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Show Methodist Conference at Los Angeles. Tho end of tho first week of tho thirty-first goncral conference or the Methodist Episcopal church at Los Angoles sees much of tho preHmlnary matter and details disposed ot and tho groat gathering nearly ready to take up the moro Important work beforo IL All of tho standing committees havo been organized, many of them have appointed their sub-committees and mapped out tho work assigned to tholr BpccJal attention. In tho initial sessions of tho leading commlttocs ono question above all others has been brought prominently to tho foro. It Is tho question of whother tho presont conference shall rostoro tho ministerial tlmo limit cf threo or five years or permit thu presont pres-ont plnn of unlimited tenure, which wns adopted at tho general conferenco four years ago, to contlnuo. |