The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07
METHODIST MEETING
PLANS FoR AN TNsTIrUTn AT sEA-t
 SHORE CAMP GROUND.
Cemnlssfensrs ffsn TAree states As- semhle af HulfDorf and Arrange Prcgrnm fer Great nxid-
 smnmser Gathering.


 Gulfport. Miss-, Feb. e--tspeciai. )--- The Methodists of the Cuff codst are planning a great forward movement in an educational line. The Alabama. the two Mississippi, and the Louisiana Conferences have united in common purpose to have a preachers' institute ct the seashore Camp Ground.
 The movement has been under way for two or more years. IL has taken time to materialixe plans and to bring the movement to a successful cuimfna- ton. But now the institute is a cer- tainty. The first session will be held June 22. to July l. 1909. A number of gifted speakers will deliver ad- dresses on that occasion to the Metho- dist ministers.
 This Is . new enterprise and viii mean much to the ministers of the four participating conferences. and through them the people at large will receive the 'beneht from the institute At the sessions of the Alabama, Mis- sissippi, North Mississippi and Louisi- ana Conferences of 1907 two cemmis- sioners from. each conference were ap- pointed to confer together with . view t to establishing the institute. These commissioners met in March of last year andsmade tentative arrangements for the first session to be held fin 1909. At the last session Of these four con ferences three commissioners were ap- pointed to make permanent arrange rnents for the institute. These com- fnissicners were as follows: From Alabama Conference, pr. !. N. Dam nelly. Montgomery. Ala, Rev. H. H. McNeil. Mobile. Ala: Rev. R. R. Eili- son. Notasulga, Ala, from the Mis- sissippi Confersnce. Rev. H. M. Fills, Brookl1aven, Mss {; Rev. c M. Crisler. Jackson. Miss. Rev. Robert Selby, Natchez, Miss.: from the North Ms sissippi Conference. pr. W. B. Mur- oxford. Miss. Rev. L. M. Broyles. Corinth, MIss.; from the Louisiana Conference. pr. J.. A. Rice and Rev. W, W. Holmes of New Orle6ns,, Pro- lessor Thomas Carter of Nashville. Tenn.
 These commissioners have just met at Gulfport and formed permanent organization The permanent officers were elected as follows: Robert Sel- man: Robert R. Ellison of the Alabama Conference. Secretary; W. W. Holmes of the Louisiana Conference. Treas urer.
 The commissioners entered upon a discussion of additional speakers to be secured, and the ways and means Of conducting the institute.
 Among the speakers that will deliv- CT lectures at the tnstitute, arc ghaler Mathews of Chicago. Bishop Hendrix of Kansas City, Mo. pr. O. E. Brown of Vanderbilt University, Dr. W. F. KcMurry, Secretary of Church Extension Board, Nashville, Tenn. pr. F. s. Parker. assistant edi- tor The Epworth Era, and President Weber of the Centenary College. Fur ther speakers will be chosen. There will be i've lectures each day for eight days "
 A committee on program and publi- cation was appointed as follows: Rob- ert Se1by, Chairman; w B. Murrah, J. A. Rice. H. M. Ellis and T. R. Dannelly.s
 A HnanciaI committee was elected .as follows: H.. H. McNeil. W. ". Holmes. H. M. Ellis and J. c. Park.
 H. M. Ellis and ". W. Holmes were appointed a committee on entertain ment.
 The following resolutions were adopted:
 ..Resoivsd, That it Is the sense of this commission that each conference participating contribute e100 through the members of our ananOe committee