The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-10-13

and commented at length upon it.
His charge to the conference was ear
nest, eloquent, simple and direct. 1t
made profound impression upon
the members Of the conference In
the course of his remarks he said that
God was having mighty hard time
to take a young man out of the mod
ern universities and make a man out
of him. He said that God was max
ing mighty men now in spite of the
twentieth century civilization and
not because of it. Great and majesty
men lived long before the civilization
of this time. He did not decry
science. 1t is good thing, but when
it comes to the development of nigh
ty personalities science has nothing
to contribute. But God has no use
for ignorance; it has no place in His
work. He illustrated his point by the
prayer of Joshua. That prayer was
answered by the Lords ignoring the
science in it. If one prays, he must
pray the prayer of faith and not the
thin air of theology. He eloquently
appealed to the conference to cling
to the old faith and to preach the
gospel as it was delivered to the
saints. Seek ye the old paths he
admonished in conclusion.
The Romans had bath tubs and
athletics but they did not save Rome,
for if there ever was a people wash
ed 10 perdition it was the Romans,
and they surely T'went clean"
secretarr George L. Beale, OF the
last annual conference called the roll
Of the conference. The roll was call
ed in chronological order. Only three
of the class Of 1859, when the last
conference before the great war was
held at Columbia, are now on the
roll They are DR.. A, G. Dinwlddie,
J. r. Thompson and R. x. Brown.
I Two of them were present this morn
ing, ffty-two years after being ad-
mitted on trial into the itineyant
Methodist ministry. The first rame
called was that of J. w. Cullum, who
answered present. This venerable
man of God joined conference sixty
years ago at Lebanon when Robert
Paine presided. He has seldom MISS
ed a conference during the six de-
cades of his ministry. An unusually
full attendance Of the members was
noted, but few Of those in the active
ministry being absent. One hundred
and sixty ministers answered pres
ent. In addition a large class of un-
dergraduates were present Very
few of the lay delegates were absent
and it was stated that most of the alb.
sentees would be here tomorrow.
Rev. George L. Beale, for years sec
retry, was again unanimously chosen
for that place. He selected J. F. Tin
non, J. M. Walden, w. H. Johnson, A.
NJ Trawick, Paul B. Kern as his as
sistants.
. 1t was decided to meet at $3.50 and
o5; - 1
Committees.
The following committees were
nominated by the Presiding Elders
and confirmed by the conference: /
District Conference Records. T.
Carter, J. T. Cotton, 7. A. Covington,
". B. Myers, S NJ. Keathley, J. +.
Woodward, J. P. Graham.
TempeIance-H. NJ. Jarvis, W. C.
Adams, n. W. Cooper, C. D. Plummer,
T. e. Gillian, ]. w. Hensley, i. S.
Rice. E. T. Woodson, T. C. Miller, W.
E. Stroud +
Auditing Z. NJ Steele, P. 7. Ian
ron D. A. Ensor, H. w Carter. Jno.
Dar EFT, T. E. Marshall, A. P. Walker,
W. T. S. Cook, T. A. Matthwes, f. G.
Dickson.
Books and Periodicals.. Murray,
T. z. Curtis, r. K. Morgan, P. B.
Kern. ". H. Gilbert, A. R. Parks. ].
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