The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-18
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CONTINUED from First pAgAl
address to the young minister's coun-
selling then, to give themselves unre-
servedly to the service Of Christ and
to go gladly anywhere upon their
mission.
Said he: Il want some young man
who VIII volunteer to GO to tho Viz
ginia mountains" and added. where
they are likely to be ssnt anyhow"
Bishop ktlgo asserted that we are
coming In our Methodist history to
a point where we win have to call for
volunteers VINO will say Not me: not
my prospects. but tho Christ
Later In the session he addressed
the class OF young men who had just
been admitted on trial. They We're 9.
II. Neweerry. w. A. McAIiister. w. +.
Province III. F. Turner. w. l.. Mays.
r, v. Harlow. X. NJ. White. III. p.
Myers. F. z. II. Mclean, T. q. Lang
hon.
Bishop on Young Preachers.
Tho bishop cautioned these youths
not to try to be big preachers or smart
preachers. What the world needs and
the church wants, he said. Is preach
ers Of power. IT takes sense to be a
Methodist preacher. said he, and some
mighty bright scholars have mighty
little sense.
He advised the young men that they
were on trial that the church might
discover whether they had gifts and
graces for the ministry and to deter
mine whether they would put Christ's
seal upon thai.. ministry.
The following preachers OF the class
OF the second year stood approved ex-
arninations. and their characters were
paased: A. X. Lambd,n. f. w. FL
lott. Starke Jett. W. ]. Watt, $. E.
Lucas. J. W. Marsh and G. 3. King.
These were continued in the same
class: o. Al. Clark. l.. A. Smith. J.
b. Peters, .. l.. Haga-
In the class OF the third year. G..
Burruss. c. A. Campbell. A. n. Lewis.
In examination. and in character while
IL. F. Reed and J. W. Fizer we're
continued
Publishing HOUSE Likely.
In reply TO the resolutions passed by
the conference requesting that the
proposed eastern branch OF the pub
fishing house be located in Richmond.
Dr.s.A. J. Lamar, one of the pub
fishing agents. gave assurance that the
petition would be carefully considered
and probably granted.
This viii come as good news to
Virginian Methodism and to all clti-
Gems Of Richmond.
DIR. w. W." Smith, the chancellor OF
the Randolph Macon system, is absent
for the first tima in many years on
account OF an accident. The confer
ence this morning instructed the sec
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message of sympathy and regret
The names OF J. ii. Amiss and J. II.
Merritt were referred to the commit
tee on conference relations. the frat
for approximation and the latter az
a supernumerary,
The treasurer of the Rosebud So
ciety presented his annual report.
which follows:
Rosebud Receipts.
Receipts: Charlottesville district,
$SIs.57; Danville district. S4S4.l0:
Eastern Shore district $57S-66: Farm
vile district. s772.a0: Lynchburg dis
trict, $5sl.Ss: Norfolk district
3s45.0s: Petersburg district. $1,000. ls;
Portsmouth district, $677.64: Kappa
hammock district. SsS1.S2: Richmond
district. $S0s.s2: miscellaneous &4S.ss.
Total receipts for the year. $7.3S4.S2
The conference banner society is the
Patteson Society OF Calvary church
Danviile. The banner district in the
conference Is the Petersburg district
The banner circuit in the conference
il the Sussex circuit.
The committee of public worship
the following appointments
Of ministers to preach at the city
churches on Sunday:
assasa Sunday Appointincnfs.
W. w, Lear and X. 7. Waterfield. al
the Presbyterian church: Il. H. Ben
nett and G. e. Booker. at the Metho-
dist church: s c. Hatcher and G. c.
Kelly. at the Methodist Protestant
church; j. T. Mastin and r. M. Chand-
Ter. at the Baptist church; Bishop
Kilgo and T. N. Potts, ~ the Metho-
dist church.
This afternoon DIR. w. III. H. Joyce.
OF Roanoke. delivered q splendid ser
mon to a large audience and Tonight
at her magnificent home. The Oaks.
Mrs. E. E. Jackson gave a reception
to Bishop Kiigo. which was attended
by the ministers and visitors to the
conference as we'll as by many towns
people.