Goldsboro weekly argus., 1908-12-17
APPOINTMENTS
READ TONIGHT
No announcements Of Changes Of
Pastors Made This Morning as
Usual Custom.
From Mondays Daily.

that the appointments OF the Methodist
Conference for the ensuing year would
be read tonight, thus doing away with
the cnstom=of making these announce
ments Monday morning..
The report of Saturdays session is
as follows:
Conference~brokeH Hpfecedent " hen II
decided to meet two years In the same.
locality and unanimously chose Ra-
leigh as the place for holding the next
series of deliberations.
The custom of tfis body has always
ben to bridge long over the two con-
vAning localities. From New Bern t.
Durham last year, it was expected
that the jump would be from Durham
t. some other extremity. but Raleigh
put in he bid AMI Raleigh has not had
a conference in eleven years.
Saturday was the largest of the four
days. There apprarstto be contest
between the conference and its auxili-
ary laymen's meetings TO put up the
strong ST attractions and claim the
ltrgest interest. Business consumed
much OF the body's time and dis'in-
gu.>hed visitors addressed the lavrnen
h.. devotional exercises were open
cd by Rev A. D. Belts. the Iatest in the
ranks of superannuation and about
whose lite one al the really touching
incidents of the week is recalled. AT
ter asking the conference to give him
the stipend coming to those who heavy
burden lof years passed down too
strongly npon them, he exclaimed
amid chorus of amens. III ] had .
thousand lives, 1 would give them to
the service 49,, Lrrd.
The conference heard a communica-
ton fr"n, sh- Itautist in Wilson asking
IL LV take -At lost active steps to in
cfe5se n uence to enforce the pro
hlbitory laws effective January tn
nr~t. There have been several mess
ages Of this kind and the appearance O.
Rev. r L. Davis earlier in the week
urged thai the church people do all
they could to make prohibition some
thing in fact rather than in name. All
references to this question have been
met with enthusiasm.
Tue remainder of the business ses-
sion was business like. The hearing Of
reports took up all the time and the
commentators far reaching. Th+
board Of education always lifts breeze
anu furnished no immunity yesterday
Ii recommended among other things
that the conference give 81 800 to the
10 Cn1laUo fhnS com
pleting the $4,000 endowment fund
aud guaranteeing the $4,000 promised
hy Andrew Carnegie. This places the
Greens boro Female College in single
class among southern Methodist col
leges, h.virg far the largest endow-
ment ui -.4ts.
This report further recommended
that this conference appropriate S3,-
Ooo 10 the college and $4,000 to its
brother, Trinity. While this donation
to Trinity doesn't affect it's finances. it
j. likewise the only Southern Meth
odlst college with SO much as 500, 900
endow n,ent. Trinity belongs to the
two conferences and tis located in the
eastern, and Greensboro bears the sam 9
relation to North Carolina Methodism
with it's location in the western.
A committee composed OF Rev. A p.
Tyer, Rev. L. S. Massey and ex-GOv.
Jarvis was recommended to meet with
the board OF education of the Western
North Carolina conference to formu-
late plan or the management of the
schools OF both conferences and in
which they both have an interest. DR..
&c. kilgo appeared before the confer
ence ana gave story of Trinity hose
magnl ticient history lie disclained al
credit Tor having made saying laug-
ingly that if u had known halt al
hour before l accepted its presidency
what 1 learned week later | wouiC
rather nave ridden the itatdest cIrcuI
in SouIh Carollna.'
1t was after this educational repor
that Mir. Joseph G. Brown promi
nent Raleigh citizen and bank in
vited the conference to meet in Eden
ton Street Methodist church next De
cember. Raleigh made the only bic
aud there was very general feelins
of gladness when the invitation came
Rev j. N. Cole, superintendent o
tle uIpanage Tor the Methodist churcl
made u report for his institution AM
showed good business management
He urged the building OF Methods
hospital in Raleigh and spoke of th.
other denolninationai hospitals owe
the State. immediately following hi
short address the Bishop announce
that he would read the appointment
Monday morning.
Durlug this time the laymen wer
busv with their organization and III