Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-10-05
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nessee Presiuing-Last United Birth
rem Conference In Martinsburs
Eight Years Ago.
The 11Sth session of the Virginia
Annual Conference OF the unitet
Brethren Church will be held this
week in the new church ediflce OF
North Queen street, that is now prac
tically completed, Bishop r. G. Car
ter, ID. ~. OF CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, will
preside, and the services win continue
throughout the week
Conference viii convene this even
| ing at o'clock, the annual sermon
being preached by Rev. r. NJ sharpe,
| Of Roanoke, va Following this the
communion will be administered, In
charge of Rev. A. s. Tammack, of
Dayton. Va, presiding elder or con.
ference superintendent, Following
this service there will be a social
hour during which the delegates and
visitors will have an opportunity of
greeting each other and becoming ac-
quainted
The first business session OF the
conference viii be held tomorrow
forenoon, beginning at . O'Clock, when
the conference will organize. commit
tees be appointed and superinten-
dents report be read
The conference will number about
one hundred delegates, ministerial and
lay, and the visitors win number at
| least fifty more. Places of entertain
ment have been provided for these
! $50 strangers, the majority of whom
| will stop with members OF the u. b.
congregation.
! Delegates have been arriving all
day on various trains of the b. & O.
and C.. " railroads and others will
come on evening trains. Most OF them,
/ together with numerous visitors, will
beehere for the opening service In the
church this evening. Bishop Carter
arrived here this afternoon and will
be the guest OF Rev. Dr. Gruyer, pas
tor loci, this week.
The Virginia Conference met the
last time in Martinsburg in 1904. bpt
In the intervening eight years the con-
ference has grown amazingly The
boundaries have been extended, many
new churches built. new charges crea-
ted and the membership vastly in
creased As consequence the num-
Der OF ministers has been largely In
creased, so that the conference here
this year will be twice as large as that
of eight years ago And the First
/ United Brethren congregation has
kept pace with the growth elsewhere
in the bounds of the conference If not
| exceeding t. AS matter of fact the
Martinsburg charge has surpassed all
the others in some respects. II is
noteworthy that within the past two
years the United Brethren people OF
This city have built two new churches,
a second congregation having been or
. ganized on The Boom and new
church built.
When the delegates convene at this
conference ii will not be In the old
and rather uninviting church on Penn
sylvania avenue, but in the imposing
and beautiful church edifice that is TO
be dedicated next Sunday morning as
one OF the closing incidents Of this
notable meeting OF the Virginia CON
ference. The delegates and visitors
will surely be pleased with their
handsome meeting place, structure
which the people OF Martinsbnrg at
large regard as an ornament to the
town and monument to the enter
prise of its builders.
The people Of this city generally
will give cordial welcome to the del
egates and visitors to the Virginia
conference. and win indulge the hope
that their stay here this week may be
both pleasant and profitable.