The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-11-02
Ne Have Answered the Call
tenn. ANNUAL CONFER
ENCE A. NJ. {. CHURCH
Bishop B. F. Lee, Presiding--Unusual
Session Held Over Until Tues
day Night.

The appointments in the leading |
charges practically the same, One
change in the Presiding Eldership. !
DR.. j. A. Jones, the veteran news
paper correspondent and eX-president |
of Turner College made presiding
elder. Next conference goes to Pu-
laski.
The fifty-frst annual session of the
Tennessee Annual Conference of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church
is now history. The conference in
many respects was one of the best
ever held in the history of the A, M.
E. work in Tennessee. The reports
were all that could be expected. con-
sidering the high cost of living and
the exodus of Negroes to the north.
Bishop Lee gave many patriotic eX-
pressions which found their way
through the associated press, which
were helpful to the WHOLE Negro
race. The leaders Of thSa terence
& We'd with each other iMg1slI yeO
Aman service for the churcl5zss sc.
'fSAmong them might be $3.50 tigned
1.-THE Rev J H. Smith, D. DfFfiEstSr Of
'St. John; Rev. II. l.. p. Jones. Y. D..
pastor of st, PAUL Rev. s. j. How0rd.
pastor of Bethel Drs c. L. JAG son.
w. II. Porter. |. j. Edwards and r
G. Gardner, the presiding elders, and
many others. The following ooncr
officers were present, and represented
- their different departments: Or. J
C. Frank Mcdonald, Kansas CITY, Edi.
n tor of the Western Christian Re
Is corder; G. G. Allen, d. D., Nashville
Editor of the Southern Christian
N Recorder; Julian C. Caldwell, d. d.
# Nashville, Secretary of the Allel
- Christian Endeavor League and Iri
n 7. Bryant, Secretary of the A. Nj. +,
- Sunday School Union. Among tn,
. visitors present, were the Rev JIG
W Robinson, D. d., the presiding eide
\ of the Knoxville District .sE w. A
ID Lewis of the West Tennessee Confer
IL enCe and DR.. ]. Q. Johnson of Mem
phis. The business of the conference,
" was dispatched with ease and system
Sermons were preached by many a,
the foremost men of the cnfsfef
last Sunday in the various d
the city. DR.. S. l.. Howard ieeeeti
nectiOnal Evangelist, one OF st
Johns eX-pastors is member OF tht
conference, and after spending tn,
year in the North and East holdin&
great evangeliStic meetings, was
present, and took part in the DELHI
erations of the conference. Rev. A
p. Gray, d. D., one of the leaders o.
the conference was reelected treas
urer, and the Rev. H. l.. P. Jones
d. D., was elected Secratary-T; cas-
- urer. Those two men, W it'll the Rev
], A Jones, d. D., chairman of the
Finance committee, and the Rev. J
II. Smith, d. D., chairman of the
committee on contingent handled
| ami accounted for all OF the monies
\ Of the conference.
i Among the assignments, none
\ seemed to be more popular than that
4 of the Rev. j. H, Smith, to the sec.
\ ond year at st. John. st. Johr
Il church is the first A. M. E. Church
H in the State of Tennessee. DR.
\ Smith is the youngest man who has
Il ever been appointed pastor of st
4 st. John. His report along all lines
Il was above that of last year. He il
4 leading in a fight to create a funt
4 for the support of aged and worn on
\ preachers and pastors, andd because
II If that fact and his ability as ;
4 preacher and pastor, he easil.
Il rlUFs among the foremost men of tn
4 entire connection. 1t is predicted OF
Il IAN sides thJt Dr.. Smith will Clea
n old st. John o., a long standing debt
81 Among the surprise appointments