The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-08

is ratner small m huHpo. standing in the Conference.
 There will be four services at ths Methodist Church tomorrow beginning with an early morning love fehst Bishop Hoss will preach at II oclock and ordain a. class of young mmisters.
 A new district will be created Mon' day by the Conference. Lhis mucn ,a trict Win be divided and the Dothan and pefuniak Districts will be created. Rev. J. A. Peterson Is Presiding Elder of the Marianna District and will bs Presiding Elder of the new district. .
 When the Conference adjourns II will have ten instead of nine district as in the past
 The Church Extepsion Board sub mitted an excellent report at the an nuai meeting Friday night. The fund for the church extension collected dur- ing inc year amounted to elt,s4s, an increase of nearly $2.000.
 Rev. w. F. McMurray. tte Secretary of the General Conference. was to have delivered the address on this occasion at Elba Junction. by missed connec- lion. In his absence Bishop Hoss ad- dressed the large congregation.
 The address was largely review of the churchtand It's condition in Bra gil, He has been associated In su- peryisory way with the work. and ne spoke out personal knowledge. The audience was deeply interested Tn ms presentation of Brazilian conditions. The need there was church buildings.
 He made an appeal to the Conference in the interest of this cause. The re- sponse was very gratifying. The sum of $500 was given by the members of the Conference.
 The times may be hard, but this has not been indicated by the collections. The generous collections made during the Conference would show that there is plenty of money in the territory COW cred by the Alabama Conference.
 The morning session with Bishop Hoss in the chair, began today with the singing of the hymn. Divine Love"
 Rev, J. P. Hamilton led the Confer ence in prayer. The Conference thon sang, "oh, for a Heart to Praise My God"
 Bishop Hoss Speaks.
 For the morning lesson, Bishop hosa read the Fourth Chapter of Paurs ret ist. ter to the Philippians. Out of this
 aThc notion that the primitive church was the best Christian chnr2 known to the world is erroneous,' said Bishop Hoss. There are preach CTS in this church who would turn out the whole church of Corinth If they had . chance. These churches were fresh out of heathenism. The faint and edor of heathenism still clung to them"
 He asked hiss hearers to meet the evils and troubles of life fra,kly and brayalv.
 .Don,t magnify the evils of life. Try to cure them." he admonished the preachers.
 He spoke particularly of the neces- sity for clean hearts. for men In the ministry. To obtain clean hearts should be their prayer and their en- deavor.
 You can't take an evil thought by the neck and ears and throw 1t out "It will come back. But you can get good thought in your heart Evil thoughts and good thoughts will not associate"
 The devotional exercises ended with the singing of Guide Me, Oh, Thou Great Jehovah"
 Rev. E. A. Danneliy moved that a committee of five be named to secure and harmonize the assignments made
  epee. On the adoption of this motion the following committee was named: O. s. Wefch, C.. s. Taiieys T.. 4. Man gum. F. NJ. Wood and E. NJ. Glenn.
 Report on Finances.
 Treasurer B. M. Washburn. of the Finance Board, submitted his report. The Conference had collected for the bishops fund in the past year s2.41o.9I, From the Otes property interest," amounting to e26.20, and from the Cal- win fund interest amounting to SPA. For the fund for superannuates $12,0S4 had been collected.
 The checks for the distribution of this fund were ready and Treasurer Wash burn passed around the checks at the close of his report.
 A resolution expressing the heart felt gratitude of the conference to Mrs. Julia A. Pratt of Prattville. for gift of SlQ.0D0 to the Woman's College fund, was offered by Rev. H. H. McNeil of This resolution declared that the donor of that gift would lever be held in generous memory by the Ala bama Conference"
 Rev. W. P. Hust reported briefly up- on the management of the property which had been willed to the church and which had been administered by the Legal Conference. Rev. J. B. Cum mings announced that "a Godly woman of Pensacola had died and left the church s1.0O0. which had not yet had time to get to the Conference"
 This practically finished the routine work of the Conference. The Confer snce had broken all records for rapid ty in the dispatch of business. There were several connectional officers pres- snt. Routine business had been given he right of way, but with today the officers were given the right of way.
 Conference Congratulated.
 Rev. J. D. Hammond. secretary of the General Education Board. was present. ed to the conference by Bishop Hoss. He delivered an instructive and com prehensive address on. church educa- ton. He was especially gratifed at the remarkable growth of the educa- tional sentiment in Alabama. The Con- ference was to be congratulated on he generous gifts that had been made Q the. Woman's College at Montgomery The Conference was to be congratu- ated on the prospects for high stand lrd college near Alabama's Capital where so much moral and temperance egislation was recently enacted.
 He quoted Dr. Wallace Buttrick, who, IS secretary of the National Education Board. had much to do with the dis -rtbution of the great resources which were at the disposal of the board. pr. Buttrick had said to him: we believe in denomtnational educa- lion and we propose to help them"
 He outlined the work of his board. It had he said. greatly helped the smaller colleges of the denomination. Many of them, under the old system, n which each college looked after it. elf, had nearly suspended. Some of them were so far gone that they could ardly be resuscitated, But under the