The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-14

the reading of the report of the com nittee in charge of the Alabama Con. | ference Orphanage at Summerfield. read by pr. w. P. Dickinson. Chair man of the Board.
 The report showed the institution and its finance to be in a very satis- factory condition but 1t was shown that better things are in store for 1t In the future. The report embodies q suggestion that the superintendent and the financial secretary be consol- dated into one office to be held by Rev. ". J. Reid who takes charge December Is.
 The committee recommended that the directors be given authority to change the location of the orphanage at any time they see fit and 1t fur ther recommended that the matter of a consolidation of the institution With that of the North Alabama Confer ence be at once taken up. This scheme of consolidation is in line with. the general plan of the two Alabama Conferences looking toward the con- servation of their energies by work ing together in their various elee- mosynary and educational scnen1es. The report was adopted as read and the recommendations embodied be- came the rule of the Conference
 Strong resolutions on Vanderbilt University were brought before the conference and adopted. These reso- lutions provide that since 1t has been determined by committee appointed. at the last General Conference that Vanderbilt University at Nashville is the absolute property of the General Methodist Conference. that body be memoralized by the Alabama Confer ence to assert that ownership and as- suIne active control of the affairs of the college.
 Under question forty-five or awlrere shall the next conference be held.,, Troy held the winning cards in that It Is the city In order for that honor and Pensacola next strongest contest ant. had the conference since it was at Troy.
 Florsda Amendment
 The report of the conference com mittee on temperance was perhans the strongest worded of any that the Conference has adopted. It pledges the support of the Alabama Confer enee to temperance and of the mem- bers of the Conference in Florida to support the efforts of temperance workers in that State. to write pro- hibition laws Into the fundamental laws.
 The report commends Rev. Brooks Lawrence to the members of the Con Terence. and commands them to open their pulpits to him. It declares in favor of National prohibition and the Conference members are Instructed to support and work for 1t. It commehds highly all preachers and laymen of the Alabama Conference who worked for the recent prohibition. constitu- tional amendment. g ,s
 The report of the Statistical Secre- tary, of the Conference was then read to the Conference. This report showed: Local preachers, 175; church mem bers. 64.65s; infants baptized, s1S: adults baptized. ZOOS: Epworth Leagues. 16S: Epworth League mem bers. 4.S77; Sunday Schools. 577; Sun day School officers and teachers, 3,92s; Sunday School scholars. 4O.445: con tributed by the Beard of Church Ex, tension $5,671; contributed by the Alabama Bible Society. $44s: contrib uted for Presiding Elders. s2.36s; con- tributed for preachers in charge $751; O5e: contributed for bishops, $2,362; societies in conference. 706.
 Houses of worship, 631;. value of houses of worship, $1,55L9s5: indebt- edness on houses of worship, $83,815.
 The report of the Treasurer of the Board of Missions of the Conference heinz read showed the following amounts. to have been raised during the year: Foreign missions. .$l4,023; domestic missions. $s,4s6; specials, s5.1S5.16.
 Miss Minnie Kennedy of opelika, Field Secretary of the Alabama Sun day School Association. was introduced to the conference by Bishop Morrison, but she refrained from making an nd- dress because of the lack of time. as she explained.
 Rev. George Fontaine. for twenty two years an assistant secretary of the Alabama Conference, and for much longer period a member of that body. was superanuated at his own request.