The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-03
METHODIST CHURCHES HAVE
 THEIR CONFERENCE YEAR

He said the call of the Court Street l Church of the future---hfty years per haps or maybe 100 years--was to the | congregation of the present and he ad- mouished them to give heed to the call
 In brief outline pr. Rice showed that the Court Street Church is in a splendid lcondition, that in the whole South there ' is none better and his plea was for a Il plant which in the years to come will
 be a blessing to our posterity. He spoke of the fact that the present con- gregation is enjoying the privileges of
 a church and a parsonage, the gift of
 their forefathers, and that the duty of I the present congregation was to show l the appreciation of the gift of those who have gone before by providing magnfhcently for the congregation of the future.
 Before Dr. Rice had concluded his I congregation. As a last service to the Icongregation of the Court Street Church I Dr. Rice departed from his usual cus- | tom and asked the congregation to 1 pledge the sum of $5,000 to be used in
 repairing the parsonage and for the
 work that Is to be done on the audl | torium of the church. In less than thirty minutes the congregation had | pledged the sum required and $1O0 be-
 sides. Later in the day the total was raised to approximately $6.00o.
 During the past year there has been more than s22,000 spent on the church. | and plans are making for the spending | of great deal more within the next I few years The main auditorium of | the church will he repaired at once. The old gallery win be torn out. hand- 1 some memorial windows will take the | place of the old ones: an elegant new ! pipe orgar will be installed. and the { entire plant will be rewired and splen- | didly lighted. These are the improve l ments which will be made at once, and | for the future of the church, pr. Rice 1 has magnificent visions. pr. Rice goes l to Eufaufa on Tuesday. and while l there will be assigned to his new field ! Speculation is rife as to who his suc-
 cessor will be at the Court Street l Church.
 The congregation of the Forest | Avenue Church are rejoicing that
 the church debt is paid and the church
 is now ready for dedication
 l The Forest Avenue Church is not | yet four years old, but has done 1 splendid work and is one of the strong est of the younger Methodist churches l of Montgomery. Rev. R. R. Ellison, | the pastor, preached a strong sermon | to & large congregation yesterday | morning from the text. Thy Kingdom 1 Come" Ten persons were received in- | to the church at the morning service, making total for the year of about | sixty.
 l The past year has been the best in 1 the history of the church, financially l and spiritually. Mir. Ellison, the pas- ! tor has been with the church but one | year. but his work has been blessed | with the best results. The church will | be dedicated before the first of the new | year. MT Ellison will leave Tuesday | for the Conference. His congregation is hopeful that he will be returned to
 them for another year.
 Rev. E. c. Moore, pastor of the Clay | ton Street Methodist Church, preached ! to one of the largest congregations Of l the year at the morning service yester- | day His text was from First Timothy, iv; 8, 'CodIiness is profitable unto all
 things, having the power of the life | that now is and that which is to come" MT. Moore has been the pastor of the | Clayton Street Church for the past | three years, and his report to his con- | gregation yesterday was to the effect | that the church is in the best condition | of the seven years of its institution. l There has been a net increase of forty l in membership; all claims have been | paid and the church is in prosperous ] condition, President Elder M. IT. Holt
 preached to the congregation of the Clayton Street Church last night. Mr.
 Moore will leave Tuesday for Confer
 ence.
 The Dexter Avenue Methodist Church, the next to the largest of the Metho-
 dist Churches of Montgomery, during the two years pastorate of Rev. w. M- Cox, has done a splendid work Dur ing the past year, as shown by the pastor at the service yesterday morn ing, more than $5,000 has been paid on the church debt. The Woman's Home
 Mission society, having the church debt
 as a special object for which to work. has turned over for that purpose dur
 ing the year more than one thousanjd
 dollars. Yesterday morning MT. Cox set apart the service as Spot Sunday
 and endeavored to see how much could be raised on the church debt through
 the spot system which he has fnaugu- rated during his ministry there. Each
 spot on a chart for the purpose, rep resents $10, and on yesterday there
 were 1O5 spots removed, giving for the church debt the sum of $1,050. The
 results were most gratifying to the
 pastor and to the congregation. MT. Cox made a short talk, saying that the church is in the best condition finan- cially in it's history. There have been
 received into the church this year nine ty-two members. The service yester
 day was the regular communion ser
 vice. MT. Cox will leave for Confer
 enee on Tuesday.
 One of the newest of the Methodist
 churches of Montgomery is the South
 Perry Street church, but by no means the smallest or the weakest. Rev. | Henry Trawick, the pastor of the past year, preached yesterday morning to a
 congregation that crowded the church. The subject of his sermon was "Misun- derstanding." and the text was from Deuteronomy, xxxii-2S, Neither is there any understanding in them" The South Perry street church was reported yesterday as being in the best financial condition in It's history. The Woman 8 Home Mission Society has turned over to the treasurer of the church s65O. There have been taken into the church during the past year 1OS members, and the church has one of the largest Sun day schools in the city. The service yesterday was the regular monthly