Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-11-19
Bi-Product, and Like Putt
ing Mush Poultice on
Cockatrice
is A POROUS PLASTER
Delivers Address at Opening of Sec
ond Days Session of Conference oil
NJ. f. Church

Norfolk, Va. Nov. 19--The Fir'
yinia Methodist Conference, in annual
session at Cumberland Street church
Norfolk. convened yesterday morn
ing in it's second day, Bishop Chanler
presiding.
The devotional exercises were con-
Quoted by the Bishop. prayer being
offered by Rev. DR.. W. J. Young.
The Bishop made an opening ad-
dress during which, like Bishop kilgo,
at the session of this conference last
year, he said some sharp things OF
social service"-the new work III
which many of the churches are now
engagin. He said that relieving pow
erty and other physical needs of the
people is all right but it is bi-pro-
duct and should not be the chief bust
ness of the church. He spoke of so
cial service" as porous plaster. and
said that you had as well put a mush
poultice on the head of the cockatrlce:
That the Church has got to go deeper
than that. And, said he. along with
this work on the outside" we sec
men finding all sorts of situations
that need solutions, but that whcE
YOU look into these co-called "situa
tons" you find that it is just the Old
fashioned blue jeans sin-nothinc
new.
x :.i:6ttaarel PORT in kss address he
said that he hoped that any man. who
flesitates to go into the ministry be
cause of the poor salary will continue
10 hesitate; that man who thus
hesitates hasn't got either sense or
religion enough to be minister Of
the Gospel. He said doctor can DE
manufactured, but a true preacher
is born from above: that you nova
DAYS hear of man being in the gut
ter one day and preaching the next
day. but that such thing is not au-
thorized by the Scripture; that men
should be sure about their call" to
the ministry; that the men commits
stoned by Jesus to preach were the
output of His compassion for the
needs of lost world.
Referring to the fact that in the
news dispatches that speak OF the
need in Germany of men for the
ministry. it was stated that the wound
ed army officers are being placed in
charge of the churches, the Bishop
said, think of it, crippled colonels'
in charge of the Lords work--they
wouldn't, as I see it, bring in the
millennium in a hurry.
Rev. DR.. Stewart, representing the
superannuate endowment fund OF
the Southern Methodist church, was
introduced and addressed the Con-
ference, making most forceful plea
for the retired preachers and theil
families. He said he did not come to
play upon the sympathies of those
who hear him in this connection, but
that he presents this subject as d
matter of simple justice to the men
who have given many years of their
lives to the ministry and retired when
they were no longer able to continue
active work.
He said that these men and thcl
families in the Southern Methodist
church are only receiving, on the aver
age annually Sl45.l2 And he called
attention to the fact that it has been
said that the U. S. Government pen.
sions men for killing men, and that
certainly men should be pensioned fol
saving men. He congratulated this
conference on the fact that it stands
second among the conferences in the
matter of the amounts already raised
for this endowment fund, Virginia
having raised $4,000. Missouri has
raised over 100000. He insisted thai
the ministers should have decen
support while they are in the active
, work and be we'll taken care of wher
they have to retire.
1t was announced that J. T. Catlir
of Danville has been appointed trus
tee of; Rapdolph-Macon College, vice