The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-24
RICHMOND AND ATLANTA
RIVALS FOR CONFERENCE
Bsth Cities Extend prcssing Invitations
TO Southern Mcthodinta
for 1918
LEFT TO SPECIAL ooMMIrrEp
Plans 3Iade for Determined Fight for
Lnity flights Tor Women During
Neat Four Years.

Oklahoma city. Okla. May 2e.-tAfter
being In session for eighteen days tho
quadrennial General Conference Of tho
Methodist Episcopal Church. 18th,
FORMALLY adjourned tonight The So
lection or the place for holding tho
next conference has boon intruoted to
special committee named for that
purpose. IL rs generally believed that
either Richmond or Atlanta. Ga. wiil
DO chosen. both cities having extended
pressing invttntions.
Despite the Tact that strenuous Of
forts were nude To clear the decks OF
all business at to-niYht's session. nj :
jourhncnt carnc with tnnny petitions.
memorials and resolutions still on the
calendar Tho majority OF Tho dele
gates VIII remain In the city until
Monday. numerous board mcoiings h-.
Ing been called to meet Immediately
after tho Adjournment CT the confer
cncc
interest In to-day's sessions ccntrod
In the decision of the conference not
to again submit TO the annual CON
ference the question OF changing III.
name or tho church. the adoption OF Il
committee report recommending strict
er regulation Of evnnKelists travelling
within tho bounds Of the conference.
anu the adoption OF tin. recommends
consecutive Jurisdiction In tho vari.
ous mission fields
TO HAisE siO5.OtD YEARLY
ron BoAUD OF EDUCATION
az the afternoon session the com
mittec on education recommended that
100000 be raised annually, to be spent
nj the discretion OF the board of edu-
cation. and that all money due the
theological department of Vanderbilt
10 IN
plan to budget all benevolent col
lections into Ole fund To be divided
among the different boards Of the
church. wns recommended by the com :
'n'ttee on finance. After discussion q
commission was named TO consider the
plan.
Plans for a determined fight for laity
rights for women In the Method II
Episcopal Church. South. during the
coming four years were made n: the
session OF the general conference or tn,
church here to-day
a circular. signed by six members
or The conference. vas distributed MT
tho meeting. calling for a meeting OF
all interested In the matter.
IL wax signed by Reverends w. J.
Carpenter. Florida: Frank Talbot. Vir-
ginin: e Chase Bare. Baltimore; S
~ Bowman. West Virginia.. r. H.
VIM. Louisiana, and ". b. Lee
Brazil
There was barely quorum pres
ent when the conference met to-day,
eighty or more delegates having de
parted for their homes last night
QUESTION or EVANGELISM
CAUSE OF DISCUSSION
After tho devotional service. led by
Rev J. II Moore. of Nashville, Tenn
Bishop Lambuth took the gavel as
presiding officer. Discussion of the re-
pott OF the committee on missions
which referred to the question Of
eNangelistl WAS called for aud was
followed by lively discussion Several
addresses were made favoriHg "A cen.
trnl committee on evangelism. Rev
J. H. Moore was opposed 10 any evan
gelist who did not have the support
of his annual conferences Rev l. y
Law. OF Arkansas. declared the average
evangelist was treated like n stray
dog. lie believed every evangelist
should have his character passed l.,
annual conferences.
The report OF the committee on epis-
copacy. after come discussion. was al
most unanimously adopted.
The report provides that bishops be
assigned to episcopal residences with
the understanding they were not &c
have Jurisdiction over tho conferences
In the States In which they arc az
signed to live. unless the conference.
had been placed under their supcrvi-
zion by the college OF bishops The
bishops are to hold the same confer
cnce for the Quadrennium.