The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-12-05

Board of MissiOns-Bishop Wilson's
Remarks on the Subject Or Missions.
Especial to The Messenger.)
Wilson, N, c.. November Coon
ference met this morning at $50
o'clock, Bishop Wilson in the chair.
Rev. P. ]. Carraway, of Greensboro,
conducted the devotional exercises.
The minutes Of yesterdays session
were read and approved.
The call of the goth question was
resumed and the preachers in the Dur
ham and Fayetteville districts, having
passed. the examination Of character.
made their reports.
YOUNG MEN ADVANCED.
w. Fl. Brown. J. H. Buffaloe, w. E.
Brown and w. A. Jenkins we're ad.
vanced to the class of the fourth yea.
after having PASSED the examinatiol
of character and having passed tAs
examining committee.
4EACONS AND ELDERS.
A<Browning, Of the Durham Dis
~, J. E. Sanders, Of the New Bern
dHtricc; J. VI. Daniel, Of the Warren
ton district; l. B. Jones, of the Eliza
beth City district; all local preachers
We're recommended by their presiding
elders for IOca! deacons' orders, n
J. V. Williams. of the New Bern dis
trict, and J. F. Hallford, of the Eliza
beth City district, were recommended
for local elders orders.
The editor OF the Raleigh Christian
Advocate, Rev. T. N. Ivey, D. D., sub
mitted his report, in which he made a
plea for a large increase in the sub
ScTiptiOn list.
HkEhe committee on books and period
B submitted the first section OF It's
report at the close of DR.. Ivey'G re-
port, in which it recommended that
each presiding elder do all in his pow.
er to increase the subscribers in his
district and after discussion by sew
eral members If the conference, the
report was adopted.
Paul Jones. 4 layman, of Tarboro,
insisted that it was the duty Of the
conference to put the paper on such a
basis financially that DR.. Ivey can
have the assistance Of a business man
ager for the office.
Conference adjourned at 11:30 o'clock
to hear the Thanksgiving sermon.
SERMON BY BISHOP WILSON.
At 1880 Bishop Wilson, in keeping
with the request of the conference
preached a Thanksgiving sermon be-
fore the conference. He announced as
his text the words found in Isaiah IA.
In part he said:
4 trust that it is not simply be-
cause Of the declaration of the Preci-
dent of the United States and the gov
ernOr of this state that we are met in
this Thanksgiving service. God is
constantly giving us things for which
we should be thankful. He never does
anything upon a low scale. He is a
universal God. He does 20 confne
rRhmself to any one locality. His be-
Alignment is universal.
For years this prophecy vas hid
den; it remained hidden until a young
man In Nazareth snatched it from its
hiding place. The work of this world
annOt be done by any n class of
men. There is work to be done by all
classes.
Few people are rich while many
are poor. Poverty has a sway IN this
world that God never intended it to
have, except as the result of sin.
The man who can say The Lord is
my portion is rich and al overcome
all the disabilities of poverty. There
is no break now between God and the
poorest and lowliest of humanity,
There was a time when God said:
Take the shoes from off thy feet for
the ground wherein thou standest is
holy ground but when His Son came
to earth He said, Come unto me = =
* & and | will give you rest thus
making it possible for every man
however poor and humble, to come III
Him. Thus every barrier has been
removed. and this has been accom-
plished through the Gospel of Jesus
Chris. God never intended that spur
itual poverty should exist in the world.
God gave men eyes to see and He
meant that they should see. 1t is a
mans own fault that he is MANNED;
and il is Gods intention that he should
not be manned; and the time is COM
ing when God will restore all these
things. The time is going to come
when there won't be a manned BODY,
a broken faculty, in the human race
Gods prophecy promises this and let
us thank Him for this. We have the
living illustration in the truth of this
prophecy in the works of Jesus Christ
TiEIgbees Pi!hH a!p90TM etaoin sh
Eant a religion Of joy-that JOY
wETSh oGd has promised Us. And the
truth is. we owe all the material
wealth we have t the religion of Je
sus Christ.
"@her. the chu. Oh of God has faiIej
IN rs mission ef preaching the Cos
Del. she has failed in everything.
There is a great waste going ON in
d world continually, but God WI in