The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-25
CONFERENCE DOES SECOND DAYS WORK Clergy Holds a Business
 Meeting in Morning DIR. J. H. RACE SPEAKS Evagelistic Services Held in After noon by Dr. Hambly-A. D. Peck
 Conducts Laymen's Meeting.
 Elect Board Education
DIR. J. H. RACE SPEAKS

The conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in Alabama, which Is now in it's forty fifth annual session at the Simpson Methodist church of this city. held two separate meetings yes terday, it's second convention day. The clergy held a business meeting at the conference church and the Laymen' S association of the Alabama conference met in their eleventh annual assembly in the First Baptist church. The morning meeting at the Simpson church consisted of an examination of the various classes of ministers and hearing of routine reports. The Rev. C. E. Bssell, formerly of the Alabama conference. was released to the West Virginia conference, where he is now ministering.
 The conference evangelistic services l of the afternoon were very interesting with Dr. Hambly of Ohio as leader and were especially conducted for the in struction of the ministers of small towns and rural districts. The church cabinet and new committees were in separate sessions at the parsonage of the Simpson church during the after noon.
 The Rev. Wallace Murfee- of. Boaz opened the evening division of the day s conference with a praise service which was followed by devotional exercises led by the Rev. w. B. Snead, district superintendent of the Boaz district. Rev. Murfee, who has often been desig- mated as the sweet singer of Alabama, and the Simpson Methodist church male quartet, composed of MT. Blough, MT. Stapleton, MT. Langdoc and MT. Staple ton, rendered several sacred vocal numbers.
 pr. W. I. Powell, pastor of the Simp- son church, presented Dr. J. H. Race, president of the Chattanooga university, to the conference for the deliverance of the evening sermon. Dr. Race, whose wide experience in religious colleges has eminently fitted him to speak authoritatively upon the subject of his discourse last night, "Education," de- plored the evil due to educated crim- inals, who thus equipped could .wreak more harm than the ignorant wrong doer and made the point that church schools supply the moral training that secular institutions of learning do not stress.
 Want Endowment Fund
 pr. Race stated that all the Metho- dist Episcopal colleges should strive to attain an endowment fund of S200,- 900 by 1916, and that the Chattanooga school, of which he is president, would oft for the raising or $500 900 within the next few months, which has already been started. Con ventionalize the college so that each may feel that behind the alma mater is all the strength and force of our great church with all its three and a half million members" he said. The contention that the state should care for education and that the church has no business in this line is not true, in my estimation, for I believe that we need them both. Christian4ze our edu- cational work, secure the money, equip men and students and you can declare dividends in enlarged lives," said Dr. Race.
 The Rev. Brooks Lawrence. superin- tendent of the Anti-Saloon league or Alabama, followed Dr. Race with an ad- dress on Temperance" His speech bore on the necessity of eliminating the sa- loon everywhere as well as in cities. The board of education of the Alabama Methodist church was formally estab- lished by declaration fast evening, con- sisting of three bishops and 33 clergical and lay members. Bishop w. F. Ander- son, Bishop McDowell and Bishop Hughes were the highest officers named for the board.
 The future policy of this board was outlined in four statements: That the ipc ct education should be standardized; the standardization is to be one of the most important en- deavors of the board; quality and not the quantity of education is to be empna- sized Alabama Methodist Episcopal col lege graduates are to be trained under the same curriculum as that of similar institutions in other states and the in stitutions are to be capitalized. The board will endeavor to raise the course of their colleges on a par with the best types of denomination schools of the country.
 Laymen Meet
 At the First Baptist church the Lay mems association of the Alabama Meth odist Episcopal conference was called to order for their eleventh annual session by the president, A. D. Beck of this city. The principal talks of the morning were made by Mrs. Annie D. Elder. matron of the Boaz Methodist college at Boaz, Ala, and Presiding Officer A. D. Peck.
 The formers eloquence was directed toward education for women and girls as the best means of elevating the fam fly status and urging the organization of mission circles in the rural churches as soon as possible. e
 MT. Peck said that the country mem bers were more lax in their financial support of the church than their broth- CTS in the metropolis and argued that the comparative scale of wealth between the city man and the country man tended to show that the former was the more generous in his contribution to religious causes.
 The afternoon meeting of the lay cleo torate conference reconvened at 2:30 o'clock with T. J. Lambert of Odenville presiding and pr. Powers of Boaz acting as secretary.
 The election of delegates from the Ala bama Lay association to the general con- ference to be held at Minneapolis next May resulted in the choice of A. D.. Peck as delegate and J. l. Morton of Boaz as alternate