The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-15
STUDENT CONFERENCE.
Jnterestinu Exercises Are Held at
 Montevallo.

Montevallo, March 14-(special.) )-Car- riages from Calera and afternoon and evening trains Friday brought earnest students from the leading colleges and
 boarding schools of Alabama and at 8:15
 o'clock these with the factulty and stu
 dent body of the Alabama Girls Indus
 trial school and many citizens of Monte yallo, were called to order by the presi- dent of the Alabama Student conference.
 l.. c. Grammar of Greensboro. After
 song service, led by Miss Irene Lambert
 and her choir of Montevallo school girls,
 prayer was offered by Rev. M E. Lazen- by returned missionary to Cuba. The visitors were thrice welcomed-on behalf of the faculty by President Thom- as Waverly Palmer, for the Young Wom- ans Christian association by its president
 Miss Ethel Houser and for the town by
 the Rev 2. A. Bowling. pastor of the
 Methodist church. To the student dele
 gates that they might the better feel the
 spiritual import of the occasion, an earn est thoughtful address was made by
 Miss Mabel Head, travelling secretary of
 the Woman's Home Mission society; her
 text was What Seek Ye?'
 The. conference address, an excellent one
 in the form of a story wonderfully we'll
 told of the heather lad and his in- tense interest in the books included be- tween Genesis 1, and Revelation 21,
 was delivered by T. H. Beverly, general secretary of the Young .Woman's Chris tian association at the University of Alabama.
 Yesterday morning there were Bible | ctl nd mis- cial chats in groups and at II o'clock platform address by w E. Willis of New York city His theme was Per
 sonality and Bible Study" which he handled logically and we'll Personality, he said, "is more than character: 1t is | the expression of a whole individual
 making him different from any and all 1 other persons. It does not come spas medically but through long process
 of growth, it is the work of a, life time We need not expect to rise sud- denly into greatness into first places of leadership, for such eminence comes only ] by hard work, by consistent living
 through storm effort, by bringing into our lives great forces.Y He then went on to show that the Bible is one of
 the greatest forces in the development
 of personality. Different from all other literature in it's power to search our hearts to get down to the foundations
 
 lives, to take out of them the things that make us small. because 1t gives us deep, burning desire for purity of heart and life It reveals the source of our strength and power Gods word gives us breadth of vision and sympathy, l 1t calls us to the great and difficult
 tasks of the world and develops in our 1 lives poise and grace and courage. | The afternoon business session was opened with devotional exercises. con- l dueted by James Alexander Moore, chairman of the faculty in the Alabama l Girls Industrial school, and then there
 were reports of committees on Bible l study, mission study, etc.
 The vesper service. on account of the continued rain, could not be held as
 planned on the campus but it was a good meeting led by, Miss Pearl McCroy. gen. eral secretary of the Montevallo Young Woman's Christian association.
 Last evening there was an address by
 Rev. Raimundo de. Ovies of Brmjng. ham. "A Personal Appeal to Live Ones
 Best" and this was followed by recep- tion rendered the delegates and speakers by
 the student Young Woman's Christian as-