A LITERALIST in grammar might demand to know the force of the word "and" at the start-out of the hymn with which the conventions appear to have ruled that the "Opening Session" of each Annual ...
Article : 298 wordsBUT life runs mainly in a groove, and the Conference next morning had to come back to the discussion and decision of ordinary affairs. As the older of the two great daily papers expressed it in its report the ...
Article : 315 wordsSAVING for the election of its officers for the year, the work of the Opening Session is of a mainly abstract and decorous order. It is on the following day that the Conference metaphorically throws off its coat ...
Article : 285 wordsIT is something to say that in these days of supposed declension and backsliding from so many of the good old ways, the Opening Session of the Conference still holds its own as a highly successful denominational ...
Article : 242 wordsENTHUSIASM of debate reached a high level over two questions of "To be or not to be." One was whether the General Conference should meet as arranged in May of this year, or be postponed for a year ...
Article : 365 wordsIT was a wise and timely thought that suggested the holding of a special service in connection with the Conference to honour the memory of the brave men of New South Wales Methodism who had laid down their ...
Article : 281 wordsTHERE is no body of people in all the wide world— to say nothing of the Church, wide or otherwise— that surrounds the posts of leadership with more eclat than is showered upon their holders by good Methodist ...
Article : 366 wordsQUITE half the time and energy of the Conference on Monday was expended over the question of the character of the moving pictures exhibited in the Lyceum Hall by the lessees of the building by arrangement with ...
Article : 288 wordsIT may with equal confidence be said that the sermon or address by Senior-Chaplain C. J. Prescott, M.A., was one of the most notable ever heard from an Australian Methodist platform. To say that it was ...
Article : 269 words"BUT it is always the President that is the man of the hour. Some complications in the general position brought the honour of the presidency the way of the Rev. P. J. Stephen at an earlier stage than that ...
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The Methodist (Sydney, NSW : 1892 - 1954), Sat 10 Mar 1917, Page 7
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