Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-07
N. E. CONFERENCE IS OVER
FINAL ADJOURNMENT AT MAR
SHALL, VA, YESTERDAY.
Delegates to Baltimore Conference Are
Elected and Ministerial Can
didates Approved.

| Special Correspondence Of The Star.
| MARSHALL, Va, September 6, 1907.
| One of the best reports at the Washington
district conference of the Methodist Episco-
| pal Church South yesterday was made by
| Rev. F.. A. Strother, who said on Fairfax
| circuit there have been 100 additions to the
church the past spring and summer. A
| new church will be dedicated in October,
! ground has been broken for another and
one congregation is worshiping in a tent.
There are five Epworth leagues and seven
Sunday schools on the circuit
The pastor at Manassas, Rev. W. T. Gov
er, spoke of the financial system in vogue
there as good one. He said the Epworth
League is building up and new addition to
| the church building Is needed for the work
| of the Sunday school and league
Presiding Elder REGISTER called Rev. J. H.
Light to the chair and the conference con-
sidered the matter of the furnishing of a
district parsonage. Part of the required
| sum had been raised and an apportionment
| to meet the balance was approved.
At 8 o'clock public services were held in
! the Methodist Church and a sermon was
delivered by Rev. 8. K. Cockrefl of Middle
burg, Va
DR.. Blackwell's Address.
The third session of the conference today
met directly after the service, and the mem
bers listened to short address by Rev.
r. E. Blackwell OF the Randolph Macon
| system Of colleges Included in the system
are the academies at Front Royal and Bed
ford City, the college for men at Ash
land, and the woman's college at Lynch
| burg, all In Virginia.
The conference passed the characters Of
the following deacons and elders;
p. E. Overhoit A. T. Ramsay, Frank L.
Day, John Miller, Emmanuel Pearce Har-
rah M. Reed and w. ]. r. Thonssen Of
Washington; ]. F. Peake, Alexandria; H. A.
Beach, Falls Church; B. a. Shreve, Ster-
ling; R: ]. Adamson, Manassas; C. C. CAL
vert, UppervilIe Ariel N. Warner, Hamil-
ton; G. H. Williams, Bancroft; Elmer A.
Lambert, F. H. Shipley and w. R. Chap
man.
The licenses of the following named local
preachers were renewed by the conference:
K. J. Adamson, ]. F. Peake, Emmanuel
Pearce, Ariel Warner, w. r. Chapman and
Elmer A. Lambert.
C. c. Claypool, recommended by the quar-
terly conference of Morrisville, was au-
thorized to preach the gospel.
The conference elected Henry K. Field,
George w. Laycock and w. L. Brannan
district trustees to hold in trust the district
property.
Closing Session.
The final session of the conference met
at 2:3O o'clock with Presiding Elder Reyes
ter in the chair. Rev. C. NJ. Sarver of Stat
ford, Va, conducted the devotional exer-
cises, after which Principal C. L. Melton of
Randolph Macon Academy, Front Royal,
Va, addressed the conference.
Delegates to the next session of the Bal
timore annual conference, to be held at
Greene Memorial Church, Roanoke, Va,
next March, were elected by the laymen, as
follows Henry X. Field, Alexandria,; A. B.
Pugh, Washington George w. Laycock,
Hamilton. and F. w. Duncan, Marshall.
Alternates, w. l.. Brannan, Fredericksburg;
F. NJ. Lake, Loudoun; D. L. Coon, Wash
ington, and William Bodmer
The conference recommended William R.
Chapman to the Virginia annual conference
for admission on trial.
AT 4:45 o'clock the conference finally adj
journed.