The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-29

HARREsoNBUxa, March 2s.-[Speoiall
The conference was called to order
Saturday morning promptly at $50
o'clock by BishepJ. C. Keener. RELIC
ious services weDe conducted by DR.. j..
H. Waugh who'has stood 1T his post as
itinerant Methodist preacher for fifty.
years. While socne little trails he ia.
yet remarkably vigorous. But few mem-
bers are IS greatly beloved and honored
as this hero OF haafcentury of services :.
ALL except Ave oe the members of,the
conference having answered to the cali
or their names, the call OF the roll was,
dispensed with aad the conferences
spread it's sails to catch the full gale.
ana launched out i4to the wide sea OF.
accive business
Inc report OF the. evangeliatic COM
mittee was read and adopted. This re-.
port sets out the evil effects which, at
tend and follow the operations of evan
gelists AMONG the people to be vervy
grave and seriousS that it tended 10
create irreVerence; tended to the dis.
organization of the church forces. The
report urges that the ministers conduct
their own revival services as far as
possible; that where outside aid became,
necessary they call iT members Of their
own or of adjacent conferences; that
inc church members be requested to
discourage the work OF these evangelists
oy Withholding their presence from
their services and by this means from
supporting them. 1t was declared as
the opinion of the ommittee that the
Methodist was tho best system of evan
gelism in the world.
Tho h;abor eto.od 49, A.,
In charge was alone responsible for the
dignity of his pulpit, and that he musr
guard against the intrusion of irrespon-
sible persons. This statement was for
mulated into n resolution. offered byDr.
). *. Cox, seeking to hold member of
the conference liable to censure who
shall EN- ploy any of these irresponsible
self-styled evangelists. But as the res
olution stirred up some discussion and
appeared likely to produce some fric-
tion. 1t was withdrawn at the request of
the bishop.
The class to be received into the con-
ference, namely, w. l.. Smith, S. MI.
Bowman, w. Cover, w. II. "a. Joyce, j.
5. Fngle, T. u. Michael, C. A. Scaniand,
A. b. Sites, j. w. Beall and j. Fl. Will
htte, was called, and the bishop deliv-
cred to them pithy and terse charge,
lmpressing upon them the weight of the
immense responsibility assumed by
them In becoming mem bers of the CON
ference to travel rs Methodist preach
ers. All the searching disciplinary
questions we're answered in the affirma-
tive.
The bishop said: care YOU going ON
TO peri, ction--perfect in all respectsS
l have known men perfect in all respects
except humility. Do no. allow yourself
to go into debt. BE diligent, nv broth
ern. The church has no use for law
man. You may preach out Of an empty
mind or talk about tho Sunday-school
lessons. and think the people do not
know it, but they do. At the the ond of
the year they will tell you they want
you back, but you find out otherwise.
BE readers of tho Bible. the greatest OF
books. Greater wars have been waged
around tho law and the prophets than
around the pyramids, but every uime
tho world turns over one of these skep-
tical philosophers drops Off. and the
Bible gets stronger.
"A man can find q wide field Of use.
fulness in our church. 1t is as wide as
the world. Some think they must get
out of the church to find field of USE
fulness, but the church will furnish YOU
all you can do. God bless you, breth-
rem"
men were taken into full connection in
the conference.
DR.. IL. G. Morrison, the travelling sec.
rotary OF the missionary board, was in
troduced TO the conference, and deliy-
cred strong speech, showing up the
prosperity OF the mission work, which
has grown from one mission field, with
thirGy.siX members and three workers,
to vast outspreading domains in almost
every unchristian land, with ninety-nine
laborers in seven organized conferences,
with thousands OF members.
DIR. Morrison asked the conference to
subscribe gao shares, amounting to
So 400. to be utilized in the support of
b. w. Waters and wife and j. C. 8. New
ton and wife, tho representatives of this
conference, as missionaries now labor
Ing In the missionary cause in Japan.
Inc full amount was quickly pledged.
This act places the conference in the
forefront of Southern churches. The
prospect now is that the collections ac-
cruing from the anniversary collection
OF the conference will be clearly en-
titled to carry the banner in missionary
contributions.
The sermon last night by DIR. j. T.
Wightman upon hetext, strengthened
with might by His spirit in the inner
man. was the finest discourse OF any
delivered before the conference to date.
The house was packed to its utmost ca
pacity, listening with wrapt attention
to the doctors finished paragraphs of
polished periods. The central idea OF
his sermon was expressed thus: "rhe
noblest thought of God was the repro
duction Of God in tho creation Of good
man."
The sermon was replete with grand,