The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1911-12-16

The Mississippi Methodist Confer
ence came to close at Meridian on
Tuesday, at noon, after busy session
of six days. Much business was trans
acted during the session, and under the
able management Of Bishop Warren A.
Gambler, of Atlanta, Ca, presiding,
everything progressed without hitch.
The conference was called to order at
nine O'Clock for the hearing of final re-
ports and the making of appointments
for the ensuing year. NJ. L. Burton re-
ported two hundred and three children
in the Methodist Orphanage Home at
Jackson. Total receipts this year, St7,-
639.37. 1t also showed debt on the
building of S3,270.
The committee on finance showed that
claimants had been paid in full this
year, and that $9,032 ,02 had been col
lected on assessments, and S2,52t.46 for
the bishops.
Important among the features of the
conference was resolution passed, ask
ing the Legislature to create an indus
trial school for fallen women and an in
dustrial school for juvenile delinouents.
The following committee was appointed
to draft the proposed bill: F. NJ. Evans,
]. r. Jones, j. NJ. Morse, S. j. Taylor,
j. G. Cavett.
Hazlehurst was unanimously selected
as the next meeting place for the con-
ference next December.
The report of the Mississippi confer
ence endowment fund was read bv ].
M. Morse, showing total in gifts and
oequests of SIS, 1000. The report on the
state OF the church, read by John Paul,
showed a loss of fifty-two members.
The board of trustees of the church and
custodian of the endowment fund for
superannuates reported cash and assets
equal to StS3, ,293; total assets, S286. .532.
DR.. l. w. Cooper was reelected presi-
| dent OF Whitworth College, which was
reported to be in a prosperous condi-
ton. flattering report of the work
of Millsaps College, the Methodist in
stitution at Jackson, was submitted,
DR.. D, G. Hull will continue as Dresi-
dent OF that college. His report showed
painstaking administration. Raver-
end George H. Galloway was reelected
president of the Mississippi Training
Conference School. Port Gibson Fe-
male College submitted one of the best
reports of its history and was in good
financial condition.
A committee composed of A. F. Wat
kins, H. E Hawkins and II. NJ. Ellis
was appointed to devise some scheme
by which the year 1913, the centennial
year of Mississippi Methodism, NAV be
observed by the raising of a great fund
for educational purposes, to be used in
better equipping the conference schools.
Rev. Selby was appointed conference
secretary OF education.
Strong resolutions were adopted hv
the conference relative to temperance
matters. Many features were ineorpo-
rated in the resolutions, among them
being an appeal to the legislature to
amend the laws of the State so as to
forbid the locker system now practiced
IN clubs and secret orders, and to make
such a practice an indictable offense.
A scientific temperance law is asked.
! They recommended that the Iegisla-
ture pass law raising the age of con-
sent from twelve to the age of eighteen
years; that the coming legislature es-
tablisb a juvenile reformatory court.
r. w. Millsaps, A. F. Smith and N. B,
Harmon were appointed as an advisory
board before the Anti-Saloon League,
to see to 1t that the steps to secure again
in Mississippi the saloon be fruitless.
After hearing the reports of commit
tees, Bishop w. A. Gambler read the
following appointments for next year,
which show fewer changes than usual:
Sea Shore District-W. b. Jones.
presiding elder; A. P. Cox CsuppIv).
Americus; T. B. Cottrell, Bay St.Louis;
w. L. Lindeld, Biloxi, Main Street;
w. j. Ferguson, Brooklyn and Bond;
H. P. Lewis, Jr., Carriere and McNeilI;
C. C.. Gibson, Coalville: 3. F. Lewis,
Columbia; r. A. Breland Supply.
Derby; W. L. Burton, Gulfport Twenty
fifth avenue; j. t. Abney, Gulfport
Twenty Ninth street and Handsboro;
w. w. Moore, Howison and Saucier:
David Timer Supply Hub and Oak
dale; Ell. Mellard, Logtown; r. F. Witt,
Long Beach and Pass Christian; t. w.
Adams, Lumberton; H. J. Moore, Nc
Henry and Wiggins; S. E. FURRY
Supply, Mentorum; P. E. Daniel.
Mississippi City and Handsboro; w. u.
Sullivan, Moss Point; L. A. Darcy,
Pascagoula and Ocean Springs; G. A.
Guice, Poplarville: J. NJ. Lewis, Van
). cleaye; Louis Fayard supply, Wolf
River; E G. Mohler, student vander-
bilt University; w, T. Gfiila, sea-
mems Bethel.
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