The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-11-14
A Large Crowd Will be in May
field 10 Attend.
Many To Attend From This Section
Conference Organized In the
Year 1910.
SOME OF THE FEATURES

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vene at Mayfleld tomorrow morning.
This conference was organized In
1870 and was divided into two pre-
siding elders districts, with George
w. ID. Harris. brother of Isham G..
Harris, and William Holland as pre-
siding elders. William Holland only
survived few years. but DR. Harris
lived to serve the church many years.
He was a great pfsacher and did
much to override obstacles then in
the way of church work. Great revi-
walls marked the progress of the
church in those early days. Frequent
/ ly new ntighborhood was entered
in which there was no meeting
house." and a bush arbor was built
by the rough woodsmen, and under
this hundreds of people were con-
verted and brought into the church
In almost eve ny case a church house
was built, usually of logs and almost
entirely without money. The people
came together TO raise the church
house just as they would to roll logs
or build a tobacco barn. These hog
meeting houses have long since
grown to neat frame and still more
substantial brick structures. The con-
ference does not now cover a large
territory, only West Tennessee and
what Is known as the Jackson Pur-
chase. There are 1G1 pastoral char
ges with lao parsonages. About $19,-
600 will be paid for missions this
year. The highest average sum is
paid for the support of the ministry
of any conference in the church. The
people are prosperous and liberal
Bishop w. w. Duncan of South
Carolina will preside at the coming
session. This will be the third time
the bishop has held this conference
since his election to the episcopacy
strong men, viz: Galloway, Hendrix,
Key and himself to be elected. He is
a Methodist of the old type, and with
al southern gentleman such as we're
more numerous in former years than
now. His preaching is instructive
from the start. His cabinet will COM
prise tho eight presiding elders and
they are called to meet this evening
with the bishop to outline the annual
committees and general work of the
session. The bishop and his cabine
also decide the appointments for the
year.
A notable feature of this confer
ence will be a course OF lectures that
has bsen provided by the board OF
education for the benefit of the un-
dergraduates. These lectures will be
delivered by DR.. j. II. Stevenson of
Vanderbilt university and will be
helpful to all.
The conference session will last
from Wednesday until Monday even
ing, at which time the appointments
will be announced, assigning the
preachers to their charges for the
year. 1t is probable the number of
charges will be increased to 165 or
more, there have already been some
transfers made from the earlier con-
ferences which will help meet this
enlargement. There is no system OPP
Grated among men where greater
degree of conservation is necessary
than in this one. sWhen a man COM
mits his interests TO other men and
/ let's them say where he shall go for
whole lifetime he has made no
small conservation.
1t is not thought in Paducah that
there will be any changes here but
the news from other districts is of
many to be made. so it is impossible
= to predict what may be done I'm a
general shakeup. Some of the princi-
pie places will have change. The
tins of both the presiding elder and
preacher in charge of the First Meth
odist church in Jackson expires, and
these are among the important pla-
ces to fill.
The conference will be crowded
throughout with delegates and visit
ors, but especially will Sunday be
the day of crowds. Many of the most
brilliant of the correctional officers
will be present during the session,
among them DR.. j. J. Tigert. book