The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-02-21
Resolutions.
Embracing the Gist of the
Late l1eeting of Preach
ers and Laymen of Lex
ington District, M. E.
Church, South,

separately fehu, ulscuSSeQ anu
adopted at the meeting of
Preachers and Laymen of the
Lexington District, NJ. E. Church,
South, held in Lexington Febru.
airy u, 1918:
We, the pastors and the church
leaders Of the various charges Of
the Lexington District, having
met al Lexington, this Feby. 10,
at the call Of the Presiding Ell.
der, for special conference and
prayer, do after earnest prayer
and conversation agree in the
following resolutions:
|. AS preachers and pastors
we feel the call to a larger zeal
and conservation in the single
work Of calling men to be follow
ers of Jesus Christ, and by Him
to become partakers of the Di.
vine nature; of shepherding the
Il ock of God so that there may
not be one lost, but that all may
grow IN grace and the knowledge
Of the Lord. We will not be
swept by fear or ambition into
foolish and excessive methods;
but we will, by the grace Of God
sive ourselves wholly to preach
ling, to prayer, to public and pri-
vate exhortation, with the pray.
er chat the Spirit may come
nightly on the churches in tides
If revival power.
| 2. As laymen we will under.
take to do our full part in the
spirit of the Laymen's Move.
ment, in paying to the full the
salaries and the correctional
claims; in relieving, where we
can, the pastor of the duty of
taking the collections; IN quick.
ening the whole membership of
the church in love Of the great
benevolencies. We will assist
the P. E., and the District Lay
Leader to find a Golden Band of
rs or SO men who will undertake
to make up any deficit on these
claims in any charge, if the P. E.
shall certify that the pastor of
such charge has done his best
and is unable to report in full.
| 3. AS pastors ana laymen we
will hasten to stimulate the
Sunday School interest. We will
stress the Wesley Adult Glass as
a means to securing the grown
up young people and the older
people to the Sunday School,
and also as a method of building
up mission study classes. We
suggest that a Sunday School
Secretary and especially for
these classes be named for the
District, who, we hope will be-
come in time an organizer for
this work ;and finally we will un
dertake to raise a small fund to
be used in purchasing mission
airy classics the nucleus of Dis
trict circulating library for these
organized classes. We will OBJ
serve lst Sunday in April as
Hospital Day.
A. We will, without losing
temper and without a pltiful
waste of time, but heartily aud
bravely, pay the debt on the
District Parsonage. We will do
this as the discharge of an obi
cation; we will do this because
it must be relieved of debt be-
fore it can be repaired so as to
be really fit for occupancy and |
we will do this because, after
accepting the generous help of
the Conference Board Of Church
Extension, we can hardly fail t.
do it and be decent.
5-We Shall use our influence
to bring the session of the Annu
al Conference for 1914 within
the bounds of the Lexington Dis.
trict If the Lexington church au-
thorize her pastor to invite the |
Conference to meet at Lexing.
ton.
GIVE will as far as possible
circulate both the Christian AID |
vocate and the Midland Metho.
dist; we will use the literature
of the Church in our Sunday
Schools; we will use as we'll as
we can the literature and meth.
DDS of the every member cam
paign; we will try to organize
our women into missionary So
cietles throughout the District;
aud we will try to get in general
use THE Little Hymn Book.
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