Archives and History

History Quiz
History question appears in the Northwest Texas Conference Review. The answer appears here following publication of the question.
The following question appeared in the March 5 edition of NWTX Review.

In 1918, what did Annual Conference delegates vote for by a vote of 95-0?
Women's laity rights. One of the leaders in the national Methodist movement - the Women's Laity League - was Lena Elva Hyder Rollins, daughter of early NWTX minister, J.A. Hyder. Delegates at the Abilene meeting voted for women's laity rights. The following year, in 1919, four of the eight districts responded by electing to the annual conference its first femail lay delegates. Clarendon District sent Mrs. T.C. Delaney of Memphis and Mrs. J.C. Wells of Lakeview. Sweetwater District elected Mrs. J.G. Merritt of Colorado City and Mrs. C.C. Higgins of Snyder. Lubbock District sent Mrs. W.E. Lyon of Lubbock and Plainview District sent Mrs. W.M. Lane of Floydada. I
The NWTX Conference elected Lena Hyder Rollins as one of its delegates to the 1922 General Conference, the first one at which women were eligible to serve.
Atkins served as bishop from 1910-1913. He was elected a bishop in 1906 and presided over the first NWTX Annual Conference in 1910. Atkins preached the opening sermon based on Luke 10:1-24: "the harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few."
A new question will appear in the Feb. 19 edition of the NWTX Review.