The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-15
MISSION BOARD CONFERENCE ENDS Bishop Hoss Speaker at the
 Final Session WAS GREAT SUCCESS Rev. Matthews, Rev. Gamble and Rev. Brock Among thes Other
 Speakers No Night
 Session Held
NO APPOINTMENT OF
 PRESIDING ELDER

& Bishop Hoss stated last night that = .< no appointment would be made Of < . presiding elder of this district, to ' > fill the place left vacant by pr. Y < Culver, until later date. < He stated that there were so ' : many good men that could be ap- ' < pointed to this position that he ' < wished to have more consideration . < on this matter Although no one % < was. appointed last night he stated ' % that the vacancy would be filled in < < a short while.
 what was declared the most successful mission conference .held in the history of the North Alabama Methodist confer ence was concluded yesterday afternoon at the Mt Vernon Methodist church, where the mid-year meeting of the mis- sion board has been in progress for the past two days. s2
 The feature of the final session was the address of Bishop E. F. Hoss, who addressed the board on Mission Work and several other speeches of interest were made. Most of those in attendance upon the conference had departed for. their homes last night.
 The convention reconvened at 2 o'clock. The meeting then went into an executive session and decided to continue it's pres ent policies for three years. which means that the Rev Archibald will continue as secretary of the mission board.
 Following this the Rev. K. N. Matthews discussed 'Missionary Education" This dealt with the training of the volunteers who are to be sent Into the foreign fields of Christian endeavor.
 After the address of the Rev. Matthews. the Rev. F. K. Gamble delivered an ad- dress on 'Work in the Sunday Schools" accomplished by the best methods in this work and urged that the board should make greater effort to reach the Sunday schools in the great work.
 Bishop Hoss, the principal speaker of the afternoon. spoke to the convention on ."Mission Work" with special refer ence to the Orient. He said that he believed in this great work as he. him. self. had been a volunteer in the early days, and that he thought that he un- derstood the conditions. "rhe church has had a radical change in sentiment in the last 30 years" he said, "and greater work should be accomplished than before. Yet the chief difficulties are the same, the world. flesh and the Devil'
 Gratifying Developments
 But" he continued "the development
 A o- Yoo hoo f. CT than the 25 years bofer them. At the close of the first 25 years the church had gained but 42 members but at the end of the last 25 years the church had 5000 very marvellous gain.
 Of Japan the Bishop said that Japan was very highly inflated over their re- cent victories and that those that crit icise Hobson know a great deal less than the naval leader. who predicts war. while the results in Japan he said, have not been startling, yet they in- spire hope"
 The bishop said that the school prop erty located at Song-Do. Corea.si is as good as any that he, has ever seen, and con- sidered the best of any in the Orient. s'The people of corea.'' he said 'are very affectionate and are giving hearty re- sponse to the Gospel, and great good Is being accomplished"
 Future Policy
 . The Rev. J. A. J.. Brock reported the policies of the conference that would be pursued for the next three years. He said that the board would undertake larger things, missionary education would, be taken up and that the layman move ment would De adopted.
 As all of the business that was to have been taken up before the convention had been finished the night session was dis- pensed with.
 pr. Pinson, the secretary of the general board, of Nashville. said: q have att tended many conventions but never have I attended a convention as good as this one. The programmes were better, the work accomplished moro and the general interest was better than ever before.'
 Morning Session
 An address by Dr.. S. f4. Dobhs on ''rhe Worlds Mission Conference'' opened the morning session yesterday. pr. Dobhs spoke in an interesting manner of the plans of procedure discussed at the big convention in Edinburgh in 1910.
 He was followed by Dr. w. w. Pinson, chairman of tho board of foreign missions. who made an address on "The Policies of the General Board of Missions, 'The Conference Campaign for Missions'' was next discussed by pr. R. M. Archibald, secretary of the mission conference, who urged upon his auditors the importance of an organized movement in this phase of church work.
 pr. w. M. Moore, secretary of the home mission board, was the next speaker, The Methods of the LAymen in the Missionary Movement being the subject of his ad- dress. The movement is without suffi- cienfly strong foundation. according to pr. Moore, and until one is provided the greatest amount of good will not be re- alixed. .~rhe Ministers Part in Mission work, was the subject of Dr. George L. Jenkins, presiding elder of the Talladega district. who was the next to speak. He declared that too many pastors did their vork for the benefit of missions by dele esting others to attend to it. and did not show the right amount of personal in- terest
 Bishop Hoss Talks
 BishOp Hoss next spoke briefly of the laymen's missionary movement. "A ohanse in the system Is the greatest pres ent need," he stated. ''All has not been Zee -H~ kl~ok