The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-09
ALABAMA CONFERENCE
WILL MEET IN PENSACOLA Tnis
 MORNING.
Bishop W. A. Candler to Preside Over the Sessions-Committees AL ready at Work-Attendance
 Wnl Be Large.

uunQEeu UlluloIcI1 WGIO hGtV CAoee~0 ~~- the examination rooms of the different committees. Every preacher on applying for admission into the Conference must appear before a committee and stand an examination upon prescribed subjects. Then during each of the first four years there is a good full course which he must complete. When he has successfully passed all these examinations he is eii- gible to be ordained an elder and have all the prerogatives and powers of the min' istry conferred upon him.
 All these classes are being examined to- day by the committees whose members are regularly appointed for a four years term to perform that work as their offi- cial duty. The committee to examine applicants consists of Revs. J. A. Paterson. D. D., J. P. Roberts and B. C. Glenn. They have before them about twenty young | men from various points in the confer ence who desire to be received into the | itinerant ministry tomorrow. This is 8 | large class and is made up of fine type | of men. all of them just entering upon active life, and several of them very fine- ly educated. Rev. Frank Seay of Mont gomery. is one of the number. The Committee to examine the Class of the First Year consists of Revs. A. l.. Andrews. D. D., c. H. Motley and G. N. Glenn. The following make up tine class: Revs. c. w.. Northcutt. H. ". Hudson, C. l.. Chiffon, IT,, James c. Harrison, 8. U. Turnipsed, J. w. Mum.
 Revs J. B. Cumming. A. l.. Sellers and N. R. Hamer arc the members of the committee who are engaged in examining the ciass of the Second Year. The class which they have before them includes Revs. T. G. Jones, c. c. Daniel, James Enrfnrd n 10 Curtis. William J. Simmons. .
 Revs. J. W. Shoaff. D. D., c. P. At kinson and I. F. Bilbro are the commit tee to examine the Glass of the Third Year. The members of that class ae: Revs. E. c. Moore. k. c. Nave, W. W. Crymes, H. W. Chambers, J. T. Mangum.
 Two members of that class are minis ters in Montgomery churches. Messrs. Mangum and Nave. Mir. Nave Is before the committee today. Owing to the sort affliction of his family in the loss so re- gently of his two little children. MT. Mangum could not come to the Confer ence. It is understood that he made ap- plication to the Chairman of the Com mittee in Montgomery, and stood the ex- animation very creditably.
 Revs. G. M. Sellers, H. H. McNeil and T. A. Rogers make up the Committee to examine the Class of the Fourth Year. MT oCu6tS, OWIlB IO HI uCdlIu, WdS not able to come to Conference. He is in El Paso, Texas. where he is trying to re- gain his strength. The other two nem- bers of the committee are carrying on the work of the examination today. It is earnestly hoped by a host of friends in this body that Mir. Sellers may be able at an early day to resume his place as a minister in the Conference.
 There are seven ministers before this Committee today. After this examination has been approved the Conference will elect them elders, and they will be or dained by Bishop CandleF next Sunday afternoon at the Gadsden Street Matho- dist Church. The class consists of Revs. W. B. Parent, Neil A. Gillis, Simeon w Williams. Eugene W. Coleman, Dow P. Slaughter, W. R. Bickerstaf1 and J. B. Trotter.
 At the morning service Sunday a class who have passed successfully the first two years of study, will be ordained dea- cons by Bishop Candler
 Pensacola has made most elegant and ex- cellent provision for the entertainment of the Conference.
 Rev. J. M. Dannelly the pastor of Palafox Street Methodist Church, has Joined with Rev. W. s. Vreeland, who is pastor of the Gadsden Street Church in which the Conference is meeting, and they have perfectly planned and admira- bly, executed the features of the enter tainment of the Conference. These two vry popular ministers are already well known for their executive ability and skill in matters of this nature.
 The Gadsden Street Church is worthy of special remark in connection with the assembling of this Conference. It is new. having been finished within the past year. It has been built entirely within the past three years. When the building was begun there was not a single member But the far-seeing pastor of the city mission selected a site in one of the finest sec tlons of the residence part of the city for uptown. He collected money and went to work to build. The result in a few months was one of the prettiest and finest churches in the city, and one of the most up-to-date church buildings In the Con- ference. It is large structupre, with all modern and necessary rooms and con venlences in pressed brick finish. It now has several hundred members of very substantial and fine people, is a well or- ganized church, keeps up all organized church. activities, and is entertaining the Conference,
 It will be remembered, as the Alabama Conference is meeting in this Florida city, that this Conference includes the south ern half of Alabama. while the northern
 
 Alabama Conference. This territory is thus compact and geographical though causing slight confusion in the mind be- cause of lying partly in two States and having the name of one.
 This city has two strong Methodist churches beside a city mission which is kept up at several places. The people have generously opened their homes and extended their hospitality to the Confer ence. Entertainment has been provided foR 341 delegates. ministers and visitors. Every preachers wife who could attend has been provided for and a large num- Der will be here.
 w. F. Vandiver, who has already won his way into great favor with this body for his loyalty and his representative ability and active interest in the Confer enoe is expected to be present on the formal public sssion tomorrow.
 J. J. Flowers is well known among the laytnen who always attend the sessions of the Conference and participate in them with great interest He is also a dele gate.
 Dr. A. s. Andrews, who is one of the most popular men in the body, both when he delights them with his mirth and when he sways them with his personality and