Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-06
.METHOD|sTS DISCUSS
BOARD CONSULTATIONS
Adopt Memorial Asking Bish-
ops to Name Committee
on Merger.
WAGE FIGHT ON uNrrIoATIoN
Bishop Denny signs Minority Report
Against Elan Proposed by Commit
tee for Organic Union OF Northern
and Southern Churches.
tny Associated Pres..l

y To-Day IN lhe gencTai conference or
tho Methodist Episcopal Church,
9 South, in session here. DIR. r. f.. J..
= Morgan. OF oklahoma, precipitated
. the discussion by the introduction OF
memorial from the West Oklahoma
f. Conference asking that special
! committee of fifteen members be
: constituted to devise ways and means
/, of reducing the number OF general
boards by consolidating some OF
= them.
AT the present time the general
. activities Of the church are carried
: on under tho direction OF boards OF
missions. Sunday schools, Epworth
! leagues, education, church extension
and finance. The Morgan Memorial
seeks TO reduce this number To four.
Under the new arrangcment there
VIII he board OF missions having
: charge OF all Methodist work in
foreign countries: a hoard of church
=, extension which would be the present
. board with the addition of tho home
;. mission department of the board OF
missions; board of education which
q would absorb the present board OF
education, Sunday school and En-
:, worth league, and a board OF finance
which would care for the penstonIng
or superannuated preachers and
other purely financial matters
Legal Obstacles Ia Why.
1t was pointed out by those on
posed to the memorial that almost
insuperahle obstacles were in the
way OF such consolidation because Of
leeal difficulties involving charters
and the control OF trust furds. The
memorial was adopted. however, and
the college of bishops was asked TO
appoint the committee
-. ~ feature of tho memor,,, ,,.
--.that executive
sistant secretary of any board should
We member of the committee This
feature. II was explained does not
evidence desire TO rule out all OF
inc men who have had any expert
ence with the boards. as much as II
reveals an attitude Of criticism which
large section OF the church has
assumed regarding the convent,on,I
o:Eanizati ton, II was said.
outSrowth OF DIE Drive,
rms criticism D. was declared
was an outErowth of the Christian
e. coucation movement and the mission
airy centenary.
The convention today received n
report from Dr. G. w. Tadlock nj
80 LOUIS ana DR.. +. j. Prettymnn.
F., OF Chattanooga, who during the
Z quadrennium had served as fratcr-
nai heieGatcs 10 other Methodist
BODIES. DR.. Tadlock was the rcpre
sentative Of the church sent To the
general conference of the Methodist
hpiscopal Church at Des Moines
Iowa In May. 1929 DIR. Prcttyman
Vas iraternal -deleeaic TO the Cana
clan Methodist Church
During the present general con-
ference fra,ernal delegates from
other churches will deliver adj
dresses here.
me bishops today appointed
committee on introduciions and fra
IeFnai relations composed of the fol-
loving members: !. NJ. Rogers. of
savannah. Ca: Plato Durham Of
'sA,lanta. Ga; p. II. Linn, Tave,,.
,sM",: w g. Cram, SonGdo Korea;
J. &. MCGOWAN. Watervailey, Miss.
Wnnt Tobacco Bnck.
paper submitted to the genera,
conference yesterday bore the title:
Memorial on the use of tobacco.
we want IL back" This resolution
..Teiers 10 tho repeal OF LEGISLATION in
%l3li and 1915.
In 1914 Il law was passed proyjdiro
that presiding elders should advise
al! young preachers against the MS,
oil tobacco when*rhey Mere licensed
10 preach by fife district conference.
IN 1917 law requiring young
preachers 10 promise to abstain from
a n,
general conference. The resolution
presented today seeks TO remov, All
such legislation from the disc,pliu.
OF the church. Memorials have also
tnetn presented 10 make the law even
more stringent.
Al the morning session OF the CON
ference memorial was presented
asking the conference send greet.
inss TO Woodrow Wilson This re-
9ues' was referred to comni,,..
an" VII! come UP for consideration
later More memorials on the sub
-jsct OF hercsy were presented NJ
A. j. Lamar: Of Nashville has ,a,',
ilhte chairman or the special com.
'h'ttet appointed TO handle such mo.
MORALS sue" me
me second missionary program Of
,ne conference was rendered ,onivb,
ne subject o, homo mission. was
'''As"SHed by several leaders in ina,
hrancn ~ the church work. Amn,n
~" Speakers were the four s.cre-
,'"''es IN charge OF the home dera,,.
mont OF the board Of missions ~
'"nhart Dr. Il. L. Russell Mrs
~ .HSCoE and Mrs J. W Downs
WIFE The hearing OF memorials
ntons and resolutions co,,,,, w.
ms morning. the executive w., ,
begun, three great questions occn,,,.t
me attention q tho cc-lferenc. 80.
shaoowing the coming elect,on .,
bishops and conncctlonal ogo. "a
me matters foremost are: "uninn,
non. heresy," and "conrersn".
rights" ehee
special comrn:,t-. was an,oIr
To-Day TO consider the -nernoria, 49,
sehteo yesterday on conferenc.
Here'y Il Discussed.
IN the matter ~ "here.v"
.fpecia' committee. ono member ,ra,,
each annual conference, vas ,s,nn
70 consider ali memorials and resmi,
Hons dealing with unorthodory
INC bishops today named a co,ny,,,-
zee TO investigate the rrg.n, 49,, ~,
more hospitals To whlcl a,,.,,,
was called Monday on be "E,'t,
coral address" Those named IN -,
committee: DR.. ". J. johnson n,t...
Or ivan Lee Hall. st Louis; w II
.SockhaH, Birmingham; T & s,r.h
gate. Norfolk. Va: Mrs. Nat G ron.
,tngs. Abilene. Tex; L. NJ. Stra,,n,
Memphis: J. NJ Roger. S.,., =,