The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-09-29
MEMPHIS CONFERENCE.
Annual Gathering Of Methodists
Will Begin Nov. l6.

Members Of the Memphis Conferenc,
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, and particularly the ministers
are looking forward with much interest
to the approaching meeting Of the an
nual Conference, which will be held in
Memphis, beginning Nov. 10. The
Conference will be held at Madison
Heights Church, that congregation
having been chosen as the Conference
host by the Conference Of 1910, which
met in Paducah,
Aside nom the business feature OF
the annual Conferences of the Methodist
Church, the preachers look upon it as a
kind Of family gathering, an annual re-
union where they all meet, greet and
plan the soul-saving work of another
year. The Memphis Conference, whose
domains extend from Paducah on the
north to Memphis on the south, from
the Mississippi on the west to the Ten
nessee on the east, brings together 160
ministers Of the church 1t is here
that new fields are mapped out, new
lives begun, where the layman lifts his
voice with the minister in the govern
ment Of the church, and where the
Circuit Rider from the barren hills Of
Galloway County sits down and enjoys
the feast with the keeper OF the flock
that congregates in the big stone church
Of the CITY,
According to the plan of episcopal
visitation, the Conference this year will
be presided over by Bishop Warren A.
Gambler, of Atlanta. Bishop Charles
B. Galloway, the great Mississippi di-
vine, formerly presided over the Con-
ference for a number Of years, but after
Bishop e. X. Hoss was raised to the
episcopate he asked for and received the
care of the Conferences of his native
State. Two years ago the Conference
plan was changed and Bishop Gambler
was sent here, Bishop Hoss going back
to the Brazilian Conference, where, in
his early days, he so successfully planted |
the banner OF Southern Methodism.
There is no very important matter to
come before the Conference this year.
AS the quadrennial Conference of the
church occurred last year, new delegates
to the general Conference will be elect
ed The most important matters to be
considered will come before the Bishop
and his cabinet, the presiding elders, in
changing the PASTORAL residences.
Only three ministers in Memphis will
have then served the four-year limit.
They are The Rev. B. S. McLemore Of
the Pennsylvania and Kentucky Avenue
Methodist Church, the Rev. George II.
Martin of the Lenox Church and the
Rev E. B. Ramsey of the Mississippi
Boulevard Church. The Rev. w. G.
Heiiey, presiding elder Of the Memphis
district, has served three years in that
and it is probable that he will
remain another year. On account Of
the death Of the Rev Grant T. Sullivan
D. d., OF the First Methodist Church of
Paducah, which, outside OF Memphis,
S the most important charge in the
successor to him will be
selected. His pulpit is now being filled
~ Nashville minister.
1t is probable that the Conference will
axe some steps to join in the celebration
which the Old Jerusalem" Conference
the Middle Tennessee body-is plan
ing to hold next year in commemora-
ion OF the one hundredth anniversary
Il its formation. All this territory was
part OF the Ohio Conference in the
arly days of Methodism. In 1912 the
erritory south Of the Ohio river was
the old Jerusalem Con-
erence, and as time went on the other
southern Conferences were formed from
he Nashville body. Plans are being
made to celebrate the anniversary by
appropriate exercises, probably at Foun-
ain Head, in Sumner County, where
he first Conference was held, and where
William Asbnry, the first Bishop Of the
american Methodist Church. is buried
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