The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-10-26
EAST TENNESSEE CONFERENCE
A. M. E. CHURCH IN SESSION.
Special to the Globe.

OpCSidl " tue NlOD6.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. 1S-One
hundred ministers and a number of
lay delegates, missionary women and
other Christian workers are in at
tendance at the East Tennessee Con-
ference of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, which opened in
annual session at the ST. Paul A. NJ.
e. Church yesterday morning.
The conference will be in session
until Saturday night, or perhaps
Monday afternoon. Bishop Benja-
min F. Lee, D. D., of Wherefore, O.,
is the presiding bishop of the con-
ference. Bishop Lee is the senior
bishop of the church, and has charge
of what is known as the Ninth Epis-
copal District, which includes the
states of Tennessee and Alabama.
The conference was organized with
the election of the Rev. N. B. Nor
ton, of Knoxville, as chief secretary,
and the Rev. A. E. Martin, of Tulla-
homa, and l. T. Jefferson, of Chatta-
nooga, assistants. The following
ministers were transferred to this
conference. and their names ordered
placed on the conference roll: The
Rev. d. H. Butler, d. D., from the
Mississippi conference; the Revs. c..
C. Bright and j. T. Gilmore, D. D.,
from the West Tennessee conference;
the Rev. d. w. Binford, from the Ala
bama conference, and the Rev. A. d.
Nelson from the Tennessee confer
ence.
The following visitors were intro
duced: The Rev. A. p. Gray, d. D.,
Of Murfreesboro, the president of the
executive board of Turner College at
Shelbyville; the Rev. J. H. Smith, d.
d., pastor of St. John A. NJ. E. Church
Nashville; the Rev. j. |. Edwards,
presiding elder of the Columbia dis
trict; the Rev. w. H. Crews, B. D..
Paducah, KY, and the Rev. w. H.
Porter, presiding elder of the Shell
byville district.
The following ministers are the
presiding elders of this conference:
Chattanooga district, the Rev. J. H.
Turner, d. D.; Knoxville district, the
Rev. G. C.. Bright; Fayetteville dis
trict, the Rev. j. Jenkins. The Rev
j. A. Crump is the pastor of the
church where the conference is be-
ing held.
In his address to the conference
| Bishop Lee admonished the confer.
ence to be watchful and careful tC
maintain the highest standard OF
Christian conduct by seeing to il
that no man be shielded in wrong
doing. He also urged that the spirit
OF Fellowship and help be EXTENDED
to those ministers who have labore(
in small-paying appointments.
The African Methodist Church il
the largest denomination in tn
world controlled entirely by Negroes
There are more than fifty annua
conferences located in the United
states, Canada, Africa and in thu
west India Islands. The church ha
ourteen active and one ineifectiv,
Dlshops. The A. M. e. connection
operates three weekly journals, on
quarterly review, two monthly mis-
'lonary journals and several depart
nents which handle hundreds o
thousands or dollars annually for thu
purpose OF educating the Negro race
ana Tor keeping alive the work o
missions IN home and foreign fields
Inc connection operates more thar
twenty universities and college
throughout the country and in Africt
lor the education OF the Negro. Tit
church school for Tennessee is locat
ed at ShelDyville, and is supported