. Conference journals North Carolina, 1828-1938. . REV. W. H. WILLS. REV. JOHN PARIS, D. D. 1914] METHODIST PEOTESTANT CHUEOH 73 organized system of visiting and supervising the separate fields oflabor in the conference; and to have made in The Methodist Protest-ant, such reports as not only to encourage the pastors to give oftheir best, but to raise the life of the church in North Carolina per-manently to a higher plane. As a presiding officer over the deliberations of the conferences,annual or general, he was conspicuously successful. He had a compre-hensive knowledge of parliamentary law, a
. Conference journals North Carolina, 1828-1938. . REV. W. H. WILLS. REV. JOHN PARIS, D. D. 1914] METHODIST PEOTESTANT CHUEOH 73 organized system of visiting and supervising the separate fields oflabor in the conference; and to have made in The Methodist Protest-ant, such reports as not only to encourage the pastors to give oftheir best, but to raise the life of the church in North Carolina per-manently to a higher plane. As a presiding officer over the deliberations of the conferences,annual or general, he was conspicuously successful. He had a compre-hensive knowledge of parliamentary law, and a quickness and decis-iveness of mind that enabled him to discharge the -functions ofchairman in a manner to infuse energy into the whole body, and toget its business attended to with despatch. It is probable, however, that as a committeeman he rendered hismost important, though least conspicuous service. His counsel wasvaluable because he could grasp quickly and judicially the salientfeatures of the matter at issue, and his reports were models of pointand comp
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