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FBAISTKIilNTOH, N. C4 JULY, .88,1887.
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NO. 3.
Methodist District Conference,
Fkanklinton, July 21, 1887.
The Raleigh District Conference
*>f the M. E. Church South, met at
.this place 10 o’clock A. M.
Dr. Vihson, Presiding Elder, being
•absent. Rev. J. J. Renh asked Rev.
J. B. Martin to take the chair and
♦conduct religious services. ;
After religious exercises thjp Sec
retary read the list of delegates. At
this point «a very touching letter from
JDr. Wilson in relation io the death of
this son was .read. | v
The election of permanent officers
(being in order, Rev. J*. B. Martin,
.John W. Hayes and Dr. B. F. Dixon
«vere put in nomination for Presi
*bent 1 - '
The ballot vas then taken, and
kDr. .Dixon was declared elected.
JJ. W. Bain, of Raleigh, was
electee Secretary by acclamation. G.
Baker was also elected Assistaut
.Secretary. |
1 lie Uhaar Uien .appointed a com
mittee on Religious Exercises and
•orderof business as fellows: Revs,
J„ J- (Bean, J. P. Hunt, J. W. Jen
kins, l>r. Dixon was also elected to
the committee.
After a few minutes the Committee
ireported, as Joilows:
.Meet at 9 A. M-, adjourn at 11 A.
31., meet at 3 P. M-, and adjourn at
»dll.
The J*our having arrived for public
worshya, JRev. J. D Arnold, of Hen
derson, preached.
•AFTEKNOQST. |
After religious services the report of
Ahe spiritual condition of the churches
iwas the order of business,' consum
ing .the greater part of the afternoon.
Dr. «Juhn Mitchell, Rev. J. W
Wellons and Rev. Dr. J. R. Rrooks
mere introduced to the Conference.
Saturday morning at 10 A. M. was
fixed as the time for electing dele
gates to the annual Conference.
A Committee on temperance was
.then aopointed as follows: Revs. R.
jH. W.liitaker, W. C. Norman and
Mr. G. y. Raker. Adjoarndd. '
Rev, Dr. Brooks, of Goldsboro,
preached at might. The sermon was
excellent.
SATURDAY MORNIN&.
Conference met at 9 A. ML re
ligious exercises were conducted by
Jlev. P. Greening.
Minutes were read and corrected
and the roll was called."
The election of delegates to the
annual Conference was then! had,
and resulted as follows:
D. W.Baine, J. M. Turner. Dr.
B. F. Dixon and W. H. P. Jenkins,
Alternates, G. S. Baker, W. N| Ful
ler. I
The report of the Committee on
Temperance was then fead by Rev.
R. H. Whitaker. Discussed by R.
H. Whitaker and G. S. Baker.
It was theif ordered that the next
Conferanee be held at fcelma. Ad
journed.
Rev. W. L, Cnnninggim preached.
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AFTERNOON.
The report on Education was read
by Rev. W. C. Norman ami discussed
by Prof. Pegram, L. J. Holden, J
M. Riiodes, W. H. P. Jenkins, G. S.
Baker and Col. W. F. Green, Fol
lowing the suggestion of Dr. Dixon
that speeches were not the things,
thirteen hundred dollars was sub
subscribed to the endowment of
Trinity College.
Resolutions of sympathy for Dr.
Wilson and family upon the death
of their son were read by Rev. J, W.
Jenkins and adopted.
Reports from the pastoral charges
was then taken up.
Rev. B. Cade was introduced to
the Conference.
Resolutions urging the increased
ciiculation of the Advocate were read
and adopted.
The report of the Committee or
Records of Quarterly Conferences
was read and adopted.
Resolutions making a circuit out a
part of Newton Grove Mission was
read and adopted.
The report of the Woman’s Mis
sionary Society was read and ac
cepted.
A resolution of thanks for enter
tainment was read and adopted by a
rising vote. (
Resolution disapproving of Union
Sunday Schools was then adopted.
Adjourned sine die
The Sunday School Conference
was organized by the election of the
following officers i President, J. P.
Hunt; Secretary, S. M. Parrish. .The
entire day, Friday, was taken up in
discussing the following questions:
Ought Sunday Schools in country
places to go into winter quarters?
What can be done to hold young
men in the Sunday Schools.
lue relations ot the Sunday
School and the Missionary cause.
What can, be done to get adult
members tor attend the Sunday
School?
The discussion upon these sub
jects was led by W, H. P. Jenkins,
J. W. Hajres, Rev. W. C. Norman
and Col. W. F, Green. Adjourned,
At night a very fine address by
Rev, Solomon Pool, D. Q,, on Sun
day School work: Its Beauty, its
Demands, its Grandeur. Adjourned
sine die.
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Southern Enterprise
Every man in the North congratu
lates the people of the Sooth on tbe
tremendous industrial gait they have
struck during the last three or four
years. They have tightened their
belts for a long race, and in the course
of the next decade or two will give
some of the manufacturing interests
of the North a pretty serious com
petitive rub.
Last year—1886—was the banner
year in the commercial history of our
wide awake neighbors between the
Potomac and the Gulf, The amount
of capital represented by new enter
prises in mining and manufacturing,
and by the enlargement of old plants,
which were compelled to increase
their facilities to meet the growing
demand, reached very nearly the
large i^gregate of one hundred and
thirty millions. This was a great ad
vance on the previous twelve months,
when only one-half of that sum was
invested, Kentucky took the lead
with over twenty-eight millions, and
luiiuwiug uiose ou uer ueeis was
while Alabama was a plucky third
with nearly twenty millions. The
other States brought up the rear—Vir
ginia, West Virginia and Maryland
with eight millions each, and the rest
with sums varying from a couple of
millions to a few hundred thousands.
This was not the result of a tem
porary boom which will leave the
South stranded by and by. It was
indicative of healthy progress and
indefinite growth. During the first
six months of 1887 the figures which
we have named have been startlingly
enlarged. Every city and town is
increasing in size, real estate is climb
ing up and the promise of good re
sults in almost all kinds of invest
Tennessee with twenty-one millions,
ments has attracted a lar<
of European capital.
amount
It is very clear that the South has
recognized tlie value of its natural
resources and proposes to make the
most of them. Old King Cotton, who
for three generations ruled with un
disputed sway, has found a mighty
rival in the immense beds of iron
ore which have been unearthed in
Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina
Missouri and half a dozen other locali
ties. In 1880 Alabama had a capacity
for producing one hundred and thirty
thousand tons of pig iroiji, but last
year she ran the figures uy to nearly
four hundred thousand. Tennessee
gave a jump from oue hundred and
tuirty-one thousand to three hundred
and fifty thousand, and
Virginia
her
example by leaping
twentv-nine
emnlated
from one hundred and
thousand to two hundred and seventy
eight thousand. It is closely esti
mated that in the next ten years the
Southern States will be able to turn
into the market something like two
millions of tons of pig iron annually.
There are also foundries, steel rail
mills, carriage and wagon factoies,
lumber mills, agricultural implement,
factories, cotton mills, aud. in a word,
every kind of enterprise which draws
capital and invites immigration.
All this constitutes one of the
happiest omens of our national future.
The old leud which had its origin in
slave labor aud made it impossible
for North and South to shake hands
with anything like genuine cordiality
has died out. It was the sole cause
of th*e thousand misunderstandings
which fretted and teased every pat
riot. and were the dismay of every
statesman. The firebrand has been
thrown into into the Atlantic. Every
possibility of sectional, disagreement
was extinguished at the same time.
To-day there is throughout the North
a genuine hearty pride in the dash,
courage and tenacity of the com
mercial spirit throughout the South.
We ourselves had in earlier years the
same i ndescribable experience of dis
covering that the land under our feet
is absolutely exhaustless in the re
sources it offers, and if we went wild
over the material development of a
country that seemed to be a eontinen
t al horn (t plenty the South will ap
preciate our condition of mind, for it
is now enjoying the same thing itself.
Of course we could think of nothing
but dollars, for they were hidden
everywhere and were to be had for
the seeking. * Preachers grew glum
and lugubrious over this worldly,
spirit which took possession of us
but who could help it? We found
ourselves in a magniflnet country,
stretching from ocean to ocean, and
there was not a epot where money
was not to be had. Brains and a
fortune were only separated by a few
years. There was enough for all, and
something to spare.
Now tbe South has joined ns. It
has waked up to a recognition of the
facts of the case. It has iron, coal,
limestone, mill streams, a rich soil—
everything that a great people need *'
to make them prosperous and happy.
And hereaftrr there is to be a tre
mendous rivalry between the two
sections of our common country. It
will not be political, as heretoiore, but
commercial. It will not drag ns
apart, but draw us together. Southern
capital will find its way into Northern
enterprises, and Northern capital will
find safe investment in Southern mills
and moHofaetures. It is a new epoch
in our history upon which we have
just entered, and our children’s
children will reap the benefits of it.
—N. Y. Herald.
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