The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-23
ALABAMA
 CONFERENCE
ARE LOOKING TO
 GATHERING IN EUFAULA.
3fzhep Duacan VIII Preside aud Changes VIII Be afade in Mont gomery Pulpfts---Dr. Rice
 To Leave Court street.


 The Alabama Conference of the vene in its 74th annual session at Eu- faula. December 5.
 The conference will be presided over l by Bishop w, w. Duncan, of Spartan burg, S C., who is one of the oldest Bishops of the Southern Methodist Church. It is expected that this meet l ing of the conference will be one of the most largely attended and most interesting in the history of the church.
 The Alabama conference is compos- ed of nine Conference Districts and each District Is provided with Pre- siding Elder, whose duty 1t is to hold conference four times each year in every church of his district The Methodist Church In Alabama is divid- ed in to two conferences, the Ala bama Conference and the North Ala bama Conference, and the deliberations of these two Conferences rank second in importance only to those of the General Conference of the Southern Methodist Church. which meets once every four years.
 At the meeting of the Alabama Con- ference in December. all business of interest to the conference will be dis- cussed by committees in open confer I enee and all preachers throughout the District will be assigned to stations for the coming year. There 16S min isters in the conference, all of whom are expected to attend the meeting be- sides q number of representative men of the conference who will attend. l Representative laymen in the churcn will present to the conference the sub l jects of Missions, Church Extension. Education and Publishing Interests Conference rules that each District be q | fqs 1a1n n There delegates are elected at the an- nual meeting of the District Confer ence, which Is held in the early sum- mer The delegates representing the Montgomery District include Hon. A. E. Barnett and Hon T. D. Sanford or 1 Opelika: Brooks Flowers of Montgom- cry and Professor W. N. Nunn or lLoachapoka.
 Presiding Elder NJ H. Holt of the Montgomery District has been busy the past several weeks holding the last quarterly conference. preparatory to making his reports for the Ala bama Conference.
 In the Montgomery District there are twenty churches at which Prestd- ing Elders holds conferences four times yearly. The Montgomery Dis trict Is one of the largest. oldest and most prominent in the Alabama Con- ference. In the Montgomery District are the churches at Tuskegee. La- Place circuit, Warrior stand circuit, Salem circuit, the two churches at OpeIika, Auburn, Loachapola circuit, Notasulga, TaIlassee. East Tallassee, Tallassee circuit. Pleasant Grove and the six churches of Montgomery
 The report of Presiding Elder Holt will show, tht he has received from each of his charges most commendable statements showing a considerable ad- x1. s~f ciallv that of missions. The quarterly Conferences which are being held at this time do not differ in any respect from those held at other times during the year with the exception that tho official members of the churches eiee- ted at this time.
 Presiding Elder Holt held the quar- terly conference of the Forest Avenue Church. Rev. R. R. Ellison pastor. Wednesday night Last night he held the conference at the Clayton Street Church. Rev. F. C. Moore pastor and l tonight he will preside at the confer ence of the Fifth Avenue Church. Rev J. w Reinhardt, pastor.
 The conferences of the Court Street Church, the Dexter Avenue Church and the South Perry Street Church will be held next week.
 A number of changes of pastors of the Methodist churches of Montgom- cry are expected 10 DC nnduS dt lhV meeting of the Alabama Conference. It is known that Dr. J. A. Rice, pastor of the Court Street Church, will be removed from Court Street because of limitation Of the other preachers 1t is very probable that there will "bs changes. Presiding Elder Holt has been in charge of the churches of the Montgomery District for the past two years. According to the law of limt- tation that prevails in the Methodist Church he has two more years which he could serve as Presiding Elder ot the District. Rev. w. M. Cox of the Dexter Avenue Church has been with that church two years Rev. J. W. Reinhardt has been with the Fifth Avenue Church three years and has done a splendid work in the western part of the city Rev. E. c. More. pastor of the Clayton Street Church, has served the congregation of that church for three years. and 1t is pos sible that he will be returned for another year. Rev. Henry Trawick, pastor of tho South Perry Street Church has been in Montgomery only one year and during that time he has built up the South Perry Street Church wonderfully. He has shown great ability as an organizer for while the