The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-13
COMMITTEE GOES
TO MEET COMING
CONFERENCE VISITORS
WILL ARRIVE HERE THIS AFTER
NOON BY SPECIAL
TRAIN. r.
Changes Not So Many as Usual This
Year, But the Interest - undated.
Opening Sermon Tonight, and the
Bishops Charge Wednesday.

Tomorrow morri,ig will witness
the meeting of the Tennessee Con
ference in the First Methodist
church, with Bishop Kilgo presiding.
The opening sermon will be
preached at the First Methodist
church tonight, and the Bishop will
read his charge at $3.50 O'Clock We'd
nesday morning, which will open the
conference for the week.
The session will begin at $3.50 in
!. the morning and will continue until
1880 o'clock each day. During the
afternoons the committees will work
at the various rooms and churches
as designated in The Herald Monday
afternoon, and there will be devotion
al services each night.
Conference will continue through
the week and until Monday when the
appointments will be read out.
Members Of the conference, dele
gates and ministers, will arrive this
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, coming on
a special train from Nashville, leav-
ing here at 2:35. committee COM
posed of j: I. Finney and E. P. Tur-
. ner went to Nashville this morning
and will come out with them on the
special. On the train the committee
will assign the homes and each will
have a card when the train arrives
at the depot here showing where he
Is expected to be entertained during
is stay in the city. Preparations are
being made to meet the visitors and
see that each reaches the home as
sgned with the least possible trouble
and confusion.
There is always more or less inter
est in the meetings of the conference
on account of the changes that fol-
low in the pastorates of the various
churches and the bearing thatit has
on the near two hundred and fifty
ministersdsand their families and the
membership of the different churches
within the bounds of the conference
There is always a question of who
will be sent to the various charges,
and while there is not the likelihood
that there will be as many changes
this year as there was last, there are
some surprising changes sometimes.
There is not much anxiety with re-
gard to the churches here, this is
only the second year for DR.. Haggard
of the First church and also of Rev.
Freeman of the South Columia
church, and it is the first year for
Presiding Elder Harrell. E
In the Lawrenceburg district it is
hardly likely that there will be many
changes. Rev. H. B. Blue, the presid-
ing Elder has only been on the work l
one year, and majority Of. the pas
tOIS vi luC ulSlltCL nave oilC Va tW0 i
years yet before they reach the four !
year limit.
In the Nashville district Rev. II.
B. Reams has been the presiding ell
der the four years and there is q i
great deal of interest centered around |
the change there and it Is being pref !.
ty freely predicted that there is a
strong possibility of Rev. w. e, Tay-
lor, of Franklin, being appointed to
the place. Rev. Taylor was pastor at
MeKendree church before coming to
Franklin and is no stranger to the
work in the capital city and his ele-
walton to the place would be hailed
with delight by the large number OF
Methodists in that district.
Rev. ]. w. Cherry, formerly pastor
at this place, has served his four
years at West End church in Nash.
vile, and will Of course get a new
charge.
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