The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-05-19
GATHERING OF METHODlSTs OF
SOUTH AT OKLAHOMA CITY
ONE OF THE GREATEST.
mr. FILLS IS VERY PROMINENT
.u.bor of Resolution That the Char
ters of All the Institutions OF the
Church BE Examined.

Church BE Examined.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla,-Presi-
do,+ Charles R. Jenkins of Wesleyan
college. Macon, and President N. M.
porl of the Normal and Industrial
COLLAGE MfTedgeville, are members
Of the special committee on the prop
er classification of the courses OF
s+udv of the various educational in
s+itutions. The appointment to TINS
committee of these two distinguished
Georgia educators is a most fortunate
one. .,.. - u,orxo.
boro has given valuable service on
+ba special committee on rules.
The committee on revisals, OF
which DR.. James E. Dickey is chair
man. has recommended that the dis
cipline be so changed that the phrase,
.sThe Holy Catholic Church" in the
ritual shall read, THE Church of
Cod" The phrase, THE Holy Cath
Ollie Church." has created no little
confusion among the congregations
in Southern Methodism, particularly
among the ignorant, who have been
wont to associate the term with Ro-
man Catholicism. The change will
be a most timely one.
Miss Belle Bennett, Mrs. k. w.
NacDonnell, Mrs. Luke G. Johnson
and Miss Mabel Head are in attend
ance upon the conference sessions as
the representatives of a special COM
mission appointed by the Woman
Missionary Council to secure certain
changes in the constitution of the
board of missions touching the wO-
mems work. The women of Southern
Netho.ism collect more than half
million of funds annually, and con-
troll upward of 81, 100000 worth of
property. Some of them feel that as
the law now stands they have little
or no voice in the direction OF the
affairs of the board of missions, and
the other &fairs of their church.
Hence, this special committee to Sc
cure a change in the charter of the
board of missions and other legis-
lation.
Georgia Women Prominent.
Three members of the special COM
mittee are Georgia women. Mrs. r.
w. Mcdonnell is the sister of Rev. A.
NJ. Williams, presiding elder of
the Columbus district, and is related
to a number of other we'll known
Georgians. She is now the capable
secretary of the home department of
the board of missions (fOr the wo-
mem Mrs. Luke G. Johnson is the
cultured wife of the pastor of Trim
ity church, Atlanta. Miss Mabel
Head, prior to her acceptance of the
educational secretaryship of the
board of missions (for the women,
was member of the faculty of La
Grange Female College. She was
also at one time the capable president
of the Dalton Female College.
1t is generally agreed that the res
olution introduced by Rev. T. D. Ell
lis, of the South Georgia delegation,
that a commission be appointed con-
sisting of five members, three lay
men and two ministers, to examine
the charters of all the institutions of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, and where deemed necessary
TO have the charters of such institu-
lions amended or to secure new char
tiers for them in states where all the
rights OF the church may be fully
protected, is most timely. Had this
precaution been taken in time all the
litigation over the ownership of Van
derbilt University could have been
easily avoided.
Rev. Thos. J. Bronson, pastor of
Kirkwood and East End, is the guest
of his brother, Frederick P. Bronson,
OF the Muscogee district. These
young men were reared at Rockmart
and have both succeeded we'll in their
chosen professions-the ministry and
the law Judge Bronson was chair
man of the state democratic commit
tee for three years, 191O-11-12; he
was a delegate from the state-at-
large to the Baltimore convention in
1912, and is now judge of the Mus
cogee district Nothing in the world
succeeds like a successful Georgian.
Pay of Preachers.
The question of pastors salaries
has been frequently discussed
through the religious and secular
press. A study Of the average sala-
ries paid IL the various annual con-
ferences of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South will be of general in
terest The following is the list of
average salaries, including the home
mission appropriation;
Virginia, SLID, Central Texas,
s1,OO8; south Carolina, $1,000;
South Georgia, 81, OO1; North Caro-
1sna eo7Q. North Georgia S936,