. Book of the Royal blue . ilALTIMORE will be theLt scene of a notable assem-^ blage this year. TheGeneral Conference ofthe Methodist EpiscopalChurch will meet in TheLyric, May 6. Duringthe ensuinu; days it is estimated that a throngof at least thirty thousand persons will cometo the city as \isitors to this great gathering,or in company with the members of theConference. The regularly elected dele-gates entitled to participate in the proceed-ings number eight hundred. These comefrom all parts of the world. There were on December 31, 1907, onehundred and thirty-one Annual Conferences,each of w
. Book of the Royal blue . ilALTIMORE will be theLt scene of a notable assem-^ blage this year. TheGeneral Conference ofthe Methodist EpiscopalChurch will meet in TheLyric, May 6. Duringthe ensuinu; days it is estimated that a throngof at least thirty thousand persons will cometo the city as \isitors to this great gathering,or in company with the members of theConference. The regularly elected dele-gates entitled to participate in the proceed-ings number eight hundred. These comefrom all parts of the world. There were on December 31, 1907, onehundred and thirty-one Annual Conferences,each of which is entitled to select delegates. FIRST PITLPIT OF .METHODISM IN .\.\IERIC.\. to the General Conference. The delega-tions vary from two to sixteen in hundred and twelve Annual Confer-ences are within the United States, of whichninety-six are English speaking, ten areGerman, four Swedish and two Norwegian-Danish. There are nineteen Foreign Conferencesdistributed as follows: India, six; China,three; South America, two; Germany,two; Switzerland, one; Sweden, one; Nor-way, one; Italy, one; Mexico, one; Africa,one. In emphasis of the wide influence ofMethodism, it may be stated that the busi-ness of ninety-seven Annual Conferences iscarried on in the English tongue, thirteenuse the German language, ti\e the Swedish,three the Norwegian, three the Chinese,three the Spanish, one the Italian and sixthe se\eral vernaculars of India. In addi-tion to the one hundred and thirty-oneAnnual Conferences enumerated, there aretwelve Mission Conferences and sixteenMissions which ha\e no official representa-tion in the General
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