The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . Logan Female College. He waspresiding elder on three different occasions, and held thisoffice in the Louisville District when he was elected to theoffice which he held at his death. As a preacher he was plain, practical, persuasive; as apastor faithful and popular; as presiding elder and administra-tor wise, sympathetic, aggressive. Six times he was a mem-ber of the General Conference, and he was a delegate to theEcumenical Conferences at London and Washington. The Logan Female College and the Vanderbilt TrainingSchool, both within his own Confe
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . Logan Female College. He waspresiding elder on three different occasions, and held thisoffice in the Louisville District when he was elected to theoffice which he held at his death. As a preacher he was plain, practical, persuasive; as apastor faithful and popular; as presiding elder and administra-tor wise, sympathetic, aggressive. Six times he was a mem-ber of the General Conference, and he was a delegate to theEcumenical Conferences at London and Washington. The Logan Female College and the Vanderbilt TrainingSchool, both within his own Conference, were founded byhim and are evidences of his energy and sacrifice. Hisgreatest work was, however, in building up and enlargingthe Church Extension interest of his Church. The Board ofChurch Extension in its quadrennial report to the GeneralConference, at Baltimore, May, 1898, said of Morton: What yx X(7) m 7) CO00 C >-^O wo 0 b CO toI in MO*)MH> SW O H KM WO> ao *i o 33 o K M HW OS5 O*i H w H C/5 HW (73 o o >r o a &o o c!H. Church Extension Details 1397 Church Extension is among us, he made it. By tireless in-dustry, indomitable energy, passionate devotion to one work,out of formless void he created, then organized and directed,our Church Extension department, with such phenomenalsuccess as to cause his name to be enshrined among those ofour greatest leaders. The history of the Church cannot bewritten without giving a large place to him; and the historyof the first sixteen years of our Church Extension work issimply his history The two are one and inseparable. The office of the Board has been from the beginninglocated at Louisville, Ky The revenues of the Board arederived from annual collections ordered by the General Con-ference in every congregation, from special collections takenby the corresponding secretary, the bishops, and the WomansParsonage and Home Missionary Society, and from specialgifts, devises, and bequests. In each Annual Conference there is an
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