The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-29
DETAILS ARRANGED
FOR THE CONFERENCE
Delegates Will Commence to
Gather Early This Week
MANY METH0DISTS COMING
General Conference Will Hold Its First
Session In the First Methodist
Church Next Thursday-Ad-
dresses of Welcome.

Delegates and visitors to the fifteenth
general conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal church. south which will be in
session in Birmingham for three weeks or
more, commencing Thursday, will begin
arriving in the city tomorrow
When the first session is called TO or
der in the First Methodist church, where
all of the meetings will be held, it is
thought that almost the entire delegation
will have arrived It is expected that
Bishop 4. ". Wilson of Baltimore. senior
bishop of the church will preside at the
opening session. The business meetings
of the conference will be held on week
days from a. IN. to ! p. m. and the
afternoons will be devoted to committee
work. At night addresses will be made
by noted speakers.
All the details for the general confer
ence have been worked out. The souvenir
booklet containing the names of all of the
delegates and visitors is now ready and
another souvenir in the form of a pro-
gramme is in the hands of the printer.
After the committees of the conference
are appointed at the opening session, the
addresses of welcome will be delivered
Governor W. d. Jelks will welcome the
visitors to Alabama and, acting for
Mayor Ward Alderman John r. Copeland
of the Fourth ward will deliver the ad-
dress of welcome for Birmingham. The
Rev j. H. Mccoy, pastor of the Five
Points Methodist church, will deliver the
address of welcome ON behalf of the local
Methodist Episcopal church, and on be-
half of the people the Rev. S. L. Dobbs,
presiding elder of the Birmingham dis
trict, will make a short address.
The following is a list of the bishops
who will attend and the places at which
they will stop:
Bishops Who Are Coming.
c. B. Galloway guest of r. S. Munger
on Eleventh avenue south; Alpheus w
Wilson of Baltimore, guest of Governor
Jackson of Maryland at the Hilman; j.
c. Granbery of Ashland Va, the Hill
man; w. W. Duncan of Spartanburg,
guest of his brother. the Rev J. A Dun
can on Nineteenth street. e. R. Hendrix
of Kansas City, the Hillman, J. S. Key
of Sherman, Tex, the Hillman; O. p
Fitzpatrick of Nashville, the Hillman; w
A. Gambler Atlanta, the guest of the
Rev. S. l.. Dobbs. presiding elder; E. e.
Hoss of Nashville, the Hillman A. Coke
Smith of Asheville, the Hllman, and n.
G. Morrison of New Orleans, the Hill
man.
The following is partial list of the
more prominent cIergymen and others
who will attend the conferences:
DR.. A. J. Lamar of Nashville, the Rev.
James A. Anderson of Little Rock. the
Rev. Young ]. Allen of Nashville, the
Rev. L. W Moore of Ocala, Fla. the
Rev. T. S. Wheeler of Denver, the Rev
James A. Burrow, the Rev j. E. Cooley
o. Prescott, Ark, the Rev. John j. Tigert
of Nashville, the Rev. H. NJ. DuBose Of
Nashville. the Rev. C. NJ Bishop of Co
lumbia, Mo-, the Rev. John c. Kilgo of
Durham, n. c., the Rev. W. f. Glenn
of Atlanta, the Rev. John o. Wilson of
Greenwood, S. c.. the Rev. W. c. Lovett
of Atlanta, the Rev. w. f. McMurry of
ST. Louis. the Rev. Seth Ward of Nash
vile, the Rev. James Cannon, Jr.. of
Blackstone. Va. the Rev. James Atkins
of Nashville, John P. Branch. president
of tho Merchants National bank of Rich
mond; Dr. John F. Goucher, president of
the Woman's college of Baltimore.
About Ready.
The work of converting the basement
of the Methodist church into offices for
the use of the conference has about been
completed Early this week telephones
and telegraph instruments will be in
stalled at the church offices for the use
OF the delegates and visitors.
The following conferences will be repre-
scented at the meeting: Alabama Arkan-
sas. Brazil mission Central Mexico mis-
sion, China mission. Columbia. Denver,
East Columbia Florida. Holston, German
mission. Illinois. Indian mission Japan
mission, kentucky, Little Rock, Los An
geles, Louisiana, Louisville, Memphis,
Mexican border Mississippi, Missouri,
Montana New Mexico. North Alabama
North Carolina, North Georgia. North
Mississippi. North Texas. Northwest
Texas Pacific. South Carolina. South
Georgia, Southwest Missouri. st. Louis
Tennessee. Texas. Virginia, West Texas.
Western. Western North Carolina, West
ern Virginia and White River conference.