The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-28
LAST SESSION OF
THE CONFERENCE
Completed Its Work and Ad-
journed Yesterday
LIST OF THE APP0IN TMENTS
DR.. ]. P. McTerrin of Tennessee As
signed to First Methodist Church
of This City-Will Meet
Next in Decatur
LIST OF THE APRON TMENTS

The fifth and closing session OF the North
Alabama conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, was called TO or
der yesterday morning at the First Metho-
dist church by Rev. J. I. Morris, Kew H.
J. Wilson conduc ting the services Aluer
the minutes of Saturdays session had been
read by Acting Secretary Mccoy ana aP-
proved the report Of the committee on ZIP
| worth leagues was submitted by Secretary
| w. r. Hendrix, the report being very sat
| isfactory indeed; an annual ceeting OF all
| the leagues in the Southern Methodist
| church being recommended.
This suggestion met with opposition from
Rev. G. w. Read who opposed it on the
! ground that there were already too many
meetings held, and was defended by
Messrs ]. H. Mccoy, R. I. Watson and j.
| ID. Ellis, and after some further argument
| the report was adopted as read.
| The names of M. E. Butt and z. A. Par
ker were proposed to The committee on
conference relations for the superannuate
relations by NJ N. Morris.
! Chairman Jesse Wadsworth read the re-
port of the Sunday school board. The re-
| port DelHS Satisfactorily, IL was e1uOP0SN'
Decatur was put in nomination for the
next meeting place by ]. D. Alexander;
| New Decatur by Ira Hawkins; Lafayette
by V. o. Hawkins, Decaur being finally
| chosen.
| The report of the board OF missions was
read by the chairman. John D. Simpson,
! and adopted
| 1t was decided to have The interest~of
the North Alabama conference in lie
| Southern university turned over to the
Alabama conference, DR.. }. /. Sturdiyant
Offering a resolution to this end, and Dr..
j. W. Newman was selected to look aHter
| une matter.
! The joint board of finance was reported
| through S. R. Emerson; the funds con-
trolled by this board being designed for
the assistance of old preachers, widows
and ORPHANS, Rev. Edward Fulmer reading
| the names OF the claimants
A resolution of thanks to the railroads
| and newspapers was offered by Rev. f. p.
| Culver and carried.
| Congressman Roberts
A resolution against the seating of Brig
ham II. Roberts as congressman from
Utah was offered by E. NJ. Glenn and after
being somewhat modified was adopted.
The board of church extension reported
through j. R. Kennedy, and the affairs of
tlis board being in good shape the report
was adopted.
W. L. Hendrix was placed in supernu-
merary relations by the committee con-
ference relations.
| The board of education reported through
G. w. Read. The Tuscaloosa Female COL
|
to be in excellent condition. Owenton col
lege reported 17S pupils. One hundred dol
| lars for Payne institute was recommend
ed by the committee, and f. P. Culver
| wished this amount increased to five nun
dred. His amendment was lost.
Rev. ]. T. Ellis wished to amend the
| report by making Rev. s. M. Hosmer pres
ident of the Southern university and 8. n.
Tyler student, and this was carried.
A watch given by a dying man in Geor-
gia for the Cuban cause was sold for S15O
and then returned to Bishop Gambler
The following transfers to this conference
| were announced: J. w. Bradford, from
Louisiana conference: s. E. WATSON, from
Tennessee conference; J. p. McFerrin, from
Western North Carolina conference; ]. w.
Sellers, from Florida conference, and E. F.
Riley from South Georgia conference.
statfstica Report
w. f. Sanford, the statistical secretary,
reported as follows: Number church mem
bers in the conference, 62,655; infants bap-
tized the past year, $780, adults baptized,
2,025; number Epworth Leagues, 106; Ep-
worth League members, 1874; number Sun
day schools, COG; Sunday school teachers,
3,7O3; pupils, 34,6o6; amount collected for
foreign missions, $Ss51; for home missions.
s4179; amount for church extension, 2,5J7;
for American Bible society, $2Sa.S7 for
preachers on charges, 75,046S0 for presid-
ing elders, $12, S349S; for bishops, $1,5Oi.
Number of societies in the conference, 791
| houses of worship, $780, values of houses of
worship, $691 sis; Indebtedness thereon,
$46,69s; number of charges, 1873; parsonages,
14s; value of parsonages s137,7O9; indebted
ness on parsonages, s5.5i1; district parson-
| ages. 10; valued at $2S,75O, with only $500
| Indebtedness.
Churches and parsonages have been dam
aged by fire and storm during the year to
the amount of 1884.
The amount of insurance carried in the
conference is s15S767, with premiums OF
$1,4S7.
Losses of 81, 40i have been sustained on
insured property. OF this 1904 has been col
lected.
Secretary Mccoy read the minutes. and
Bishop Gambler read the appointments. the
long-meter doxology was sung, and the