The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-12-10
METHODIST CONFERENCE AT NEW BERN
Editorial ca, espondence.)

one now in &AA7n mere IHSie nos
been a splr.i Of good feeling and a
note OF p-og-1s from the opening
session. 10 ism, or charges or trials
or disgensi -z afEict the church.
have had a gasd year" is the dominant
note n all DE reports. The money
famine has lad It.tle If any effect on
collections. ia more money has been
raised for MISSIONARY and other op-
eratlona than in any previous year
All the institutions Of the church
educational and benciciary-repoft
satisfactory conditions. There are
more laymcn here than are usually IN
attendance and they embrace not a
few OF the first men in the State.
headed by such widely known men as
Ex-Governor Jarvis and General Julian
S. Carr. The Entertainment here Is
delightful All homes are open and
there is genuine hospitality Of the
brand peculiar to the tide-water
country. There is generous hospi-
fatty in a parts of North Carolina, for
the Biblical virtue most observed in
this State is given to hospitality but
each section has its own brand. There
is nowhere any brand better than
YOU find in the coast and river sec
ton and it IS favored with the deli
cacies Of the sea that delight the up
COUNTRY folk. such s%ucculent oysters
and brain-giving fish as the preachers
are faring sumptuously Upon are cal
cuIated to make them forget the old
standby of fried chicken in Durham
or barbecued rabbit in Chatham.
The environment here is favorable
This Is a country full Of
and the Conference is at home. New
Bern's chief Methodist church, in
which the Conference is being held.
has LOO members, perhaps the larg-
est membership Of any Methodist
church in the State, and the church is
a poem in brick and marble and
granite. 1t is beautiful, stately, ele-
CANT, furnished with taste and beauty.
1t is co~mmodious and has plenty of
parlors and every accessory so that
every committee has good quarters.
Everybody is pleased with the church.
They had heard about it but 1t is a
handsomer edifiCe than the pictures
otAoN VI LIN :
In Rev. r.. c.. Beaman, the New Bern
M~ethOdists ave a preacher of the
ability to fill the pulpit of this large
and beautiful church In all the ad-
jacent sections, as we'll a. New Bern,
M~ethodists are numerous and on SUM-
day the large church will not be able
to hold the great congregation that
will assemble to lea Bishop Gallo
way.
Bishop Galloway is Of North Caro-
lima stock and naturally is welcomed
TO his mother State, for no matter
how far away they go the people who
stay at home keep in memory the
sons of the dispersed abroad and take
pride in their success and in the
honor that comes to them. That first
gave a home-sort of welcome to
Bishop Galloway, but it is not now
because his father was born in North
Carolina that he is esteemed here, but
because he has walked into the hearts
OF the people. He preached in Colds
bOrO on Sunday, n | heard a young
girl who heard him. say, why I
- ~ ~ 1i>stA iAlA piSoS2I LII
day-I would never get tired" Peo-
pie love to hear preaching if the|
preacher breaches great truths with
out sensation or dizziness, but with
power and demonstration. The fault
of empty pews is not always due to
the fact that preachers fail in vitaliz-
ing their sermons, but that is one of
the reasons WhU nann1o do not 90 10
church in larger numbers. A great
preacher-0 am not speaking of
earned theologians)-who has a mes
sage and feels in his soul woe is me
if L preach not the Gospel will not
long lack plenty of hearers.
Bishop Galloway is esteemed in
Mississippi as its first citizen. He was
a Mississippi patriot and leader in
civic righteousness, as we'll as in re-
and it was as a observation-disclosures
that he won his way. as we'll in the
fact that in the yellow fever scourge
he stood like a faithful Christian at
his post of duty and suffered the hor-
rors of that disease after counting not
his life dear unto himself that he
might minister unto others. That's
the sort of man he is. North Carolina
folks always look under the title or
the stole or the gown for the man.
They are not much given to hero wor-
ship or to giving their commentator
eve to a bishop or a Judge because of
the Sreat office. They appraise him
more by the sort of stuff he showed
before his elevation than by his bear
ing in Office except when his official
duties show greater zeal and devotion
to the welfare and uplift Of all the
Peep e.
The masterpiece of a Methodist
Conference, if the Bishop is a really
great man, is his address OF the Young
men who are admitted into the Con-
ference as full-fedged preachers.
When a preacher joins the Confer
ence, he must always have an appoint
ment and a congregation must receive
whoever is sent. That peculiar feat
ure of the Methodist itinerary makes
this reception of new ministers of
great Importance, and is responsible
for the fact that four years of trial