The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-17

frequently cheered during the course of his remarks: This thing would establish classes among our ministers" he said. Tt is designed for the city churches to keep their pastors from moving The country preachers will move anyway. We all know if we would only admit it that every man reaches the acme of his use fitness at the end of the third year
 Dr. E. B. Chappell of Nashville said that as pastor of a large city church he wanted to oppose any change. There Is large demand for this either in the city or in the country he said. Our brethren of the northern church are now experimenting with the removal of the limit. Let us wait a little and see how that turns out"
 Dr. F. Richardson of Fountain city, Tenn, said: We want an itinerancy that will move everywhere. Our system is the wonder and admiration of the world today. Different men are endowed with different talents and that church is fortunate which gets the benefit Of the largest number of talents. The per- sonal magnetism of any man stands upon a fiimsy foundation. When he is finally removed the congregation is In danger The man who is not willing to bear his share of the burdens and trials of the church ought to get out
 Selma Pastor Opposes Measure.
 Dr. A L. Andrews of Selma. Ala, said in opposition: When l leave my charge I want my people to be sorry to see me go. It is better to go thus than to leave later with my congregation be- lieving that l have lost my usefulness. II is not right to legislate in favor of 6 per cent of the churches and ignore 94 per cent Our system gives longer average pastorate than that of any other church."
 I T of ch Ky. said that in a conference with membership of 49.000 he had never heard more than dozen persons express them selves in favor of the removal of the time limit.
 J. R. Morris of Dallas. Tex, said that he had been a pastor for sixteen years and that the time limit in his case had al- ready been removed because he had never yet served out his full quadrennium and he maintained that it was the same way with 90 per cent of the Methodist pastors.
 F. M. Thomas of Louisville said that the plan had not worked well in the north ern church. "The beauty of our system Is It's power of detachment" he said. ''When the congregational churches meas ure up 10 the power of Methodism in saving souls then 1t will be time to talk about adopting their system Let us legislate for the average man in the church."
 When the previous question had been moved B. r. I.ipscomb of Virginia made the closing speech He said that the committee had not been memorallzed on the subject by a single annual confer ence but that all of the memorials had come from either single churches or from district conferences.
 The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of leaving the present limit effective.
 Af+ernon Session Held
 For the first time since the conference convened an afternoon session was held. It was presided over by Bishop Hendrix. Soon after the opening J. L. Morris of Dallas, Tex, offered an apology to Dr. w. B. Palmer of St. Louis. Mir. Morris had attributed to Dr. Palmer q reflection on the bishops which Dr. Palmer dis claimed.
 J. M Barcus of Texas offered a resolu- ton providing for more uniformity of representation at district conferences. It was defeated.
 Tellers for tomorrow's elections were named as follows: H. A. Boaz. G. NJ. Napier, s. P. Cresap, F. NJ. Thomas, T. C. Banks and T. B. King.
 The committee on revisals reported in favor of requiring delegates to the general conference to be members of the confer ence electng them at the time of the general conference meeting. After con siderable debate the matter was laid on the table.
 The last business of the afternoon was the adoption of a commtte report favor ing the decrease in the number of con ference publications and recommending consolidation wherever such action was possible.