Henderson gold leaf., 1911-11-30

four preachers were admitted on
trial, namely: r. E. L. Edwards
and r.. E. Pittman, from the
New Bern district; n. B. Strick-
lin, from the Raleigh district,
and r. H. Hasty, from the Rock
lngham district. A great deal of
routine business was transacted
at this session. --- i
The order of the day for 1890
O'Clock was the reception of a
class of candidates into full con-
nectien. This class consisted Of
the following named preachers:
Frank Culbreth, G. H. Biggs,
r. L. Carraway, I. NJ. Grant
and NJ. w. Dargan. Question d
was called, Who are admitted
into full connecticut" and the
allowed named were received.
Question 10 was called, What
travelling preachers are elected
deacons?" and the class received
into full connection were so
elected. Rev. W. G. Bates spoke
to the conference in the interest
of the American Bible Society.
Mrs. Lucy H. Robertson, presi-
dent Of Greensboro Female Col
lege, was introduced to the con-
ference.
During the session of the con-
ference this morning Bishop
Kilgo twice addressed the body:
Bishop Hoss presented him for
mally to the conference shortly
after the opening Of the session.
Bishop Kilgo expressed himself
as being delighted to be present
at this, which he designated as
being the greatest conference in
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. He said that since he had
been going around among the
conferences he found they were
all great, but the North Carolina
Conference was the greatest of
all.
Two sessions of the conference
were held Saturday. A large
part of the morning session was
occupied with an unusually lively
discussion of the report of the
committee on temperance, Bishop
Hoss taking a leading part in it.
A resolution was offered and
adopted instructing the secretary
to send the greetings of the con-
ference to the Methodist Protes-
tant Conference in session at
Henderson. Bishop Hoss stated
that he hoped the members Of
this conference would cultivate
more the members Of the Metho-
dist Protestant Church. They
are a good people, he said, and
it will be to your advantage to
cultivate them. 1t is becoming
more and more apparent that
the principles for which they
struggled so stoutly in the past
were right.
J. n. Cole presented the re-
port of the committee on the
Representative Church, which is
to be built in Washington City as
the representative of Southern
Methodism. The report recon-
lmended that this conference con-
tribute $5, 900 toward the build
ing of this church within the
next four wears. It also recon-
mended that D. H. Tuttle be
named as the special agent of
this fund. By special request,
Ex-Governor Jarvis addressed the
conference in the interest of the
Representative Church. This was
one of the strongest addresses
delivered before the conference.
The next business was the Sc
lection of a place for the next an
nual session of the conference to
be held. Wilmington, Hender-
son and Fayetteville were placed
in nomination, and the latter
place was chosen.
Rev. ]. E.. Underwood offered
a resolution recommending that
the conference go on record as
endorsing the work of the Anti
Saloon League and this resolu-
ton was adopted by a rising vote.
, The following program was
adopted to be observed for the
celebration of the anniversaries
for future conferences: Tues
day evening, opening sermon:
! Wednesday afternoon. meeting
Of historical society, Wednesday
night, Sunday school anniver-
sary; Thursday night, church ex-
tension; Friday night. board OF
education; Saturday night, mis-
sions: Sunday afternoon, ED.
worth League anniversary.
J The report Of the orphanage
was read. L. S. Massey was
elected in place of T. n. Ivey.
The afternoon session was prin.
cipally taken up with reports and
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