The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-12-19
MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE.

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The Conference has come and gone,
and we feel that Brookhaven was
greatly blessed by having this convo-
cation of Cody men within her gates
during the few days of their sojourn
while attending to their Masters busi-
ness.
The Conference met last Thursday
morning, with the venerable Bishop
Hargrove, of Nashville, presiding, and
continued in daily session until Mon
day just before noon, when the annual
appointments we're read out by the
bishop amid solemn hush; then the
long metre doxology was sung and
benediction pronounced, followed by
many hasty hand shakes and farewells,
and the 87th annual session of the
Mississippi Conference had passed
into history.
The LEADER publishes elsewhere
list of the appointments for the Brook
haven district. Rev. j. A. b. Jones,
who had served as assistant secretary
to DIR. c. G. Andrews for 80 years, was
elected as the successor to his lament
ed chief, who passed to his heavenly
reward nearly year ago.
There we're a number of eminent
men of the church here during the sit
ting of Conference, DR.. j. ]. Tigert,
DR.. H. NJ. DuBose, DIR. J. III. Pritchett,
Chancellor Kirkland, of the Wander
bilt University, DR.. Hammonds and
others being among the number pres
ent from Nashville in behalf of the
various works they represent.
Rev. T. L. Mellen, Presiding Elder of
the First district, was the ever-genial
and irrepressible member of Missis-
sippi. DR.. w. b. Murrah, of Millsaps;
Rev. l.. S. Jones, of the Port Gibson
Female College; Prof. J. w. Beason, of
the East Mississippi Female College,
and last, but not least, Revs. A. F.
Watkins and M: l.. Burton, of Whit
worth, represented the educational in
stitutions of the Conference.
Major r. w. Millsaps and Prof. l..
T. FitZhugh, of Jackson: Mr.. L. P.
Brown and Capt. S. B. Watts, of Me-
ridian, Judge Bell and several other
widely known laymen were in attend
ance.
The thing done by the Conference
of greatest interest to the general pub
lie was the taking of advanced ground
on the Prohibition question, pronounc-
ing in favor of State Prohibition law.
OF this, THE LEADER will speak more
at length hereafter.
From the report read during the ses-
sion by Rev. B. S. Harmon, statistical
secretary, the following interesting
statistics were cleaned:
Local preachers 108, members, 3S, 1867,
infants baptized 996, adults baptized
92l, Epworth Leagues "a, Epworth
League members 2144, Sunday schools
$40, Sunday school teachers 2062, Sun
day school scholars 1899, amount
collected for conference claimants
s39l6, foreign missions S6l79.69, domes-
tic missions S2851.47, church extension
S194320, American Bible Society
s693.39, presiding elders SS81709,
preachers in charge s6l .96506, bishops
s13S6,25, number of societies 472, num-
Der of houses of worship 405, value of
houses of worship s455,345, indebted
ness on houses of worship 15,054.15,
number of pastoral charges 123, num-
Der of parsonages owned 100, value of
parsonages sl07 1850, Indebtedness on
parsonages S2937, number of districts
I, number of district parsonages 5,
value of district parsonages 5000, in
debtedness on district parsonages
$500, number of churches damaged 2,
insurance carried sS6,535, premiums
paid S1l3010.
There is general increase in finan-
cial reports, and an increase in the
membership statistics. There is an
increase of 1349 in the membership re-
ported.
| The several pulpits of the city were
filed on Sunday by distinguished
preachers of the conference, Bishop
Hargrove occupying the pulpit at the
Methodist church in the morning and
Dr. Tigert at night.
The next meeting will be held at
McComb City.
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES.