The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-01
OPENING SESSION
OF CONFERENCE
North Carolina Methodists Meet
at Elizabeth City-Large
Attendance.

Especial Go The Times Dispatch.l
Elizabeth City, N. c., November so.
The North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. South,
convened in it's seventy-fourtl annual
session this morning In the First
Methodist Church Bishop Eugene r.
Hendrix called the conference TO order
at $3.50 o'clock, and conducted the de-
yotional service. He announced that
during the conference he would de-
liver a series Of devotional discourses,
one each morning, his subject being
"Shrunken Ideals
He read as the scripture lesson this
morning "a part of the thirteenth
chapter of the gospel according TO st
John, and he used tho character OF
Judas Tscariot, to illustrate a man OF
shrunknn ideals.
Immediately after the close OF tho
devotional service, In keeping with the
custom of the conference for the open
ing day, the sacrament of the Lords
supper was observed Bishop Hcnd-
iiX then requested Rev w. l.. suning-
GIN secretary of the last conference,
to cali the roll Of the members, and
the RESPONSE showed a large percent
age of members present.
w. l.. Cuninggim was reelected
secretary for the nineteenth session OF
the conference successfully. on mo.
ton of NJ. G. Thomas, the name of Rev.
j. c. kilgo, formerly member of this 1
conference, and recently elected bishop,
was ordered to be placed at the head
Of the roll of the conference. A tele-
gram OF greeting from Bishop Kilgo,
who Is now presiding over a confer
ence in Huntsville. Alabama, was read
to the conference, and the secretary
was instructed to make a suitable re-
ply to the same.
The standing committees were nom
mated and appointed, and various COM
munications were referred to them for
consideration
Minute question twenty was called,
Are all the preachers hlameless III
their life and Official administratlon2
and in this connection the characters
OF the preachers who sustained the
supernumerary and the superannuated
relation We're passed, and those present
spoke to tile conference. A. d. Belts,
one OF the superannuated preachers,
called attention to the fact thai this
ference he has attended in succession
DIR. Few Introduced.
DR.. w. p. Few, president of Trinit.
College, was introduced, and address
ed the conference upon the subject of
character building, the chief work of
education.
Bishop Robert Strange. of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church was intro
duced He spoke to the conference of
the oneness in the object of Christian
service, in which all denominations are
engaged, and expressed his pleasure
at being able TO address a Methodist
conference, Bishop Hendrix respond
ed cordially to Bishop Strange, and re-
ferred to the federation of church
councils, of which Bishop Hendrix Is
president. and of which ministers ana
iaymen of all protestant denomina-
lions are members.
Bishop Hendrix appointed r. ~
1xey. H. L. Nash and w. b. North a
committee to nominate delegates from
this conference to the next meeting of
the federation of church councils.
The report of the board of publica.
ton of the North Carolina Christian
Advocate which was presented two
weeks ago to the Western North Caro-
lima Conference with reference to tbs
appointment of n commission from
each conference to confer regarding
the advisability of the consolidation of
the North Carolina Christian Advocate
and the Raleigh Christian Advocate,
was read. On motion Of Il. b. John,
the report was referred to the COM
mittee on books and periodicals
Rev NJ Bradshaw, of Durham,
preached this evening. this annual SER
mon before the conference.