The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-21
BALTIMORE CONFERENCE.
1t VIII be Held at Greene-Memorial
Church Next Week

VIII 10 helo at Greene-MemOrfal
Church Next Week.
Tho old Baltimore annual conference
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church,
CITY, The opening sermon will be
preached in Greene Memorial Church
next Tuesday night by Rev. 81. III Ken
neoy. The conference will be opened on
Weane.dsy morning following by Bishop
Il. Il. Hargrove, the president.
Ibis promises to be one Of the most
important and the large st attended &c a.
sions OF the conference ever held. Be-
SIDES Bishop Hargrove, Bishop Gran.
perry Will also be present during the
session as An official visitor. There will
also be present large number of con-
nectional officers and official visitors.
iHE TIMES publishes this morning @
corrected and revised list of the mem
bers OF the conference, delegates sndy
visitors who will attend, and who bays
been provided for by the committee on
entertain ment, which will be found ON
the third page Of THE TIMES this morn
ing. This list will be published each
DAY during conference and comprises
about two hundred and seventy ive
names, all OF whom Will attend, accotd-
Ing to the latest advices from the en{er.
tainmens committee. There will Also
be large number Of lay visitors from
various parts OF the conference present
curing the session. 1t is reasonable to
suppose that there will be fully Ave
>honared pereons In the city during the
session, which will last about one week.
Bishop Hargrove is one of the most
distinguished heads OF the Southern
branch OF Methodism. BE resides \in
Nashville, Tenn, and was, prior to his
elecuon TO the episcopacy, connected
with impors ant educational interests Of
the church. He is firm presiding
officer and we'll skilled in ali the usages
OF parliamentary law. He will be enter.
tanned at the Ponce de Leon Hotel by
j. M. Gambill.
The secretary OF the conference is
Rev j.. e. Armstrong, the presiding
elder OF the East Baltimore district.
Inc first business OF the conference ia
to elect secretary, and Rev. Mr.. ARM
strong will, of course, fill the position
again, as he is Q most excellent officer.
1t requires Q corps Of six assistants to
perform the immense volume of work
handled by the conference.
About the first business Of the confer.
ence will be to appoint the various
boards and committees. All boards and
committees are generally composed of
On equal number Of clerical and Law
members, except on questions pertain
Ing to the ministry, when the mem Der.
ship Is composed Of clerical members
entirely.
The board of missions is composed OF
i2hteen members, board of finance
eighteen. board of education eighteen.
Sunday school board eighteen, church
extension board eighteen, board of col.
portage eighteen, both clerical and lay.
The committee on conference rels.
lions will TO composed of eight minis
tiers; com mittee on mentors, eight min
listers The five committees on exsmi.
nation are composed Of three each, for
admission on trial, and first, second.
third and fourth years.
The committee on temperance, pub
fishing interests and Bible cause, are
composed of aixteen members each,
equally divided between the clerical and
lay members.
There will also be committees on dis
trict conference records, church and
parsonage insurance. public worship,
etc.
The committee on examination snd
the joins bard of finance are not ap.
pointed until the close of the confer.
ence, the old board and committees
holding through the session.
Ono remarkable feature for this con-
ference IL that the Committee on me-
moirs will have nothing TO do, not one
member OF conference having died dur
ing the year.
There are perhaps ten ol twelve pers
sons for admission on trial, but as there
is not much demand at this time for
young preachers the list will evidently
be scanned closely and the applicants
submitted to rigid examination. The
nYalfd{nn plAar NJ ha
trict reported 10 The committee on en-
tertainment that Rev. v. w. Wheeler,
formerly q member of the conference,
would be an applicant for restoration of
orders. he having Withdrawn from the
conference two years ago.
large number of the preachers will
arrive in the city on Tuesday, and D. OBJ.
ably the entire membership Of the con-
ference will be on hand early Wednes-
day morning Bishop Hargrove will
arrive on Monday, and will hold con-
ference with the presiding elders 8, the
Ponce de Leon Hotel on Tuesday.
1t Is said that the reports coming In
from the various charges and circuits
will show great increase in mem Der.
ship over last year. Ii Is very probsble
that the membership of the conference
will approximate $4,000. There will
elao be large increase reported in
Epworth League work, this institut ton
OF the church having been much stinu-
lated and encouraged during the past
year.
1t Is expected that there will be
some changes in the Roanoke district
during the coming year, but at present
this ID only conjecture Ishas been re-
ported, however. that some OF the
preachers desire change. The ap-
poiutments In This city will not be
materially affeoted though thara roov