The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1919-03-27
METHODIST
CENTENARY
MEETING HELD HERE LAST FRIDAY
Large Number OF Visitors Present.
Excellent Speeches By Drs. Hun
and Clements.

Last Friday at the Methodist
church in Port Gibson there was held
the Port Gibson District Conference
4 to perfect the plans for the great work
and the concerted effort to be made
during the week, May 18th to May
u 25th.
81 The council for the Port Gibson Dis
& trict met on that day and appointed
the group committees who were to
hold, or to make arrangements SO that
h there will be held, a service in each
church in the district during the week
Immediately preceding the week of
the great drive
The Vicksburg Evening Post gives
the following account Of the meeting
held in Port Gibson, to-wit:
"A very enthusiastic meeting Of the
Methodist preachers and laymen was
held Friday at Port Gibson in the in
terest of the great Methodist Centen-
AIRY movement, This was the first of
a series Of District Group meetings
20 be held in each district Of the Mis-
sissippi conference.
As is becoming widely known, the
Southern Methodists are being asked
to give 35 million dollars as Cen
tenary offering TO Missions, both /
home and foreign. This is the big |
gest sum ever before asked Of any |
denomination in sigle effort. The (
northern MethOdists are asked to giveI
80 million dollars and the Canadian
Methodists 10 million.
The Mississippi Conference, en-
bracing the southern half of the state.
has assumed one million dollars as
their share. The Port Gibson district
IL allotted S135,000 A campaign is
on now TO prepare for an eight day /
drive, May Is to May 25, to secure
subscriptions, payable in five years
The meeting at Port Gibson, Friday, 4
was presided over by Hon. N. Wick
Robbins, district director for the
drive. He is also district chairman
of the four minute men, who aid in
giving publicity throughout the var
ious charges. About 20 preachers
and nearly twice as many laymen
we're in attendance at this meeting,
besides large number Of the people
Of Port Gibson, At the morning ses-
sion Chairman Robbins made stir
of laynen and preachers in preparing
for the coming drive. His remarks
were greeted with hearty applause.
He then introduced DR. A. n. Glenn
ents, Of Nashville, Tenn, who is the .
General director for the Mississippi,
North Mississippi and Louisiana I
Conferences. DR. Clements gave {
thorough explanation of the Standard !
Plan for the Eight Day Drive, which {
will be carried out in every part of !
the world at the time.
After a delightful and refreshing
luncheon served by the good ladies
Of the church, DR. D. G. Hun, one of y
the most distinguished citizens, edu- c
Gator and religious laymen in the y
state, made a thrilling address on the
Challenge Of the Centenary. He h
pointed out in an eloquent way that b
Hhe Centenary movement is a chai-
enRe to our devotion to God and the h
shurch; challenge of a well prepar-
I'd program, begun three years ago b
10 celebrate the one hundredth an n
liversary Of Methodist missions; the p
.hallenge Of big task, being more c
han money campaign; the challenge 4
,f great call to service to our young e
people; the challenge of a great pur- f.
pose mol only 70 ceieDfale Ine past o
1ut also to organize for great for
ward movement: the challenge of the e
iced Of the world, brought to our at a
'ention with force; finally, the chal- c
enge Of a great opportunity and cor
responding responsibility. d
DR.. Clements then made an earnest f
declaring his conviction b
nat the church would meet the chal- Q
enge, as she had always done. n
Rev. Burton. Chairman Of the Dis
irict Committee, explained how to n
give proper publicity in every charge. s
Hon W. T. Denman, Mayor of Nc K
Comb, and Conference Director, was
present and gave great encourage
nent to the movement
The following attended the meeting
from Vicksburg: J. A. Wells, Hon S
and Mrs. Wick Robbins, W. Wray i
Bowie, G. w. Fitler, Ed Bowie. J. s.
Fox, and Prof. r. E. SeIby. All came t
home greatly enthused over the Gem L
tenary program, and with determine y
eion to go cover the top" in the COM e
mo drive