The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-07
Report of Joint Com
 mittee.
Colleges of North Alabama and AIa- baIna Conference To Be COnsOl- idated--May Locate Girls
 School in Montgomery.
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 Eufaula, Dec 6-(Special) 1.-The sec- ond days session of the seventy-fourth annual Alabama Conference was made memorable in the annals of Methodtsm in Alabama by the receiving of report of the joint commission of the North Alabama Conference and the Alabama Conference, in which that body of the wisest and most conservative of the ministers of the Methodist Church of the State, unanimously advocated lhe combining of the educational forces of the two conferences In the estao- lishment of two conference colleg ss in the State a college for men and d col lege for women.
 The movement for the combination of forces of the two conferences, In reference to educational work in the State Is regarded as the greatest for ward movment for Methodistism ever made in the history of the church in Alabama. In the light of the develop ment of the educational forces of the denomination, the seventy-fouth con ference Is considered the most import ant session ever held in the history or the church.
 It is the strong sentiment of many of the members of the conference that the adoption of the report of the joint commission means that the woman s college will be established at Montgom- cry, and should such a plan carry would mean a quarter Of mlI- non CtiAGbS lOA SlAS NNPAS~NN placing it among the leaders as a col tege center for the aietn odist denomi- nation in the whole Southland.
 The consideration of this great ques- ton of the colleges and the conso!ida- tion of the forces of MethodlSts along the lines of Christian education in Ala bama, is the paramount issue eeIore the conference.
 the conference, was laid over uLtil tomorrw morning al 1G oci@ck, af which time it will be again read be- fore the Conference aud will re con sidered. It is expected that the entire day will be consumed in debating the features of the question as suggested tn the report. Prominent educators from both conferences will take part in the debate
 The following is the report as read by the chairman of the Joint commit .'To the Bishops and Members of the
 Alabama Conference, in session at
 Eufaula. December 5:
 near Fafheys and Brethren '~-your joint committed to consider the ques- tion of Methodist endGat tion in the state, appointed at your session of 1903. beg leave to submit the folloWlns re- port of their lahors:
 '~rhe commission met ir Btrnling- ham, on October 19, 1906, and, atteT d full and most brothcrly oiSauSslon M agreed upon the following report:
 'tFirst-It is most desirable that the two conferences shall he united in the great work of Christian Education:
 Second-We recommend that the two unite-~7 in estabNshing woman's college, to De the Jolnt proP, erty and to receive the hearty anu anu united support Of our people' TO tnis tiI two conferences appoint commission of six. three clerical members anu three lay members. to constitute a joint commission Of twelve riempers m woman's college, and that said com mission be given plenary power to car ry into effect this recommendation by securing location Tor the ,oileES Idis- IFS a suitable plant, and doing any ano alt other things which may be necessary towards putting. said Woman,s college in operation at the earlies} Tract'cAoie
 Third-As to uniting on a college for men, your commission has been unahlS onrnend that when the North Alabama Conference shall have erected ana equipped a nlant for -nalA college at owenton adeqTattss ats tG.r1 tG nef of the ns State then that the North Alabama Confer ence invite the Alabama Conference 10 unite with them and to :d2pt that as a male college of the two conferences; and in event that the Alabama Confer. ence accept this invitation. then that The North Alabama Conference to con- vey to the Alabama Conference in fee simply a one-half inerest in said plant. RespectfuIiy submitted. A. J. Lamar F P Culver, Chairman.
 of the one hundred ana seventy charges, in the Alabama Conierentce, tion bv pastors at the conference
 At the opening. of conference on Tuesday 113 ministers, In charge or aLw~chss answered to roll call. That Snn5ber was increased statday by the arrival of about twenty five other other min TIE rosn of fhe church of both conferences in attendance down here, especially by the intensely interesting itnation con snce in the matter of the establish ment of the two conference colleges;
 The seventy fourth annual Aiahama Conference was called to rder Tuesday morning by Bishop w. W. Duncan Of South Carolina.