The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-08-02
REVISION A. M. {.
CHURCH DISCIPLINE
COMMITTEE TOOK UP WORK
HERE TUESDAY.
Bishops, General Officers and Lead
ing Churchmen Present-Mr.
Bryant Before the Committee
Makes Strong Appeal Asks
that General Conference be
DISQUALIFICATION

The Methodist Committee on Re
vision of Discipline of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church met in
st, Paul last Tuesday morning. Those
present at the meeting were Bishop
B. F. Lee, of Wilberforce, Ohio; Bish-
op ]. NJ Conner, of Little Rock, Ark
Or. ]. S. Jenkins, OF Texas; DR.. w. D.
Johnson, of Georgia; DR.. j. /. Lane,
OF Philadelphia, and Bishop Evans
Tyree, of Nashville. The work of the
Committee win require several days,
as the revision of the Discipline will
be more thorough this year than here
tofore. Many changes were made at
the Conference in Kansas City, and
law was passed by the General Con-
ference creating a special committee
for the revision of the Discipline, and
taking it out Of the hands of the Bish-
ops Council. The object in making
the change was that the laws might
be made in full in the Discipline And
this Committee that is meeting in
Nashville will be the one to make
this revision. Bishop Tyree, resident
Bishop of the A. M. E. Church, is
Chairman of the Committee and issued
the call for the meeting to be held
here. On Tuesday night a reception
was rendered the committee by the
citizens of Nashville A large crowd
assembled at st. Paul, when the fol-
lowing program was carried out:
Mr. Ira T. Bryant, while not a mem
Der of the Committee, was before it
good part Of the time Tuesday ma
king strenuous fight for the revision
CT the Discipline as ordered by the
General Conference. These changes,
he says, were ordered by the dele
gates who were the representatives of
the people, and they were such
changes as is believed will create a
new awakening among the members
and friends of the A. M. E. Church,
One matter that strenuous fight was
made on is the attitude of the new
editor of the A. M. e. Review. The
General Conference passed a law that
The Review be published in this city;
but there are some members of the
Committee who hold that it is option.
al with. the Editor of the Review, SC
long vthe General Conference did
not pass an annullment act changing
the place of publication from Phila.
delphia to Nashville. Mr.. Bryant
commended that this was a technical
ity; and he cites the instance of the
salary of the manager of the Book Con
Germ in Philadelphia, where the Gen
eral Conference did not change the
law which says that the manager OF
the Book Concern is to get a salary
out of the concern, but that the finan.
cier of the Department has been pay
ing the salary of the manager since
the establishment of the same; and
there were members of the Commit
tee who argued that the salary of the
manager of the Book Concern be paid
This Mr. Bryant styled as living VI
to the word in one case and constru
ing meaning in another. He said tC
Globe representative that he called
the General Conferences attention tC
the fact that they had not made any
provision for the salary of DR.. Lowe
and that they had refused to do sc
after their attention had been called
to it. Mr.. Bryant is making no fight
on DR.. Lowe receiving a salary; bu
he objects to the committee constru
ing in one case and abiding by thu
word of the law in the other, when i
appears from the records of the Gen
eral Conference that it was tie in
tention of that body that the A. M. f
Review be published in Nashville
and further that the manager Of the
Book Concern get his salary out Of hi
business.
The committee meeting will also
be graced with the presence of Bish
or w. D. Chappelle during its sit
ting. He has not been present, bu
Put in his appearance Wednesda!
morning and sat throughout the SEES
sion.