by this team; then it was picked up by the
pnt trs oTThese eight groups and carried into every church in the district.
That was followed by our Settlement Day and Evangelistic Conference and
that climaxed by our District Conference, set the fires burning all oyer he
Itrict We are able to report not only every charge m the district pulled
;•• over last year, but every charge "went over the top," with all Disciplinary
iHMicvolcnces paid in full and Conference benevolences advanced. Muncie
District has made a distinct and outstanding record m the Methodist Epis-
conal Church. Only one other district in the whole connection has paid the
full apportionment, and then some of the charges did not pay as much as the
year previous. Our record is distinct in both items. The total gain in Dis-
ciplinary benevolences is $6,oi6, and over $1,200 in Conference benevo ences.
I want to record a debt of gratitude to Rev. P. E. Greenwalt, the district
superintendent, for his invaluable help in the campaign through to comple-
tion He gave much time from his own charge m formulating plans and
doing team work which not only brought the desired results, but will be of
great value in the coming years.
Special Gift.— The district has a special gift of $5,576.29 to the Foreign
Missionary Society from Miss Lucy J. Alden. of Noblesville. Miss Alden
went to her crowning ten years ago, but left her estate to her brother, J. W.
Alden during his lifetime. In 1915 he died, but the final settlement of the
estate did not come until this year. This fine gift is due to the good work
of Rev. L. M. Krider, who was pastor on this charge at that time.
District Meetings. — Four district meetings were held during the year.
Our first meeting was with the pastors and district stewards, which con-
vened in Anderson, April 24. Methods were discussed and plans were laid
for the year's work.
The second was held at First Church, Anderson, and addresses were
made by the following district superintendents: Drs. Martin, Wade, Hollo-
peter, Light, and Marble. This being the central meeting for our benevo-
lent campaign, the district was organized into eight groups, with a chairman
and secretary of each group, and a two weeks' educational campai*n was
launched. Eight group meetings were held with the following missionaries:
Dr. E. B. Caldwell, of China, team leader; Rev. H. M. Swan, of India: Rev.
T. O. O'Ferrell, of Africa; and Rev. Fred M. Perril, of India. The pastors
then completed the work, holding a meeting in every church in the district.
The third meeting was the Settlement Day and Evangelistic Conference
held December 3. The program was full of interest and characterized by
enthusiasm and spiritual fervor.
The fourth was the District Conference held at Middletown, February
27, 28, and March i. It was splendidly entertained by the pastor, Rev. J. L.
Murr, and the fine people of this little city. The opening sermon was
preached by Rev. Sherman Powell. Rev. Ralph S. Cushman, of the Steward-
ship Department of the Centenary Drive, brought us a great messase, and
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on Finance, brought us a working program which we hope to adopt in every
church. Dr. W. B. Hollingshead, of international fame, gave us the facts in
figures, red and black, and humiliated us and thrilled us and inspired us and
helped us. Rev. R. A. Morrison, now doing an outstanding piece of work
in the Goshen District in the interest of the Preacher's Aid Society, repre-
sented this important work in a masterly way. The climactic service came
on the closing night. The house was filled to its capacity. The music was
fine, with orchestra and choir and congregation. Bishop Nicholson, the
speaker, was at his best and carried us into the realm of world vision. Then
the great congregation sang "All hail the power of Jesus' name" and fittingly
closed the greatest District Conference many of us have ever witnessed.
A Final Word. — May I say in closing, the supreme need of the church
to-day is a wise, devoted, spiritual leadership? Pastors and people must par-
take of the sacrificial spirit of the Master. His life terminated on others.
These days are teaching us that life is not one continuous holiday, or the
deeper joys will be lacking. The real felicity of life comes not by shifting
burdens, but by sharing them. We must pass through the dark night of Cal-
vary before we reach the Mount of Ascension.
"I must go on in the blood-sprinkled way,
The path that the Saviour trod.
If I ever climb to the heights sublime.
Where the soul is at home with God."
"If any man would be my disciple, let him deny himself and take up
his cross and follow me." "These things have I said unto you, that my joy
may be in you, and that your joy may be full."
RICHMOND DISTRICT.
Somerville Light, District Superintendent.
Bishop Nicholson and Beloved Brethren of the North Indiana Confer-
ence: Thirty-nine of the forty men appointed at the Huntington Conference
to serve the church and the Christ of the
church in Richmond District have remained
in place, loyal, devoted, and true to the
standards and ideals of the gospel of the Son
of God. About the first of October, R. S.
Shaw surr.^ ndered the Charlottesville charge
and put himself in training for Y. M. C. A.
work in the army. Rev. M. R. Peirce, one of
our retired ministers residing in Greenfield,
took charge and gave good service for the
remainder of the year. With but two ex-
ceptions the parsonage homes have been un-
usually free from serious illness. In the re-
port of last year reference was made to the
incurable affliction of Mrs. Roahrig, wife of
our pastor on Winchester Circuit. In the
later summer this faithful Christian woman
was released from her great suffering
and went to be with her Saviour, whom she
had trusted throughout her useful life. The
wife of Brother A. F. Hogan, of Pennville,
a sufiferer for months, was taken to the hos-
pital for an operation in early summer. Her affliction yielded to skillful
surgery, and she now appears to be in good health. Elizabeth True Smith
came to C. E. Smith and wife, John W. Barrett to M. E. and Mrs. Barrett,
Wesley Stanton Erwin to the Erwins, Loren Wolfe Gruber to Pastor and
Mrs. Gruber. and Ralph Wilbur Phillips to the Phillips home in Farmland.
Retired Preachers. — Two Supernumerary and five Retired Ministers are
enrolled with us. Dr. G. H. Hill resides in Indianapolis, Dr. F. G. Browne
in New Castle, Brother Sylvester Billheimer on his farm near Hagerstown,
Somerviiie Light.
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Hrothcr R. T. Laslie in Montana, and Brother M. R^ Peirce in Greenheld
Br .her I O. Bills resides in New Castle, where he is happy and helpful, not
unlv to the pastor of that charge, but also to the brethren of the entire dis-
tri.'t Brother M A. Harlan has his home in Union City, where he gives
nuicii time to the preparation of instructive and inspiring lectures. Brother
Harlan holds himself in readiness to assist the brethren of the Conference
^^" '^District Meetings.— The unusually well attended enthusiastic pastors'
•md stewards' meeting held in First Church, Richmond, May 15, was a
nrnphecy of good things for the Kingdom. The program of the district
with its relation to that of the entire denomination, was clearly outlined and
adi-ptcd by both laymen and ministers. I am glad to say that in spite of
many hindrances the program has been carried into effect to a degree here-
tofore unknown in this district. The Board of District Stewards have given
endorsement to, and practically all of the charges have adopted and are
working in whole or in part, the Disciplinary Financial Plan. The District
Epworth League convention was held in Farmland the 13th and 14th of June.
On account of severe illness, for the first time in his ministry the district
superintendent was forced to forego the pleasure of being in attendance upon
a district meeting. The pastors and Epworthians stood loyally by and made
the convention instructive and inspiring. The chapters are united in an efifort
for the generous support of our district medical missionary. Dr. George D.
Lowry. Though far removed from the beautiful Lake Wawasee, Richmond
District sent a good delegation to the institute last July and is planning to
increase the attendance this season.
Church in Action Campaign. — September 28 to October 12. This cam-
paign, planned by the District Executive Committee, the chairmen and secre-
taries of the six divisions, the missionary secretary, H. L. Overdeer, and the
district superintendent, was the most successful and farthest reaching in
positive influence for good of any similar district movement with which I
have been identified. Dr. James M. Taylor, of New York, with six returned
missionaries gave us par excellence service from the beginning to the end of
the campaign. As usual, every church in the district was visited. The
people responded with a record-breaking attendance totaling 29,053; increase
in attendance over last year of 7,790. Total offering for district extension
work. $534.47: an increase of $153.68 over the former year.
Settlement Day. — This day is becoming increasingly interesting and
helpful. The meeting this year was held in Spiceland, December 4. Every
pastor save one was present. The district stewards responded in fine way.
The Disciplinary Financial Plan was freely discussed by pastors and laymen,
and to the joy of the district superintendent it was discovered that certain
representative laymen present were among its most ardent supporters.
District Ccnference. — Time fails me to speak at length with reference
to this great District Conference. However, in passing, I make bold to say
that in my humble opinion the programs sent out to the people of the six
districts composing North Indiana Conference were, all things considered,
the strongest ever sent out to call the people to the standards of the denomi-
nation. Bishop Nicholson, of the Chicago area; Dr. M. P. Burns, of the
Board of Home Missions; Dr. J. W. Vancleve, secretary of the Commission
on Finance; Dr. W. B. Hollingshead. representing the Centenary Drive;
Dr. George B. Dean, of the Department of Evangelism; Dr. R. S. Cushman,
champion of Christian Stewardship, and our R. A. Morrison, secretary of the
Preachers' Aid Society, sounded the call for $600,000 for the Retired Minis-
ters' Endowment Fund. The strong district spirit in Richmond District was
evidenced by the fact that forty of the forty pastors were in attendance, and,
as might have been expected from a leadership like that, large numbers of
laymen were present from every section of the district. Pastor Williams,
with the good people of Redkey, proved to be a royal host. From the
openmg service on Tuesday night, when Bishop Nicholson gave his great
message on The Spiritual Forces That Are Being Released by the War"
to the closing service on Thursday night, the speakers were accorded an en-
thusiastic hearing. ^ It was evident that preachers and laymen alike were
there on the King s business." Resolutions urging President Wilson to es-
tablish national prohibition as a war measure, and strongly indorsing the
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great Centenary Drive were uiianiniously adopted. Three younti men were
licensed to preach and the same number recommended to the Annual Con-
ference for admission on trial.
The Departmental Work of the Churches. — The Sunday schools, eighty-
two in number, are constantly' improving in organization and efficiency.
The truth is that our Sunday schools need not less of the teaching, but more
and more of the preaching of the Word of God. This is especially true in
the larger towns and cities. Woe betide the church of to-morrow if this
matter continues to be neglected by Sunday-school workers and parents.
Practicallj' all of our schools use Methodist literature. With but one or two
exceptions, they are organized into missionarj- societies. All contribute to
missions. Their offerings this year total $2,627; a gain over last year of $763.
The school of First Church, Portland, leads with $200; Grace Church, Rich-
mond, second, with $153; the schools of Winchester Circuit third, with $140.
We have thirty-four Senior Epworth League Chapters, a gain of two Chap-
ters, with a membership of 1,728; a gain of 291. Fifteen Junior Chapters
report about seven hundred members. The seventy-six Ladies' Aid Societies
have raised $10,798 and, as usual, have expended the greater part in helping
the dear brethren over the ditificult pathway of modern church life beset by
old church debts, much-needed and long-deferred improvements, sleep-dis-
turbing deficits in pastors' salaries, etc. The Woman's Home and F'oreign
Missionary Societies have done a good year's work. Their district conven-
tions were well attended and full of enthusiasm and, best of all, their pledges
were reported paid in full and larger obligations, taken for the next year.
New auxiliaries have been organized, and their combined offerings total
$5,745. 3 good gain over last year.
Evangelism and Membership. — Weather conditions and fuel shortage
contended every inch of the ground the entire season usually set apart by
the pastors for protracted evangelism. However, a few good revivals have
been held. About 700 have been converted and reclaimed, and 769 received
into the church, exclusive of a large number received during Passion Week.
The most extensive revivals were at Hagerstown, J. W^ Gruber, pastor, "/"j;
Portland, Henrj^ Lac)', pastor, 55; Modoc, C. E. Smith, pastor, 39; Union
City, Arthur Gates, pastor, 35; Ridgeville, D. C. Beatty, pastor, 29; Dublin,
Victor Stoner, pastor, 29; Millgrove, F. A. Shipley, pastor, 26; Losantville,
W. O. Power, pastor, 25; Williamsburg, Louis Ulmer, pastor, 25. The other
pastors report conversions ranging from nineteen to four. While the net
increase in membership is not large, the district is able to report a substan-
tial gain.
Church Literature. — The people on this district are slowly coming to
appreciate our own church literature. The Western Christian Advocate list
shows a gain of 147. The Epworth Herald also shows an advance over last
year.
Debts Paid. — Sundaj-, October 7, the jubilant people of Wilkinson, Fred
Chelan, pastor, burned notes and mortgages amounting to $1,800, thereby
disposing of an old and troublesome matter. The district superintendent
joined in the festivities by giving the address for this happy occasion. In
November the indebtedness of $1,035 on the Ada new church, Greenfield,
was provided for, and the pastor, E. L. Gates, followed with an earnest,
honest efifort to bring the people up to the larger program of the church.
Other charges paid debts as follows: Lynn, $3,000; Dunkirk, $700; Cam-
bridge City. $754; Saratoga, $328; Redkey, $281; Markleville, $250; Philadel-
phia, $224; Fountain City, $100; Spiceland, $roo. Several other charges have
paid smaller amounts, totaling $8,639.
Buildings and Improvements. — Sunday afternoon, October 7, in response
to the call of the brave, progressive people of Grace Church, Richmond, the
district superintendent gave the address and, with the pastor, H. L. Over-
deer, Rev. R. L. Semans, of First Church, and other ministers of the district,
conducted the ceremonies attending the laying of the cornerstone of a mag-
nificent $50,000 church with modern furnishings and equipment throughout.
I shall not even attempt a description of this great church now approaching
completion. Bishop Nicholson is to preach and conduct the dedicatory serv-
ices Sunday morning. May 26, 1918. The new $20,000 church at Pennville,
A. F. Hogan, pastor, the foundations for which were laid during the last
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days of last Conference year, has been completed in fine style. It was the
privilece of the district superintendent to give the address call for $9,000
and dedicate this beautiful church Sunday, November 25. The pastor had
his forces so well organized and matters so superbly in hand that the entire
occasion was a delight. The people not only subscribed enough to take care
of the church building enterprise, but an additional sum, with which to pro-
vide a good pipe organ, which has been purchased and is now being installed.
This achievement in face of untoward conditions marks Brother Hogan as a
wise and dependable leader, a good minister of Jesus Christ. The church at
I cwisville M. K. Barrett, pastor, was redecorated and otherwise beautihed
at an expense of about $700. The district superintendent reopened this
"church Sunday, July I. This charge was made a station last spring and has
dcmou'^tratcd'that no mistake was registered. At Greensboro, on the Ken-
nard charge, C. A. Mitchell, pastor, a new $5,000 church is being erected
and will be ready for dedication early in the coming Conference year. At
a cost of about $8,000 at Redkey, D. V. Williams, pastor, a complete, well-
furnished basement has been put in. Furnace-room, kitchen, dining-room,
range, dishes, silverware, etc. This improvement, with the new heating sys-
tem rind redecorated auditorium and modern Sunday-school apartments,
makes this one of the best churches of its size in the Conference. We are
expecting this charge to come back. In September the people of the Losant-
ville charge, W. O. Power, pastor, purchased a good parsonage home in the
best location in the town. The cost was $2,150, which was subscribed and
paid. Soon after Conference, Pastor Franklin and wife, of the Willow
Branch charge, will be happily housed in a new $3,500 parsonage now nearing
completion. As usual. Brother O. P. Van Y, of Maxwell, is building a beauti-
ful $3,000 parsonage, which will face the magnificent school building of that
village. The people at Chester, on the Williamsburg charge, Louis Ulmer,
pastor, ask to be made the head of a charge, and as an assurance that they
mean business have purchased a house for a parsonage at a cost of $1,600.
Chester and Middleboro will constitute this new two-point charge, which
will pay $900 and house the first year. Other improvements on churches
and parsonages are as follows: New Castle, $1,300; Dunkirk, $500; Portland,
$550; Fountain City, $450; Modoc, $445; Winchester Circuit, $450; Greenfield,
$300; Spiceland, $295; Ridgeville, $275; Richmond, Third Church, $229; Win-
chester, $210; Salamonia, $171; and Shirley, $100; and numerous smaller im-
provements representing, when fully paid for, an expenditure of $99,225.
Salaries. — At the opening of this Conference year the following charges
advanced their salaries, these advances ranging from $25 to $400: Centerville,
Charlottesville. Dublin and Straughns, Economy, Fountain City, Lewisville,
Losantville, Markleville, Maxwell, New Castle, Philadelphia, Portland, Rich-
mond (First Church), Richmond (Grace Church), Richmond (Third
Church), Ridgeville, Union City, Willow Branch, Winchester, and Win-
chester Circuit. These twenty charges represent a cash salary advance of
$4,355- The total advance for the three years is $13,155 for pastors, $2,427
for Conference claimants, and $201 for the Episcopal Fund; a grand total,
including the advance in the district superintendent's claim, of $16,504. The
first year fifteen charges advanced; the second, nineteen charges; the third,
twenty charges. Thirty-eight of the forty are represented. The two to be
heard from have recently moved to make it unanimous and are written down
with several repeaters for next year. The following charges have advanced
for next year: Centerville becomes a station, paying $1,000; Greensfork and
Williamsburg join hands and advance to at least $1,100; Economy advances
another $100, to $1,200; Losantville another $100, to $875; McCordsville an-
other $100, to $800; Millgrove advances $200. to $1,000; Modoc adds $200,
making it $1,000; New Castle makes the third advance, to $2,000; Portland
Circuit adds $200, making it $1,200; Richmond, Third Church, becomes a
station, $1,000; Shirley advances $200, to $1,000; Spiceland advances $200, to
$1,000; Willow Branch $200, to $1,200. The five supply men of the district
now receive an average cash salary of $910. The thirty-five men in Confer-
ence relation receive $1,165.
The Benevolences. — If the pastors' reports to the Conference treasurer
coincide with their annual reports to me, every charge on the district has
made a good advance over last year on the apportioned benevolences. This
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is the goal we long have sought, and mourned because we attained it not.
To tell the truth, we tried to make a drive toward the top level of all appor-
tionments for the eight boards at least in full. The latest word from the
front was to the effect that thirty-two of the forty charges had gone over the
top. Last year only twelve charges paid in full; a good gain, but where are
the eight? The charges paj-ing in full are as follows, in order: Grace Church,
Richmond, which invites you, not only builds a fine church in which to house
you, but also helps to hold th.e standard of district and Conference high by
leading the district in offerings for benevolences; New Castle, Portland,
Greenfield, Union City, Knightstown, Winchester, Dunkirk, Farmland. Lo-
santville, Pennville, AlcCordsville, Cambridge City, Economy, Lewisville,
Maxwell, Centerv'ille, Kennard, Hagerstown, Markleville, Millgrove. Ridge-
ville, Spiceland, Williamsburg, Winchester Circuit, Willow Branch, Philadel-
phia. Dublin and Straughns, Richmond (Third Church), Lynn, and Modoc.
With but one exception, all of the upper appointments are in this honor
column. Oh, if we only had this one. and the other two stations and five cir-
cuits! However, I am glad to say those charges advanced over last year
and, of course, are entitled to special mention: First Church (Richmond),
Redkey, Parker, Charlottesville, Portland Circuit, Saratoga, and Shirley.
For the eight boards we gave last year $10,988; this year, $15,424; a gain of
$4,436. For the Disciplinary benevolences, ten causes, we gave last year
$15,613; this year, $21,169; a gain of $5,556. For the three years the showing
is as follows: 1914, eight boards, $7,741; 1918, $15,424 — gain, $7,683. Disci-
plinary benevolences: 1914, $11,548; 1918, $21,169 — gain, $10,621. Partial re-
ports from the pastors give the war column a credit for $10,451. For all
causes, at home and abroad, the churches of this district gave this year
$145,590; $11.71 per capita.
Closing Words. — Bishop Nicholson, I cannot find words with which to
express my appreciation of and confidence in the good pastors with whom
I have been permitted to toil this year. They have struggled manfully
through one of the most peculiar and trying years in the recent history of
this Conference; they have cheerfullj^ courageously, and successfully ad-
dressed themselves to the tasks of the denomination in one of the most diffi-
cult and trying fields in the great ^Middle West. In addition to this I am
glad to say they have identified themselves with the local coinmunity war
drives, and thereby kept Methodism in its rightful relation to the nation's
struggle to hold Christian civilization steady throughout the world. As I
stand wnth them facing another Conference 3'ear I am sure I am safe in say-
ing you majr count on us for the program of the Chicago area and the entire
Methodism of the age. Let us hear again the solemn words:
"He hath sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before the judgment seat;
O, be swift my soul, to answer him; be jubilant, my feet.
Our God is marching on."
WABASH DISTRICT.
M. S. Marble, District Superintendent.
Bishop Nicholson and Members of the North Indiana Conference — Dear
Brethren: All preachers and laymen in the Wabash District, including scores
who are of German lineage, are loyal to the flag in our great struggle for de-
mocracy, which is the political expression of Christianity as taught and prac-
ticed by the Christ.
The fixing of the appointments one year ago enabled us to welcome the
following men from the Richmond District: R. H. Wehrly, A. C. Wisch-
meier, J. P. Chamness, J. W. Zerbe, and Leroy Huddleston; from the Goshen
District. J. C. W^hite. These men found difficult and delicate tasks awaiting
them, which they have performed with diplomatic skill, and as a result their
reports will sho>v that the church has been advanced in their respective'fields.
Changes in Pastoral Supply. — L. O. Winslow, a probationer, left the
Bippus charge on September 10, 1917, to enter the United States Shipping
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sui'port. , ...nnlv the Mount Etna Circuit. He left the
C. L. Mixon was secured *" suppb the Mou ^ ^ ^^^^^^^^
char.ce on September ' ' '"^"^^f^" VVhe M^^^^^^^^ Brethren Church, was
of Smithville. Oh.o. ^ "^'"'^^e, n t^e j^;^^^^,;^^,^^^, ,„,a began his work on
^Krl'> r:;i^:'^^^co:JiS:tS;;'^^;Uy desire that he be retained on
''' ^X Wic.n.n. appointed - --'L.^iX^fci^^^^^^ Wa^
ton, in the Logansport District, to Swayzee
and began his work on September i. i his
appointment was fully indorsed by an en-
thusiastic request for his return at the fourth
Quarterly Conference. , x,r
E A. Hartman, appointed to the War-
ren Circuit, soon decided that he would ask
the Conference for a certificate of location
at its next session, and did not go to his
charge. J. H. Overmyer, a local preacher
residing in Tipton, was employed to supply
the Warren Circuit. He gave up the work
on September 2. On October 26, K. A.
Hawkins, a local preacher residing in Ft.
Wayne, was employed to supply the charge.
He began his work on November 3 and has
a unanimous invitation to return.
District Program. — One year ago the
District Conference adopted a district pro-
gram, the spirit and leading features of
which have been maintained and realized.
District and Group Meetings.— On May 31 the pastors and district stew-'
ards convened in Wabash, at which meeting much business relating to the
expansion of our work was transacted. .
A district convention of the Woman's Home Missionary Society, Mrs.
E. E. Youse presiding, was held at Jonesboro on June 13.
A group meeting of pastors north of the Wabash River, not including
Huntington, was held in North Manchester on June 15. In satisfaction,
profit, and inspiration this meeting exceeded expectation.
At the middle of October the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society held
a district meeting under the presidency of Mrs. T. M. Guild, at Fairmount.
Its educational value is seen in the missionary spirit throughout the district,
and in increased offerings.
On October 24 and 25 our District Lyceum was held at Larvvill. Not-
withstanding the large number of district and group meetings attended by
the pastors, this lyceum proved to be so full of interest that the men with
great enthusiasm voted to continue its existence and to hold its next session
in Akron.
Settlement Days maintain their popularity and were held as follows:
December 3, at Marion; December 4, at Huntington; December 5, at Colum-
bia City. The district is indebted to Drs. White, Guild, and Swisher for spe-
cial services ably rendered by each at each place during these meetings.
Every pastor attended the meeting in Wabash, First Church, on Septem-
ber 25. in the interest of militant Methodism. Laymen from nearly every
charge were there. Addresses were delivered by each district superintendent
in the Conference except the superintendent of the Wabash District, who
presided during the day. These addresses left a splendid impression upon
tlic minds of all the people.
The greatest District Conference ever held in Wabash District occurred
r T., ;,-,.,, 1^,1 „ „., Tvi — v, ^ /c J « All i J. i i.
M. S. Marble.
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representing the Preachers' Aid Society, did us great service. The address
of our Bishop Nicholson will abide with us as an inspiration through coming
years. Leroy Huddleston and his splendid people cared for us in the exer-
cise of fine hospitality.
A great district convention of Epworth League was held in Andrews,
where L. H. Ice and his noble band of young people gave us a royal wel-
come, On June 19 and 20. I delivered an address at Epworth League Booth
Festival, at Wabash, on September 3.
Special Service Rendered. — My duty as a member of the Joint Commis-
sion on Students' Pastor for Purdue University called me to Lafayette on
JNIay 10, and again on May 17. The outcome of these meetings was the in-
corporation of the Wesley Foundation for Purdue University. We ovight
now to have an endowment of at least $100,000 for this foundation.
On call of Governor Goodrich. I attended war meeting at Indianapolis
on May 15.
On May 22 I met the Inter-Board Conference as proxy for E. C. E.
Dorion, representing the Board of Conference Claimants, in Chicago Beach
Hotel, Chicago.
On June 7, met J. B. Hingeley, R. A. Morrison, and the Conference Cab-
inet in Marion.
On June 27, in BufTalo, N. Y., I met a committee on program fcr Xnnual
Conference Agents' Convention to be held in Chicago in August. Spent
August 22, 23, and 24 in attendance upon this convention, which, in the long
run, will prove to be one of the most profitable meetings of its kind ever held.
With the Cabinet I campaigned the entire Conference in the interest of
militant Methodism, speaking at Goshen on September 20, Ft. Wayne on
September 21; presiding at Wabash on September 25; speaking at Kokomo
on September 26, at Anderson on September 27, and closing my part of the
campaign with an address at New Castle on September 28.
Attended the dedicatory service of the Methodist Hospital in Indian-
apolis on October 15 and the Mid-Year Institute at Kokomo on October 17.
Attended two regular meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Methodist
Memorial Home in Warren. Met the Cabinet at Muncie on December 20,
also the Cabinet and Conference Examining Board at Kokomo on January 9.
Met a hospital committee at Hope Hospital in Ft. Wayne on February i.
On February 5, 6, and 7 I attended the conference of superintendents of
the Chicago area, under the presidency of Bishop Nicholson, in the audito-
rium of the Methodist Book Concern in Chicago.
Notwithstanding these and many other calls for diversified endeavor I
have kept the regular schedule of Sunday services and Quarterly Confer-
ences, with but little variation. My health has been equal to the task, for
which I am devotedly thankful.
Hospital Building Fund. — Met hospital committees in Wabash on June
12, at which time an organization for campaign for building fund was made.
The campaign was successfully completed in the early part of July under the
skillful management of Dr. T. J. Johnson, representing the hospital.
During the year we have paid to this fund $2,368.82. Several churches
have paid their entire apportionment.
Building and Improving. — On June 10 our splendid church at Uniondale,
with a seating capacity of 700 people, was dedicated by Dr. A. E. Smith,
president of Ohio Northern University. The pastor, Leroy Huddleston, and
his heroic people made great personal sacrifices on this occasion.
On November 25, Dr. W. D. Parr dedicated one of the most complete of
modern houses of worship for our aggressive, sacrificing, and resolute people
in Churubusco. The pastor, R. H. Wehrly, gave it all possible attention.
Dr. Parr also conducted the reopening and dedicatory service of Charter
Oak Church, on the Churubusco Circuit, where the pastor, F. P. Johnson,
experienced the fruition of great hopes.
A new and modern bungalow parsonage has been erected by the Wa-
bash Street congregation. The pastor. Dr. J. L. Gillard, and his estim.able
family now have the promise of one of the coziest and most attractive par-
sonage homes in the Conference.
A. D. Burket holds his people steadily to the building proposition at
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First Church Wabash, was partly closed for cleaning, decorating of
walls, improvement of floors, and installation of a new heating system Sun-
c ■ V February 24. was reopening day. The faithful pastor, T M. Guild, and
his brother Dan, a former pastor, were equal to all the demands of the occa-
sion raising more than $10,000 and rededicating the splendid building to the
satisfaction and joy of all the people. This is one congregation that held
service each Sunday during the severe weather. 1 , .1, r ,
Other improvements more or less extensive have been made by the tol-
lowine brethren: I.R.Godwin at Akron; J.T.Bean at Columbia City, new pipe
organ installed, dedicated, and paid for, cost $2,000; A. L. Weaver, Jones-
boro- G E Hughes, new furnace in parsonage at La Fontaine; J. C. White,
First* Church, Marion, church decorated and parsonage improved; D. J. Im-
ler addition to church. Home Park, Marion; J. W. Zerbe, Sunday-school
room in Ninth Street Church, Marion, improved; F. P. Morris at Markle,
new lighting system; J. S. Newcombe, parsonage at Mentone; Arlington
Singer! new Majestic furnace in church at Silver Lake; M. O. Lester in-
herited a church building at Warren, the interior of which, including new
pipe organ, has just been almost destroyed by fire; J. O. Campbell, church in
Wan Buren. A recent windstorm tore the tower from Grace Church in
Marion. David Wells, knowing the destructive power of wind as well as
fire, had the building insured against tornado, and it will be repaired without
expense to the congregation. J. J. Fred reports an improvement at Fair-
mount; W. E. Murray, church repairs on the Huntington Circuit. C. M.
Vawter made improvements on the Larwill charge; F. S. Young, new light-
ing system at Liberty Mills; J. F. Blocker, church at Roanoke; J. J. Fischer,
hardwood floors for church in North Manchester. A. L. Myers reports
property improvement at Sims; also C. B. Thomas at Point Isabel. C. E.
White has improved the church property at Middle Street, Wabash. Im-
provements more than balance depreciation, and property valuation has
been maintained, if not increased, in the district. It is here that the Ladies'
Aid Society performs a large service, having raised for this and other pur-
poses $9,507 this year.
Woman's Work in the Church. — Our women's organizations, including
the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, the Woman's Home Missionary
Societ}', and the Ladies' Aid Society, never demonstrated their loyalty and
devotion by a larger scope of activity than to-day.
Ministerial Support. — Laymen are exercising a greater concern for the
spiritual welfare of themselves and their families by providing a more ade-
quate financial support for the man who ministers to them in spiritual things.
Twelve charges have advanced their support for next year, and others will
follow.
A careful survey of the philosophy of ecclesiasticism as exhibited by
Methodism_ discloses the fact that the man of power, wielding the largest in-
fluence, enjoying the largest liberty and freedom in the highest sense of
these terms, possessed with the possibility of grasping the largest opportuni-
ties, making himself the object of the confidence and the center of the affec-
tions of his people, is the pastor who does the work of a true shepherd of
the flock. He obtains this liberty with a great price. It is the price paid
by every one who would be God's best man for God's best service in the
community.
The Epworth League. — This useful organization is doing fine work in
many of our charges. Our young people are the hope of the church and equal
to the best in the land, which entitles them to the best service the church can
render.
Moral and Religious Education.— While the dissemination of moral and
religious education is not limited to the Sunday school, nevertheless this
organization centralizes its forces and focalizes them upon the individual
My records show great interest in Sunday schools.
_ Evangelism.— The evangelistic spirit has prevailed. Those holding re-
vivals in the autumn months or earlier were fortunate. Some excellent plans
for revival work which promised good results were frustrated by severity
ot the weather and by order of the fuel administrator. In many con<^re-^a-
tions special preparations were made for the observance of Passion Week
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the doing of which gave the people a spiritual uplift and added a goodly num-
ber to the church.
Nineteen charges report 353 conversions; F. P. Johnson reporting the
largest number, 116; C. M. Vawter, 34; J. P. Chamness, 30; J. J. Fischer, 36;
C. B. Thomas, 30; J. W. Zerbe, 25. Even if few or no conversions are re-
ported, the protracted meeting is always worth the effort in disarming criti-
cism, distributing responsibility, and in spiritual quickening of believers.
Benevolences. — Last year the Wabash District made a per capita gain
of 27 cents per member for the Disciplinary benevolences, which placed us
at the head of the list as compared with the whole church, the Chicago area,
the North Indiana Conference, and with the other districts of the Confer-
ence. For the same purpose we took third place in per capita giving, the
same being $1.40 per member. Last year our gain, not counting W. H. M. S.
supplies, was $2,504 for Disciplinary benevolences. This 3^ear. notwithstand-
ing the numerous calls for war and relief service, to which our people have
made generous response, we report another gain of $2,603. For all benevo-
lent purposes, our gain will go far beyond this. For purposes educational
and inspirational our district was divided into eight groups, with the follow-
ing serving as chairmen: C. M. Vawter, Arlington Singer, J. L. Gillard, F. P.
Morris, C. E. White, M. O. Lester, C. B. Thomas, A. C. Wischmeier. One
week only was given for making an intensive campaign of the district, and
that was the week immediately following the Conference campaign for
Militant Methodism bj' the district superintendents. Our preac!:ers carried
the spirit of this campaign into every congregation, and the layinen cooper-
ated in generous endeavor . with results most satisfactory. Our district mis-
sionary secretary, J. T. Bean, has rendered valuable service on many oc-
casions.
The Disciplinary Financial Plan. — Our best results obtain wherever this
plan is honored and perfected. We still have some who are joined to their
idols of antiquated and long since discredited financial methods, with conse-
quent embarrassing deficits during the year, and particularly at its close.
Valuable time which should be spent in every-member canvass for next
year's business is consumed in providing for large deficits for current year.
Notwithstanding all this, last year every dollar of promised ministerial sup-
port was paid.
Miscellaneous. — The reports of M. L. Hardingham and F. H. Cremean
are not at hand, but we can certify that they have done much faithful work
on their respective charges. South Whitley and Upland, this year.
J. H. McNary, after two years of faithful and arduous labor on the Bur-
ket charge, this year making by far the best report the charge has ever pre-
sented, asks to be referred to the Committee on Conference Relations, with
a view to retirement.
David Wells was sent to Grace Church, Marion, eight years ago. He
found a few members, in debt, scattered, and discouraged, promising a sup-
port of $600. In eight years he has paid parsonage debt, greatly enlarged
and improved the church, has increased the membership to four hundred, for
years has paid all apportionments in full, all other obligations being promptly
met, and closes this year with unity and harmony, his congregation present-
ing the example of a well-balanced church and fixing the support for next
year at $1,200.
E. L. Jones and his estimable wife are rendering service of the highest
order at the Methodist Memorial Home, in Warren.
J. W. Tillman, J. T. Fettro, T. F. Freeh, and G. B. Work, retired min-
isters living within the bounds of the district, are held in high esteem. J. W.
Cain, retired, resides in Deland, Fla.
A Word Personal. — My regard for each pastor and layman is inagnified
when I think of the fine spirit exhibited in bearing with my shortcomings
and weaknesses. The splendid hospitality of the parsonage and other homes,
the courtesy extended me while presiding in district and other conferences,
the numerous evidences of thoughtful regard for my comfort and increased
usefulness will always abide a memory most precious.
Preachers' Families Represented in the War. — Each of the following has
a son in training: Mell Timmons, J. J. Fred, J. P. Chamness, and W. E. Mur-
ray. Brother Murray also has another son, who has received his baptism of
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fire in France. David Wells has a son for several years in the navy. Nearly
cverv church is decorated with a service flag.
\niid.t the darkness and gloom of the awful present, hope sees a star
•ind li-^tcning love can hear the rustle of a wing." Faith says it is the Star of
Bethlehem, "the wing of the dove of universal peace.
Marion. Ind.. April 3, 1918.
(b) STANDING COMMITTEES AND BOARDS.
AGGRESSIVE EVANGELISM.
With a high sense of the importance and the extreme and pressing need of
aggressive evangelism, and in the spirit of devout prayer and earnest solicitation,
the Committee oiTers the following report:
Our Heritage.
"In the year 1729, two young men in England, reading the Bible, saw that
they could not be saved without holiness, and followed after it and incited others
so to do. This was the beginning of Methodism. The Methodist Episcopal Church
has always believed that the only infallible proof of the legitimacy of any branch
of the Christian Church is its ability to seek and to save the lost, and to disseminate
the Pentecostal spirit and life."
We vow our allegiance to the "Faith of our Fathers," and we will be true to
this faith till death.
The Outlook.
The world is l)eginnihg to think of the mission of the church in terms com-
mensurate with its dignity. The challenge has come. This is no time for waste
of energy or money. Conservation is the word of the hour. We must determine
our relation to the world program. The time has come when all questions and
theories that clog the wheels of progress or hinder the practical work of the church
should be set aside. The new age that is breaking upon us is interpreting every-
thing in its relation to the vital need of the hour. The new church for the new age
will be the church that fits itself to the immediate needs of the souls of men. Such
was the example of Christ. He came to seek and to save the lost.
The question that confronts the modern church is primarily a question of
adaption, and adherence to the Christ standard. His work is our task. He focused
his life upon the lost soul. Where should the church center her every energy? His
passion was overwhelming. Should ours be less? We belie^•e the ministry should
re-study the parable of the ninety and nine. A vision of a lost soul ought to set
every preacher on fire with a holy passion to lead that soul to the Christ. "Where
there is no vision, the people perish." Our blessed Lord said, "Follow me, and I
will make you fishers of men." Our chief business is to catch men. Is the pastor
an evangelist? If not, he should be made one. A great many young ministers
approach the revival season with fear and trembling, as well as many older ones.
Assistance is offered in almost every other phase of his arduous duties, but in this
vital business of soul-saving he is left in many cases hel] less and alone. Our church
and our ministry may be of invaluable service to the community and to society
in the most wholesome manner, but in the light of our Master's life and death we
are forced to cry "failure" if we have not been fishers of men. Our bishop said
he had no faith in an unconverted church. Brethren, we still believe in the power
of God to save a soul from sin. The church is distinctively a soul-saving institu-
tion. We have worthy competition in every other line of activity and social service,
but in the soul-saving business we stand unparalleled and alone. The church will
become an evangelistic church when we have an evangelistic ministry. We may
benefit a man when we help him to invest his money and cause him to unite with
the church, but we ha\ e performed the most valuable and efficient service to him
when we have led him 'o a saving knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
The re lenintion of all society and government rests in the regenerated man.
We believe in one hundred pe-- cent eficiency. An efficient ministry will mean
an efficient church. We feel the need of a Pentecost, a baptism of the Holy Ghost,
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and urge our brethren to tarry in the upper room until endued with power from
on high. The question is asked, "Has the church failed?" We answer with thun-
derous tone, "No!" The church has so built herself into the woof and fabric of
democracy that everywhere men and leaders are opening up their hearts for a larger
service. No great movement for the welfare of society is ever launched without
taking the church into its confidence and asking for its aid and help. There never
confronted the church a more opportune moment. There never was a greater hour
in which to preach the old-fashioned gospel of Jesus Christ. There never was a
better time in which to invite men to the Saviour. There never was an age when
the great bleeding world felt its need of the Christ and Calvary as at this strategic
hour. Brethren, the most princely task ever offered an individual is that of lifting
up the Christ, that a sinful world might be drawn unto-him. Let us go to our charges
rededicated to the task of winning souls for the Master. The good Lord grant that
when the reports are read a year hence that the dominant note might be converts
unto the Lord. To this end we therefore recommend that in every district there
be held a school of revivals, wherein the several pastors, under the leadership of
our Superintendents, shall, through prayer and study and discussion, become en-
dued with the Pentecostal power, and sent out with a tongue of fire to condemn
sin and to uplift the Christ and catch men for the Kingdom.
Methods.
We recommend none. We condemn none. We quote Paul: "I am become
all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." We believe in the
method that gets souls. No one method will win in all places and under all condi-
tions. We believe that the local circumstances should determine the method. We
urge the all-year personal and pastoral evangelism, also the special revival and the
unified effort and team-work, and any other type of effort usable and adequate,
that we might by all means save some. The north wind, the east, the west, the
south wind, whatever wind our people need. Lord send that wind upon us.
W^e heartily commend the evangelistic note in our bishop's devotional talks
and in Dr. Mantle's inspirational Pentecostal hour.
Aim.
First: The conversion of sinners.
Second: The reclaiming of backsliders.
Third: The baptism of all believers with the Holy Ghost.
Fourth: To bring up the children in the nurture and the admonition of the
Lord, ever saying to them, "Ye must be born again."
Brethren, let us go to our task from this mount of high vision and noble purpose
to get souls for our hire, and to demonstrate to our people the example of our Master
when he said, "I am among you as he that serveth."
Signed: J- Orr Powell,
^L B. Graham,
Geo. W. Martix,
R. C. Ballard.
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.
We, your Committee on the American Bible Society, in our report, desire to
express our gratitude for the fact that our work in the distribution of the Word of
God has gone steadily forward, and as doors open for us we hope and expect that
our beloved church and those who are joined with us in this great work of God
may carry the Holy Scriptures to the entire world, and just now in particular to
our soldier boys at the front.
We rejoice in the fact of the splendid advance of $34:3 this year, and we believe
we can and will do much better next year. We believe that no other period has
ever come to us more favorably for calling the people from the thoughts of earth
to the best things of the souls of men and the advancement of God's kingdom in
the world than this one which has in these last years reached us.
When the present world-war shall end, we believe that then the hearts of men
will yearn for the gospel and there will be a splendid opening for the introduction
of God's Word to the peoples of the entire world. We assuredly believe that such
a vision to inspire us we ought to put forth a much stronger effort to advance the-
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c A.,w.rir;,n Bible Socictv upon the hearts of our people. No other
woirisloTc^;^ S o?'God "v4\he^ pledge ourselves to do our best m
this cause. j l Murr, Secretary.
BOARD OF CONTROL OF DEACONESS WORK.
Vour Board of Control, in view of the growing appreciation of this department
ol e-h stian work on the part of the general church having been dignified and
01 L nrisiuiii wy ' . , ^ g J departments, desire to call
!;ue;:.^on'ro "^V^tS^ in^Ufferencfon the parf of this'conference to the work
of deaconesses. ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^-^ attention of all the pastors. to the Discipline of 1916,
paragraphs Ui to 236. ^^^^ ^ n^^^^^^^^^^ President.
A. L. Weaver, Secretary.
CHURCH LITERATURE.
Your Committee on Church Literature recognizes the religious press as one of
the most efficient agents in the spread of the truths of the kingdom of God and in
molding the characters and fashioning the lives of all our people We rejoice in
the abundance and high character of the various publications of our publishing
houses and commend both books and periodicals to our people as the very best
for the upholding of the church of Christ throughout our domain, and that a
Methodists should be urged to use our own literature in the Sunday schools and all
other church work. ^, . • » , i
We especially recommend the Western Christian Advocate to our people as
one of the best mediums by which an intelligent Methodism may be built up through-
out our Conference and church. . ^ at ^.u
We also urge upon all our ministers the importance of securing our great Meth-
odist Review, and it was probably never greater than now, and to a most careful
reading of the same. We believe that a devoted loyalty to our own periodicals is
the one thing essential to the building up of the church and establishing an intelli-
gent righteousness throughout our Conference, this and all Episcopal areas and the
entire Methodism of this country and the world.
R. C. Jones, Millard Pell,
L. Huddleston, William E. Loveless,
E. M. Dunbar, Auburn E. Leese.
EDUCATION.
From the beginning our church has realized that in the highest sense education
and religion are inseparable. If the life is to attain its full symmetry and power,
the religious element must dominate the trained intellect. If the church and her
program are to be maintained, and if full vision of the kingdom of God is to be
carried forward in modern society, the motives and principles of religion must be
the masters of all culture. Educational institutions in which there may be no hin-
drance in creating a constant and positive Christian atmosphere in which the officers
anfl teachers may be selected with a care to Christian worth and character, in which
the Bible and the whole range of Christian subjects may be taught in the most
thoroughgoing fashion, and in which the guidance and culture of the young people
may be constantly related to the chief values in Christian life and service must be
maintained by the church.
More than ever before in the world's history the time has now come for a still
greater emphasis upon Christian education, the education of both heart and in-
tellect. The Board of Education was established fifty years ago. The Jubilee
program, including the Board's appeal for one million dollars permanent endow-
ment, commands our enthusiastic support.
The Student Loan Fund, derived from free-will offerings on Children's Day,
his assisted 26,500 Methodist boys and girls to secure an education. Thirty-nine
students attending schools of the church, whose homes are in this Conference, were
grante 1 loans from the Children's Day Fund aggregating $2,243. The total con-
^tribution last year from this Conference to the Children's Day Fund amounted to
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$2,725.86, as compared with $1,940.27 of the year before. Loans amounting to $3,074
were granted to seventy-two students in DePauw University.
The Aid of Institutions Fund, derived from the Public Educational Collection
and Special Gifts, through which the Board helps struggling institutions in the
highlands of the South, on the western frontier, and schools in peril in all sections,
is of ever-increasing service.
The Dep'artment of Religious Work co-operates in the conduct of evangelistic
campaigns, and has successfully begun the work of caring for Methodist students
at State institutions, according to the plan approved by the General Conference of
1916.
Under the splendid leadership of President G. R. Grose, D.D., DePauw Uni-
versity has enjoyed another prosperous year. Two new buildings — Rector Hall
for women, and the Studebaker Memorial Administration Building — have been
complete! within the year. The campaign for $300,000 to complete the Million-
Dollar Fund for endowment and new buildings before March 1, 1919, is under way.
Dr. Demetrius Tillotson, of the Northwest Indiana Conference, has been appointed
by Bishop Nicholson as Field Assistant to the President, and Dr. C. U. Wade, En-
dowment Secretary in the campaign. The importance of Christian education was
never more apparent than in the present world situation, and we urge our brethren
in the ministry to assist in every possible way in the conduct of this campaign.
DePauw has sustained her best traditions of devotion to the national interest in
the great world-war, of which we are now a part. Five members of the faculty and
over two hundred undergraduates are in the National service. There are four
hundred and thirty-six stars on her service flag. A department of military instruc-
tion and training under federal officers will be conducted next fall. Courses will be
offered to train students for expert service along all lines required by the Govern-
ment. The President has rendered the State Council of Defense distinguished
service by his speeches and sermons. The Mendenhall lectures were delivered this
year by President H. P. Faunce, of Brown University, on "Religion and War."
They constitute a notable contribution to the literature of the present crisis. These
lectures will soon be published by the Book Concern.
Despite the loss of fifteen per cent in attendance, due to the large number of
students in the National service, and the consequent shrinkage of $15,000 in student
fees, the low rates for board and rooms have been maintained. The present year
will be brought to a close with no deficit in the current expense account.
We urge the pastors in our Conference to new efforts to encourage the young
people in their congregations to attend college. The present need of men in the
interests of war will be equaled after the war by the need of the world for trained
leaders in the great enterprises of reconstruction. Now is the time to train our
young people for leadership in the new age. To send a young person to a Christian
college like DePauw is a distinct form of patriotic service. We recommend the re-
election of Hon. M. B. Stultz and Dr. W. D. Parr as trustees, and the appointment
of Rev. F. A. Hall as Conference visitor.
The Methodist Church is justly proud of its theological schools, and the oppor-
tunity offered by them for thorough preparation for the ministry.
Boston University School of Theology, in spite of the depletion of its ranks by
the war, is still filled with men who are seeking the advantages offered by this pro-
gressive institution of higher education. The school is situated in the heart of
Boston, in the midst of a cosmopolitan population that offers large opportunity
for practical Christian service. President Murlin and Dean Birney are determined
that the best possible shall touch with the eastern atmosphere, while combining
with it the training of the mind, can do no better than at our Boston school.
Drew Theological Seminary, located at Madison, New Jersey, in close proximity
to New York, offers the finest opportunity for training in Christian leadership. It
has a large and scholarly faculty, extensive libraries, and is faithful to its long rep-
utation for thorough scholarship and loyalty to the standards of the church. In
addition to the instruction in the school, the students have opportunity to hear the
great preachers of New York and learn first-hand, practical church methods.
We recommend as visitors the following: For Boston, Rev. J. F. Edwards;
Drew, Rev. Frank Morris; Garrett, Rev. Charles Smith; Jacksonville, Rev. W. A.
Griest.
The year at Garrett Biblical Institute has been signalized by the large numbers
of its students who have offerei themselves for service in the war. Two service
flags were recently dedicated. There are twenty-two now in the Govern-
ment service and fourteen in the Young Men's Christian Association work. The
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facultv of the .chuol arc in conslanl demand for patriotic addresses. I he campaign
or Uition.il oKlowmenl makes slow but definite and encouraging progress. Four
W i rics have been completed an 1 paid for at an outlay of $13^()0J. The central
u in? vil be undertaken when the necessary S25J,OJO are in sight. The four-
, ,r or vear is continuing to prove iiself satisfactory. Students are availing them-
ilvc. of the summer quarter, which re luced the time of school by nine months.
■pj.tors are increasingly coming to learn the value of the summer quarter as an
oi.ix.rtunitv for coml)ining a relatively inexpensive vacation with the advantages
of practical' courses of instruction. To meet the convenience of pastors, the summer
nuarter is divi.led into two terms of six weeks each. The high standing of the faculty
in the world of scholarship, the exceptional equipment, the opportunity of Chicago
as a liboralnrv for the study of evangelistic and social problems, make a desirable
center for thoie seeking preparation for religious leadership. u^„ c u
The Illinois Woman's College, Jacksonville, Illinois, is in class ^A »' ^he
colK-es of the Methodist ICpiscoDal Church, and in the highest class of the Rec-
ognized College Idst" in the report of the Illinois State Board of Education. The
college has an exceptionally strong faculty, and offers standard work in Liberal
\rts Music, p-ine Arts, Expression, and Home Economics. It affords young ladies
an o'piJortunily for four years of life that will unfold into efificient usefulness.
We recognize Taylor University as a great asset of Methodism. Many earnest
young people^are there making preparation for their life work.
We nominate Rev. John C. White and John Campbell for trustees, and Rev.
Leslie J. Xaftzger for visitor.
Committee:
W. B. Freelaxd, Chairman, B. E. Paricer,
W. T. Arnold, Secretary, C. E. Line,
U. S. A. Bridge, G. F. Hubbartt.
The Beamer [.ectures on "Christian Missions" were delivered this year by
Bishop Herbert Welch, of Korea, and again justified the wisdom of this foundation.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Methodism as a world church enters upon its supremest opportunity in this
world age. Democratic in our ideals, militant in our methods, this is certainly our
(lav of privilege. Our leaders, with prophetic insight, have been quick to perceive
all this, and have uttered a magnific3nt challenge to the church commensurate with
our unparalleled task.
We therefore hail the Centenary Mo\'ement as a timely recognition not only
of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of American Methodist Missions,
but also the ausjiicious hour for oar entrance into a more vigorous campaign in
worldwide conquest for Christ and the church.
As i^reliminary to this great drive, we recommend that all the charges within
the bounds of our Conference inaugurate at the earliest possible moment a four-
weeks Christian Stewardship Campaign, looking toward the immediate enlistment
of our share of the one million pledged tithers in Methodism.
Our splendid reports made at this session of the Conference are not only sug-
gestive of the vast possibilities of our jurisdiction, but also prophetic of our un-
qualified co-operation in all the great tasks of our church in the days that are to come.
C. U. Wade, E. S. Riley,
T. M. Guild, H. C. Harman,
Sherman Powell, A. H. Backus.
I. C. W'Hite.
FREEDMEN'S AID COMMITTEE.
To THE North Indlvna Annual Conference:
The work of the Society has been carried on for over fifty j-ears. The General
Conference authorized and directed each pastor to observe the Lincoln Day Anni-
versary in February. (Discipline of 1916, paragraph 455, page 302.)
As a result of the work of the Society, we have 350,000 colored members, 3,500
churches, and over 2,000 ministers. Our schools supply these with pastors and
inlclhgcnl Christian leaders. For this purpose, the 21 schools of the Freedmen's
Aid Society, with their 334 teachers and 5,864 students, must be maintained.
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A War Call.
On account of the increased cost of food supplies, fuel, and everything that
goes into the expenses of the schools, the Freedmen's Aid Society needs at least a
fifty per cent increase over last year in its collections.
Its students and graduates are drilling in the cantonments, and soon will be
"doing their bit somewhere in France." Back of the cantonments are the schools,
where others are being prepared to take the vacant places of those who fall "in the
trenches." Help the schools, and help them now, when their need is greatest.
They are making America safe for democracy by providing a Christian leadership
for ten million American citizens and patriots of the Negro race. The presidents
and teachers in these schools are doing a noble and heroic service. Give them a
lift. Encourage them. Their work is vital to the future welfare of the nation.
We recommend, therefore, that each pastor observe Lincoln Day, and that, in
addition to raising the full apportionment for the work of the Society, an efifort be
made to secure a fifty per cent increase to cover the additional expense on account
of war prices.
We further recommend that the program and literature prepared by the Society
be distributed in our Sunday schools and public congregations. This literature can
be secured without cost by sending to the office of the Society at 420 Plum Street,
Cincinnati, Ohio, a postal card request.
Respectfully submitted,
U. S. H.ARTLEV, Chairman.
J. R. Stelle, Secretary..
HOSPITAL.
We, the members of the North Indiana Conference, express our great joy and
thanksgiving for the prosperity attending the [Methodist Hospital Association of
Indiana. With the dedication of the new pavilion and surgeries, the hospital at
Indianapolis has been made one of the largest and best equipped hospitals in the
Middle West, while it is so popular that it is overflowing with patients all the time.
We regard as an evident leading of the Lord the gift of a hospital plant in the
city of Princeton, Indiana, worth 850,000, and heartily sanction the acceptance
thereof, and its thorough renovation and improvement.
We commenJ the wisdom of the Association in the conduct thus far of the pro-
gram for the acquisition of the property of the Ways Sanitarium Company, in Fort
Wayne. The munificent gifts of S35,OJJ by Dr. A. H. ]\Iacbeth, his wife. Dr. Harriet
Stemen Macbeth, the provision of S103,0JJ by the people of the city of Fort Wayne
and vicinity, an 1 the payment of $125,000 by the Hospital Association will give us
a property in Fort Wayne, the second city of the State, easily worth $300,000.
Fifty thousand dollars of the one hundred thousand dollars required from Fort
Wayne has already be^n subscribed. In view of the great need for added hospital
facilities in the city, and also in view of the fact that this building has been selected
by the Government as the official hospital to care for casualties of the war, we urge
the early consummation of this great enterprise and the opening and operating of
this silendid plant as soon as satisfactorv arrangements can be made with reference
to the S 100.030 from Fort Wayne.
We congratulate the hospital on the wisdom and efficiency' of the administra-
tion of the secretary-supreintendent, Charles S. Woods, M.D.
The splendid Nurses' Training School conducted by the hospital is the best
in our State, and we look forward with joy to the erection of the new building pro-
posed and made possible by the splendid gifts of Bro. Messick, of Shelbyville.
Altogether, we commend the Methodist Hospital Association of Indiana as the
very best, first, for the restoration of health, and second, as an opportunity for the
placing of gifts where they may continue to bless our suffering world.
We urge that our people visit the hospital properties, and that pastors should
take selected persons from Epworth League chapters, Sunday schools, and the
church for the inspection of our great plants.
We recommend the re-election of Rev. L. J. Naftzger and the election of C. B.
Jenkins as trustees for a period of three years, their terms to expire in 192L
We recommend the apportionment of ten cents per member to the charges for
the Sustaining Fund. p^^^^ P_ thornburg, J. O. Campbell.
H. W. Park, L. J. Naftzger,
B. M. Bechdolt, M. E. Barrett.
P. E. Greexwalt.
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MEMORIAL HOME.
Your Committee for the Metho:lisL Memorial Home submit the following:
1 We reioicc in the success of the Home, as is manifested in the health and
happiness of the forty-three memliers, who range in age from sixty-eight to eighty-
"'"^r'^The financial condition indicates assets to the amount of $127,504, an in-
crease" of a little over §7,000 over last year, f ^.u. r^„
3 \Vc recommend that the Committee apportion to the charges of the Con-
ference for this benevolence the sum of ten cents per member as the Sustaining h und
4 We recommend that Rev. E. L. Jones and wife, for their efficient and
economical administration of the afTairs of the institution and recommend that
the Rev. E. L. Jones be' re-appointed as superintendent and financial secretary tor
t ^'^°"^'";^^g-J:^^^^,^^,^^p,^^l ^hat the following be elected as trustees for a period of
three years- M. S. Marble, A. H. Sapp, and O. A. Pulley.
6 We recommend the appointment of W. T. Arnold, J. C. White, and t. A.
LeMaster as visitors to the Home for this Conference year. ,,, ^ ^
C. U. Wade, W. T. Arnold,
Chas. W. Chadwick, D. C. Beatty.
PARSONAGE AND FURNITURE.
Your Committee on Parsonage and Furniture is gratified to report an increase
in the number and improvement of parsonages. There are now some 225 parsonages,
wFth a valuation above $575,000, leaving but a very few of our charges without a
parsonage home for the preacher.
We wish to record our appreciation to the local societies of the churches for
their keen interest in behalf of the ministry.
Further, by reason of the present difficulties in securing railway shipping of
household goods and the losses attending to shipping thereof, and the need of a
uniformity of such furnishings, to be supplied to each parsonage within the Con-
ference.
We recommend that the District Superintendent, at the first Quarterly Confer-
ence, call the attention of our people to these conditions, and urge them to purchase
such articles of furniture for the parsonage homes.
T. M. Hill, C. B. Sweeney,
R. W. Rogers, D. A. J. Brown.
SOCIAL AND MORAL QUESTIONS.
The Committee on Social and Moral Questions submit the following report:
We believe that faith in God is the foundation of the highest and best standard
of social and moral life. We also believe that the highest ethical standard is at-
tained by those who seek to have "Christ formed within the hope of glory." There-
fore we urge that our church people seek for themselves and try to help others
the highest New Testament standard of experience and life. To this end we urge
that our people make pro[)er use of the Sabbath day by building into their lives on
that day, through the church services and otherwise, those elements that tend
toward the ennobling of the soul. We deplore the use of the Sabbath in such a
way that God is cither forgotten or crowded out of the life. We urge the keeping
alive in the soul a sense of God and of our obligations to him.
We further believe that the enthronement of Christ as Lord of the life will
solve the problem of questionable amusement. Therefore let us hold before our
young people the glory of the surrendered life, realizing that such a life will not go
astray at any point.
In addition to all this, we appreciate the civic forces in the enactment and
enforcement of proper laws. We deplore the laws that permit Sunday baseball
and Sunday theaters and picture shows, and wish to commend all efforts seeking
the rejjeal of such laws and the enactment of others that tend to help the people to
remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
We recognize our homes as the bulwarks of our nation, and deplore the fact
that disease, poverty, and crime in many cases hamper or destroy their efificiency.
As a measure looking toward the bettering of our homes, we would favor a law re-
quiring a medical certificate of all candidates for marriage.
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We greatly deplore that so many of our homes are destroyed by divorce, and
urge our people and pastors to use all forces within their power to alleviate this evil.
We are also convinced that there is a close relation between poverty and crime,
and if our wage-earners were better paid in many cases, there would be fewer de-
linquents in morals. We regret very nmch that many of our young women are
compelled to work for from $3.50 to $10 per week, which in most cases is an inade-
quate wage. We trust our pastors will call attention to this fact and, where practical,
urge the employers to greater liberality.
We believe that in the present crisis of wartime there is no force more potent
than the moral force. We also believe there is no organization equal to the church
for making moral fiber and morale in our people at home and in the boys abroad.
Therefore we most heartily commend the patriotism manifest in the church by its
patriotic meetings and its loyal support of the Red Cross and Young Men's Chris-
tian Association. We would encourage our churches in their work of helping win
the war and making this old world safe for democracy and a democracy that is safe
for the world.
Preston Polhemus, John F. Edwards,
E. E. DeWitt, K.\rl R.. Thompson,
L. F. UlMER, J. O. HOCHSTEDLER.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
Resolved, That the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church declare its conviction that the United States entered into the war one year
ago under the resistless compulsion of patriotic duty and in defense of the rights of
humanity. For the American nation the issue is simple and sublime. An abhor-
rently selfish and frightfully cruel autocracy arrayed itself against the forces of
democracy, imperiling the liberties of the world. The Prussian Empire proclaimed
the right of might, recognizing no international law, no moral law, and no law of
humanity, justifying bestial rape, cruel deportations, wanton waste of the treasures
of civilization, and crimes which put to shame the ravages of the hordes of Atilla.
The American nation has drawn the sword for the defense of her own liberties and
to safeguard the freedom of all civilized nations against the domination of a de-
testable military autocracy that recognizes no law except the law of military ne-
cessity.
Resolved, That we declare a profound conviction that no peace is worthy of
being considered except a righteous and lasting peace, to be secured only by the
complete and final defeat of German arms.
Further, we record our strong conviction that all the resources and energies
of the nation, physical, intellectual, and moral, should be laid upon the altar for
the service of country and of God.
We therefore urge upon all national and State officials and upon all citizens to
push with the utmost vigor the task of winning the war.
We deplore and condemn the base treason of "war profiteers," who have
bartered in the sufferings of the helpless by exacting extortionate profits in business.
We deplore and condemn the criminal excesses of the "militant Bolsheviki"
in our midst in the outbreaks of mob violence, inflicting physical indignities and
even death upon enemy aliens suspecteJ of disloyalty, but not convicted after due
process of law. While we are at war with a lawless nation, our citizens dare not
become lawless, even in the cause of liberty and humanity. But in order that the
flag may be everywhere respected, we call upon all officers of the Federal Govern-
ment to punish with prompt and drastic severity all utterances and acts of disloyalty
which give comfort and aid to the enemy.
We record our deep gratification over the adoption by Congress of the measure
providing for nation-wide prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors. We are confident in the belief that the early ratification of this national
amendment by twelve States is in earnest of the speedy and complete destruction
of the brewery and saloon throughout the nation.
W^e rejoice in the aggressive measures enacted and enforced by the authorities
of both the Army and Navy for the protection of our soldiers against the ravages
of drink and vice. We deplore the fact that the President has not yet exercised the
authority vested in him by Congrees to prohibit as a war emergency measure during
the period of the war, the use of any grain for the manufacture of any form of alco-
holic drinks.
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\Vc nou- with just pride the response to the call of the country made by the
vounc men in the schools and colleges of the nation. In order that the Army and
Saw may be adequately provided with men of trained skill, and that church and
stale m.iy have intelligent and wise leadership for the mighty task of rebuilding
the woriii, we call upon all pastors and teachers and parents to urge upon our youth
the high patriotic dutv of continuing in the schools until their training is completed
or until the country calls them into its service. The imperative need in this crisis
is for men of iraine 1 intellect and moral virtue.
We urge upon all our citizens earnest and diligent endeavor m conservmg the
moral and intellectual resources of the nation by maintaining at maximum efficiency
the work of the schools and colleges, the churches, and other philanthropies, which
minister to a strong and righteous citizenry.
We call upon all the i)eople of our country to awaken from indifference and
to fight the foes of humanity and civilization in the unwavering determination to
make no halt until a just and lasting peace has been secured by making 'right the
law of the world, and casting every selfish dominion down in the dust." And to this
holy conflict we pledge our bodies, our possessions, and our lives until the end.
Signed: George R. Grose, Charles L. DeBow,
Wirt Lowther, J- F- Porter,
W^VRREX W. WlANT, LEONARD A. SwiSHER.
John C. W'hite,
SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
In this day of stress and strain we would not forget to recognize that the greatest
asset to the Christian church of to-morrow is found in the young life of to-day.
This young life must be conserved to its greatest possible advantage. The church
has the only blessing to bequeath to the youth which will prepare him for this life.
This thought is substantiated by the utterance of our Lord when he said, "Seek ye
first the kingdom of God and his righteousness."
President W'ilson said that one-third of the population of the United States
is represented by the children. The obligation for all the religious and moral in-
struction of this army of youth rests upon the church.
It is ours to recognize the vastness of the task, and in the strength of God to
assume the responsibility. It is to this end that we heartily endorse the well-or-
ganized and well-planned activities of our great Methodist Church to take care of
this young life.
We also, as pastors of the North Indiana Conference, pledge our united endeavor
to promote all the Sabbath-school interests, looking to the highest religious attain-
ment.
e. a. bunner,
Benj. Kendall,
E. M. Foster.
SUSTENTATION.
Connectionalism is the very essence of Methodism. Therefore, in harmony
with the recommendation of the District Superintendents, we advise that $5,000
be apportioned to the several districts for this home mission work.
We also recommend the additional sum of $1,200 for the student pastor at
Purdue University, a total of $6,200 for Sustentation work.
C. B. Croxall, a. L. Weaver,
C. M. HoBBS, Henry Lacy.
temperance.
With joy we view the wave of temperance sweeping around the globe. Russia
has abolished vodka; France, absinthe; England is curtailing the drink evil; eleven
States have ratified the amendment to the Constitution of the United States pro-
hibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors.
After a long hard fight of ten years, Indiana has gone dry by Federal enact-
ment. 1 he traffic has been abolished in Porto Rico, Alaska, and the District of
Columbia, antl the shipment of liquor to dry States has been prohibited
We commend our Government for the protection of our bovs in the canton-
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ments, and urge that the same policy be enforced abroad. While we are conserving
grain to feed the allies and the soldiers in the field, we demand that the manufacture
into beer of this scarce and precious grain be abolished in this country. And with
all kindness, yet with firmness, we say to France and England, You must not de-
stroy, in your beer-vats and distilleries, the food which we, at great sacrifice, ship
to you.
We congratulate our Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals
upon the achievements of the past year. We note with appreciation the program
for the erection of a Methodist building in Washington, D. C, near the Senate
Building, where the church's interest in civic righteousness may find adequate ex-
pression, and through which the denominations' interests may be interpreted to
our churches.
We commend the work of the Church Temperance Society, the Anti-Saloon
League, the Flying Squadron, the Prohibition Party, the W'oman's Christian Tem-
perance Union, the Dry Federation, and all other temperance organizations for
their united efforts to make our State dry, and we desire the same united efforts
of all such organizations to secure the ratification of the prohibition amendment
to the Federal Constitution.
We rejoice in the good work done by the members of our own Conference —
Madison Swadener and Chas. J. Everson.
W^e nominate as Trustees of the Anti-Saloon League, W. W. Martin and O. A.
Trabue.
We recommend as officers of our Church Temperance Society, J. A. Patterson,
for President; F. P. Morris, Vice-President, and Herbert Boase, Secretary.
AsHER S. Preston, Chairman.
E. E. Lutes, Secretary.
TEMPERANCE No. 2.
HoNOR-\BLE WooDROw WiLSOX, President of the United States.
HoxoRABLE Thomas Riley Marshall, Vice-President of the United States.
Members of the House of Representatives of the United States.
Members of the Senate of the United States.
Honorable Robert Lansing, Secretary of Honorable G. W. Goethals, Assistant Secre-
State. tary of War.
Honorable Willi.vm Gibbs Mc.\doo, Secretary Honorable E. R. Settingius, Assistant Secre-
of Treasury. tary of War.
Honorable Xewton Diehl Baker, Secretary Honorable Willi.\m C. Gorgas, Surgeon Gen-
of War. eral.
Honorable Thom.^s W.\tt Gregory, Attorney- Admiral Willi.vm S. Benson, Chief of Naval
General. Operations.
Honorable Albert Sidney Burleson, Post- Admir.\l Henry T. May'o, Commander of At-
master General. lantic Fleet.
Honorable Josephus D.\niels, Secretary of Major General Willi.am Crozier.
. Navy. ' Honorable Edward N. Hurley.
Honorable Fr.\nklin Knight L.\ne, Secretary- Major General Payton Conw.\y March.
of Interior. Senator Harry S. New, M. C.
Honorable David Fr.\nklin Houston, Secre- Senator James E. Watson, M. C.
retary of .\griculture. George K. Denton, M. C.
Honorable Willi.\.m C. Redfield, Secretary of Oscar E. Bland, M. C.
Commerce. William E. Cox, M. C.
Honorable Willlxm Bauchou Wilson, Secre- Lincoln Dixon, M. C.
tary of Labor. Everett S.\nders, M. C.
Honorable Herbert C. Hoover, National Food Richard N. Elliot, ^L C.
-Administrator. Merrill Moores. M. C.
Honorable Harry A. G.\rfield, National Fuel A. H. Vestal, M. C.
Administrator. Fred S. Purnell, M. C.
General John J. Pershing, Commander of Willi.am R. Wood, M. C.
American Expeditionary Forces. Milton Kr.\us, 1\L C.
CcLONEL Edward Mandell House, President's Louis W. Fairfield, M. C.
Chief -Adviser. Henry A. Barnhart, M. C.
W.\rs.\\v, Indl\n-\, April 6, 1918.
Ho.NORABi.E Sir:
Where-\s, Recognizing Go:l as the author of all just government, and Jesus
Christ, the Prince of Peace, as the Arbiter of the destinies of nations, and the Holy
Spirit as the guide in human affairs, the Bishop and the members of the North
Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Conference assembled,
facing the future with hope, do hereby call your attention- to the fact that our Dis-
cipline says that "the time has come when the line should be definitely drawn be-
tween the supporters and partners of the liquor traffic and those who stand for its
abolition," and
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\Vhere\^ \Vc know that the licensing of the liquor traffic is a crime, and that,
as representatives of the church of Jesus Christ, we cannot consistently with our
profession cncouraRe it or sui^i^ort it either by our vote, our voice, or our silence, and
\Vi;ekeas, The administration tells us that to win the war we must save in
man power, nionev, transportation, food and fuel.
Therefore \Ve to conserve man power, money, transportation, tood, and tuel,
do humi.ly petition v'ou to do everything in your power to secure the immediate enact-
ment and thoroujjhgoing enforcement of such laws, with such adequate prison penalties
for all violations included, as will totally eliminate the manufacture, sale, exporta-
tion importation, transportation, storage, use, bartering, or giving away of any
and'of all forms of alcoholic liquors at all for beverage purposes in the United States
and in its j^ossessions, and wherever federal court authority, legislation or police
powers can consistently be extended to protect our people, including all those in
government employ, from the influences, effects, and results of alcoholic liquors.
We also hereby petition you to enact and enforce legislation by which all loyal
Americans under, our flag, regardless of sex or race, will be fully enfranchised.
Signed
Passed by a unanimous vote of Conference and laymen present.
WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Organization.
Greeting:
North Indiana Conference is incorporated in the Northwestern Branch, legally
responsible to receive bequests, real estate, money on the annuity plan, and able to
give at all tirftes a correct bill of exchange. We have seven Conference officers and
seven officers in each of the six districts. One hundred and thirty-nine Auxiliaries,
with a membership of 5,066; fifty-one Young Women and Standard Bearer So-
cieties, with a membership of 1,104; one hundred and five King's Heralds and Little
Light Bearer Societies, with a membership of 2,200; a net gain of thirteen organiza-
tions and 529 members. Forty-five life members have been made during the year.
Nineteen hundred copies of the Woman's Friend and 1,000 copies of the Junior
Friend have been in circulation.
Meetings.
Conference anniversary addressed by Rev. Fred B. Fisher. At this meeting
Mrs. Fisher was made a life member. The Northwestern Branch meeting was held
in First Church, Anderson, October 2-4, with 900 delegates in attendance. Five
District Conventions, with unusually large attendance; young people and children
furnishing interesting features on the program. Over one hundred special and
Thankoffering meetings were held, besides 2,900 regular monthly meetings. Miss
Cora Simpson has given twenty-seven addresses and Miss Edith Bell, from Africa,
twelve. Miss Kthel Jackson, from Singapore, and Miss Mary Mann, from Foochow,
are at home on furlough, giving encouraging reports of great success on the foreign
field. Our work was presented at six ministerial district conferences, by courtesy
of the District Superintendents.
Jubilee.
Goal members in every church in the Conference. April 17th one of the seventy
Jubilee meetings was held in Wayne Street Church, Fort Wayne, with a large at-
tendance, and a delightful banquet well carried out. And, best of all, three young
women offered themselves for work on the foreign field. Eighteen names of children
have been placed on the Jubilee Legion, and, by the payment of $194, the loyal
women placed the name of the Conference Secretary in the Book of Remembrance
in Tremont Street Church, Boston. M. O. G. H. members will be reported at the
close of the Jubilee. We have also given our quota to the foreign jubilee goal in the
going out of Miss Joyce Walker to Tientsin, who was born in China, and whose
parents went to China forty years ago. Miss Hazel Schaub, from First Church,
Fort VVayne, has gone to do hospital work in Nanchang, China. Miss Schaub is
exceedingly well equipped, and was called to the work of a missionary when a small
child.
The late Mrs. Frances Kelley, of Richmond, a rare Christian, left a bequest of
$500, which was paid into the fund for the new building at Lucknow, India, one of
of the Jubilee objects. We are deeply grateful for the co-operation of pastors and
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people, and our purpose is not only to do our best to spread the gospel over the
known world, but to do our best in our own local churches, firm in our belief that
the truth shall be made manifest. "Not by might, nor by an army, but by my
spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts."
Respectfully submitted,
Flokenxe Clark Binford, Conference Secretary.
WOMAN'S WORK IN THE CHURCH.
In all ages of the world, among all races, and under all conditions woman has
lifted up the standard toward which her contemporaries have advanced, for the
standard of the woman is the standard of the world.
She has been the first to advance, whether that advance be with joy and songs
of triumph or in sorrow, with pain and sacrifice.
The church to-day owes her very existence to woman's devotion to the cause
of righteousness. American Methodism took her place in American civilization
because of Barbara Heck's denunciation of evil and exhortation to militant Chris-
tianity.
Woman bore the first message of the risen Lord to his perplexed and doubting
disciples. To-day she is busied about the work of her Lord — in missionary work,
in Aid Societies, as leaders in League and Sabbath school. In fact, upon her efforts
much of the advance in all lines of church work depends. Not only does she carry
these responsibilities in the church life, but finds time to do efficient labors in the
Red Cross and kindred enterprises in these times of stress. Ministering to our boys
at home and abroad, in the field and hospital. Surely her children shall rise up and
call her blessed.
Signed: E. J. Maupin,
W. E. HOGAN,
B. P.- HORNADAY.
(c) SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
CABINET RESOLUTIONS.
The Cabinet of the North Indiana Conference hereby express their high appre-
ciation of the outstanding services of Bishop Thomas Nicholson, and their gratitude
to Almighty God for his forceful and constructive administration. His visits to our
District Conferences, because of their inspirational and upbuilding character, merit
and receive both our approval and thanks. In cabinet work we have found him
equipped with the judicial spirit, a fine perception of the moral quality of men and
their deeds, an attitude of brotherly regard, and a determination as far as possible
to prepare the way for every preacher to attain the highest standard of usefulness
in the church of God. All of this, together with his patriotic spirit, always in evi-
dence, commands both our respect and full confidence. His close attention to the
details of cabinet business insures the success of each District and the Conference
in the realization of that vital relationship which our church must sustain to the
tremendous movements of the present day, so clearly discerned by this statesmanlike
leader of the militant forces of Methodism.
Signed: Somerville Light, J. A. Beatty,
B. S. HoLLOiEiER, R. J. Wade,
W. W. Martin, M. S. Marble.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
We again record our appreciation for the presence of Bishop Nicholson. The
genial, impartial, and expeditious manner in which he has conducted his high office,
as well as the masterful, w;ll-directed, ani spiritual addresses given before the Con-
ference, have commended him to us as a brother well selected to direct in all the affairs
of our church. We shall look forth w^ith great pleasure to his coming as our presiding
officer for another year.
We recognize the arduous and untiring labors of our Conference officers and
their associates, and hereby express our sincere appreciation of their efficient work.
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We desire also to express our highest appreciation for the splendid service
rcndert^l bv the dioir of this church, whose singing, under the eadership of Elmer B.
F^nk toge'll'r with the superior work of the organist, Miss Nelhe Hauies, has been
' 'i^^S^^'Zi^^^-PProclaUon of the way in which the Warsaw papers
the iV^nbn and Times have written up our sessions We especially commend the
I nionfritsevcellent special illustrated edition on Wcnlnesday eve , ^, „ ^
Thrcourtesy extended by the banks of the city for the convenience of the Con-
ference together with the delightful and fraternal spirit on the part of our sister
liuSs! go to make this one of the most delightful sessions of the North Indiana
^ "" We'are grateful to Rev. L. J. Naftzger, D.D., and his proficient Committee on
Entertainment. They are wise entertainers, and with great care have provided for
"*" "we^dSre^'Jo 'thank the Committee on Programs for providing strong men to
represent the needs and interests of the church. The patriotic address as given by
rIv 'John Thompson. D.D., of Chicago, and the evangelistic messages given by
Rev I Gregory Mantle, D.D.; of England, are deserving of special mention. We
endorse the messages of these men and pledge ourselves to support the same.
J. W. Potter, G. B. work,
I. S. Newcombe, H. C. Harman,
T. M. Hill, Chas. Tinkham.
COMMISSION ON RURAL CHURCH.
The appointment of a Conference Commission on the Rural Church Work, to
consist of the District Superintendent and one pastor and one layman from each
District the latter two to be nominated bv the District Superintendent.
' . V. L. Clear.
DISTRICT CONFERENCE JOURNALS.
We have carefully examined the Journals of the following District Conferences,
and commend the various Secretaries for their arrangement and neatness: Goshen,
LoeansDort, Wabash, Muncie, Fort Wayne, and Richmond.
^ Chas. E. White,
R. C. Ballard,
J. C. Woodruff,
Warsaw, Indiaria, April 5, 1918. Committee.
EDUCATIONAL COMMISSION. .
Report of the Joint Educational Commission.
W^hile your Commission has in mind the fact that its function was advisory, we
have felt that since it was created in the wisdom of experts on educational policies
and endorsed by the three Annual Conferences of the State, we have been conscious
of our obligations in the matter, and have sought diligently to understand the whole
situation as it relates to the educational care of the Methodist student body of the
.State, whether in our church schools or in the schools under State control. This is
what we have done in the interest:
First, of the unification of our educational service, both as to the character and
quality of servdce. as well as the spirit in which this service should be rendered, in
order that increased efficiency would result all along the line.
Secondly, to take cognizance of, and place emphasis upon, the necessity of
carefully looking after the moral and religious training of the Methodist students
in our State institutions. The necessity for this will appear when we realize that
this is a day of strategic opportunity, and will become increasingly greater in the
years to come. We have taken all this to be vital to the success and future useful-
ness of the church.
Taylor University.
The Commission made certain propositions to the Trustees of Taylor University
two or three years ago. looking to the transfer of the charter to the North Indiana
Conference, in the hope of increasing the usefulness of this unique school, placing
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it where it could legitimately receive aid from the Conference, and in this way raise
its educational and financial standards.
Since this was not found expedient by the Local Preachers' Association, we
recognize the propriety and legality of the ruling of Bishop Thomas Nicholson, that
the North Indiana Conference is not pri^dleged to use the regular machinery of the
church for the raising of funds for Taylor University, since Taylor University is not
imder the control of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Moore's Hill College.
During the year the movement to re-locate Moores Hill College in Evansville
has been carrier! steadily forward. The city of Evansville, during a whirlwind cam-
paign closing May 3, 1917, raised $513,000. Over $100,000 was raised within the
bounds of the Evansville District during the months of June and July.
At the regular session of the Indiana Conference at Princeton, the Conference
officiall}' voted to move the college to Evansville, and to undertake a campaign to
raise the half million dollars as Methodism's share of the enterprise. This campaign
has not been entirely completed, and is being vigorously pushed. In all, over.$800,000
has been pledged. It is hoped the remainder will be fully provided for before the
close of the Educational Jubilee, the first of July.
The loint Commission rejoices in this magnificent enterprise, which not only
saves to Methodism an honored institution, but also provides educational facilities
for a section of the State in sore need of such an institution. Not only Methodism,
but the interests of the Kingdom at large, will be greatly strengthened in Southern
Indiana by this achievement.
We heartily endorse the plan as announced of establishing in connection with
this institution courses to train men for the rural pastorate. We record it as our
judgment that Methodism greatly needs an institution that will specifically prepare
men for this work. We record with pleasure the co-operation of the Board-of Home
Missions with the new institution at Evansville in working out this program, and
bespeak for the school the widest possible support in this worthy work.
DePauw University.
This Commission, at its meeting one year ago, recommended that the permanent
endowment of DePauw University shouli at the earliest possible date equal $3,000,-
000. As a step in this direction, the Trustees have entered upon a campaign to
raise $1,000,000, $400,000 of which should be invested in new buildings and the
remainder, $600,000, added to the permanent endowment.
The $400,000 intended for new buildings has already been secured and invested
as follows: $125,000 in the new Bowman Memorial Building; $200,000 in the Rector
Hall for Women, and $75,000 in the Clem Studebaker Memorial Administration
Building. In addition to this, $23,000 have been spent in renovating and improv-
ing W^oman's Hall.
Of the remaining $600,000, $150,000 has been given by the General Educational
Board of New York, conditioned on the full amount being raised by March 1, 1919.
Three friends, whose names are withheld for the present, have promised $50,000
an 1 Mr. Edward Rector, of Chicago, has promised to be one of five persons to give
$20,000 each; also one of ten to give $10,000, and also one of twenty to give $5,000
each. A completion of the full amount will mean a new day for DePauw.
DePauw University is the one institution in Indiana vitally related to the future
leadership of the church. At the conclusion of the war Methodist leadership will
be needed more than at any other time in our history. We call upon our ministers
and laymen everywhere to come to the help of this important institution in this
hour of her great opportunity.
As a part of the above movement, a Memorial Chair of Mathematics is being
established in memory of Dr. John P. D. John. Another fund is being raised to
endow the James Whitcomb Riley Chair of English Literature.
Indiana University.
As previously stated in this report, the Methodist students in the State schools
are being looked after most thoroughly, and the results are most gratifying. Dr.
C. H. Taylor, pastor of First Church, Bloomington, gives the matter his personal
attention, and has as an assistant Mr. Frank Forry, who is proving himself in every
line of service.
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The student enrollment in membership has a larger percentage of the University
cnrollnient than last year. anJ that was large. Some of the University professors,
Lcine the value of the work clone, are giving their work m conducting classes in
Sn^ (lelinitc educational course in Sunday school, with an average attendance of
V5 These Bible classes (that is what they are in reality) serve to provide our
Methodist students with a social center of a most wholesome sort.
Purdue University.
The work at Punlue University is incorporated under the name of "The Wesley
I'oundation at Purdue University." This property, under the corporate title,
furnishes the student pastor a home, and forms a sort of community center for the
61)0 Methodist students in the University and about 100 students from other de-
nominations, who have been affiliated, and for whom the student pastor. Dr. Fnbley,
feels rcsiionsible. Of this number there are 23 foreign students, 13 of whom are
Chinese Government students, and to these he is able to give a definite Christian
messisre Dr Fribley has 240 in his classes, receiving instruction in critical and
devotional studies of the Scriptures, mission study classes, social service, and studies
in world democracy. , ■ ,
Respectfully submitted,
A. B. Storms. Chairman.
M. B. Hyde, Secretary.
IN THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY.
Committee on Ministers and Sons of Ministers Who Have Entered
the Service of Their Country.
Fort Wayne District.— Hugh K. Martin, son of Rev. W. W. Martin and
wife; Reuben B. Porter and Ernest B. Porter, sons of Rev. J. F. Porter and wife;
Charles Thornburg, son of Rev. F. F. Thornburg and wife; Donald Ulyses Bridge,
Ordnance Department, son of Rev. U. S. A. Bridge and wife; William A. Hornaday,
son of Rev. B. F. Hornaday and wife; Allen Norris Zechiel, musician, A. E. F., son
of Rev. S. I. Zechiel and wife; C. Clay Ewell, son of Rev. H. A. Ewell and wife.
MuNCiE District.— Corporal R. R. Potter, son of Rev. J. W. Potter and wife;
John Sherman Powell, Aviation Corps, son of Rev. Sherman Powell and wife; Loyal
D. Palmer, First Lieutenant Aviation Corps, son of Rev. J. H. Palmer and wife;
Donald D. Hobbs, Amb. Co., Cedric C. Hobbs, C. A. C, U. S. R., A. E. F., sons of
Rev. C. M. Hobbs and wife.
Logansport District. — First Lieutenant Samuel L. Hollopeter, First Lieu-
tenant Vincent M. Hollopeter, sons of Dr. Hollopeter and wife; George W. Walter,
Navy, son of Rev. George W. Walter and wife. Ministers — Rev. Fred R. Hill,
chaplain; Rev. W. E. McPheeters, chaplain; Rev. A. C. Hoover, Rev. M. E. Shattuck.
Wabash District. — Corporal Ralph B. Murray, Charles J. Murray, Ray V.
Murray, sons of Rev. W. E. Murray and wife; Clyde Timmons, son of Mell Timmons
and wife; Garrett L. Jordan, son of Rev. Jordan and wife; Sergeant Paul M. Fred,
son of Rev. J. J. Fred and wife; Roy R. Wells, Navy, son of David Wells and wife;
Merrill E. Hesler, son of Mrs. J. P. Chamness; Rev. Leslie O. Winslow.
Goshen District. — Clay A. Morrison, Regimental Band, son of Rev. R. A.
Morrison and wife; Major Leslie Roy Naftzger, First Lieutenant Merrill Naftzger,
Ernest W. Naftzger, in Fosdick Army Work, sons of Rev. L. J. Naftzger and wife;
Paul C. Guild, son of Rev. D. H. Guild and wife; Carl Walters, son of Rev. Peter
Walters and wife; Raymond H. Stone, son of Rev. F. M. Stone and wife; Howard
Oborn, Second Lieutenant, son of Rev. J. W. Oborn and wife; Byron F. Cain. Min-
isters — Rev. K. R. Carlson, Ambulance Co.; Rev. Ross W. Stoakes, War Com-
munity Service; Rev. Earl Naftzger, Musical Director Y. M. C. A.
Richmond District. — Captain M. R. Trabue and John W. Trabue, sons of Rev.
O. A. Trabue and wife; Russell Stanton Preston, Navy, son of Rev. A. S. Preston
and wife; Rev. Roscoe Shaw, in Y. M. C. A. work.
D. H. Guild, Chairman.
Harry A. P. Homer, Secretary.
LOCAL CHURCH RESOLUTIONS.
Warsaw, Indiana, April 8, 1918.
To the North Indiana M. E. Conference, Greetings:
Whereas, This great body of God's workers has seen fit to choose Warsaw as
Its place of meeting in this the most critical time in the world's history, and
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Whereas, The people of the First M. E. Church and the citizens of Warsaw
generally have been greatly benefited by your sessions, be it theeefore
Resolved: First, that we extend our love to your presiding officer. Bishop
Nicholson. May the hand of the Almighty God continue to touch him in his future
work.
Second, That we extend our heartfelt thanks to the speakers of the Conference
for their masterly addresses.
Third, That we express our appreciation of the gracious inspiration and blessing
of every member of this Conference who were entertained in our homes.
Fourth, That we as a people consider it a privilege rather than a task to enter-
tain this great Conference, and that we will be glad to have you come back to us at
any time in the future.
Signed: Judge F. E. Bowser, J. M. Sloan,
E. K. HiBBiN, J. C. Schade,
Rev. J. B. Cook, Geo. W. McCarter,
Conference Committee, First M. E. Church, Warsaw.
PREACHERS' AID SOCIETY RESOLUTION.
Whereas, The General Conference at the 1916 session took the following
action:
"Whereas, The Methodist Episcopal Church is now engaged in an intensive
campaign to raise $15,000,000 (now $20,000,000) endowment for its veterans, and,
"Whereas, Many Annual Conferences have appointed field agents and formu-
lated a definite program to carry this forward movement into effect, and
"Whereas, Reports indicate that we are approachirtg a glorious victory in this
worthy cause, therefore be it
"Resolved, That this General Conference record its appreciation of the work
already done, and recommend that field agents, superintendents, pastors, and
churches stand ready to the task until it is complete, and thereby hasten on the day
when our worn-out preachers shall no longer be represented to our people as objects
of charity": and
Where.\s, The Million Dollar Campaign in the North Indiana Conference
seeks to provide an adequate permanent fund for the care of our Conference Claim-
ants, and
Whereas, This campaign has the unqualified endorsement of the Laymen's
Association of the Conference and the laymen in general, and
W'hereas, The campaign in Goshen District justifies the expectation that a
Million Dollar Campaign meets with the most hearty approval of laymen and min-
isters. Bishop Nicholson concurring, therefore
Resolved, That we will devote ourselves untiringly throughout the Conference
year to the prosecution of this campaign in the effort to secure $630,000 in cash and
subscriptions this year if possible, the ultimate goal being $1,000,000.
RuFus A. Morrison, W. B. Freeland,
Wallace W. Martin, Freeland A. Hall,
B. S. Hollofeter, George R. Grose,
James A. Be.\tty, C. U. Wade,
M. S. Marble, R. J. Wade.
Somerville Light,
UNMARKED GRAVES.
Whereas, There are within the bounds of our Conference unmarked graves of
former members of this Conference. Therefore be it
Resolved: First, That a committee of seven, a chairman, and one from each
District who shall report to the next session of this Conference at Peru, Indiana, in
in 1919, the name, year of birth, and of the death of such former members, and that
this Conference will then provide means for suitable marks for such unmarked
graves.
Second. And that Cyrus U. Wade be Chairman, and the following brethren
be appointed for the several Districts, viz.: J. K. Walts, of Fort Wayne; M. F.
Stright, for Goshen; Charles H. Brown, for Logansport; William H. Peirce, for
Muncie; Madison A. Harlan, for Richmond, and David Wells, for Wabash.
G. B. Work, W. W. Brown,
Leslie T- Naftzger, Richard C. Jones,
AsHER S. Preston, D. H. Guild.
John C. White,
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THE WESLEY FOUNDATION AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY.
Report of the Student Pastor Committee.
\s tin- mcnil.ers of the North Indiana Conference will remember, at the Auburn
o-lAnnf the Conference in 1917, the Conference assumed one-half o the responsi-
Surin" . vcd in lircs,ai.lishing of the Student Pastor work at Purdue Un.vers.ty
^"tis acto V l,asis. From That time on until May, 191/, the enterprise was
irect^i T'v a joint conunittec appointed by the two Northern Conferences Bu
n M^v U) 1917 after numerous conferences and committee meetings of the local
amltlK- joint committees, in which information was obtained regarding similar
ok carried on in other State universities, and after having conferred with Bishop
Nkholson and with Dr. James Baker, student pastor of the University of IHinois,
the scSes of a competent attorney were employed, and at a meeting in the Fowler
Hotel in 1 aFavette, Indiana, a full discussion was made, and the members of the
jdnt committee voted to organize the Wesley Fouhdat.on at Purdue I niversity
The mine "The Wesley Foundation" having been used at the State universities of
Illinois Wisconsin. Iowa, and Minnesota, was thought to be the most appropriate
title for the onjanization. On the 17th of May, 1917, the attorney employed sub-
„uttc-(l the articles of the Association, which were signed by the following incor-
txjrators: W. U. Parr, M. S. Marble, C. E. Line, W. E. Mckenzie, AT Briggs,
I) Tillotson O F Hall, G. F. Roberts, M. L. Fisher, and Lawrence Wallace.
The officers elected for the f^rst year, as provided by the law, were: President,
W D Parr Kokomo; Vice-President. D. Tillotson. CrawfordsviUe; Prof. Geo b .
Roberts Secretarv. LaFavette; Treasurer. Prof. M. L. Fisher. LaFayette. The
Board also elected the following standing committees: Executive Committee for
the first year, W. E. McKenzic, G. F. Roberts, M. S. Marble, B. S. HoUopeter, M. L.
Fisher; the Wavs and Means Committee. W. D. Parr, D. Tillotson, L. W. Wallace,
O. F. Hall ' ,, ^ , x^ . T r r-
The Board of Directors for the First \ear: From the North Indiana Con-
ference— W D. Parr, M. S. Marble. C. E. Line. From the Northwest Indiana Con-
ference— W. E. McKenzie, D. Tillotson, A. T. Briggs. From the Purdue Staff of
Instruction— M. L. Fisher. G. F. Roberts, L. W. Wallace. The four chosen by these
nine Directors at Large were: Bishop Nicholson, W. W. Martin, B. S. HoUopeter,
and O. F. Hall. , . . • , t j it
It will be of interest to the Conference to learn the nature of Articles 1 and 11
of the Foundation's Constitution and By-Laws:
Article I.
See page 360.
Article II.
See page 360.
1. .After the incorporation and organization, the Wesley Foundation set about at
once to purchase a home for the Student Pastor and a headquarters for the Methodist
work at the University. The property purchased is just opposite the Llniversity
campus, the corner of State and Sheetz Streets, and is within speaking distance of
the library and Fowler Hall, two of the main buildings of the school. It is without
question, one of the most desirable locations in West LaFayette. The lot is 75 by
150 feet, and is regarded by those who are competent to judge worth the price paid
for the entire property, which was $7,000. Since last Seotember this location has
bben the rallying place for our Methodist work and the office of the Wesley Founda-
tion. Fi\'e hundred dollars were spent in improving this property. As the Student
Pastor Committee, we wish to report that all bills have been paid which have been
incurred for current expenses for the fiscal year of September 1, 1916, to September
1, 1917.
2. We recommend that we assume our one-half of the current expenses for
the present year, as we did last year, which is $1,200.
3. We recommcn 1 that one-half of the purchase price of the Wesley Founda-
tion property, which will be one-half of $7,500, be apportioned by the District Su-
per nt-'Uf ents to their respective Districts, to be raised by each Superintendent as
he deems best.
4. We recommend that the Conference appoint, according to the By-Laws
of the Foundation, the following as the Directors from the North Indiana Con-
igiS] Treasurers 31 1
ference: For the three-year period of service, W. D. Parr; for the two-year period
of service, M. S. Marble, and for the one-year period of service, C. E. Line.
5. We request the Bishop to re-appoint Fremont E. Fribley to the Student
Pastorate for the coming year.
6. We request the printing of the Constitution and the By-Laws of the Wesley
Foundation in the Minutes.
Signed: William D. Park,
W. B. Freeland,
C. E. Line.
(d) TREASURERS.
CONFERENCE TREASURER'S REPORT.
Receipts.
Conference Collections ( J^,"^®^, ^}^n'^^?
\ Vouchers 130,471
$255,301
Preachers' Aid Society 4 735
Book Concern 5,015
Deaf Mute Percentum ■ 2
Total $265,053
Disbursements. • Vouchers. Cash.
Board of Foreign Missions $20,608 $30,982
Board of Home Missions 7,214 27^584
Freedmen's Aid 758 4*565
Board of Sunday Schools 1,313 3^320
Board of Education 1,859 2^558
DePauw University 140 7,412
American Bible Society 338 1^648
Board of Temperance, etc 265 1 538
General Deaconess Board 56 530
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society 21,081 12
Woman's Home Missionary Society 16,635 11
Endowments 3,075 12
Methodist Hosoital 11,753 3,727
Home for the Aged 306 3^979
W. W. Martin, Sustentation 371 '553
R. J. Wade, Sustentation 472 375
B. S. HoUopeter, Sustentation 207 530
J. A. Beatty, Sustentation 50 714
S. Light, Sustentation 108 584
M. S. Marble, Sustentaiion 79 539
War Fun i 34
Annual Conference Investments. . .' 12,185 30
Central Office Epworth League 235 1 ^S
W. W. Martin, Salary 16
J. A. Beatty, Salary 15
Support of District Superinten 'ents 20,997
Support of Bishops 1,127 3,927
Conference Claimants 445 37,651
General Conference Expense 18 498
Other Benevolences 8,776
Board of Conference Claimants 1,103
Totals $130,471 $134,582
130,471
$265,053
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North Indiana Conference
[1918
BOARD OF STEWARDS.
NAMt:S.
MKN.
Bcll.T.H.C 25
Billhcimer, S 12
Bowcn, J. W 35
Brown. C.H 34
Brown, W.W 18
Browne. F. G 32
Cain. J. W 40
Cain. John S 37
Carey.A.J 36
Cook. J. B 40
Davis, Eli 21
Diabro, C. E 39
Ewell.H. A 28
Fettro, J. T 33
Freeh, T.F 28
Garrison, G.E 11
Hartour, 0. V. L 30
Hastv, E. F 47
Hill.G. H -. 30
Kemper, F. M 16
Ucy,F.M 28
Laslic, R. T 14
McCartv, W. E 34
McDanicI, J. \V 18
MeFarlane, H. E 10
McNarv, J. H 24
Miller, S.C 10
Murray, C.H 29
Norris. S. C 22
Paschall.J. W 24
Patterson, A. M 26
Peck, William 27
Peirce, W. H 31
Peirce, M. R 31
Pittenger, M. C 13
Reed. R. S.. 27
Reev«, Lewis 20
Reeves, J. M.B 16
Robinson, F. A 22
Rulev,J.A 36
Rush, J. M 19
Sawyer, B 29
Semans, E. L 39
Sevita, L. A 30
Singer, I. W 30
Smith. R.H 35
Stright. M. F 33
Terflinger, J. V 7
Tillman, J. W ! 15
Walts, J. K 35
Wilkinson, C.H 44
Williams, J. E 29
Wcoton, A. S 32
Work, G. B 42
AWNCITT.
$430
209
610
592
314
557
697
645
627
697i
366
679|
488
575
488
1921
523!
819,
523
279
4881
2441
592 1
3141
1741
418
174
505
383:
418'
453!
470
540
540;
226
474
348
279
383
627
331
505
679
523
523
610
575
122
261
610
766
505
557
732
Totals 1473 $25963
WOMEN.
Albright, Rosa J
.\ndcrBon, Sarah
Baker, Mary
Becks, Abbie
Bennett, Lucy. . .
Boston. E. May . . .
Bridge, Maria. . .
Brown, luiith
Cone, Sophia M . . .
Cook, Elizabeth B .
Cooper, Alice M. .
Curtis Ellen M...
Daniel, Emma L . .
27| $353
25 327
10 131
17
38
497
13
170
13
170
2
26
30
392
13
170
222
$400
192
560
544
288
512
640
592
576
640
336
624
448
528
448
176
480
752
480
256
448
224
544
288
160
384
160
464
352
312
390
432
496
496
208
432
320
256
352!
.5761
304 1
464
6241
480
282
560
528
112
240
560
704
464
512
672
$23372
$324
300
120
456
156
156
24
360
156
204
CD
E."
I
0^
NAMES.
$100 $23472
$400
19:
560
544
288
51
640
592
576
640
:«6
624
448
528
548
176
480
752
480
2.36
44S
224
544
288
160
3S4
100
464
352
312
390
432
496
496
208
432
320
256
352
576
304
464
624
480
282
560'
528
112
240
560
704
464:
512i
672;
S324
300
120
456
1.56
156
24
360
156
WOMEN— Continued.
Davis, Alice i 13
Davis, Laura j 13
Karp, EllaG | 22
Fish, Matilda A i 38
Forkner, Margaret A .
Gerard, Carrie F
GrcKg, Eva K
Greer, Elizabeth M . . .
Hammond, Jessie M. .
Harrison, Flora C j 14
Herrick, Sarah J ..:.... ! 2
Hudson, Hannah B : 34
Jackson, Emma I 20
Johnson, Emma ; 5
Jordon, Celia
King.AddieG | 38
Lamport, M. J
Lewellen, Minerva. .
Luse, Hattie M j 20
Mahin, Catherine L . . . . j 32
McCarty, Margaret. .. .j 4
McCoy, Emma ! 17
McElwee, Anna B 1 24
McElwee, Laurinda. . . .' 22
Melliniier, Martha J .... 1 13
Metts, Eliza W i 31
Mott, Harriett ! 26
Neal, Mrs. E. E , 23
Neal, Louisa • 12
Norris, Hattie I 34
Peddvcord, Mav S ' 14
Phillips, Nancy E 10
Powell, Jennie 17
Poweil, Sarah H j 14
Paschall, Mrs. J. W....! 24
Patterson, Mrs. A. M.. .: 26
Randolph, Laura ...:... 4
Rehl, Clara R 12
Reichelderfer, Mae 13
Rogers, Lizzie S 9
Skinner, Martha E. . .
Smith, Mary L 22
Smith, Maggie 31
Singer, Mrs. L W . . . .
Teague, Hattie 15
Lobey, Nettie 11
Vigus, Maria 41
Wayman, Armilda. . .
White, Anna 34
Wones, Dora L 9
Wright, Sarah R 10
Young, Lucy M 42
Totals 1082
CHILDREN.
Annuity.
3~
$170
170
288
497
39
300
105
300
170
183
26
444
255
497
255
419
53
222
314
288
170
405
339
300
158
444
183
131
222
183
314
339
53
158
170
117
$156
156
264
456
36
276
96
276
156
168
24
408
240
60
1^1!
Belt, J. Robert
Belt, R. Joyce
Belt, Albert F
Belt, Harold H
, Brcwn.Thos. C
Hammond, Joyce T. . . .
Hammond, Ruth
Rehl, LoisG
Wones, Carolyn Ruth..
Wones, Roselyn Esther. .
Wright, LawTence
Wright, Minnetta
DAVID WELLS, Secretary.
Totals 49
288
405
91
197
144
536
26
444
117
131
549
$13933
$383
17
105
35
244
70
$854
240
384
48
204
288
264
156
372
312
276
144
408
168
120
204
168
288
312
48
144
156
108
264
372
84
180
132|
492
24
408
108
120
504
$100
SO
$13172
$352
16
96
32
224
64
50
$265
$784l
$13437
$784
L. M. KRlDER, iresidtnt.
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BOARD OF STEWARDS.
Treasurers' Balance.
Receipts:
Received from Collections. . . $27,899 00
Received from Preachers' Aid Society 4,735 00
Received from Book Concern 5,015 00
Received from Bequest 2 00
Balance from 1917 83 75
Total Receipts $37,734 75
Disbursements:
Annuities Allowed $37,119 00
Necessitous 365 00
Expense Items 21 00
Total Disbursements 37,505 00
Balance $229 75
A. G. Neal, Treasurer,
Per W. E. H.
CONFERENCE CORPORATION.
Douglas Fund.
Balance last report §653 95
Interest received on certificate of deposit 6 15
Interest received from money loaned 31 50
Paid to William F. Warner, Secretary of Leo Cemetery, for
care of the Douglas Lot for the years 1917-18 10 00
S691 60
Total Fund on hand $681 60
Marsh Fund.
Balance on hand last report $1,642 02
Interest received 58 98
$1,701 00
On November 15, 1917, $1,000 was invested in Liberty
Bond, and remainder is in Certificate of Deposit at four per
cent interest from November 15, 1917.
Bashore Fund.
Cash on hand at last report $3 01
In Bonds, with interest payable to Mrs. J. W. Bashore dur-
ing her natural life 558 00
Interest received on bonds 25 12
$586 01
Paid the interest to Mrs. Bashmore $25 12 ■ — ■ — ■ — ■ — ■
Fund on hand as above $561 01
The 270 acres of land deeded to the Conference, with life estate in Mrs J. W.
Bashore, is held by the trustees of the Conference, as stated in the report of last
year.
C. U. Wade,
Treasurer of the Trustees, Conference Corporation,
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WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Conference Treasurer's Report.
j^jj^Eins Ve.\r Ending April 4, 1918.
Fort Wavne District $3,166 69
Coslu-n District 3,916 18
Lonaiisport District 2,164 01
Miiiu-ic District 4,55U 86
Kichmoiul District 3,162 08
Kichmond District, Bequest 500 00
Wabash District 3,358 59
$20,818 42
Life Membership, Mrs. F. B. Fisher 20 00
Miscellaneous 7 50
Total $20,845 92
Disbursements:
To Branch Treasurer $20,845 92
Respectfully submitted,
Mrs. O. E. AIohler, Treasurer.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Receipts.
Cash on hand at last report .• $275 81
Convention Collection 22 04
Miss O. G. Davis 18 90
Mrs. R. H. Richardson 2 30
Sale of Treasurer's Books 24 26
Conference Collection 114 47
Fort Wavne District $1,994 19
Vouchers 220 38
Supplies 597 37
Goshen District $2,993 65
Vouchers 360 67
Supplies 510 06
Logansport District $2,155 85
Vouchers. . . . . 115 70
Supplies. :....... 610 97
Muncie District $1,637 71
Vouchers 101 56
Supplies 461 32
Richmond District $1,605 83
Vouchers 178 17
^I'PI-lies 238.79
Wabash District $2,255 44
Vouchers 254 23
Supplies 469 50
Total Cash $13,100 45
1 otal Vouchers 1 23U 71
Total Supplies 2^888 01
2,811 94
3,864 38
2,882 52
2,200 59
2,022 79
2,979 17
Grand Total $17,219 17
igiS] Miscellaneous 315
Disbursements.
Mrs. H. C. Jennings $11,597 51
Perpetual Memberships 180 00
Methodist Episcopal Hospital 352 00
Indiana Deaconess Home 32 00
Permanent Deaconess Fund 60 00
Mrs. J. C. Murray 18 90
Conference Expenses 447 21
Vouchers 1,230 71
Supplies 2,888 01
$16,806 34
Balance '. $412 83
Grand Total 17,219 17
Respectfully submitted,
Mrs. J. W. Vail.
(e) MISCELLANEOUS.
ACCOUNTS OF D. V. WILLIAMS, SECRETARY.
Receipts.
Conference Minutes to Districts $1,061 48
From Advertising 65 00
Bound Copies 4 95
Sale of Minutes 26 22
Total $1,157 65
Expenses.
Book Concern, Printing and Cuts $1,012 00
Secretary 100 00
Statistician, Expense 3 52
Express, Fort Wayne District (Local) 6 55
Supplies, Postage, Proof Reading, Telegrams, etc 32 81
Cash on Hand '. 2 77
Total $1,157 65
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE PREACHERS' AID SOCIETY
FOR THE CURRENT YEAR.
Total Permanent Fund on hand last year $133,342 90
Total Permanent Fund on hand this year 229,091 00
Increase $95,748 10
Itemized Statement of Funds in the Hands of the
Treasurer:
Money Loaned on Personal Security $75 00
Money Loaned on Approved Mortgage Security. . . . 95,427 00
Cash in the Hands of the Treasurer 4,156 00
Total 99,658 00
Assets in the Hands of the General Secretary:
Real Estate Valued at $8,700 00
Notes in His Hands 11,351 00
Pledges for Permanent Fund 50,063 00
Fees and Dues Due from Beneficiary Members 2,569 00
After Death Bonds 56,450 00
Cash in His Hands 300 00
Total 129,433 00
Total Assets 229,091 00
Net Proceeds Turned over Last Year for Distribution. 4,224 00
Net Proceeds Turned over for Distribution This Year. 4,735 00
Respectfully submitted,
C. U. Wade, Secretary.
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North Indiana Conference
[1918
PREACHERS' AID.
General Secretary's Report.
Uix)n election by the Preachers' Aid Society, and appointment by Bishop
Nicholson to the General Secretaryship of the Preachers' Aid Society, the Secretary-
elect addressed himself to a study of the history of the Society, the resources of the
Nortii Indiana Conference, the imperative need of an adequate permanent fund,
the general awakening throughout Methodism and Protestantism, the tremendous
inflation of the volume of money in the United States, the tardiness of the church
in caring for the Veterans of the Cross, the saviours of our civilization, and the in-
calculable loss to the church and nation by the continuance of a policy of defalcation
that will bar many of the strongest young men from the ministry. For these and
other reasons, and in consultation with the District Superintendents, leading pastors
and prominent laymen, it was determined to ask for the increase of the Permanent
Fund to a grand total of one million dollars, $150,000 for each District.
Veterans' Day, as set apart by the General Conference, fits admirably into the
campaign of publicity and finance; therefore it is respectfully requested that this
day be observed in all the churches in our Conference in such a way as to promote
"The Million Dollar Campaign" in both its publicity and financial phases, using
the day in loving remembrance of the Veterans of the Cross, and in the taking of
an offering in all the churches of the Conference for the administrative fund of the
Preachers' Aid Society, the offerings to continue to be taken during a quadrennium
at least.
It is requested that the Preachers' Aid Society be given a memorial" page in
the Minutes of the Conference; also that a column in the Conference statistical
chart of the Conference Minutes be given to the General Fund of the Preachers'
Aid Society.
The amounts up to date subscribed by pastors and churches of the Goshen
District is as follows:
Albion $1,665 00
Avilla 535 00
Benton 2,170 00
Bourbon 2,300 00
Bourbon Circuit 960 00
Bristol 1,650 00
Butler 100 00
Corunna 205 00
Cromwell 100 00
Elkhart: Trinitv 7,386 50
St. Paul's 175 00
Simpson Memorial 300 00
Circuit 590 00
Etna Green 12,407 75
Goshen: First 9,185 00
St. Mark's 1,305 00
Circuit 1,205 00
Howe 3,100 00
Inwood 1,705 00
Kendallville 2,300 00
Kimmel 320 00
LaGrange 1,775 00
Leesburg 50 00
Ligonier
Middlebury. . . .
Milford
Mishawaka . . . .
Mongo
Nappanee
New Paris
North Webster .
Osceola
Pierceton
South Milford. .
Stroh
Syracuse
Tippecanoe. . . .
Topeka
Valentine
Wakarusa
Warsaw
Warsaw Circuit.
Waterloo
Wawaka
Wolcottville. . . .
2,970 00
1,195 00
480 00
900 00
310 00
8,867 00
2,460 00
1,405 00
665 00
1,711 00
1,220 00
1,043 00
1,616 00
1,585 00
100 00
852 00
1,915 00
1,505 00
610 00
2,500 00
50 00
1,950 00
The Goshen District is about half worked up to date. The Rev. R. J. Wade,
D.D District Superintendent, has rendered most effective personal assistance to'
the General Secretary, and was indispensable in directing the activities of the pastors
and special helpers, thus freeing the General Secretary from much personal solicita-
tion for the larger subscriptions. The Rev. C. U. Wade, D.D., was most helpful in
assisting in making the canvass in a few charges. The Rev. J. Frank Anderson,
Field Representative of the Board of Conference Claimants, has rendered continuous
and efficient help. The Board of Conference Claimants has shown deep interest,
ani has sold us many thousands of leaflets at a low price, which are being used in
our campaign, the same being sent out from the office of the Preachers' Aid Society.
Ihe Rev. J. C. Woodruff, Field Representative of the Preachers' Aid Society, is
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becoming a very successful field man. All the pastors of the District have shown
the greatest possible interest, and have gladly done everything in their power to
make the campaign a success.
As this campaign has right of way for this quadrennium by General Conference
action, and as Bishop Nicholson and General Secretary Hingeley ,of the Board of
Conference Claimants, have expressed the wish that the campaign be completed
as far as possible next year, and as the same sentiment and desire was expressed in a
meeting of all the Conference Secretaries, Dr. J. B. Hingeley concurring, called by
Bishop Nicholson, which met in Chicago, January 31st, and as this program was
endorsed by the Bishop's Area meeting following same, it is incumbent upon us as
a Conference and Preachers' Aid Society, in conjunction with the Board of Con-
ference Claimants, to carry out a program in a year, if possible, which we had ex-
pected to do in three years. It is thought not to be impossible, provided the Board
of Conference Claimants and the Board of Control of the Preachers' Aid Society
are willing and do provide us with four expert field men each for the year's campaign.
We are gratified that Dr. R. J. Wade is appointed Field Manager of the Area Cam-
paign. If we succeed in raising this fund, it will do four most needed things and
most talked about in Methodism:
1. It will pay the debt of love in gold to the Veterans of the Cross.
2. It will make possible the consecration of the church to the work of the
Kingdom, which the church demands of the ministry.
3. It will increase the support of the struggling man of God in the small charge.
4. It will greatly increase the amount paid by the large charge to the world-
wide program of Jesus Christ.
Asking that you will approve the work already accomplished and concur in
the recommendations herein contained, I am
Your obedient servant,
RuFus A. Morrison.
SUSTENTATION.
Receipts: Fort Wayne District.
Balance on hand $21 07
From Conference Treasurer 503 00
Direct Collections 361 00
Disbursements:
Auburn Circuit $75 00
Bluffton Circuit 100 00
Bobo 90 00
York 50 00
Hudson 50 00
Kingsland 15 00
Student Pastor 200 00
Balance 305 07
$885 07
Receipts- Goshen District, R. J. Wade, District Superintendent.
From Conference Treasurer $261 00
From Charges 472 00
Disbursements:
Overdraft $190 74
Elkhart Circuit 118 33
Bourbon Circuit 104 00
Simpson Memorial 150 00
Warsaw Circuit 88 00
St. Paul 40 00
St. Mark's 10 00
Mongo ; 65 00
Purdue Student Pastor 200 00
$885 07
$733 00
$966 07
Overdraft $233 07
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LoGANsroRT District, B. S. Hollopeter, District Superintendent.
Receipts: 4-,„ „^
Balance on hand *:Jf^ J^^
From Conference Treasurer lil nn
^•■^°'" ^'^^^"--^ ^^1^ $88800
Disbursements:
As per Vouchers Enclosed /^3 uu
Balance on Hand $153 00
MuNXlE District, J. A. Beatty, District Superintendent.
Receipts: ©riA nn
From Conference Treasurer *j'*o uv
From First Church, Noblesvilie 50 00
$596 00
Disbursements:
Purdue Student Pastor $200 00
Ingalls Circuit 68 00
Normal City 100 00
Noblesvilie Circuit 50 00
Park Place, Anderson ., 100 00
Westf^eld 75 00
$593 00
Balance in Bank $3 00
Richmond District, Somerville Light, District Superintendent.
Receipts:
Balance in Bank last report $22 00
Cash from Conference Treasurer 385 00
$407 00
Disbursements:
Disbursed, as per Vouchers - $297 50
Balance in Bank $109 50
Wabash District, M. S. Marble, District Superintendent.
Receipts:
Balance in Bank at last report $144 83
Cash Collections 136 00
Cash from Conference Treasurer 427 00
$707 83
Disbursements:
Disbursed, as per Vouchers $723 35
Overdraft $15 52
Audited and found correct. — E. L. J.
(IX) 3^lan of Conference examinations.
BOARD OF EXAMINERS.
W. B. Freeland, Chairman; U, S. A. Bridge, Registrar.
1. Students will secure the proper volume of Directions and Helps from
the Book Concern. Read with care.
2. A properly authenticated certificate showing that a student has already
pursued and passed a satisfactory examination in a prescribed course of study
as a regular attendant on the class-room instruction in any of our regular theo-
logical seminaries, universities, or colleges, approved by our University Senate,
will be received in lieu of Conference examinations.
3. Similar certificates may be received in all studies not biblical or theo-
logical, from other than Methodist schools, if of equal grade with those ap-
proved by our University Senate. The Board of Examiners in each particular
case will determine whether the work done is a fair equivalent or not.
4." Certificates containing grades designated credit shall be received, and
grades entered the same as the average of those grades contained in the certifi-
cate.
5. All examinations must be taken at the Mid-year Institute, or at the seat
of the Annual Conference, on Tuesday of Conference week. Exception to this
rule will be made in the case of a student in the mission field.
6. All written work on "books to be studied" must be given to the examiner
by the time of the Mid-year Institute. All written work on "books to be read"
will be due on or before March first. No credits after these respective dates.
7. One paper of approximately one thousand words will be required on a
chapter of each book; this applies to both lists: "books to be studied" and "books
to be read." Students will select chapter.
8. The directions of the Discipline, 1916, par. 596, 597, 598, and 599, sec. i,
will be strictly enforced. Students should read with care.
9. All candidates for admission must pass an examination in "The Art of
Writing English," except those who are exempt by par. 597, sec. 4, Discipline, 1916.
ID. All candidates for ordination under the local rules will report to the
Chairman of the Board of Examiners for examinations.
II. The Mid-year Institute will be held at the Kemp Memorial Church, Tip-
ton, October 14 to 17, 1918.
DISTRIBUTION OF SUBJECTS.
Admission on Trial.
1. The Art of Writing English Cates
2. American History Hubbartt
3. The Twenty-five Articles Hubbartt
4. Li fe of Wesley Hubbartt
5. Wesley's Christian Perfection Cates
6. Life of Bible Character Cates
7. Written Sermon Bridge
First Year.
1. New Testament History Arnold
2. Human Behaviour Kendall
3. Making the Sermon Gillard
4. How to Study and Teaching How to Study DeBow
5. Collateral Overdeer
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Second Year.
1. nictionary of the Bible 9^'-!ri
2. The Bible in the Making ^- 7 j
3 How We Got Our Bible ^''a^o
4 vShort History of the Christian Church Arnold
5. The Pupil and the Teacher DeBow
6. The Graded Sunday School ^/^°Yi
7. The Way to Win .Arnold
8. Collateral Yeomans
Third Year.
1. Beacon Lights of Prophecy Kendall
2. Foundations of Christian Belief Semans
3. Socialism and Modern Social Problems Semans
4. Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion Gillard
5 Social Institutions and Ideals of the Bible Semans
6. Collateral Hall
Fourth Year.
1. Paul and His Epistles Semans
2. System of Christian Doctrine Arnold
3. Every-day Ethics DeBow
4. The New Home Missions Kendall
5. Social Aspects of Foreign Missions Kendall
6. Collateral - Freeland
BOARD OF EXAMINERS MEETING.
7 P. M., Thursday, April 4, 1918.
Motion carried to confine examinations to Tuesday of Conference week.
All written work must be in examiners' hands by March ist in order to receive
credit. The District Superintendents are requested to urge all candidates for
examination to appear at the Mid-year Institute. Dr. Freeland was authorized
to rearrange the course among the examiners in the interest of greater con-
venience. A motion was carried that before a man may be advanced from the
studies of the first and third year, he must have at least two-thirds of his work.
(X) iHemoirs;.
JOHN WESLEY PASCHALL.
John W. Paschall died at his home in Goshen, Indiana, on Thursday, June
7, 1917, after several years' illness. Brother Paschall was the second oldest
minister in our Conference, having been born at Huntsville, Indiana, October
22, 1838, and was therefore eighty-eight years,
seven months, and fifteen days.
He entered the Conference in the year
1871, was received into full membership and
ordained deacon in 1874 and elder in 1876.
During his ministry he served the following
charges : Bluffton, Areola, Hamilton, Co-
runna, Wawaka, Bristol, Cambridge City, Gal-
veston, Fort Wayne St. Paul, Fort Wayne
Simpson, Greentown, Bunker Hill, and
Goshen St. Marks. He was retired in 1903.
In the year i860 he was united in marriage
to Miss Elizabeth Wright, with whom he lived
in happiness for fifty-seven years, and who
now in loneliness waits the reunion in the
sweet by and by. Three children were born
to this union ; two sons and one daughter,
who was the wife of C. C. Cissel, are de-
ceased. The one son living is A. W. Paschall.
Three grandchildren and one great-grand-
child are blessed with the memory of this
sainted man of God.
Rev. Paschall was a man of intellect,
courage, and devotion. He was a faithful
pastor to the churches he served and a good preacher.
During the years of his retirement he made his home in Goshen, where
he greatly endeared himself to the people and was faithful and loyal to his pas-
tor, and very useful to the church.
Funeral services were held at his home, Saturday afternoon, June 9, 1917,
in charge of the family pastor. Rev. H. C. Harman, D.D., and addresses were
made by R. J. Wade. D.D.. the Rev. J. W. Cain, and the castor. A delesation
of the members of the Conference attended the services and acted as pall-bearers.
Interment was in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Indiana. H. C. Harman.
John Wesley Paschall.
REV. J. W. WELCH.
John William Welch, the subject of this sketch, was born near Rumsey,
Hampshire County, West Virginia, August 11, 1823. With his parents he came
to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1827, and after a residence in Ohio of seven years came
to LaGrange County, Indiana, in 1834. Here he grew to a fine Christian man-
hood, practically spending his entire life in the service of the church. At the
Conference session in 185 1, held at South Bend, he, with a class of twenty-five
men, was received on trial in the North Indiana Conference. So splendid has
been his ministerial career, that after forty years, the History of North Indiana
Conference refers to him as "considered one of the greatest ministers of the
State."
Rev. Welch was a hard worker, a persistent student, of indomitable courage,
and exhibited a splendid consecration to the task of the ministry. So indus-
triously did he give himself to the ministry that three times he broke in health and
had to take a supernumerary relation, during part of such time he served two
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t^rms as treasurer of LaGrange County. Then as health and strength returned
*""hack aga^ in the active ranks of the ministry As a student he excelled and
Rev. J. W. Welch.
ence. His sermons bore the marks of a fine
tliinker, a close reasoner, and, above all, of
deep devotion. He laid broad and sure foun-
dations and brought home the truths in a most
convincing manner. It could be truly said of
this splendid preacher that he, too, "went about
doing good;" that in out of the way places and
apparently unseasonable hours he gleaned for
the Master and from these services many will
rise up to call him blessed. He was truly
instant in season and out of season, making
full proof of his ministry.
Rev. Welch had thirty-two years of serv-
ice in the active ranks, during which time he
served the church in the following charges :
Hamilton, Allen Circuit, Auburn, Pierceton,
Warsaw District, Anderson, Agent for De-
Pauw University, Greenfield, Winchester,
Agent for Fort Wayne College, Portland, Fort
Wayne Simpson, Hudson-Ashley, Arcadia.
He retired in 1901.
After the death of his wife, which oc-
curred several years ago. Rev. Welch made
his home with his daughter, Mrs. C. E. Hoag-
land, of Ligonier, Indiana. At the time of his death, he was the oldest resident
of Ligonier and the Nestor of the North Indiana Conference. After an earthly
pilgrimage of nearly ninety-four years, he entered rest on July 7, 1917. The
end was beautiful. Faith was triumphant. The day before he went home, he
requested the daughter to sing. "Sing what," she asked. "Sing," he said, —
"Just as I am, without one plea,
But that thy blood was shed for me,
And that thnu -bidd'st me come to thee,
O, Lamb of God, I come!"
Then the morning of the 7th, as the loved ones stood watching the crossing,
again came the words, faint, but clear, "Sing, Just — Just — as — I — am," and on
that upward reach of the sainted soul, the gates of the Eternal City swung open
and a hero of the Cross went to his eternal reward.
The funeral service was held in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ligonier,
Monday afternoon, July 9th, Rev. T. M. Hill conducting the service, assisted by
District Superintendent R. J. Wade, D.D., who delivered a short eulogy; Rev.
R. A. Morrison read the Scripture; and Rev. C. L. DeBow offered prayer. Rev.
C. U. Wade, D.D., traveled from Petoskey, Michigan, to speak the words of
eulogy over the casket of his spiritual father. Dr. Wade gave such a vivid pic-
ture of the man and his work in giving the experience of his own conversion
and entrance, from the lawyer's office, into the Christian ministry, giving Rev.
John W. Welch credit for being the human agency the Master of us all had used.
A quartette composed of Mrs. Cleo Holloway, Mrs. Roy Skinner, Mr. J. L.
Henry, and Mr. Jesse Dewey, sang effectively "Just as I am," and Mr. Earl
Cartwright, of Portland, rendered in a most touching manner "The End of a
Perfect Day."
A delegation of ministers of the Conference attended the service. Pall-
bearers were selected from them who bore the body to the beautiful Oak Park
Cemetery, hard by, to its final resting place. T. M. HiLL.
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MRS. LAVINAH SMITH.
Mrs. Lavinah Hiles Smith was born August 24, 1S30, at Sinnack Falls,
New York. In 1852 she was married to the Rev. R. J. Smith, who was for a
number of years a member of the North Indiana Conference. To this union
were born three sons and one daughter, the daughter having preceded the
mother to the life beyond.
For forty-one years Grandma Smith labored with her husband in the Mas-
ter's vineyard. In 1893 he was called to his reward, and for twenty years she
has lived a widow.
She was brought up in a Christian home and in the church and throughout
her life she shed the influence of her noble Christian character.
The triumph of her life came July 6, 1917, when she was transported to the
world beyond. The funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. Alvin
F. White, in the Methodist Church at Chili, Indiana. She was buried by the
side of her husband in the Perrysburg Cemetery, a few miles west of Chili. Her
age was eighty-six years, ten months, and eleven days.
Three sons survive her: Albert A. Smith, of Crandon, Wisconsin; Erwin
E. Smith, of Akron, Indiana; and Newton Smith, of Chili, Indiana. She also
leaves seventeen grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren, and one great-
great-grandchild to mourn her departure. A. F. White.
MRS. SARAH PECK.
Sarah Peck, daughter of George and Elizabeth Poland, was born Septem-
ber 23, 1839, near Perkinsville, Indiana. Passed to her heavenly home on the
evening of June 13, 1917, having reached the age of seventy-seven years and
nine months. At the age of fourteen years she was converted and united with
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Perkins-
ville. The church building had been erected
by her father; he burned the brick and planned
the building. On September 18, 1856, she was
united in marriage to William Peck. To this
union five children were born, four daughters
and one son. Three of the daughters passed
away in childhood — Ethline Florentine, Jen-
nie Eudorah, and Haley Josephine. The hus-
band, Rev. William Peck; one daughter, Mrs.
Margaret Emaline Farlow ; and the son. Dr.
John L. W. Peck, are left to mourn their great
loss. The son and daughter will be of great
comfort to their father in the evening time
of life.
For more than sixty years she journeyed
with her husband, always sharing the respon-
sibilities and cares of life. For more than
twenty-seven years she lived with her husband
in the Methodist parsonage, making the home
a real life-saving station. -She knew how to
sympathize with those who were in trouble or
sorrow, and was generous to a fault. She ex-
perienced, with her husband, the responsibili-
ties in the following pastorates : Alto, Boxley, Jerome, Westfield, Carmel, Alex-
andria, Walton, New Waverly, Trenton, Middletown, Williamsburg, Philadel-
phia, Hagerstown, Spiceland, and Yorktown.
When the North Indiana Conference gave them the retired relation in 1894,
Brother and Sister Peck located in Frankton. She was always a regular attend-
ant at the church services when her health would permit. She did her best to
make the pastor and his family happy. She new how to sympathize with the
minister and his family.
Mrs. Sarah Peck.
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On the evening of June 13, after a day of extra laboi% she retired for the
niRht but was soon aroused with a shortness of breath. Her husband assis ed
her to tc open window, where she hoped to get fresh air, but standing at the
viulow she realized tha the time had come for her departure, and she said to
HT husband that all was well and she was ready to go, and her sweet spirit
slipped away to join her loved ones on the eternal shore.
"The funeral was conducted by Rev.. J. H. Palmer, of Albany a former pas-
tor. Ministers present and some assisting were Rev^ R. H. Smith, Rev_ A. M.
Pi terson Rev. E. C. Dunn, Rev. J. W. Hanger, Rev. B. E. Jones, Rev. G.
\\ Harper, and Rev. Wagner, of the Christian Church. After a brief service at
the home the regular service was held at PerkinsviUe, and the body was laid
in the PerkinsviUe Cemetery. J- H. Palmer.
MRS. EMMA A. ROAHRIG.
Emma A Strohacker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Strohacker, was
born in Muskingum County, Ohio, August 26, 1882; departed this life August 13,
IQ17, aged thirty-four years, eleven months, and seventeen days.
On the 3rd day of May, 1903, she was united in marriage to Weber Roah-
rig. To this union were born two daughters
— Erdine, aged eight, and Mary, aged six
years.
At fifteen years of age she was confirmed
in the Evangelical Lutheran Church near the
home of her parents, and remained a member
of the same until early in the year 1914; dur-
ing the pastorate of W. E. Hogan, at Inwood,
she was happily converted at the altar of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and transferred
her membership to that denomination. No one
one ever doubted the genuineness of her con-
version, of which her daily life was a living
testimony.
The next day after having entered into
covenant relationship with God, while seated
at the dinner table, she told her husband that
the Holy Spirit was calling her into definite
service, which was a confirmation of the call
which had formerly come to him to enter the
Christian ministry, and they decided to be
"obedient to the heavenly vision." During the
one year and five months that she served as a
pastor's wife, she never missed an opportunity
to speak to people of the higher life, and her labors were rewarded by sixteen
souls definitely converted, beside the impressions made on other minds, which
eternity alone can measure.
During the fall of 1915, after hearing the needs of the foreign field pre-
sented, she, after consultation with her husband, dedicated her two daughters to
God for that work if he should see fit to call them. From that time on it was her
earnest desire and belief that God would honor her by calling these daughters to
that great work, and she made every effort to direct their lives in that direction.
At home she was a true and devoted wife and mother, her home being sec-
ond only to the call of God. His will was given first place in her life and she
never grew weary in service. Many times when her husband was loathe to
leave her bedside, she urged him to go on the mission to which God had called
him, assuring him of her prayers in his absence.
To know her was to love her, and her friends can only be numbered by the
many who came to her bedside during her long illness. In addition to the many
friends, she leaves a husband, two daughters, an aged father and mother, a
Mrs. Emma A. Roahrig.
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father and mother-in-law, six brothers, five sisters, besides numerous other
more distant relatives to mourn her loss.
No time for a last farewell, no time for the shock of fear
Scarcely a moment's halt on the shore, with the guide and boatman near.
Dear ! How surprised you were to go, with little to suffer, little to know.
Only a moment of dark, a dream of the fleeting night.
And then the beautiful break of day, and the quiet peace of night,
And you found yourself where you longed to stand, in the repose of the father-
land.
Funeral services were conducted at the Winchester Methodist Episcopal
Church, August 16, by Rev. W. E. Hogan, assisted by Dr. Light and many of
the ministers of the district, after which the remains were taken to Coshocton,
Ohio, for burial. H. S. Nickerson.
MRS. JENNIE B. LAMPORT.
Jennie B., wife of Rev. A. Lamar Lamport, was born in Cass County, Mich-
igan, August 3, 1850. the only daughter of Daniel and Nancy L. Bassett. Her
early life was spent in Northern Indiana and Iowa, where she was educated
in the public and professional schools.
At the early age of sixteen years she began teaching and continued in this
profession until she had taught about twenty-eight terms. Her last school work
was in the first primary department of the schools at Bristol and Waterloo,
where her husband was the superintendent of the schools.
When her husband, A. L. Lamport, to whom she had been married in 1876,
finally answered his call to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church at
the Conference in Warsaw, 1886, she entered willingly with all her soul into the
work. She was active in all church work, though not strong in body, during her
husband's pastorates at Orland, Bristol, and Garrett. At this latter place she
did practically all the pastoral work during Mr. Lamport's sickness, lasting nine
months, and during the years of his retirement on account of continued ill health
she assumed large responsibilities in the retail mercantile business, to which
they gave their attention as a means of support.
When Brother Lamport's health was restored sufficiently to again enter the
regular work of the pastorate great was her joy and delight. Their first ap-
pointment was Avilla. They were soon abundant in labor, but failing health
soon compelled her to give up active duties of life. The final break came
in 1916, at New Paris, since which time she has required the constant care
of a nurse. For fifteen months confined to a bed of pain and suffering. The
end came Tuesday evening, August 22. She was the last of her father's family
and leaves but one relative, a nephew, Clyde Bassett, of Elkhart.
Funeral services were held in St. Mark's Church, Goshen, Indiana, Friday,
August 24, in charge of Dr. R. J. Wade, and addresses were made by Dr. Wade,
Rev. S. Powell, H. C. Harman, and J. C. Woodruff. Others ministers assisting
in the services were W. S. Stewart, K. Carlson, A. A. Turner, and A. P. Teter.
Her body sleeps in the cemetery at Osceola, Indiana. S. Powell.
REV. ISAAC WAYNE SINGER.
The Rev. Isaac Wayne Singer passed to his heavenly home, Friday, August
31, 1917; just as the shadows were falling upon the earth, he walked into the
light of eternal day. For more than five months he had been an intense but
patient sufferer, but while wasting disease made inroad upon his body, his mind
was as bright as a sunbeam, even to the last.
Graciously endowed by nature, he had added to these gifts a scholastic train-
ing which brought him successively the degrees of A.M., Ph.D., and D.D. In
the spring of 1883 he united with the North Indiana Conference and remained
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continuously in the active pastorate for thirty years, retiring only when forced
bv obysical infirmity to enter the retired relation. „ „ ,. j 4.
Dr Singer was born in Philadelphia, June 29, 1851. He was converted at
the tender age of ten years, and grew up in the church ; the ideal plan of our
cluirch leaders. He early heard the call to preach and yielded his life in obe-
dience to his Lord— there was no controversy
between him and his Lord — to know his will
was to do it— lovingly, gladly, quickly.
All through his ministry, he manifested a
passion for souls; he loved folks and drew
them by the power of his personality into a
living fellowship with Christ. It is recorded
that more than two thousand souls were added
to the churches he served. He had a revival
on practically every charge and many scenes
of Pentecostal power enriched his public work.
But he was eminent in pastoral work, too.
His kind heart and tender svmpathies fitted
him for the work of comforting the afflicted
and sorrowing. At least three churches stand
to testify to his leadership along material
lines also.
On July 24, 1870, Brother Singer was mar-
ried to Miss Margaret Lee, of Bluffton, In-
diana. One child was born -to this union —
Emma J. Richards, of Huntington, Indiana.
Mrs. Singer departed this life in the spring
of 1873. January s, 1876, he was joined in
marriage to Miss Mary Ann Irwin, and to
them one son was born— Rev. William L. Singer, of Spokane, Washington. In
March, 1905, our brother was again called upon to walk through the shadows
and bid his companion farewell.
His third marriage occurred at Richmond, Indiana, in June, 1906, when
he was united in holy bonds to Miss Luanna Irwin. For several years past they
have made their home in Anderson, Indiana, where they have greatly en-
deared themselves to the people and were a great blessing to the First Meth-
odist Church.
The funeral services were conducted at the home in Anderson, Sunday,
September 2, 1917, by his pastor, Rev. J. W. Potter, assisted by Rev. J. A. Beatty,
district superintendent, and Revs. Bailey, Jones, Weslhafer, and Hobbs, and
on the day following his body was laid away in Woodlawn Cemetery, at War-
ren, Indiana.
"The stars shall shine for a thousand years,
A thousand years and a day;
But God and I will love and live
When the stars are passed away."
J. W. Potter.
Rev. Isaac Wayne Singer.
MRS. ELIZABETH B. STEPHENS.
Elizabeth B. Huston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Huston, was born
on a farm near Mechanicsburg, Indiana, December 25, 1840, and died at her
home in Lapel, Indiana, Friday evening, November 9, 1917, aged seventy-six
years, ten months, and fifteen days.
She was the youngest of eleven children, all of whom had preceded her to
the other world.
April 29, 1857, she was married to the Rev. Philip S. Stephens at the home
of her parents, the Rev. James Armstrong officiating. She and her husband
went to Windsor, Indiana, to start housekeeping, Mr. Stephens that year being
pastor of the church at that place.
Rev. Stephens filled Conference appointments until placed on the retired
list in 1910. Since 1905 they had lived in their home in Lapel. They celebrated
their sixtieth wedding anniversary on April 29, 1917.
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Mrs. Elizabeth B. Stephens.
Mrs. Stephens had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since
childhood. She was of a cheerful disposition, kind to all, and during her last
illness, which lasted over a year, was a very patient suflferer. Five days before
her death she suffered a light stroke of paraly-
sis. She knew the end was near and was pre-
pared to go, her only solicitation being for her
aged husband. Her last words to her hus-
band were, "I wish I could go to my Heavenly
Father."
She leaves to mourn her loss, be-
sides her aged husband, two sons, Asbury
Stephens, of Lapel, and Homer Stephens,
of East St. Louis. One child died in in-
fancy. Five grandchildren survive her,
namely: John Stephens, of California;
Walter Stephens, of Knoxville, Tennessee ;
Roy Stephens, of Detroit, Michigan; Mrs.
Aletha Musselman, of Lapel; and Catherine
Stephens, of East St. Louis. She leaves
nine great-grandchildren.
The funeral services were conducted
from the Methodist Episcopal Church in
Lapel, in charge of the pastor. Rev. P. E.
Greenwalt, assisted by a former pastor, Rev.
J. A. Patterson, on November 12, 1917, and
she was laid to rest in the family lot in the
Brookside Cemetery at Lapel, Indiana.
MRS. MELISSA E. LACY.
Melissa E., daughter of Daniel and Mary Bainter, was born in Blountsville,
Indiana, October 8, 1856, and departed this life at Cicero, Indiana, October 15,
1917, aged sixty-one years. Her father and mother died when she was a small
girl. In about a year after their deaths,
Mr. and Mrs. David Fletcher took her
to their home as one of their own and
gave her the care of a daughter, and in
their home she grew up to womanhood. Oc-
tober 16, 1873, she was married to F. M. Lacy,
and to them three children have been born —
two sons and a daughter. One son, Burch-
ard. preceded his mother to the better land,
leaving one son, Daniel B., of Rockford, Illi-
nois, and one daughter, Mrs. Cora M. Etsler,
of Alexandria, Indiana, to comfort the be-
reaved husband in his sorrow. There is also
one sister and one brother and a host of
other friends and relatives to mourn her de-
parture.
When the call came to her husband to
enter the ministry she entered into the ex-
periences of an itinerant life with willingness
and for twenty-eight years stood by the side
of her husband in all the vicissitudes of that
calling, going about her Master's business,
not seeking her own comfort.
The funeral services were held at Blounts-
ville, Indiana, in charge of Rev. C. E. Line, assisted by Revs. A. S. Preston, C. B.
Dougherty, B. E. Jones, J. J. Fred, C. B. Thomas, and H. L. Liddle, after which
the body was laid to rest in Blountsville's beautiful village cemetery.
REV. JOSHUA EVAN ERVIN.
Joshua Evan Ervin was born near Hartford City, April 15, 1840, and en-
tered into the rest that remains for God's people after spending one day of
the present year among his kindred and friends.
Mrs. Melissa E. Lacy.
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For nearly seventv-eight years our good methodical bro her took daily les-
sons in the schoo of life and every day made a contribution to his store of
knowledge strengthened his self-control, widened his survey of the world,
chjScd lii's V ion of the Divine hand in the history, of human kmd, and stimu-
htc his eaVt and soul to perform to the best of his ability the work God had
Sll od im to do The demonstration of God's power to create a new heart had
caiiia mm lu uu. ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^ young Joshua
Evan Ervin and his keeping and direct-
ing agency so richly displayed in his ex-
perience, that the young believer and ar-
dent worshiper found himself power-
less to decline the Divine summons to
preach to others the blessed Gospel that
was so sweet to his spirit; and the priva-
tions and the hardships of the itinerancy
of that early day had no depressing ef-
fect on his courageous soul, aflame with
love. He made the best preparation for
his life work his opportunity permitted.
September 6, 1861, he was united in
marriage with Miss Minerva Mercer.
Three of their four children survive.
For over forty years' this consecrated
couple shared the same trials and joys
of the itinerancy, before the faithful
wife was called to come up higher.
The records of the North Indiana
Conference show that besides serving
for a season as president of the Farm-
ers' Academy, Brother Ervin was pas-
tor of Methodist Episcopal Churches in
the following cities and towns : Port-
land, Camden, Tipton, Peru, Muncie,
Kendallville, Mishawaka, Wabash, Au-
burn, Bluffton, Ligonier, Union City,
a term of six years on the Kokomo District, Angola, West Marion, Pierce-
ton. South Whitley, Cicero. In several of these churches Brother Ervin served
for a second term, which is a telling evidence of his acceptability. Another
proof of the exceptional popularity of the brotherly, kind-hearted man in his
parishes is, that so many devout parents who had enjoyed his ministration to
so great a profit were moved to show their love for him by conferring his name
upon one of their sons. Some showed him this honor long after he had ceased
to be their pastor. To-day there are scores of men in middle life and under in
the learned professions who respond when the name Ervin is called. There is
not a known instance of one of them dishonoring the name. The defensive
charm is not in the name, but in the Christian training of the homes where the
name is revered, as the reminder of the blameless example and clean person-
ality of the minister w^ho had enshrined the name second only to the name of
Jesus in their memories.
His former parishioners recall him as the pastor who was pure, undefiled,
above questionable deeds, with the Scriptures written on the tablets of his mem-
ory, always ready to rebuke, exhort, and lead souls in love, or lift his hand in
blessing.
In 1906 he was united in marriage to Mrs. Eliza Rickard Smell, whom he
had known as a parishioner and near neighbor during his pastorate in Simpson
Chapel. Both were admirably suited for glorifying, each for the other, the
evening of life. Both were more at home in the Bible than in any other body
of literature. Both found the highest gratification of their taste in the fields
of Christian experience and Christian biography. Both found their chief at-
traction in the house of the Lord. Both appeared, during the quiet years of their
retirement, as constantly conscious of precious inward joy, but when going
to the house of the Lord, their supreme felicity came to the surface, their Chris-
tian love shined out in the glow of a full assurance they were about to receive
the manna that comes from heaven. How wonderful heaven will be, if sweeter
peace prevails there, to what these choice spirits realized here.
Rev. Joshua Evan Ervin.
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Next to the privileges of this church, Brother Ervin relished the sweet fel-
lowship of the Ministerial Association meetings. He was the friend of the pas-
tors of this church, the friend of every member. The district superintendent and
his Conference brothers were remembered in his prayers. The Church of Christ
continues to be the birthplace of souls of rare purity, rare felicity, of manifesta-
tion, rare exemplification of the manifold features of Christian virtue, and our
hearts tell us Brother Joshua Evan Ervin belongs to that par-excellent group, and
we shall find him there, but we shall also find he retains the same modesty and
humility that beautified his presence among us. The devoted widow and. noble
children are not paying him the last tribute of respect to-day. They are just
coming to know him in a new light — a glorified spirit forever with the Lord.
REV. A. M. PATTERSON.
Rev. A. M. Patterson, the son of James and Elizabeth Montgomery Patter-
son, was born in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, March 28, 1838, and died at
Alexandria, Indiana, January 22^, 1918, aged seventy-nine years, nine months, and
twenty-five days. He came to Indiana in 1844 with his parents who settled on a
farm three miles north of Monticello, White County, Indiana. In his young
manhood he taught several terms of school and worked at the carpenter's trade
in the summer. In the year 1861, October the
2nd, he was united in marriage with Caroline
Stewart at Camden, Indiana, with whom he
lived for more than fifty-six years. To this
union five children were born — four sons and
one daughter, one son and the daughter. Pearl
Patterson Warner, preceding him to the life
beyond. In early manhood he united with the
church and attended school at Waveland
Academy, Montgomery County, Indiana. Dur-
ing his early life he was interested in the work
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
finally in 1874 he joined the North Indiana
Conference at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and has
been a member of the Conference nearly
forty-four years. He conducted many re-
vivals and hundreds of souls were converted
and came into the church. This was the
greatest delight of his ever-happy soul. The
last period of his life was spent in Alexandria,
Indiana, where he made hundreds of friends
who appreciated his cheerful disposition. He
was recognized as a man of universal kind-
ness, who brought sunshine and cheer to all
with whom he mingled. During his life as a retired minister he has been very
active in the work of the church so far as his strength would permit. He was
loyal to the church and the pastor, and in turn they greatly appreciated his help-
fulness. The day before he joined the hosts above he lifted his hands heaven-
ward and said, "Jesus, Jesus!" He knew he was near the eternal home. And
when his pastor spoke to him he said, "It's all right, it's all right." And then,
just a few hours before he went to be with Jesus, when his son James said to
him, "I think you will get along for awhile now," he said, "I do not care about
it." We knew he was so near the kingdom he wanted to go.
During the Civil War he became a member of Co. B, 150th Regiment, In-
diana Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He was a mem-
ber of the Grand Army Post and was a former commander of the local post.
He was a member of a family of eleven children, four of whom are living:
The Rev. James T. Patterson, Presbyterian minister, of Oxford, Indiana; Rob-
ert Patterson, of the State of Washington; Samuel Patterson, of Missouri; and
one sister, Mrs. Margaretta Logan, of Bement, Illinois. Those who survive him
of his own family are his wife, Mrs. Caroline Patterson, of Alexandria, Indiana;
James A. Patterson, of Pendleton, Indiana; Charles E. Patterson, of Milan,
Michigan; W. Franklin Patterson, of Winamac, Indiana. The grandchildren
are six in number, Odette and Marjorie Patterson, of Winamac, Indiana;
Maurine Patterson, of Milan, Michigan; and Elsie Mae, Blanch C, and Clayton
J. Warner, of Tawas City, Michigan.
Rev. A. M. Patterson.
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The funeral services were held in the First Methodist Episcopal Church at
Alexandria. Indiana, in charge of his pastor, Rev. E. C. Dunn, and his district
superintendent, Rev. James A. Beatly, D.D. Drs. J. A. Beatty and C. E. Line
spoke on his life as a minister and a retired minister, each of them having been
iiis di'^trict superintendent. Revs. W. A. Griest and D. S. Jones read the Scrip-
ture lessons- Dr. J. W. Potter led in prayer; and the Rev. D. V. Williams read
"Abide With Me." Miss Geraldine Dunn sang "The Old Rugged Cross." In-
terment in the cemetery at Alexandria.
REV. WILLIAM S. STEWART.
William Springer Stewart was born in Harrison Township, Cass County,
Indiana, December 21, 1836. He was the son of Enos Huron and Ruth Springer
Stewart'. He leaves a widow, four children— Robert Melvin, Franklin Huron,
Dr. M. Burt, and Mrs. Myra Gordon — two half brothers, two half sisters, six
grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, besides a host of friends to mourn his
departure. Brother Stewart enjoyed the privileges and training of a Christian
home. During the pastorate of the late Rev.
A. W. Greeman at Broadway, Logansport,
Brother Stewart was converted and gave
abundant evidence of a blessed experience and
saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
September 9, 1861, he was married to
Margaret Jane, daughter of Robert and Ro-
sanna McMillen. To this union five children
were born, Robert Melvin, of Elkhart; Frank-
lin Huron, of Montpelier, Ohio; Dr. M. B.
Stewart, of Logansport; Rosanna, who died
in infancy; and Mrs. Myra Gordon, of Lo-
gansport. In 1866 he moved to southeastern
Kansas. After five years on the farm he felt
... called to the ministry, and was appointed to
^J^L^^HMK^IP |k^ ' '■'^^ Virgil Charge, Kansas, in 1871, having
^^^^^■fe ^^^(Pr 9^^^~ nine appointments. He was a pioneer circuit
^^^^^Hk ^^" rider, having horse and saddlebags. He
ij^^^^^B^ |gL -", preached three years on the Virgil Circuit,
^^I^^^^^BJl^ *^ and then was appointed to Fredonia. Feel-
"^B BB^Bk. '"S the need of a better preparation for his
work in the ministry, he moved with his fam-
ily and three children to Evanston, Illinois,
and took a four-years' course in Garrett
Biblical Institute, graduating with the class of 1879, when he transferred to the
North Indiana Conference, in session at Goshen, and was appointed to Elkhart
Circuit. He was the pastor on the following charges: Albion, Butler, Bour-
bon, Columbia City, Manchester, Noble Street (Anderson), Albany, Market
Street (Logansport), when he took a supernumerary relation in 1900 and moved
back to the farm, which he had left before going to Kansas.
He was an earnest and successful preacher of the Gospel, having gracious
revivals and faithfully ministering to the people in sickness and sorrow. His
sweet and gentle disposition won him a place in the affections of his people and
many will rise to call him blessed. On December 8, 1913, his wife, after three
months' illness, passed away. Her devotion, sacrifice, and faithful ministry to-
gether with that of her loving husband and children, was thus broken.
Septcmlier 12, 1917, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Anna Smith.
On January 10 of the present year, while going to the store, he suflfered
a taill striking the back of his head against the pavement. On arriving home
he did not complain about it, but after supper told his wife he had fallen and
was not teeling well On Saturday evening at 5 :30 he was stricken with apo-
plexy, resulting in the paralysis of the entire right sid?. He lingered several
days, taking little nourishment and only partially conscious. On Monday eve-
ning, the 2ist, after consulting with his son. Dr. M. B. Stewart, and Dr. Hatch,
1 was thought best to take him to the St. Joseph's Hospital, where he could have
the best medical care and attention. On Wednesday, the 30th of January, his
it n^c'p a1 ? ^°, '^^'i'^",'''' f""^ for several hours they watched him until
at 10.15 1. M. he breathed his last and passed away from earth to heaven.
Rev. William S. Stewart.
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Thus the life of the Rev. W. S. Stewart, reaching out to fourscore years, a
life of activity and usefulness and blessing, remained as a precious memory.
"Servant of God, well done;
Thy glorious warfare's past;
The battle's fought, the race is won,
And thou art crowned at last."
MRS. ELIZA M. ERVIN.
February 13, just six weeks following the death of her husband, J. E. Ervin,
occurred the death of Mrs. Eliza M. Ervin, one of the most respected residents.
Mrs. Ervin was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Locksley Richard, and was born
in Niles Township, Delaware County, Indiana, seventy-seven years ago. She
was first married to Hiram Moon. To them
were born two children — William and Alice
Moon. At the outbreak of the Civil War Mr.
Moon enlisted, and in 1862 died in the service
at New Orleans, and Airs. Moon returned to
Delaware County to the home of her parents,
where she lived a widow for twenty-three
years, during which time her children both
died.
She remarried, in 1885, to Ephraim Smell,
a well-known man of Muncie, and became the
mother of his sons, Herbert and Richard
Smell. For sixteen years Mr. and Mrs. Smel!
resided in Muncie, and in the year 1901 death
claimed the husband. Mrs. Smell, after four
years' more residence in Muncie, journeyed
to California, where she resided for two
years. She returned to Muncie in 1907 and
was married to Rev. J. E. Ervin, retired.
They took up their residence at 515 West
Adams Street, where they lived happily until
the death of Dr. Ervin, January 2, this year.
Sister Ervin has been a life-long Meth-
odist and is survived by one sister, Mrs.
M. E. Harrington; a brother, Dr. W. A. Rickard; and four stepsons and one
step-daughter.
The funeral services were held at the High Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, in Muncie, Indiana, in charge of Rev. D. T. Stephenson, assisted by
Dr. L. J. Naftzger, of Warsaw, and the body was laid to rest in Beech Grove
Cemetery, Muncie.
Mrs. Eliza M. Ervin.
REV. P. S. STEPHENS.
Rev. Philip S. Stephens was the son of William and Catherine Stephens,
and was born in Clermont County, Ohio, April 10, 1830, and passed to the
heavenly home April 3, 1918, at the age of eighty-seven years, eleven months,
and twenty-four days.
When five years of age he came with his parents in a wagon from Ohio
to Madison County, Indiana, and located on the Stephens homestead, two miles
west of Lapel, where he lived until his twenty-fifth year, when he entered the
itinerant ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was converted at a
camp meeting conducted on his father's farm at the age of nineteen, and the next
few years he taught school in the winter months and labored on the farm through
the summer. In the year of 1855 he was licensed to preach, and at the Confer-
ence held at Goshen that year was admitted on trial to the North Indiana Con-
ference and appointed by Bishop Ames to the Mexico Circuit as junior preacher.
Brother Stephens was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth B. Huston, at
the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Huston, of Middletown, the
Rev. James Armstrong officiating, and they went to housekeeping in the par-
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sonage at Windsor. Randolph County, Brother Stephens having been appointed
to the Windsor Circuit that spring. They served the following charges in the
North Indiana Conference: Mexico, Middle-
town. Windsor, Huntsville, Greensboro, Char-
lottesville, Normandy, Kirklin, PawPaw, Ze-
nia, Miami, Akron, Coesse, Deerfield, Sara-
toga, Winchester Circuit, Portland Circuit,
and Pendleton Circuit. On account of failing
health he took a location in 1880, and was re-
( ^ admitted in 1910 and placed on the retired re-
90-\ , lation.
^ He and his wife moved to Lapel in 1905
. y and here they spent the remaining years to-
gether. Sister Stephens passed to her reward
r on November 9, 1917.
V On April 29, 1917, they celebrated their
. ]k^ sixtieth wedding anniversary in the Methodist
^^m V |Htt|^ Church in Lapel, and a large congregation of
^^^^^L 2J^ ^^^^Bi ''^l^tives and friends were present.
^^^^^^K^flflk^K^^^^^H They are survived by the two sons, As-
^^^^^^H^^^^'W^H^^H bury Stephens, of Lapel, and Homer Stephens,
^^^^^^^K ^^^^^^^k °^ ^^^^ ^^- Louis,
BBBBUBIiim jBBBWBI There are five grandchildren : John Ste-
phens, of Los Angeles, California; Walter Ste-
phens, of Knoxville, Tennessee ; Roy vStephens,
of Detroit, Michigan; Mrs. Aletha Musselman,
of Lapel; and Catherine Stephens, of East St. Louis.
The funeral services were conducted from the Methodist Episcopal Church
of Lapel, Friday, April 5, 1918, in charge of the pastor. Rev. P. E. Greenwalt,
assisted by Rev. Charles Tinkham, a former pastor, and Rev. Frank P. Morris,
a representative of the North Indiana Conference, which was in session in
Warsaw at that date. His body was laid to rest in the beautiful Brookside
Cemetery of Lapel, by the side of his beloved companion.
Rev. P. S. Stephens.
(XI) laoll of tfje ©eab
(a) MEMBERS OF CONFERENCE
3Kn ifWemoriam
Deceased Members of North Indiana Conference.
"They rest from their labors, and their works do folknv them"
Cherished Names
1832
1814
1841
1833
1845
1844
1832
1828
1836
1851
1852
1827
1830
1851
1854
1855
1849
1857
1859
1853
1861
1843
1851
1852
1861
1824
1834
1837
1854
1840
1854
1852
1836
1870
1866
1866
1866
1872
1843
1845
1826
1871
1869
1836
1850
1859
1836
1847
1841
1845
1855
1846
1856
1847
1850
1854
1845
1849
1853
1857
1836
1854
1855
Zechariah Games
Burrows Westlake . . .
Elijah S. Blue
Philip May
Isaac King
Jeremiah Early
Amasa Johnson
Miles Huffaker
Francis Richmond . . .
Charles Ketcham
Wm'. S. Robinson . . . .
Samuel C. Cooper . . .
Samuel Brenton
Wm. H. Metts
James A. Stallard . . .
Almon Clark
James J. Elrod
*Jos. R. Dow-ney
Sanford L. Sanford . .
Wm. R. Edmondson .
Sylvanus Hover
Orvil P. Boyden
Thomas Colclazer ....
William Palmer
Charles W. Timmons
Augustus Eddy
James Black
John B. Birt
Asbury Andrew
Charles W. Miller ...
Thomas Comstock . . .
Campbell Brock
Hawley B. Beera
James W. Brown
George S. Jenkins . . .
William Comstock ...
Benjamin P. Baker ..
Henry C. Jordon
Samuel Lamb
John R. Davis
Robert Burns
John M. Bro\vn
Thomas M. Bell
Greenbury C. Beeks .
Francis A. Sale
John F. Pierce
William H. Goode ..
Emanuel Hall
John W. Bradshaw . .
Valentine M. Beamer
David P. Hartman . .
Silas L. Stout
John M; Mann
Samuel Neal Campbell
Eli Rammel ,
James H. Hutchison . ,
Ezra Maynard
John H. Payton
Charles P. Wright ....
John C Mahin
Jacob Colclazer
Abia M. Kerwood . . . .
Humphrey J. Meek
Time of
Death
Dec.
April
Dec.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
July
Jan.
Oct.
July
July
Mar.
Jan.
Oct.
Oct.
Mar.
Sept.
Dec.
Nov.
July
Aug.
Sept.
Mar.
Jan.
Feb.
Sept.
April
July
April
June
Mar.
May
Mar.
Oct.
Dec.
Oct.
Aug.
Nov.
May
Oct.
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Sept.
Oct.
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May
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Sept.
Oct.
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Nov.
Dec.
April
Feb.
Dec.
Mar.
Nov.
11,
1844
47
17
1845
53
19
1845
36
4
1846
40
21
1847
5
1847
27
8
1850
46
27
1852
40
20
1853
60
16
1854
40
11
1855
35
19
1856
57
29
1856
46
20
1857
29
16
1856
42
16
1857
29
12
1858
34
16
1859
22
23
1861
30
17
1864
34
13
1864
30
22
1865
46
26
1865
5b
3
1868
65
14
1869
42
9
1870
71
7
1870
65
24
1870
64
19,
1870
45
8
1872
55
17
1872
43
10
1873
46
7
1873
63
2
1874
24
27
1874
43
11
1875
43
18
1875
40
12
1876
26
8
1876
68
17
1877
65
2
1877
83
20
1878
43
2
1878
46
23
1878
70
12
1879
62
18
1879
44
16
1879
72
29
1880
56
17,
1880
71
27,
1880
58
13,
1880
64
23,
1880
58
30,
1881
50
28,
1882
66
26,
1882
66
14,
1883
72
8,
1883
67
14,
1883
67
29,
1884
58
6.
1885
62
24,
1885
73
25,
1886
74
20,
1887
66
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Logansport.
Leesburg.
Peru.
Covington.
Fort Wayne.
Pendleton.
Xenia, Ohio.
Greencastle.
Fort Wayne.
Murray.
Jonesboro.
Black Rock.
New Maysville.
Lucknow, India.
Rootstown, Ohio.
Kokomo.
Troy, Ohio.
Winchester.
Union City.
Claypool, Mt. Pleasant Cem.
Bourbon.
Indianapolis, Crown Hill.
Logansport.
Muncie.
Cicero.
Richmond.
Liberty Mills.
Zionsville.
Huntington, L. L, N. Y.
Greenfield.
Cerro Gordo (near).
Liberty Mills.
Montpelier.
Economy.
Richmond.
Somerset.
Akron, Nichols Cemetery.
Orland.
Five Comers, Miami Co.
Orange Co., Fla.
Marion.
Deerfield.
Richmond.
Mishawaka.
Warsaw.
Kokomo.
Fort Wayne.
Hartford City.
Kendallville.
Noblesville.
Coffeeville, Kan.
Elkhart.
Dunkirk.
Rantoul, IlL
Logansport.
Battle Ground.
Gosheni
Muncie.
Kokomo.
•Missionary to India,
f No Memoln.
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Cherished Nambs
1850
1838
1864
1888
1845
1S41
18M
1871
18fiO
ISfiS
1815
18S2
183S
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1873
1843
1884
1841
1838
1857
1865
1837
1839
1838
1«77
1851
1888
1849
1861
1842
1850
1844
1848
1870
1856
1855
1871
1865
1873
1853
1853
1853
1859
1847
1872
1891
1857
1874
1853
1887
1871
1851
1853
1859
1869
1865
1856
1872
1887
1882
1866
1903
1853
1856
1853
1869
1864
1847
1»07
1849
1860
1855
1856
1872
1858
Eli R. Small
Charles Martindale
Josiah J. Cooper
James Greer
Henry L. Watson
Reuben D. Robinson
Oranpe V. Lemon
AIplicus J. Lewellen
Richard B. Powell
Yancy D. Meredith
AVilliam R. Jordon
John W. Smith
Alfred S. Rogers
George Havens
Milton S. Metts
Hortensius M. Lamport . . .
Lonson W. Monson
Samuel L. Johnson
Jehu C. Medsker
William Wilson
Randolph J. Smith
Samuel J. McElwee
George W. Bowers
Enoch Holdstock
Daniel F. Stright
William S. Boston
Benjamin Smith
Jos. A. R. Gahring
William S. Birch
Thomas Sells
William Anderson
Lewis Roberts
John Harrison
Horatio N. Barnes
Asbury C. Gerard
Milton Wayman
Enos P. Church
John S. McElwee
Adam H. Currie
John E. Earp
James Johnston
John Maffit
Alfred G. McCarter
Martin A. Teague
Richard A. Newton
Milo H. Mott
Edwin T. Gregg
Reuben Tobey
Charles Harvey
Nathan D. Shackelford
Henry A. Davis ,
John W. Lewellen ,
Nelson Gillam
Ner H. Phillips
John W. Lowry
Augustus E. Mahin
Benjamin A. Kemp
Clark Skinner
Robert F. Brewington
William B. Randolph
Jasper I. McCoy
Walter E. Curtis
Orpheus S. Hart
Henry J. Lacey
Marmaduke U. Mcndenhall..
Richard D. Spellman
Albert Cone
Isaac Cooper
Elam S. Preston '..
uavid L). Powell
Jacob C. White
VVilliam O. Pierce
Hosea Woolpert
John H. McMahon ... .
William H. Daniel
Cyrus W. Lynch
TiMB OF
Death
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15, 1888
17, 1888
8, 1888
2, 1889
18, 18S9
30, 1«S'J
14, 1SS9
8, 1890
22, 1891
7, 1891
3, 1891
22, 1891
8, 1892
8, 1892
25, 1S92
9, 1832
24, 1852
9, 1892
18, 1S92
13, 1893
10, 1893
1, 1894
13, 1894
22, 1894
25, 1894
7, 1891
29, 1891
29, 1895
3, 1895
29, 1895
20, 1895
6, 1896
15, 1896
19, 1896
10, 1896
23, 1896
2, 1896
3, 1896
10, 1897
30, 1897
11, 1898
8, 1899
22, 1899
14, 1899
23, 1899
30, 1899
12, 1899
19, 1900
r. 1900
20, 1900
21, 1900
5, 1902
17. 1902
10, 1902
10, 1902
15, 1902
1, 1903
6, 1903
10, 1904
11, 1904
2, 1905
15, 1905
15, 1905
9, 1905
20, 1905
25, 1005
6, 1906
27, 1906
7, iSfoij
31. 1906
28, 1906
5, 1907
1, 1907
5, 1908
23, 1908
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70
46
81
52
78
51
60
36
76
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Mechanicsburg.
Topeka, Kan.
Noblesville.
Fort Wayne.
Matthews.
Indianapolis.
Richmond.
Mt. Pleasant, near Parker
Middletown.
Anderson.
Indianapolis.
Albion.
Pendleton.
Indianapolis.
Muncie.
Mishawaka.
Wabash.
Alexandria.
Kansas City.
Los Angeles, Cal.
i'errysburg.
Kokomo. ,
Dunkirk.
Muncie.
Knightstown.
Pendleton.
Muncie.
Kokomo,
Kokomo.
Muncie.
Greenfield.
Peru.
Richmond.
Pasadena, Cal.
Mt. Gilead, Ohio.
Ridgeville.
North Manchester.
Kokomo.
Windtall.
Greencastle.
Leesburg.
Bristol.
Warsaw.
Pendleton.
Windfall.
New Paris.
Peru.
Richmond.
Muncie.
Warsaw.
Greentown.
Olive Branch, Matthewi.
Muncie.
Goshen.
Rogers, Ark.
Fort Wayne.
Winchester.
South Bend.
Moore's Hill.
Huntington.
Peru.
Richmond.
Sparta.
Hopewell, Wayne Co.
Elkhart.
Fort Wayne.
Greenfield.
Goshen.
59 I Tower City. N. D.
Auucrsou.
Matthews.
Mt. Pleasant Gem., Ham. Co.
Green Springs, Ohio.
Dublin.
Decatur, Maplewood.
Warsaw, Oak wood.
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51
32
79
50
52
25
40
1
71
45
76
49
65
26
43
19
58
31
47
23
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46
42
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82
51
80
54
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82
57
77
55
84
56
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17
75
43
34
6
70
46
62
30
75
53
85
45
88
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Cherished Names.
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Death.
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27
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16
53
20
76
51
83
56
64
34
83
52
73
48
56
26
75
47
63
38
39
10
69
48
62
40
66
44
73
42
47
16
63
42
65
45
39
12
64
37
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4
27
3
88
64
82
58
69
24
70
46
69
38
79
55
68
46
74
30
27
1
67
42
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13
58
27
66
41
72
42
81
49
69
42
63
34
67
42
91
75
72
42
88
41
94
66
66
34
77
54
80
44
81
47
88
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Place of Burial.
1884
1859
1852
1877
1862
1904
1878
1880
1860
1883
1894
1890
1859
1854
1876
1858
1862
1885
1864
1873
1900
1863
1872
1868
1871
1897
1871
1868
1901
1879
1909
1911
1850
1856
1890
1868
1876
1859
1868
1884
1914
1872
1902
1888
1874
1873
1866
1873
1882
1875
1841
1874
1876
1851
1883
1864
1874
1871
1855
Ernest E. Neal
John P. Nash
Thomas Stabler
James D. Belt
Jeremiah L. Ramsey. . . .
William C. Butts
Jacomiali H. Jackson. . .
Joseph H. Slack
William J. Vigus
John B. Alleman
William P. Herron
Carl A. Luse
Franklin T. Simpson. . . .
John S. McCarty
Peter S. Cook
Erwin M. Baker
Francis A. Fish
Alfred L. Forkner
Nathan T. Peddycord. . .
Josephus A. Lewellen. . .
Howard D. Wright
Charles G. Hudson
Chester W. Church
Louis A. Retts
Watson C. McKaig
John T. Hammond
Moffatt H. Smith
Orange S. Harrison
Lewis D. Rehl
Hanson C. Smith
Ervin B. Brown
Walter A. Fouts
Almon Greenman
John W. Miller
Stephen J. Mellinger . . .
Jesse B. Young
William R. Wones
John B. Ford
Horace N. Herrick
Henry Bridge
Leslie A. Hall
William M. Van Slyke. .
Francis A. Reichelderfer
Charles E. Davis
Chauncey King
Henry W. Bennett
William Lash
Hugh J. Norris
Louis A. Beeks
Tom C. Neal
Milton Mahin
Perry J. Albright
John W. Paschall
John W. Welch
Isaac W. Singer
Joshua E. Ervin
Alexander M. Patterson.
William S. Stevart
Philip S. Stephens
July 13
Oct. 10
Oct. 25
Jan. 13
Mar. 20
April 24
Oct. 2
Nov. 26
Feb. 6
Mar. 14
April 21
April 23
June 17
July 12
Aug. 30
Dec. 26
Dec. 29
Mar. 29
April 13
May 18
May 21
Oct. 29
Mar.
May
Aug.
Aug.
Mar.
April 27
July 2
July 27
Sept. 1
Feb. 7
Feb. 28
April 28
June 30
July 30
Dec. 12
Jan. 1
Feb. 15
Feb. 16
Feb. 18
Mar. 30
Oct. 13
Oct. 15
Nov. 7
Dec. 29
Feb. 11
Feb. 14
May 19
Aug. 20
Oct. 7
Nov. 16
June 7
July 7
Aug. 31
Jan. 2
Jan. 23
Jan. 30
April 3
. 1908
. 1908
. 1908
. 1909
. 1909
. 1909
, 1909
. 1909
, 1910
. 1910
. 1910
, 1910
. 1910
. 1910
. 1910
. 1910
. 1910
, 1911
, 1911
, 1911
. 1911
. 1911
, 1912
. 1912
, 1912
, 1912
. 1913
, 1913
, 1913
. 1913
. 1913
, 1914
. 1914
. 1914
. 1914
, 1914
, 1914
. 1915
. 1915
, 1915
. 1915
, 1915
, 1915
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, 1917
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, 1918
, 1918
, 1918
Noblesville.
Waterford Mills.
Indianapolis, Crown Hill.
Leesburg.
Santa Fe.
Greenmount, Baltimore, Md.
Crownpoint, Kokomo.
Crownpoint, Kokomo.
Falls Cem., Wabash.
Warsaw.
Osceola.
Amboy.
Grace Lawn Cem., Elkhart.
Pendleton.
Cook's Cem., near Warsaw.
Oakwood, Warsaw.
Sharpsville.
Anderson.
Waller, Texas.
Mt. Pleasant, Parker.
Greencastle.
Anderson.
North Manchester.
San Diego. Cal.
Los Angeles, Cal.
Hamilton, Ind.
Pierceton, Ind.
Cambridge City.
Napoleon, Ohio.
Santa Fe.
Twin Hill, near Pennville.
Chili.
Marion.
Arcadia.
Bethel, Logansport.
Pine Grove, Berwick. Pa.
Newson Chapel, near St. Paris, 0.
Topeka. Kas. (Oakland Cem.)
Winchester.
I. O. O. F., Huntington.
Richland Center.
Woodlawn, Detroit, Mich.
Harlan.
Greentown.
Ft. Wayne, Linwood.
Warsaw, Oakwood.
Warsaw, Oakwood.
Dalton, Ohio.
Crownpoint, Kokomo.
I. O. O. F.. Marion.
South Mound. New Castle.
Crownro'nt, Kokomo.
Oak Ridce, Goshen.
Oak Park, Ligonier.
Warren.
Hartford City.
Alexandria.
Near Logansport.
Lapel.
(b) WIDOWS OF DECEASED MEMBERS
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are Widows indeed.
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Post-Oppice.
Names.
Post-Oppice.
Kokomo.
Greenfield.
Montpelier.
Warsaw.
Kokomo.
Warsaw.
Pendleton.
Huntington.
Pennville.
Concord, Mass.,
Arvada, Col.
Goshen.
Fountain City.
Decatur.
Marion.
Marion.
Eldorado, Kas.
Redkey.
Terre Haute.
Middletown.
Mt. Gilead, 0.
Muncie.
Greencastle.
Detroit, Mich.
532 Crawford Ave. '
Kokomo.
Dayton, Ohio.
48 S. Torrence St.
Anderson.
Elkhart.
Alexandria.
Chicago, 111.
4949 Indiana Ave.
Fort Wayne. I
South Bend.
Wheeling.
Windsor, Wis.
Huntington.
Muncie.
Denvei-.
McElwee, Annie B
McElwee, Laurinda
Mellinger, Martha J
Mendenhall, Rosa
Metts, Eliza W
New York, N. Y.
240 East End Ave.
Kokomo.
Baker Ida A
Logansport,
Beek^;' Abigail R
50 North St.
Union City.
Muncie.
Miller, Ella
Warren.
Mott, Harriett
Coldwater, Mich.,
Neal, Artalissa
198 E. Washington St.
Terre Haute.
Neal, Louisa
Marion.
Norris, Hattie
Dalton, Ohio.
Paschall, Mrs. J. W
Patterson, Mrs. A. M
Peddy cord, Mary
Phillips, Nancy E
Goshen.
Alexandria.
Hempstead, Tex.
Earp, EllaG
R. R. No. 1.
Forkner, Margaret A
Fouts, Bessie Levering
Fish Matilda G
Muncie.
Powell, Sarah H
Middletown.
Marion.
Greer, Elizabeth M
Rehl, Clara R
Reichelderfer, Mae
43 Hammond Ave
Harlan
Singer, Mrs. I. W
Skinner Martha E
Anderson.
South Bend.
Hudson, Hannah B
Tobey, Nettie
Bluff ton.
Wabash.
Wayman, Armilda
Hillisburg.
Lamport, Mary J
Wright, Sarah R
Chicago, 111.,
437 Deming Place.
Mahin, Catherine L
McCarty. Margaret M
McCoy. Emma
336
(XII) feesisfions; of tlje iSortf) Jnbiana Conference
NTo. Date of Session
Place.
Bishop.
Secretary.
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
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20
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58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
Oct. 16-21 1844
Sept. 24-29 1845
Sept. 16-22 1846
Sept. lS-22 1847
Sept. 6-11 1848
Aug. 29-Sept. 4 ..1849
Aug. 21-26 1850
Aug. 20-27 1851
Sept. 22-28 1852
Sept. 21-24 1853
Sept. 20-23 1854
Sept. 14-19 1855
Sept. 24-29 1856
Apr. 8-11 1857
Apr. 7-14 1858
Apr. 7-11 1859
Apr. 5-9 I860
Apr. 3-8 1861
Apr. 10-15 1862
Apr. 9-1 J 1863
Apr. 6-11 1864
Aor. 12-17 1865
Apr. 5-9 1866
Apr. 10-15 1867
Apr. 15-20 1868
Apr. 15-19 1869
Apr. 13-18 1870
Apr. 12-17 1871
Mar. 27-Apr. 1. . .1872
Apr. 16-22 1873
Apr. 1-6 1874
Apr. 14-20 1875
Mar. 22-27 1876
Apr. 4-9 1877
Apr. 3-8 1878
Apr. 9-14 1879
Apr. 7-12 1880
Apr. 7-11 1881
Apr. 5-11 1882
Apr. 12-17 1883
Apr. 2-7 1884
Apr. 9-14 1885
Apr. 8-13 1886
Apr. 7-12 1887
Mar. 28-Apr. 2. . .1888
Apr. 3-8 1889
Apr. 2-7 1890
Apr. 1-6 1891
Mar. 30-Apr. 4. . .1892
Mar. 28-Apr. 3. . .1893
Apr. 4-9 1894
Mar. 27-Apr. 1.. .1895
Alar. 25-31 1896
Mar. 24-30 1897
Mar. 23-28 1898
Apr. 5-10 1899
Apr. 4-9 1900
Apr. 10-15 1901
Apr. 10-15 1902
Apr. 8-13 1903
Apr. 6-11 1904
Apr. 5-1 1 1905
Apr. 4-9 1906
Apr. 10-15 1907
Apr. 1-6 1908
Mar. 31-Apr. 5... 1909
Apr. 6-11 1910
Apr. S-U 1911
Mar. 27-Apr. 1... 1912
Apr. 2-7 1913
Apr. 1-6 1914
Apr. 7-12 1915
Mar. 29-Apr. 3.. . 1916
Mar. 28-Apr. 2.. . 1917
April 3-8 1918
Ft. Wayne
Lafayette
La Porte
Indianapolis
Greencastle
Logansport
Cambridge City
South Bend
Berry St.. Ft. Wayne..
Richmond
Peru
Goshen
Muncie
Marion
Winchester
Logansport
Mishawaka
New Castle
Berry St., Ft. Wayne ..
Wabash
Knightstown
Kendallville
Peru
Anderson
Warsaw
Pearl St., Richmond
Kokomo
Huntington
Muncie
Logansport
Wayne St., Ft. Wayne .
Elkhart
Grace Chiu-ch , Richm'd
Bluftton
Anderson
Goshen
U-i-on City
Wabash
Muncie
Noblesville
Peru
New Castle
Warsaw
Marion
Wabash
LaGrange
Muncie
Huntington
Anderson
Mishawaka
Bluffton
Logansport
First Church, Richm'd
Grace Church, Kokomo
Hartford City
Decatur
Elkhart
Elwood
Marion, .First Church .
Noblesville
Muncie High Church . . .
Portland
Alexandria
Logansport. Market St.
Anderson, First Church .
Greenfield
Bluffton
Kokomo, Main St
Wabash, First Church. . .
Tipton, Kemp Mem'l . . .
Mishawaka, Mem'l Ch. .
Auburn
Ft. Wayne, Wayne St . . .
Huntington
Warsaw .|
337
Waugh . . .
Hamline. . .
Morris ....
Janes
Hamline. . .
Waugh . . .
Janes
Morris . . . .
Baker . . . .
Ames
Simpson . .
Scott
Baker
Simpson . .
Ames
Morris . . . .
Ames
Janes
Simpson . .
Morris ....
Morris ....
Scott
Clark
Ames
Thompson
Simpson . .
Clark
Ames
Scott
Merrill ....
Foster ....
Bowman .
Harris ....
Wiley
Peck
Scott
Foster ....
Simpson . .
Wiley
Bowman .
Foss
Walden . .
Harris ....
Hurst ....
Merrill ....
Andrews . .
Ninde
Joyce
Fitz Gerald
Joyce
Goodsell . .
Warren . . .
Bowman .
Merrill ....
Fowler. . . .
Andrews . .
Foss
Merrill ....
Joyce
Walden . .
McCabe . . .
Spellmeyer
Warren . . .
McDowell .
Berry
Anderson. .
Cranston . .
Hughes. . . .
Moore
McDowell . .
McDowell . .
McDowell .
McDowell .
Nicholson. .
Nicholson..
M. Simpson
S. T. Gillett
S. T. Gillett
S. T. Gillett
S. T. Gillett
J. C. Smith
J. C. Smith
S. T. Gillett
S. T. Gillett
C. Nutt
C. Nutt
C. Nutt
H. N. Barnes
H. N. Barnes
J. C. Medsker
H. N. Barnes
A. Greenman
H. N. Barnes
M. Mahin
M. Mahin
M. Mahin
M. Mahin
M. Mahin
M. Mahin
M. Mahin
M. Mahin
M. H. Mendenha'l
M. H Mendenhall
M. H. Mendt-nhali
M. H. Mendenhall
M. H. Mendenhall
M. H. Mendenhall
M. H. MendenhaL
E. F. Hasty
E. F. Hasty
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
C. G. Hudson
L. J. Naftzger
L. J. Naftzger
L. J. Naftzger
L. y. Naftzger
L. J. Naftzger
L. J. Naftzger
L. J. Naftzger
L. J. Naftzger
L. J. Naftzger
L. J. Naftzger
D. V. Williams
D. V. Williams
D. V. Williams
D. V. Williams
D. V. Williams
D. V. Williams
D. V. Williams
D. V. Williams
D. V. Williams
D. V. Williams
D. V. Williams
D. V. Williams
D. V. Williams
D. V. Williams
(XIII) 0iiittUmtovii
(a) ALPHABETICAL ROLL OF NORTH INDIANA
CONFERENCE
Probationers in Italic type; at school. S.; Retired, R.; Supernumerary, Sy.;
Effective, E.
Ent. Tr. . „ ^
Con. Relation. Postoffice. Year.
1909 Anderson, Charles W E Spiceland 1
1916 An le, Edward E Jolietviile 1
1914 Armstrom, Arthur J E Hillisburg 1
1899 Arnold. William T E Bluffton 6
1904 Amos, William M Sy Atlanta 1
1904 Asay, William C E ;.'... Logansport 2
B
1903 Backus, Alfred H E Dunkirk 2
1888 Bailey, John F Sy Anderson 2
1905 Ballard, Ray C E Economy 3
1891 Barrett, John Z Sy Bradentown, Fla 6
1906 Barrett, Maurice E E Upland 1
1913 Bash, Carl E ..S Madison, N. J 3
1868 Beall, Thomas H. C R Cicero 22
1893 Bean, James T E Columbia City 4
1913 Beatty, Dale C E Ridgeville 2
1885 Beatty, James A D.S Muncie 3
1910 Bechdolt, Burl M. . . E Windfall 2
1890 Billheimer, Sylvester R Hagerstown 9
1887 Bills, James O Sy New Castle 2
1905 Black, Rolla I Sy Columbis. 3
1910 Blocker, John F E Silver Lake 1
1905 Boase, Herbert E Leesburg 2
1882 Bowen, John W R Marion 1
1889 Bridge, Ulysses S. A E Ft. Wayne 2
1875 Brown, Charles H R Kokomo 10
1881 Browne, Frank G R Newcastle, 709 Indiana Ave. 6
1885 Brown, William W R Muncie 9
1908 Brown, Dota A. J E Geneva 1
1900 Bunner, Enoch A. . E Charlottesville ........ 1
1906 Burns, Frank S E Benton 2
1905 Burns, Robert E Butler 2
1907 Burkett, Albert D E Sweetser. . 3
1911 Byrt, Charles A E Boxley 2
C .
}874 Cain, John S R Warsaw 8
^876 Cam, John W R be Land, Fla 2
1915 Callaway, George N E.. Muncie 2
1896 Campbell, John O E ! ! ! ^ ! Van Buren! '.'.'.'. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '.'.[ 5
imi ^T^' ^"^^""^^.J R Warsaw 10
i2n^ Carlson, Karl H E U. S. Army 1
1906 Cams, Lemuel G .E Harlan 1
338
igiS] Alphabetical Roll - 339
Ent.Tr.
Con. Relation. PostoflSce. Year
1917 Carson, Herman R E Goldsmith 1
1901 Gates, Arthur E Union Gity 2
1913 Ghadwick, Gharles W E Bunker Hill 4
1888 Ghamness, Joseph P E Marion. 2
1917 Chelan, Fred C E McGordsville 1
1911 Gloud, Gharles A, E La Fontaine 1
1917 Coe, H. Earl E Gorunna 1
1918 Cook, Clarence G E Fisher's ". 1
1874 Cook. J. Beswick R Warsaw 5
1912 Gremean, Frederick H E Syracuse 1
1905 Groxall, Gharles B E Elkhart. 2
1914 Glear, Valorous L E North Webster 1
D
1910 Daly, William T E Wolcottville 3
1910 Davies, Thomas E Macy 1
1885 Davis, EH R Albany 11
1906 De Bow, Gharles L E LaGrange 3
1915 Detweiler, Reuben R E Bristol 2
1909 DeWitt, Edward E E Gaston 3
1909 Dickson, Kdwin E Etna Green 6
1859 Disbro, Gharles E R Greentown 19
1905 Dougherty, Gharles B E Eaton 2
1910 Dunbar, Emory M E Fortville 2
1900 Dunn, Ellery G E Alexandria 3
1896 Duryee, Adoniram J E New Waverly 1
E
1911 Edwards, John F E Sheridan 1
1905 Everson, Charles J E Muncie 4
1875 Ewell, Horace A R Dayton, 60 Hoh St 15
1895 Ferris, James E E Benson. Ariz 9
1878 Fettro, John T R South Whitley 8
1902 Fischer, John J E North Manchester 4
1907 Fisher, Eli C E Peru, R. D. 10 3
1903 Fi-her, Fred B E New York, 150 Fifth Ave... 5
1906 Forbes, Hugh E E Daleville 1
1896 Foster, Everett M E Grabi.l 2
1916 Franklin, Ben'iamin H E Willow Branch 2
1918 Franklin, Estill E E Portland 1
1886 Freeh, Theodore F R Huntington 5
1890 Fred, John J E Fairmount 5
1894 Free-land, William B E Kokomo 4
1911 Fribley, Fremont E E Lafayette 2
1907 Garrison. George E R Macy 1
1017 Gates, Edwin L E Philadelphia 2
1918 Gisgy, Ernest G E Alexandria 2
1889 Gillard, Joseph L E Wabash 3
1918 Gilliland, Newton A E Macy, R. D. 2 1
1896 Godwin, Ivan R E Akron 2
1900 Gough, Harry B E Greencastle 11
1904 Graham, James C E Albion 2
1905 Graham, Morrison B E Lynn 1
1906 Greenwalt, Phineas E E Lapel 4
1895 Griest, William A E Elwood - 2
1896 Grose, George R E Greencastle 6
340
North Indiana Conference [1918
^qI;J'- Relation. Postoffice. Year.
1906 Gruber. Jacob W E "^gfl^°''" o
1888 Guild, Daniel H E g khart i
1879 Guild, Thomas M E Z^^^A 9
1910 Grimes, Joseph E Mill Grove 2
H
1914 Haddock, True S S Eyanston, 111 3
1887 Haines, Joseph M Sy Warsaw 4
1901 Hall, Freeland A E Auburn 6.
1910 Hallman, Ernest C Sy Lynn 1
1903 Hamilton, William E E Ossian 2
Hanger, John W E , Frankton 3
1882 Harbour. Orange V. L R Laketon . . 7
1897 Hardingham, Maurice L E South Whitley 3
1909 Hardy, William B E York 2
1901 Hargitt, Victor B E Selma 3
1888 Harlan, Madison A Sy Union City 6
1887 Harman, Harry C E Goshen 2
1909 Harrison, William H E Yorktown 3
1895 Harter, Solomon F E Waterloo 4
1907 Hartley, Ulysses S E Hobbs 3
1859 Hasty, Ezra F R Los Angeles, Cal., 2711
Normandie Ave 13
1918 Henderson, Ralph R E Fountain City. : 2
1918 Hershberger, Leo D S Greencastle 1
1911 Hickman, Frank S S Boston 6
1905 Hile, Conde A E Howe 4
1917 Hill, Fred R E U. S. Army 1
1870 Hill, George H R Indianapolis, 2431 N. N. J. St 11
1903 Hill, Titus M E Bourbon 1
1901 Hirsch, Arthur H E Sioux City, Iowa 2
1900 Hobbs, Charles M E Carmel 4
1911 Hochstedler, Jesse O E New Paris 1
1907 Hogan, Aaron F E •. . . .Pennville 3
1909 Hogan, William E E .Knightstown 1
1887 Hollopeter, Brenton S D. S Kokomo 6
1888 Hollopeter, Charles M Sy Grabill 3
1901 Hollopeter, Walter M E Kingsland 1
1909 Homer, Harry A. P E Converse 3
1910 i Hoover, Albert C E U. S. Army 1
1898 '[ Hornaday, Benjamin F E Hamilton 2
1906 Hubbartt, George F E Ligonier 1
1910 Huddleston, Leroy E Avilla 1
1905 Hunt, Clarence A Sy Riverside, Cal 6
1904 Hughes, Corner E E Shirley 1
I
1907 Ice, Lewis H E Farmland 1
1918 Imler, D. Joseph E Marion 2
1912 Imler, Earl D E Arcadia 2
1910 Jacobs, Leo G E Sharpsville 2
1905 Johnson, Franklin P E Churubusco 3
1911 Johnson, Raymond V E Milford 2
1894 Johnson, Thomas J E Muncie . . 3
1907 Jones, Bert E E Muncie, R. D 1
1917 Jones, Chas. F E Wawaka 1
1893 Jones, David S E Marion 1
1895 Jones, Edgar L E Warren 8
1909 Jones, J. Ira E Fukuoka, Japan 10
igiS] Alphabetical Roll 341
Ent. Tr.
Con. Relation. PostoflSce. Year.
1872 Jones, Richard C E Cambridge City 4
1916 Jones, Russell S E Hoagland 2
1914 Jordan, Jesse M E Osceola 2
1892 Kemper, Francis M R Escondido, Cal 11
1909 Kemper, Leroy W E Fremont 4
1905 Kendall, Benjamin E Tipton 2
1913 Kennedy, Edward H ..E Amboy 2
1885 Krider, Leroy M E Monroe 1
1888 Lacy, Francis M R Cicero 3
1893 Lacy, Henry E Burket 1
1886 Lamport, Alonzo L E Goshen 2
1917 Land, Joseph L E Salamonia 2
1900 Laslie, Reuben T R Spokane, Wash., 407 S.
Madison St 5
1917 Launer, Floyd W E..... Mexico 2
1917 Leach, Perry B E Decatur 3
1906 LeMaster, Frank A .E Kendallville 3
1910 Leese, Auburn E E Galveston 2
1909 Lester, Merrill O E Warren 2
1901 Liddle, Howard L E Swayzee 2
1882 Light, Somerville D. S Richmond 4
1880 Line, Charles E E Noblesville 3
1915 Love, Arthur K E Converse, R. D. 3 1
1906 Loveless, William E E Inwood 2
1887 Lowther, A. Wirt E Logansport 4
1901 Lutes, Ernest E E Wabash 1
1906 Lutey, James F E Ft. Wayne 1
M
1894 Magor, Ernest J E Salt Lake City, Utah,
160 Lincoln St 9
1883 Marble, Mitchell S D.S Marion. Colonial, "Apt H" . 6
1904 Martin, George W E Russiaville 1
1908 Martin, Ottis T E Greentown 3
1893 Martin, Wallace W D. S Ft. Wayne 3
1906 Maupin, Ernest J E Bluffton 2
1909 Megenity, Ernest B E Kokomo 2
1915 Menaugh, Williavi H E Warsaw 4
— Meredith, William V . .E U. S. Army 1
1915 Miller, Clyde S S Madison, N. J 2
1867 Miller, Samuel C R Peru, R. D. 2 21
1912 Montgomery, Carey W E Roann 2
1914 Moore, Edgar E West Middleton 2
1909 Morgan, Walter B E Wakarusa 1
1898 Morris, Frank P E. Markle 3
1909 Morrison, Rufus A E Rome City 2
1916 Morrison, Justin A S Boston 2
1895 Murr, John L E Westfield 1
1882 Murray, Charles H R Leesburg 6
1882 Murray, Tames C E San Juan, P. R 7
1887 Murray, William E E Huntington 3
1891 Myers, George H E Abingdon, 111 1
1909 Mvers, LeRov E Atlanta 1
1859 McCarty, William E R Shoals 11
1872 McDaniel, James W R Muncie 28
1904 McFarlane, Hiram E R Russiaville 5
242 North Indiana Conference [iQiS
Ent.Tr. Relation. Postoffice. Year.
1915 McFarlin, Lewis C E ^07'"' 1
- McNary, John H R Albany 1
McPheluri Chester A S ?/Tfr^l
McPheeters, William E E U. b. Army i
1S89
1917
1908
1896
1917
N
..,. Naftzger, Earle E Wmona Lake 2
1879 Naftzger, Leslie J E Warsaw 2
1889 Neal, Arthur G E Ft. Wayne 2
1907 Newcombe, James S E irr""u^\ l
1906 Nickerson. Herbert S E Winchester i
1881 Norris, Schuyler C R Culver. R. D 8
Nysewander, Berlrand D E Kay
O
1890 Oborn, J. Wesley E. . .' Warsaw 13
1910 O'Connor, Jesse B E CenterviUe. I
1899 Osbun, George F E Hartford City 2
1905 Overdeer, Harley L E Richmond 2.
1899 Palmer. John H E Albany 4
1905 Park, Harvey W E Alto 1
1902 Parker, B. Earle E Mishawaka 2
1878 Parr, William D E Kokomo 12
1890 Patterson. James A E Pendleton 2
1867 Peck, William R Frankton 24
1893 Pell, Millard E Angola 3
1867 Peirce, William H R Selma 12
1883 Peirce, Martin R R Greenfield 3
1897 Pfeifer, Lewis P E Saratoga 2
1915 Pfeiffer, Julius S Greencastle 3
1891 Phillips, John E Monrocville 1
1915 Phillips, J. Stanley E Lewisville : 1
1891 Pittenger, Melville C R Columbia City, R. D 11
1908 Pittenger, Walter E E U. S. Army 1
1918 Plank, Ralph C E Elkhart 2
1918 Pogue, Barton R , .E Muncie 2
1902 Polhemus, Preston E Muncie 3
1891 Porter, John F E Ft. Wayne 1
1887 Potter, John W E Anderson 3
1887 Powell, Sherman E Hartford City 2
1908 Powell, J. Orr E Montpelier 2
1909 Powell, Harry C E New Haven 3
1916 Power, William O E Losantville 3
1887 Preston. Asher S E Portland 5
1888 Price, Ira E E CedarviUe, Cal 11
R
1890 Radcliffe, Joseph F E Logansport 2
1878 Reed, Robert S R Muncie, R. D. 5 13
1893 Reeves, John M. B R Converse 4
1886 Reeves. Lewis R Hartford City 8
1912 Richardson, James H S Greencastle 3
1907 Riley. Earl S E Middlebury 1
1915 Roahrig, Weber E Winchester 2
1914 Robins, Fitz- James E Uniondale 1
1869 Robinson, Francis A R Muncie .. . ... 25
1909 Rogers, Ralph W E Forest 5
1914 Rogers, Vernie C E Woodburn 1
igiS] Alphabetical Roll 343
Ent. Tr.
Con. Relation. PostofSce. Year.
1917 Royer, James H E Valentine 2
1876 Ruley, James A R Lansing, Mich., 218 Frank-
lin Ave 3
1899 Runkle, John H E Middletown 1
1874 Rush, Joel M R Riverside, Wash 12
1917 Sanks, Alfred R S Greencastle 2
1877 Sawyer, Beneville R Mansfield, 12
1912 Schwartz, Chester L E Kempton 1
1918 Scotten, Albert E E Fiat, Pennville P. O 1
1870 Semans, Ephraim L R Warsaw 10
1894 Semans, Raymond L E Richmond 2
1886 Sevits, Lewis A R Albany 3
1909 Shaw, RoscoeS E U. S. Army 1
1909 Shattuck, Marquis E S U. S. Army 1
1911 Shipley, Ferdinand A E Coesse 1
1908 Singer, Arlington E Point Isabel 1
1910 Smith, Charles E E Kennard 1
1902 Smith, Charles H E Peru 4
1918 Smith, Noah E E Cromwell 1
1918 Smith, Phillips B E Anderson 2
1873 Smith, Richard H R Alexandria 9
1917 Snider, George A E Geneva 3
1918 Sparling, John B E Cicero 1
1894 Speckien, Frederick J Sy Kokomo 4
1908 Stelle, John R E Huntertown 3
1893 Stephenson, David T E Muncie 3
1918 Stephenson, James F E Bobo 1
1918 Stewart, John M E Ft. Wayne 4
1908 Stoakcs. Ross W E U. S. Army 1
1882 Stone, Fred M E Evanston, 111 11
1915 Stone, Lewis W S Greencastle 4
1918 Stoner, Victor E E Dublin 2
1906 Stookey, S. Burt E Topeka 1
1881 Stright. Merritt F R Ashley.... 6
1880 Swadener, Madison E Indianapolis 4
1905 Sweeney, Charles B E Parker 5
1906 Sweet, William W E Greencastle 5
1898 Swisher, Leonard A E Huntington 3
1890 Taylor, Edward H E Markleville 2
1871 Terflinger, Jonah V R Galveston 16
1917 Teter, Alvin P E .Tippecanoe 1
1910 Thomas, Chester B E Roanoke 1
1911 Thompson, Karl R E Pleasant Mills 1
1898 Thornburg, Fred F E Decatur 3
1914 Thornburg, Mont M S Boston 5
1892 Tillman, John W R North Manchester 12
1891 Tinkham, Charles E Garrett 8
1896 Trabue, Otto A E Greenfield 3
1 896 Trippeer, Edward E E Kokomo 2
1890 Turner, Alpheus A E Bourbon 1
1918 Tuttle, Charles B E Mt. Etna 1
U
1911 Ulmer, Louis F E Chester 1
^^4 North Indiana Conference [1918
Ent.Tr. Relation. Postoffice. Year.
1910 Valentine, John C E Center 2
1905 Vawter, Charles M E Lagro 1
W
Wade. Cyrus U E . gff^"^^^^
1881
1895 Wade, RaymondJ
1869
1903
1891
D. S Elkhart 4
Walker, Wilbur F R {(V'nf on 10
Walter, Peter H E S^^°*°- •,• >•; " ' i ia^if'.u
Walters, Jeremiah W E New York City, 150 Fifth
Ave ^
1876 Walts, Jacob K R- Ft. Wayne 8
1917 Wann, Harry A S Evanston, 111 1
1891 Weaver, Alvin L E Andrews 1
1913 Wehrly, Raymond H E Churubusco 2
1896 Wells, David E Mentone . ;•••,••"■
1909 Wengatz, John C E Pungo Andongo Angola,
W. Africa 9
1892 Westhafer, Eli B E Muncie 12
1912 White, Alvin F E Denver 2
1880 White, Charles E E Jonesboro 1
1890 White, John C E Marion 2
1916 Whitlen, George E E Pierceton 1
1909 Wiant, Warren W E New Castle 3
1911 Wickersham, Ernest J E Anderson 2
1868 Wilkinson, Charles H R Rome City 7
1888 Williams, Dorie V E Redkey 2
1917 Williams, James L E Perkinsville 1
1881 Williams, Joseph E R Indianapolis, 2756 N. Cor-
nell St 3
1914 Winslow, Leslie O E U. S. Army 1
1912 Wischmeier, Arthur C E Gas City 2
1904 WoodrufT, John C E Warsaw, 519 E. Market St. 1
1876 Wooton, Andrew S R Greentown 11
1872 Work, Granville B R Warren 2
1900 Wright, Elmer E E Poneto 2
1904 Wright, Manfred C E Ft. Wayne 2
1904 Wyant, Jacob K E Orland 2
1909 Yeomans, Clyde G E Summitville 3
1918 Yoder, Samuel L E Kimmell 2
1911 Young, Frank S E Larwill 1
1907 Young, Owen B E Albany 1
1909 Zechiel, Samuel I E Hudson 1
1909 Zeigler, Robert E E Nappanee 2
1904 Zerbe, John W E Marion 2
Members in full connection 296
Probationers 44
Total 340
MEMORANDA
MEMORANDA
(b) AMENDED CONSTITUTION PREACHERS' AID
SOCIETY.
ARTICLE I— Namp; and Se:al.
Section i. The corporate name of this organization shall be "The Preachers'
Aid Society of the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church." It is organized under the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of
the State of Indiana, entitled "An Act Concerning the Organization of Volun-
tary Associations, and Repealing Former Laws in Relation Thereto," approved
February 12, 1855, and "An Act Amendatory Thereto," approved February 10,
1863. The record of this organization is recorded in Henry County.
Section 2. The corporate seal of this Society shall be a metalic impression,
with the following words and letters, to-wit : "The Preachers' Aid Soc. N. Ind.
Conf., M. E. Church."
ARTICLE II— Object and Funds.
Section i. The object of this Society is to raise and perpetually maintain a
fund for the relief of the preachers of said Conference, and their families, in
accordance with the provisions and restrictions of this Constitution and in har-
mony with the spirit of paragraph three hundred and thirty-four (334) of the
Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church of nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Section 2. Said fund shall consist of :
First: Funds received by this Conference from the division of the capital
stock of "The Preachers' Aid Society of the Indiana Conference of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, incorporated by an Act approved February 12, 1841."
Second: Amounts specifically appropriated to this object from the Cen-
tenary contribution of 1866 of said Church, and also those of the Twentieth
Century contributions.
Third: Devises, bequests, gifts, and donations of property, real and per-
sonal, also gifts and donations of bonds, stocks, moneys, and anything else of
value that may legitimately come into the possession of and be received by said
Society.
Section 3. The fund shall be permanent, but all proceeds arising from
rents, interest, or any investment, shall, after the payment of all incidental ex-
penses, be paid to the Conference Stewards, and shall become a part of the funds
to be applied on the Annual Conference Annuity distribution as indicated in
paragraphs three hundred forty-one (341) and three hundred forty-two (342)
of our Discipline of nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Section 4. The money received as dues or fees from the members of the
Society, together with such other sums as may be designated for this purpose,
shall constitute an Administration Fund, from which shall be paid the general
expenses of the Society.
ARTICLE III— Membership.
Section i. The membership of this Society shall consist of two classes,
Beneficiary and Non-beneficiary.
Section 2. Beneficiary Members. All members of the North Indiana Con-
ference are Beneficiary Members.
Section 3. Fees and Dues. i. The annual fee for Beneficiary Members
shall be not less than one per cent of the cash salary which the said member
received during the year, just closing, as reported to the Annual Conference,
until his payment shall amount in the aggregate to one hundred dollars. Or he
may elect to pay in annual installments of not less than ten dollars each, until
he has paid in one hundred dollars, when he shall, in either case, receive a Certifi-
cate of Life Membership, not transferable and non- forfeitable, except as indi-
cated by this Constitution.
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g North Indiana Conference [1918
^ \nv member who shall fail to pay regularly annual dues or installments
shalfpav interesron deferred payments at the rate of six per cent, compounded
annually for the deferred time. • j • 4.
c V . u nnv member shall become a claimant before he has paid into
Section 4. If ^'^>„'"/'r?7Hp Society the full sum of one hundred dollars,
the Administration Fund of ^^^ S°^iety the tu sv ^^^ ^^ ^.^ ^^
lo liis^SyTa 1 e withffld S^^^elJ^^^^^^^ Stewards, and turned
o lis Sode't until all principal and interest thereupon shall have been paid,
whereupon there shall be issued to him, or in case of his death, to his widow.
a Certificate of Life Membership. r • . ^f ,u^
Section q Non-Beneficiary Members. Any ay member or friend of the
church and ministry is eligible to membership in this class. One may become a
hememberT^l the payment of $500 at one time, or a life-patron by the payment
of 3;TSi in the same manner. The members or patrons in this class shall be
entitk7to participate in all the proceedings of the Society, provided they are
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Section 6. Transfers, Locations, Withdrawals, Expulsions.
I In the eyent that any minister who has paid one hundred dollars, or is
in process of paying that amount into the Administration Fund of the Society
shaU be transferred to another Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, he shall thereby forfeit his claim as a Beneficiary Member, but upon
his request within one year the amount paid by him as dues shall be returned to
him without interest, after deducting any other obligation he may have toward
^ ^ 2°'^Sh^ould any member of this Society, who has paid, or is in process of
Davin<^ one hundred dollars to said Administration Fund, be located, at his own
request or by action of the Annual Conference in accordance with the pro-
visions 'of the Discipline without his request, he shall have refunded to him, if
he make request within one year from the date of his location, the amount he
has paid as dues to the Administration Fund, without interest, thereby canceling
all claims he may have against this Society. _ • , , r .t.
3 Any Beneficiary Member of this Society who may withdraw from the
Methodist Episcopal Church, or any such member who may be expelled from
the Methodist Episcopal Church, or the Annual Conference, shall thereby for-
feit his membership in this Society, and all claim to its benefits and all that he
may have paid into it. The same rule shall apply to a widow of a deceased
minister who was a member of this body. If, however, any one who has been
expelled shall be restored, that one may again receive benefits, but not for the
time while expelled.
ARTICLE IV— Managers and Officers.
Section i. A Board of Control consisting of fifteen managers, including
the district superintendents and the general secretary (hereinafter provided for)
shall have full power to manage the afifairs of this Society, subject to this con-
stitution. The managers, in addition to the district superintendents, shall be
elected annually by the Preachers' Aid Society.
Section 2. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice-President,
Recording Secretary, Treasurer, and General Secretary. All of these, save the
last, shall be elected annually by the Society from the fifteen managers of the
Society unless the Society should select some Trust Company to act as Treasurer.
Section 3. The Society at its regular annual meeting shall elect a General
Secretary who shall ex-ofiicio be a member of the Board of Control. He shall
work under the general direction of the Board of Control. The Society, upon
recommendation of the Board, shall determine whether he shall give entire time
to the work of the Society, and whether or not any assistants shall be granted
him. It shall fix any salaries, and provide for the payment of same, either by a
pro rata tax on the membership or by directing the Board of Control to pay it
from the Administration Fund of the Society. In either case the salary shall
be paid in monthly installments.
All revenues and everything of value that comes into the hands of the
General Secretary shall be passed over to the Treasurer, who shall receipt there-
for. When practical, reports shall be made monthly.
iQiS] Constitution Preachers' Aid Society 349
Section 4. The Society at its regular annual meeting shall select four man-
agers, who with the General Secretary, shall constitute the Executive Committee,
and shall have such authority as may be determined by the Board of Control by
its by-laws.
Section 5. Before entering upon the duties of his office, the Board of Con-
trol shall provide, through a reliable Surety Company, or in some other satis-
factory manner, that the Treasurer shall give bond and security in the penal sum
of fifteen thousand dollars, which may at any time be increased at the discre-
tion of the Board. Said bond shall be filed with the Recording Secretary.
Section 6. The Board shall have power to make by-laws for its own gov-
ernment not inconsistent with this Constitution.
Section 7. Any vacancy in office, caused by death, resignation, or otherwise,
during the interim of the Annual Conference, may be filled by the Board, called
at any time by the President or any three members of the Board.
ARTICLE V — Annual and Stecial Meetings.
Section i. The annual meeting of the Board of Control shall be held in the
city of Muncie, Indiana, within thirty days next preceding the sessions of the
Annual Conference, upon the call of the President or the highest ranking officer
of the Board. Special meetings of the Board may be called at any time by the
President or any three members thereof, upon reasonable notice being given to
all members of the Board. In all meetings of the Board seven shall constitute
a quorum for the transaction of business.
Section 2. The annual meeting of the Society shall be held at the seat of
the Annual Conference, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the second day of the
session, the President of the Conference presiding. This meeting shall be for
the purpose of electing managers and officers, also Executive Committee for the
ensuing year; to receive and pass upon the annual report of the Board of Con-
trol, made out according to the accompanying form found in the by-laws, and
to transact any other business pertaining to the Society. This meeting may ad-
journ to any other day or days of the Conference session; or, in emergency, the
President and Recording Secretary may call a meeting of the Society on any day
before the Conference closes; and it shall require the presence of thirty-five
members to constitute a quorum.
Section 3. In the interim of the Annual Conference sessions, meetings of
the Society may be called by the President, Recording Secretary, and any three
members of the Board, twenty days' notice having been given in the Advocate
having the largest circulation within the bounds of the Conference.
ARTICLE VI— Investment of Funds.
The Board of Control shall, at its annual meeting, appoint an investment
committee of three, who shall be laymen, who, with the Treasurer, shall have
discretionary power over the investments of the Society, subject to the follow-
ing restrictions :
All loans and purchased mortgages shall be secured by mortgage on unin-
cumbered real estate, the cash value of which shall be at least double the amount
thus secured, the net income of which shall exceed the interest, insurance cover-
ing our interest in any buildings to be provided by mortgagee.
In every case abstracts must be fui'nished that shall satisfy the investment
committee that the title to the property is clear and unincumbered otherwise,
where loans are sought or mortgages purchased.
The committee shall have authority to purchase United States, State, county,
and city municipal bonds.
ARTICLE VII— Changing Constitution.
This Constitution, with its accompanying by-laws, may be changed or
amended at an annual meeting of the Society, by a two-thirds vote of the mem-
bers present, such changes or amendments having been first recommended by
a majority of all the members of the Board of Control.
3C0 North Indiana Conference [1918
BY-LAWS.
Section i The officers shall perform the same general duties at all meet-
ings of the Board of Control that they do at the meetmgs of the Society.
Section 2 The Recording Secretary shall keep a full and permanent record,
in book form, of all the transactions of business, both of the Society, and of
the Board of Control. He shall keep in his possession the corporate seal of
the Society, and all important books and papers not belonging to the Treasurer
or the General Secretary.
Section 3. The General Secretary shall keep a list of all beneficiary and of
the non-bcncficiary members. He shall make and keep a record in a book es-
pecially prepared for this purpose, a list of all who have been granted Certificates
of Life Membership, and open in said book an account with each of said pros-
pective Life Members, crediting them with the payments they make from year
to year, charging them six per cent, compound interest, upon all deferred pay-
ments until paid, the interest to be paid into the Administration Fund. The
General Secretary shall make out all Certificates for Life Membership, which
shall bear the signatures of the President and Recording Secretary, and bear
the imprint of the corporate seal.
Section 4. Any note executed to the Society by any of its members and
remaining unpaid, both principal and interest shall be deducted from any allow-
ance to such member, his widow, or his children, by the Board of Stewards,
equal to the pro rata share that said claimant would receive each year from the
funds turned over to the Stewards from this Society for general distribution,
until said note and interest is paid in full, and the General Secretary shall receive
the same from the Stewards and place the amounts in the permanent and Admin-
istration Funds according to Section 3 of these by-laws.
Section 5. The report of the Board of Control to the annual meeting shall
be made by the Recording Secretary and shall embrace the following items :
Total Permanent Fund at last report.
Total Permanent Fund at present.
Total amount of the funds in the hands of the Treasurer and how invested.
Total amount of funds in the hands of the General Secretary, and an
itemized statement of
1. Real estate and its value as approved by the Board.
2. Amount of notes and their value as approved by the Board.
3. Amount of subscriptions to the Permanent Fund.
4. Fees and dues, due from Beneficiary Members.
5. Cash in his hands.
6. Any other items of value necessary to a complete exhibit of the
financial status of the funds of the Society.
Section 6. The General Secretary, in addition to his other duties, shall pre-
pare an annual itemized statement of all the assets of the Society; both of its
real estate and personal property, with an estimate of the cash value of each
class of such assets, and send a copy of such statement to each member of the
Board of Control, at least ten days before the regular annual meeting of said
Board.
Section 7. The Treasurer of the Society shall have the same power that
the President and Recording Secretary now have, to release upon the records
all mortgage judgments and other liens; and all such releases heretofore made
by former Treasurers of this Society and fully ratified and confirmed.
The Board of Control, at its regular annual meeting, held in Muncie, In-
diana, April I, 1918, duly recommended the approval and adoption of the above
as the Amended Constitution and By-Laws of the Preachers' Aid Society.
(c) APPORTIONMENT OF BENEVOLENCES
To THE Districts op the North Induna Conference for 1918-19.
All apportionments are made on the grades given us by the Secretary of Apportionments of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
DISTRICTS.
Minis'l
StJPPORT.
T-^
DisciPLiNART Benevolences.
2='
3 3
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P g
3* -^ ET. -.,
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I'?
2b.
oi
conperencb
Benevolences
si =' o
<< C-
I'
<0
^2
Ft. Wayne.
Goshen
Lo?ansport
Muncie. . .
Richmond.
Wabash. . .
Totals.
981
955
80G
831
839
5259
•S.5222 S7229 S662 i .31084 .58441-52048
5411 7466' 6844: 1120 871 2116
5150; 7105 6516 1066 8291 2013
4449 61301 5619 9201 715! 1737
4441 60961 5.5SS 915 711 1727
4327 5968J 5470, 895, 696 1691
29000139994 36663 6000 4666111332
-5401J.S401
415| 415
3851 385
340 340
332j 332
3301 330
S121
125
119
103
5752
668
664
561
101' 5.53
1001 562
5420
428
400
350
349
340
>1325 .51.325
1369 1369
1303 1.303
1124 1124
1118' 1118
1094 1094
669 1 37.30
2287
629! 7433 7433
;1210
1250
1190
1030
1010
1000
6690
S. HOLLOPETER,
Secretary of the Cabinet.
351
(d) BISHOPS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
1784
1784
1800
1808
1816
1816
1824
1824
1832
1832
1836
1836
1844
1844
1852
1852
1852
1852
1864
1864
1864
1872
1872
1872
1872
1872
1872
1872
1872
1880
1880
1880
1880
1884
1884
1884
1881
ISSS
1888
1888
1888
1888
1896
18%
1900
1901
1904
1904
1904
1904
1904
1904
191!
190S
1908
I9nh
1908
1908
190^
1908
lao.c
1912
NAMES.
Thomas Coke
FraDcia Asbury
Richard Whatcoat. .
William McKendree
Eooch George
Robert It. Roberts...
Joshua Soule
Elijah Hedding
Jas. 0. Andrews
John Emory
Beverly Waugh
Thomas A. Morris...
L. L. Hamline
Edmund S. Janes
Levi Scott
Matthew Simpson. . .
Osmon C. Baker. . . .
Edward R. Ames.. . .
Davis Wasgatt Clark.
Edward Thomson . . .
Calvin Kingsley
Thomas Bowman
WilUam L. Harris. . .
Randolph S. Foster . .
Isaac W. Wiley
Stephen M. Merrill. .
Edward G. Andiews.
Gilbert Haven
Jesse T. Peck
Henry W. Warren. . .
Cyrus D. Foss
John F. Hurst
Erastus 0. Haven. . .
WiMiam X. Ninde. . .
John M. Walden . . . .
WillardF. MallaUeu.
Charles H. Fowler. . .
'John H. Vincent
James N. FitzGerald.
Isaac W. Joyce
John P. Newman... .
Daniel A. Goodsell. . .
Charles C.McCabe..
**Earl Cranston
t David H. Moore. . . .
'*John W. Hamilton. .
Joseph F. Berry
Henry Spellmeyer. . .
Wm. F. McDowell...
James W. Baahford. .
William Burt
Luther B. Wilson
tThoraas B. Neeley . . .
William F. .Anderson
John L. Nuelsen
William A. Ijuavle. . .
Charles W.Smith...
Wlson S. Lewis
Edwin H. Huabes . . .
Robert Mclntyre
Frank M. Bristol. . . ,
Homer C. Stuntz. . .
Born.
Entered Ministry.
Conference. S
REMARKS
Sept. 9, 1747
Aug. 20, 1745
Feb. 23, 1736
June 6, 1757
Mar. 10, 176S
Aug. 20, 1778
Aug. 1.1781
June 7, 1780
Jan. 7.1794
Aprill 1.1789
Oct. 25, 1789
Apiil28, 1794
May 10, 1797
April 28, 1807
Oct. 11. 1802
June 21. 1811
July 30, 1812
May 20, 1806
Feb. 25, 1812
Oct. 12, 1810
Sept. 8, 1812
July 15, 1817
Nov. 4,1817
Feb. 22, 1820
May 29, 1825
Sept. 16, 1825
.^ug. 7, 1825
.Sept. 19, 1821
April 4, 1811
Jan. 4, 1831
Jan. 17. 1834
Aug. 17. 1834
Nov. 1, 182C
June 21, 1832
Feb. 11, 1831
Dec. 11, 1828
Aug. 11, 183
Feb. 23, 183
July 27. 1837
Oct. 11. 1836
Sept 1. 1826
Nov. 5, 1840
Oct. 11, 1836
June 27, 184C
Sept. 4, 1838
Mar. 18,184
May 13, 18.5fi
Nov. 25. 184
Feb. 4, 185
May 27. 1849
Oct. 23, 1852
Nov. 14, 1856
June 12, 1841
April 22,lS6r
Jan. 19, 1867
June 26, 1S61
Jan. 30, 1840
July 17. 185
Dec. 7, 1866
Nov. 20, 1851
Tan. 4. 1851
Jan. 29,1858
British Wesleyan.
British Wesleyan.
British Wesleyan.
Meth. E. Church .
Meth.E. Church.
Baltimore
New England. . . .
New York..
South Carohna...
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Ohio
Ohio
Philadelphia
Piiiladelphia
Pittsburgh
New Hampshire..
Ilhnois
New York
Ohio
Erie
Baltimore
Michigan
Ohio
East Genesee
Ohio
Oneida
Mew England
Oneida
New England. . . .
New York
Newark
New York
Black River
Cincinnati
New England . . . ,
Rock River
Mew Jersey
Newark
N. W. Indiana. .
Oneida
New York East .
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Newark
Vorth Ohio
New England. . .
New York East .
Baltimore
Philadelphia. . . .
Vew York
West German . . .
Kansas
Pittsburgh
Upper Iowa
Il77s!
17671
1769
1788j
'179U:
1802 1
17t:9i
1801
1812
1810
1809
1816
1832
1830
1826
1833
1839
1830
1843
1832
1841
1839
1837
1837
1850
1846
1848
1851
1832
1855
1857
1858
1848
1856
18.58
1858
1861
185
1862
1859
1849
1859
1860
1867
1860
!S6f;
1874
1869
1882
1880
1881
1878
1865
1887
Died at Sea. May 3. 1814. aged 66.
Died
Died
Died
Died
Died
n Virginia, March 31, 1816, aged 70.
n Delaware, July 5, 1806. aged 70.
n Tennessee, March 5, 1835, aged 77.
n Virginia, August 23, 1828, aged 60.
n Indiana, March 26, 1843, aged C
Ent. M. E. Church, South, 1846; died Mar. 6, 1867, aged i
n Poughkeepsie, April 9, 1852, aged 71.
Died
Bishop M. E. Ch., South, 1846; died Mar. 2, 1871. aged 77
Died - ■ ■
Died
Died
n Maryland, December 16, 1835, aged 46.
n Maryland, February 9. 1858, aged 68.
n Springfield, Ohio, September 2, 1874, aged 80.
Illinoia
Rock River..
Upper Iowa.
1SS5
1859
1885
188f!
1878
1877
1884
Resigned, 1852; died in Iowa, February 22, 1865, aged 67
Died in New York City. September 18, 1876, aged 69.
Died in Odessa, Delaware, July 13, 1882, aged 79.
Died in Philadelphia, June 18, 1884, aged 72.
Died in Concord, N. H., December 20, 1871, aged 59.
Died in Baltimore, April 25, 1S79, aged 72.
Died in Cincinnati, May 23, 1871, aged 59.
Died in Wheehng, W. Va., March 22, 1870, aged 59.
Died in Beirut, Syria, April 6. 1870. aged 57.
Died in East Orange, N. J., March 3, 1914, aged 97.
Died in New York. September 2. 1887. aged 69.
Died in Newton Center. Mass.. May 1, 1903, aged 83.
Died in Foochow, China, November 22, 1884, aged 59.
Died in Keyport, N. J.. November 12, 1905, aged 80.
Died in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 31, 1907, aged 82.
Died in Maiden, Mass., January 3, 1880. aged 58.
Died in Syracuse, N. Y., May 17, 1883, aged 72.
Died in University Park, Col.. July 23, 1912, aged 81
Died in Philadelphia, January 29, 1910, aged 76.
Died in Bethesda, Md., May 4, 1903, aged 68.
Died in Salem, Ore., August 2, 1881, aged 60.
Died in Detroit, Mich., January 3, 1901, aged 68.
Died in Daytona, Fla., Jan. 21, 1914, aged 83.
Died in Auburndale, Mass., Aug. 1, 1911, aged 82.
Died in New York, March 20, 1908, aged 70.
Residence, 5700 Blackstone Avenue, Chicago, 111.
Died April 4, 1907, Hong Kong, China, aged 69.
Died in Minneapolis, Minn.. July 28, 1905, aged 68.
Died in Saratoga, N. Y., July 5, 1899, aged 72.
Died in New York City, December 5, 1909, aged 69.
Died in New York City, December 19, 1906, aged 70.
Residence, Washington, D. C.
Died in Cin'ti, Nov. 22, 1915; buried in Athens. 0., aged 77
Residence, .\merican University, Washington, D. C.
Residence, Seventeenth and Arch Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
Died in Atlantic City, March 14, 1910, aged 62.
Residence, Washincton, D. C.
Residence, Methodist Episcopal Mission, Pekin, China.
Residence, 455 Franklin St., Buffalo, N. Y.
Residence, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Residence, 4513 Chester Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.
Residence,420 Plum St., Circiniati, 0.
Residence, 132 Zollikerstr, Zurich, Switzerland.
Residence. St. Louis, Mo.
Died in Washington, D. C, October 31. 1914, aged 74.
Residence, Foochow, China.
Rtsidence, Maiden, Mass., 235 S'lmner St. ^
Died in Chicago, August 30. 1914, aged 63.
Re.4dence, Chattanoosa, Tenn.
Residence, Omaha. Neb.
•Retired 1904.
t Retired 1912.
' Retired 1916.
352
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BISHOPS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.— Continued.
o
NAMES.
Born.
Entered Ministry.
REMARKS.
•o a-
Conference.
1912
1912
1912
1912
191-^
Theo. S. Henderson. .
William 0. Shepard. .
Naphtali Luccoek
Francis J. McConnell.
Richard J. Cuoke. .. .
Frederick D. Leete...
Wilbur P.Thirkield..
Herbert Welch
Thomas Nicholson. . .
Adna W. Leonard.. . .
Matthew S. Hughes. .
WiUiam F.Oldham..
Charles B.Mitchell..
Franklin Hamilton. . .
Mav 14, 1S6S
Aprill 1,1862
Sept. 28, 1853
Aug. 18, 1871
Ian. 31, 1852
Oct. 1, 1866
Sept. 25, 1854
Nov. 7,1862
Jan. 27, 1862
Nov. 2, 1875
Feb. 2, 1863
Dec. 15, 1854
.Aug. 27, 1857
.Aug. 9, 1866
New York East. . .
Rock River
Pittsburgh
New England. . . .
1893
188:^
1874
1894
1S7S
1889
187,>-.
189C
1884
1901
1887
1883
ISSC
1891
Residence, Detroit, Mich.
Residence, Wichita, Kan.
Died in LaCrosse, Wis., Apr. 1, 1916, aged 72. Buried at
St. Louis.
Residence, 963 Logan St., Denver, Col.
1912
1912
1916
1916
1916
1916
1916
1916
1916
Northern N.Y...
Cincinnati
New York
Michigan
Italy
Iowa
Michigan
South Kansas.. . .
New England. . . .
Residence, 621 Rhodes Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
Residence, Hotel DeSoto, New Orleans, La.
Residence, Seoul, Korea.
Residence, 58 East Washington St., Chicago, 111.
435 Buchanan St., Saa Francisco, Cal.
Portland, Ore.
Residence, Buenos Aires, S. A.
Residence, St. Paul, Minn.
Residence, Pittsburgh, Pa.
** MISSIONARY BISHOPS
o
Wo.
NAMES.
Born.
Entered Ministry.
REMARKS.
g-g
■a a.
Conference.
1858
1866
1884
1888
1896
1900
1900
1901
1904
1904
1904
1912
1912
1916
1916
Francis E. Burns
John W.Roberts....
William Taylor
•James M. Thoburn. .
fJosephC. Hartzell.. ,
Edwin W.Parker....
Frank W. Warne. . . .
tlsaiah B. Scott
WilUam F.Oldham..
John E. Robinson. . .
tMerriam C. Harris.. .
John W. Robinson..
WiUiam P. Eveland..
Alex P. Camphor.. . .
Eben S. Johnson
Dec. 5, 1809
Sept. 8, 1812
May 2, 1821
Mar. 7, 1836
June 1, 1842
Jan. 21, 1833
Dec. 31, 1854
Sepf 30, 1854
Dec. 15, 1854
Feb. 12, 184r
July 9, 1846
Jan. 6, 1866
Feb. 12, 1864
Aug. 9,1865
Feb. 8,1866
Liberia
Liberia
Baltimore
Pittsburgh
Central Illinois. . ,
Vermont
Ontario, Can. Ch .
Tennessee
Michigan. .......
Central Illinois. , .
Pittsburgh
Des Moines
Central Pa
Delaware
N.-W. Iowa
1838
1838
1843
1858
1S6.S
1857
1874
IS80
1883
1874
1869
1890
1891
1895
188P
Died in Baltimore, April 18, 1863, aged 53.
Died in Liberia, January 30, 1875, aged 63.
Died in Palo Alto, May 18, 1902, aged 81.
Residence, Meadville, Pa.
Residence, 420 Plum St., Cincinnati, 0.
Died at Naini Tal, India, June 3, 1901, aged 68.
Residence, Lucknow, India.
Residence, North Nashville, Tenn.
Resigned 1912, to become Sec. Board of Foreign Missions
Residence, Bangalore, India.
Residence, Seoul, Korea.
Residence, Methodist Episcopal Mission, Bombay. Indii
Died at Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., July 24, 1916. Buried at
Mt. Holly Springs.
Residence, Monrovia, Liberia.
Residence, Umtali, Rodesia, South Africa.
** Bishops Burns, Roberts, Taylor, Hartzell, and Scott, Missionary Bishops for Africa; Bishop Thoburn for India and
Malaysia; Bishops Parker, Warne, Oldham, and Robinson for South Asia; Bishop Harris for Japan and Korea.
* Retired 1908. t Retired 1916.
(e) GENERAL CONFERENCE DELEGATES
jg4g PITTSBURG. Richard Hargrave, Samuel C. Cooper, William H. Goode, Samuel Brenton
John C. Smith.
Keserves — George M. Beswick, Thomas J. iirown.
1352 BOSTON. George M. Beswick, William H. Goode, John L. Smith, Samuel T. Gillett
Joseph Marsce, John Daniel.
Reserves — Jacob M. Stallard, Samuel C. Cooper.
1856— INDIANAPOLIS. Samuel C. Cooper, Orange V. Lemon, George W. Bowers, Horatio N-
Barnes.
Reserves — John H. Hull, Jacob Colclazer.
1860— BUFFALO. Cyriis Nutt, John B. Birt. Jacob Colclazer, Lonson W. Monson.
Reserves— Augustus Eddy, John W. Bradshaw.
1864 — PHILADELPHIA. Reuben D. Robinson, William H. Goode, Orange V. Lemon, Join
V. R. Miller.
Reserves — Milton Mahin, Samuel N. Campbell.
1868 — CHICAGO. Thomas Bowman, Milton Mahin, William H. Goode, Jehu C. Medsker.
Reserves — Lonson W. Monson, Orange V. Lemon.
Ig72 — BROOKLYN. William H. Goode, Thomas Bowman, William S. Birch, Ner H. Phillips
Orange V Lemon.
Reserves — Marmaduke H. Mendenhall, Lonson W. Monson.
Lav Delegates — Joseph A. Funk, Warsaw; William R. West, Anderson.
Reserves— George W. Milbum, Mishav/aka; Aaron C. Swayzee, Marion.
1876 — BALTIMORE. William S. Birch, Samuel N. Campbell, Ner H. Phillips, Abijah Marine
Reserves — Marmaduke H. Mendenhall, Enoch Holdstock.
Lay Delegates — Aaron C. Swayzee, Marion; Josiah H. Defrees, Goshen.
RESERVES^^^harles C. Binkley, Richmond; George W. Brackenridge, Fort Wayne.
1880 — CINCINNATI. Abijah Marine, Maramduke H. Mendenhall, Ezra F. Hasty, Almon
Greenman.
Reserves — Thomas Stabler, John W. Welch.
Lay Delegates — John Arnold, South Whitley; Charles C. Binkley, Richmond.
Reserves — Daniel B. Crawford, Richmond; Thomas B. Redding, New Castle.
1884— PHILADELPHIA. Thomas Stabler, Charies E. Disbro, Clark Skinner, John W. Welch
Reserves — Yancy B. Meredith, Humphrey J. Meek.
Lay Delegates — Jacob J. Todd, Bluffton; John H. Baker, Goshen.
Reserves — Charles L. Henry, Anderson; Daniel L. Overholser, Logansport.
1888— NEW YORK. Charies G. Hudson, Franklin T. Simpson, Cyrus W. Lynch, Enoch Holstock
Reserves— Joshua E. Ervin, James Greer.
Lav Delegates — Joseph S. Baker, Warsaw; Charles L. Henry, Anderson.
Reserves — Daniel L. Overholser, Logansport; Robert W. McBride, Waterloo.
1892 — OMAHA. Augustus E. Mahin, Almeron W. Lamport, Benjamin A. Kemp, David C.
Woolpert, Charles G. Hudson.
Reserves— George H. Hill, Joshua E. Ervin.
Lay Delegates — Norman Beckley, Elkhart; James O'Brien, Kokomo.
Reserves — Benjamin G. Shinn, Hartford City; John S. Patterson, Knightstown.
1896— CLEVELAND. Horace N. Herrick, Frank G. Browne, Augustus E. Mahin, William D.
Parr, George H. Hill.
Reserves — Charles G. Hudson, Jacomiah H. Jackson.
Lay Delegates — John S. Patterson, Knightstown; Christian B. Stemen, Fort Wayne.
Reserves — James H. Dehority, Elwood; William A. Thompson, Muncit.
1900— CHICAGO. Cyrus U. Wade, Horace N. Herrick, Frank G. Browne, William D. Parr.
Mitchell S. Marble.
Reserves — Leslie J. Naftzger, James C. Murray.
Lay Delegates — Albert A. Small, Anderson; Albert B. Cline, Bluffton; Leonidas H.
Bunyan, Richmond; George T. Herrick, Wabash; Thomas A. Doan, Ossian.
Reserves — Charles F. Mather, Marion; John L. Cavin, Ligonier; Benj. G. Shinn, Hart-
ford City; Asbury L. Kerwood, Muncie; William E. Groves, Milford.
1904— LOS ANGELES. Cyrus U. Wade. William D. Parr, Horace N. Herrick, George H. Hill,
Leslie J. Naftzger, Frank G. Browne.
Reserves — Ephraim L. Semans, Henry W. Bennett, William H. Daniel.
Lay Delegates— Hon. Hugh Daugherty, Bluffton; Dr. D. L. Overholser, Logansport;
Harvey Blacklidge, Anderson; Mrs. Frank Wilson, Wabash; John L. Cavin, Ligonier:
(jeorge W. Williams, Knightstown.
Reserves— William C. Chafee, Huntington; Carey C. Ayers, Redkev; Mrs. Dan Waugh,
Tipton.
1908— BALTIMORE. Henry W. Bennett, Cyrus U. Wade, Leslie J. Naftzger, Cassius C. CisseU
Thomas M. Guild, William D. Parr.
Reserves— Brenton S. Hollopeter, Thomas J. Johnson, Somerville Light.
Lay Delegates— Edward G. Eberhart, Mishawaka; Gary C. Ayers, Redkey; Charles C.
Cartwnght, Portland; Mrs. Alice Waugh, Tipton; Abraham May, Markle; Dee O.
Skillen, Yorktown.
Reserves— Benjamin G. Shinn. Hartford City; Benjamin A. Helm, North Manchester;
Albert W. Berry.
354
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1912— MINNEAPOLIS. Somerville Light, Chesteen W. Smith, Wallace W. Martin, Cas-
sius C. Cissell, Mitchell S. Marble, Charles E. Line.
RESERVES— Brenton S. Hollopeter. James A. Beatty, Cyrus U. Wade.
LAY DELEGATES— Everett Warren, Muncie ; Marion B. Stults, Huntington; Al-
bert B. Cline, Bluffton ; J. McLean Moulder, Kokomo ; William H. Charles,
Marion ; Mrs. John H. Binford, Greenfield.
RESERVES— George C. Morgan, LaGrange ; Christian B. Stemen, Ft. Wayne;
William Enslen, Ft. Wayne.
1916— SARATOGA SPRINGS. Brenton S. Hollopeter, Raymond J. Wade, George R.
Grose, Somerville Light, Wallace W. Martin, James A. Beatty, C. Claude
Travis.
RESERVES— Loren M. Edwards, Mitchell S. Marble, William B. Freeland.
LAY DELEGATES— Edward E. Youse, Markle ; Mrs. J.C. White. Elkhart; Burt
W. Ayres, Upland ; George E. Meek, Kokomo ; Frederick C. Parham, Ft.
Wayne ; General W. H. Kemper, Muncie ; George A. Whitezel, Peru, R. D. 10.
RESERVES— John Sutton, Dunkirk; Ozro N. Cranor, Albany; Mrs. Josie Nelson,
Union City.
(f) LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION.
Warsaw, Indiana, April 6, 1918.
The Laymen's Association of the North Indiana Conference met in the
Presbyterian Church at nine o'clock A. M., President E. Starbuck presiding. G.
E. Meek led in the opening singing, and Dr. Ralph Ward offered prayer.
The following commitees were appointed :
Committee on Resolutions — F. W. Greene, J. W. Stackhouse, A. B. Cline,
M. O. Abbey, A. R. Beyerle, G. E. Meek, and A. G. Beaver.
Committee on Nominations — J. D. Co-ppes, E. S. Vandermark, H. S. Cur-
rent, G. E. Meek, and O. M. Fisher.
Dr. Ralph Ward was introduced and briefly, but interestingly, presented the
Centenary Program for Missions.
Rev. R. A. Morrison was invited to speak on the Conference Claimants
Campaign. This he did in a very able and effective manner.
Dr. Johnson spoke briefly, giving much valuable information concerning
the Fort Wayne Hospital.
Dr. M. Vayhinger, president of Taylor University, made a brief, enthu-
siastic speech on Taylor Universitj^ as an asset of Alethodism.
J. D. Coppes spoke on the general subject of giving, but emphasized espe-
cially the Conference Claimants' Fund. There was then open discussion and
two or three of the brethren spoke on the same subject.
Brother Middleton, a pioneer local preacher from the Warren Home, spoke
briefly, emphasizing tithing. He then led us in fervent prayer.
A. B. Cline was called out and spoke briefly with his usual earnestness
on things pertaining to the Kingdom.
President Starbuck called for an expression of opinion as to the nature
of the program for next year. After a few had given expression on the mat-
ter, a motion was carried to have a program from our own number with free
open discussion of the subjects that interest us. Adjourned to meet in business
session in the Methodist Episcopal Church at i :i5.
x\pTERNooN Session.
The meeting was called to order by President Starbuck. After the open-
ing song and prayer, the secretary-treasurer made the following report :
Cash on hand from last year $1 01
Received during the year :
From Fred B. Mcintosh i 00
From D. C. Turnbull S 00
From First M. E. Church. Middletown i 00
From High Street M. E. Church, Muncie 2 00
From J. R. Satterfield i 00
From First M. E. Church, Noblesville i 00
Total $12 01
356
North Indiana Conference [1918
No bills of expense were presented, and the cash on hand April 6, 1918, is
^^^'The Committee on Nominations made the following report, which was
adopted : „ . . ^ ,
President— E. Starbuck, Goshen.
Vice-President— D. O. Skillen, Yorktown.
Secretary-Treasurer— A. L. Miller, Nappanee ^ , ,,r
Vice-President Fort Wavne District— Dr. W. Enslen, Fort Wayne.
Vice-President Goshen District— D. C. Turnbull, Mishawaka.
Vice-President Logansport District— G. E. Meek, Kokomo.
Vice-President Muncie District— S. T. Waite, Muncie.
Vice-President Richmond District— C. E. Thomason, Richmond.
Vice-President Wabash District— E. E. Youse, Markel.
J. D. COPPES,
E. S. Vandermark,
H. S. Current,
G. E. Meck,
O. M. Fisher,
Committee.
The Committee on Resolutions presented the following report, which was
adopted :
To the Laymen's Conference of the North Indiana Conference:
We, your Committee on Resolutions, submit the following resolutions :
First. We are in favor of the adoption of the proposed change in Consti-
tution as set forth in Chapter VI, Paragraph 577, of the 1916 edition of the
Doctrines and Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and commend it
to the Lay Electoral Conference and the Annual Conference for their favorable
consideration and action.
Second. Whereas, The Government of the United States of America, by
its proper authority, has ordered the conservation of food and fuel among the
consumers of the country; and
Whereas, We commend the Government for its action in this matter; be it.
Resolved, That the Laymen's Association of the North Indiana Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church is unalterably opposed to the use of the
foodstuffs of the country in the manufacturing of any form of intoxicating
liquors ; be it further
Resolved. That we are opposed to the use of fuel for the heating of saloons
and breweries of the country at any time, but especially while the schools and
churches are closed for the lack thereof.
Third. It is the sense of this Association that non-residents whose names
are on our records as full members should be placed on a list of non-resident
members, and that those persons, who by their daily life and actions, show they
are making no pretense of living a Christian life, should be removed from the
roll of church membership without the necessity of a church trial; and a proper
mode of procedure be laid out to govern the district superintendent, pastor, and
official board in this action.
Fourth. Be it Resolved, That this Association especially commends to the
voters of Indiana and the United States the patriots who have in our own Leg-
islature and in the Congress of the United States stood for State and Nation-
wide Prohibition and are endeavoring to make our State and Country safe for
democracy.
PREACHERS' AID SOCIETY RESOLUTION.
Fifth. Whereas, The inherent, foremost, supreme cause of the Conference
Claimants' Campaign for the securing of $20,000,000 for Methodism, $1,000,000
for the North Indiana Conference, originated by the laymen, ordered by the
Laymen's Association and the North Indiana Conference, and now being suc-
cessfully prosecuted by laymen and ministers, $100,000 having been pledged by
the Goshen District, demonstrating the fine response of the church, and making
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it certain that oiir great Conference will prosecute the campaign to a successful
termination ; and
Whereas, The campaign has the unqualified endorsement of Bishop Nich-
olson, and the entire Chicago Area meeting; and,
Whereas, We are urged by the Bishop and the Board of Conference Claim-
ants to conclude the campaign this Conference year; therefore.
Resolved, That we will give this great campaign for $1,000,000 our abso-
lute and unqualified endorsement and will do our utmost to bring it to success
this year as far as possible.
Resolved, Further, that we recommend to preachers and laymen that we
stand unitedly together in the prosecution of the work until victory crowns
our efforts.
Sixth. We are glad to see the movement made to connect more closely the
work of Taylor University with our great church, and are glad the University
is standing for a more highly educated ministry.
Seventh. In view of the great world needs to-day, which will be greatly
increased when the war closes, and as Methodism must take the lead in all mis-
sionary work throughout the world, we regard the great Centenary Movement
for $80,000,000 as timely and necessary to enable Methodism to do her part in
world evangelization and reconstruction, and as the first part of the campaign is
educational, preparatory to the securing of a large number of Christian stew-
ards throughout the church and our Conference; therefore,
Resolved, That we endorse the educational part of the program for the
securing of as large number as possible of Christian stewards in our Conference
during this Conference year.
Eighth. We wish to extend our thanks to the Presybterian Church for the
use of their church and to all who liave assisted to make this a profitable meet-
ing. We especially thank our president, E. Starbuck, and our dearly beloved
bishop, Thomas Nicholson, for their help during the past year.
Frank W. Greene, Chairman.
J. W. Stackhouse.
A. R. Beyeri-E.
W. N. Lee.
M. O. Abbey.
H. S. Current.
G. E. Meck.
The business meeting was adjourned and Bishop Nicholson presided over
the joint session of the Conference and the Laymen's Association. For min-
utes of this session, see Minutes of the Conference.
E. Starbuck, President.
B. W. Ayres, Secretary.
(g) LIST OF LOCAL PREACHERS.
Name Rela-
tion
Baker, Leroy C D .
Baker, Nathaniel. , . .E.
Barker, Pleasant L .
Bloom, N. W E.
Brewster, Fred L.
Brvan, Glen L.
Burke, Alfred E L.
Rurke, W. B L.
Carrington, E. C. . . . E.
Cline, A. B L.
Cobb, Marion. ..... .L.
Crowe, George L .
Deam, H. H L.
Dempsey, R. A E.
Dowden, George O. . . L .
Elsev, A. S L.
Fawks, M. G L.
Glendenning, E. J.. . .L.
Name
FORT WAYNE DISTRICT.
Postoffice
Auburn, R. D.
Hamilton
Monroe
Ft. Wayne
Upland
Spencerville
Upland
New Corydon
Harlan
Blufifton
Swan
Ft. Wavne
Bluffton
Ft. Wayne
Ft. Wayne
Ossian
Fremont
Auburn
Rela-
tion
Hall,. Frank L.
Kerwood, A. J E.
Keyes, W. H L .
Lockwood, James. . . . L .
Martin, D L.
McClintock, E. A....E.
Myers, E. A L.
Myers, W. J E.
Nipper, J. A L.
Pontius, L. W L.
Porter, Reuben B. . . .L.
Russell, Harry L.
Shoemaker, S. A L ,
Snider, Seth W L.
Stoakes, Darrell W. . .L
Stone, Winston L,
Wilkins, S. E D
Wisner, Lester L
Postoffice
. Huntertown
.Bluffton
, Hamilton
. Poneto
. Monroeville
. Auburn
. Bluffton
. Decatur
.Ft. Wayne
.Ft. Wayne
.Ft. Wayne
. Poneto
.Bluffton
.Bluffton, R.D.
.Ashley
. Greencastle
.Ft. Wayne
. Bluffton
GOSHEN DISTRICT.
Crews, M
Dennius, Frank. . .
Da we, Garfield. . . .
Fried, F. G
Goss, W. S
Groves, W. E
Groff, J. E
Hess, W. H
Hewitt, C. H
Hines, W. L
Inebnit, CD
Laird, A. M
. E. . In wood
. L. .Tippecanoe, R. D. 8
. L . . Stroh
.E. .Elkhart
. E . . Warsaw
.E. .Milford
, D. .Mishawaka
, D . . Warsaw
. L . .Goshen
, D . . Warsaw
.L.. Goshen, R. D.
L. .Bourbon, R.D.
Lawburg, J. C. . .
Lawrence, D. A.
Lundry, R. L . . .
Mayer, T. D....
McCarty, W. A .
Mott, Thurman.
Naftzger, Ernest
Oborn, Howard .
Parker, W. L . . .
Snyder, J. F. . . .
Weyrick, A. E . .
LOGANSPORT DISTRICT.
Barrow, Samuel E .
Baldwin, J. N L.
Conner, J. R L.
Dotson, George W. . L.
Dunlap, C. E D.
Farr, Robert L L .
Fox, Jesse W L.
Falkner, George H . . . L .
Garnett, Ambler L.
Harper, George W . . . E .
Harper, Charles F . . . D .
Hoon, W. L..." E.
Keasling, George W. . E .
Lawshe, James E . . . . L .
Lynus, L. M L.
Michel, Roy W L.
Mohler, Henry C. . . .L.
.Tipton
.Deedsville, R. D.
.Macy
. Arcadia
. Logansport
. Kokomo
.In the Army
. Kokomo
. Peru
. Frankton
. Converse
. Kokomo
. Kokomo
. Converse
. Hobbs
.Tipton
. In the Army
Morrow, M. C. .
Nixon, Everett. .
O'Brian, Robert.
Osburn, W. H...
Overmyer, J. H .
Parker, John. . . :
Picket, G. L. . . .
Pond, Clifton. . .
Stafford, W. A. .
Tone, T. J
Unger, Oliver C .
Van Camp, T. A.
Wilson, S. F. . . .
Wilson, R. L....
Williams, M. E..
Wood, J. W
. .E. .Milford
. .L.. Wolf Lake
. .E. .Mishawaka
. . L . . Warasw
. .E. .Brimfield
. . L . . Goshen
. . L . . Warsaw
. . L . . Warsaw
. .L. .Albion
. . L . . LaGrange
. .D. .Elkhart, R. D.
.L. .Oakford
.L. .Twelve Mile
. D . . Logansport
. L . . Kokomo
. L . .Tipton
. L . . Kokomo
. L . . Somerset
.L. .In the Army
. L . . Kempton
. D . . Cicero
. L . . Russiaville
. L . . Converse, R.D.
.E.. Kokomo, R.D.
.L. .Atlanta
.L. .Hillisburg
. L . . Galveston
Albert, C. E
Bennett, Sidney. .
Borders, John W.
Brandon, I. N. . .
MUNCIE DISTRICT.
. Noblesville
.Alexandria
.L. .Ingalls
. L . . Noblesville
Day, O. O L..Carmel
DeWeese, Benjamin. . L . . Hartford City
Ferguson, H. E D. .Anderson
Gibson, Robert L. .Muncie
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359
MUNCIE DISTRICT.— Continued.
Name Rela-
tion
Hinshaw, H. E L .
Jarvis, Joshua E .
Jenkins, Isaac N L .
Jones, William I . . . . D .
Kiger, A. G E.
King, Ma.xmillian. . . .E.
Kirk, H. A L.
Lewis, Bert \V E .
Mallery, Curtis D.
Marsh, H. C L.
Maynard, Kenneth . . L .
Metts, Charles E.
Oliver, Mont L .
Perry, Herbert L .
Addington, Orville E. L .
Allen, Frank L.
Ayers, Carey C E .
Brumfield, Ezra J . . . . L .
Bunyan, L. H E.
Cook, Clarence L .
Crider, Ralph J L .
Elder, Robert W . . . . L .
Hatfield, J. T E.
Havens, John M L .
Hinkle, George W. . . . L .
Hunt, John L .
Hutchens, H. C L.
Hutchens, J. L E.
Jackson, I. A L.
Kirkpatrick, William L .
Lahey, Charles W . . . L .
Lanning, Isaac N.. . .D.
Learner, Ellis M L .
Postoffice
Hartford City
.Albany
Anderson
Pendleton
Daleville
Eaton
Noblesville
.Anderson
Xoblesville
Muncie
Anderson
iVIuncie
LTpland
Fisher's
Name Rela-
tion
Polhemus, W. H L . .
Prell, H. T D..
Pyle, Claude L. .
Ross, Loren M D . .
Ross, W. W E..
Rossbacher, John. . . .L. .
Satterfield, T. M. . . .E..
Shinn, Benjamin G. .D. .
Thomas, T. E L . .
Walker, M. B L.,
Watson, G. C L . .
Wood, Charles A . . . . D .
Wright, Homer L .
Postoffice
Daleville
Anderson
.Alexandria
Muncie, R. D.
Muncie, R. D.
Muncie
Muncie
Hartford City
Muncie
Fortville
Matthews
Muncie
.Anderson
RICHMOND DISTRICT.
. Portland
. Richmonfl
. Red key
. Markleville
. Richmond
, Upland
. Cleveland
. Portland
. Cleveland
.Greenfield
Charlottesville
. Whitewater
. Willow Br.
. Richmond
. Redkey
.Cleveland
. Winchester
. Millgrove
. Richmond
Martin, Samuel R . .
McConnell, Louis. . .
Miller, Theodore. . . .
Mitchell, Charles .A.
Moody, Thomas C. .
Powell, A. E
Prather, W. F
Reager, L. D
Roberts, Harry B . . .
Sharkey, Patrick . . .
Shaw, Joseph
Souders, John W. . .
Stemple, George R..
Stewart, Robert B . .
Thomas, Roscoe. . . .
Van Y, Oliver P.. .
Whetsel, William . . .
Wright, Tilman ....
. L. . Dunkirk
. L. . Dunkirk
. L . .Cleveland
. L . . Kennard
L. .Lynn
. L . . Portland
E . . Farmland
E. .Markleville
D . . Newcastle
L. .Shirley
L. .Charlottesville
E . . Kennard
L. . Richmond
L . . Hagerstown
L . . Cleveland
L . . Maxwell
L . .Shirley
L . . Dunkirk
WABASH DISTRICT.
Abbey, M. C... L.
Arandilla, Gabrino . . . L .
Blades, Joseph P. . . .L.
Brooks, Leslie M . . . . L .
Brown, Harvey L .
Brown, O. C L .
Bushey, C. J L .
Chaffee, E. P L.
Cook, Victor L L .
Crabtree, E. E L .
Curless, W. B L.
Daniel, C. F L.
Easton, J. W D.
Etter, Charles E L .
Hacker, T. F D.
Hawkins, K. A L.
Hedges, Hermon L .
Henderson, Homer W' L .
Holm, D. D L.
Irwin, R. L L .
Jensen, Jesse L .
Jones, Leroy H L .
Jordan, George L . . . . E .
Upland
Upland
L'pland
Upland
Upland
Upland
Upland
Marion
Marion
L'pland
Swayzee
Upland
South Whitley
Upland
Warren
Warren
Columbia City
Upland
Huntington
Warren
Upland
Upland
Bippus
Lantis, Clarkson. . .
Mabuce, John C. .
McClish, G. L
McCutcheon, R. S.
Mendenhall, C. B.
Michael, Otto W. .
Middleton, J. W. . .
Miller, John
Morris, Robert M..
Myers, .A. L
O'Neill, William...
Osborne, L. C
Phillips, Francis C.
Rasmussen, S. C^ . .
Roberts, Ira J
Salter, S. R
Spalding, T- E
Stevens, M. H
Talikka, Peter. . . .
Timmons, Mel . . . .
Waterson, S. K. . . .
White, Lester A . . .
Zepp, Arthur C. . . .
. . L . . Uniondale
. . L . . Upland
, . L . . Upland
, . L . . Upland
. . L . . Upland
. . L . . Upland
. L . . Warren
.L. .Huntington
. L . . Upland
.L. .Sims
.L. Upland
.L.. Upland
.L. .Upland
. L . . Upland
. L . . Upland
.L. .Upland
. L . . Upland
.L. .Upland
. L . . Upland
. L . . Bippus
. L . . Churubusco
.L. .Upland
. L . . Upland
35o North Indiana Conference [1918
(h) WESLEY FOUNDATION.
We the undersigned, citizens of the United States, desiring to establish our-
selves together as a corporation for purposes other than for pecuniary profit, do
hereby make, sign, and acknowledge the following:
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.
Article I.
The name by which this corporation shall be known in law is the Wesley
Foundation at Purdue University.
Article II.
The object for which such corporation is formed is the intellectual, moral,
and religious care and instruction of young people who are students in Purdue
University, especially those who are adherent to the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and in furtherance of such object said corporation shall have the power of tak-
ing, purchasing, holding, and disposing of real estate and personal property, as
provided by statute. This corporation is organized as an auxiliary of the Board
of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church and shall carry on its work
in harmony with the principles and methods of said board.
Article III.
The board of directors of said corporation shall consist of fifteen members,
to be elected as follows: Three by the North Indiana Conference of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, three by the Northwest Indiana Conference of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, and three by the Methodist members of the University
staff, and the nine directors thus elected shall select the remaining four directors
of said board. The term of office of said directors shall be fixed by the by-
laws of said corporation.
Article IV.
The following persons are hereby selected as the directors who shall have
the control and management of the business and prudential concerns of said cor-
poration for the first year of its existence, namely: William D. Parr, Mitchel
S. Marble, Charles E. Line, Albertus T. Briggs, Demetrius Tillotson, Oakel F.
Hall, George L. Roberts, Martin L. Fisher, Lawrence W. Wallace, William E.
McKenzie, Wallace W. Martin, Bishop Thomas Nicholson, and Brenton S.
Hollopeter.
In witness whereof, the parties hereto have hereunto set their hands this
tenth day of May, 1917.
May 17, 1917, the members of the board of directors of the Wesley Founda-
tion at Purdue University met in the Fowler Hotel, Lafayette, Indiana, to hear
the report of the committee on by-laws and to transact such other business as
might legally arise. Attorney Charles A. Burnett reported that the Articles of
Association adopted at the meeting held May 10, 1917, had been duly filed with
the secretary of state and that the charter had been received.
The by-laws proposed by the special committee were taken up section by
section, discussed, amended, and finally unanimously adopted.
BY-LAWS WESLEY FOUNDATION.
In pursuance of the authority conferred upon the board of directors of the
Wesley Foundation at Purdue University by the charter of said corporation, the
said board of directors do hereby agree to and order the following by-laws for
their government, subject to amendment from time to time, in the following
manner :
I. The Board of Directors.
I. The members of the board of directors representing two of the Confer-
ences of the State of Indiana— the North Indiana Conference and the Northwest
Indiana Conference— and the three members of the board of directors elected by
the Methodist members of the Purdue University staff shall serve for three
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years, but in order to preserve the continuity of the work of the board of direc-
tors, the members so elected by the Northwest Indiana Conference in 1917 and
the North Indiana Conference in 1918, at their annual sessions, and by the Meth-
odist members of the Purdue University staff in April, 1918, shall serve for one,
two, and three years, as may be designated at the time of their election.
2. The four directors elected by the nine directors shall be elected at the
annual meeting of the board and shall serve for four years, but in order to pre-
serve the continuity of the work of the board the first four directors thus elected
at the annual meeting in 1918 shall serve one, two, three, and four years, re-
spectively, as determined at the time of their election.
3. The present directors shall continue in office until their successors are
chosen as hereinbefore provided.
II. Meetings op the Board.
1. The board of directors shall hold its annual meeting at the seat of the
Wesley Foundation at Purdue University on the first Thursday in May of each
year.
2. Special meetings may be called at any time upon one week's notice,
through the secretary, to the directors ; provided that any three officers of the
board, or at least five directors unite in such a call.
3. In all meetings of the board seven directors shall constitute a quorum.
III. Officers of the Board.
The officers of the board shall be a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and
Treasurer, to be elected annually by ballot at the annual meeting in May, and to
serve until their successors are elected.
Their duties shall be as follows :
1. The President shall preside at all meetings of the board, shall appoint
(unless the board otherwise direct) all the committees of the board, except as
otherwise provided, and perform all the usual duties of such office.
2. The Vice-President, in the absence of the President, or in case of his
resignation, removal, or death, shall serve in his place until another President
is elected.
3. The Secretary shall be required :
(a) To keep a correct journal of the proceedings of the board and to care-
fully record or file, as the board may direct, all reports and other important
papers of the board.
(b) To give at least ten days' notice to the directors of all meetings of the
board.
(c) Immediately upon receiving information of their election, to notify all
newly elected directors of their election and to furnish each with a copy of the
Articles of Association and By-Laws of the Foundation.
(d) To conduct such correspondence as the board may require of him
from time to time.
4. The Treasurer shall be required :
(a) To receive all moneys coming into the treasury of the Foundation from
any and every source; to hold and disburse the same subject to the direction of
the board of directors.
(b) To present to the annual meeting of the board (and to any other meet-
ing when requested) a tabulated statement of the receipts and disbursements of
the resources and liabilities of the Foundation with a separate exhibit of En-
dowment Funds, showing the amount of such funds invested during the year,
the total amount invested, the character of the securities, and the revenues de-
rived from such investment; and also to report at any time that the directors
or executive committee may direct ; also showing the amount, earnings, growth,
and status of all special endowments or permanent funds by name.
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(c) The Treasurer shall be required before entering upon the duties of his
office to execute to the board of directors, to be approved by the executive com-
mittee r.ndficd with the Secretary of the board, a bond of such amount as the
tToard of directors shall determine from time to time, and with such security
as the board may require.
(d) To invest with the concurrence of the executive committee and accord-
ing to such instructions as may be agreed upon from time to time by the direc-
tors the Endowment Funds of the Foundation, but no investnients of the Gen-
eral' Endowment, Special Endowment, or other permanent funds of the Founda-
tion shall be made by loan or otherwise without the written concurrence of at
least three members of the executive committee in any regular or called meeting.
IV. Committees.
1. The standing committees shall be as follows: (i) Executive Committee;
(2) Committee on Ways and Means. r , t^ j . t,
Thcse committees shall each consist of five members of the Board, to be
elected by the board at the annual meeting.
2. The duties of the committees shall be as follows:
(a) The Executive Committee shall have charge, subject to the supervision
of the board, of all the interests of the Foundation. And during the interim of
the sessions of the board shall have and exercise all such power in the manage-
ment of the affairs of the Foundation as may be consistent with the charter and
By-Laws of the Foundation, and the instruction and actions of the board. It
shall hold meetings at such particular place and time as they may determine, and
also such special meetings, to be called by the Chairman or Secretary, as may
be deemed necessary.
In the case of vacancy occurring in any office or in the membership of any
committee by death, resignation, or removal of said officer or member his suc-
cessor to fill the unexpired term shall be appointed by the Executive Committee.
It shall provide for the auditing of all accounts, and shall make report of its
proceedings at the annual meeting.
(b) The Ways and Means Committee shall devise and initiate such plans
and methods of procedure as may be necessary from time to time in order to
secure funds in the form of gifts, bequests, endowments, etc., for the use of the
Foundation.
V. Order oe Business.
In all places where special provision is not made in these By-Laws, Roberts'
Rules of Order shall be observed whenever applicable to the business of the
board and its committees.
In the reg^llar meetings of the board the business shall be brought forward
as follows :
1. Prayer. 5. Reports.
2. Roll Call. 6. Unfinished Business.
3. Reading Minutes. 7. New Business.
4. Appointment of Committees. 8. Election of Officers.
VI.
These By-Laws may be amended at any annual meeting by a two-thirds vote
of all the members present and voting, provided that this two-thirds vote is not
less than a majority of all the members of the board and that notice of the pro-
posed change has been sent by the Secretary by mail to the members of the board
not less than ten days before the date of the annual meeting at which action is
to 'be taken.
(XIV) ^igtorical
APPOINTMENT RECORD
The following Record is a continuation of tliat in the L. W. Monson Manual, and is corrected to
April 1, 1918, including the changes made during the year as reported by the District Superintendents
to the Secretary. An effort is made to condense as much as possible by using abbreviations easily
understood. The figures "18" and "19" are omitted from the years given, as all the appoint-
ments are in these two centuries. In some instances no record is made of the services in other
Conferences because of the lack of data.
Abbreviations. — Loc, Located; Miss., Missionary; S., in School; Sn., Superannuated; Sy.,
Supernumerary; Sup., Supply; R., Retired; Tr., Transferred. SECRETARY.
Explanatory. — To find the length of a pastorate on a charge from the following record it will
be necessary to take into account BOTH the FIRST and LAST years of appointment, 02-6 means
five years of service on that charge
APPOINTMENTS OF MEMBERS OF THE NORTH INDIANA CONFER-
ENCE, INCLUDING THE YEAR 1917.
Amos, W. M.— 00-3, Sup. New Waverly; 04, New Waverly; 05-14, Walton; 16-17,
Atlanta.
Anderson, C. W.— Ind. Conf. 05-6 Sup. Branchville Ct.; N. W. Ind., 06-7, Reels-
ville; 08, Sup. Clayton and Cartersburg; 09, Cartersburg; Ind. Conf. 10; 10-11,
Monrovia; 12-13, 18 months Bellville Ct.; 13, N. Ind.; 13-15, Shirley; 16-17,
McCordsville.
Arnold, W. T.— 99-04, Jonesboro; 05-8, Fortville; 09-12, Logansport, Market St.;
13-17, Bluffton.
Asay, W. C. — Colorado Conf. Sup.: 01, Mosca 2 mos.; August to April, 02, Pali-
sades. N. Indiana Conf.: 02, Shideler Circuit; 03, Sup. Millgrove; 04-6, Mill-
grove; 07, Perkinsville; 08, Amboy; 09-11, Muncie, Normal City; 12-16, Sharps-
ville; 17, Logansport, Wheatland St.
Backus, A. H.— 01, Sup. Boxley; 02, S.; 03-4, Atlanta; 05-7, Marion, Ninth St. and
Home Park; 08-9, North Manchester; 10-13, LaGrange; 14-16, Butler; 17,
Dunkirk.'
Bailey, J. F.— 88, Coesse; 89-90, Pendleton Circuit; 91-2, S.; 93, North Anderson;
94-5, Muncie Circuit; 96, New Burlington; 97-8, Muncie, Avondale; 99-01,
Gaston; 02, Ridgeville; 03-5, Mentone; 06-7, Milford; 08, Goshen, St. Mark's;
09-10, Bourbon; 11-12, Wolcottville; 13-14, Atlanta; 15, Churubusco Ct.;
April 13, resigned; 16, Anderson, Park Place; 17, Sy.
Bailor, G. W.— 04-6, Wolcottville and Rome City; 07-9, New Paris; 10-12, Atlanta;
13, Forest; 14-15, Santa Fe; 16, Cicero, 7 months, resigned; 17, Sy.
Ballard, R. C. — N. W. Indiana Conf.: 05. North Indiana Conf.: 14-15, Lewisville;
16-17, Economy.
Barrett, J. Z.— 91-2, Scircleville; 93-6, Millgrove; 97, Van Buren; 98-03, Mt. Etna;
04, Akron; 05-8, Frankton; 09, Summitville; 10, Summitville Circuit; 11,
Muncie, Avondale; 12, si.x months Avondale; 13-17, Sy.
Barrett, M. E. — 05, Sup. Trenton 6 mos.; 06-8, Spiceland; 09, Dublin, 6 mos., S. 6
mos.; 10-15, S.; 16-17, Lewisville.
Bash, C. E.— 13-14, Waterloo; 15, Winchester Ct. 5 months; S. 7 months; 16-17, S.
Beall, T. H. C— 68-9, Jerome; 70, Bo.xley; 71-2, Perkinsville; 73, Alexandria; 74-6,
Cicero; 77, New Britton; 78-80, Fishersburg; 81, Shjh-psville; 82-4, Cicero;
85-6, Elwood and Frankton; 87, Westfield; 88, New Britton; 89, Macy; 90,
Churubusco; 91-4, Sn.; 95, Cicero; 96, McCordsville; 97-17, R.
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T Inrlimi Conf ■ 93-97. S.; 98-1930, Stuartsville; 01, Patoka; 02-03, S.;
^''"u4-{ir\"Sn70 -^^^ Hkrmony; 09-12, Oakland City; 13, Evansv: le;
Sinipson Ojurch, 6 months. North Indiana Conf.: 14, LaGrange; 15-17,
Columbia City.
Beatty, D. C.-12, October, Sup. Muncie, Avondale; 13-14, Muncie, Avondale;
15-16, Bristol; 17, Ridgeville.
Beatty J. A.-85, Coesse; 86-7, Harlan; 88, Leesburg; 89-91, Angola; 92-5 Ligonier;
96-8 Warsaw; 99-03, Elwood; 04-8, Huntmgton; 09, Elkhart, Trmity; 10-15;
Ft. Wayne District; 16-17, Muncie District.
Bechdolt, B. M.— 10, Kokomo, North St.; 11, Hobbs; 12-13, Center; 14-16, Roann;
17, Windfall.
Rillheimer S— 91 West Point; 92-3, Silver Lake; 94-5, Sy., 6 mos. Sup. Farmland;
96 9 Farmland; 00-1, Selma; 02-4, Sharpsville; 05-9, Sy. 10-14, R., and Sup.
Richmond, Third Church, 9 mos.; 15-17, R.
Bills T o— 86, Sup. Ridgeville; 87-8, Ridgeville; 89-90, Hagerstown; 91-3, S.;
94-8 Converse; 99, Tipton; 00-1, Redkey; 02-3, Alexandria; 04-11, Conf. Evan.;
12, 10 mos. Montpelier; 13-16, Montpelier; 17, Sy.
Black R I —Indiana Conf.; 04-5, Sup. Hardinsbury 18 mos.; 06, Elizabeth 6 mos.;
07-8* Fredericksburg; 00, trans, to N. Indiana Conf.; Dec. 1, Matthews; 09,
Matthews; 10-11, Lynn, 5 mos., Charlottesville, 7 mos.; 12-13, Charlottesville;
14, Saratoga; 15, Saratoga; October 1, Resigned; 16-17, Sy.
Blocker, John F.— 99, Missionary Baptist Church. Indiana Conf.: 10-11, Crothers-
ville; 12-13, Morgantown. North Indiana Conf., June 1, 1913, Sweetser; 14-15,
Sweet ser; 16-17, Roanoke.
Boase, H.— 04, Sup. Ashley; 05-6, Ashley; 07-10, Galveston; 11-12, Wakarusa; 13,
Wakarusa 5 mos., Topeka 7 mos.; 14-16, Topeka; 17, Leesburg.
Bowen, J. W.— 82-4, Portland Ct.; 85-6, Lynn; 87-8, Centerville; 88-9, S.; 89, Sup.
Chicago, Moreland Miss.; 90-2, Lynn; 93-4, Charlottesville; 95-6, Ridgeville;
97-8, Cicero; 99-01, Bristol; 02-3, Galveston; 04, So. Whitley; 05, So. Whitley
7 mos.; 06, Sy.; 07-8, Marion, Highland Ave.; 09, N. Webster 6 mos. Middle-
bury 6'mos.; '10-13, Middlebury; 14-16, Leesburg; 17, Topeka.
Bridie, U. S. A.— 89, Inwood; 90, West Point; 91-2, S.; 93, Waterloo; 94-5, Clay-
pool; 96-9, South Whitley; 00, Logansport, Market St.; 01-4, Tipton; 05-7,
New Castle; 08-11, Peru; 12-13, Portland; 14-16, Richmond; 17, Ft. Wayne,
Simpson.
Brown, C. H. — Northern New York: 70, Sup. Chasem Falls; 72, Sup. Parishville.
N. Indiana Conf.: 74, Sun. Sheldon; 75-6, Sheldon; 77-9, Monroeville; 80-2,
Peru; 83-5, Wabash; 86-90, Kokomo; 91-5, New Castle; 96-7, Lagrange; 98-00,
Elkhart; 01-2, Union City; 03-7, Montpelier; 08, Logansport, Market St.;
09-10, Sn. and Sup. Bunker Hill 6 mos.; 11-17, R.
Brown, D. A. J. — 07, Sup. Geneva Circuit; 08, Geneva Circuit; 09, Spencerville;
10, Bobo: 11, Bobo 6 mos., resigned; 12, New Haven; 13-14, Poneto 6 mos.,
Hudson and Ashley 6_mos.; 15-17, Hudson.
Browne, F. G. — 81, Logansport, Wheatland St.; 82, Goldsmith; 83-5, Jonesboro;
86-7, Ft. Wayne, Wayne St.; 88-91, Mishawaka; 92-6, Huntington; 97-04,
Asst. Editor Western Christian Advocate; 05-7, Tipton; 08-9, New Castle;
10-11, Columbia City; 12, Middletown, 7 mos.; 13-17, R.
Brown, W. W.— 85, Portland Circuit; 86, Lewisville and Ogden; 87-8, Mt. Etna;
89, Atwood; 90-1, Roann; 92, LaFontaine; 93-5, Sn.; 96-8, Akron; 99-00, Lagro;
01, Alto; 02, Alto 6 mos.; 03-6, Sn. and in 06 Sup. Williamsburg; 07, Williams-
burg; 08-9, Hagerstown; 10-17, R.
Banner, E. A. — 98, 6 mos. Sup. Woodburn; 99, Sup. Woodburn; 00-2, Woodburn;
03-7, Ft. Wayne Circuit; 08-12, Huntertown; 13-17, Spiceland.
Burkett, Albert D.— 04-05, Sup., Woodburn; 06, S.; 07, Sup., York and Thoburn,
Chicago; 08-10, Lyndon, Rock River Conf.; 11, Malta; 12, Malta 6 mos.,
Wyoming Mission 6 mos.; 13, Sy. 6 mos.. North Indiana Conf., Mt. Etna, 6
mos.; 14, Mt. Etna; 15, Huntington Ct.; 16-17, Sweetser.
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Burns, Frank S. — Kentucky Conf.: 06-08, Bowling Green, Ky. Indiana Conf.:
09-10, Washington; 11, Crothersville; 12, Falmouth; 13, West Newton; 14,
West Newton 6 nios.; North Indiana Conf., Alvorado 6 mos.; 15-16, Valentine;
17, Benton.
Burns, Robert. — Holiness Christian Church; 01, Sup. Lebanon 4 mos., Greensburg
8 mos.; 02, Tipton; 03, Zanas; 04, New London. N. Indiana Conf.: 05-7, Amboy;
08-9, Windfall; 10, Windfall 6 mos., Sheridan 6 mos.; 11-12, Sheridan; 13-16,
Albion; 17, Butler.
Byrt, Charles. — 10, Sup. Spencerville; 11, Spencerville; 12-14, Twelve Mile; 15-16,
Amboy; 17, Boxley.
Cain, J. S.— 74, Fortville; 75-6, Windfall; 77, Kempton; 78-9, Lynn; 80-1, White-
water; 82, Lewisville; 83-4, Milford; 85, Inwood. 86-9, N. W. Indiana Conf.
N. Indiana Conf: 90, Nappanee; 91-2, Bristol; 93-4, Butler; 95-6, Marion,
Grace Church; 97-8, Andrews; 99, Avilla; 00-3, Geneva; 04-6, New Haven;
07, Hamilton; 08-10, Warsaw Ct.; 11-17, R.
Cain, J. W. — S. E. Indiana Conf.: 76, New Trenton. S. Kansas Conf.: 77, Sedg-
wick City; 78-80, Belle Plaine. N. Indiana Conf.: 81, Cicero; 82-3, Westfield;
84-6, LaFontaine; 87-8, South Whitley; 89-91, Bourbon; 92-4, Goshen, Fifth
Ave.; 95-9, Winchester; 00. New Castle; 01-3, Peru; 04-5, Hartford City, Grace
Church; 06-7, Warren; 08, Sheridan; 09, Gas City; 10-15, Gen Sec. P. A.; 16,
Sec. ad int. P. A.; 17, R.
Callaway, G. N. — Methodist Church, Canada, Manitoba Conf., 04; traveled charges
04-06; 07-9, S. in West Wis. Conf.; 10-11, Superior, 59th St.; 12, Washburn,
Warren Church; 13, Rice Lake, First; 14-15, Osceola. Rec'd West Wis. Conf.
1915; 16, Sup. Noblesville Ct., N. Ind. 5 mos.; Trans. N. Ind.; 17, Muncie,
Avondale.
Campbell, J. O.— 96-7, S.; 98-01, McCordsville; 02-3, Anderson, Madison Ave.;
04-7, Richmond, Fifth St.; 08, Greenfield (nominal), Nov. 1, Centerville; 09-11,
Middletown; 12-13, Hamilton; 14-17, Van Buren.
Carey, A. J.— 71, Jerome; 72-3, Santa Fe; 74-5, Walton; 76, Russiaville; 77, Jones-
boro; 78, Montpelier; 79, Alexandria; 80-1, New Burlington; 82, Palestine;
83-5, Macy; 86-7, Leesburg; 88-9, Middlebury; 90, New Waverly; 91, Russia-
ville; 92-3, Sheridan; 94, Cicero; 95, Arcadia; 96-7, Sy.; 98, Larwill; 99-01,
LaFontaine; 02, Hoagland; 03-4, Marion, Ninth St. and Highland Ave.; 05-6,
Windfall; 07, Kokomo, North St., and Atlanta; 08, Richmond, Third Church;
09-17, R.
Carlson, K. H.— 10-12, S.; 13-14, Fremont; 15-16, Elkhart, Simpson Memorial;
17, Elkhart, Simpson Memorial 5 mos.; U. S. A. 7 mos.
Carnes, L. G.— Ind. Conf.: Sup. Jan. 1, 04, to Sept. 1, 05, Elizabeth; 05-6, Sup.
Newtonville; 07-8, Pekin; 09, Marengo; 10-11, Chrisney; 12-13, Cynthiana;
14, Farmersburg, 10 mos.; 15, Aug. 1, North Ind., Hamilton; 16, Poneto; 17,
Poneto 3^ mos., Harlan 8>^ mos.
Gates, A.— 00, Sup. Scircleville; 01, Galveston; 02, Milford; 03, Wakarusa; 04-5,
Milford; 06, Topeka 6 mos.; 07-9, Sheridan, Wyo.; Tan., 1910, Richmond,
Grace Church; 10-13, Richmond, Grace Church; 14-16, Tipton; 17, Union City.
Gates, S. L.— 03-4, Hillisburg; 05, Kokomo, North St., 6 mos.; Cody, Wyo. Miss.
6 mos.; 06, Miss. Cody, Wyo., 6 mos., Topeka 6 mos.; 07, Topeka; 08-9, S.;
10-14, Nappanee; 15, Greenfield; 16, New Castle, 5 mos.; resigned; 17, without
appt., par. 186. Dis.
Chadwick, C. W.— 07, Sup. Spartansburg; 08-09, Sup. Ind. Conf., Quincy and
Eminence; 10, Ind. Conf., Putnamville; 11-14, S. (while in school. Sup. 11-12,
Seeleyville and Lena; 13, Terre Haute, Grace; 14, Ben Davis); 15-17, N. Ind..
Bunker Hill.
Chamness, J. P.— 91-5, Geneva; 96-9, Fountain City; 00-3, Richmond, Fifth St.;
04-9, Muncie, Avondale; 10-11, Ridgeville; 12-14, Lynn; 15-17, Richmond,
Third St.
Clear, V. L.— 13, Sup. Goshen Ct.; 14, Goshen Ct.; 15-17, S. Milford.
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Cloud C A.— In Presbyterian Church, 97-01, Roann; 01-03, Sturgis Mich; 03-5,
Kdwardsbiirg, Mich.; 05-10, Sheldon, 111. N. Indiana Conf.: 10-12, Amboy;
r3-15, Syracuse; 16-17, Avilla.
Conwav G. L.— Ind. Conf.: 08, Sup. Butlerville;' 09-10, Yankeetown; 11, Ass't
pastor Evansville, Simpson; 12-13, Lynnville; 14, Ass't pastor Evansville,
St. James; 15, North Ind. Conf., Sept., Bobo; 16-17, Pleasant Mills.
Cook J B— 74 Liberty Mills; 75-6, Mt. Etna; 77, Galveston; 78-9, Point Isabel;
s'o-i New Waverlv; 82, Santa Fe; 83, Goldsmith; 84-5, Poneto; 86, Monroe;
87-8* Farmland; 89-92, Redkey; 93-5, Lapel; 96, Garrett; 97, Geneva; 98-01,
Albany Circuit; 02-4, Summitville; 05-6, Ossian; 07-8, Monroeville; 09-10,
Harlan; 11-13, Denver; 14-17, R.
Crafts, G. H.— Des Moines, 94-7. N. Indiana Conf.: 08-9, Swayzee; 10, South
Whitley; 11-12, Monroe; 13-17, Sy. .
Cremean, F. H.— 12-15, Ft. Wayne, St. Paul; 16-17, Upland.
Croxall, C. B.— West Wisconsin: 05-06, Mazomanie; 07 to April, 11, Lodi, North
Indiana Conf.; 11-14, Bristol; 15-16, Redkey; 17, Elkhart, St. Paul's.
Daly, W. T.— 10-15, North Webster; 16-17, Wolcottville.
Davis, E.— 85-6, Perkinsville; 87-9, Muncie Circuit; 90-1, Bunker Kill; 92-3, Cicero;
94-7, Albany Circuit; 98, New Burlington; 99, Pennville; 00-1, Macy; 02,
Warren; 03, Sn.; 04, Valentine; 05-6, Gilman; 07, New Waverly; 08-17, R.
De Bow, C. L. — 06-7, Corunna; 08-10, Wakarusa; 11-15, Ligonier; 16-17, LaGrange.
Detweiler, R. R. — 15-16, Corunna; 17, Bristol.
DeWitt, E. E.— 09-10, Fishers; 11-12, Shideler; 13-15, DeSoto; 16-17, Gaston.
Dickson, Edwin.— 02-5, Sup. McCordsville; 06-8, Sup. Noblesville, Ninth St.;
09-12, Leo; 13-17, Etna Green-.
Disbro, C. E. — 59, Lincoln; 60, Miami; 61, Alto; 62-3, Loc. Readmitted: 64-6,
Decatur; 67, Bluffton; 68-9, Cicero; 70-2, Alto; 73, Mexico; 74, Peru, St. Paul;
75-7, Huntington; 78-80, Lagrange; 81-4, Kokomo District; 85-7, Elkhart;
88-9, Portland; 90-4, Greentown; 95-7, Butler; 98-9, Sharpsville; 00-17, R.
Dougherty, C. B.— 05-6, Hoagland; 07, Orland; 08-10, Fremont; 11, Ossian; 12,
Selnia; 13, Sy. and Sup. Gaston 5 mos.; 13-15, Gaston; 16, Pendleton; 17, Eaton.
Dunbar, E. M.— 08-09, Sup. Woodburn; 10-11, Portland Circuit; 12-14, Geneva;
15, Pennville; 16, Pennville, 5 mos.; Fortville, 7 mos.; 17, Fortville.
Dunn, E. C— 98, 4 mos. Sup. Walton; 99, Sup. Walton; 00, Walton; 01-2, Center;
03-5, Santa Fe; 06-7, Russiaville; 08-15, Logansport, Wheatland Ave.; 16-17,
Alexandria.
Duryee, A. J.— 94, Sup. Butler Circuit; 95, Sup. Elkhart Circuit; 96-7, Elkhart
Circuit; 98, Wakarusa; 99, Etna Green; 00-1, Jolietville; 02, Forest; 03-5, Center;
06-8, Uniondale; 09-10, Liberty Mills; 11-12, Spartansburg; 13-15, Maxwell;
16, Mill Grove; 17, Kempton.
Edwards, John P.— Indiana ConL: 11-14, S., N. Indiana ConL; 15-17, Russiaville.
Edwards, L. M.— Indiana Conf.: 99-00, Milroy. N. Indiana Conf.: 01, Anderson,
Noble St., 6 mos.; 02, Anderson, Noble St., 5 mos.; 03-4, S.; 05, Noblesville,
Ninth .St.; 06, Westfield; 07, Westfield, 6 mos.; Ft. Wayne, Simpson, 6 mos.;
08, Ft. Wayne, Simpson; 09-11, Portland; 12-16, Mishawaka; 17, Tr. Baltimore.
Ervin, J. E.— 64, Portland and President Farmers' Academy; 65-6, Camden; 67,
Tipton; 68-9, Peru, Third St.; 70-2, Muncie; 73-4, KendallviUe; 75, Mishawaka;
76, Wabash; 77-8, Auburn; 79-80, Bluffton; 81-2, Ligonier; 83-4, Union City;
85-90, Kokomo District; 91, Union City; 92-3, Portland; 94-5, Angola; 96,
West Marion; 97-9, Pierceton; 00, South Whitley; 01-4, Cicero; 05-17. R.
Deceased Jan. 2, 1918.
Everson, C. J.— 03, Sup. De Soto 8 mos.; 04, Sup. Muncie, Normal City; 05-8,
Muncie, Normal City; 09, Anderson, Grace; 10-11, Summitville; 12-14, End.
Secy. Taylor University; 15-17, Financial Agt. Anti-Saloon League.
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Ewell, H. A. — Cincinnati Conf. : 73, Sup. Feesburg. Kentucky Conf. : 74-5, Asbury;
76-7, Crittenden. Nebraska Conf.: 78, South Bend; 79-80, Union; 81, Sutton;
82, Fairfield; 83, Auburn; 84-5, Sy.; 86, Clay Center; 87-8, Carleton; 89, Su-
perior; 9U-1, Fairfield. Central Illinois Conf.: 92-3, Verona; 94-5, Cornell; 96,
Lacon. N. Indiana Conf.: 97-8, Churubusco; 99, Lynn; 00-1, Fountain City;
02-3, Roann; 04-17, R.
Ferris, J. E.— 95, New Burlington; 96-7, Parker; 98, Perkinsville; 99, 5 mos.; Per-
kinsville, 7 mos.; Anderson, Noble St., 5 mos.; 00, Anderson, Noble St.; 01, 5
mos. Anderson, Noble St.; 02-3, Sy., Sup. Fernando, Cal.; 04, Arcadia, 6 mos.;
04-10, E. Central Africa Miss. Conf.: 04-5, Principal Umtali Academy; 06-7,
P. E. Old Umtali Dist.; 08-9, Principal Old Umtali Training School; N. Indiana
Conf., 10, Logan, Utah, 4 mos.; 10-13, Price Academy, Utah; 10-17, Benson,
Arizona, Teaching.
Fettro, J. T.— 78-9, Mt. Etna; 80-1, Warren; 82, New Burlington; 83-4, Pennville;
85-7, Upland; 88-9, Perkinsville; 90-2, Fortville; 93-4, Summitville; 95, West-
field; 96-7, Wolcottville; 98, Lima; 99, New Paris; 00-1, Leesburg; 02, Topeka;
03, Roanoke; 04-7, Andrews; 08-9, Larwill; 10, Pt. Isabel; 11-17, R.
Fisher, E. C— 06, Sup. Hillisburg; 07, Hillisburg; 08-9, Kempton; 10-12, Alto;
13-15, Hobbs; 16-17, Santa Fe.
Fisher, Fred B.— 02-03, Kokomo, North St.; 04-05, Agra, India; 06, S.; 07-09, First
Church, Boston; 10-11, Eastern Sec'y Board of Foreign Missions; 12-17, Gen.
Sec'y Laymen's Missionary Movement (150 Fifth Ave., New York).
Fischer, J. J. — W. Va. Conf.: 98, Sup. 3 mos., Milton. Indiana Conf.: 99, Evan-
gelist; N. W. Indiana Conf.: 00, Kingman; 01, Waveland; 02-03, Roachdale;
04, Crawfordsville Ct.; 05-6, Yountsville; 07-8, 10 mos. Jamestown; North
Indiana Conf.: 09, 10 mos. Roann; 10-11, Cicero and Arcadia; 12-14, Converse;
15-17, North Manchester.
Forbes, H. E. — 96-05, pastor in Friends' Church. N. Indiana Conf.: 06-7, Center;
08-9, Perkinsville; 10-11, Alexandria Ct.; 12-14, Carmel; 15-17, Albany Ct.
Foster, E. M.— 96-7, Spencerville; 98-00, Uniondale; 01-3, Coesse; 04-9, De Soto;
10-14, Sy.; 14, Sup. Hoagland, 6 mos.; 15, Coesse; 16, Hoagland, 6 mos.; Leo,
6 mos.; 17, Leo.
Freeh, T. F.— 85, Sup. Monroe; 86-7, Coesse; 88-9, Harlan; 90-1, Huntertown;
92, Wolcottville; 93, Albany Ct.; 94-5, Bristol; 96-7, Albion; 98-03, Butler;
04-6, Pendleton; 07, Wabash, Middle St.; 08-10, Anderson, Noble St.; 11, Eaton;
12-13, Goshen, St. Mark's; 14-17, R.
Fred, J. J.— 90-2, Spencerville; 93-4, Leo; 95, New Burlington; 96-7, Perkinsville;
98-9, Geneva; 00-1, Ossian; 02-5, Pennville; 06-7, Converse; 08-9, Wabash,
Wabash St.; 10-13, Swayzee; 14-17, Fairmount.
Freeland, W. B.— 93, Sup. Monroe; 94, Monroe and Bobo; 95-7, Larwill; 98-9, S.;
00-2, Farmland; 03-4, Fortville; 05-6, North Manchester; 07-9, Auburn; 10-11,
Mishawaka; 12-14, Richmond District; 15-17, Kokomo, Grace Church.
Fribley, F. E.— 11, Anderson, P. P. and Epworth; 12-14, S.; 15-16, Muncle, Avon-
dale; 17, LaFayette Student Pastor.
Garrison, George E. — Ind. Conf.: 05, Sup. Spade Ct.; 06, Sup. Wesley Chapel;
07-09, Acton; 10-11, Waverly; 12-13, Osgood; 14, 6 mos. Osgood. N. Indiana
Conf.: 6 mos. Galveston; 15-16, Galveston; 17, Macy.
Gillard, J. L.— Cent. N. Y. Conf.: 86, 4 mos. Sup. Fairville, N. Y.; 89, Sup. 8 mos.
Benton Center, N. Y.; 89-90, Shortsville and Manchester; 91-2, Pultneyville;
93-6, Middlesex and Vine Valley; 97-8, Burdette and Reynoldsville; 99-00,
Newfield and Trumbull's; 01-3, McGrawsville and Blodgett's Mills; 04-11,
Wolcott. N. Indiana Conf., 12-13, Elkhart, St. Paul; 14-15, Upland; 17,
Wabash, Wabash St.
Godwin, I. R.— 96-7, Roann; 98-01, Mexico; 02-4, Lynn; 05-8, Dublin; 09, Cicero;
10-12, Farmland; 13-14, Wolcottville; 15-16, Gas City; 17, Akron.
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Goueh H. B.— 00, Central Illinois and transferred to W. Africa Conf.: 01, Cent.
111.; 02-6, Cent III.; 07, Prof. DePauw University; 08-17, N. Ind., Prof. DePauw
University.
Graham. J. C— 04-5, Anderson, Park Place; 06-7, Muncie, Whitley and Daleville;
08-9, Richmond, Fifth St.; 10-13, Leesburg; 14-16, Goshen, St. Mark s; 17,
Albion.
Graham, M. B.— 02-4, Sup. Amboy; 05-7, Kempton; 08-9, Russiaville; 10-11,
Sharpsville; 12-14, Summitville; 15, Converse; 16-17, Lagro.
Greenwalt P. E.— 99, Sup. Charlestown Mission, W. Va. Conf. 02-3, Sup. North
Webster, N. Ind. Conf.: 04-5, Sup. Elkhart Circuit; 06, Leesburg; 07-9, Sar-
atoga; 10-14, Muncie, Madison St. Church; 15-17, Lapel.
Griest, W. A.— 95, Prof. Taylor University; 96, Ceylon; 97-8, Coesse; 99, New-
Burlington; 00, 6 mos. New Burlington, 6 mos. Muncie, Normal City; 01-2,
Muncie, Normal City; 03-6, Anderson, Indiana Ave.; 07-9, Pendleton; 10-14,
Ft. Wayne, Simpson Church; 15-16, Logansport, Market St.; 17, Elwood.
Grimes, Joseph.— Ind. Conf.: 09, Owensburg; 10-11, Prairie Creek; 12, Little York.
N. Ind. Conf.: Sept. 13-14, Decatur Ct.; 15, Geneva Ct.; 16-17, Coesse.
Grose, G. R.— New England Conf.: 96, Cherry Valley, Mass.; 97-00, Jamaica Plain,
Mass.; 01-05, Newton, Mass.; 06-07, Lynn, Mass. Baltimore Conf.: 08-12,
Baltimore, Grace; 12-17, President DePauw University.
Gruber, J. W.— Ind. Conf.: 06-7, New Washington; 08-9, Morgantown; 10-11,
Merom; 12-13, Dugger; Sept. 14, North Ind. Conf.: Huntertown; 15, Hunter-
town; 16, Marion, Ninth St.; 17, Hagerstown.
Guild, D. H.— 88-90, Philadelphia; 91, Sy.; 92-4, Marion, Grace Church; 95-6,
Kokomo, Markland Ave.; 97-01, Knightstown; 02, 6 mos. Knightstown, 6
mos. Warsaw; 03-7, Warsaw; 08-11, Wabash, First Church; 12-16, Ft. Wayne,
First Church; 17, Elkhart, Trinity.
Guild, T. M.— N. W. Indiana Conf.: 79-80, Harmony; 81, S.; 82, Hillsboro; 83-4,
Loc. N. Indiana Conf.: 85-7, Hagerstown; 88-9, Greentown; 90-1, Ligonier;
92-6, Elwood; 97-00, Auburn; 01-3, Huntington; 04-5, Marion, First Church;
06-11, Richmond District; 12-14, Peru; 15, Conf. Evangelist; 16, Conf. Evang.,
6 mos.; Wabash, First Church, 6 mos.; 17, Wabash, First.
Haddock, T. S.— 12, Sup. Salamonia; 13, Salamonia; 14-15, Millgrove; 16-17, S.
Haines, J. M.— 87-8, Atwood; 89-90, Poneto; 91-3, Monroeville; 94-6, Churubusco;
97-01, Garrett; 02-5, Warren; 06-7, Logansport, Market St.; 08, Eaton (nom-
inal) and Burket; Oct. 1, 09, Burket; 10, Conf. Evangelist; Nov. 15, 11, Mont-
pelier; 12-14, North Manchester; 15-17, Sy.
Hall, F. A.— 00, Sup. Hartford Citv Circuit; 01, Hartford City Circuit 5 mos., S.
7 mos.; 02-4, S.; (while in school. Sup. in N. W. Ind. ConL; 02-4, Bridgeport
and Ben Davis); 05-7, Alto: 08-12, Greentown; 13-15, Noblesville, First Church;
16-17, Auburn.
Hallman, E. C— 09, Sup. Millgrove; 10-12, Millgrove; 13, Lewisville; 14, Sy.;
15-17, Lynn.
Hamilton, W. E.— 00-1, Sup. Ingalls; 02, Sup. Kempton; 03-4, Kempton; 05-6,
New Waverly; 07-12, Santa Fe; 13-16, Windfall; 17, Ossian.
Hanger, J. W.— N. W. Ind. Conf.: 15, Trans.; 16-17, Frankton.
Harbour, O. V. L.— 82-4, Mt. Etna; 85-7, Liberty Mills; 88-9, Perrysville; 90-1,
Valentine; 92, Roann; 93-4, Lagro; 95-7, Russiaville; 98-00, Sheridan; 01-3,
Converse; 04-6, Fairmount; 07, Anderson, Indiana Ave.; 08-9, Sharpsville;
10-11, Geneva; 12-17, R.
Hardingham, M. L.— Oregon Conf.: 97-01, Gresham; 02-3, Fairview; 04-5, Gresham.
N Indiana Conf.: 05-6, 6 mos. Philadelphia; 06-9, Parker; 10-11, Richmond,
Fifth St.; 12, Cicero; 13-15, Arcadia; 16-17, South Whitley.
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Hardy, W. B.— North Dakota Conf.: 09, Sup. 6 mos. Bowdon; 09-10, Bowdon;
11, McKenzie, 18 mos.; 12-13, Douglas; 14, Underwood; 15, North Ind., Silver
Lake, Nov. 1.; 16, Warren Ct.; 17, York.
Hargitt, V. B.— Ind. Conf.: 01-2, Fairview; 03-4, Brooksburg; 05-7, Dillsboro; 08-10,
S. (while at Drew Sup. 08-9 Wande Memorial, 10, Asbury); 11, Fairland; 12-14,
Waldron, Oct. 1; 15, North Ind., Yorktown; 16-17, Selma.
Harlan, M. A.— 88-9, Williamsburg; 90-2, Middletown; 93-6, Logansport, Wheat-
land St.; 97-03, Portland; 04, Peru; 05-6, Auburn; 07-11, Field Agent Mem-
orial Home; 12, Union City (nominal); 13-17, Sy.
Harman, H. C. — Sept., 1887, received on trial in Conf.; Rock River Conf.:
1910-11, Chicago, Woodlawn Park; 12-13, Evanston, 111. North Ind. Conf.:
14-16, Richmond, First Church; 17, Goshen, First.
Harrison, W. H.— 09-10, Sims; 11-15, Marion, Ninth St.; 16-17, Yorktown.
Harter, S. F. — 91, Sup. 6 mos., Ridgeville; 92-3, Sup. Trenton; 94, Sup. Kennard;
95, Kennard; 96-8. Philadelphia; 99-02, Williamsburg; 03-4, Ridgeville, 05-7,
Poneto; 08-10, Mentone; 11-12, Windfall; 13-14, Russiaville; 15-17, Waterloo.
Hartman, Emory A. — G8, Sup. in Kansas Conf., 6 mos.; 09-10, Soldier; Trans.
Mich. Conf.; 11, Parma; 12-13, Sy. N. Indiana Conf.; 14, Corunna; 15, Sims;
16, Mount Etna; 17, Warren Ct., Resigned at Conf.
Hartley, U. S.— 07, Ind. Conf.; 07-15, Ind. Conf.; 16, N. Ind. Conf.; 16-17, Hobbs.
Hasty, E. F. — 59, Cambridge City: 60, Cambridge City and Centerville; 61, Hunt-
ington; 62-3, Kendallville; 64, Warsaw; 65-6, Goshen; 67-8, Noblesville; 69-70,
Marion; 71, Mishawaka; 72, Mishawaka 3 mos., Richmond, Central Church,
9 mos.; 73, Pendleton; 74-5, Knightstown; 76-7, Muncie; 78-81, Muncie Dis-
trict; 82-4, Elkhart; 85, Mishawaka; 86-9. Ligonier; 90-1, Tipton; 92-3, Union
City; 94-8, Pendleton; 99-05, Gen. Sec. Preachers' Aid Society; 06-17, R.
Hickman, F. S.— 11-12, Fremont; 13-17, S.
Hile, C. A.— 05-6, Sims; 07-8, Philadelphia; 09-10, Burket; 11-14, Uniondale; 15-17,
Howe.
Hill, G. H.— 70-1, Bristol; 72-81, Kansas Conf. N. Indiana Conf.: 82, Mexico; 83-5,
South Whitley; 86, Bourbon; 87-91, Huntington; 92-6, Muncie, High St.; 97-9,
Richmond, Grace Church; 00-5, Richmond District; 06, Bluffton . (nominal) ;
07, North Manchester; 08-17, R.
Hill, T. M.— 02, Sup. Liberty Mills; 03-4, Burket; 05-7, Akron; 08-9, Pennvllle;
10, Pennville 2 mos.. Ft. Wayne, Trinity, 10 mos.; 11-15, Ft. Wayne, Trinity;
16-17, Ligonier.
Hirsch, A. H. — 01, Upper Iowa Conf.: Sept., 09, N. Indiana Conf., Centerville;
10, Centerville; 11, S.; 12-14, Professor Ursinas College; 15-16, Sy.; 17, Professor
History Morningside College.
Hobbs, C. M.— 99, Sup. Wolf Lake; 00-1, Wolf Lake; 02-5, Swayzee; 06, Roanoke;
07, Roanoke 9 mos.. Ft. Wayne, St. Paul, 3 mos.; 08-9, Ft. Wayne, St. Paul;
09, Dublin, Oct. 1st; 10-11, Dublin; 12-14, Albany Ct.; 15-17, Carmel.
Hochstedler, J. O.— 11, Bobo, 6 mos.; 12-13, Bobo; 14-15, S.; 16-17, Mongo.
Hogan, A. F.— Ind. Conf.: 03-4, Sup. Raglesville; 05-6, Sup. Middletown; 07, Ind.
Conf., S.; 08-10, Sanborn; 11-12, Shelburn; 13-14, Princeton; 15 to Oct., 16,
Brownstown; Trans. No. Ind., 16, 6 mos., Pennville; 17, Pennville.
Hogan, W. E.— Ind. Conf.: Sept. 06-7, Sup. Merom; 08, Sup. Newberry; 09-10,
Washington. N. Ind. Conf.: 11-12, Valentine; 13-15, Inwood; 16-17, Syracuse.
HoUoDcter, B. S.— 86-8, Poneto; 89-90, Monroeville; 91-3, Churubusco; 94-6, Selma;
97-9, Montpelier; 00-4, Noblesville; 05-6, Logansport, Broadway; 07-12, Wabash
District; 13-17, Logansport District.
Hollopeter, C. M.— 88-9, Geneva; 90-2, Coesse; 93-7, Roanoke; 98-9, Ossian; 00-1,
1^' Sharpsville; 02-5, Albany Circuit; 06, Gaston; 07-8, New Burhngton; 09-11,
Selma; 12-15, Monroeville; 16-17, Sy.
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TJT u * w TV/r— nn Suo Tooeka 7 mos.; 01-2, Wakarusa; 03-7, Avilla; 08-10,
""""^fStt^ile^ll. BouZ^^ Cambridge City; 15-16, Ander-
son, Noble St.; 17, Anderson, Noble St. 4^ mos.; Resigned.
Homer, H. A.-09-10, S.; 11-12, Pt. Isabel; 13-15, Lagro; 16-17, Converse.
Hoover. A. C.-08-9, Sup. New Waverly; 10, New Waverly 6 mos. S. 6 mos. Sup.
Gilerd; 11, Sup. Gilead; 12, Miami-Bennett's; 13, Geneva Ct.; 14-16, Hillis-
burg; 17, Hillisburg 6 mos., U. S. A. 6 mos.
Hornaday, B. F.-W. Nebraska Conf.: 97, Sup. Kimball; 98 Kimball; 99 Grant;
00 Wallace. N. Indiana Conf.; 01-2 Shirley; 03, Cannel; 04-5, Hartford City
Ct.; 06-8, Leo; 09-10, Poneto; 11-12, Etna Green; 13-16, Orland; 17, Hamilton.
Hubbartt G F — 05, Sup. Indianapolis, Riverside Park, Indiana Conf.; 06-7,
Riverside Park, Indianapolis; 08-9, Advance; 10, North Judson 6 mos. N.
Indiana Conf., March 9, 1911; 11-12, Waterloo; 13-17, Pierceton.
Huddleston, Leroy.-08, 6 mos. Sup. Fisher; 09, Sup. Ingalls; 10-11, Perkinsville;
12-13, Philadelphia; 14, Matthews; 15-16, Fountain City; 17, Uniondaie.
Huffman W A.— 12, Sup. Terre Haute, Smith Park, 7 mos.; 13-14, Elkhart, Simp-
son Memorial; 15, S.; 16, Sy.; 17, Withdrawn.
Hughes G. E.— Ohio Conference: 06-7, Zanesville, Trinity; 07-9, McArthur; 09-11
Baltimore and Basil. Illinois Conference: 11, to Sept., 12, Middleton. North
Indiana Conf.: 12-14, Andrews; 15-16, Akron; 17, LaFontaine.
Hunt C. A.— 04, Sup. Gaston Circuit; 05-6, Fisher; 07-9, Sy.; 10, Miss. Arizona;
11-17, Sy.
Ice L H.— Ind. Conf.: 07, S.; 08, Francisco; 09-10, Lynnville; 11-14, Blue Grass;
' 15, Clay City, to Oct., 16, Trans. N. Ind.; 16, Andrews, 6 mos.; 17, Andrews.
Imler, E. D.— 12-13, Marion, Highland Ave.; 14-15, S.; 16, Twelve Mile; 17, Ar-
cadia.
Jacobs, L. G.— 09, Sup. Twelve Mile; 10-11, Twelve Mile; 12-13, Roann; 14-16,
Denver; 17, Sharpsville.
Johnson, F. P. — 04, Sup. Oak Grove Circuit; 05, Oak Grove Circuit; 06-7, Wood-
burn; 08, Hudson; 09-10, Hoagland; 11-13, Coesse; 14, Center; 15, Sy.; 16-17,
Churubusco.
Johnson, H. M.— 92, Valentine; 93, Pierceton; 94-5, Ft. Wayne, Trinity; 96, Fair-
mount; 97, Anderson, Indiana Ave.; 98-02, Sy.; 03-17, R.
Johnson, R. V— N. W. Ind.: 08, Sup. Mecca; 09, Sup. Yountsville; 10, Sup. King-
man; 11-13, Kingman; 14-15, Lake Side, Lynn. N. Ind. Conf.: 16, Dec. 31,
Sup. Kokomo, Main St.; 17, Milford.
Johnson, J. T.— 93-6, Galveston; 97-00, Ft. Wayne, Simpson; 01-2, Gas City; 03-5,
Union City; 06-9, Gen. Sec. P. A. S.; 10, Sy.; 11, Muncie-Whitley; 12, Sec.
Home Circle Bible Study; 13-15, Muncie, Normal City; 16, Conf. Evang.;
17, Financial Secretary Methodist Hospital.
Jones, B. E.— 07-8, Ingalls; 09-11, Jolietville; 12-13, Alexandria Ct.; 14-17, Per-
kinsville.
Jones, D. S.— 93-4, Macy; 95-6, Inwood; 97-8, Lagro; 99-00, Silver Lake; 01-3,
Larwill; 04-5, Roanoke; 06, Pierceton; 07-8, Bourbon; 09-10, Topeka; 11-14,
Anderson, Noble St.; 15-17, Muncie, Madison St.
Jones, E. L. — 93, Sup. Centerville; 95, Kitt Circuit; 96, Ingalls; 97, Yorktown;
98-9, Sup. Yorktown; 00-2, Yorktown; 03-6, Sy.; 07-8, Monroe; 09-10, Ossian;
11-17, Supt. Memorial Home.
Jones, J. I. — 09-17, Missionary to Japan.
Jones, Richard. — Wilmington Conf.: 72, Fruitland, Md.; 73, Gumboro, Del.; 74-6,
Onancock, Va.; 77-8, Princess Anne, Md.; 79-81, Bridgeport, Del.; 82-4, Port
Deposit, Md.; 85-7, Wilmington, Del.; Mt. Salem; 88-90, Odessa, Del.; 91,
Scaford, Del.; 92-3, Sy. N. Indiana Conf.: 93-4, Anderson Circuit; 95, Perkins-
ville; 96-00, Lapel; 01-3, Lagrange; 04-5, Middletown; 06-8, Gas City; 09,
Ft. Wayne, Simpson; 10-14, Knightstown; 15-17, Cambridge City.
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Jordan, J. M.— 14-16, S.; 17, Osceola.
Kemper, F. M.— 92, Mt. Etna; 93-5, Marion Circuit; 96-9, Angola; 00-1, Rich-
mond, Grace Church; 02-3, Wabash, First Church; 04, Wabash, First Church,
5 mos. Trans, to St. John's River Conf., Sept. 1, 04, Jacksonville, Fla.; 05,
Jacksonville. N. Indiana Conf.: 06, Mishawaka; Sept. 1st, resigned; 07, War-
saw (nominal); 08-17, R.
Kemper, L. W.— 08, Sup. York; 09, York; Sept. 10th, S. N. W. Ind. Conf.: 10,
Carbon. N. Ind. Conf.: 12-14, South Milford; 15-17, Fremont.
Kendall, B. — 04, Sup. Butler Circuit 6 mos.; 05, Corunna; 06-7, Valentine; 08-9,
South Whitley; 10-13, Fairmount; 14-16, Dunkirk; 17, Tipton.
Kenna, A. H. — 08, Sup. Richmond, Third Church; 09, Richmond, Third Church;
10, S.; 11, Deerfield; 12, Deerfield 6 mos., S. 6 mos.; 13, Deerf^eld; 14-17, S.
Kennedy, E. H. — In the Wesleyan Methodist Church: 94, 4 mos. Sup. Larwill;
94, Plymouth Mission; 95-6, Plymouth; 97-8, North Liberty; 99-03, Amboy;
04-5, New Santa Fe; 06-8, Carthage; 09-11, Mt. Etna. Sept., 12, N. Ind. Conf.,
M. E. Church, Sup. Macy; 13-16, Macy; 17, Amboy.
Krider, L. M.— 85-7, Wabash Ct.; 88-9, Lagro; 90-1, Marion, Second Church; 92-3,
Angola; 94-6, Portland; 97-8, Elwood; 99-00, Hartford City; 01-4, Auburn;
05-8, Noblesville, First Church; 09-11, Alexandria; 12, Gas City; 13-15, Green-
town; 16-17, Ft. Wayne, St. Paul's.
Lacy, F. M.— 88-9, Anderson Circuit; 90-4, Perkinsville; 95-8, Fortville; 99-01,
Cambridge City; 02-4, Ossian; 05-7, Summitville; 08-10, Eaton; 11-13, Dun-
kirk; 14-15, Swayzee; 16, R. 17, R. and Sup. Ekin.
Lacy, H.— 91-2, Sup. Eaton; 93-4, Cadiz; 95-6', Williamsburg; 97-9, Ridgeville;
00-1, Lynn; 02-4, Mexico; 05-6, Denver; 07, Forest; 08-10, Wawaka; 11-12,
Poneto; 13, Huntertown; 14-17, Portland Ct.
Lamport, A. L.— 86-8, Orland; 89-90, Bristol; 91-4, Garrett, 95, Sy.; 96-11, Sn.;
11, Sup. Avilla 7 mos.; 12-14, Avilla; 15-16, New Paris; 17, Goshen, St. Marks.
Laslie, R. T.— Sup. Kentucky Conf., 98-9, Grays; 00 to Sept., Grays; 01-2, Grant;
03-4, Greentown. Trans, to Indiana Conf.: 04-5, Mauckport; 06-7, Pekin;
07-8, Newtonville. Trans, to N. Indiana Conf.: 09, Forest; 10-11, Milford
and Clunette; 12, Orland; 13, Kennard; 14-17, R.
Launer, F. W. — Evangelical Association; 14-15, Lancaster, 111.; 16, Culver, 6 mos.;
16, Sup. Mexico, 6 mos.; 17, Mexico.
Lawburgh, J. C. — Ind. Conf.: 07, Grandview; 08, Ass't pastor Rockport 6 mos.,
Newburg, 6 mos.; 09, Newburg; 10-13, Poseyville; N. Ind., 14-16, Churubusco;
17, located at own request.
Leese, A. E.— Detroit Conf.: 10, Rogers City; 11, Wolverine; 12-14, S. (While in
school. Sup. 13, Leicester, Mass.; 14, West Chelmsford, Mass.) Trans. N.
Indiana; 15-16, Richland Chapel; 17, Galveston.
Leach, P. B. — Reed, from Methodist Protestant Church; 16, Sup. Decatur Ct.;
17, Decatur Ct.
Le Master, F. A.— 06-8, Mexico; 09-12, Frankton; 13-15, Markle; 16-17, Kendallville.
Lester, M. O.— 08, Ind. Conf., Sup.; 08-9, in N. W. Ind. Conf., Fontanett; 10-11,
Ind. Conf., Cloverdale; 12, N. E. Southern, Fall River, Mass., 2 mos.; 13-14,
South Yarmouth, Mass.; 15, Trans. Cal. Conf., Carmel, 5 mos., Wesley, San
Francisco, 7 mos., Sept. 24; 16, Trans. No. Ind., LaFontaine; 7 mos., 17, Warren.
Liddle, H. L.— Ind. Conf.: 99-01, Sup. Manchester; 01-2, Versailles; 03-5, Hartford
Ct.; 06-8, Kent; 09, S. N. Ind. Conf.: 10-11, Boxley; 12-14, Goldsmith; 15-16,
Walton; 17, Walton 7 mos., Swayzee 5 mos.
Light, S.— 82-3, Nappanee; 84-5, Middlebury; 86-7, S.; 88, Bristol; 89, Knights-
town; 90, Milwaukee, Wis., and Goshen, Fifth Ave.; 91-5, Warsaw; 96, Wabash;
97-00, Bluffton; 01-5, Elkhart; 06-8, Marion, First Church; 09-14, Goshen
District; 15-17, Richmond District.
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t:„„ r TT— S F Indiana Conf.: 80-1, Delaware; 82-4, Flatrock; 85, Taylorville;
S6 7 Irvinlnon 88-9 S^^Sup. Franklin 6 mos.); 89-90,,North Vernon; 91-2,
MooVes HUL N. W. Kansas Conf.: 92-7, Salina. Minnesota Conf.: 97 Man-
ka?o N Ind Conf.: 98, Union City; 99-01, Alexandria; 02-3, Field Agt.
DcFauw University; 04-8, Portland; 09, Greenfield; 10-15, Muncie District;
16-17, Noblesville.
Love, A. K— 14, Sup. Woodburn; 15-16, Woodburn; 17, Woodburn.
Loveless, W. E.— 02, Sup. Ingalls; 03-4, Sup. Shideler; 05, Sup. Woodburn; 06-7,
Shirley; 08-10, Maxwell; 11-13, Wawaka; 14-16, Osceola; 17, Inwood.
Lowther, A. W.— West Virginia Conf.: 87-9, Letart and Leon. Cent 111 Conf.:
90-1 Deer Creek and Mackinaw; 92-3, Dana and Rutland; 94-5, London
Mills and Hermon; 96-7, KnoxviUe; 98-01, Peoria; 02-4, Onarga; 05-9, Dwight;
10-12, Fairbury. Ind. Conf.: 13-14, Columbus. North Ind.: 15-17, Logans-
port, Broadway.
Lutes E. K— 00, Sup. Liberty Mills; 01, Liberty Mills; 02-3, Akron; 04-5, Mt.
Etna; 06-7, South Whitley; 08-11, Andrews; 11, Andrews 6 mos.; Jonesboro 6
m6s.;'l2-14, Jonesboro; 15-17, Westfield.
Lutey, J. F.— 04, Sup. Goldsmith 6 mos.; 05, Sup. Goldsmith; 06, Goldsmith; 07-9,
Denver; 10-12, Russiaville; 13-14, Selma; 15-17, Geneva.
Magor, E. J.— 94-5, Ingalls; 96-9, Poneto; 00-1, Avilla; 02-5, Pierceton; 06-7, Sway-
zee; 08, Orland; 09, Westfield; 10, Westfield 6 mos.; in Wyoming Miss., 6 mos.;
11-14, Wyoming Miss.; 15-17, Miss., Salt Lake City.
Marble, M. S.— 82, Sup. Lima and Van Buren from July 14; 83, Lewisville and
Ogden; 84, Orland; 85-7, Albion; 88-91, North Manchester; 92-4, Ft. Wayne,
Berry St.; 95-00, Kokomo District; 01, Wabash, First Church; 02-4, Richmond,
Grace Church; 05-7, Upland; 08-11, Angola; 12, 2 mos. Montpelier, 10 mos.
Logansport District; 13-17, Wabash District.
Martin, G. W. — 96-9, Sup. Hartford City Circuit; 00-1, Sup. Anderson, Madison
Ave.; 02, Sup. Gaston Circuit; 03, Sup. Muncie, Avondale; 04-6, Monroeville;
07-8, Ossian; 09, Conf. Evangelist; 10, Conf. Evangelist, Oct. 1st, Economy;
11-13, Economy; 14-17, Middlebury.
Martin, O. T.— N. W. Ind.: 06, Sup. Crawford; 07, Yountsville; 08, Waynetown;
09, 10 (6 mos.), N. Eng. Conf., Topsfield, Mass.; N. Ind., 11-15, Mentone;
16-17, Greentown.
Martin, W. W.— 92, Sup. Westfield; 93-5, Alto; 96, Alto 1 mo., Tipton 11 mos.;
97-8, Tipton; 99-00, Converse; 01-4, Ligonier; 05-8, Greenfield; 09-10,- BlufTton;
11-15, Muncie, High St.; 16-17, Ft. Wayne District.
Maupin, E. J.— 06-8, Jolietville; 09-12, New Burlington; 13-15, Leo; 16, Leo, 6 mos.;
Bluffton Ct., 6 mos.; 17 Bluffton Ct.
McCarty, W. E. — 59, Hartford City; 60, Jonesboro; 61, Cadiz; 62, Hagerstown,
63, Middletown; 64-5, Charlottesville; 66-7, Fortville; 68-70, Huntington; 71,
Peru, Main St.; 72, Jonesboro, 6 mos.; 73-4, Angola; 75-7, Decatur; 78, Austin,
Tex., Central College Ave. Church; 79, Wabash Circuit; 80, Pierceton; 81-2,
Garrett; 83, Sy.; 84, Sn. (83-4, Sup. Allegan, Mich.); 85, Huntertown; 86,
Wawaka; 87-9, Sn.; 90, Windfall; 91, Sharpsville; 92, Westfield; 93-01, Sn.
and in 98-00 Sup. Richmond, Third Church; 02, Leo; 03-4, Hoagland; 05-7.
Portland Circuit; 08-17, R.
McDaniel, J. W.— 72, Camden; 73-5, New Burlington; 76, Cadiz; 77, Eden; 78,
Ridgeville; 79-81, Pennville; 82-4, Trenton; 85-6, Santa Fe; 87-9, Point Isabel;
90 Sy.; 91-17, R.
McFarlane, H. E.— 97-04, Sup. Maine Conf.; 04-10, W.' Nebraska Conf.; June, 10,
N. Ind. Conf., Kenipton; 11, Macy; 12-13, Richmond, Fifth; 14-17, R.
McNary, J. H.— S. Kansas Conf.: 89-90, Fontana; 91, Greeley; 92, Greeley 7 mos.
Cincinnati Conf.: Sept. 1, 92-4, Blanchester; 95-6, Monroe; 97, Arcanum; 98-9,
Goshen; 00-1, Bowersville; 02-3, Clarksville; 04, Clarksville 7 mos. N. Indiana
Conf.: 05-7, Shideler; 08, Poneto; 09-10, Monroe; 11-15, R.; 16-17, Burkett.
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McPheeters, W. E. — 08, Ind. Conf.; 14, Miami;"15, Sheridan; 16, Sheridan, 5 mos.,
S. ; 17, Professor Wesleyan University.
Megenity, E. B. — 09, Ind. Conf.; 17, Trans. N. Ind. Conf., Kokomo, Beamer.
Miller, S. C— 67, Portland; 68, Winchester; 69, Camden; 70, Marion Circuit; 71-2,
Wolcottville; 73, Agent Ft. Wayne College; 74, New Waverly; 75, North
Muncie; 76, Eaton; 77-97, Sy.; 98-17, R.
Modlin, C. A.— S. 111. Conf.: 06, Sup. DuQuoin; 07, DuQuoin; 08, Carbondale,
Grace; 09-10, Coffeen; 11, Hamburg. Sept., 12, N. Ind. Conf.; 12-13, Kempton;
14-15, Burket; 16, Marion, Highland Ave.; 17, Located at his own request.
Montgomery, C. W. — 12-16, Boxley; 17, Roann.
Morris, F. P. — N. W. Indiana Conf.: 96, Brazil, Sup. Oxford. N. Indiana Conf.:
98-9, Kempton; 00, Arcadia; 01-2, S.; 03, Arcadia; 04-6, Muncie, Madison St.;
07-9, Dunkirk; 10-13, Newcastle; 14-15, Winchester; 16-17, Markle.
Morrison, R. A.— U. B. Church; 95-98, S.; 99, Miss. Africa; 00, S.; 01-2, Hunting-
ton, Cent. College Church; 03-8, Presiding Elder, White River Conf. Sept.,
08, Sup. Hamilton 7 mos. N. Ind. Conf., 09-11, Hamilton; 12-13, Upland;
14-16, Elkhart, St. Paul; 17, Gen. Sec. Preachers' Aid.
Murr, J. L.— N. W. Neb. Conf.: 93-4, Sup. Boxbutte; 95, Crookston; 96, Tilford,
S. D.; 97-8, Beulah, Wyo. Ind. Conf.: 99-00, S.; 01, Sup. Cataract; 02-3, Sup.
Bedford Ct. W. Neb. Conf.: 04, Danbury; 05-8, Upland; 09, Trenton. N.
Ind. Conf.: 10, Roann; 11-12, DeSoto; 13-15, New Burlington; 16, Anderson,
Indiana Ave.; 17, Anderson, Indiana Ave. 5 mos., Middletown, 7 mos.
Murray, C. H.— 81, Sup. Geneva; 82, Geneva; 83, New Haven; 84, Markle; 85,
Ft. Wayne, Trinity; 86, Elkhart Circuit; 87-9, Milford; 90-2, New Paris; 93,
Wolcottville; 04-7, Osceola; 98-01, Albion; 02-4, Middlebury; 05-6, Waterloo;
07-9, Leesburg; 10, Muncie, W^hitely, and Daleville; 11-17, R.
Murray, J. C. — 81, Sup. lyi. mos. Knightstown; 82-3, Knightstown; 84-5, Win-
chester; 86-04, Prof. Gammon Theological Seminary; 05, Cicero; 06-7, Lig-
onier; 08-9, Lagrange; 10, Dunkirk; 11, Yorktown 7 mos., Supt. G. O. Robin-
son Orphanage, Porto Rico; 12-17, Supt. P. R.
Murray, W. E.— 87-^8, Sheldon; 89, S.; 90-1, Perrysburg; 92-3, Middlebury; 94-6,
. Monroeville; 97-00, Huntertown; 01, Hoagland; 02-5, Churubusco; 06-7,
LaFontaine; 08-10, Van Buren; 11-12, Fortville; 13-14, Huntington Ct.; 15,
Sy.; 16-17, Huntington Ct.
Myers, G. H.— N. W. Ind. Conf.: 91, Carpentersville; 92, Whitestown; 93-5, S.
Central New York Conf.: 92, Sup. Eaton. New England Conf.: 94-5, Sup.
Walpole. N. Indiana Conf.: 96, Anderson Circuit; 97-8, Gaston; 99-02, Fort-
ville; 03-4, Upland; 05-7, Butler; 08-9, Montpelier; 10, Montpelier 7 mos.;
Nov. 1st, Ass't Financial Secretary DePauw University; 11, Ass't F. S. D. P. U.;
12-16, F. S. 111. Wesleyan University; 17, Sec. Educational Jubilee, Board of
Education.
Myers, LeRoy.— 08, Sup. Center; 09-11, Center; 12-13, Amboy; 14, Richland; 15-17,
Goldsmith.
Naftzger, Earle.— 95, Sup. Anderson, Noble St.; 96-7, Centerville; 98-01, Char-
lottesville; 02-5, Logansport, Market St.; 06-8, Hartford City, Grace. 09-11,
Puget Sound Conf., Bellingham, Trinit5' Ch.; 12-13, Columbia River Conf.,
Spokane, Vincent Church. N. Ind. Conf.: 13-15, Wabash, First Church; 16,
Wabash, First Church, 6 mos.; Evangelist 6 mos; 17, Conf. Evangelist.
Naftzger, L. J. — Dec. 77-8, Sup. Middletown; 78, Sup. Kempton; 79-80, Kempton;
81-3, Bunker Hill; 84-6, Logansport, Market St.; 87-91, Lagrange; 92-6, Rich-
mond, Grace Church; 97-00, Muncie, High St.; 01-3, Kokomo, Grace Church;
04-9, Muncie District; 10-12, Greenfield; 13-16, Union City; 17, Warsaw, First.
Neal, A. G.— 89-90, Alto; 91-6, Hagerstown; 97-9, Richmond, Fifth St.; 00-3, Angola;
04-8, Alexandria; 09-16, Warsaw; 17, Ft. Wayne, First.
Newcombe, J. S.— 06, Sup. Oak Grove 6 mos.; 07-8, Hoagland; 09-12, Albion; 13-14,
Sheridan; 15, Wabash, Middle St.; 17, Mentone.
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Nickerson H. S.— 02, Sup. Lebanon, Centenary Church 4 mos Cannelton 3
mos 03 Sup. KnightsviUe. Indiana Conf.; 04-6, Sup. Port Golden New Jersey
CoSf' N Ind Conf.: 06, Ft. Wayne, St. Paul; 07, Ft. Wayne, St. Paul, 9 mos.,
Fairmount 3 mos.; 08-9, Fairmount; 10-11, Wabash, Wabash St.; 12-15, Angola;
17, Winchester.
Norris S C —89-90, Mexico; 91-92, Andrews; 93-97, Ossian; 98-02, Roanoke; 03-4,
Frankton; 05-10, Macy; 11-17, R.
Oborn J W — 90 Kokomo Circuit; 91, Pendleton Circuit; 92, Anderson Circuit;
9S Anderson Ass't; 94, Anderson, Noble St.; 95, Fairmount; 96-7, S.; 97, 6
mos Anderson, Madison Ave.; 98, Anderson, Madison Ave.; 99-00, Gas City;
01-2, Dunkirk; 03-4, Nappanee; 05, Ligonier; 06-16, Conf. Evangelist; 17,
Conf. Evangelist, Sup. New Paris 3 mos.
O'Connor, J. B.— W. Wis.: 08, Sup. Strong's Prairie; 09, Sup. Valley June; 10,
Kendall; 11, Argylc, 9 mos., N. Indiana Conf., June 11, Galveston; 12-13,
Saratoga; 14, Philadelphia; 15, Philadelphia, 6 mos., S. 6 mos.; 16, S.; 17,
Centerville.
Osbun, G. F.— 99-00, Warren; 01-2, Burket; 03-5, Uniondale; 06-7, Boxley; 08-9,
Alto; 10-12, Matthews; 13-16, Shideler; 17, Hartford City Ct.
Overdeer, H. L.— Illinois Conf.: 05, Waggoner; 06, Blufifs; 07, Bluffs, 1 mo. N.
Indiana Conf.: Farmland 6 mos.; 08-9, Farmland; 10-12, Wabash, Middle St.
Church; 13-14, Logansport, Market St.; 15-16, Ft. Wayne, Simpson St.; 17,
Richmond, Grace.
Palmer J. H. — Brethren Church: 86, Pioneer, Ohio; 87-90, S.; 91-98, Evangelistic
work. N. W. Ind. Conf.: 99, Kingman; 00-2, Colfax; 03-6, Covington; 07,
Plymouth; 08 to April, 10, East Chicago. N. Indiana Conf.: 10-11, North
Manchester; 12, Alexandria; 13-14, Frankton; 15-17, Albany.
Park, H. W.— Ind. Conf.: 02-6, Sup.; 06-7, Elizabethtown; 07-8, E. Columbus and
Walcsboro; 08, 6 mos. N. Indiana Conf.; 09-12, Mt. Etna; 13-14, Silver Lake;
15, Avilla; 17, Tippecanoe.
Parker, B. E.— 00, Sup. Ashley 10 mos.; 01, Sup. Ashley; 02, Ashley 4 mos.; 03,
S. 8 mos.. Sup. Orland 4 mos.; 04, Coesse; 05-7, Wakarusa; 08-9, Nappanee;
10-11, Hartford City; 12-13, Richmond, First; 14, Richmond, First, 6 mos.;
Marion, First, 6 mos.; 15-16, Marion, First Church; 17, Mishawaka.
Parr, W. D.— 78, Ft. Wayne, Third St.; 79-81, Westfield; 82-4, Cambridge City;
85-7, Waterloo; 88-92, Elkhart; 93-7-, Kokomo, Mulberry St.; 98-00, Ft. Wayne,
Wayne St.; 01, Kokomo District 9 mos., Ass't Sec. Bd. Ch. Ex. 3 mos.; 02-5,
Ass't Sec. Bd. Ch. Ex.; 06-10, Kokomo, Grace (nominal); 11-17, Conf. Sec.
Ch. Ex.
Paschall, J. W.— 76-7, BlufTton; 78, Areola; 79-80, Hamilton; 81-2, Corunna; 83-5,
Wawaka; 86-7, Bristol; 88-90, Cambridge City; 91-2, Galveston; 93-4, Ft.
Wayne, St. Paul; 95-6, Ft. Wayne, Simpson; 97, Greentown; 98, Bunker Hill;
99-01, Sn., Sup. Goshen, Fifth Ave., 8 mos.; 02, Goshen, Fifth Ave.; 03-17,
R. Deceased June 7, 1917.
Patterson, A. M.— 74, Albany; 75, Huntsville; 76, Trenton; 77-9, New Burlington;
80-2, Boxley; 83-4, Walton; 85-7, Sharpsville; 88-9, Charlottesville; 90, Cadiz;
91-2, Macy; 93-4, Mexico; 95-6, North Webster; 97, Warsaw Circuit; 98-9,
Santa Fe; 00-17, R. Deceased Jan. 23, 1918.
Patterson, J. A.— 91-2, N. W. Indiana Conf. N. Indiana Conf.: 93-5, Denver;
96-8, Bourbon; 99-00, Wabash, Wabash St.; 01, Ft. Wayne, Simpson; 02-4,
Garrett; 05, Lapel; 06-8, Middletown to Nov. 1st; Jan. 1, 09, Westfield; 09,
Ridgevi«e; 10-12, Albany; 13-16, Eaton; 17, Pendleton.
Peck, W.— 67, Alto; 68-9, Boxley; 70-1, Jerome; 72, Westfield; 73, Carmel; 74-5,
Alexandria; 75-7, Walton; 78-9, New Waverly; 80-1, Trenton; 82, Middletown;
83-4, Williamsburg; 85-7, Philadelphia; 88, Hagerstown; 89-91, Spiceland;
92-3, Yorktown; 94-17, R.
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Peirce, M. R.— 83-7, W. Nebraska Conf. N. Indiana Conf.: 88-91, Corunna; 92-6,
Leesburg; 97-9, Mentone; 00, Sy.; 01, Cadiz; 02-4, Fountain City; 05-6, Char-
lottesville; 07, Middlebury; 08-10, Bristol; 11, Saratoga; 12, Galveston; 13-14,
Hagerstown; 15, McCordsville; 16, R. and Sup. Willow Branch 5 mos.; 17, R.
and Sup. Charlottesville 7 mos.
Peirce, W. H.— 67-9, Jonesboro; 70-2, Dunkirk; 73-5, Eaton; 76-8, Selma; 79-80
Fountain City; 81-6, Sy.; 87, Selma; 88-90, Sy.; 91-4, Farmland; 95-9, Middle-
town; 00-2, Dublin; 03-4, Richmond, Third Church; 05-6, Hagerstown; 07,
Sn. (Sup. Hagerstown); 08-9, Sn. (Sup. Muncie, Whitely, and Daleville); 10,
Sn. (Sup. De Soto); 11-17, R.
Pell, M.— 92, Sup. Milford and Syracuse; 93, Milford; 94-8, Gas City; 99-00, Fair-
mount; 01-4, Lapel; 05-7, Van Buren; 08, Marion, Ninth St. and Home Park-
09-10, Fortville; 11-15, Kendallville; 16-17, Angola.
Pfeifer, L. P.— 96, 6 mos. Sup. Kennard; 97, Kennard; 98-00, Spiceland; 01-3,
Philadelphia; 04-5, Parker; 06, Sy. (Sup. Salamonia); 07-8, Salamonia; 09-13,'
Sy. (10, Sup. Salamonia, 5 mos.); 11, Sup. Salamonia 6 mos.; 13, Sy. ; 14, R.;
15-16, Centerville; 17, Saratoga.
Phillips, John. — Indiana Conf.: 91, Marengo; 92-4, Francisco; 95-6, New Albany.
Kentuckv Conf.: 97-8, Louisville; 99, Sy.; 00, Woodsonville. Cincinnati Conf.:
01, Branch Hill; 02, Felicity; 03-4, Peebles; 05-7, Moscow. N. Indiana Conf •
08-10, Shirley; 11-12, Spiceland; 13-17, Monroe.
Phillips, J. S.— New England Conf.: 13, Sup. Walpole; 15, North Ind. Conf., Farm-
land; 16-17, Farmland.
Pittenger, M. C. — 90, Sup. Yorktown 9 mos.; 91, Yorktown; 92-4, Spiceland; 95
Cadiz; 96, Saratoga; 97-8, Williamsburg; 99, Philadelphia; 00-1, Sy.; 01, Sup!
Hudson; 02, Hudson; 03-5, Leo; 06-7, Coesse; 08-17, R.
Pittenger, W. E.— 08, S.; 09, Anderson, Park Place; 10, Anderson, Park Place 6
mos., Westfield 6 mos.; 11, Westfield; 12, Muncie, Normal City; 13-15, S.;
16, Middletown; 17, Middletown 5 mos., Army Y. M. C. A., 7 mos.
Polhemus, P.— 01, Sup. Gilman; 02-3, Gilman; 04-6, Orland; 07-8, Harlan; 09-10,
Etna Green; 11-13, Osceola; 14-15, Economy; 16-17, Muncie, Normal City.
Potter, J. W.— Iowa Conf.: 87-88, Crawfordsville; 89-93, Burlington Ct.; 91-2,
Wellman; 93, Williamsburg; 94-5, West Burlington; 96-9, Milton; 00-03, Bloom-
field; 04-5, Muscatine; 06-7, Conf. Evang.; 08-10, Keokuk. Dakota Conf.:
11-15, Sioux Falls. North Ind.: 16-17, Anderson, First Church.
Powell, H. C— Indiana Conf.: 09-10, Shelburn; 11-13, Cannelton; 14, Jeffersonville,
Park Church, 6 mos. N. Indiana, April, Bobo; 15, Bobo; 16-17, New Haven.
Powell, J. O.— 06-7, Sup. N. W. Ind. ConL 08, Ind. Conf.: 08-9, Cynthiana; 09-10,
Blue Grass; 11-13', Scottsburg. N. Indiana Conf., July, 13-16, Ossian; 14-16,
Ossian; 17, Montpelier.
Powell, P. E.— 92, Kennard; 93-5, Lynn; 96-8, Anderson, Noble St.; 99, Anderson,
Noble St., 5 mos., Peru 7 mos.; 00, Peru; 01-4, Greenfield; 05-7, Garrett; 08-9,
Tipton; 10^16, Holy Grail work; 17, Located at his own request.
Powell, S.— 87-8, Elkhart Circuit; 89-91, Orland; 92-7, S.; 98-9, Ft. Wayne, Trinity;
00-1, Winchester; 02-6, Redkey; 07, Angola; 08, Warsaw; 09, Decatur; 10,
Decatur 9]A mos., Jan. 15th Asst. Financial Secretary DePauw University;
11, Asst. Financial Secretary DePauw University; 12-14, Asst. Financial Sec-
retary Hospital; 15-16, Nappanee; 17, Hartford City, Grace.
Preston, A. S.— 87, Corunna; 88, S.; 89-90, Wolcottville; 91, Albion; 92-3, Kendall-
yille; 94-5, Knightstown; 96-9, Goshen, First Church; 00, Kokomo, Grace
Church; 01-5, Ft. Wayne, Wayne St.; 06-7, Wabash, First Church; 08, Goshen
(nominal); 09-13, Winchester; 14-17, Portland.
Price, I. E. — Ohio Conf.: 86, Sup. Blue Creek. Cincinnati Conf.: 87, Sup. Blanches-
ter; 88-9, South Lebanon; 90-1, Decatur; 92-4, Laurel; 95-6, S.; 97-9, Owens-
ville; 00-1, Manchester; 02, Manchester 7 mos. N. Indiana Conf.: 03-4, Trenton;
05, Trenton, 8 mos.. New Burlington 4 mos.; 06, New Burlington; 07, New
Burlington 9 mos. and Nevada Mission, Truckee, 3 mos.; 08-09, Truckee, Cal.;
10-12, Fallon, Nev.; 13-17, Cedarville, Cal.
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Rndcliffe T F-90-3, Jonesboro; 94-7, Sharpsville; 98-00, Greentown; 01-2 Up-
hnd- 03 5, Knightstown; 06-9, Union City; 10-11, Richmond, First Church;
12-16, Klw'ood; 17, Logansport, Market St.
r, J T3 c 77 <l <;iin Rrpmen Circuit; 79-81, Webster; 81-2, Larwill; 83, Roann;
^"%5 F;;:/n ain Ciu-rS 7 ChS^ Dublin and Lewisville; 91-2,
A^o- 93T Westfield 95, New Britton; 96-8,. Muncie Circuit; 99-^31 Millgrove;
Uniondale; 03-4, Corunna; 05, York, resigned; 06-12 Sn Sup. Ander-
son, Park Place; 11, Sn. and Sup. Hartford City Ct..6 mos.); 13-17, R.
Reeves J. M. B.-93-4, New Waverly; 95-7, Santa Fe; 98-9, JoHetyille; 00, Cadiz;
01, Spiceland; 02-3, Parker; 04, Oilman; 05-6, Matthews; 07, Warsaw Circuit;
08-9, Lima; 10-14, Sy.; 17, R.
Reeves L — 86-8 Mentone; 89-91, Fremont; 92-6, Harlan; 97-01, Swayzee; 02-5,
Riissiaville; 06-10, Sy.; 11-17, R.
Richardson. J. H.— 12-14, Fountain City; 15, Modoc; 16, Modoc, 6 mos.; S. 6
mos.; 17, S.
Rilev E S— 07-8, Vernon, Indiana Conf.: 09-11, S. N. Indiana Conf.: 11-12,
South Whitley; 13-14, Wabash, Middle St.; 15, Frankton; 16, Frankton, 6 mos.;
Sheridan, 6 mos.; 17, Sheridan.
Robinson F A.— 69, Monroeville; 70-2, Decatur; 73-5, Antioch; 76-7, Mexico;
78-9 'Bourbon- 80-2, South Whitley; 83, Mexico; 84, Andrews; 85, Sy.; 86-7,
Roanoke; 88-90, Sy.; 91-3, Selma; 94-17, R.
Rogers R W.— Indiana Conf.: 07-8, Sup. Memphis; 09-10, Georgetown, N. E.
Conf.; 11, N. E. Conf., Gleasondale; 13, N. H. Conf., Contoocook, 8 mos.;
North Ind. Conf., 14-17, Forest.
Ro°'ers V. C— Ind. Conf.: 13, Sup. Jeffersonville, Wesley Chapel; 14, Ind. Conf.,
"s.'cSup. Davis Junction, Rock River Conf.); 15, Cortland, Ind. Conf., Nov.,
16, Trans. N. Ind., Cicero; 17, Cicero.
Ruley, J. A.— 76-7, Middlebrook, Va.; 78-9, Rockbridge, Va.; 80, Floyd, Va.; 81-2,
Highland, Va. N. Indiana Conf.: 83-4, Anderson Circuit; 85-6, Muncie Circuit;
87-9 Albany; 90-1, New Burlington; 92, South Muncie; 93-4, Eaton; 95-6,
Summitville; 97, Upland; 98-9, Macy; 00-1, Pennville; 02-4, Charlottesville;
05-6, Fountain City; 07-8, Gaston; 09-12, Sn. (10, Marion, Ninth St.; 11, Talla-
poosa, Ga., First Church, 4 mos.; 13, Noblesville Ct.; 14-15, Andersoii, Park
Place; 16-17, R.
Rankle, J. H.— 99-04, Marion, Grace Church; 05-7, Jonesboro; 08-10, Yorktown;
11-14, Redkey; 15-17, Knightstown.
Rush, J. M.— 74, Rushville; 75-6, New Corydon; 77-8, Hamilton; 79, Middlebury;
80-1, Wilmington, Kas.; 82, Akron; 83, Palestine; 84-5, Roann;- 86, Sy.; 87-9,
North Webster; 90, Mentone; 91, Silver Lake; 92-7, Sn.; 98, Majenica; 99,
Andrews; 00-1, Sn.; 02-6, Sy.; 07-17, R.
Sand, R. M.— North West Ind. Conf.: 08-9, Sup. Lakeville; 10, Sup. South Bend,
Stull Memorial; 11-12, Kirklin; 13-14, Michigantown. Trans. North Ind.:
15, West Middleton; 16, Sy.; 17, Located at his own request.
Sawyer, B.— 75-8, Garrett; 79-80, Geneva; 81, Areola; 82, New Corner; 83-5, Dun-
kirk; 86, Warren; 87-8, Macy; 89, Churubusco; 90-1, LaFontaine; 92-4, Wil-
liamsburg; 95-8, Goshen, Fifth Ave.; 99, Ashley; 00-2, Ft. Wayne, St. Paul;
03, Spencerville, 1 mo.; 04-6, Sy.; 07-17, R.
Semans, E. L.— 70-84, West Wisconsin Conf. N. Indiana Conf.: 85-7, Portland;
88-92, Peru; 93-5, Goshen, First Church; 96-00, Logansport, Broadway; 01-6,
Wabash Dist.; 07-8, Winchester; 09-17, R.
Semans, R. L.— 94-5, Valentine; 96-8, S.; 99-00, Galveston; 01, Greentown; 02-3,
Markle; 04-5, Converse; 06-7, Ft. Wayne, Trinity; 08-10, Kendallville; 11-12,
Decatur; 13-16, Goshen, First Church; 17, Richmond, First.
Sevits, L. A.— 86, Atwood; 87, Roann; 88-9, Whitewater; 90, Williamsburg 6 mos.;
90-03, Michigan Conf. St. Johns River Conf.: 04, Miami 8 mos. N. Indiana
Conf.: Yorktown 6 mos.; 05, Yorktown; 06-9, Albany Circuit; 10, Uniondale;
11-13, Van Buren; 14, Hamilton; 15, Selma; 16-17, R.
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Shattuck, M. E. — Detroit Conf. 09-10, Sup. Addison and Devils Lake, Michigan
Conf. 11, Horton, 12-13, S. 14, Sup. Brainard Congregational Church, Chicago;
15, S. and North Ind. Conf. Miami; 16, Miami; 17, S.
Shaw, R. S.— 07, Sup. New Castle Ct.; 08, Sup. Cadiz; 09, Trenton; 10, Trenton
5 mos., S. 7 mos.; 11, S.; (10-11, 18 mos. Sup. Terre Haute, Grace. N. W. Ind.
Conf.): 12, Fillmore, 5 mos. N. Ind. Conf., 13-14, Howe; 15-16, Uniondale;
17, Charlottesville 5 mos.; Army Y. M. C. A., 7 mos.
Shipley, F. A. — 11, Anderson, Indiana Ave., 9 mos., S. 3. mos.; 12-14, S ; 15, Trans.
Wis. Conf.; 16, Trans. N. Ind., Maxwell; 17, Mill Grove.
Shoemaker, C. W.— 96, Yorktown; 97-8, S.; 99, Sup. Perkinsville 7 mos.; 00, Per-
kinsville; 01-2, Muncie, Avondale and Whitley; 03-5, Albany; 06-8, Kokomo,
Markland Ave.; 09, Sy.; 10-11, Gas City; 12-14, Columbia City; 15, La Grange;
16, Ft. Wayne, Trinity; 17, Trans. N. W. Ind. Conf.
Singer, A.— 07, Sup. Liberty Mills; 08, Liberty Mills; 09-11, Inwood; 12-13, Ridge-
ville; 14-15, Warren; 16-17, Silver Lake.
Singer, I. W.— 83, Areola; 84-5, Harlan; 86-7, Markle; 88-90, Silver Lake; 91-2,
Mexico; 93-5, Bourbon; 96-7, Macy; 98-02, Anderson, Indiana Ave.; 03, Muncie,
Madison St.; 04-5, Westfield; 06, Anderson, Madison Ave.; 07-8, Economy;
09, Lynn; 10, Saratoga; 11-12, Pierceton; 13-17, R. Deceased Aug. 31, 1917,
Smith, C. H.— 02, Atlanta 6 mos.; 03-5, S.; 06-8, Roann; 09-12, Markle; 13-14,
Greenfield; 15-17, Peru.
Smith, R. H.— 73, Kirklin; 74, Anderson Circuit; 75, Fortville; 76, Hamilton; 77,
Geneva; 78, Decatur Circuit; 79, Markle; 80-1, New Corner; 82, North Muncie;
83-5, New Burlington; 86, Farmland; 87-8, Churubusco; 89-90, Larwill; 91-2,
Lagro; 93-4, Inwood; 95-7, Mexico; 98, Roann; 99-01, Akron; 02-3, New Bur-
lington; 04-5, Cadiz; 06, Hartford City Circuit; 07, Windfall; 08, Forest (nom-
inal); 09-17, R.
Speckien, F. J.— 94, Middlebury; 95-6, Corunna; 97-9, S. (while in school); 98-9,
Sup. York House, Rock River Conf.: 01, Etna Green; 02-3, Spiceland; 04-5,
Jolietville; 06-7, Cadiz; 08-9, Williamsburg; 10-11, Mexico; 12-13, Kokomo,
North St.; 14-17, Sy.
Stelle, J. R. — Southern 111. Conf.: 05, Sup. Tamaroa, 4 mos., Glen Carbon, 3 mos.;
06, Ind. Conf. Sup. Glendale 7 mos.. Sup. Dugger 5 mos.; 07-8, Jasonville; 09,
Shoals; 10-13, North Vincennes; Oct. 14, N. Ind. Conf., Poneto; 15, Poneto;
16-17, Huntertown.
Stephens, P. S;^55, Mexico; 56, Middletown; 57, Windsor; 58, Huntsville; 59,
Greensboro and Charlottesville; 60, Normandy; 61, Kirklin; 62, Paw Paw;
63, Xenia; 64-5, Miami; 66, Akron; 67-8, Coesse; 69, Deerfield; 70, Loc; 73-4,
Sup. Saratoga; 75, Sup. Winchester Circuit; readmitted 76; 77, Loc; 80-1,
Sup. Portland Circuit; 86-8, Sup. Pendleton Circuit; 09, readmitted, and 10-17,
R. Deceased April 3, 1918.
Stephenson, D. T. — 93, Indiana Conf., Bedford Circuit; 94, S. Kansas Conf.; 96,
Rock River Conf.; 95-7, Hermosa; 97-03, Chicago Heights; 03-4, Chicago,
49th Ave.; 04-7, Chicago, Adams St.; 07-10, Chicago, West Pullman. Oct.,
10, N. Indiana Conf., Goshen, First Church; 11-12, Goshen, First Church;
13-15, Decatur; 16-17, Muncie, High St.
Stewart, W. S.— 71-3, Kansas Conf.; 74-5, S. Kansas Conf.; 76-8, S. N. Indiana
Conf.: 79-81, Elkhart Circuit; 82-4, Albion; 85-7, Butler; 88, Bourbon; 89-91,
Columbia City; 92-4, North Manchester; 95, Anderson, Noble St.; 96, Albany;
97-9, Logansport, Market St.; 00, Sy.; 01-17, R. Deceased Jan. 30, 1918.
Stoakes, R. W.— 07, Sup. Bluffton Circuit 6 mos.; 08, Bluffton Circuit; 09-11, Or-
land; 12-17, Bourbon.
Stone, F. M.— 82, Spiceland; 83, Valentine and Ontario; 84-5, Bristol; 86-8, S.;
89, Leesburg; 90-2, Butler; 93, Kokomo, Markland Ave.; 94-6, Noblesville;
97-8, Huntington; 99-00, Greenfield; 01, Warsaw; 02, Warsaw 6 mos.; 93-4,
Dunkirk; 05-7, Endowment Sec. Woman's College; 08-15, Endowment Sec.
American University; 16, End. Sec. Am. Un., 6 mos.; Cor. Sec. Endowment
Garrett Bib. Ins., 6 mos; 17, End. Sec. Endowment Garrett Bib. Inst.
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Stookcv S B— 04. Sup. Larwill 6 mos.; 05, Sup. Larwill; 06, Larwill; 07-8, Lagro;
09-l*0.'Spiceland; 11-13, Churubusco; 14-17, Wakarusa.
<I^^;aht M F— 80 Wisconsin Conf.; 81-7, N. W. Ind. Conf. N. Ind. Conf.: 88-9,
^Kenb- 90-1 ElNl'ood" 92-3. Sha^psville; 94-7, Lima; 98-9, Osceola; 00-2, New
Paris 03, Leesburg; 04-5, Wawaka; 06, Mt. Etna; 07, Larwill; 08-9, Avilla; 10,
Valentine; 11, Hoagland; 12, Butler Ct.; 13-17, R.
Swadener. M.-80-1, Palestine; 82-3, Andrews; 84-5, North Manchester; 86-90,
Marion First Church; 91-2, Conf. Evangelist, Cincinnati Conf.; 93-9, Supt.
Citv Church Ex. and Miss. Soc. for Cincinnati. N. Indiana Conf.: 00-3, Marion,
First Church; 04-5. Richmond. First Church; 06-9, Kokomo, Grace; 10, Lecturer
in Taylor University; 11-14, Asst. Supt Indiana Anti-Saloon League; 15-17,
Cor. Sec. American Reform Federation.
Sweeney C B — 04, Sup. York; 05-6, Bobo; 07-8, Spencerville; 09. Portland Cir-
cuit; id, Sy. and Sept. 1st Sup. Ironton; 11-13, Modoc; 14-17, Parker.
Sweet W. W.— Philadelphia Conf.: 06-7, Philadelphia, Willow Grove; 08-10, Lang-
horne; 11-13, Prof. Hist. Ohio Wesleyan University; North Indiana Conf.,
Sept.,' 13, Prof. History DePauw University; 14-17, Prof. History.
Swisher, L. A. — Upper Iowa: 98, Dubuque, Jackson St.; 99, Larrabee; 00-03, S.;
04, 9 mos. Hopkinton; 05, Cedar Rapids, Trinity, 2 yrs. and 3 mos.; 07-11, West
Union; 12-13, Vinton; 14 to Oct., 16, Chattanooga; Trans. North Ind. Oct.;
16-17, Huntington, First.
Taylor E H. — Kansas Conf.: 90-3, Leonardsville; 94-6, Corning; Wyo. Miss., 97,
Carbon; 98, Wheatland; 99-01, Sheridan. Ind. Conf.: 02-3, Mitchell; 04, Cory;
05-7, Lawrence; 07-11. Sy. (08, 4 mos. Sup. Middletown; 09, Sup. Hillisburg;
10, Sup. Spartanburg; 11, Sup. Philadelphia); 12, Trans. N. Ind. Conf., Per-
kinsville; 13, Perkinsville; 14, Modoc; 15-16, Charlottesville; 17, Markleville.
Terflinger, J. V.— 85-6, Windfall; 87, Jolietville; 88-9, Eaton; 90, Pennville; 91,
New Corner; 92-00, Sy.; 01-17, R. ^
Thompson, K. R.— 11, Sims; 12-13, Decatur Ct.; 14-15, S.; 16-17, Ray.
Thomburg, F. F.— 97, Sup. Cadiz; 98-9, Cadiz; 00-2, Hagerstown; 03-5, Farmland;
06-9, Knightstown; 10-15, Auburn; 16-17, Decatur.
Thornburg, M. M. — Sup. 11, New Haven; 12, S. and Sup. Northwest Ind., Fillmore
and Bainbridge, 5 mos.; 12, Sup. Stanton and Reelsville; 13, Sup. Carbon, and
Lena, 14. Admitted North Ind. Conf., 15, Sup. Carbon; 16, S. (Sup. Carbon);
17, S.
Thomas, Chester B.— Dak. Conf.: 09, Sup. Cresbard; 10. Colton 10 mos.; 11 (Aug.
Trans. N. Ind.), Corunna; 12, Corunna; 13-15, Gilead; 16-17, Point Isabel.
Tillman, J. W.— 92, Perrysburg; 93-4, North Webster; 95, Macy; 96-8. LaFontaine;
99-00, Larwill; 01-3, Silver Lake; 04-5, Roann; 06, Cicero 5 mos.; 07-17, R.
Tinkham, C— 91-3, New Haven; 94-6, Hoagland; 97-8, Monroeville; 99-01, Chur-
ubusco; 02-4, Bunker Hill; 05-7, Sharpsville; 08-10, Lapel; 11-17, Garrett.
Trabue, O. A. — W. Nebraska Conf.: Mar. to Sept., 96, Sup. Maywood; 96, May-
wood; 97 to Mar., 00, Lodgepole and Chappell. N. Indiana Conf.: 00-2, Santa
Fe; 03-5, Greentown; 06-7, Lapel; 08-9, Columbia City; 10-13, Tipton; 14-15,
Newcastle; 16-17, Greenfield.
Travis, C. C— N. W. Indiana Conf.: 95, x\sst. Frankfort; 96-7, Summit Grove;
98-9, S., Sup. Waveland; 00-1, St. Paul, Indianapolis; 02-6, South Bend, Grace
Church. Sept., 06, Trans. N. Indiana Conf., Mishawaka; 07-8, Mishawaka;
09-16, Ft. Wayne, Wayne St.; 17, Ft. Wayne, Wayne St., to Oct. 15. Trans.
Rock River Conf.
Trippeer, E. E. — 96, Kempton; 97, Galveston 4 mos., Portland Circuit 6 mos.;
98-00, Portland Circuit; 01-2, Richmond, Third Church; 03-4, Economy; 05-7,
Ridgeville; 08-9, Summitville; 10-12, Pendleton; 13-16, Hartford City, Grace;
17, Kokomo, Main St.
igiS] Appointment Record 379
Turner, A. A. — 90-2, Point Isabel; 93-4, Windfall; 95, Center; 96-7, \'alentine;
98-01, Milford; 02-5, Bristol; 06-7, Osceola; 08-9, Bashor; 10-12, Elkhart Cir-
cuit; 13-15, Benton; 16-17, Wawaka.
Ulmer, L. F. — Ind. Conf.: 09-10, Sup. Xewtonville; 11, Newtonville; 12-14, Marengo;
15, Marengo, 6 mos. North Ind.: 15, Williamsburg, 6 mos.; 16-17, Williamsburg.
Valentine, J. C. — Received from U. B. Church: 09, Sup. Decatur Circuit; 10, De-
catur Circuit; 11, Bluffton Circuit; 12-13, Portland Ct.; 14, Geneva; 15-16,
Spencerville; 17, Center.
Vawter, C. M. — Indiana Conf.: 05-6, Delaware; 07, Brooksburg; 07-9, Batesville;
10-13, S. (While in school Sup., 10, ^Mechanic; 11-13, Hampton, X. J.) North
Indiana: 14, Kempton; 15, Roanoke; 16-17, Larwill.
Wade, C. U.— 80, Sup. Roann; 81-2, Roann; 83-5, Bourbon; 86, South Whitley 7
mos.; Muncie 5 mos.; 87-91, Muncie; 92-6, Bluffton; 97, Wabash; 98-03, Mun-
cie District; 04-9, Ft. Wayne District; 10, Logansport, Broadway, 6 mos.;
Oct. 1st, Financial Secretary- DePauw University; 11-17, Financial Secretary
DePauw University.
Wade, R. J. — 94, Ft. Wayne, Sup. Simpson 6 mos.; 95-7, S. (While in school Sup.
in N. W. Ind. Conf., 95-6, Flackville and Marion Park); 07, Sup. Arcadia;
98-9, Arcadia; 00-2, Nappanee; 03-5, Kendallville; 06-9, Richmond, First
Church; 10-14, Elkhart, Trinity; 15-17, Goshen Dist.
Walker, W. F. — 68, Sup. Leo; 69, Ft. Wayne, Centenary (Simpson); 70-1, Win-
chester; 72-3, Peru, St. Paul Church; 74, Miss, to Foo-Chou, China; 75, Peking,
Asbury; 76, Peking, Asbury and Tsan-Hua; 77-9, Southern City, Peking, and
Tsun-Hua; 82-3, on furlough in U. S. ; 84, Peking, Asbury; 85-7, Tientsin,
W'eslev Chapel; 88-92, Pres. Elder, Tientsin District; 93, on furlough; 94-7,
Peking District, N. China Conf.; 98-9, in U. S.; 00-1, Tsun-Hua District; 02-3,
Tientsin District; 04-5, Peking, Chien-Men and Shun-Chin-Men; 06, in U. S.;
08, Loc; 09, N. Indiana Conf.; Sn.; 10-17, R.
Walter, P. H.— 01, Sup. Ceylon 10 mos.; 02, Sup. York; 03, York; 04-6, Hudson;
07, Bobo; 08, Portland Circuit; 09-10, Coesse; 11-13, Woodburn; 14-15, Joliet-
. ville; 16-17, De Soto.
Walters, J. W. — Kentucky Conf.: 91, Scottsville; 92, Leitchfield; 93, \'ine Grove;
93-6, S. N. Indiana Conf.: 97-9, \'an Buren; 00, \'an Buren 5 mos., Wabash,
Middle St., 7 mos.; 01-2, Mentone; 03-4, Dublin and Lewisville; 05-6, Economy;
07-8, Anderson, Grace; 09-11, Elkhart, St. Paul; 12, Hartford City; 13-14, Gas
City; 15, Kempton; 16, Kempton, 6 mos.; Board of Foreign Missions, 6 mos.;
17, with Board of Foreign Missions.
Walts, J. K. — 76, Dublin and Lewisville; 77-8, Lincoln; 79-81, Lima; 82, Waterloo;
83-5, Ft. Wayne, Berr^^ St.; 86-7, Warsaw; 88, Richmond, Grace Church; 89-91,
Greenfield; 92-4, Winchester; 95-6, Auburn; 97-01, Logansport, Wheatland St.;
02, Ft. Wavne, Berrv St.; 03-4, First Church (Berrv St.); 05-6, Angola; 07-10,
Redkey; 11-17, R.
Weaver, A. L.— 91-3, S.; 94, Waterloo; 95-6, Wakarusa; 97-8, Orland; 99-00, Ham-
ilton; 01-3, Valentine; 04-6, Inwood; 07, Sy.; 09-12, Syracuse; 13-14, Akron;
15-17, Jonesboro.
Wehrly, R. H. — 12, Sup. Middletown, 6 mos.; 13, Middletown; 14-16, Ridgeville;
17, Churubusco.
Welch, J. W. — 51-2, Enterprise; 53, Allen; 54-5, Auburn; 56-7, Benton; 58-73, Sn.;
74-6, Auburn; 77, Pierceton; 78-81, Warsaw District; 82, Anderson: 83, Agt.
DePauw Universitv; 84-5, Greenfield; 86-8, Winchester; 89, Agt. Ft. Wayne
College; 90-1, Portland; 92, Sy.; 93, Ft. Wayne, Simpson; 94-5, Hudson and
Ashley; 96-7, Arcadia; 98-00, Sy.; 01-17, R. Deceased July 7, 1917.
Wells, David.— 95, Sup. Windfall; 96, Windfall; 97-9, Alto; 00-2, Poneto; 03, Ft.
Wayne, Trinity; 04-6, Geneva; 07-8, Muncie, Madison St.; 09, Marion, Home
Park and Highland Ave.; 10-17, Marion, Grace Church.
Wengatz, J. C— 09, McCordsville; 10-17, Miss. W. Cent. Africa.
6
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m; .u^r r p R —Fast Uhio Conf.: 88-9, Moorfield. N. Indiana Conf.: 90, Markle;
"^"OM Vili!; 96 Hudion and Ashley'; 97, Manon, Ninth St ; 98-9 Wolcottv.lle;
00 ke.ni'ton; 01-2, Windfall; 03-4, Shirley; 05, Richmond, Third Church; 06,
Ccntcrviile; 07-17, Conf. Evangelist.
Wiant W. W.-08, Sup. Warren Circuit; 09, Warren Circuit; 10-12, Lagro; 13-15,
Fortville; 16, Fortville, 5 mos.; New Castle, 7 mos.; 17, New Castle.
Wickersham, E. J.— 11-12, McCordsviUe; 13, McCordsville, 5 mos., S. 7 mos.;
14-16, s'.; 17, S. 7 mos., Anderson, Noble St., 5 mos.
White, A. F.— 12, Burket; 13-15, South Whitley; 16, Arcadia; 17, Denver.
^wv^ite c E— 80, Elwood; 81-2, Russiaville; 83-4, Sharpsville; 85-7, Sheridan;
88-90' Scima- 91-2, Fishersburg; 93-5, Dunkirk; 96, Knightstown; 97-9, Kokomo,
Marklan<l Ave.; 00-2, Ft. Wayne, Trinity; 03-5, Gas City; 06-7 Kendallville;
08-10, Ligonier; 11-12, Lapel; 13-14, Albany; 15, Summitville; 16-1/, Wabash,
Middle St.
White J C— 90-1, Sheldon; 92-6, Upland; 97-01, Summitville; 02, Montpelier;
03-6,' Decatur; '07-9, Logansport, Broadway; 10-14, Kokomo, Grace Church;
15-16, Elkhart', Trinity; 17, Marion, First.
Wilkinson, C. H.— 67, Sup. Ft. Wayne, Simpson; 68, Ft. Wayne, Simpson; 69,
Decatur; 70, New Corydon; 71-3, Lagro; 74-6, Albion; 77, Elkhart Circuit;
78-9, Bristol; 80-2, Butler; 83, Lima and Van Buren; 84-6, Wolcottville; 87-8,
Ft. 'Wayne, Simpson; 89, Galveston; 90-3, Converse; 94-7, Sheridan; 98-00,
Inwood; 01, Pierceton; 02, Avilla; 03-6, New Paris; 07-9, Carmel; 10-11, Nobles-
ville Ct.; 12-17, R.
Williams, D. V. — 87, Sup. Valentine 7 mos.; 88-9, Valentine; 90-2, Inwood; 93-7,
S. (while in school. Sup. in N. W. Indiana Conf.; 92-4, Harmony; 95-7, Clay-
ton and Cartersburg) ; 97-9, Selma; 00-3, Kokomo, Alarkland Ave.; 04-7, Eaton;
08-10, Garrett; 11-12, Noblesville, First Church; 13-15, Alexandria, First
Church; 16, Logansport, Wheatland Ave.; 17, Redkey.
Williams, J. E.— Central Illinois Conf.: 80, Maquon; 81-2, North Henderson; 83-5,
Kirkwood; 86, Knoxville; 87-9, Sy.; 90, Oquawka; 91-3, Sy. Puget Sound
Conf.: 94, Chehalis; 95-8, Vancouver; 99-03, Chehalis District; 04-6, Pres.
Univ. Puget Sound; 07-8, Bellingham, Trinity; 09, Bellingham, Trinity, to'
March 1. N. Indiana Conf.: 09, Hartford City, Grace, 1 mo.; 09, Hartford
City, Grace; 10-12, Union City; 13-15, Pendleton; 16-17, R.
Winslow, L. O. — 14-15, Liberty Mills; 16, S. 6 mos.; Bippus, 6 mos.; 17, Bippus 5
mos.; U. S. Army 7 mos.
Wischmeier, A. C. — Sup. in Neb. Conf.; 10, Prairie Home; 11, Ceresco and Spring
Creek; 12, Ceresco and Spring Creek; 13-14, S.; (While in school, Sup. 13-14,
West Abingdon, Mass.); 15-16, North Ind., Hagerstown; 17, Gas City.
Woodruff, J. C. — 03, Sup. Hartford City Circuit; 04, Blaine Circuit; 05, Coesse;
06-8, North Webster; 09-11, Goshen, St. Mark; 12, Eaton; 13-14, Lapel; 15,
Wolcottville; 16, Inwood; 17, New Paris 6 mos.; Field Worker Preachers' Aid
6 mos.
Wooton, A. S. — 76, Anderson Circuit; 77-8, Russiaville; 79-80, Logansport, Wheat-
land St.; 81-3, Tipton; 84, Pierceton; 85-7, Peru; 88-90, New Castle; 91-4,
Auburn; 95, Kendallville; 96, Nappanee;97, Mishawaka; 98-01, North Manches-
ter; 02-3, Fairmount; 04, Angola; 05, Sheridan; 06-7, Greentown; 08-17, R.
Work, G. B.— 72, Alexandria; 73-4, North Muncie; 75-6, Ridgeville; 77, Angola;
78-80, New Paris; 81-2, Leesburg; 83, Bunker Hill; 84-6, Sy. (while Sy., Sup.
Mexico, 86, 10 mos.); 87-8, Mexico; 89-92, Decatur; 93-4, Alexandria; 95,
Garrett; 96-00, Dunkirk; 01-7, Wabash, Wabash St.; 08-16, Warren; 17, R.
Wright, E. E.— 94, Bippus; 95, Wabash Circuit; 96-7, S.; 98-9, Sup. Kennard;
00-2, Trenton; 03-5, Warren Circuit; 06-9, Silver Lake; 10-12, Larwill; 13,
Sante Fe; 14-15, Coesse; 16, Harlan; 17, Harlan 3}^ mos, Poneto 8^ mos.
igiS] Appointment Record 381
Wright, M. C— 04, N. W. Ind. Conf. 17, Trans. N. Ind. Conf, Ft. Wayne, Trinity.
Wyant, J. K.— Methodist Protestant Church, Indiana Conf., 96-03, N. W. Indiana
Conf. M. E. Church: 04-6, Richland Center; 07-9, Bringhurst; 10, 6 mos.,
Ambia. North Indiana Conf.: 11-12, Forest; 13-14, Valentine; 15, Tippecanoe;
16, Hamilton; 17, Orland.
Yeomans, C. G. — 09-11, Roanoke; 12-15, LaFontaine; 16, LaFontaine, 6 mos.,
Summitville 6 mos.; 17, Summitville.
Young, O. B.— Kan. Conf.: 07-8, Manchester; 09, Minn. Conf., Ruthton; 10, Col-
orado Conf., Bayfield; 11, Ind. Conf., Gosport; 12, Sellersburg; 13, Milltown;
14, Milltown, 8 mos.; May, 1915, North Ind., Matthews; 16, Matthews; 17,
Shideler.
Zechiel, S. I. — 94, Evan. Assn.; 94, Logansport; 95-7, Markle; 98, Louisville, Ky.;
99-00, Elkhart, South Side; 01-2, Decatur; 03-4, Kendallville; 05-6, Wolcott-
ville; 07-8, Newton, Kas.; 09, M. E. Church, S. W. Kansas Conf.: 09-10, Flor-
ence, Kan.; 11 to Aug., 13, Mitchell. N. Ind. Conf. Sept. 15, 13-15, Harlan;
16-17, Monroeville.
Zeigler, R. E. — 09, Baltimore. 17, Trans. N. Ind. Conf., Nappanee.
Zerbe, J. W.— 02, Sup. Hartford City Ct. 6 mos.; 03, Sup. Ingalls; 04-6, Ingalls;
07-9, Fountain City; 10-14, Williamsburg; 15, Williamsburg, 6 mos.; Saratoga,
6 mos.; 16, Saratoga; 17, Marion, Ninth St.
PROBATIONERS FOR 1917.
Antle, Edward. — 16-17, New Burlington.
Carson, H. R. — 16, Sup. Gilead; 17, Gilead.
Chapman, F. W. — 15-16, Goshen Ct.; 17, Discontinued.
Chelan, Fred. — 16, Sup. Shirley; 17, Shirley.
Coe, H. R.— 17, S.
Corn, I. S.— 15-17, S.
Franklin, B. H. — 15, Sup. Winchester Ct.; 16, Winchester Ct.; 17, Willow Branch.
Gates, E. L.— 17, Philadelphia.
Hill, F. R.— 17, Twelve Mile.
Jeffras, C. W.~10-ll, Ft. Wayne, St. Paul; 12, Ft. Wayne, St. Paul, 5 mos., S. 7
mos.; 13-17, S.
Jones, C. F. — 17, Corunna.
Jones, R. S. — 16, Muncie, Whiteley 6 mos., S. 6 mos.; 17, S. 5^ mos., Hoagland,
dyi mos.
Land, J. A. — 17, Salamonia.
McCurdy, W. A.— 17, S.
McPheeters, C. A. — 16, Hoagland 5>^ mos; 17, 6}4 mos.
Menaugh, W. H. — 15, Sup. Clunett; 16, Clunett or Bourbon Ct.; 17, Bourbon Ct.
Miller, C. S.— 13, Sup. Deerfield 6 mos.; 14, Sup. Deerfield; 15-17, S.
382 North Indiana Conference [1918
Morrison, J. A. -1 0-1 7, S.
Nysewander, B. D.— 17, Fiat.
Pfeiffer, Julius.— Inl. Conf.: 15, Troy. N. Ind. Conf.: Dec, 1, Alexandria Ct.;
16-17, S.
Power, W. O.— 15, Sup. Losaiitville; 16-17, Losantville.
Roahrig, W. — 15-16, Salamonia; 17, Winchester Ct.
Robins, F. J. — 14, Marion, Highland Ave.; 15, Larwill 5 mos.; S. 7 nios.
Royer, J. H.— 16, Sup. Warsaw Ct.; 17, Valentine.
Sanks, A. R.— 17, S.
Snider, G. A. — 16, Sup. Geneva Ct.; 17, Geneva Ct.
Stone, L. W.— 15-17, S.
Stone, R. H. — 15, S. ; 16, Willow Branch, 6 mos., S. 6 mos.; 17, Discontinued.
Teeter, A. P. — 16, Sup. Goshen Ct.; 17, Goshen Ct.
Wann, H. A.— 17, Richland.
Whitten, G. E. — 15, Sup. Kinimell; 16, Kinimell; 17, Cromwell.
Williams, J. L.— 16, Jolietville; 17, Jolietville.
Young, F. S.— 11-15, S.; 16-17, Liberty Mills.
(XV) Statistical ZMti
(a) STATISTICIAN'S REPORT
(b) TREASURER'S REPORT
(c) CIRCUIT SALARY
STATISTICIAN :
JOHN C. WHITE,
615 South Washington Street, Marion, Indiana.
assistants :
Peter H. Walter, Edward E. De Witt, Leroy W. Kemper,
Jesse O. Hochstedler, Jesse M. Jordan, Valorous L. Clear.
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Support of Conference
Claimants
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Support of District Super-
intendent
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Conference
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ence Benevolences, and other
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Support of Conference
Claimants
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intendent
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Boaril iif Tcmi)erance,
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intendent
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vestments for Confer-
ence Claimants
Total Benevolences Or-
dered by the Annual
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Sustentation Fund
Methodist Memorial
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Freedmen's Aid Society.
Special Gifts .
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(c) CIRCUIT SALARY STATEMENT.
Appointmknts.
FORT WAYNE
DISTRICT.
Ashley
Barker Chapel.
Steubenville. . .
Totals
Auburn Circuit-
Swan
Auburn Junction.
Norris Chapel . . .
Meese Chapel .
Sustentation
Totals
Bluffton Circuir
Epworth
Prairie. .
Bethel. . .
Sustentation. .
Totals
Bobo—
Mt. Tabor ....
Clark's Chapel.
Mt. Hope
Totals
Coesse
Jefferson Chapel
•A.rcola
Lake Chapel . . . .
Totals
Decatur Circuit-
Mt. Pleasant . .
Beulah Chapel.
Pleasant \'alley
Washington . . .
Totals
Fiatt —
Union Chapel .
Blackford
Oakland
Sugar Grove. .
Totals
Ft. Wayne Circuit
Oak Grove
Friendship
Taylor Chapel.
Union Chapel . .
St. Joe Chapel
Totals
Geneva Circuit —
Hartford
Ceylon
Blue Creek
New Corvdon . . .
Totals 203I $943 $943
n> •o
3 O
Appointments.
P O
153
89
47
30
166
72
70
47
35
242
73
84
32
36
225
11
91
83
53
93
331
40
27
79
57
$563
308
100
$971
315
207
185
182
75
$964
600
300
200
$1,100
410
235
175
$820
290
306
290
290
$1,176
356
353
296
181
$1,186
309
190
220
219
$938
43
330
270
205
$563
308
100
$971
315
150
223
162
75
$925
600
300
112
150
$1,260
405
230
170
$805
290
306
290
290
$1,176
356
353
286
181
$1,176
309
190
220
219
$938
43
330
270
205
$1,181 $1,181
291
120
241
291
291
120
241
291
Hamilton
Alvarado
Memorial Chapel .
Otsego
Totals .
Harlan. . . .
Scipio . . .
Totals .
Hoagland .
Poe
Totals
Hudson
Salem Center.
Sustentation. .
Totals
Huntertown
Cedar Chapel.
Wallen
Totals . . .
Kingsland —
Sheldon. . .
Kingsland . .
Emmaus. .
Totals
Leo
Cedarville
Robinson Chapel.
Mt. Olivet
Totals
Monroeville
Woodland
Pleasant Grove .
Totals
Orland
Flint
Nevada Mills.
Jamestown. . .
Totals .
Ossian . . . .
Prospect .
Totals
Pleasant Mills.
Salem
Totals . . .
Poneto
Air Line . . .
Reiffsburge.
Totals
Spencerville. . . .
Wesley Chapel.
Grove Bethel. .
243
70
18
331
185
100
285
54
114
212
209
136
109
454
57
51
86
194
62
48
83
46
239
213
28
34
275
925
297
160
$1,382
$744
443
$1,356
$744
443
$1,187
321
641
$1,187
321
641
$962
822
210
$1,032
1052
414
290
$1,756
242
2'21
365
400
275
504
242
$1,421
802
200
200
$1,202
527
415
512
293
109
115
107
331
172
50
14
Totals 236
925
297
56
78
$962
917
210
150
$1,277
1052
414
290
$1,756
242
156
365
$763
400
275
504
242
$1,421
802
200
200
$1,202
527
415
512
70
$1,524
915
548
$1,463
660
539
$1,199
431
416
369
$1,216
550
180
112
$842 $842
414
igiS;
Circuit Salary
415
CIRCUIT SALARY STATEMENT. Continued.
Appointments.
3>
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Appointments.
St)
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Woodburn
People's Chapel
Devaux Chapel
Edgerton
Totals
GOSHEN DISTRICT.
Avilla . . .
Summit.
Totals.
Benton . . .
Richville.
Totals
Bourbon Circuit-
P'oster Chapel . .
Clunette
Pleasant View . .
Monoquet
Totals
Corunna
Wayne Center.
Totals
Elkhart Circuit-
Willow Creek. .
Pleasant Valley
California
Osolo
Sustentation . . .
Totals .
Etna Green
Atwood. . .
Totals. . .„ . .
Goshen Circuit—
Bashor Chapel.
Pleasant Ridge .
Waterford
Lake
Totals
Howe
Prettv Prairie .
Scott
Ontario
Totals .
Inwood . . .
Bethel. . .
Totals.
Kimmell. .
Wolf Lake
Totals
Middlebury . .
Shipshewana .
Totals
Mongo
Plato
East Springfield.
106
68
34
30
475
249
173
173
47.S
249
173
173
238
133
65
$1,070
688
490
198
72
99
$1,070
688
444
$1,132
478
$1,166 $1,166
305
338
230
230
158
74
54
128
64
20
7
.$923
450
230
120
117
$923
450
145
80
91
200
95
$917 $793
884 884
650 650
295 $1,534
142
84
85
77
41
287
224
149
373
49
55
104
190
150
340
26
68
47
426
236
145
115
$922
410
410
410
176
$1,406
712
712
$1,424
500
425
$1,534
426
236
145
115
$922
410
412
410
100
$1,332
712
712
$1,424
500
425
Totals .
141 I $955! $880
North Webster .
Morris Chai)cl.
Totals. . .
Osceola
Tamarack. .
Jamestown.
Totals
South Milford—
Brushy Chapel .
Custer
South Milford
171
156
327
170
111
90
371
35
52
100
Totals I 187
Tippecanoe 100
Summit Chapel 52
Talma 1 101
Total.s
Valentine
Beulah
Roy's Chapel.
Lake View . . .
Totals
Warsaw Circuit
Pleasant Grove .
Pleasant X^alley.
Holbrook
Sustentation
253
125
77
60
295
80
56
24
556
656
556
656
$1,212 $1,212
528 528
469 469
319 319
$1,316 $1,316
235 245
251; 251
687 1 687.
$1,173 $1,183
499 499
.582 382
352 274
$1,233 $1,155
440 440
300 300
220 220
125 125
Totals 160
Wawaka ' 65
Brimfield ' 60
Totals . .. .
Wolcottville.
Rome City.
Totals.
LOGANSPORT
DISTRICT.
Amboy 132
McGrawsville 107
125
198
108
306
$1,085 $1,085
$870 $780
513 513
513 513
$1,026 $1,026
811, 811
609 609
$1,420 $1,420
$725
325
$725
325
Totals 239 $1,050 $1,050
Anoka 81 533| 533
Bethel 72 532 532
Totals ! 153
Boxley 94
Salem 126
Totals
Center
Nevada
Pleasant CJrove .
Totals
Denver. . .
ChiU . . .
Totals .
Forest . . . .
St. Paul .
220
65
108
35
$1,065 $1,065
555: 555
630 630
$1,185 $1,185
400, 420
579 629
160 90
208
$1
,139$1
,139
332
618
618
191
619
619
423
$1
,237 $1
,237
99
850,
85!)
56
322'
322
Totals ' 155 iSl.172 $1.1''T
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CIRCUIT SALARY STATEMENT.— Continued.
ApI'OINTMFNXS.
Gilead
Ebenezer
Disko
Pleasant Hill .
Totals .
Goldsmith
Hopewell
Wesley Chapel.
Totals .
Green Oak .
Zion
Totals
Ilillisburg
Scirdeville . . .
Honey Creek.
Totals .
Hobbs
Aroma.'. .
Totals
Kempton . . . .
Shilo
Groomsville .
Spencer
Totals .
Kokomo—
Beimer . .
Cassville.
Totals . . .
Mexico
Perrysburg.
Skillman. . .
Totals .
Miami ....
Bennetts.
Totals .. . .
New Wayerly .
Onward
Niad
Hoovers . . . .
Totals . .
Roann
Paw Paw .
Ijamsville.
Totals. .
Russiaville .
Shiloh , . . .
Totals .
Santa Fe. .
Somerset.
Peoria. . .
Totals .
Walton . . .
Salem . . .
Lincoln . .
Totals...... .^.,.. .. 302$1.20J .SI, 201
3t3
n X3
a o
346
121
156
34
110
90
42
19
306
101
102
42
23
268
180
77
257
67
72
49
188
156
68
224
99
177
45
24
345
178
60
80
318
185
102
287
160
87
46
293
142
68
92
350
335
295
210
$1,190
486
600
242
$1,328
330
233
$563
578
352
216
$1,146
545
623
$1,168
519
300
160
100
$1,079
559
500
$1,059
365
360
249
$974
528
415
$943
337
512
150
84
350
335
295
210
$1,190
486
600
242
$1,328
299
233
$532
578
352
216
$1,146
545
623
$1,168
519
300
160
100
Appointments.
3 O
$1,079
559
500
$1,059
365
360
249
$974
528
415
$943
337
512
150
84
$1,083
644
369
192
$1,205
699
596
$1,295
630
238
220
$1,088
421
436
344
$1,083
644
369
192
$1,205
699
596
$1,295
630
238
220
$1,088
421
436
344
West Middleton
Twin Springs. .
Cloverdale ....
Totals
MUNCIE DISTRICT.
Albany Circuit — •
Bethel
Sugar Grove
Fairview
Delaware
Totals
Alexandria Circuit-
Beechgrove
Epworth
Oilman
Joyce Chapel
Wesley Chapel. . . .
Totals. ......
Carmel
I White Chapel . .
I Pleasant Grove .
' Totals .
Daleville . .
Florida . .
Totals
Hartford City Circuit-
Roll
Pleasant Grove
Asbury
Grant Street
Totals. . ^
De Soto —
Union
Pleasant Grove .
Salem
Sustentation. . . .
Totals
Fisher's
New Britton .
Zion
Totals
Ingalls
Harmony . . .
Mendon ....
Epworth. . . .
Sustentation.
Totals. . .
Jolietviile . . .
Hortonville.
Big Spring .
Eagletown .
Totals
Matthews —
Epworth
Wheeling . . . .
Olive Branch.
Totplq
108 490
57 290
92 214
257 $994
64
89
107
104
364
SO
62
20
80
42
254
116
97
118
331
102
106
160
76
62
298
91
50
50
191
66
82
13
67
238
40
50
66
14
170
110
67
54
40
271
167
68
40
275
290
353
343
343
$1,329
233
233
117
234
233
$1,050
375
376
460
$1,211
365
366
$731
528
298
275
$1,101
369
164
195
$728
403
403
173
173
$1,152
150
250
200
147
68
$815
438
275
245
104
$1,062
605
250
115
$970
490
290
214
$994
290
353
343
343
$1,329
233
233
117
234
233
$1,050
375
376
460
$1,211
365
366
$731
528
298
275
50
$1,151
372
164
195
$731
403
403
152
120
$1,078
150
235
200
147
68
$800
445
278
224
115
$1,062
605
250
115
$970
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Circuit Safary
417
CIRCUIT SALARY STATEMENT.— Continued.
Appointments.
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3 O
Appointment. s
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Noblesville Circuit-
South Ninth Street.
Bethel
Union
Sustentation
Totals
New Burlington.
New Bethel . . . .
Blountsville . . . .
Totals . . .
Perkinsville .
Bealls
Harveys . . .
Strawtown .
Totals
Shideler
Mt. Carmel . . . .
Grace
Pleasant Valley.
Mt. Zion
Totals
Summitville Circuit-
Zion
Union
Totals.
RICHMOND
DI.STRICT.
Centerville. . . .
Green's Fork .
Totals
Ciiarlottesville
Cleveland. . . .
Totals.
Dublin
Straughns. . . .
Totals
Fountain City.
Hopewell . . . .
Whitewater . .
Totals
Kennard
Sugar Grove. .
Greensboro. . .
Cadiz
Totals
Losantville. . . .
Locust Grove.
Franklin
Grace Chapel.
Totals
Lynn
Spartansburg.
Totals
385
340
331
50
229
112
75
$1,056
520
260
56
308
340
331
50
$1,029
520
260
390
187
78
79
179
41
$836
363
363
363
131
377
95
84
39
32
2
$1,220
322
318
184
131
22
252
$977
223
109
94
169
81
$332
767
325
250
175
138
$1,170
363
363
363
131
$1,220
322
318
184
131
22
$977
223
109
$332
767
325
$1,092 $1,092
5961 596
595 595
313
124
52
$1,191
489
221
176
112
94
96
$710
490
360
320
302
58
70
42
15
$1,170
171
515
171
172
185
91
34
33
32
$1,029
375
255
155
115
190
84
66
$900
817
684
$1,191
489
221
$710
490
360
320
$1,170
171
515
171
172
$1,029
375
255
155
115
$900
817
684
$1,501 $1,501
Markleville
Zion Chapel
Mechanicsburg
Ovid
Totals
Maxwell
Mt. Comfort
Curry's Chapel
Sugar Creek
Totals
Mill Grove
Kingsley
Union Chapel
Trenton
Totals
Modoc
Huntsville
Union Chapel
Totals
Parker
Windsor
Mt. Pleasant
Totals
Philadelphia
Gem
Ada New
Totals
Portland Circuit —
Union
Pleasant Ridge
Oak Grove
New Mt. Pleasant . .
Totals
Richmond, Third St.—
Middleboro
Boston
Totals
Ridgevllle
Deerfield
Totals
Salamonia
Antioch
Zoar
Totals
Shirley
Wilkinson
Totals
Spiceland
Ogden
Totals
Williamsburg
Chester
Webster
Totals
Willow Branch
Eden
Totals
217
55
92
120
45
312
112
98
62
25
297
103
155
59
317
184
69
129
267
345
345
118
$1,075
207
454
309
194
$1,164
388
294
150
128
$960
420
421
121
$960
737
225
488
382
78
11
23
112
54
132
37
311
133
86
45
264
147
104
251
99
35
23
157
90
77
167
175
85
260
103
143
72
318
102
120
$1,450
413
275
136
$824
280
258
505
174
$1,217
606
450
186
$1,242
810
466
$1,276
544
265
90
$899
464
464
$928
638
335
$973
494
546
165
$1,205
578
578
$1,156
267
345
345
118
$1,075
207
454
309
194
$1,164
311
294
150
46
$801
420
421
121
$962
737
225
$1,450
413
275
53
$741
280
258
505
174
$1,217
624
450
168
$1,242
810
466
$1,276
544
265
90
$899
464
464
$928
637
385
$1,022
494
546
165
$1,205
578
578
$1,156
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[1918
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Appointments.
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3^
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3
Appointments.
3
2
3^
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o'
3
5;
Winchester Circuit—
35
89
70
470
499
205
470
499
205
67
25
32
248
92
5
248
Bethel
92
Mt. Zion
Concord
5
124
165
63
20
248
65
61
19
34
$345
700
350
,174
$345
194
43
61
60
$1,174
$247
247
330
$1
Highland Avenue
700
$247
247
330
350
Fletcher Chapel
Totals
Mt Etna
WABASH DISTRICT.
Bippus
$1,050
323
230
230
167
$1,050
323
Pleasant Plain
Lincolnville
Mt. Hope
230
230
167
Totals
209
110
105
215
154
103
26
283
77
89
72
52
$950
499
450
$949
676
396
116
$1,188
300
333
115
$950
odicni
499
164
81
44
45
$824
512
284
342
$824
512
284
342
Rit^don
450
Burket
Totals
$949
Cook's Chapel
676
Monson Chapel
Wesley Chapel
Totals
Silver Lake
396
Totals
Churubusco Circuit —
Blue River
Wesley Chapel
170
129
113
73
$1,138
375
320
234
$1,138
375
320
234
116
$1,188
300
Claypool
Si3
Mt. Pleasant
South Pleasant
Sims
333
Totals
315
96
80
67
55
$929
445
335
261
251
$929
445
335
261
251
115
Huntington Circuit —
Pitcher's Chapel
290
101
35
34
170
217
106
323
168
46
$214
94
55
38
70
257
$1,081
451
282
144
$878
588
587
$1,175
928
235
$1,163
375
200
185
200
$1,081
451
Barnes Chapel
Clear Creek . . .
West Liberty
282
Jerome
Totals
144
Totals
298
202
112
$1,292
916
393
$1,292
916
393
$878
588
587
Totals
Totals
314
255
67
$1,309
938
365
$1,309
938
365
$1,175
Lagro
Van Buren
928
Otterbein
235
Totals
322
136
47
45
65
$1,303
530
190
110
280
$1,303
540
190
110
280
70
$1,163
Larwill
Warren Circuit —
Majenica
Plumtree
Lancaster
Salem
Totals
321
171
Troy
159
Collected
176
Totals
293
$1,110
$1,190
$962
$827
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