The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-06
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MEETING OPENS WEDNESDAY
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Annual Assembly OF Methodists
to Be Held at Centenary
Church.
MEETING OPENS WEDNESDAY

Methodists of Virginia assemble in
Richmond this week for the one hun
dred and twenty eighth sess on of the
Virginia Annual Conference. which
opens in Centenary Methodist Church.
near the corner of Fifth and Grace
Streets. on Wednesday morning at
o'clock The conference will be IN
daily session for about a week.
bishop Alpheus ". Wilson, the senior
of the House OF Bishops of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, arrived
in Richmond yesterday from Baltimore,
and is the guest of Rev. S. c. Hatcher.
He will preach this morning at Broad
Street Methodist Church. On Tuesday
he will move to the Richmond Hotel
where rooms have been engaged for
him during the conference as the guest
Of John p. Branch. The bishop en-
| pressed the preference to be at a
! hotel where he might meet commit
| tees and have conferences with the
/ presiding elders and others without
| Interruption.
| Three hundred and sixty-four mem
/ bers of the conference have SO 1ar
| signified their intention OF attending,
| and II may be that the roll OF actuai
/. clerical and lay delegates VIII reach
| 400. All of those who have notified the
| committee on entertainment of their
! intention have been assigned to homes,
/, where they will be entertained while
in Richmond.
/ The committee issued yesterday a
handsome booklet containing the list
/ of such delegates, the name of the
| host. and the street address, SO thal
those coming in tomorrow and the
/! next day may be located At once
/ Copies OF this booklet and ioentitici'
ton cards have been mailed to all the
delegates at their homes.
Hold Sessions Daily.
The daily hours of session are flXet
/ by the conference itself. but is planned
to have them from $3.50 A. NJ. to +
1. NJ. daily. Unless there are unexpected
| DEVELOPMENTS or the business become:
l congested later in the session there
i will be no afternoon meetings. tht
4! time being given over to committees
and TO the bishop and his cabinet II
/ which to work over the list of assign
ments.
4 The conference will open with com
munion on Wednesday morning at
4 o'clock. and at once proceed to or
I
I nual conference sermon will be de
\ livered in Centenary Church by Rev
9 C. L. Holiday Each night OF the con
ference week there will be some grea
public meeting at Centenary. whei
! problems of church work. such as mis-
sions or Sunday school work, will b,
under discussion.
The annual conference sermon vii
be delivered by Bishop Wilson mex
Sunday morning in Centenary Church
and will be followed by the impress
81 sive service of the ordination o
deacons The ordination OF elders vii
! take place on Sunday night at Uniol
J Station Church, when the sermon viii
\ be delivered by Rev. r. II. Water
field
!. The secretary of the conference 70
many years has been the Rev. S. S
lambeth. who will be reelected. AS
sistunt secretaries are Rev. b. 7
), Lipscomb. of this city. and Rev. Hug
j. Baylor.
Many Boards to Report.
With the formal organization Their
will he presented reports from tn
various conference boards and commit
; tees. which will then form the basi
|