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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
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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
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Paul spent a year and a half in Corinth.
Later he wrote to leaders there. They
were quarreling over whose work was
most important in the church. Paul told
them love was the greatest of all gifts.
three letters. In one there is includ
ed the most beautiful treatise on love
in all literature.
“The Graetest Thing in the World”
To Christians quarreling among
themselves over the relative great
ness of their several gifts. 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-
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Without love eloquence is mere noise,
knowledge and faith are profitless and
even sacrifice meaningless. 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.” ’