Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-05-19
SEVEN BISHOPS
TO Be ELECTED
METHODISTS MAY RETIRE TWO
OF THE ACTIVE PRS
LATEs

ASHEVlLI.E. n c. Special The
committee on eplscopacy or the Cen
eral Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. South. is holding after
noon and night sessions here. and il Is
rumored that the committee viii adj
wise the elect on OF seven new bishops.
and that two OF the present college
viii be superanuuated-
The longest debate OF the day cen
tered around the recommendation OF
the sunday school committee that En-
future the ten per cent OF the chill
dren's Day fund he no longer turned
over 60 the board OF education.
IL is almost certain that the confer
ence viii vote 20 give the laymen rep
resentation az all annual conferences
at the rate OF for each 1900 mem
bcrs or each presiding elders district
The address OF the Rev. George g..
Clement. fraternal delegate from the
African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church. az times evoked the loudest
applause. He asked that the white
preachers show more sympathy ina the
work OF negro churches in the South
The memorial regarding the admin
stratlon OK the Lords supper once
every three months instead OF once
4 month met with nOnconcurrenco o.
ne committee on revisals. The e1ol
'o substitute the words Church OF
God" instead OF Holy Catholic
'hurch" I'm the creed met with an un-
-vorahle report from the same com
nlttce.
NV rising vote the conference
tdopted the report OF the committee
Oh temperance endorsing the Miller
curtis bin now pending in Congress
prohibiting shipments Of liquor into
prohibition territory
Prince Yum OF Korea. who resi- gned
b cabinet position 60 become the head
% Methods - school in SOngdO. Be-
Imong the most interesting visitors
here. and is shown every attention his
high social position demands.
DR.. Cannon There.
The special committee on the Law
mems Missionary Movement submit
ted a report which when taken from
the calendar. is likely 20 provoke one
OF the LNchest discussions that will
take place on the floor OK the confer
ence- The report recommends that
iu the future the lay representation
n the annual conferences consist of
one layman from each pastoral chair
man. and, further. that in the general
conference a layman be placed on
each one Of the standing committees
No layman. as the law now stands is
appointed on the committees on epis-
I copacy. iunerancy and revisals. which
are considered the most important OF
the general conference committees.
The other item OF special interest
In the proceedings was the adoption
OF "a report Of the committee on tenn
perance and other social and moral
tueSttohst eouClfElAs Win the petition
presented by James Cannon. OF the
Virginia Conference. and others prO-
testing against the interstate shipment
OF liquor and praying Congress to pass
without delay the Miner-Curtis bill.
/ now pending in the Congress Of the
I United States. The report recon
mended also that a copy OF the same
be sent 20 the President OF the Uni
ted States. 60 the President OF the SEN
ate. and 20 the Speaker OF the House
~ Representative. The report was
adopted 10y a rising vote.
G.. q. Clement Of the African Meth
odist Episcopal Ziou Church. fraternal
messenger from that church. delivered
his address. and Bishop Hendrix
responded 20 the same.