The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-02-08
NASHv|LLE'S HAT IN THE RING.
INVITATION TO GENERAL CONFERENCE TO COME SOUTH
MINISTER'S ALLIANCE WORKING FOR THE MEETING
"A E.s HARD AT WORK

Nashville. This comes simply TO say |
that they have the backing of the /
Nashville Ministerial Alliance; in |
other words, the situation was care
fully gone over and thoroughly dis
cussed among the leaders before Mr.. |
Bryants article appeared. The min
listers of this city will present a for
NAL invitation to the General Con-
ference Commission which meets in
Louisville in February. We wish to
hereby notify the other aspirants
that Nashville's hat is in the ring"
If any additional argument is nee
essary it will be forthcoming at the
proper time and place. But one or
two observations will probably be in
place, in order to give the members
of the commission something to think
about in the meantime.
G) Was there ever a time when
we needed to economize more than
now? Nashville is probably the
most centrally located city in the
connection. We will save to the
church treasury not less than Five
ThousHand Dollars for travelling eX-
penses alone. The various delega-
tions will also save thousands of dol
lars in the same way. Hence Nash
vile is the logical city from an eco
nomical standpoint
The General Conference has not
met in the South-the real South
since 1912, forty-six years ago. Is
it now time that we were bringing
our great General Conference near
enough to the great heart of the
church, where majority of our
members reside so that few of the
plain people as we'll as the higher
ups may have the opportunity of see
ing a General Conference once in a
life time? We grant that many of
our own southern delegations have
usually preferred going North, and
therefore made it appear that the
South was Disseminated against as
a section. But there have been two
principal reasons for carrying the
General Conference to some northern
city in the past: first because it
furnished some southern delegate a
big trip which he coveted very much
second because he looked forward tC
dom and enjoying certain degree OF
social distinction which is not ac-
corded in any southern city. But
,, ''big trips" have become quite com;
: mon now, and they do not have the
, same amount of attraction as they
!. formally did. And so far as the
= Northern freedom" is concerned
there is practically no difference II
= the treat tment of Negroes whether
:, they are in the North or in the Soutl
these days. And furthermore. sine,
, the great influx of Negroes into thu
+ North in many cases the prejudice il
= greater than in any place in thu
South.
e (3) The problem of accommodation
: is almost settled now. We have tn,
o largest colored Y. M. c. A. building
e in the whole country. building
n which is situated in the very hear
= of the city, which can accommodate
2 more than two hundred delegates
; The building is less than a block o
0 the city transfer station, the start
4 ing point for every car in the city
f Besides this, we have Fisk Universit,
J. with it's dormitory accommodation
. of hundreds, and the hundreds o
n homes usually occupied by the hun
c dreds of medical students who will
l. by that time Of the year have de
n parted from the city, Fisk Univer
= sity is situated in the center of tn
t most exclusive colored settlement G
e the city of Nashville; while tn
: homes generally occupied BY tn
l. Meharry medical students are locat
n ed in the popular South Nashvill
II section, of which Walden Universit
and Meharry Medical College are tn
a. centers.
e (4) The Question of accommodf
Il tion for holding the sessions of tn
lS General Conference is one of tn
IL easiest settled after all. But we wi
Ie discuss that matter later. Suffice
S. to say that the Sunday School Unio
Oh building, which will no doubt be ;
u the disposal of the General Confe
G. ence Commission will furnish near
.. all room necessary for special Office
OF committees, bishops headquarte
eS and general departments.
VI The bringing of the General Co
at ference to the South will put new Ii
N into the church. 1t will furnish
Fo large number Of our members al
y. especially the delegates an oppC
OF tunity to see what the connecti
~ has here in the way of a publishil
,p' plant, which we think is the me
ar complete and most imposing of a.
ch institution of its kind among n
ry groes the world over.
BY all means bring the Genel
Id Conference of 1920 to Nashville.