The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-08


Morris conducting the devo-
tional services.
/ The conference sang:
80 for a thousand tongues to
sing
My great Redeemer's praise. +"
Report from the board of managers OF
the Alabama Methodist orphanage at
Selma was read. Rev ]. c. Craig a
member of North Alabama conference,
is superintendent of the orphanage, and
under his administration there has come
great enlargement and splendid success
This institution is maintained chiefly
/ by the Sunday schools of Alabama
Methodism. There are now in the or
phanage so from Alabama conference
and 4S from North Alabama. Superinten-
dent Craig is asking that a laundry
building be added to the plant, and he
usually gets what he asks for for the
orphans.
Bishop Atkins called attention to the
| fact that November 80 is to be observed
I
literature appertaining thereto may be
had from the American Bible society.
| Call of question % was resumed Are
| all of the preachers blameless in their
life and official Administrations" I'm
der this call, character was passed and
reports were had from pastors in Tai
| aGega, Florence, Haleyville, Hartsvile
Gadsden, Jasper and Sylacauga districts.
The following were admitted on trial
into the travelling connection: William
Glenn Bartee and Titus w. Smallwood,
| from Albertville district; Singleton
Tompkins Woodward from Birmingham
district; John B. McFerrin Rice. Gads-
den district; J. Clifton Draper. Jasper
district; John Lee Williamson and Guy
| Edward Wallace, Roanoke district;
Usher Lee Martin, Sylacauga district;
John Jones Webb, Taladega district;
Walter Rabbius Beaird and James
Hiram Harris. Tuscaloosa district.
SPIRITED SUGGESTIONS
| In connection with the admission OF
some of these applicants. there came
some rather spirited suggestions, The
last Methodist general conference fixed,
as a condition of entrance into the
tinerant ministry, that the candidate
| have educational attainment equal to
requirement for college entrance, pro-
vded. that in case the candidate possess
|
naitted by a. two-thirds vote,
/ The bishop called for certain brethren
: to define their conception of eXtraordi-
nary" and it was evident that he
deemed that they begged the question;
but the conference gave the required
two-thirds vote, anyhow. The judge on
the bench may declare the law, but the
1 jury in the box does the applying. and
| returns the verdict. So with the con-
| ference.
! Bishop Atkins announced that No.
vember 80 had been designated as Uni
versal Bible Sunday" and urged the inn
portance of it's observance. Literature
with regard thereto may be had from
the American Bible society.
| The following were referred to the
| committee on conference relations for
approximation: f. D. Emerson and j.
t. Block; for supernumerary relation,
| J. w Cary and l. H. Horton.
| r. N Moore was at his own request
granted location, and his presiding
elder was given permission TO employ
him.
/ r. Med. Howell was reported as
transferred to Alabama conference.
CONSOLIDATION OF COLLEGES
DR.. f. W. Brandon, secretary of the
Birmingham Southern College commits
sion. submitted reports therefrom, and
they were adopted. The reports set
forth that legal formalities have been
carried to practical conclusion for the
| consolidation OF Birmingham college and
| Southern university, there remaining
need for conference approval. This con-
4 ference forthwith approved, and the same
will be done by the Alabama conference,
soon to be held in Demopolis. When
| these formalities are finished, the two
| Alabama conferences will name twenty
four trustees-six cleric and six lay-from
each conference, into whose charge the
! college property will automatically come
Rev J. D. Hunter, secretary submit
(, ted report No. l from the board of mis-
sions, nominating James 0. Hanes and
John A. May to be general evangelists;
/ r. H. Jones and w. J. McCarty to be
conference evangelsts; F. X. Gamble to
be conference missionary secretary; r.
| NJ. Archibald. J. A. J. Brock, r. f. Tyler
| and " H. Hawkins to be state super
visors of interchurch work. The report
/ was adopted.
! On motion of j. Fl. Wilson, c. w. Scale
was elected to the board of managers
of the Selma orphanage, as his own
i successor.
| E. L. Whidden was received as a trans
| fer from Florida conference and adj
vanced to the class of the second year.
| DR. Echols stated that football game
between Birmingham-S Southern and How
ard colleges would be staged at Rick
wood park Saturday afternoon, and
moved that an afternoon session be held
Friday in order that conference members
might be free to attend.
| STICK TO BUSINESS
| Bishop Atkins suggested that II the
conference woulS stick to business as
had been done. 1t would not be neces-
sary to hold an afternoon session Ac-
| cordingly the motion to that end was
withdrawn However. just a little later,
| another motion prevailed providing for
| an afternoon session Friday, AMI the
/ bishop named DR.. L. c. Branscomb to
| preside.
| Touching the motion In connection with
| football, one venerable brother (straight
and true) opined that he classed ball
games and bull fights as of a piece:
whereupon another brother suggested
| that. as there was no accounting for
tastes, the frst-named might be free to
get him up hull fight, while the others
took in the ball game. The guess is that
| the bulk of the brethren will be on the
bleachers.
! At - o'clock the bishop announced that
+! the conference brotherhood would hold an
\ open session Rev. ]. c. Persinger, Dresi-
dent, was called to the chair, with Rev.
| s. T. Slaton at the secretary's table.
| This brotherhood is a sort of mutual in
surance association affording to its mem