The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-10-11
EYES OF METHOO|SM
FIXED ON M'KENDR{E
DURING NEXT WEEK
AFTER A HUNDRED YEARS OF
GLORIOUS WORK CONFER
ENcE coNvENEs THERE.
PILGRIMAGE TO FOUNTAIN HEAD
Members VIII Make Trip to Historic
Spot Where sainted Asbury and
Mckendree Established the Confer
ence In November, 1912.

On this the one hundredth anniver-
sary Of the Tennessee conference the
eyes of all Methodists in this section
are fixed upon McKendree church
where on next Wednesday the annu-
al conference will convene and on
old Fountain Head in Sumner county,
where the conference was first or
ganized on Nov. u, 1912. Beginning
on next Wednesday the preachers
and lay delegates of the conference
will proceed to Nashville there 20 at
tend to the temporal affairs Of the
church and to report the years har.
vest in the vineyard of the Master.
The feature of the conference this
year will be the celebration of the
one hundredth anniversary of the
church which will take place at old
Fountain Head where Bishops AS
bury and McKendree established the
conference from the Northwest con-
ference. The members of the confer
ence will make days pilgrimage to
the source Of tht church's organiza-
ton in this section and with appropri-
ate music and addresses the coca
sion, one Of hallowed memory, will be
fittingly observed.
The conference has not assembled
in Nashville in seven years, the last
session held in that city being with
the McKendree congregation in 1905.
The last conference was held here in
October, 1911.
While there is much business of
great importance to the church inter-
ests aside from the assignments of
the preachers to be attended to by
the conference, the main interest Of
the public is in the appointments
Locally there IL a desire to have both
Drs. Haggard and Freeman returned.
The former is just closing the second
year Of his pastorate here and he has
given universal satisfaction. It II
highly probable that he will be re-
turned unless it is necessary to move
him in the readjustment Of pastor
ates where the ministers have serv-
ed the full four years. DR.. Freeman
has been here three years and will
probably be sent back to finish the
quadrenium.
The presiding elder, Rev. R. ]. i
Craig, has been on this charge for
only one year and there is little like
lihood that he will be changed. He
is almost always four year man and
his work on the district has been Of
the highest order. There are only
two pastors in the Columbia district
who have finished the quadrenium. |
They are Rev. G. A. Morgan, at Pu- |
laski, and Rev. B. f. Kellum at Elk
ton and Bee Springs. Only two, Rev. |
P. D. Freeman and Rev. w. H. Baird
at Prospect, have served as long as
three years.
In the GAINESVILLE district there Is
only one four year pastorate and that
is that of Rev. j. M. Oakley at Pleas |
ant View The pastor at Charlotte
is the only one in the Dickson dis
trict who has served the allotted four
years. And the Fayetteville district |
has but one pastor, that at Union and |
Beech Grove who must make q |
change because of the time limit. |
The same is true of the Franklin dis |
trict where Rev. Bruce l.. Lyle is fin
ishing four years at Williamson cir
cult Likewise the Gallatin district |
has but one four year pastorate, that
of Sumner circuit. The Lawrence
district is in the same shape With
Rev. B. F. Isom closing his fourth
year at Lawrenceburg. In the Leba-
non district there are two pastors
who finish the fourth year. Both
Sparta and Murfreesboro, in the Muir
freesboro district, must have new
pastors because Of the rule. In the
Nashville district not a single pastor
has finished the four years.