The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-11
SECOND DAYS WORK
M. E. SOUTH CONFERENCE AT
 PENSACOLA.
Rev. Dr. Hammond Delivers an Ad- dress on the Subject of Educa-
 tion-Some Sayings of the Bishop.

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 Pensacola. Dec. M-tspeciai.l-Thc sec ond days session of the Alabama Con- l ference was called to order promptly at o'clock this morning by Bishop Cand- Ter.
 Rev. E. M. Turner of Greensboro, one of the superannuate preachers of the Con ference, announced hymn 454. After sing ing this hymn. he led the congregation in prayer.
 was ane resS sSpt1a1 py Rev. ey oe pr J. T M Mason. A communication from the Board or Church Extension was read. A sum ot G7 ,SS1 was reported as having been raised the yea, for dIdsa ths Sotb bv aay and donation. This Is for the whole Methodist Church. South. The value of church buildings in the connection has in- 5 within Sa ths ysss sy Conference Board of Church Extension. with accompanying documents. A communication from the American special Committee on Temperance without
 Dr. F. H. whisner. the Secretary of | Church Extension for the Methodist Conference. and made an address upon the very important work committed to his care. The church, he says. owns twenty | five millions dollars worth of church | DulLuInkS. lue COD8ES8dtlOHb af6 Dutlu- ing churches or aiding to build them in | all sections and in several foreign fields. I Two thousand dollars was apportioned to build churches in Cuba the past year. tributions for the combined benevoiences of the church.
 pr. Whlsner will leave tomorrow to at tend the. Florida Conference, which is in
 Dr. James Atkins of Nashville. secre- tary of the, Sunday School Board; Dr. Hammond. Secretary of Education, and Dr w; F. Tillet. Dean of the Theological were introduced to the Conference. Dr. T. F. Mangum, Presiding Elder of ! the Eufaula District, asked for the refer ence of Rev. A. Bowling to the Commit l tee on Conference Relations for the Su- perannuation. He stated that Mir. Dow | ling was in a critical condition and might not live ull the close of this Conference. Rev. Dr. Hammond addressed the Con. ! ference on the subject of education. with special reference2to more general and systematic provision for the education of ministers, and the building up of the in- Stitutione. sEt ,.I .,
 Dr. Hammond told a joke on two not | very weli-informed Methodists who hap pened to be in town while a Conference was going on. One said ''the Conference is sitting, let's go.' The other asked what said. Why. an annual Conference Is where the preachers get together and swap, sermons" The other answered, | Well. knew something was wrong for our preacher is a young man and he gets cheated in the trade every time." pr. Hammond says now we want to fix it so | that these young preachers can't get l cheated in the matter of their sermons
 pr. Tillet of Vanderbilt University. | when he arose to make his address. paid a slowing tribute to the preacher who | could go into a new and unoccupied field and found and build up a handsome | church. and af the end 0f Four pe ay, | certain the Conference in it. The man who has done that in the present case is an alumnus of Vanderbilt, Rev. Walter | L.. Vreeland. He said the great central institution of Methodist education in the South is university worth $2OO0,0OO and with seven departments of learning ad- mirably equipped.
 He spoke of the fact that 2,5OO Metho- dist preachers have had their training in the theological department of Vanderbilt He told of the provisions to enable poor young men to get these privileges in pre- pairing for their ministry. He referred to
 the fact that. if rich young men were
 called to the ministry, they evidently did
 not answer. for nearly ev4ry one that of.
 fers is a poor man. So much the more he said.s w - f13 "
 Dr. TIllet spoke at some length of the
 work of the correspondence school, which
 is a department of the University, by
 which young men who cannot attend
 college, may nevertheless get the best possible instruction in his studies It al.
 ready has several hundred students after only one year of work.
 A resolution was offered by c. P At.
 kinson, s. c. Boyd, J. W. Kiilough. J. R
 Peavy and T. B. Barrow, requesting the
 Examining Committee to accept approved
 examinations from the correspondence
 school
 Rev. Dr. J. F. sturdivant of the North Alabama Conference, was introduced,
 The Bishop called the twentieth ques-
 ton on the passage of character. Otis V
 Calhoun was passed and he was passed by the committee and elected a deacon. W. M. Curtis, already a deacon, was pass
 ed by the committee and his character was passed.
 William J. Simmons's character was
 passed. and he was elected deacon | c. c. Daniels was passed and continued on trial. He Is student in the Southern
 University and was not before the com
 T. c. Jones was before the committed and he was passed. His character passed. He has been alternately a supply and a | student, but having actually travelled two years he "as elected deacon.
 | J. Thomas Eckford Was passed by the committee. and his character was pass ed and he was elected a deacon. l Will T. Hale applied for admission but was not present. Ills examination was held on papers submitted in Nashville
 These were discussed at length and final ly recommitted. though the question of | op. The Bishops ruling gave the Com mitteeS perfect power to determine the case.
 J. H. Holloway. James Clendennin, Henry M. Andrews. Percy s. Hudson. Daniel W. Haskew. William A. Tyner and William F.. Mcconnell were admitted into travelling connection.
 The Board of Missions assessed eight l thousand dollars for missions within the conference for the coming year.
 Charles ". Northcutt, Claude Chiffon, J. C. Harrison and J. M Mum were ad- vanced to the second year; Herbert Hud- l son and Selman U. Turnipseed were con tinued in the first year; E. C. Moore, J T. Mangum. E. c. Nave. w. H. Crymes and Henry W. Chambers were advanced to the fourth year; E. Byrd was trans ferred from the Pacifcs Conference and continued in the third year,
 1 At Sunday School Board anniversary tonight a strong address was delivered by Rev. Dr. Atkins of Nashville on the subject ''The Growing of a Kingdom. ." It was a strong plea for saving the children.
 Some sayings of the Bishop:
 | A preacher can't do everything else if | he is a preacher. If he knows all about
 the tariff. he is not apt to be well learned
 in his theology.
 Some preachers can look after a town
 council, but I never did have time to