The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1910-12-08
THE PASTORS
CONFERENCE
IS ENDED
MORNING SESSION.
From Wednesdays Daily.)

/ y.
was marked by several brilliant adj
dresses. The session was opened at
$3.50 by DR.. G. w. Green, who led in
the devotional service.
Rev. d. L. Struggled spoke earn
estly on ''The Gift of Elaboration. -
Rev. w. N. johnson read a most
scholarly address on Modern
Thought Values" Rev. DR.. w. M
Vines spoke on Topical Preaching"
and during his interesting address
told of the abuse of sensational topi-
cal preaching. pointing out the danger
of making religion cheap, although he
said the prophets were topical preach
ers, including John the Baptist, and
that Jesus was the greatest of all
such preachers.
Rev. George G. Gates was intro
duced. to the conference and in re-
Spouse offered an g arrest prayer
that the presence In ,Hendersonville
Of the State Baptist Convention might
complete conquest Of the commune
ty for Christ, and that he looked upon
the convention being held here at this
particular time as being Providential-
ly ordered.
Rev. w. N. Johnson said that
money measures value in. business
only. It has no place in home or
sport or social circles or church, ex-
cept to preserve their proper rela-
tons to what is outside of them.
Money has a value in our dealings
with men; but when we stand face to
face with ourselves with the forces
nature, or with God, it is nothing to
us. The greatest factor in the value
of anything is the character of its
owner. Everything necessary to man
is free getting it is what costs.
This is an age of materialism. We
often speak lightly of the New Psy-
chology for Psychic Research, but I
tell you frankly that have kind of
reverence for everyone of them, for
they mark sign of the times.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
j The afternoon session which con
veneds at 2:15, was opened with. de-
votional exercises. sf3
Rev. DR.. L. r. Pruitt, who came in
on the one o'clock train, spoke on
1.-THE need of more ministers and how
/ to secure them His address was
clear cut and scholarly, and held the
attention of his auditors to the end.
DR.. Pruitt said the world needs the
great cleansing power of the Gospel
and the need of the gospel was more
preachers-better preachers, men
with courage, convictions and meek
ness, which characteristics were
the works of the true preacher. He
suggested that North Carolina has no
lack of preachers and that possibly
some Of them might work to better
advantage for the Lord as missionar-
les in foreign field. He said the diff
was the bible is a living book and the
more you read it the more you love
it. The first recruiting station for
new ministers was in the home. and
said there must be changes in the
home life if we are to continue to
ind recruits there. He emphasized
the necessity of strict religious teach
ing in the home, and in the schools
and colleges of the country, said the
tendency of the world was more and
more towards physical and intellec-
tual traing only, and that the great
est thing in the world today was to
preach and teach the gospel. Jesus
Christ was a teacher as well as a
preacher and he laid marked en-
basis on the Importance and great
ness of teaching.
Rev Josiah Elliott, at the special
request of the conference, related his
personal and thrillingly interesting
experiences through which he be-
came minister of the gospel. 1t
was story of privation, of suffer
ing, and of direct answer to heart
| felt prayer. At the conclusion OF
Mr. ElIiott's simple recital, one of the
many young men he has been in
strumental in leading into the min
i istry arose and paid him a tribute OF
appreciation, of love and affection,
which went stright to the hearts OF
every man in the audience.
DR.. A. T. Robertson, of Louisville,
XIV, in a sermon full of subtle wit
and fine points, took as his text
'aThe leaders and the laggards.
eff we had the right kind of Head
ers,'' said he, 1--WE might not have so
many laggards." 1t is the leaders
duty to put ideas into the heads of
the others, and there are some heads
which seem to have been vaccinated
against receiving and idea. Give JOY