The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-05-13
CONFERENCE HAS CLOSED
by the NJ. E. Church Reporter)


After the licensing of local preach
ers, and electing Of lay delegates TO
attend the annual conference at Or
lando Dec. 18th, the forty-ffth con-
ference adjourned to meet at Dunnel-
Ion next year.
A hearty vote of thanks was ex-
tended to Brother White as host and
Ocala for their warm hospitality. The
feature of the entire session was the
educational campaign, which from all
indications is going over big.
A continuation of DR.. Snyder's ad-
dress Wednesday follows:
A short time ago / met an old man
on his way to attend a district meet
ing of his district. He said I went 20
annual conference with a drawn up
article of resolutions protesting to the
Launching of the Christian education
al movement and signed by the men,
bers of my church. They informed
me at the annual conference that they
had orders from the general con-
ference to carry out this great work
and that the call of Methodism was
the call of God. so l tore up my res
olutions and voted with them and now
we are going to put this thing thru.
He teld me though he had never gone
to college he had learned to think a
little for himself. / want to say that
| am often ashamed of the way we
college trained men often feel about
the man who has not had the oppor-
tunities we have had but has learned
in the greatest of all schools, the
school of life. A business man once
told me that this talk of hard times
was only state of mind, that times
were hard because we thought so.
asked him. supposed you had let go
those 500 bales of cotton last year at
S1.25 instead of holding them for 81 so
and having to take 25c. a pound in
stead when the market went all TO
pieces; would you call that a state of
mind? | thought had him there and
he studied for a moment and said,
well, DIR. Snyder, it's partly a state of
mind and partly a fact. Let me tell
you about my boy. He said, / went
home last night and heard my wife
say, son please go and get mother
some wood. The boy said, I'm tired
and didn't bulge. 1 said, boy go get
that wood for your mother right now
and pointed my finger at him and he
went. That was another way of tell
ing him. He finally managed to drag
some wood into the house and throw
it down in the floor. When supper was
read he fell into his seat but after
he had slowed away nine or ten bis
cults he frightened up considerably
and said, pa, are you going to see me
play basketball tonight? What? I
said; you play basket ball. Why son.
you're too tired. Just you watch me,
he said. Well, sir, watched that boy
struggle and fight like a demon for
two solid hours with the Precipitation
streaming down his face but it couldn't
wipe out the grin of joy and happiness
and after he had won that game by
hard playing, believe he would have
played another two hours without
stopping. Same boy, same muscle,
same body but a different state OF
mind. We can't put this movement
over with the "wood-pile" state OF
mind, but the basket ball" state OF
mind will put it over and while mer
in Methodism realize the bigness Cd
the task they are placing their faitt
in God and we are going to win. Thu
call of faith in God, the vision of th'
old, rugged cross calls US on. vii
you help to better the world tomorrow
through the boys and girls of today
through Christian schools and col
: leges. Will you buy my idea an
selling? Will you be true to the boy
who sleep in Flanders fields and tn
E boys who fought that we might live
z Save the world for Christ! Buy m,
idea.