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PAGE TWO M. P. Conference Will Meet In Albermarle November 4-9 State Organization Expecte d To Endorse Methodist Union; Reading of Appointments Stationing Min isters for Coming Year W ill Be Last Business REV. J. L TROLLINGER, Reporter. Albemarle, Oct. 23. —The 109th ses sion of the North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Protes tant Church, which meets here at the First Methodist Protestant church No vember 4-9 is destined to be the most epoch-making gathering this parti cular branch of Methodism has ever held in this State. This is true from the standpoint of important questions to come before the conference. The major question before the an nual conference at this time is the vote on the plan of Union of the three major branches of Methodism, name ly, the Methodist Protestant Church, The Methodist Episcopal Church South, and the Methodist Episcopal Church. This question must be set tled at this session, because the Gen eral Conference held in High Point last May ordered the vote taken at the next session of the Annual Con ferences. Sixteen of the twenty-six Conferences of the Methodist Protes tant church have voted, with those favoring the Union being in the ma jority, the last to vote on this plan was the Tennessee Conference in ses sion this week. Rev. R. M. Andrews, D. D., High Point, who is serving the fourth year of a second term as president of the North Carolina Conference, said this week that he was in receipt of a let ter from the Rev. Jas. H. Straughn, D. D., Baltimore, president of the General Conference, in which he made the following statement: “There are still one or two uncertain spots as to the union, but it looks to me from reports coming in from the field as if the church will very decisively en dorse the union.” The president will arrive at the seat of the North Caro lina Conference on Saturday morn ing of Conference week, and deliver his first message as General Confer ence president, and it is quite likely that the major emphasis of this ad dress will have to do with the matter of Methodist union. Superannuate Endowment. Another item outstanding interest and importance is that of the super annuate endowment fund for super annuate ministers and their widows. A new program was instituted last year at the Henderson conference, when an assessment equal to three percent of pastor’s salary was levied upon each church, or charge. This a mount to be collected each year and to be applied to the distributive fund now in force. The conference in ses sion this year will receive the results of that advanced step, and study the reacton it has had opon the church throughout the state. In addition to the clause relative to the individual church paying a three per-cent levy to the fund, another clause requiring the individual pas tor or ministerial member of the con j|| "- - j||i ipl ; | jßjjgjH M They Never Knew —about the modern laundry service that’s available today. Had they known, history might have been entirely differ ent today—who knows. They lived in a day when the family wash was a real problem and consumed the better part of two days each week to complete both the washing and the ironing. Now the picture is changed. Mother uses the telephone instead of the wash board and we do the washing and iron ing better and with less trouble and more economy than she ever dreamed of. Henderson Steam LAUNDRY Phone 508 " HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1936 ference, in the pastorate or other wise employed bv the conference, to pay a three per-cent assessment from his salary to the invested fund of the superannuate endowment fund. This clause was left in the hands of a spe cial committee who will make final report to the conference this year. The president of the conference is of the opinion that if these two clauses are adopted and carried out as directed, there will be a brighter day for superannuates of this con ference. Committees To Meet. According to the custom of the con ference, there will be preliminary meetings of standing committees and boards at the conference church on Tuesday afternoon and evening Nov. 3rd. Prominent among these meetings will be that of the conference faculty, Rev. S. W. Taylor, D. D., Asheboro, presiding, and Dr. N. G. Bethea, Greensboro, secretary. President R. M. Andrews will preside at the meet ing of the bca.i-. y com...ittee, while the conference council of religious education will be under the chairman ship of the Rev. T. J. Whitehead, Burlington, who is the State presi dent. Opening Wednesday, Nov. 4. The conference proper will open promptly at 10 o’clock on the morn ing of November 4, with President R. M. Andrews, presiding and con ducting the devotional services. The Rev. J. Clyde Auman, pastor Com munity M. P. Church, Thomasville, will preach the annual conference sermon. Following the sermon, Rev. C. W. Bates, D. D., Winston-Salem, secretary of the conference, will call the roll of honored dead, and the con ference communion service under the direction of the president will close the morning session. After lunch, which will be served in the dining room of the church, the conference will reassemble for the afternoon session, and in the case of all afternoon sessions, Rev. E. Lester Ballard will lead in a song service. These afternoon song services have become most enjoyable to those in at tendance upon the conference, and Mr. Ballard will keep them to their usual high level of inspiration and helpfulness. . President To Report. The program calls for the presi dent’s message at 2 o’clock in the aft ernoon. He will bring a complete sur vey of the entire annual conference district, giving a report of official acts during the year and outline a comprehensive program for the com ing year. Elections To Be Held. Following the president’s message officers will be elected. Each election is for a period of a year, and if one man serves over <a period of years, his • election must be made annually. The following officers will be re-elected, Christianity as Love 1936. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION Christian love drew Paul to the home of Aquilla and Priscilla in Corinth where they worked together as tentmakers while Paul preached the gospel to the people- or others chosen to take their place: President, Rev. R. M. Andrews, D.D. High Point; secretary, Rev. C. W. Bates, D. D., Winston-Salem; assis tant secretary, Rev. F. W. Paschal, S. T. D. Burlington; treasurer, Prof. J. H. Allen, Reidsville; statistician, Rev. E. G. Cowan, Seagrove; press agent, Rev. J. L. Trollinger, Brown’s Summit; historian, Rev. J. E. Carroll, Greensboro; keeper of records, Rev. P. S. Kennett, LL.D., High Point. The lay member of the stationing commit tee is selected from the roll by lay members of the present session of the conference. Other elections to be made will in clude members of the committee on appeals and the standing district com mittee. Two members are to be elect ed on the board of conference’ trus tees, to succeed Rev. A. L. Hunter, Pinnacle, and J. Norman Wills, Greensboro; two members of the boundary committee to succeed Dr. R. M. Andrews and Rev. Ed. Suits, both of High Point; two members of the board of church extension to suc ceed W .A. Davies, Hillsboro, and J. G. Rogers, Denton; a layman to suc ceed W. T. Hanner, Julian, and Dr. R. M. Andiews, on the commission on Methodist cooperation. Dean P. E. Lindley, High Point College will probably bo re-elected to the conference council of religious education. Expirations on the board of trustees of High Point College are Rev. J. D. Williams, D. D., High Point; J. Mi Willikan, Greensboro; J. Norman Wills, Greensboro; F. Logan Porter, High Point, and to death of Dr. J. T. Burrus, High Point, made a vacancy to be filled this year. In the directorate of the pastors’ summer school, Dr. S. W. Taylor’s member ship expires this year. Active Committees. Active committees appointed by the president to serve during the present session of +he conference are made up of an equal number of ministers and laymen. The committees, with the chairman and co-chairman, follow: Credentials, Rev. C. W. Bates; Chris tian education, Rev. T. J. Whitehead, and Miss Lillie Mae Braxton; church music, Rev. J. W. Braxton and Miss Lucy Rogers; Methodist Protestant Herald, Rev. T. G. Madison and L. L. Wrenn; fraternal relations, Rev. E. O. Peeler and E. E. Wagner; mis sions, Rev. J. Clyde Auman and Adrian Perry; official character, Rev. T. M. Johnson and D. M. Davidson; parsonages, Rev. E. A. Bingham and Mrs. E. C. Walters; the president’s message, Rev. J. A. Burgess and Dr. J. W. Swain; social service, Rev. H. F. Surratt and Mrs. J. S. Moore; pas toral work, Rev. S. W. Taylor and J. M. Teague; ordinances. Rev. J. D. Morris and W. T. Hemmel; obituary for the Rev. W. F. Kennett, Rev. J. E. Pritchard, Rev. W. F. Ashburn and J. Norman Wills. The full com mittee on pulpit supply for confer ence Sunday, Rev. C. G. Isley, Rev. D. I. Garner, Rev. W. D. Reed, Rev. E. A. Cook, and J. H. Harkey. Standing committees to report at this conference are composed of: Evangelism, Dr. F. W. Paschal, Rev. G. H. Hendry, Rev. C. G. Isley, Rev. J. L. Trollinger and Rev. R. A. Hunter; stewardship, Rev. H. F. Fogleman, J. G. Rogers and Dr. N. G. Bethea; rural church, Rev. J. W. Braxton, Rev. J. T. Bowman, Rev. E. A. Bingham, R. P. Butler, and Miss Blanche Hardee; financial re commendations, Dr. R. M. Andrews, Dr. G. I. Humphreys, Dr. J. E. Prit chard, Dr. T. M. Johnson, Rev. T. J. Whitehead, W. L. Ward; nomina tions, Rev. H. F. Fogleman, Rev. H. L. Isley, Rev. J. F. Minnie. Work To Be Reviewed The theme of the evening of the first day at the Conference is, “A Re view of Annual Conference Interests”, and will be under the direction of the conference president. Speakers for the everting are Rev. J. E. Pritch ard, D. D. editor, The Methodist Pro testant Herald; Rev. S. W. Taylor, D. D. Asheboro, “The Work of the Board of Church, Extension,’* aaid Rev. Talton J. Whitehead, Burling ton, “The Annual Conference Finan cial Program.” According to Presi dent Andrews, the other speaker will be a prominent layman whose name ha 3 not yet been announced, who will disculss, “The Superannaute Minister and His Widow.” Pastors Submit Reports Rev. C. E. Ridge, Lexington, will conduct the devotions on Thursday morning, the pastors will submit per sonal reports, the afternoon will be given entirely to routine business, and the day will close with a missionary rally under the direction of Mrs. W. C. Hammer, Asheboro. High Point College and the Chil dren’s Home will claim the attention of the conference on Friday following the devotional service led by Rev. G. H. Hendry. Dr. G. I. Humph reys, president of the college, will pre side during time allotted to that in stitution, and Dr. A. G. Dixon, sup erintendent of the Children’s Home, will direct the activities of that pe riod. Henry Powell To Preside General Conference agents and rep resentatives, representatives of West minister Theological Seminary, and the publishing agents will bring mes sages to the conference in the after noon of Friday. At the evening ser vice, Henry T. Powell, Henderson, president of the Conference Layman’* Fellowship, will preside during the Paul was discouraged and ready to quit Corinth when the Lord Jesus came by night in a vision to Paul, saying, “Be not afraid, I am with thee, and I have much people in this city.” ■ Christianity As Love j THE WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON I Corinthians 13:13-—“Now abideth faith, hope, love, the.-ic three; and the greatest of these is love.*’' By DR. ALVIN E. BELL (The International Uniform Lesson on the above topic for Oct. 25 is Acts 18:1-17 and I Corinthians 13:1-13, the Golden Text being I Corinthians 13:13, “Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.”) IF IT IS true that “God is love,” it is equally true that religion is the expression of love towards God and towards our neighbor. “Love is the fulfilling of the law.” But God’s love is the source: “We love because he first loved us.” Love of Friends Strengthens It was Christian love that drew Paul to Aquilla and Priscilla his fel low tentmakers after unloving race prejudice drove them out of Rome and Paul found them in Corinth. They worked together at their trade as a means of support while Paul preached the gospel to all whom he could reach with it. It was Christian love and the encouragement of the loving fellow ship which gave new power to Paul’s ministry after Silas and Timothy hour set aside to that department. On Saturday morning jthe devo tional service will be led by the Rev. Henry W. Bell, Rockingham. Rou tine conference business will claim the attention of the conference, with special emphasis on the Methodist Protestant Herald until the arrival of the president of the General Con ference, the Rev. James H. Straughn, D. D., Baltimore, Md. President Straughn will speak to the conference at 11 o’clock, and will outline the overtures sent down to the annual conferences by the Gen eral Conference of last May. The most important of these, as mention ed before, will be the presentation of the plan of union. The second over ture to decide is that of “Re-district ing the Weaker Conferences and Missions. Preachers on Sunday Saturday afternoon will find a busv and tired group of ministers and lay men. If the business is cleared from the secretary’s desk, there will be no evening session; it business is un finished at the dinner adjournment, the conference will sit again at 7:30 that evening. Following Sunday school in the con ference church, many of the minist ers will go as visiting speakers to the churches of the city and surrounding community, others will remain at the conference for the ordination sermon, which will be preached by the Rev. Charles Edward Forelines, D. D., LL. D., president Westminister Theo logical Seminary, Westminster, Md. Dr. Forelines is an outstanding edu cator, a profound thinker and a theo logian of wide reputation, and his ser mon on Sunday morning will be one of the most profound utterance heard in this conference in many years. Following the sermon by President Forelines, the ordination service will be conducted by the president of the conference, assisted by five minist ers. Young People’s Rally The conference memorial service will be held at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. One member of the conference, Rev. W. F. Kennett, died during the year but there were no deaths among wives or widows of ministers. According Jhe of the cotx*= ference, Sunfihj) fetching is set aside as Young People’s Rally. Rev. J. Whitehead, * Burlington, president ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON ■>»- ! Scriptur? 18:1-17; I Cor. 13:1-13. came down from Macedonia and joined Paul at Corinth. Thus love .between friends does more than in crease their respective talents by ad dition, it multiples each by all the others and then some! But in an hour of despondency over the exceeding wickedness of Corinth and the immensity of the task of evangelizing such a city, Paul was overwhelmed with fears for his own safety and the futility of continuing his mission in Corinth, when the Lord Jesus appeared to him in a vision say ing, “Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace: for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to harm thee: for I have much peo ple in this city.” It was the love of Christ not only for his servant Paul but for the great throngs of lost souls in Corinth that brought Paul this heavenly Visitor and the vision of a great task yet to be done. And this “love of Christ constrained” Paul to “dwell there a year and six months, ■ teaching the word of God among them” and building up the church in Corinth to which Paul wrote at least of the Conference Council of Religi ous Education, will preside, and the principal speaker will be Dr. W. C. Jackson, of the Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Reading of Appointments What a day is Monday during the annual conference! Business will be transacted with haste and little de bate, for the members are anxiously awaiting the report of the stationing committee and the final adjournment at noon. While the program calls or the report at 11 o’clock, it is not like ly to come before nearer noon. If reports are true, and become fact, the work of this committee will be hard er than in more recent years. No one knows how many ministers or preachers will move, or have to move but records show that it is always about one-third, and indications are that it will be more this year. The committee on arrangements, under the direction of Rev. C. G. Isl j y »J saS *'° r °° n ference church, and Mrs. John Johnson as secretary, report that plans are practically +£ mP f °- r -! he comin S of the more than 300 visitors during the confer ence week. 1838—F. 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Paul com mended love as a gift more earnestly to be desired, and “a most excellent way.’’ Truly it is “the greatest thing in the world” as Henry Drummond savs. Love is the one absolutely essen tial gift without which every other gift is valueless. Eloquence without love is mere noise: “If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sound ing brass, or a clanging cymbal.” Knowledge and faith without love are profitless: “If I have the gift of prophesy knowledge faith but have not love, I am nothing.” Sa- “In my campaign for Commissioner of Happiness, I propose to deal in COLD FACTS” /^^s. Elec THRIFT 1 3: “and Here is a COLD FACT Every Woman Should Know It is a fact that an ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR af fords the safest, most convenient and by far the cheapest refrigeration. SAFEST because foods are kept below the DANGER LINE . . . MOST CONVENIENT because no worry or attention is re [ I quired . . . 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Love will outlive all other gifts. i GOLDEN TEXT—I Cor. 13:13.) crifice is meaningless without ioVe “lf I give my body to be burned but have not love, it piofiteth me noth ing.” The Nature of Love “Love is patient, kind, humble- Love suffereth long, and is kind etc.” Love is courteous and unselfish “ Doth not behave itself unseemly seeketh not its own.” Love is s ] ow {« expose, eager to believe the best hopeful, patient: “bearet.h (literally ‘covereth’) all things, believeth hopeth endureth all things.’’ Love outlasts everything else: “Love never faileth.” It will outlive prophesy ton gues, knowledge and every other gift We shall never outgrow love: it will still abide when we no longer see in a mirror darkly but face to face and know even as we are known. “Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three and the greatest of these is love.” ’
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