The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-11-16

ANNUAL SESSION
Upper Half of State is Embraced by
This Second Conference of Meth
odist- Episcopal Church.

ing with the Bumcombc Street
Methodist church in this city on
Wednesday morning, at $3.50 o'clock,
with Bishop w. A. Gambler, of At
lanta, presiding. Some advance meet
ings, to plan business for the confer
ence, will be held Tuesday morning,
and the meeting of the Historical So
ciety will probably be held Tuesday
| night; previous to the opening of the
conference proper.
The meeting of the conference is
always a matter Of intense interest
| to the Methodists of the state, and
especially the Methodists of the ter
rltory over which the conference has
authority. Among the important
business events of the conference is
the appointment of the ministers for
the succeeding year. These appoint
ments are generally made by the
Bishop on the morning of the last
day of the conference.
The upper South Carolina confer
ence was formed three years ago,
when at the state conference in
Sumter, South Carolina was divided
into two conferences. The first meet
ing Of the upper conference was heli
last year in Spartanburg. Rev. P.
b. Wells, presiding elder of the Rock
illl district, was elected secretary.
Half of Palmetto State.
The upper conference embraces
practically the entire upper half of
South Carolina, divided into six dis
tricts, whose presiding elders are as
follows:
Anderson district, Rev. T. c..
O'Dell.
Cokesbury district, Rev. w. L. Her
bert.
Columbia district, Rev. NJ. L. Car
Isle.
Rock Hill district, Rev. P. B. Wells.
Spartanburg district, Rev. r. E.
Stackhouse.
Every Methodist minister in the
conference territory is member of
the conference. There are also lay
delegates from the various churches,
and many visitors.
The Methodist Episcopal church
does not permit a pastor or pre-
siding elder to remain at one churo n
longer than four years, and under
this provision, there will be a number
OF important changes in the appoint
ments to be made this year.
| Vacancies.
Rev. j. w. Speak has served four
years as pastor Of st. Johns, at An
'erson, and will be replaced by an
other preacher. Other ministers who
have served four years at the pres
ent positions, and who will have to
be sent to some other assignment
are:
Rev. S. r. Blackman, Honca
Path; Rev j. NJ. Fridy, Whitmirc;
Rev. j. f. Mahaffcy, Batcsburg, Rev.
d. w. Keller, Green Street, Colum-
bia; Rev. l.. d. Gillespie, Shandon.
Columbia; Rev. j. d. Holier, Easlcy;
Rev. \, w. Humerlyn, Gray Court;
Rev. w. b. Garrct, Bethel and Poe,
'ireenville; Rev. O. NJ. Abncy, Pied
mont; Rev. II. B. Hardy, Hickory
Grove; Rev. f. II. Hodges, Lancaster;
Rev. w. S. Goodwin, Richburg, Rev.
). b. Traywick, Winnsboro; Rev.
Henry Stokes, Yorkvillc; Rev. J. w.
Shell, Limestone, st. GalTney; Rev.
~. n. Brunson, Bethel, Spartanbvrg;
Kew. w. f. Gault, st. Unon.
AT the first meeting of the unpcr
conference Historical society, held
with the conference at Spartanburg
last year, Rev. d. D. Wallace, Of
| Wolford college, was selected as
speaker before the society for 1916.
Rev. NJ. l.. Carlisle, of Greenvillc, was
elected president; DR.. J. l.. Stokes,
or Waihalla, first vice president; Rev.
>. b. Traywick, Wmnsboro, second
wee president; Rev. A. E. Driggers,
Aiken, secretary and treasurer; DR..
u. ID. Wallace, Spartanburg, cura-
tor. The Historical society will
probably meet here Tuesday night.
A noteworthy feature of the con-
ference is the memorial session,
which will most likely be held Sun
day afternoon. At this session mem
oirs are read and tributes paid to the
memory of preachers who have died
during the year
The South Carolina conference.