The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-12-02
M'LEoO RESOLUTION PASSED.
CONFERENCE WILL BE DIVIDED
ALONG SAND uIILL LINE SUG.
GESTED BY SUMTER
PASTOR.

Debate on Division at Morning Ses-
sion Decided in Favor of Division
by Line from Northeast TO South
wcSt-VOtc was 172 to 80 i'm Favor
of DivisiOn-BOard of Managers for
Christian Advocate Elcctcd-Bish-
Op Denny Makes Impressive Ad.
dress to Members who Are Admit
ted into COnfcacncc-Excc!lcn
Talks by Bishop Denny and Presi-
dent Snyder at Friday Nights Ses-
From The Daily Item, Nov. %.
Making this the most memorable
session in it's history, the South Caro-
lima Conference went on session this
morning in favor of division along the
boundary line PROPOSE hy Rev. !. NJ.
Mcleod of Sumter IL p resolution pro-
posed on last Wednesday .l.ruins. lhe
vote on the resolut IN TINS morniue
being ia in favor OIL tne Mcleod res
olution and 80 opposing it.
This means that this is the last
session of the South Carolina Confer
ence in which the State as a whole
participates, and settles for all time a
question which has been agitated for
the past twenty-one years and which
has been live issue before the Con-
ference ever since it was brought up
before it at the annual Conference in
Abbeville four years ago, the Rev. ID.
Nj. Mcleod having brought up the
question and been defeated at that
time. After the motion had been car
ried by it's overwhelming majority, w.
L. Gray Of Laurcns made a motion
that it be made unanimous and this
motion was carried.
The vote on the Mcleod resolution
came late in the session, after a hard
, light by the opposition, who were out
voted every time a vote was called
for. When the question was taken up
rs a special order Of business, follow
ing Bishop Wilson's address, accord
ing to a resolution passed at yester.
day mornings session, the Rev. p. b.
Wells offered substitute to the
Turnipseed amendment. This substi-
tutc motion provided that commit
tee of six preachers and five laymen
bo appointed by the Bishop to decide
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and the vote on the Turnipseed
amendment followed. This was voted
down So to 211, many of those oppos-
cd to division voting against this
boundary line, as well as those favor
ing the Mcleod resolution.
The debate began shortly after II
o'clock. Bishop Denny recognized
Rev. r. f. Turnipsecd, who had the
| floor on Wednesday, when the discus
sion was discontinued MIR. Turnip-
seed made an able argument in favor
of his boundary line, saying that in
either conference there would bc up
Sttae and down-State. The number Of
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in each division and the pastoral
charges and other conditions were
equal. He thought that with his
boundary lines the division of the COL
lcecS would be more equal and more
advantageous. His proposed bound
ary line was n natural one, while the
sand hill line. proposed by Mr.. Nc
Lcod was an artificial one. 1t was at
the close of his argument that Rev.
Il. Il. Wells submitted a substitute mo-
ton signed by himself. and Nj. l..
Carlisle and l.. b. McGhee. submitting
the matter to a committee of eleven.
who should decide the question at u
meeting i'm Columbia next May and re-
submit it to the Conference at its
meeting in 1915. This motion was
tabled. Several points Of order We're
brought up by Mr.. Mcleod. but wero
overruled by the Bishop. The argu-
.ment then became general and there