The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-22

or of changing the general rule on tho ! subject or slavery.
 The qSss,ion SssSow, was ,So Sonse dsy beins % re- garded as of such vital importance lthat action on t was postponed until the next day. On the toiloW,ns % 1ay sumed. The rule of the Conference. re- was departed from in the .:,nn :cnsidsrs Ts. Bishops thought 1t question upon which the Conference should take ac- tion. Not for several days was any the appointment of . committee to pre- pare a resolution and preamble to cov- er the .sublect The committee report erai Rules forbidding the buying and selling of men women and children: liable to be construed as antagonistic l to the institution of slavery. Tin re- gard to which the church has no right ties of masters Gsp and servants 'as as set rule be .expunsed from the General Church. South. but that in so doing the | Conference expressed no opinion in re- gard to the African slave trade. The report was adopted.
 Bishops Attending.
 Quite . different city was Nashville 1 when the General Conference convened | in McKendree Church on the morning
 rms hss wrossSt %any Changes , parted from use. but the, same spirit
 the Ssr. fs at sns
 who had attended the early Conferences. | amopg them Bishop Paine, then very
 feeble S who occupied the charr ,s and aon Si
 were e F. Pierce, H. H Ravanaush.
 MeTyeSs and oi tS Hspen. Tss I read on the first day by Bishop Mo I Tyeire. The changes that had taken
 place in the world gincs '.s a.,sN previous
 gether with the trials that ha dswept l over the South. but it was sai.! tn: religion was yet the same. If not imbued
 Bishop Paine stated to the Conference an itinerant Methodist preacher ana that, at his advanced age and feeble
 being granted with the thanks of the Conference for his services. / | On the fourth day of the Conferenca Secretary of the General Conference.
 was announced. occurring that morn | Alpheus ". wilson. Linus Parker.
 John C.>Granberry and Robert K. liar
 vice ever in McKendree on the after noon of May 1S,. 1882, The Conference
 rSa comins msy conference s Ss1 at Brmins ham will witness a material growth In
 the church memberghip since the pre-,
 cealng one The esma,ea sse adrsnn;u nsrenne G ,s
 ios.o6s There, are now 14.s5o Sunday
 schools and 1S.49S Societies of the
 Methodist Episcopal Church, Sovth
 Petersburg Conference.
 al hA n separation. of the Northern and scuth-
 ern Churches at Louisville in 1915 the first General Conference of the Mstho: at Petersburg. Va. the. following year.
 elected Bishops. The Discipline was
 ed. Two years later the church in-
 augurated Its mission. work in Chine. The ses,nd General Conference was
 Bascom being elected Bishop, The third bus. Ga, in 1854; George F; Pierce, Early elected Bishops. The fourth was
 held in Nashville in 1858. as before de-
 scribed. War prevented the fifth being
 ference was held at New Orleans; Will jam M. Wightrnan, Enc .h M. Marvin. David s. Doggett and Holland N Mo-
 Tyeire elected Bishops.
 The sixth General Conference was
 held at Memphis in 1870. John ' Keen CT being elected Bishcp. The District . Conference was instituted and lay men first appeared in the General Confer ence The seventh General Conference was held at Louiviile h 1874. and ,hs was held at Nashville n 1882. 'rha tenth was held at Riehmond in 1886. , Wallace w. Duncan, Cherries B. Gallo waM Eugene R. Hendrix md Joseph S. Key being elected Bishops
 Oscar P. Fitzgerald and Atticus c.
 Haywood were elected Bishops, at the
 eleventh General Conference. convenihg at St. Louis in 1890. The twelfth Con-
 ference was at Memphis in isaJ. A law
 was passed at this Coafrran,c con.- hitting the licensing of local preachers to the District Conference. The Ep- worth League was organized at this
 Conference.
 At Baltimore in 1898 the thirteenth General Conference was held. Warren
 A Candler and Henry c. Morrison boing
 elected Bishops. The last General Con
 ference was held at Dallas. Tex. in
 1902. P. Embree Hoss and A. Coke
 Smith were elected Bishops.
 And now comes the fifteenth s:cneral
 Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, less than a month off. On May 8, hundreds of representatives.
 of the various Methodist communities will assemble in Birmingham ard com
 slider all that could enhance the great l ness of the church and the effecti yeness <.G A Wt I