The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1907-11-08

The most exciting as we'll as inter
esting session of the Tennessee Annual
Conference was that held Friday even
ing, Nov. 1, when the delegates to
the coming General Conference were
elected. 1t had been previously stat
ed that only five would be elected, and
that about fifty were candidates for
the honOrs. Three o'clock Friday was
the hour set apart, and when the time
arrived every seat in Payne Chapel
was occupied. On schedule time the
business of the hour was called for
and Bishop Lee asked for the nomina-
ton of clerks and tellers. Drs. Chap
pelle and Lewis were chosen tellers.
and DR.. j. A. Jones and Rev. j. T. Gil
more were elected clerks. Bishop Lee
announced that everything was in
readiness and the voting was on. The
contest was very spirited. 1t was soon
noticeable, however, that Nashville
would not be in the race, although Drs.
g. l.. Jackson and w. B. Denny made
a good showing. The first ballot
showed that four were elected, name
ly: B. G.. Gordon, of Shelbyville; J. O..
johnson, presiding elder of the Colum
bia District; H. L. P. Jones, presiding
elder of the Shelbyville District, and
A. P. Gray, of Pulaski. On the second
ballot the race narrowed down to DR..
w. B. Denny, DR.. g. l.. Jackson, of
Nashville, and Rev. g. R. Norman, of
Mt. Pleasant, Rev. Norman winning
or the third ballot.
Saturday was very busy day with
the divines Having elected the Gen
eral Conference delegation they set
tied down to the work of the annual
Conference. All reports showed prog
ress. DR.. w. D. Chappelle, Secretary
q of the A. M. E. Sunday School Union,
read report that brought forth great
applause. There was no session Sat
urday night.
Among the pastors from the annual
conference filling the various pulpits
in Nashville Sunday, Rev. H. T.. John.
son, of Philadelphia, Pa, editor of the
Christian Recorder, preached perhaps
the most interesting and instructive
sermon at st. John A. M. e. Church
at the morning service. His sermon
was intensely practical, and he drew
some vivid comparisons between the
lsraelites and the Negroes, giving tC
the members advice based upon the
experience of the Israelites in theil
varied life of hardships and blessings
Ills text was taken from Nehemiah
2:1S, "And they said, let us rise III
and build' He recounted the hard
ships the Israelites experienced il
Sbylonian captivity, and the effort
# Nehemiah put forth to rebuilt,
Jerusalem, stating that in being de
prived of their religious liberty, tn
Negroes of America ought to be abb
to sympathize with the Israelites TO
having at one time gone through
similar experience.
we are engaged in a work no les
important than they" said he. "W
have a work to do, a work of upbuilC
ing, huge and gigantic undertakins
1t is necessary that the work shoul
be done under Gods guidance. and
we would succeed in the tremendou
task we have before us, leaders an
followers must chime in the choru
and say as did the Israelites: Let u
rise up and build"
Before we can properly build. "
must realize our position and apnrec
ate the fact that we are down an
that we must get up Our pregre.
has been marvellous; our people hay
accomplished great deal and "
the work ahead of us is so great thi
we have only come a pace of the ws
God would have us go. God has new
helped single soul that did not res
lze the need of him. 1t is only