The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1905-1908, 1907-11-28
LARGE ATTENDANCE
IS ANTICIPATED
ABOUT 300 DELEGATES WILL At
TEND ANNUAL MEETING OF
THE NORTH MISSISSIPPI
CONFERENCE HERE.
Homes Have Been Provided for All
the Brethren, and Everything Is
i'm Readiness for Meeting OF
Mississippi Nethodists.

Mississippi Methodists.
Only ten more days remain before
the North Mississippi Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. meets here in annual session.
The conference viii convene on
Wednesday. December 4, and viii
bring to Columbus the largest as
sembIage that has gathered here in a
number Of years, it being expected
that there viii be fully 800 minis
ters and lay delegates present
While the initial session of the
conference win not be held until
Wednesday, many of the ministers
viii arrivo ca tae previous day. The
examinations for both admission to
the conference and for promotion viii
begin Tuesday, and not only the
young ministers who are 70 be cate
chised but the members of the vari-
Gus examining boards will reach
here in season for the work. many
of them being expected to arrive
Monday and Monday night.
The conference viii be presided
over by Bishop Eugene r. Hendrix,
of Kansas City, who is welI known
here, having officiated at the dedi-
cation of the Second Methodist
church last fall and having delivered
the baccaIaureate sermon at the IN
dustrial Institute and College last
June. Bishop Hendrix is expected
to arrive in the city on the Tuesday
night before the conference cOnvenes,
and during his stay here viii be the
guest of Mr.. c. F. Sherrod at the
Stone hotel.
Tuesday viii be devoted TO the ex-
animation of applicants for admission
to the conference, and at Z o'clock
Tuesday evening the annual meeting
of the Conference Historical society
will be held. At the conclusion of
this meeting there will be a recep-
ton, on which occasion the visiting
delegates Will be introduced to each
other and to the people of Columbus
1t is the earnest desire of the local
committee that all the delegates at
tending the conference become ac-
quafnted with each other and with
members of the local churches as
soon as possible, and while the gen
eral public is extended a cordial in
Yitation to attend the reception, all
Methodists residing in Columbus are
especially urged to be present. This
reception Will occur at the First
Methodist church, where ali the
meetings of the conference will be
held.
The first regular business session |
of the conference will occur We'd /
nesday morning. being presided over
by Bishop Hendrix. Wednesday |
evening viii bring the annual meet
ing of the Conference Epworth |
League Board, and the local leaguers |
will be present wearing the colors of
the organization. The public is in
yited to attend this meeting and the /
officers and members of the various
young peoples societies of the city
are extended special invitation to
be present.
The local committee received a
letter last week from Prof. ) NJ. Sui
livan, a member of the faculty of
Millsaps college, at Jackson, stating
that seventeen students of the theo-
logical department of that institution
had made arrangements to attend
the conference. The party will be in
charge of Professor Sullivan and will
here throughout the progress
of the session.
The committees appointed from
the First and Second Methodist
churches to secure homes for the del
egates have practically completed
their labors, and practically all who
will attend the conference have been
provided for A list of the delegates,
together with the homes to which
they have been assigned. appears
elsewhere in this paper.
Colonel and Mrs. John p. Mayo
on Saturday the silver an