The Missoulian from Missoula, Montana • 16

THE SUNDAY-MISSOULIAN, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1939. 0 State Meeting of Methodist Church to Be Held Here Scene of State Gathering of Methodists Speakers at Methodist Church Conference and Superintendents of Three Districts of State Bishop E. P. Lee Of Malaysia to Be Guest Speaker Bishop Edwin F. Lee, head of the Methodist church In Malaysia and In the Philippine Islands, ill be the guest seaker at the ursslon of the Montana annual conference in First Methodist church, Sunday evening, June 25.

Bishop Lee has under his jurisdiction Methodism's evangelic and educational work in the Malay peninsula, in Borneo. Sumatra and In the Philippine archipelago. In these II ff.s-1""! la 4 i 'i If t'i, i 4 i i Pa -4 sets i MttiWitit At least five nationally-known church workers will attend the sixteenth annual Montana state conference of the Methodist church which will be held in Missoula from Tuesday, 20 through Sunday, June 25. It will mark f2 years of conference organization in Montana and will be the first conference session of the new united Methodist church. Speakers will include the presiding bishop.

Rev. Wilbur E. Ham-maker of Denver: Dr. N. F.

Forsyth of Chicago; Dr. F. W. Mueller of the national board of home missions and extension Dr. Miron A.

Morrill of Chicago and Dr. Edward Laird Mills, former Montana pastor and now editor of the Christian Advocate. Other persons who will attend the conference in official capacity will be the superintendents of the three districts of the Methodist church in Montana. Rev. Horace Turner of the Yellowstone district.

Billings; Rev. Walter Wanipler of the Glacier Park district, Great Falls, and Rev. Charles G. Cole of the Rocky Mountain district, Missoula: Dr. F.

Gordon Reynolds, of Missoula, president of the state laymen's association; Dr. C. L. Clifford, state director of religious education and dean of the summer institutes of the Epworth legaue; Dr. Robert G.

MeCutchan. president of the National Association of Choir Directors of America; Dr. H. M. Franks of Kentucky and Bishop Edwin Lee.

Besides the regular sessions of the conference a full program of entertainment and church activities has been arranged. There will be an educational banquet, a seminar dealing with the educational problems of the church, a meeting of the lay association, a conference of church music, a hymn festival and a banquet honoring the Calebs, ministers who have served the church 20 or more years. 2 i l. i 1 3 Thrcf of the nationally-known churchmen who will speak at the annual state conference of the Methodist church here June will be Wilbur E. Hammaker of Denver (loft), Dr.

F. W. Mueller of the Home Missions board (center) and Dr. N. F.

Forsyth of Chicago (right). Vi ft JS1 T-n-t ji As. a V4 'y 7 1 I i -'V i i mt 'if Bishop Edwin F. Lee The First Methodist church at the corner of Washington and Main streets where of the annual state conference of the church will center. islands the most unique Interracial fusion of civilization is taking place; o'clock.

Sermon subject. "Pavinir in Malaysia the civilization or the Malays and of Chinese and Indian imigrants are fusing with Western First Protestant Church in City Our Debts." Jail service at county jail, 3:30 p. William Johnson 1 J.JHt It." culture, and in the Philippines the in charge. Evening service at 8 culture of America Is being trans planted among a people who have o'clock. Sermon subject, "Paralysis, Its Cause and Cure." Special music and singing.

Pastor, Maurice been Asian through centuries. In .1 the midst of this changing situation, McGlnnis. the Methodist church has hundreds of churches and schools The climate of the Malay penin ST. FRANCIS XAVIER. Sunday masses.

6. 8, 9:15. 10:30. sula and of the islands is unusually Week-day masses, 6:30. 8:30.

First severe upon the white man, and iilri mi Friday masses, 6, 7, 8. Confessions. Saturdays and eves of feast days, 3. 5:30. 7:30, 9.

Pastor, Rev. H. scores of missionaries have broken under it. Bishop Lee is one of the few administrative officers of Methodism who have become thoroughly Blackmore, S. J.

acclimated in this tropic region. Superintendents of the three districts of the Methodist church in Montana are Rev. Horace Turner, Yellowstone district, Billings (left); Rev. Walter Wampler, Glacier Tark district, Great Falls (center), and Rev. Charles G.

Cole, Rocky Mountain district, Missoula (right). These three officers, together with the resident bishop, are in charge of the administrative affairs of the church in the state. The district superintendents are permitted to serve for six years only. ST. ANTHONY'S.

Edith and Tremont streets, two Educated in Midwest. Bishop Lee was born in Eldorado, 111., and received his education in Upper Iowa university, Northwestern blocks west of highway No. 93, In South Missoula; Rev. D. P.

Meade, pastor; Rev. Frank J. Burns, assistant pastor and University Newman club chaplain. Residence at 217 Tremont street; phone 4795. Sunday masses 7, 8, 9 and 10:30 a.

m. university, Garrett Biblical institute and the University of Chicago. He Early Leaders Heads Laymen served in pastorates in Illinois and in 1911 went to Java as a missionary. week-day mass 8:30 each morning. Evening service, 7:30.

Sunday school serving in Batavia and Kuala Lumpur as a minister and teacher; later transferring to Manila as pastor of 9:45 a. m. each Sunday. St. Anthony's school, Sisters' residence 41J the American Union church.

From Woodford street; phone 5243. 1917 to 1919 he served in France as a chaplain of the United States Army with the rank of captain. He "I AM" READING ROOM. Room 20, Masonic temnle. Sun was decorated by the French government for his war service, and by the government of Serbia for relief work, in which he engaged after the war.

Pictured above is the original home of the First Methodist church in Missoula. It was built in 1872, under the leadership of Rev. Thomas C. Iliff, pastor at that time, and was the first Protestant church between Helena and Walla Walla, Wash. In 1898 the structure was remodeled and enlarged and in 1911 was supplanted, on the same ground, by the present Methodist church building.

Following the war, Dr. Lee became day morning class at 10 o'clock. Beginners' class Tuesday, 7:30 p. m. 100 Per Cent group Wednesday, 7:80 p.

m. Daughters of Light Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Reading room open every afternoon from 2 until 5. The Voice of the "I Am" and books by Godfrl Ray "Unveiled Mysteries," "The Magio Presence," the "I Am" discourses, ascended Master discources, "The an associate secretary of the Methodist board of foreign missions, and in 1924 he returned to the Orient as superintendent of the Singapore district. In 1928 he was elected a bishop of the Methodist church.

adults meet for the worship sendee in the church service and then go the classes in choral technique which will be conducted at the university. The school of music will concentrate on sacred music during the period the conference is in session. The conference will be interdenominational in character and any person interested in church music will be welcomed. The historical background of the Methodist church in Missoula will be pointed out to visitors. Delegates will be visiting one of the earliest Methodist church sites in Montana as the original Methodist structure in Missoula stood on the ground occupied by the present building.

Rev. George Comfort was the first Methodist preacher in Missoula, arriving here in 1869. But it was not until 1871 that the church was organized here under the leadership of Rev. T. C.

Iliff. According to early photographs the church, erected by the late John Rankin at a cost of $2,300, $500 of which came from the meager purse of the pastor, was situated on the edge of a thriving village of about one hundred inhabitants. It was the first Protestant church between Helena and Walla Walla, Wash. The church did not thrive for the first few years and was reorganized in 1882 under the leadership of the late Rev. W.

W. Van Orsdel, who was known throughout the state as "Brother Only one of the original members, Mrs. Emma Dickinson, remained in the congregation. "Brother Van" did not remain in Missoula long but became an evan-gelist-at-large in the whole state The Organization. The boards of ministerial training and conference relations will meet at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon when reports of all pastors will be received.

At 7:45 o'clock In the evening the conference will be organized and Bishop Hammaker will deliver the opening sermon on "That Which Was Lost." Bishop Hammaker will also be heard in devotional addresses at 8:30 o'clock Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning and will preach at the morning service Sunday. Thursday evening he will give a missionary address on the Sino-Japanese question. Bishop Hammaker has been a missionary bishop in the East for several years. Dr. Forsyth will conduct the seminar on educational problems Wednesday afternoon and will speak at the educational banquet Wednesday evening.

He will represent the national board of education at the conference. Dr. Clifford, for a number of years director of religious education in Montana, will be in charge of the banquet. Under the new church his office will be known as the executive secretary of the conference board of education. Under the new church laymen are members of the annual conference.

One layman will accompany the minister of each church to the Lay delegates will gather Thursday morning and will attend the annual lay luncheon Thursday noon. Only elected delegates may vote at the conference but all laymen are eligible and are urged to attend the meetings. Dr. Reynolds will be in charge of lay activities. Calebs Banquet.

Thursday night one of the largest, banquets of the conference will be held when the Calebs gather for their annual dinner. Lay members and other pastors will join the 20-year ministers at this affair. Dr. Morrill, representative of the general missionary agencies of the church, will be heard at the Friday morning service. Dr.

Mueller will have charge of the meeting Friday night. He is a member of the board of home mis-nons and church extension and will be accompanied here by Rev. H. M. Frakes.

superintendent of the Kentucky mountain work and the Lassies quartette from the to their Bible classes. Ascended Master's Light," at your 4svs 1 rM'hi s.a convenience to read, (Schubertl "Moment Musical Number 5" (Schubert), "Moment Musical Number 6" (Schubert); Mrs. E. L.Marvin, pianist. Women's chorus, "Peace I Leave With You" (Roberts) Sermon, "Varieties of Religious Experience" In the Churches trc i I EPISCOPAL.

Church of the Holy Spirit; Ger rt. PEOPLE'S CHURCH OF CHRIST. -v- Corner of Cooper and Scott ald avenue, corner of South Sixth street; Thomas W. Bennett, rector. FIRST BAPTIST.

Across from courthouse; Herman streets. Sunday school, 10 a. m. Prayer service, 11 a. m.

Sunday school superintendent, E. H. Gal- Second Sunday after Trinity: 8 a. Holy communion; 11 o'clock, 'I 4jj(. land.

morning 'prayer and sermon. C. Rice, pastor. At 10 a. Sunday school.

The nursery continues through the worship service for convenience of parents. At 11 a. worship service. Anthem. "Hark, Hark, My Soul!" (Shelley).

Incidental solos by Miss Faye Bryan PRESBYTERIAN. Situated at the of South OUR SAVIOR'S LUTHERAN, Bonner. Erling R. Jacobson, pastor. Wor Fifth street, west, one block from CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

First Church of Christ, Scientist, corner of Pine and Pattee streets. Sunday services at 11 a. m. Subject, "Is the Universe, Including Man. Evolved by Atomic Force?" Sunday school at 9:45 a.

m. Wednesday evening service at 8 o'clock. A reading room in the church building is open daily except Sundays and holidays from 12 to 4:30 p. and Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings from 7 to 9 o'clock. ship hour, 9 a.

m. Mary Benum, or Higgins avenue. Sunday school. and Miss Marie Brown. Sermon, 9:45 a.

m. Church service at 11 o'clock; Dr. David E. Jackson, min Life With a Plus." Builders' picnic Dr. F.

Gordon Reynolds of Missoula is president of the Laymen's association of the Methodist church in Montana. He will preside at the annual meeting of the group here during the annual state church ganist. Special selection by the young people's choir. Choir rehearsal Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.

If weather permits, a picnic will be held after rehearsal. ister. Solo by Mrs. Fern Johnson Tuesday, 6:30 p. at Montana Power park.

Choir rehearsal Rev. W. W. Van Orsdel (Brother Van), who reorganized the Methodist church here in 1882, is shown (at left above) with Rev. Thomas C.

Iliff, who built the first Methodist church in Missoula in 1S71 at the site of the present structure of the Emmertson. Wednesday, 8 p. m. Women's Union CHURCH OF CHRIST. picnic Thursday, 1:30 p.

at 240 East Broadway; Herman L. EMMANUEL ENGLISH LUTHERAN1 430 Alder street; Nels E. Berg- Greenough park. Demonstration program of vacation church school Olmstead, minister. Sunday school at 9:45 a.

m. Morning worship at Friday, 7:30 p. m. where he sang and preached in schoolhouses, saloons and ranch houses and wrote his name indelibly in the early history of Montana. He 11 o'clock.

Organ prelude by Al strom, pastor. Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Morning worship at 11 o'clock. Sermon by the pastor; singing by the Bible school chorus.

Fluto. Pianist, Mrs. H. L. Olm stead; director of choir, Mrs.

A. W. helned to build more than 100 REORGANIZED CIHRCH OF JESUS CHRIST OK LATTER DAY SAINTS. Meet at 1327 South Fifth street. Williams.

Solo, "The Lord Ls My churches in the state. Vacation Bible school continues this week, 9 to 11:45 a. m. Sun Nazis Are Doing: Shepherd" (Liddle), by John Han The pastor of the church, Rev. M.

day school picnic Saturday, 1:30 p. ger, Sr. The message at the morn E. Van de Mark, will this Sunday west, at 10 a. m.

for church school The Lambeth Walk FIRST METHODIST. East Main and Washington streets; Martin E. Van de Mark, pastor. At 10:30 o'clock, morning worship and church school. Reception of members and baptismal service for young people and adults.

The pastor will speak on "The Ongoing Church." The chorus choir will be heard in an anthem and Miss Nelle Porter will sing. This church operates under the unified plan of church and church school. The nursery, beginners' and primary meet during the church service. Young people and ing hour will be brought by Walter complete his fifth year as pastor of and 11 a. m.

for church services. ducted by Dr. MeCutchan. The combined groups will sine Christiansen's Beautiful Savior." Rehearsals will be held in the early afternoon and the festival will start at 3.43 o'clock. The newest feature of the annual conference is the conference on chinch music.

The presence of Dr. MeCutchan. who will conduct the srsMons and lead all conference music, and full cooperation of the On Daly bus line. the church. A group will be received into church membership at the morning service.

Berlin. Lambeth Walk Myers of Beverton, Ore. Christian Endeavor at 7 p. m. in the church.

Evening woship at 8 o'clock. Sermon, "Slaving." A nursery is main UNIVERSITY CONGREG ATIONAL settlement and Mission center. A nas attained a certain degree of popularity in Germany in the teeth of Nazi opposition to that tained during the morning worship 401 University avenue; James Gordon Bennett, minister. Service ARGENTINES MONEY MAD? m. Luther league meeting Friday, 8 p.

m. CHURCH OF GOD. 1427 Philips street; Glen E. Clark, pastor. June 17 and 18, Y.

P. E. convention. Saturday evening service at 8 o'clock Sunday, prayer service, 7 a. m.

At 10 a. Sunday school. At 11 o'clock, morning worship. Services at 2 and 8 p. in.

Speakers, Rev. M. L. Lowe of Big Timber and several others. hour for the young children.

un-German product. chorus of 60 persons will be heard at this service. Sunday will be one ef the biggest flavs of the conference with morn of worship at 11 a. m. Piano num bers: "Moment Musical Number 2" Buenos Aires.

(VP) The easy way of life no longer exists in the Ar- school oi music at the State University will make this part of the Even some Nazi editorial opinion seems definitely to be swinging in ST. ANN'S, BONNER. Rev. John J. Connolly, pastor, Mass each Sunday at 8:30 a.

rentine. the Rev. Victor Wynburne javor oi tne aance. Says the Westfaclische Landes- Anglican chaplain, told his congregation in a farewell sermon, but Directors of Conference Activities zeitung, official organ of West summer schedule. Sunday school Ls conducted by two Sisters from phalia: "One may find a waltz more beautiful than a Lambeth St.

Anthony's parish after mass business competition is crowding out the more spiritual elements." He said British and North ing service, conducted by Bishop Hammaker, evening service at which Bishop Ie will deliver a missionary address and the hymn festhal during the afternoon. Choirs and individual singers from all Western Montana churches have been invited to join in the hymn festival which will be con- program one oi the best, bessions will be held every afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Christian church. Choir directors, organists aijd others interested in the promotion of church music are invited. During the week all persons registered in the church music conference will be permitted to attend without charge each Sunday. Walk.

We don't want to be prudish, American residents as well as native Argentines were too busy chasing Whoever finds joy In the Lambeth Walk let him dance it so long as it's done decently which is quite the dollar to come to church. EVANGELICAL COVENANT MISSION. 520 West Spruce street; R. E. Johnson, pastor.

At 10:30 a. m. possible. He does no harm to the community thereby." combined Sunday school and church A Kentucky Mountain Quartet worship. At 7 p.

Young People's ASH PRESERVES TREES. service. At 8 o'clock, evening serv ice. Tuesday, 8 p. mid-week Bend.

Ore. Investigators for service. the Oregon Asate and Mineral so ciety believe thev have traced th history of the Sweet Home petrified forest, which extends over 20 square miles in the Cascade footballs. They say that possibly 50.000.000 vears ST. PAUL ENGLISH LUTHERAN.

Brooks and Roosevelt streets," one block west of high school; Erling R. Jacobson. pastor. Worship hour, 11 a. m.

Mrs. Ben Boyd in organ program. Sermon by pastor. Selection by women's trio. "Fade, Fade Each Earthly Joy!" The vacation ago a living forest was covered volcanic ash.

In the course of cen CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS. 301 South Sixth street, west. Officers' and teachers' prayer meeting, 9:40 a. m. Sunday school promptly at 10 a.

m. District conference at Charlo. President Nibley; of the Northwestern States' mission and President Woods of the Alberta temple will be present. Monthly priesthood meeting Friday, 7:30 p.m. Regulate Leeches That De-Black Eye Louisville, Ky.

Wl A. Warren, barber who uses imported Swedish leeches to take the black out of black eyes, says the blackish-looking worms hate alcohol in any form. A one-to-two-inch leech can remove from one to two ounces of blood in 20 to 40 minutes through a suction-like arrangement In Its tail which attaches itself to the skin. Ordinarily the worm will hang on for life untU It gets its fill, but Warren says that if he wants it to turn loose earlier all he has to do is splash it with a few drops of some mixture containing alcohol. "Then it lose its appetite and let go in ft s.

Jf turies it washed away, leaving the 'TWkX' i v. of beautiful agatlzed trees, some them still erect! Bible school will continue its sec Mountain lassies from Frakes, who will share program with other singers as part of Montana Methodist sr.nual conference to be held in Missoula the coming week. They will be featured on the missionary program to be presented Friday evening. ond week of sessions on Monday at 9 a. m.

Classes for pre-school BETTER GRAPES SOIT.HT. I -4 'j and grade-school ages. Family night Thursday, June 29. sponsored by the Ladles' Aid society and the Buenos Aires. (A) Competition of South African fruit growers may give grapes of superquality to con sumers of grapes in the United Men brotherhood.

PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF GOD. States. The ministry of Agriculture noting the increased shipment of Leaders of two of the activities scheduled for the Methodist state conference are Dr. C. L.

Clifford (left), director of religious education for the church in Montana for several years and dean of the summer institutes of the Epworth league, and Dr. Robert G. MeCutchan (right), president of the National Association of Choir Directors, who will have charge of the music at the conference and will direct the conference on church music and the hyjnn festival Sunday, 601 North Fourth street. Sunday grapes from Africa directly to North school, 10 a. m.

Classes for all ages Atrerirs ha ordered sri-ial atten with spiritual teachers: Harold tion. pa.ticiuarly as to sire and Armstrong. Sunday school superin quality, piven to Argentine crapes tendent. Morning worship, 11 designated lor shipment northward..