The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-10-02
FOR SEVENTH TIME
ME- THOD|STS TO MEET
At PULASKI TOWN
EVERY ARRANGEMENT MADE
FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT
OF MEMBERS.
NOTABLE SESSIONS OF The PAST
In 1890 the Kelley Case and Eleven
Years Later the Cherry Trial Have
Made the Meetings in Giles Capital
of Unusual Interesting.

Special to The Herald
| PULASKI, Tenn, Sept. 30.-For it's
one hundred and first session the Ten
nessee annual conference of the Meth
'dist Episcopal church, South, will
convene in the handsome Methodist
church here at 8 o'clock one week
from today for the first time since
1901. All arrangements have been
made for the reception and entertain
ment of the ESQ members of the con-
ference who will attend. The people
Of the city, irrespective of denomina-
ton, have thrown open their doors to
the members and old time hospitality
will be characteristic of the occasion
1t has been eighty-one years since
this conference assembled for the
first time in the capital of Giles coun.
ty. The initial session here was held
on November 6, 1888. 1t was presid-
ed over by T. L. Douglas as presi
dent, although Bishop McKendree,
one of the great men of early Method
ism, was present during the sessions
1t was nineteen years before anoth
er session of the conference was held
here, the next meeting being on Oct
q, 1852, when Bishop James o. An
drews, around whom much of the
anti-slavery controversy before the
war ragged, was the presiding officer
For the third time the conference
convened here in 1870, Bishop David
F. Doggett, another strong man in
Methodism, being the presiding oftic
err. Just ten years interviewed before
the fourth session met here, conven
ing on Oct. 13 1880, with Bishops
Payne and McTyeire presiding.
1t was but another decade before
another session was held, and that
of Oct. S-15, 1890, was one of the most
memorable in the history of the Ten
'nessee conference. 1t was at this
time that Tennessee Methodism was
torn from center to circumference
over the Kelley candidacy for COVER
nor of the state. DR.. D. G. Kelley,
afterward pastor of the First church
Columbia, was the prohibition nomi
nee for governor. He was tried at
the conference for engaging in pc
litical campaign and was finally pun
ished by a short suspension. The
sessions were marked by some acri
monious debates.
The sixth session Of the conference
which met here on Oct. %, 1901, was
another memorable one in the annals
of Tennessee Methodism. 1t was the
conference at which one of the
strangest and in some respects most
remarkable men in the history of the
church was tried. 1t resulted in the
dismissal of Rev. Mr.. Cherry, one o.
the brightest men of the conference
He was convicted by jury Of the
crime of arson and served portion
Of a term in the state penitentiary
being pardoned by Gov. John l. Cox
So far as now appears the comins
conference will be without untowar(
incident. There are no indications O.
any trials of members or any debate
Ito ruffle the usual serenity that Is
characteristic of Methodist assem-
bly,. The members will come togeth
er in genuine brotherly love and fol
the most part with the best report!
that they have had in recent years.
Unusual interest will center in thu
appointments for the reason tina
there are SO many four year men OF
the big appointments.