Smyrna times., 1922-10-04
NATIONAL LOCAL PREACHERS IN
ANNUAL SESSION At DOVER
BISHOP MCDOWELL THERE AS
WELL AS PENNSYLVANIA CAND
Preachers Taken on a Pilgramage to
Old Barratt's Chapel-President
Davis Makes Address

Old Barratt's Chapel-President
Davis Makes Address
The sixty-ffth annual session of
the National Association of Local
Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal
Church opened at Dover Wednesday
evening in Wesley M. f. Church with
25 delegates present. A larger num-
ber was present at Thursdays session
Wednesday nights services opened
with song service conducted by the
Rev. E. H. Bookmyer, followed with
the administration of the Holy Com
munion, in charge of the Rev. G. w.
Engle. The address of welcome and
response was deferred until Thursday
mornings session. The Rev. ]. w.
Colona, D.D.,pastor of Wesley Church
welcomed the delegates and the Rev.
A. w. Davis, president of the asso-
citation responded with his annual ad-
dress.
The sermon Wednesday evening was
preached by the Rev. Charles d. Will
liams of Philadelphia. Following the
sermon the report of the entertain
ment committee was heard and homes
assigned to the visiting delegates.
Thursdays session was taken up
largely with the business of the as
sociation that of election and admis-
sion of active members, reception to
branch delegates, calling roll of men,
bers who have died during the year
also of living active members, ap-
pointment of standing committees
and reports from officers and COM
mittees.
Mayor Magee, of Dover, welcomed
the delegates on behalf of Dover
At Thursday afternoons session the
mington, gave an address. Thursday
nights services were in charge of the
Rev. w. f. Carpenter, with the SER
mon scheduled to be preached by the
Rev. F. NJ. Dilks, followed by evan
gelistic service.
Delegation Visits Barratt's Chapel
Governor Denney made the address
to the preachers Friday afternoon.
John McSparran, of Furniss, Pa,
Democratic nominee for Governor of
Pennsylvania, made an address Sat
urday morning at IL o'clock. Bishop
w. F. Mcdowell, addressed the con-
ference. Saturday afternoon the min
listers were taken on a trip to Bar
rats Chapel where a historical ad-
dress was delivered in the chapel by
the Rev. A. w. Davis.
President Davis in the course OF
his annual address said:
"Long have | waited for this day
When l bade you goodbye at Har-
risburg, Pa, one year ago, little did
| think | would greet you at the
capital of my home State.
"Small indeed are we when COM
pared with the great CommonwealthS
from which many of you have come
History has dealt kindly with us
however, and we proudly boast Of
Delaware, the First State of the I'm
ion. When the great issue of the in
dependence of the Colonies was a
stake it was from this place thai
Caesar Rodney the delegate rose from
his sick bed and at daybreak begar
his famous ride to the seat of th'
Continental Assembly to cast the de
Gliding vote for independence. | invit,
you to stop over in Wilmington a
you return home and see Rodne!
Square, where an equestrian statu
will commemorate this epoch in ou
national history.
"At Cooch's Bridge we have unveil
ed a tablet that marks the spot wher
the Stars and Stripes were first un
furled in battle.
"When William Mckinley, tina
prince of Methodist local preachers
selected the Peace Commissioners t
. settle the Spanish-American war, h
, called for Delaware's honored states
man and jurist, Honorable Georg
Gray.
"When Theodore Roosevelt select
ed his arbiters to settle the gres
coal strike in 1902, he selected thi
illustrious son of Delaware as chair
man of that commission. And tn
9 Democratic party never made grear
er mistake than it did in 1908 when
turned from this honored statesma
along the Brandywine to the peerle'
leader along the Platte.
. "When President Harding was lool
ing for lawyer of international rel
utation to represent our governmel
in the foreign courts of the world,
selected Delaware's illustrious so
0 John Bassett Moore.
"When civic virtue and NOR
,a righteousness were at stake in o.
National Government at Washingto
d. c., in the enactment of the Fig
teenth Amendment to the Constit
:. tion, Delaware's noble sons-Salisbu
'' and Wolcott-were counted for G.