This Week in Texas Methodist History

General Conference Convenes in Dallas, May 6, 1902

Bishop Henry Clay Morrison hammered the 14^th General Conference of the MECS into session on May 6, 1902, in the auditorium on the Fair Grounds in Dallas, Texas.  It seems that local organizers had forgotten to secure a gavel so Morrison used a common carpenter’s hammer.

The fact that the General Conference was meeting in Dallas was a point of pride not only for Dallas, but also for all of Texas…  

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