Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-09-16
EXPECT 400 TO ATTEND
METHODIST CONFERENCE
Biggest Session in History of
Church Opens Here
October 10.
OPENING SERMON ~ CHAPLAIN
Rev. ). Y. Routtcn. OF shipping board.
Norfolk. to Prcnch-BiShop Hem
Dirk, of kunSns City. Will Preside
for Fonrth Timc.

More than i50 delegates viii be in
Attendance when the l3?th annual
session of the Virginia conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
South, opens in this city on October
10. Approximately 100 more than at
any previous conference. due to the
increase in lay membership The
opening sermon will be preached by
Row. j Z. Routtcn. OF Norfolk. port
chaplain OF Tho Shipping Board. or.
IL he is unable 10 attend. by Rev.
land Park Methodist Church. The
October meeting will mark the eish-
tcenth visit OF the conference I"
this city.
Delegates 20 the general conference
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church.
south. which meets in it's nineteenth
auadrennial session at Hot Springs.
Ark. MAY 3 1922. will be elected.
The Virginia conference is entitled to
seven clerical and seven lay dele
gates. The Virginia conference is the
largest o! the hfty-onc of the Mctho-
dist Church South. Its territory en-
braces the Southern shore of Viz
ginia and Maryland as far north as
Salisbury and Cambridge. including Il
portion Of southern Delaware cX-
tends north 10 the Potomac and fol-
lows the Eappahanncck from the
stafford and King George line TO the
Biuc Ridge Mountains. Part of Nir-
ginla is in the Baltimore conference
and part OF it in the Holston confer
cncc.
bishop McNiurry to Assist.
Bishop Eugene Russell Hendrix. OF
Kansas City, senior bishop OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church. South
will preside over the conference for
the fourth time, assisted by Bishop
W. i. McMurry, of 81. Louis. Bishop
James Cannon. Jr.. who was elected
in 1915. is a memhcr of the Virginia
conference. in which he was iloor
leader for several years. In 1920 the
conference reported membership of
I3S9GO. which was increased by To-
$40 during the year. Its property is
valued at s1,T0l,SlT
The Virginia conference is com
posed Of ten districts under the SUI
pcrvision OF presiding elders. The
elders and their districts are: Dr
Z. F. Lipscomb, Charlottesville; DIT
Il. NJ. Bcckham. panvillc: +. b. Nc
Spartan. Eastern Shore; c. T.. Blank
cnship, FarmvsMe; DR.. 7. Men. Simp-
son. Lynchhurr: w. T. Green, Nor
folk; DIR. w. III. Edwards. Petersburg;
DIT r. H. Potts. Portsmouth and
Newport News Il. +. Gayle, Kappa
hammock: DR.. NJ 5. Colonna Rich
mond. DR.. Il. T. Lipscomb and Rev
K. T.. GAYLE will be charged, under
the law OF the church, as they have
each served four years.
Forty-four Ministers In Fourth Year
Forty-four ministers are now scrv-
Ing their fourth year or longer They
are: DR.. T. Lipscomb. Charlottes-
vile District; j, NJ. Greene. Amherst
l.. w. Somcrville. Brightwood; l..
Hunter Early, Louisa; w. y. Orser,
Eappahannock: L. VI. HigEinbotham,
IVES, Goochland: G.. II. ]. Mayo. West
hanover; II. j. Vow, Grace street
church. Danville: DR.. J. y. Latham,
Main street Church. Danvilie: J. j.
clarke. Patrick: William y. Wright,
Craddock and Belle Haven: 6. Cooper
BELL. Onancock; Clayton q. Tuttlc
Blackstone; j. NJ Moser. Prospect
Or. James e. Reed. Bedford; i. Il.
Winghcid. Bedford Circuit; y. + AR
thur. Fairview and Providence; VIC
tor l.. March, Halifax; j. 5. Gresham,
West End Church, LynchburS; j. w.
Reynolds, Mount Vernon; Or. Frank
l.. Wells, Client Church. Norfolk; >.
i. Battin. Memorial Church, Norfolk
DR. sJamcs II. Moss, Zion Church
Norfolk; r. W. ogden. South Norfolk;
J. L. Edwards. Brunswick: D:. John
d. VIM, Washington Street, Peters
burg; 7. j. G. HcaAhf Wesley Church
Petersburg; !. W. SUIT South lin;
John T. White, SurrE. Or. j. w.
Moore, Monumental Church, Ports
mouth; William II. Atwili, Smithfeld
r. i. Gayle, Rappahannock District;
Charles l.. Green. Bethany church,
Rccdvllc.