The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-10-27

The meeting of the Tennessee Con-
ference of the African Methodist Epis-
copal Church has attracted much at
tention during the week From the
time the conference opened Wednes-
day morning in st. John A. M. e.
Church, up to this time the church
has been crowded and the sessions
interesting.
This year closes the administra-
tion of Bishop H. Blanton Parkes,
rs the general conference which
q eets in Kansas City, Mo-, next May
will doubtless assign him 20 another
district, and several have Deen men
toned as his successor. 1t may be
that one of the new bishops will
come to Tennessee
The conference is composed of
fine body of men from all parts Of
the state, and many visitors from
ctser parts of the country are here,
either general officers or aspirants
for honors in the general church,
They were to see and know the de-
legates who are to go to the generai
conference.
Rev. j @. Johnson llned the open
ing hymn Wednesday morning, and
the opening prayer was made By
Bishop Parks introduced Rev. f. W,
Rev. A. p Gray Following this
/ Bishop Parks introduced Rev. F. w.
Gardner, presiding elder or the Shell
byville district, who preached til
opening sermon. 1t was scholarly and
we'll delivered. Then followed Holy
Communion administered by Bishop
Parks, who was assisted by the pre-
siding elders of the conference. BE
fore we go further let US sing the
song that means so much to us as
ministers of the gospel" said Bishop
Parks, and lined "And are we YET
alive?" The ministers Joined in the
singing with much fervor and shool
hands
The roll was called by Rev. ]. A
Jones, d. D., of Shelbyville, Presi
dent of Turner Normal and Indus
trial College. The following officers
were elected: ]. A. Jones, D. D., sec
retary; G. w Hodge, assistant sec
retary; S. w. West, statistical secre
tary; L. Buford, c. L. Smith, j. w
Thompson, C. A. Jordan, S. l.. Ma
jors, marshals; j. T. Gilmore, CORE
spondent to the Christian Recorder
Philadelphia; j. Q. Johnson, to tn
Southern Christian Recorder, Colum
bus, Ga; T. w. Stephens, M. D., t
the Western Christian Recorder, Kan
/ sas City, Mo-; j. A. Crump, to tn
: Voice of Missions, New York City
, Charles Stewart, official press repre-
! sentative to the daily press and 81
cular papers.
At this point the Bishop announce
5 that the conference was duly Of
: ganized and officially announced tn
. death of Rov. T, w. Haigler, presto
: ing elder Of the South Nashville di
;, trict, and out of respect the confe
:. ence adjourned five minutes. The
/, followed the introduction of visitor
r Among those introduced were Rev
s John Hurst, d. D., or Washington
|. d. c., financial secretary; Julian
J., Caldwell, d. D., Nashville secretar
l. Allen Christian Endeavor; Mr.. II
J. T. Bryant, Nashville, secretary
A. M. e. Sunday School Union Rev
]. R. Ransom, D. D., Topeka, Kans
M. Fl. Leath, Florence, Ala; G.
Robinson, Belle Fountain, Ohio;
w. Richmond and w. L. Denton,
e the Methodist Episcopal Church.
g The committees were announce
n and the conference spent the rest
d the day hearing reports of pastor
n Most of the reports were in advan
s. of the previous year.
n During the noon hour dinner W
Il served in the lecture room of Il
church by a committee from Pay