Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-03-22

Education, Board of Church extension
committees one Publishing Interests
Conference Relations. District Confc
renee Records. Sabbath observance
Wcstminste: Building: Sunda.
School Board. Epwcrth League Board
Committee on Admission. Examlna
tions for First Year, Second Year
Third Year and Fourth Year.
The Rev. r. G.. Meeks, Of Stras
burg, was elected postmaster and thu
Rev. J. Fl. Bilingsley. Of Romny
W. Va, was elected messenger
The reports of the eight presIdin!
elders as follows we're then read
Rev. DR.. NJ. D. Mitchell, of Balti
more: Rev. Dr.. II. NJ. Cantcr, OF
Washington; Rev. DR.. D. H. Kern
of Alexandria; Rev. Dr.. j. A. An
lcrson, of Winchester; Rev. DR.. II d..
T. STEPHENS, of Rockingham; Rev.
DR.. G.. D. White, Of Roanoke; Rev.
DR.. K. l.. FultZ, Of Lcwisburg an(
the Rev. Dr.. H. a. Brown. Of Moore
field. Their reports were read ant
their characters were passed.
The Rev. Dr.. Stoncwall Anderson
of Nashville, Tenn, secretary OF the
Board of Education, made strong
plea for the schools and colleges un'
der the jurisdiction of the church
He said that the present question. fol
the church was not the furnishing
of agencies but the determining o.
the kind Of education the boys ant
girls are to receive. He said tha
more religious instruction should bt
given to the children Of the primary
grades and Of the high school.
Announcement was made that the
meeting of the Epworth League Boarc
will be held tonight at 1870 o'clocl
in the Southern Methodist Church
The Sunday School Board will nee
tomorrow night at 7.30 o'clock. in tht
Southern Methodist Church; the alum.
nj banquet of the graduates of the
Randolph Macon College will take
place in the Young Peoples Building
on Friday. at . p. NJ, and the Board
of Missions will meet on Friday
night, in the Southern Methodis'
Church at 7:30 o'cl.<- All of these
meetings are open to the public a!
well as the meetings Of the conference
In accordance with Il custom o'
long standing in the conference tha:
the annual sermon be delivered 07
the evening preceding the opening. o.
the conference s,.n->.n yesterday
evening was set aside for that event
but at the last moment the Rev DR..
!. p. Vim. pastor Of Greene Mem.
orial Church. Roanoke, who had beer
selected as the preacher. was taker
i'll and was unable to be present. DR..
Winn is the guest of Judge l.. c
Barley and had been complaining
during tbe:day: He was greatly i'm
proved this morning. The Rev. DR..
Dufey,,of this city, announced to tho
congregation that,it would be Il great
disappointment that DR.. Vim could
not appear. II. said further / that
he, had tried to get some other mem
bcr or&the conference to preach, but
his efforts had been unavailing. He
said that before him we're 100 preach
ers, all. of, whom could preach, except
when called upon to do so.
The Rev. II. P. Hamill, Of Mar.
tinsburg, W. Va. read the Scripture
session and made the opening prayer
and DR.. Duffey spoke briefly on the
subject of Importance OF conversion.
saying that nothing else can take
the place Of conversion. The remand
er Of the hour took the form of a song
service and Methodist experience
meeting in which q number of tho
members of the conference took part