The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-17
GENERAL CONFERENCE HEARS
REPORTS FROM HEADS OF
COLLEGES


Kansas City, Mo-, May S.-The Afri
can Methodist Episcopal Church ha.
raised more than $3,OO0,000 for its
work during the last four years, ac
cording to the financial report of DR.
John Hurst, financial secreary of the
twenty-fourth general conference ot
the church, at Allen Chapel, Tenth
and Charlotte streets.
The session was devoted to hearing
The reports of the general officers
DR.. w. w. Beckett, secretary of mis-
sions, with headquarters in New York
told of the different phases of the
work being done at home and in for
eign fields. DR.. William D. Chappelle
president of Allen University, Colum.
bia, S. c., and DR.. A. H. Attaway
president of Edward Waters College
Jacksonville, Fla, spoke on the work
Lof the institutions.
The organization of the clerical
force was finished yesterday. The
staff is as follows: William d. John,
son, D. D., of Georgia, chief secretary !;
assistants, R. s. Jenkins, Texas; R. l..
tH. G. Beasley, Arkansas; e. H. Colt,
Pope, Alabama; H. S. Grauer, Illinois:
South Carolina; H. Y. Arnett, Penn
sVlvania e. Wittengburg, Mississip-
pi; G. B. Williams, Florida; G. w.
Porter, Tennessee, and ]. T. Gibbons.
west Virginia. Official reporter, DR.
j. G. Robinson, Ohio; conference
stenographer, ]. M Palmer, Pennsyl.
vania.
Faith in Schools
The Episcopal committee WAS or.
ganized with w. H. Fl. Butler, penn.
sylyania, as chairman; ]. L. Griffin.
Alabama, secretary, and J. D. Jamer-
son, Virvinia vice chairman.
The Rev. William A. Fountain n
D., Ph. D., president of Morris Brown
University, Atlanta Ga, spoke on
The Religious Training in our
Church"
Our modern educational system
touching religious training suffers
merited criticism" declared DR.. Foun-
tain. mo less venerable a. man than
Dr. Eliot, president emeritus of Har.
ward University, after a notable "a.
reer of scholarship and merited fame
at his retirement leaves the public IN.
certain as to his faith in historic
christianity. Faith is not dead
among educators. We believe. after
all, a sufficient number of profound
christian scholars are in our denomi-
rational institutions to prevent them
rom losing their distinct mission as
'haracter builders. The Congrega.
lonal church has been the mother of
orty colleges, the Presbyterian fiftv.
me, the Methodist Episcopal Church
'outh' sixty-two, the Methodist Epis.
opal Church twenty-five.
Guide to Common PeopIe
The great mass of common peonle
looking toward the Christian insti.
Ittlon for reliable intellectual guide
nd wise counsel. The enrolment at
lorris Brown College, of which I am
resident, is 943. the largest Negro
chool in the United States aside
rom Tuskegee. We have twelve dis.
met departments, taking in every
hase of intellectual and Industrial
plltt. We have raised for the sun
ort of the college S11O,944.7S. all
rom the members of our church in
-eorgia,"
Dr. p, U. Williams. OF Alabama.
prung "a sensation when he offered a s
asoIution to depose Chief Secretary
ohnson. DR.. Williams claimed that 9
ishop Turner was partial to johnson. t
ne threatened split was overcome bv l
he delegates tabling the resolution t
'aving DR.. Johnson in Office. t