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Show METHODISM UNITES , AS ONE CHURCH Setting up administrative machinery ma-chinery for a church of nearly 8,000,000 members will be the task of the Methodist Uniting Conference which convenes in Kansas City, Mo., April 26, for probably three weeks. The Conference Con-ference will be the first official gathering after the reunion of the Methodist Episcopal, the Methodist Epicopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Pro-testant churches under the name "The Methodist Church". Representing this district will be Dr. W. E. Blackstock of Salt Lake City, district . superintendent superinten-dent of the Utah Mission of M.E. churches and Miss Ada Duhigg, superintendent of the Highland Boy Community House. Miss Duhigg Du-higg is leaving Monday and will be one of the 77 women among 900 delegates attending the Conference. Con-ference. The new church is divided into six jurisdictional conferences, five of them based on geographical geographi-cal regions and the sixth including inclu-ding all Negro Conferences and overlapping the others geographically. geogra-phically. The establishment of the Conference affects nearly 8,000,000 members and is a great event. Miss Duhigg was named a delegate dele-gate for the Utah district by the national council of bishops. |