Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-09-07
CONFERENCE A
BIG SUCCESS
Written for the Times by Francis E. Bali

Written for the Times by. Francis e. Bali
The Nevada Mission of the Methodist
Episcopal Church met for its twenty
third annual session in the Methodist
Church in this city Wednesday evening,
Bishop Thomas B. Nicely. d. D., L. L.
D., presiding.
The opening sermon was preached by
Rev. Don O. Co1grove. The sermon
was followed by reception to Bishop
Nicely, addresses by Mayor Judson @.
R. Smith and Rev. G. G. King. This
was followed by response by Bishop
Nicely. In addressing the Conference,
Mayor Smith spoke as follows:
AS Mayor of the city of Yerington, it
becomes my pleasing duty to express the
sentiment of that place toward you and
your subordinates.
This infant city welcomes you with the
glad smile of youth. You come to us
as emissaries of the gospel of Christ. We
stand before you as the embodiment OF
present day commercialism.
1t is well that we meet at this time.
The deep truths of the philosophy
taught by the great Author of the Ser
mon on the Mount, will be brought more
sharply before u.s. perneating our bust
ness life with the divine elements of
love and Justice which form the founda-
ton of all successful social effort and
civic growth. 1t may also be beneficial
to the ministers assembled to come in
contact with mining camp life, softened
as it here IS, by the influence of the ag
riculture element, from which to gain
new impressions of virile materialistic
life and its attendant sins, and, per-
chance, also, on their own part, to alb
sorb some of the spirit Of rapid accom-
plishment that is all around us.
We realize that our benefit from the
session of your conference will be mu-
tual in many ways not to be indicated in
so short an address as this necessarily
must be, but it is more than clear to me,
at this time, that the city of Yerington
is especially favored by your visit.
1t is the ambition of the residents here
to build a city wherein the conditions
shall be made most favorable to all right
forms of human development and
growth. We wish to make our material
interests prosperous, and IN that pros
perity we will not forget the building
of churches and other institutions for
good.
We realize that without temples OF
worship, the spiritual minded must OF
necessity refrain from exercising much
needed influence. We know that bust
ness community without the presence OF
some spiritual influence for righteous
ness shortly becomes den of thieves.
Therefore, we welcome you with our
message of Peace on Earth and Good
Will to Men, and ask that in addition
thereto, out of the abundance of your
store of knowledge of social and civic
life, YOU give us suggestions for our
guidance in so building our communal
life so as to get the best results through
out
To the end that we may make growth
symmetrically, we are also striving to
guard the physical, financial and moral
health of our community, and we need
the kindly aid of all right minded men
and women, whether residents or visit
ors, toward these ends.
In extending this welcome to you, the
representative head of powerful relig-
ious organization, we are constrained to
express the appreciation we have OF the
honor extended to our city in the selec-
ton of it, as their meeting place, by so
eminent body of men. We will try to
be worthy of the honor in making this
place in the future, through its high
moral tone and educational, as well as
commercial activities, city of homes;
and believe me, Bishop Medley, that
should you return to us again, IN the
course of your itinerancy, you will find
as warm a welcome as we now extend,
in more congenial surroundings.
We are especially DESTROYS of placing
our section before you in the right
light, as we know, and you will soon see
and know, that by reason of our vast
undeveloped resources of mineral and
agricultural wealth, that large and i'm
mediate increase in the population of our
section is certain. We want our moral
and religious growth to keep pace with
the growth i'll numbers.
Methodists are in the main, moral,
hence, we want Methodists. Send them
along; tell them to bring their religion