Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1926-09-02
Piedmont Conference
Had Great Meeting
Sessions Held with Church at Dulin's q
Grove; From Thursday Night
To Sunday Night

Allen, N. u, last Thursday where
they attended the annual session of
the Piedmont Advent Christian Con-
ference, held with church at Dulin's
Grove
Both of these ministers returned
Monday and report very splendid
| meeting of the conference. The
biggest thing they report in the way
OF business transacted was the adop-
tion of the report Of the ways and
means committee by unanimous vote.
This report was as follows:
Ways and Means
We, your committee on ways and
means, desire to make the following
recommendations
l. We believe there should be in
jected into the life and activities of
this conference new vision of our
duty unto God and greater enthusi-
asm should be evidenced in the doing
of these duties.
2. We feel that the very first
thing that should be done to improve
the condition of this conference is
to divide the territory of this con-
ference into three divisions Division
No. l should include all the churches
in Watauga and Wilkes counties
Division No. 2 should include the
churches in the counties of Avery,
Alexander, Burke, Catawba and
Caldwell Division No. 8 should in
clude the churches in the counties of
CASTOR, Mecklenburg and Richmond.
These divisions should constitute dis
trict conferences that should be or
ganized and operate just as the Pied
mont conference now operates. These
district conferences should be sub
sdiary to the Piedmont Conference
and work with churches constituting
said districts just as the Piedmont
Conference now works with the
churches constituting it, and each of
these districts should vie with each
other in building up every Interest
of the denomination.
3. We feel that the time has now
come when a Sunday school associa-
ton should be organized in the
bounds of this conference and in
each of the proposed districts Of the
conference and that this Sunday
school association should be linked up
with and should affiliate with the
All-South Christian Sunday School
Association.
4. We feel that the Woman's
Home and Foreign Mission Society
should be organized in every church
in this conference and that out Of
these societies should be formed a
conference association that shall pro-
mote the cause of missions in the
bounds OF tins conference.
5. We feel that there should be
organized among the ministers of this
conference a Preachers Institute, in
which there shall be conducted each
year a school of tactics, in which the
preachers shall consider their prob
lens and discuss ways and means OF
doing their work with the Object in
view of increasing the efficiency of
each preacher.
6. We feel that there should be
planned and carried out an intensive
and extensive campaign of evange-
lism, reaching every church and new
territory as well.
7. We feel that gospel tent should
be bought by this conference and be-
ginning early next spring a team OF
evangelism consisting of a preacher
and singer, should use this tent every
day during the spring and summer
and fall, seeking to place the cause
of Adventism into new fields within
the conference.
8. We feel that this conference
should be permanently housed IN a
home of it's own centrally located in
the territory of this conference
With this end in view we feel that
land should be bought and taber-
nacle should be built, with the idea
in mind that this tabernacle shall IN
time be used for the meetings OF the
conference and camp meeting and
school of tactics for our preachers
Sunday school superintendent and
Sunday school teachers and mission
workers.
9. We feel that the Bible doctrine
of tithing should be taught thoroly
to the membership of every church
and we urge every preacher and sun
dav school superintendent and Sunda!
school teacher to study this doc
trine and preach it and teach it full!
and enthusiastically, during the neA
conference year.
10. We feel that every church IL
this conference should take an of
fering once every three months TO
the benefit of the conference pro
gram. and we think that this offer
ing should amount to at least fiv
cents per week per member, an
that this money should be sent i'm
mediately after its collection to tn
conference treasurer.
II. We believe that advertising
the greatest power that we can use