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Scope and Contents This collection consists of the minutes of annual meetings (called a District Conference) by the French Mission District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. These meetings were attended by the district’s clergy and lay delegates from each pastoral charge; it was presided over by the district's presiding elder, Martin Hebert.The minutes document the administrative activities of the meetings and regularly include the following reports: religious and...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a scrapbook primarily containing newspaper article clippings (1898-1913) documenting the pastoral activities of Rev. Martin Hebert in south Louisiana among French-speaking communities. Hebert wrote some of the articles, which originally appeared in the New Orleans Christian Advocate, a weekly newspaper published by the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The clippings include the following topics: outreach to French-speaking communities in south Louisiana, the...