Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-10
READY
FOR METHOD|STS
BY REV. HOMER THOMPSON


AUGUSTA, Ga, Nov. 8.-With
more than two hundred hospitable
homes thrown open to the incoming
delegates, ample reservations made
in Augustus leading hotels and at
tractive lists of inviting specials
being prepared by the proprietors
of the uptown cafes, the stage is all
set for the entertainment of the
approaching session of the North
Georgia annual conference which
will convene here in st. Johns
Methodist church Wednesday morn
ing at $50 o'clock.
The vanguard Of the conference
crusaders, including Bishop Warren
A. Gambler. of Atlanta, his cabinet
Of presiding elders, applicants for
admission and orders and members
of the various committees and
boards, arrived Monday afternoon
preparatory to the schedule of rou
tine activities which has been an
nounced for Tuesday.
Bishop Gambler held an al1-day
conference with the presiding elders
Tuesday in a Sunday school room
at the church relative to the assign
ment and re-a ssignment of the pas
tors to the various charges for next
year. This session Of the cabinet
will be held behind closed doors and
carries with it possibilities startling
in nature and great in Importance.
The presiding elders who arrived
Monday and will be in consultation
with Bishop Gambler Tuesday are
as follows:
Presiding Elders Present.
Rev. G.. F. Venable, Athens; DR..
w. H. LaPrade, Jr., North Atlanta;
DIR. J. H. Fakes, South Atlanta; DR..
J. Wiley Quillian, Augusta; Rev.
John F. Yarbrough, Dalton; DR..
Wilds L. Pierce, Elberton; Rev. w.
T. Handy, Gainesville; DR.. Luke
G. Johnson, Griffin; Rev. Richard
C. Cleckler, LAGRANGE; Rev. Sher-
man r. England, Marietta; Rev.
Henry B. Mays, Oxford; and Rev.
w. T. Irvine, Rome.
Sunday School Board
Another important feature of Tues
days activities will be the regular
annual meeting of the conference
Sunday school board, which will be
held at o'clock Tuesday evening,
following dinner at the Albion no
tel. Throughout the bounds of the
Southern Methodist denomination
great emphasis has been placed this
year upon the standard training
schools for Sunday school workers.
and definite steps will be taken by
the board to greatly enlarge the
teacher training program in the
North Georgia conference next year,
it is believed. Interest in this con-
nection will center in the election
of a Sunday school field secretary,
which probably will occur at the
meeting Tuesday evening. DR.. Wal
ter B. billiard, of Oxford, is the pres
ent field secretary. Attorney General
George M. Napier, of Atlanta, is
president of the conference Sunday
school board and will preside over
the dinner and deliberations Of that
body when it meets Tuesday.
Other Meetings
Tuesday evening at 1880, the Wild
ows' and Orphans Aid society will
hold a service at the church, followed
by a meeting of the Historical socie'
ty. Bishop Gambler will deliver an
address at the later meeting on 1.-The
| Two Pierces, Father and Son." Than
BlSnOp CdnQieF ITO HAL is USLLSI pl e
pared to discuss these two great out
standing characters in Methodism
| and those who hear him will do sc
| with profit and delight.
The conference, proper, will bs
| called to order by Bishop Gambler
| Wednesday morning at $50 o'clock
| 1t is expected that the spacious
church auditorium will be taxed tt
| accommodate the attendance IlDOr
the opening ceremonies, the chief at
| traction of which will be the bishops
! address. BEST with a veritable pro
| phetic foresight, rare wit, humol
and deep spiritual endowments, Bish
op Gambler is a great preacher, ant
his friends, knowing his love for thu
historic church here, of which h
was once pastor, predict that he will
] lan of his hest during the entire week