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s3 OFFICIAL JOURNAL AND MINUTES OF THE MIMEW~SIXTHSESSION N ANNUAL OF THE METHODIST CHURCH Held A, MORGAN STATE COLLEGE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Volume 24-Nwmber 4 Price $1.00 Se ria is The objective guiding our church-owned Publishing House--since its.establishment in 1789 - has been to advance the cause of Christianity through good literature . From our presses over 130 donperiodicals and over 1 million books go out every year, carrying the Methodist messages to every corner of the globe . Your Methodist Publishing House in Baltimore, located at 516 N. Charles Street, offers you and your church many important new features and services: The 1959 check to the Washington Conference from the PUbliahing House was $3,289.28. This amount is applied to the Conference Claimant Fund for our retired ministers, widows and orphans. Buy Your Church Malerial From Our PubIishing House e RELIGIOUS BOOKS AND SUPPLIES e BOOKS FOR CHILDREN VISUAL AIDS (RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL FILMS, MOTION PICTURE PROJECTORS, SLIDES, EX.) a ECCLESIASTICAL, CHOIR AND GRADUATION ROBES (PURCHASE OR RENTAL) e CHILDREN’S AND RELIGIOUS RECORD ALBUMS ei STATIONERY, GREETING CARDS, FOUNTAIN PENS 0 FICTION AND NON-FICTION OF ALL PUBLISHERS CHURCH FURNITURE Write for Complete Set of Catalogs (Cokeeburp Book Store) 516 North Charles Street Baltimore 3, Maryland OFFICIAL-JOURNAL & MINUTES OF THE WASHINGTON ANNUAL CONFERENCE METHODIST CHURCH NINETY-SIXTH ANNUAL SESSION HELD AT MORGAN STATE COLLEGE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Howard L. Cornish, Conference Host JUNE 10-14, 1959 Adopted by the Conference as its Official Record Bishop Edgar Amos Love, President N. B. Carrington, Secretary Volume 24-Number 4 BISHOP EDGAR A. LOVE A..,... ..._ . I<.,_. .._._ N. B. CARRINGTON Secretary This 1959 Conference Journal and Minutes is dedicated to the efficient and loyal layman Charles Sumner Arter of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Brother Arter has not only been generous in his giving and devotion to his own Local Church-but has been ever loyal to Methodism’s World Wide Program. This Special recognition of his gen- erosity is for his personal gift of $1,000.00 toward the purchase of Un- ion Memorial in 1963. CHARLES SUMNER ARTER TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Section I-Officers of Conference ........................................................................ 5 Section II-Annual Conference Boards-Commissions and Committee .............. 7-20 Chronological Roll .............................................................................. 21-22 Alphabetical Roll of Conference Members .......................................... 23-26 Supply Pastor’s Roll ............................................................................ 27-28 Lay Delegates ...................................................................................... 29-33 Section 11-( a) Daily Proceedings ........................................................................ 34-45 (b)-Resolutions ................................................................................ 47-54 Certificate of Ordination ............................................................ 46 Conference Executive Session of Laymen ................................ 34 Missionary Sermon .................................................................... 54-56 Section IV-Disciplinary Questions-or The Business of the Annual Conf ....... 57-63 Section V-Appointments ...................................................................................... 64-67 Section VI-Reports-District Superintendents .................................................... 63-71 B-ReporGAdopted Budget. World Service and Finance ................ 71-73 &Board of Conference Claimants .................................................... 74-78 Widows of Conference .................................................................... 79 D-Board of Evangelism .................................................................... 80 E-Board of Education. Executive Secretnry.................................... 81-86 F-Board of Conference Relations ...................................................... 86 G-Bonrd of Ministerial Training .................................................... 87-90 H-Report of Conference Lay Lender-Lay Activities .................... 90-93 I-Report of Conference Board of Missions .................................... 93-96 J-Report of the State of the Church................................................ 97 K-Report of the State of the Country ............................................ 97-98 L-Report on Minimum Salary Plan .................................................. 98-101 M-Report of the Washington Conference Board of Hospitals and Homes .................................................................................... 101 N-2-Golden Cross .................................................................. 103 M.l-N . M . Uarroll Home ........................................................ 102 N-Board of Christian Social Relations ............................................ 108-109 0-Report of Conference Trustees ...................................................... 110 P-Report of Commission on Conference Entertainment................ 110 Q-Report of Committees on Family Life .......................................... 111 %District Conference Record .......................................................... 113 S-Report Historical Society ............................................................ 114 T-Town and Country Work .............................................................. 114-115 U-Report of Television-Radio and Film .......................................... 115-117 V-Research and Surveys .................................................................. 118 W-Report of the Committee on Resolutions .................................... 119 Other Reports Section. Wesley Foundations. Administrative Secretnry Baltimore Area, Public Relations. Promotion and Advance. Wills and Legacies. Woman’s Society ............ 120-125 Statistician’s Report .................................................................... 126-139 Treasurer’s Report ...................................................................... 140-153 Section VII-Memoirs. Memorial Address ................................................................ 154-157 Section VIII-Roll of Deceased Members .................................................................... 158-162 Roll of Deceased Ministers’ Wives .................................................... 163-166 Section IX-His toricnl Organizations-Classes ........................................................................ 167-170 Sessions ................................................................................................ 171-174 General and Jurisdiction-Delegates .................................................. 175-176 Ecumenical .......................................................................................... 177 Districts and District Superintendents .............................................. 178-180 Bishops .................................................................................................. 180 Section X-Miscellaneous Directory-Local Preachers ; Church School Superintendents; Uharge Lay Leaders; Methodist Men; Youth Fellowship; Woman’s Society .......................................................................... 131-211 Conference Rules of Order .................................................................... 212-213 Section =-Record of Pnstornl Service .................................................................... 214-226 THE WASHINGTON ANNUAL CONFERENCE 5 I OFFICERS OF THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE President Bishop Edgar A. Love 828 N. Carrollton Ave., Baltimore, Md. Secretary N. B. Carrington 2522 Harlem Ave., Baltimore 16, Md. Assistant Secretaries I. P. Blackman P. L. Williams Clarence Davis V. T. Key I. A. Moye Agnes Carrington Emmie Cheatham Statistician William H. Polk 461 Broad St., Harrisonburg, Va. Assistant Statisticians R. L. Ball Sumner U. Davis H. A. Green Mary E. Gibson Oliver Beason R. E. Burnett R. W. Hall Joseph W. Carroll S. J. Carr Dorothy Bennett Julius 0. Williims Treasurer I. R. Berry 31 Lafayette Ave., Annapolis, Md. Treasurer’s Assistants U. D. Chambers E. S. Williams Walter Sewell J. L. Winters H. A. Brooks S. J. Mack E. W. Stevenson J. E. Cater Sherman Mason Registrar Edward D. McGowan 2902 0. St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Conference Lay Leader Thurman L. Dodson 626 Third Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 6 THE NINETY-SIXTH SESSION OF ’ President-Woman’s Society of Christian Service Olivia G. Better 1312 Emerson St., N.W., Washington, D. C. Area Secretary Daniel Ridout 828 N. Carrollton Ave., Baltimore, Md. Executive Secretary Christian Education Willard A. Williams 1206 Etting St., Baltimore, Md. Missionary Secretary Irving A. Moye 1209 Holbrook St., N.E., Washington, D. C. Secretary of Evangelism V. T. Key 1342 Druid Hill Ave., Baltimore, Md. Secretary of Temperance 0. M. Beason Laytonsville, Md. Director of Stewardship R. H. Johnson 332 Fourth St. S.E., Washington, D. C. Conference Director of Music Julius S. Carroll 1032 Browning Place, N.E., Washington, D. C. THE WASHINGTON ANNUAL CONFERENCE 7 ANNUAL CONFERENCE BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES, APPROVED BY THE CABINET 1959 - 1960 Board of Conference Relations Ramsey Bridges, Chairman (1960) J. F. Monroe, Vice-chairman (1961) A. H. Hammond, Sr., Secretary (1962) 1960 1961 1962 W. G. Simms G. T. C. Bell L. L. Mosley T. N. Hodges C. L. Davis A. H. Hammond, Sr. Board