The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-10-27
CONFERENCE
TENNESSEE METHODISTS
NESDAY MORNING.
"A NINETY-SE A@ SESSION
Bishop Galloway Presiding and
Election of Rev. Geoge L.
Beale as Secretary
Probable.

At o. clock Wednesday the ninety
second session of the Tennessee Annua
Conference of the Methodist Episcop,
Church, South, was called to order il
Watkins Hall by Bishop Charles B
Galloway, of Mississippi. The roll o.
the Conference was called by Rev.
Geo. L.. Beale, the Assistant Secretary
of the last Conference, the secretary
of the Conference Rev. Lewis K.
AIMS, having died since the last meet
ing.
After the roll call the first business
of the session was the election of d
Secretary. MI Beale, who has been
the efficient first assistant for several
years past, was elected TO that place
without opposition. He will nominate
such assistants, whose appointments
are confirmed by the Conference, as
he may think necessary.
SO far as known there Will not be
any trials to be heard by the Confer
ence at the ensuing meeting, and there
has not Deen the slightest suggestion
that the character of any minister will
be arrested when their names are calle1.
Il will probably be two or three days
before the election of delegates to the
General Conference to be held next
May in Birmingham, Ala, IS taken
up This outy will be one of the most
interesting and important to be per
formed by the Conference. and the
friends of q number of we'll known
ministers and laymen are already sug
costing the names OF proper persons TO
represent the body in the law making
assembly of the church.
Dno Ot tho TnOar InfoTQctl mast inn q
to come before the Conference, is the
matter OF uniting the principal charges
of the Nashville and East Nashville
districts into one district. This will
be determined in the cabinet of the
Bishop after full hearing and dis
cussiOn. The proposed IedistIIcting
measure was first brought to the atten-
tion Of the Conference two years ago
at MurfIeesborO, and was strongly ad
vocated. but no action was taken.
Less than usual interest," is mani
tested in the appointments, which are
never announced until just previous to
the final adjournment, owing to the
fact that very few pastors will round
out their four years service, necessi-
tating change under the laws OF the
church.
DO lar bn6IO udb DCCn uO uloSuooAOh
of the probable meeting place of the
next Conference.
Bishop Galloway, who presides over
the session of the Conference IL Bishop
In charge of the mission fields OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
in the OIient-China, Japan, CoIea-
which he visited last year. He has
had episcopal supervision at different
times IN Mexico and Brazil.
The missionary work of the entire
church for the past year has made
much progress in aggressive evange-
listic and educational effort. and sub
stantial guarantees have been given
for larger results in the future There
was larger increase In the number
of converts on the various mission
fields, notably in Cuba, and the great
est financial advance in the history OF
the church.
The receipts from all sources for
both the General and the WOman's
Board of Foreign Missions amounted
to $500, 551, to which the contribution
for domestic missions, 1922, O09; for
church exteuion, SOB, 054, and for the
Woman's Home Missionary Society,
1884, 276, being added, make the sum OF
81 ,008, 937 which may ne classed as the
total missionary contributions OF the
M. Il. Church. South. But the growth
of the work in the six foreign mis-
sion felds-China, Japan, CoTea
Brazil. Mexico and Cuba-has been
sucn that the demands far exceed the
supply of either men or money.
The banner Conference OF the entire
church on missionary lines is that OF
South Georgia, which supports twenty
six missionaries and paid $50, 600 last
year for missions, including church
extension.