The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-26
NEXT CONFERENCE
 MEETS IN OPELIKA
Christian Endeavorers Re-eleCt
 GaIt BraxtOn President
GENERAL NEWS OF SELMA
Decision of the Women to Have Me mortal Services on Sunday Despite Protest of Ministers Is Absorb
 ing Topic of Discussion.

Selma, April 25.-(Special)-The next conference of the Christian Endeavor society of Alabama will be held in opelika on Good Friday and will continue through Easter Sunday. This afternoon resolu- tions out of respect to the memory of Field Secretary E. B. Ebberman were presented and addressed to the conven- ton.
 The following officers were chosen for the ensuing term: H. Gait Braxton' Birmingham. president; S. J. Cassels, Montgomery vice president; Miss Maud Newton, Birmingham, secretary; s. P. Bissett, Birmingham. treasurer; l.. E. Apperson Selma. junior superintendent. The second days sess;on of the Chris tian Endeavors thirteenth annual con- vention was opened with a Quiet Hour." conducted by various delegates. Dr. Francis E. Clark, the founder of the socie- ty was to have been present on this occa- sion, but owing to a railroad wreck above Atlanta did not reach the city until II o'clock. He was met at the depot by nearly all the delegates in. the city and escorted to the Cumberland Presbyterian church. There he made a short address, saying that he had experienced long and tiresome trip from Boston to Selma, but as the delegates seemed glad to see him he was more than glad be had come. The Rev. Allen R. Moore of Birming ham having been called home last night by telegram to preach the funeral of one of his congregation delivered his address last night and 1t was closely lis tened to. In the absence of F. S. Ball of Montgomery Dr. A. A. Little of this city delivered a very happy address this morn- ing on "A View, A Preview and A New View"
 The following is the programme for to- morrow
 SUNDAY MORNING.
 6:SO-"Quet Hour.'
 9:3O-Sunday school at all the churches. 11:0-Church services at all the churches.
 SUNDAY AFTERNOON
 3:00-Praise service conducted by W. T. Swain. Selma.
 -'Interdenominational Fellowship" S. P. Spiegel Birmingham.
 3:40-"Thirty Minutes With the Word" C. N. Moore, Birmingham.
 SUNDAY NIGHT.
 
 led by J. w. Sibley Chattanooga. S:0O-Address Dr. F. E. Clark, Boston. 9:00-Consecration and Mispah.
 The discussion over the squabble be- tween the ladies of the Memorial associa- ton and the preachers and others who object to observing Memorial day on Sum day, continued to be the sole topic on the streets today. No ltue thing in Sel- ma has stirred up thls community as much as this. Two revivais are at this time. and the Christian sentiment is running at high tide just now in Selma. The ladies do not propose to have any parade with banners waving and bands playing, but the citizens will assemble at , D. m., and with the soldier boys with out arms repair to the cemetery, where a simple programme will be carried out even the usual address being omitted. Hon. E. S. Starr will be the marshal of the day.
 The following telegram received today by the secretary of the Memorial associa- tion from a well known Birmingham citi- zen shows that the Selma discussion has gone even beyond the confines of the city:
 Birmingham, April 25. Mrs. Fannie Kable, Secretary Memorial
 Association, Selma, Ala:
 If disloyaty to race is treason to God, then those who died defending their race were martyrs to heaven; therefore the converting of the Sabbath to their honor must be serving the Lord I therefore commend the action of your association in decorating our soldiers graves tomor- row, and would be glad if I could assist you in the sacred work.
 DIR. O. T. DOZIER.