Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Holston Annual, 1919: Official Record of the Holston Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Ninety-Sixth Session, Held at Princeton, W. Va;, October 8-14, 1919 The call of districts for election of local preachers to Deacon's and Elder's orders showed that none had been recommended. Leave OF absence - Charles L. Stradley was granted leave of absence, he having been called away; by the death of a sister. The secretary was directed to write him a letter of Conference sympathy. Papers referred. - Communications from Emory University and from the General Epworth League secretary were referred, without reading, to the Conference Board of Education, and the Conference League Board. Methodist unification. - The hour of the day having ar rived, Bishop Denny addressed the Conference on the present status of Methodist unification, after which he had printed ques tions passed through the Conference for indication of the mem bers as to a preferential choice in proposed unification plans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.