The farmer and mechanic., 1913-10-28
WESTERN NORTH
CARO-. CONFERENCE
M. E. Church Gathering at
Charlotte Nov. 26
TO BRING 800 TOGETHER
Trinity, Host Church, VIII Fur
nish Chicken Fried, Stewed
and Snothered, to Dele
gates at the Homes Of It's
Members For the Most Part,
Pre-ConferenCe Story.
(By MAMIE BAYS.)


Charlotte, Oct. 25.-The session OF
the Western North Carolina Confer |
ence Of the Methodist Episcopal |
Church, South, this year will be held
in Trinity Church, Charlotte, begin
ming the twenty sixth of November
While the session of this Conference
has been held IN Charlotte twice be-
fore, this year 1t Will be held Tor the
first time in Trinity Church and this
fact has had much to do with the
making of extensive improvements in
this church recently. A new Sunday
school room for this church has been
erected and is almost completed. The
cost OF this single addition to the
church will be not less than twelve
thousand dollars and 1t will give to IT
what is probably the Sunday school
room of most thorough arrangement
and complete equipment for work to
be found in any Methodist church in
North Carolina. 1T contains on the
lower floor four class rooms and an
assembly hall for the primary depart
ment. q large room for class of men
and another room Of equal size for
class of boys, a dining room and
kitchen, the last two rooms being ad-
mirably arranged for service when So
cial gatherings and other entertain
ment features Of the church are be-
ing held. The second floor Of the
Sunday school room is on a level with
the auditorium of the church and 1t
contains the Sunday school audito-
rum, the ladies' parlor and six class
toorns. Four of these rooms are di-
Vided from each other by folding
doors and from the auditorium by
curtains and the arrangement Is such
that they can be used as part or the
auditorium when desired. gallery
above will seat 120 people, it being 81
feet long and 15 feet wide and on 8
level with the gallery there are Other
class rooms, bringing the total num-
Der of class rooms in the building tt
twenty. The furnishing and decor
ative effects Of the building add mucl
to it's attractiveneSs.
When occasion demands, as will b.
the case during the sessions Of tn
Conference, the auditorium OF tn
Sunday school room can be throw
into that Of the church, the two bein
divided by rolling partitions only, an
when this Is done the church will sea
1000 people comfortably and thre
hundred more when chairs are place
in the aiSles.
Among the other improvement
made in the church recently, a stear
heating plant has been installed, t
take the place of the hot air furnac
formerly used, and the water powe
force Of the pipe organ has been re
use instead.
Trinity Church was organized i
1895 and several years later the cor
gregation erected the church building
at a cost Of about forty thousand do
lars. The church was dedicated du
ing the session of the conference hel
in Tryon Street Church, in this city,
1904. The membership Of Trini1
church has grown until at the preSel
time it reaches past the six hundre
mark.
The present pastSf of Trinity
Rev. I. j.. MARI, d. D., who is recoi
nized as one of the ablest and one
the most successful pastors In II
Conference. The erection OF the ne
Sunday school room and the improv
ments made IN the church buildil
recently have been made largely
the result of his special effort.
The coming of the Western Nor
Carolina Conference will bring
Charlotte nearly three hundred mi
listers and laymen, members of t
Conference, and in addition to the
a large number of visitors 1t is e
pected that the members of Trini
Church will be host to the most of t
members of the Conference, but t
homes of the members of the 9th
Methodist churches of the city will
open also, as will many of those
other denominations, for the ent,
tainment of the Conference guests
The latest figures available sh
that the membership of Trim
Church is SIC, that Al members w,
added to the church last year on p
fession of faith and Il on certific
and the total number enrolled in
Sunday school was 412. The sta
tics to be presented to the coming S
sion of the Conference win show
doubt. an increase in all of these
ures. According to the reports OF