Goldsboro weekly argus., 1908-12-17

he head of the Y. NJ. &. A. work
Chapel Hill.
The laymen's movement was given
. cusory outline and the story Of it's
beginning told. It was in Fifth ave-
nue hotel in New York city, popularity
supposed to be a choice recruiting
ground for Old Nick, that some bus
iness men interested in the cause of
missions conceived this plan. q It vs. as
in 1906 but it's first rea
w ork, that which made the public sit
up and take notice, to use the old term,
was at Chattanooga in 1907. At this
convention Mr.. w. B. Stubles was
elected secretary of the whole Southern
Methodist church. Toe other Metho-
dist conferences rapidly felIsinto line
and last year in New Bern the move
ment was sprung in this State che
laymen of the North Carolina co onter-
ence effected an organization and
went to work with General Julian S.
Carr president. A ,ay leader for each
of their labors were brought out yes-
terday.
About eighty of the delegates met in
the Y. M. G. A. After the secretary,
DR.. Lambert, called theAmeeting to or
der and started it to work, he turned
it over to General Carr, the secretary
conducting the devotional exercises.
Reports indicated fair growth and Gen.
eral Carr's $50 invaluable letters sent
out had shown invisible good. There
have been issued also $500 circulars.
The devotion of General Carr to the
m ovement with which he has become
SO prominently ident ed has had much
to do with the success of the first real
year of work. Everybody who at-
te ded says this has been the finest of
the church items yet going out for pub-
lication.
| The last inch OF Of Methodist space
| was takensThursday night when Bish-
op A. w. Wilson addressed the Kp-
! worth League At Trinity church and
stirred the thousands to their souiA~
depths.
There was something mssterfuf in
| the preachers words. L One minister
| in his description Of it said, I'VE have
| been carried nearer heaven than No
have been at any time" That was the
feeling Of every man whose heart was
| pierced and insensate the Methodiss
| must have been who did not. follow
him injhis simple style, yet ponderous
| thought.
| Miss Lizzie r. Hancock Rwas intro.
duced to the conference as the secrets
ry-treasurer of the conference organi-
zation of the Epworth League snd read
her report.
| The record is that of sixty leagues i'm
this conference, but only thirty were
| available for presentation to the con-
ference. The total mem bership is l.
| 894, and the number received into the
organization the past year was 6S6.
Sixteen leagues have been organized.
| Tie devotional department has been
at work. There have been held 6I3
meetings and 9s cottage prayer meet
| ings. The conversions in these we've
nine and comrades of quiet hour four
| teen. These terms are familiar to
|
help department has practised the re-
1igion which the Apostle pronounced
pure and undeiled. There have been
! 1929 visits to the sick and 432 strangers
W ere objects of those visitations. The
good people entered the jails and hos
pitfalls and ministered unto 7S.
The social event of the Conference
was the reception given Friday after
noon between the hours of 4 and $50
O'Clock of Trinity Collegeand the trus-
tees to the Conference and ministers.
The college girls served the re-
freshments and made the reception q
genuine delight.
The memorial of Rev. Charles r..
Taylor, the only mem ber to die the pas
year, was read by Rev. r. L. Davis,
Young Mule For Sale.