The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-09-17
Christian Church
Societies Gather
Annual Conventions of State
Organizations Being Held
atMew Church Here.


The annual meeting of the socie-
ties Of the Christian churches of West
virginia Is being held in the hand
some new Christian church edifice ct
West Pike and Chestnut streets. The
gathering embraces the seventh an
nual meeting of<the West Virginia
Ministerial Association, the thirty
eighth annual convention OF the West
Virginia Christian Missionary Society
and the annual meeting of the West
Virginia Christian Woman's Board OF
Missions. The first session was that
OF the ministerial association Tues
day evening.
The meeting of the ministerial as
ISOLATION was concluded Wednesday
forenoon with the election of new Of
ficers to serve for the ensuing year,
The new officers are:
w. NJ. Long, Clarksburg, presi-
dent.
P. A. Cave, Charleston, vice presl.
dent
u ". 'BidGle. Wellsburg, secretary
and treasurer.
In executive session Wednesday
morning. the ministerial association, !.
which was presided over by G. w.
Ogden, the president, voted the fol-
lowing ministers into membership:
G. A. sBass, Huntington; P. A. Cave,
Charleston; F. NJ. Biddle, Wellsburg;
u. A. Johnson, Romney; w. E. Bill.
You, Romney; G. II. steed, Mounds
vile; j. P Mcleod, West Liberty:
and F. A. Scott.
Crayton S. Brooks, of New Castle,
Pa. led the Bible school conference,
which opened the session Wednesday
morning. Especial attention was
given to the proper training of
teachers and the subject was discus.
sed thoroughly, much benefit being
derived from talks by various dele
gates and ministers.
J. R. Glenn. of Bethany, led a
short praise service.
G. w. Ogden. president of the min
isterial association. delivered an adj
dress in which he described the gem
eral work OF the church and how I'll
has been extended into new fields.
told of the increased membership,
the enlargement of the church funds
and outlined the possibilities OF
Christian church expansion providing
the same proportionate work is kept
up for the next several years.
A business session was then held,
the women Withdrawing to another
room for the purpose of holding a
conference in regard to the sessions
OF the West Virginia Christian
Woman's Board of Missions, the first
of which was held in the afternoon.
D. r. Moss delivered an address on
How to Win Men to the Church."
He said, among other things. that
the church building must be made
comfortable, that the elders should
be men of exemplary lives, that the
ministers must be manly men and
spoke strongly in favor of the insti-
tutional church which is open seven
days in the week.
Crayton S. Brooks, who is Spastor OF
a large Christian church in New Cas-
tie. Pa, having about 1000 members,
spoke on THE Place and Power of
Men in the Church" He said that
only about one-tenth of the men Of
the congregation were regular at
PENDANTS at church services and said
that especial efforts should be made
to attract them to the church. A
noted minister in the West, he said,
always breaches his sermons to men.
ignoring the women, believing that IL
he won the men to church, the wo-
men would come, too. He said
there should be good natured, friend
ly, affable men at the doors of the
church to welcome all Corners. He
laid particular emphasis upon the
Mems Missionary society of the
church, an organization that had it's
birth in his own church. This or
ganization. he thought, was much
better than mems social clubs be-
cause it gave the members something
to do. while the social clubs did not.
"Shepherding the Flock" was the
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