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Illinois Conference session of the Methodist Episcopal church
The Illinois Conference met September 21 26 at Laurel Methodist Episcopal church Springfield with Bishop Edwin Holt Hayes presiding. The gathering drew about 500 ministers and lay representatives from Bloomington Campaign Danville Decatur Jacksonville Mattoon Quincy and Springfield. Leaders and speakers included Rev P P Carson Dr W L Stidger Dr Lovejoy Dr H R DeBra Bishop E G Richardson and Dr Ralph Diffendorfer. The event included worship services memorials education talks and the Love Feast.
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Illinois
Springfield
Edwin Holt Hayes
Chicago
Laurel Church
Huges
P. P. Carson
Tuscola
Atlanta
Georgia
Bishop Richardson
Francis G. Blair
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Woman’s Home Missionary Society
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
Pauline Wescott
Hinghwa
China
Foreign Society
Ralph Diffendorfer
Board of Foreign Missions
T. A. Stafford
Board of Pensions and Relief
S. W. Robinson
Board of Hospitals and Homes
State Arsenal
W. G. Lloyd
Carlinville
Huyes
Arsenal
Hughes
D. Hollington
Garrett Biblical Institute
E. D. Kohlstedt
Board of Home Missions and Church Extension
Philadelphia