Subtitle: A Report of the Second General Missionary Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South: Held at Lake Junaluska, N.c., June 25-29, 1913 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1913 Original Publisher: Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Subjects: Methodist Church Religion / Christianity / Methodist Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: WORDS OF WELCOME. BY BISHOP JAMES ATKINS. BRETHREN, the Program Committee has assigned to me the very pleasant task of saying a word of welcome to you and introducing the speaker of this first evening. If I should undertake to tell you how welcome you are, the rest of the evening would be consumed. We have never in this country been so glad in our lifetime as we are to-night, because you are with us at last. And I am sure I speak no word that has a tinge of flattery in it when I say that I can hail you as the very vanguard of the Lord of hosts. God’s blessing therefore be on your presence amongst us on account of the great cause which you represent, the nearest and dearest to the heart of our Divine Lord and Master! You will recall that in the year 1900 there met in Carnegie Hall, New York, the World Missionary Conference, where all the Churches of Christendom were represented. A number of those who are present to-night had the pleasure and profit of being participants in that great gathering, that greatest gathering since the day of Pentecost. During the progress of that meeting those of us who represented the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, had in our hotel by ourselves a meeting, and at that meeting it was suggested that the best way to transmit to the entire c…
