Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-08-10
Moorefield District Conference Has
Profitable Meeting At Cumber-
land, Md

Cumberland, Md, Aug, 3.-The
Moorefeld District Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church adjourn
ed after three days session at Trim
ity M. e. church on Gran avenue
Thursday night at II o'clock. Rev. G..
d. White, of Romney, w. Va, presid-
ing elder of the district called the con-
ference and Immediately after the or
ganization the conference proceeded
to the routine work of the session.
Committees for the several depart
ments of church work were appointed
Tuesday afternoon and Tuesday night
the presiding elder delivered the open
ing sermon. On Wednesday the time
of the conference was occupied with
the disposal of business that properly
belongs to the district body.
A sermon on Mission Work was
preached on Wednesday by Rev. c. d.
Harris, formerly of Martinsburg, but
now of Baltimore, the editor of the
Baltimore Methodist, the official paper
of the NJ e. church, South. Many of
the delegates to the conference in
Guiding a number of pastors who had
grown old in ministerial work declar-
ed the sermon of Rev. Harris to be
the most impressive deliverance on
mission work they had ever listened
to-
Wednesday evening another sermon
on mission work was preached by Rev,
r. l.. Fultz of Epworth church, Wash
ington, d. c. On Thursday the reports
fthe committee on resolutions was
discussed and other church business
was debated and plans for future
work were adopted.
A very eloquent sermon was preach
ed on Thursday by Rev B. V. Switzer,
of Martinsburg. One of the chief top
les dealt with by the committee on
resolutions related to the prohibition
question and the proposed eonstitu-
tional amendment to be voted on in
West Virginia at the approaching No
vember election.
This constitutional amendment If
passed by majority of the voters at
the election will prohibit the manu-
facture or sale of liquors or bever-
ages OF any kind within the State of
West Virginia just as the constitution
of Maine and other States now for
bids such manufacture or sale.
The resolution passed by the confer
ence strongly endorses the constitu-
tional amendments and directs all pas
tors and churchmen 10 become active
in endeavoring to obtain votes favor
able to the measure. The church in
the Moorefeld district has about 5000
members and by far the largest por-
ton of these members live in West
Virginia.
The district embraces al 1.-The terri
tory from Martinsburg to Piedmont
end from the Hardy county line on the
south to the northerly lines OF Bedford
and Fulton counties in Pennsylvania.
1t includes Hardy, Morgan, Hampshire
and Mineral counties in West Virginia,
Allegany and Garrett counties in Mary
land and Bedford and Fulton counties
in Pennsylvania,
All the reports of committees show
ed every branch of the affairs of the
church in the Mooreheld district to
be in a fourishing condition. There
were twenty-five pastors and thirty
five lay delegates in the convention
and many of them were accompanied
by wives and members of their fam
lilies. All the delegates we're hospit-
ably entertained while here by mem
bers OF the congregation.
On Wednesday evening the ladies of
the Trinity M. E. church entertained
the delegates to the conference with
an elaborate feast, served at the par
sonage. Before adjournment it was
decided the next conference should be
held at Franklin, w. Va.