Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-11-08
METHODISTS TO
GATHER At
COLUMBUS
South Georgia Conference
Will Draw Many There.
Five Presiding Elders Are to Be Sc
leCted---C Onfefance VIII Represent
Over Eighty thousand COmmun.
iCantS---DF. BaSCOm Anthony the
Host This Year.

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Columbus, Ga, November Co
lumbus will be the mecca of South /
Georgia Methoiists from November 80
to December ) or 6. The Forty
fourth Annual Session of the South
Georgia Conference will be held |
there at that time. The conference
includes the territory south of the line |
beginning at the Chattahoochee river, |
at Pine Mountain, to Flint river, down |
the river to the northern line of
Taylor county, along the line of
Crawford and Bibb counties to the
Ocmulgee river, and along the north
ern line of Twiggs, Wilkinson, WASH
ington, Glascock, jefferson and Burke
counties to the Savannah river, con-
tanning a membership of between 81
600 and 10000 communicates.
Running Toward Quarter Million.
The General Conference of 1866, in
New Orleans gave authority to the old
Georgia Conference to divide into the
North and South Georgia Conferences
With the southern and northern
boundary line as above outlined. At
tie time of the division there were
$4,000 white and 10000 colored men,
bers, making a total of 10000 COM
municants in the Old Georgia Confer
ence.
Last year the North Georgia Con-
ference reported total membership
of 1885, to which adding the pres
emf total membership of the South
Georgia Conference, make a grand to-
tai of approximately 100000. or up
ward, of members of the NJ E. Church.
South, in Georgia. an increase of at
least 400 per cent. in the white men,
bership since 1866.
The North Georgia Conference re-
ported last year total of $574,394.SI|
raisei for all purposes, while the
South Georgia Conference reported
$500, 649.74, making a grand total of
$1,149,044.58 raised for all purposes,
which is a per capita contribution of
1925.
Bishop H. C. Morrison, of Leesburg
Fl. :, will preside at Columbus. 1t will
be his first Episcopal visitation to the
conference.
While Bishop Morrison will make
his first Episcopal visit this year to
the South Georgia Conference, he is
By no means stranger to the sec
ton, as he has preached repeatedly
and delivered numerous addresses
within the conference, having aided
in raising the funds for the erection
of the Methodist churches in Valdosta.
Cordele, cambridge, Macon and other
places. Recently he, in company with
the presiding elder, DR.. A. NJ. VIII
Iiams, made a tour Of the Thomas
Vile district in an automobile.
lit is not often that an annual con-
ference has five presiding elders
whose terms of office expire at the
same time, but such will be the case
by the statute of limitation with the
South Georgia Conference this YEAR
The following are the five presiding
elders who are closing successful
quadrienniums and Will be assigned
new fields of labor: Rev. Osgood F.
Cook, of the Macon district; Rev. X
Read, of the Cordele district; Rev. ].
B. tombstone, of the Americus dis
trict; Dr.. A. NJ. Williams, of the Thorn
asNille district, and Rev. E. F. Nor
gan, Of the McRae district.
As it is some what an unwritten law
in this conference at this time, not 20
allow any minister to serve consec-
utiyely longer than four years in the
presiding eldership, particularly if i've
completes quadriennium on a dis
trlct, these well known ministers will 4
in all probability he assigned to pas
torates and an equal number of pas
tors will be appointed to the elder
ships.