Elbert County GaArchives News.....Methodists Open Annual Conference At Elberton November 21, 1913
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The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal November 21, 1913
By Rev. Edward G. Mackay.
Elberton, Ga., Nov. 20.-- Promptly at 9 o'clock this morning Bishop Collins 
Denny opened the forty-seventh annual session of the North Georgia conference 
in the First Methodist church here. The auditorium of this handsome and 
historic church was well filled with the ministers who have come from all parts 
of north and middle Georgia for this important meeting when the opening hymn 
was announced.

In his opening address Bishop Denny spoke forcibly for the need of the trained 
mind in the ministry of the church.  He said it was time for the dispensation 
of ignorance to come to an end as "sanctified ignorance" would never save the 
world.  He referred effectively to the fact that John Wesley, the founder of 
Methodism, had one of the best trained minds of his day, and it was to such men 
that the leadership of the church had ever been intrusted.

After the roll call, the conference stood and with bowed heads heard the 
secretary, W. B. Dillard, call the names of three ministers who had died during 
the year.  These were Rev. J. S. Bryan, Dr. Walker Lewis, and Dr. G. G. Smith, 
all leaders of note.

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