The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-03
DELEGATES GATHER
METHODIST CONFERENCE WILL BE-
 GIN TODAY.
Bishops Hold a Meeting and Epworth League Board and Editors and Publishers, Committees Also
 in Session.

Birmingham. May 2.--tSpecfaL)-- Every train entering Birmingham to-
 day brought in delegates and visitors to the fifteenth general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
 More than 250 people are in the city directly interested in the conference. while a like number of spectators and others are here also. including several
 representatives of newspapers through out the South. The preliminary meet ings held today consisted of the meet
 jag of the bishops. at which the ad- dress of the bishops, which was pre- pared by Bishop Charles Galloway of Mississippi was gone over. The Ep-
 worth League Board and the editors and publishers committees held ses- sion and will make reports to the con
 ference.
 According to the program now an- nounced, the general conference will
 be called to order by Bishop Wilson of Baltimore, who is entitled to that right by seniority The organization will be perfected and then the address of the bishop will be presented. In the even- ing the addresses of welcome in behalf
 of the State. the city and the church will be delivered. Governor w. D. half of the State. Alderman J. R. Cope
 land, in behalf of the city. Presiding
 Elder s. l.. Dobbs for the State Churches and Rev. J. H. Mccoy for the
 local churches. The conference will be
 in session from Q a. m. to 1 D. m. while committee meetings will be held in
 the afternoons end evenings.
 The exhibit from the missionary
 fields being set up in Gelders' hall will
 be opened Saturday. With the excep- tion of Sundays, this exhibit will be open to the public three days a week. The collection of curios to be exhibited
 includes idols of brass and wood from
 Japan, China, Korea, Mexico, Brazil and Cuba, with reproductions of the dress and domestic utensils of the inhabi- tants of those countries. Three ladies will be in charge of this exhibit: Mrs, J. ]. Dickey of Sampsonville, Ky, who will have charge of the home mission exhibit; Mrs. J. B. Cobb of Macon. Ga., 1 Associate Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions. and Miss Hattie | weakley of Nashville. Tenn. Several addresses will be delivered during the conference at the place where the ex- | hibition is being made. As soon as the | conference has been organized, the | memorials from the various confer. ences in the church's domain will be re- | received and referred to the various committees. There are fcrty<eight | dnHual CouIeIeHCeS anu SiSHt HliSsiof l conferences. Some of the conferences
 may not present any memorials.
 | The address of the bishops will bt l quite lengthy. It will take up some. thing like thirteen or fourteen columns | of daily newspaper.
 1 A synopsis of Alabama's memoria
 is To give an official interpretation ol the temperance laws of the church as | especially applied to the dispensary | 1 bilt University to institution into closer | relation with the church. and make Board of Trust more representative; tt district church territory for establish. ment of papers; and to make request l of American Bible Society to discon | tlnue publication of American Stand 1 ard Revised Bibles