Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-28
METHODIST REPRESENTATIVES,
CHOSEN
WILL ATTEND THE BALTIMORE
CONFERENCE
Women's Missionary Society Discusses
Work in Many Lands-candi-
dates Addressed by Bishop
Nicely

ference was the election of clerical and
lay delegates to the general conference
of the denomination to be held in Balti-
more next spring.
Rev. Robert Mcintyre, pastor of the
First Methodist church, and said to be
one of the greatest orators in the Metho-
dist denomination, was elected on the
first ballot. Rev. E. ]. 1nwood, pastor
of the Methodist church at Riverside,
was also elected, as was Rev. H. w.
Peck, presiding elder of the Fresno dis
trict. On the seventh ballot Rev. A. w.
Atkinson, presiding elder of the Los An
geles district, was elected the fourth
delegate.
Rev. j. l.. Pitner, presiding elder of the
San Diego district, and Rev. G. F. Bo-
ward, president OF the University of
Southern California, were elected first and
second alternates, respectively.
While the clergymen were balloting for
their delegates the lay association was
also engaged in the same occupation for
lay delegates to the general conference.
Mrs. I. j. Reynolds of Pasadena was
elected on the first ballot with IL of the
III votes. Following this A. M. Drew
of Fresno Hugh Smith, of Los Angeles
and Mr.. Hayward of Whittier were
elected delegates. j. w. Wilmington, DR..
III. w. Brodbeck and A. ]. Wallace were
elected alternates.
The election of the delegates was
marked with much enthusiasm and each
delegate was compelled to make short
address.
At $3.50 o'clock the organization of the
lay electoral conference was held in the
Epworth league room. The laity ad-
journed to hear the address of Bishop
Nicely to the candidates for admission to
conference. Following this address the
laity again took up session and trans
acted large amount of business, chief
of which was the election of delegates.
Bishop Nicely Talks
Bishop Neely addressed the candidates
for admission into the conference at 10
o'clock and gave the young men good adj
vice regarding the life and work of the
ministers of the Methodist church. Bishop
Nicely, who has styled himself Califor-
MIA bishop, has had long experience in
the ministry and spoke feelingly yester-
day morning. 1t part he said:>
do you wish to come because it is
easier to preach than to do manual labor
or to pore over books in a counting
house? If that is your motive you had
better turn away from the door of the
conference now.
IF you come because you look upon
the ministry as providing respectable
calling that will give you free entrance
into society, you will have a wrong mo-
tive, and If you come because you are
ambitious, consider that this is no place
for worldly ambitions. If you take this
as step to something else you are doing
what you have no right to do.
'Surely you do not come for money.
A minister's life is not one of money
making. If you get enough to keep your
family and educate the children you will
be doing well. I do not see how the min
listers and their wives are able to put in
a respectable appearance and educate
their children at all, but they do it some
how.
THE ministry is not intended to give
you chance to make money outside of
it, When you see a preacher grasping
after gold mines and other speculations
you will usually find a man who has lost
his power in the pulpit. If you have a
little money saved you have the right to
invest it, but you have no right to enter
into uncertain speculation nor to use
your position as a minister to assist you
in getting ahead financially. You should
not use Gods time to make money.
You should consider carefully if you
have a call TO preach First know that
you are fitted for this service, and then
be sure that you have the divine call.
After that the church will decide whether
or not you ought to go into the ministry.
L
is the most important thing. Jesus said:
Go preach and if you cannot preach
you are failure. Any man called of
God can preach, even if he is not salts
fed with himself. The first thing is to
be preacher and the one great thing
all the time is to be a preacher.
BE a student. The man who does not
go to college will get ahead of the one
who does If the former is a constant
student, and every minister should de-
vote his morning hours to study. Keep
this up until you are eighty, having al
ways something new before you.
you should use two-thirds of your
study time for the requirement of knowl-
edge, and one-third for the preparation
of your sermon. Then you will not have
to deliver. your old eermons-unless you
become a presiding elder or bishop.
Stimulate Thought
'.Put something into your sermons.
Give the people something to think about
and polish the sermons afterward. Preach
the Holy Scriptures. Do not preach what
the latest critic says. No critic believes
today what he said ten years ago. We
can afford to wait for the critics to make
up their minds before we quote them,
and we are safe while we are preaching
the Scriptures.
you must be a shepherd to your flock
Call upon your people, but do not stay
more than a half hour at time Their
they will be glad to see you come, be-
cause they know you will soon go. Never
gossip. If you make your call too long
you are apt to indulge in small talk about
your people. This is not good
you need physical strength. Take care
OF your muscles and nerves, in order that
your mentality may be brighter Keep
close to Christ 1t is possible for a min
lister when he is actually in service TO
backslide and go on with the forms of
religion when he has lost the spirit When
you find your spiritual thermometer GO
ing down perilously near zero, warm
your soul by the love of Christ.
you should be a gentleman. You
should know the proprieties, in order that
you may not offend people. but you should
be gentle, too, with the gentleness of
Christ. Have clean hands. clean heart
and clean life.
BE man. Do not cringe before any
one, but do not insult anyone. BE gem
tie, be kind. Be indignant with evil, but
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