Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-10
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parliament 1t is expected that nearly
all the crowned heads of Europe Will
attend the funeral.
- Washington. May s: Unparalleled
in the history of the weather bureau.
is the way in which Prof. Edw. b. Gar
riott, official fOrecaSter of the bureau
tonight described the ranges and dis
tribution of temperature in the United
States during the past two weeks. lie
pointed out that the incompatible
damage to fruit and vegetation in the
central valley and southern states
caused by the cool wave during the
latter part of April might have been
avoided in large degree by proper
appreciation of the timely warnings is
sued by the weather bureau, and the
employment of approved frost protect
ing devices. The warm wave, he said.
following this cool "eriod, produced
the highest April temperature on rec
ord at points i'm the north central
states, and temperatures tnat ap-
preached the records in middle interior
this warm wave was followed during
the first week in May by an extensive
and persistent cold area, which. during
three consecutive nights. carried the
frost line over the middle Mississippi
and Ohio valleys and southern por-
tions of the middle Atlantic states"
The Southern Baptist convention
representing a church membership OF
1000. 600. when meets in Baltimore this
year will assemble tomorrow. the seS-
sion lasting one week. Upward of l.
500 delegates are expected. The Bap-
fist Woman's Missionary union Will
meet at the same time and after the
convention adjOurns the international
Sunday School convention Will assem-
BILE at Washington for weeks session.
The annual conventions are concerned
with the great interests of the church
al large Questions of vital import
ance will be discussed-home and for
eign missions, Sunday school work.
the laymen's missionary movement and
the educational work of the church,
schools and colleges. Exceptional IN
tereSt attaches to the reports OF the
several boards which have charge OF
the Baptist church work at nome ana
in the foreign field. The foreign mis-
SION DOaIu VIII ltpOll lIidl NllN pS''N
year has been most prosperous hnan-
cially and in conversions in the foreign
field. The collections exceeded $780,
600 with expenditures slightly in eX-
cess of the receipts. For the first time
in several years the home mission
board will report no debt. The re-
ceipts during the past year were S355,-
600. The organization maintains
twenty five schools among the south
limo n
$500 pupils. 1t supports staff OF
evangelists for the city work, having
more than one hundred missionaries
laboring exclusively among the for
eigners in the cities; has missions
among the Usage and Pawnee Indians
in Oklahoma and during the last year
spent $4,000 in aiding l15 churches TO
build houses of worship. The nome
missionary board cO-OperateS with the
Negro National Baptist convention in
the work among the negroes OF the
south.
The militant hosts of Southern
Methodist are gathered in Asheville to
discuss many questions affecting the
life of the church. and Methodist inter-
est generally centers in the disposition
of these questions by the highest
church body. Among the questions dis
cussed in the conference organs ana
the general organ of the episcopacy
the time limit of pastorates, lay repre-
sentation of the women of the church.
a change in the manner of appointing
presiding elders. and the order of biSh-
Op The bishops in the NJ. T.. church
are elected for life, this having been
the custom since the first bishops were
elected in the early days of the church
The opinion now exists in the minds
of some of the ministers and laymen
Is tNNNn or
the bishops should be elected for only
a certain number of years while others
favor the abolition of the episcopacy
in it's present form. There is also
strong sentiment of the passing OF a
law by the general conference by which
the presiding elders of the future
shall be elected by the annual confer
ences, instead of being appointed by
the bishop as is now the case. 1t is
not unlikely that the time limit of
the pastorate will be abolished at this
meeting. Should this be done. such
action will not affect the meeting of
the annual conferences ana the ap-
pointment of the pastors: it is proba-
BILE that they will continue to be APP
pointed for one year at time, but II
the time limit should BE- removed, pas
tors will not be compelled to move its
another paStorate at the end of four
years. A memorial from the Woman'S
board of home missions has been pre-
Sented to the conference asking that
the rights of the laity be granted to
the women of the church. The request
was opposed in the episcopal address.
This is the first time that such re-
quest has been made To the conference,
and there is a marked and very decid-
ed difference of opinion among the
men and women of the church on this
C.4Np
bishops in the active service of the
church. and the oniniOn exists that at
least six or eight more will be elected
A number of prominent preachers of
the church are already being spoken OF
for the episcOpacy, and the election
will be an event of far more than or
dinary interest To the entire church.
The present order of worship does not,
il is said, give general satisfaction to
the church. and some changes in this
direction will doubtless be recon-
mended to the conference. While the
conference is in session a plan will be
presented for a great Chautauqua and
assembly for Southern MethodiSm.
Three sites in the western section of
this state are being discussed.
- san Jose, Costa Rica, May I: The
list of dead now numbers not less than
$500. The city was destroyed by an
earthquake, which lasted four sec
OndS 1t was a tremendous move
ment. which followed minor shocks
during the day. 1t occurred at I
o'clock Wednesday evening. No one
had time to run out of the houses,
which fell crashing to the streets.
Had the great shock come during the
sleeping hours hardly any could have
escaped. The railroad and telegraph
lines We're broken and the electric
light wires fell. leaving the city in
darkness Thousands ran panic
stricken in all directions i'm AN effort
to save themselves. Every house was
totally destroyed. including four
churches and the palace of the
American Peace Court. the gift of
Andrew Carnegie. Some Americans
are reported to have been killed. but
Identification. even by the records. is
at present impossible. The foreign
colonies set about at once To organize
rescue movements and worked siren
uOuSly to save those who were pinned
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