The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-03-19
Columbia District Items.

The district conference will be
held at Mt. Pleasant in Maury
county beginning May 6, at 7.30
p. m. 1t will begin with a S. S.
which will continue I'M
til Thursday night, May Z. The
delegates to the district conference
are the delegates to the S. S. con-
ference and are expected to be pres
ent on Wednesday night. 1t is not
a Sunday school convention. See
discipline, page 134-5.
Nineteen recording stewards are
expected to be present with their
quarterly conference records in
good order-defying the criticisms
of the committee on the same.
Local and supernumerary preach
ers are an important element in a
district conference. They owe it 20
themselves and the church that
clothes them with authority to
preach to be present and take part
in these conferences.
The religio-social, as well as
spiritual enjoyment, ought, coupled
with a sense of duty, to be incen-
tive enough.
From among the local preachers
and lay delegates the district con-
ference will elect delegates to the
annual conference, which meets in
Columbia next fall.
Those delegates will from their
number elect delegates to the gener-
al conference which meets in Rich
mond, Va, in May, 1886. That
general conference will in all prob
ability elect several bishops. We
have lost four of these honored ia
theirs in Israel since the general
conference met in Nashville.
A bishop will preside at Mt.
Pleasant think. Bishop Wilson
says in letter from Hot Springs
March ID: Through the mercy of
our Heavenly Father 1 am improv-
ing and trust to be at work soon"
Every delegate will be warmly
welcomed and well provided for at
Mt. Pleasant. Do not be afraid to
go in private conveyances, your
stock viii "fare sumptuously every
day."
Pastors, please carry every cent
of your bishops money to the con
ference at Mt. Pleasant. Will you
be able to report your foreign and
domestic missionary money paid in
full?
"Where shall the next quarterly
conference be held?" The pastor
says cat Apathy Chapel" Who
asked for it? mo one, but they
are expecting it." On what ground?
"Well, it is their time to have it.
They will not pay much quarter
age unless you give them a quarter
" conference"
Here is a presiding elder, pastor
and the officials of one society in a
circuit of four appointments sitting
in a quarter of a quarterly confer
ence. If an interest Of the church
involving the societies not repre-
scented is presented for official &C
ton the brethren hesitate in defer
ence to the absentees. Could a
pastor, presiding elder or bishop
work a circuit under such circum-
stances? What advantage is a
quarterly conference to the oun1@@yy
schools, social meetings, church
property, especially parsonage IN
terests, and financial plans of the
circuit when held in a local congre-
CATION oniyf2 And yet the brethren
remain at home, depending an the
pastor, who may have personal rea-
sons fer desiring the presiding ell
der TO visit "the chapel" to carry"
the next quarterly conference to
their place. Nominate men for of
fetal place who will attend official
meetings, and take quarterly con-
ferences where they are asked for.
Two more quarterly conferences
and I will have closed my second
round. Preachers better cared for
in the district than last year. If
ste wards will work during the third
quarter their final success will be
sure.
Let us look well to our prepara-
tions for love feasts and sacramen-
tai services, as well as gracious re-
vivals, on the third round. To that
end let US give up our worldliness
lay down our prejudices, adjust our
differences, rally aroard the cross,
and seek the baptism of Gods
blessed spirit. Establish home al
tars; be kind to the unconverted.
Pray for them. Pray for your pas
tors. Speak kindly to and of them.
Meet them in the social meetings
of the church. Let all who grum-
bled last year work hard for Christ
and his cause this year and watch
the result. It, j. DUNCAN.