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SOUTHERN METHODISTS IN ASHEVILLE
Quadrennial Conference Elects Seben Nelv ‘Bishops and Stands Tor the er Old Ways” in Methodism —President Dickey of
Emory College Honored by Election as Secretary of the Southern Education Board.
ONSERVATISM has been the watchword
at Asheville where the law-making body
of Southern Methodism, has been in
session for three weeks. The foot
prints of the fathers largely marked
the paths of their sons while every
body seemed ready to sing the song that
Sam Jones loved so well:
“We are going Home to Glory
In the good old-fashioned way.”
The efforts to remove the “time limit” of the
pastorate and elect presiding elders by the people
were unavailing, while the petition of the women
for the voting privileges of the “laity” was likewise
denied.
College Men as Bishops.
Whatever be the other acts of the General Con
ference it is only natural that the most exciting
interest gathers about the election of bishops, espe
cially when there is such a large “crop” as seven
to be chosen.
It is a notable thing that college men were so
largely honored this year.
Os the seven bishops, Dr. Collins Denny, is at
present professor at Vanderbilt University, Nash
vlile; Dr. J. C. Kilgo is president of Trinity Col
lege, Durham, N. C., and Dr. W. B. Murrah is presi
dent of Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss.; Dr. R. G.
Waterhouse is president of Emory and Henry Col
lege, in Virginia, and Dr. J. H. McCoy is president
of Birmingham College, in Alabama, while Dr. E. D.
Monzon, of Virginia, and Dr. W. R. Lambuth, of
Tennessee, have won their fame in editorial and
pulpit work.
It will be widely interesting to know how the
election started off and we give the first three
ballots:
The First Ballot.
This ballot stood: Denny, 229; Kilgo, 178; Mur
rah, of Mississippi, 133; McMurray, of Kentucky,
sippi, 86; Mouzon, of Texas, 86; Waterhouse, of Vir
-102; Lambuth of Tennessee, 90; Dußose, of Missis
ginia, 82; Ainsworth, of Georgia, 77; McCoy, of
Alabama 73; Dickey of Georgia, 58; Culver of Ala
bama, 65, and a scattering vote for more than a score
of other ministers.
A special session of the Conference was held at
3 p. m., in order to continue the Episcopal election.
The second ballot stood as follows: Murrah, 165;
Lambuth, 119; McMurray, 109; Dußose, 108; Mou
zon, 104; Waterhouse, 101; Ainsworth, 92; McCoy,
90; Dickey, 49; Tillett, 28, and a large scattering
vote. Dr. W. B. Murrah, of Jackson, Miss., was duly
elected, having received a majority vote.
The third ballot stood as follows: Lambuth, 138;
Mouzon and Waterhouse, 132; Dußose, 108; McCoy,
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ATLANTA, GA.. MAY 26, 1910.
103; Ainsworth, 98; Dickey, 50; Tillett, 12; and the
usual complimentary vote.
It has been conceded since the opening of the Con
ference that Drs. Collins Denny and J. C. Kilgo would
be elected on the first ballot. Dr. Denny received
the largest majority ever voted on the first ballot
in the history of the Southern Methodist Church.
The election of Rev. W. B. Murrah, D.D., LL.D.,
was never in doubt.
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bates on several important questions, a press cor
respondent says:
The election took place in a most orderly
manner and after the name of each minister
who had been elected was called, there was
cheering and waving of handkerchiefs.
The debate on the question of the time limit
in the pastorate at times waxed warm. There
were many speeches for and against the meas
ure to remove the limit altogether. Those who
favored removing the limit have worked hard
and long to pass their measure and will continue
to agitate the question and are hoping for bet
ter results next Conference.
The women at the general Conference who
are interested in the women’s memorial asking
for laity rights, are greatly encouraged con
cerning the movement. In view of the fact that
every advance step that has been undertaken
has been accomplished only after years of agita
tion and education. They were not prepared
for the strong indorsement they have found from
DR. JAMES E. DICKEY.
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t London Tails to Get Broughton.
4 The great good news conies just as we go ♦
4 to press that Dr. L. G. Broughton, the famous t
and beloved Tabernac e pastor in Atlanta, de- f
> clines the call of the great London church 4
4 and will stay in America, with Atlanta as the 4
4 base of his wonderful operations.
♦ He has turned down the greatest opportu- ♦
♦ nity that could come to any man in England, -4
4- and has made one of the greatest financial 4
4 sacrifices which any man ever made for the +
+ sake of fidelity to what he believed to be the >
+ call of God. 4
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many here. Some are hopeful that when the
question of laity rights is taken from the cal
endar and discussed, the Conference will grant
the women their request. Letters and telegrams
from all sections continue to arrive stating that
men and women all over the country are pray
ing that the women will be victorious. All the
women present are of the opinion that if de
feated this time that at the next conference
they will succeed in passing their measure.
One of the most important questions in
the entire session was settled yesterday, that
of refusal to remove the four-year time limit in
pastoral appointments and allowing the law on
this point to remain unchanged. The vote in
favor of no renewal of the time limit stood 194
for and 90 against. Dr. J. H. Scruggs being
the only Georgian voting for a change in the law.
Dr. T. D. Ellis, of Savannah, made a telling
speech against the removal of the time limit
and sat down amid a burst of prolonged ap
plause.
Emory’s President Honored —and Captured.
The election of President James E. Dickey, of
Emory College, at Oxford, Georgia, as Secretary of
the General Education Board of the Southern Meth
odist Church is a deserved tribute to the signal suc
cess that has crowned the labors of a brilliant and
vigorous leader in the cause of Christian education.
Dr. Dickey’s administration as President of Emory
College has been magnificent. And his leadership
of the campaign for adding Three Hundred Thousand
Dollars to Emory’s endowment has proven him not
only a man of power in the realm literary and
classical, but likewise a dominant force among “the
lingerers of finance” —a man of the masses who
knows how, on the platform and in the pulpit, to
stir the people to their highest good—the good
that comes from giving to a great, constructive
cause.
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