Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
M. E. CONFEREN Re
METHODIST BODY SPENDS TIME
SIGHTSEEING.
Clergymen Glad of an Opportunity to
Take Rest After Four Siren
uous Sessions.

Special Dispatch The Sunday Star
WINCHESTER, Va, March 25.-With no
services to attract them this evening, the
ministers, lay delegates and visitors, to the
number of at least 500, who are attending
the 121st annual session of the Baltimore
conference Methodist Episcopal Church
South, this afternoon and tonight visited
many points of historical interest, for
which the city and immediate vicinity are
famous, the chief attraction being the OLD
stone house in West Piccadilly street.-the
Mott property-in which the twenty-frst
annual session of the old Baltimore con-
ference was held in 1905, just 100 years ago
this week.
After four laborious sessions. lasting four
hours each, since Wednesday, the ministers
in particular were glad of opportunity
to see the battlefields and other objects OF
interest in the neighbOrhood of Winchester
this afternoon.
At todays session of the conference many
ministers accepted appointments to preach
tomorrow at stations between Washington
and Staunton, Rev. DR.. ]. J. Tigert of Nash
Vile. who is prominent member of the
Book Concern and editor of the Quarterly
Review, being assigned to Mount Vernon
Church in Washington, the pastorate of
which will have to be vacated by Rev. For
rest j. Prettyman. one of the leading men,
bers of the conference, who has served the
limit of four years and who will have to be
transferred.
Sunday will be methodist day. in Win.
chester. In addition to practically every
pulpit being occupied by Methodist
preacher the services at Braddock Street
Church. where the conference is meeting,
will be particularly attractive. Practically
an all-day service has been arranged by
the pastor, Rev Charles D. Bulla, in honor
of the one hundredth anniversary of the
meeting of the Baltimore conference in
Winchester. This is also the eighty ninth
anniversary of the death of the great
pioneer itinerant Methodist. Bishop Francis
Asbury, who presided over quite a number
of the annual meetings held here.
Owing to his voice being weak Bishop
Wallace w. Duncan of Spartanburg. s. c.,
who is presiding over this conference, will
not preach, as Is customary, tomorrow, his
place being taken by Revs. DR.. j. A. Kern
and Collins Denny of Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tenn, but the bishop will prob
ably preside at the ordination of the class
Of nine new ministers, composed of Revs.
G. H. Fielding, c. M. Hesser. B. B. White,
Edward Barber, Homer WEIGH Thomas c..
Jones. Harry B. Baker, j. H. Bean and j.
NJ. Kline
The only important business at today's
session was the adoption of the report Of
the conference committee on education, the
advancement of a number of deacons and
receiving several young ministers on trial,
including Rev. John Lee Brooks, who for
the past year has been in charge of Ep-
worth Church. near Washington.
He was recommended by Rev. ]. w.
Duffy, presiding elder of the Washington
district who lkened him unto IAN express
train of Pullman cars, going al a lively
gait who, If he did not fly the track at
some sharp curve, would certainly become
one of the leading members of the confer
ence.'
There has been considerable talk as to
what will become of Rev. DR.. Prettyman
when the bishop makes his appointments.
He has always been very popular at
Washington, and some say he is certain to
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conference. About twenty-five others are
to be moved on account of the time limit