Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-03-20

EVERYTHING is READY
Reports Of Past Year Will Be Submit
tcd--Largc Gifts Have Been Made
For Church Work

When the Baltimore Conference OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
South, conyencs in this city on
Wednesday morning, opening the one
hundred and thirty-sccond annual
session of this conference, it will
mark also the opening Of the filth
session of the conference to be held
here. the former sessions having been
held in 1866, 1877, 1880 and 1904.
The presiding officer of the con-
ference this year will be Bishop Ed
win D. Mouzon, of Texas, and this
viii be the first time he has presided
over the Baltimore Conference. Bish-
on Mcuzon is Il native OF South Car
olina, but much Of his life as a min
lister has been spent in Texas; ana
It was as u member Of one of the
+ conferences of that State that he
I was elected to the episcopacy at the
general conference held at Asheville
in 1910. He is popular as preach
er, and as presiding officer nc viii.
receive a cordial welcome as the
president of this session of the l's
I, timore Conference.
The territory OF the Baltimore Con-
ference includes all of Maryland and
the District of Columbia and parts of
Virginia and West Virginia. This
territory is divided into cight' dis
3 tricts, and the total number OF mem
I bers of the church n the conference
!, including local preachers, is G6.if4
The number Of pastoral charges IS
(, 204, and there are 40 supcrannuata
or retired preachers in the confer
ence.
The following facts OF statistical
nature are of interest: Last year Il
Young men were licensed to preach
in the territory iofs the Baltimore Con-
ference. and 1885 infants and 2,42G
adults were baptized. The number OF
members added TO. the church on pro
fession of:sfaith was 4,4S8, and the
number added by certificate was 2'24"
The net increase Of members for the
wear was 2,978, or an average OF a
fraction more than IA members to
cach pastoral charge. The number Of
! Epworth Leagues in the conference
) is 2l0, with 9,474 members; the. num-
/ Der of Sunday schools is 637, the
!. number. OF officers and teachers is
G,225, and the number Of scholars en-
\ rolled is 64,22l.
The contributions Of the Baltimore
\ Conference last year were as FOL
4 lows: to superannuated preachers
and widows and orphans Of preachers
$1s,727; to foreign missions, Sl5,759'
4 20; to home and conference missions
500; ;7Oo25; to$ church extention:. S.,
! s07; to education, S6,SO6; to the Am
crican Bible Society, s1,454; to th'
!, support of presiding elders, Sl4'921
I to the support of preachers in charg
sl67,6 ,622; to the support of bishops
S3,lsS '''.' =,
The secretary of .he last'session 0
the conference was Rev. H. vi
\ Canter, presiding elder Of the WASH
\ ineton district. and formerly OF TIN
city, he having been elected T
h this Office rs the successor Q
Rev. E..V. REGISTER, DID,, OF Al
exandria. Dr.. REGISTER had been tn
efficient secretary of the conterenc
for 4 number of years, and reslgne
the Office on account of failing health
He has rbecn, recognized as one OF tn
leading. members OF the ronferenc
\ for many years. and has filed I'M
portant appointments in Baltlmor
and Washington. At the. last sessio
of the :conference' DR.. REGISTER wa
granteds.st1e superanAuate relatie
due to the, conditon. of his health, IAN
his friends. throughout the .conferent
will be gIati6ed to know that,,as Il
resultsof year ef-rest:from. the a
tive work of the pastorate, his heal
has been much s;s Eshheffea, and there
nromise that within short tine !
will be able to resume his work
the actiEs rank Of the itineracy:.
OF the gOl' pastors in the confe
ence. only 81 will receive new appoil