The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-16
CONFERENCE
 SECOND DAY Methodists Continue to
 Report. MEETS NEXT AT WAT00LA Nisfrict High School is t0 he
MEETS NEXT AT WATOOLA
District High School is to be
 Abandoned.
Bishop Candler Believes Church Should Pay More Attention to Higher Education-Death of
 MT. Sellers Announced.

The second days session of the annual Methodist District Conference of the churches in the Montgomery District of the Alabama Conference convened yester- day morning at 9 o'clock at the Forest Avenue Methodist Church, Highland Park with Bishop W. A. Candler of At- lanta presiding.
 The usual opening devotional exercises were conducted by.-the bishop and Rev. W. B. Parent of Opelika, after which Bishop Candler addressed the Confer ence upon the subject of the need of a great national revival.
 The minutes of the previous meetings were read by the secretary, pr. J. w. Shoaff. and were approved.
 Death of MT. Sellers.
 The following resolutions were submit ted to the Conference and by motion were adopted:
 learned of the death of Brother George W. Sellers of the Alabama Conference. Resolved. first, That in the death of Brother Sellers we have lost a brother beloved; an earnest and consecrated fel- low worker who will be greatly missed by his brethren in their counsels and . work.
 Resolved. second That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his family with the assurance of our sympathy and prayers for them in their bereavement.
 ''J. S. Frazer,
 "Adolph Roemer." Mir Sellers was at one time pastor of the Dexter Avenue Methodist Church and died at Pensacola Thursday even ing
 Bishop Candler called for reports from charges by the pastors in charge. Rev. C. A. Cornell of Auburn responded with additional remarks on the Auburn church by Dr. J. T. Anderson.
 Rev. J. NJ Glenn reported on the church at Loachapoka.
 Rev. T. P. Fincher made report of the Notasulga church and Rev. J. w. Ham, ner reported on the church at Pleasant Grove
 Rev. A. J. Lamar, formerly of Mont eomery, one of the book agents of Meth odist Publishers Home at Nashville, Tenn, was introduced and adressed the Conference in the interest of the Pub fishing House.
 Present for the Bishop.
 Dr. J. w Shoaff in behalf of the mem bers of the. Montgomery District Confer eflce, presented Bishop Candler with a handsome travelling bag as a slight token of the love and esteem in which he Is held by the Alabama ministers, and WlLn the elOQuentiy eApISSSSu hOpC he might live long to travel and use the bag in the interest of God and humanity. Bishop Candler responded feelingly. He Ssaid. he had expected no such token of an esteem, which, he felt, was his. He paid a very high compliment to the Ala bama Conference in general and to the Montgomery District Conference in par ticular. affirming that in all his field of labor he had no more harmonious Con- ference than the Montgomery Confer once. He humorously added that the bag came in just in time as he had de- clded the time had come when he would, of necessity, have to buy one, and ex- pressed his pleasure in the article itself, saying that ''it Is just about big enough for me to travel two weeks in Alabama between washings." { The Conference adjourned and Bishop Candler preached the sermon at the II o'clock service and read as his lesson St. Mathew, vi He took as his text First Kings viz, and First Kings vii-1.
 Afternon Session.
 The Conference reconvened at o'clock In the afternoon with Bishop Candler in the chair.
 Religious exercises were conducted by the Bishop with prayer by Rev. E. c. Nave of Mt. Meigs
 The report of charges was continued from the morning session with Rev. E. c. Nave reporting on the conditions at La Place.
 On motion the old Board of the District High School was declared vacant. The following were a elected trustees of