The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-09
TROY SCHOOL UNION
 DEBATE IS STARTED Many Arguments Heard on
 Both Sides MINORITY REPORT WINS Dr. J. E. Brown of the American Bible
MINORITY REPORT WINS
Dr. J. D. Brown of the American Bible Society Delivers Address on Spreading of the Word
 of God


 question to come before the Alabama conference at it's present session at the Methodist church in this city, unifying and correlating all the Methodist schools and colleges of the state, was taken up this mor>1ng at 10 o'clock. but it was not >-cltled It is apparently as far from settlement this afternoon as it was be- for the three hours of debate on it. which consumed almost the entire time of the conference this morning.
 The Sunday school anniversary of the Alabama conference Sunday school board was held tonight. President J. B, Green presiding. Dr. H. M. Hamill made the address of the evening to a large audi ence, which was received enthusiastically by the Sunday school workers.
 The conference was opened by the Rev. J. ". Shores, preacher in this conference for 51 years, who read a les son from the, sixth chapter of Second Corinthians. and then led in prayer. He asked the conference to sing that old hymn, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" which was done with enthus- iasm by the 300 members of the body. After the roll call and the reading of the journal of the first days proceedings the matter of substituting alternate for prin- cipal delegates was taken up and several substitutions were made. Bishop Cand- Ter then announced that the special or der of the day would be taken up, that of hearing the report of the conference secretary.
 Majority Report
 The majority report of the board recom- | mended the unifying and correlation of all the Methodist colleges in Alabama. The majority report had only a majority of one, and the minority members of the board gave notice that they would also 1 file a report and submit it to the confer ence. This was done and by the ad- dition of names to the report, who were ab-. 1 sent from the meeting yesterday, the | friends of the minority report claimed | that they really had majority of the members of the board of education all of whom dissented from the idea of un- I ificaton and correlation. It was moved l by pr. J. s. Fraser of Troy to substitute the minority for the majority report. A vote was taken and the minority report was substituted by a vote of s1 to 55. On notion Dr. Andrew Sledd, president ot the Southern university, was accorded the floor of the conference. He spoke earnestly against the idea of moving the Southern university to Birmingham or | merging the present institution with that of Owenton. He insisted that the large | city was not the best place for the col l leges to be located In this connection the noted educator of the Methodist church i delivered a strong warning against the materialism of the day, and the accept | ing by the church of donations coming | from questionable sources. 'Men and brethren, I speak from an experience of | nQ -.l.N Nz1- T n | Sledd with much animation. "I want to state that I have arrived at the settled conviction that the large city is not the best place for the location of our Chris | tian colleges. The largest school and the richest school is not the best school"
 Dr. Sledd called attention to the fact that many of the leading colleges of the country were located at small villages, and he insisted that the quetude of the | proper education of the countrys youth than the busy, hustling centers of pop ulation.
 Two Large Schools Favored
 Rev J. B. Cumming was next to speak. | He favored the plan of founding two large schools in the state, one for mon | and one for women, and he stated that the trend of the preesnt day was to put | the colleges in or near the largest cities. Dr. C. A. Rush of Mobile was very much against the idea of abandoning the fine property of the church at Greensboro for the purpose of going to Birmingham. He claimed that the North Alabama con | ference had had four years to start the work and do the work which they had agreed to do at Eufaula four years ago. pr. J. M. Dannelly of Montgomery holds | that the church is morally bound by the paper adopted at Eufaula four years ago. | He made a very enthusiastic speech l favoring the union of all church colleges in the state of Alabama. At the conclu- | sion of Dr. Dannelly's remarks, Dr. La mar moved to postpone further discussion of the question until after the reading of the minutes on Friday morning. At that time Rev. E. A. Dannelly of Selma and Rev. J. S. Fraser of the Troy district will doubtless speak against the union of the schools.
 Bible Society Work
 Dr. J. F. Brown, representing the
 American Bible society, was then intro
 duced to the conference and spoke of the
 work of supplying the word of God to the
 world. He read from Bohemian cate
 chism which denied the existence of God
 and warned the ministers of the necessity
 of spreading the word to all the world
 Dr. Brown stated that the American Bible
 society in it's history had printed and cir
 culated 87,000 600 copies of the Bible at 2 cost of over s6,oO0.OoO, and that the Bible ) is printed in 300 different languages ane
 dialects. He also reported that every
 work day the society turned out 20O00
 copies of the Bible from their plant II New York.
 Rev. Brooks Lawrence, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league in Alabama was then introduced to the conference and made few remarks stating that th' next legislature was not liquor legisla r ture, as had been claimed in some guar ters. He also urged the preachers to hell
 all they could in the preservation of th'
 present prohibition laws of the state O
 Alabama. Dr. J. w. Solomon of Texas : former Alabama preacher. was then in
 troduced to the conference. Bishop Can