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 this committee pledges sf.ooo a year to this fund for period of i've years. The Distrist Conference Committee reported that the records of the vari- kept.
 The Epwofth League Committee re- ported an increase in membership of z,zsS, and that sl4o'ooo had been raised by the League.
 The report of the Sunday School Committed called for a strict observ- | ance of the Sabbath and the strict en- forcement of the Sunday laws. J.. R. Waters was elected assistant secretary.
 Board of Education. The Board of Education's report showed that all the Conference coI- leges are in fiourishing condition. | The Board called especial attention to the good work Of Miss Moore, Presi- dent of the Athens Female College, and the work that Rev. James H. Mccoy Is doing at the Birmingham College. The committee endorsed the work of both Miss Moore and pr. Mccoy. It recommended the following as a Board of Trustees for the Birmingham Col lege: ]. I. Williams, D. C. Banks, F. W. Chadwick.
 Dr. Mccoy. President of I3irmingha am College, delivered a lengthy address before the Conference this morning, in which he spoke of the loan fund for this~ college. saying it was a safe and profitable investment for any one who had money to lend, and besides it was a great aid to the young men struggling to get college education. The young men students give their notes for this money and in case of death the holder of the note is pro- tected by a life insurance policy. Rev. J. &. Robison of Decatur de- ! livered an appealing address for Bir- minEham College, saying 1t should re- ceive the support of all Methodist peo- pie and that too often a young man was taken out of this college and given an appointment.
 By all means let us keep our young men in college and thus give our peo- pie better educated lot of preachers" he said.
 The Board of Church Extension re. ported that there has been more de- mands upon 1t during the past year than ever before. There remains in the treasury of this department only
 The Committee on Books and Peril odicals indorsed The Christian Advocate and also recommended that Dr. Chad wick be elected as it's editor to suc- ceed himself. The Quarterly Review was endorsed and likewise its editor, Dr. Alexander.
 Statistical Report. The following statistical report was read and adopted: Local preachers, 2S0; members, 79,735; infants baptized, s64; adults baptized, s.722; Epworth Leagues, 110; members Of Epworth League. 3.e2O; Sunday schools, 672; Sunday school officers and teachers, 4,s4S; Sunday school members. 5l,55s; houses of worship, SIS; value of houses of worship. $1,345.s91; indebtedness, $s5,696; pastoral charges, 230; value of parsonages, S30,S73; indebtedness, $2,23S; districts, 10; district parsonages, 9; amount raised for Presiding Elders, s2 17S 4s: amount raised for preachers, $139, ,663 .5S.
 The Treasurer's report gave the fol- lowing figures of interest: Foreign missions, s14,s57.37; domestic missions, $7.577.14; bishops, S2,513I8; superan- nuates, $S,765.78; education, Se,664. Ii; church extension, $5,siI.20; Bible course, S4S3 .12; Sunday school, S1s8.76; education extension, s7Ss. .sS; special missions, s4,206. 76; total, S56,75s. .i2.r
 At the morning session today the call of Question 20 was resumed and com pleted.
 pr. Joseph B. Hingaly. General Sec retary of the l Methodist Episcopal Conferepce, delivered a strong sermon at the Central Methodist Church in New Pechtur hiS aLteruoon at S.5O O'CLOCK.
 The various committees and bOsId ds held their meetings sduring the aeter-E noon and Bishop Morrison hsId q meet inBN of his cabinet during the after noon.
 Prohibition is Endorsed.
 At tcnight's session resolution en- dorsing the State laws closing all sa- looms after Jan. 1, 1909, and endorsing the Women's Christian Temperance Union, was offered and unanimously adopted.
 Bishop Morrison said: "If lighting the liquor trafiic is going into poiites, advise you to go into politics.
 A resolution asking Alabama rep resentatives in Congress to do all in their power for the passage of the anti. liquor shipping law was unanimously passed.