24The President called the regularly scheduled May meeting of Conference to order. Millson felt somewhat more comfortable at this gathering since several of his colleagues came up to wish him well in that brief interval between the condensed worship service and the placing of tables and chairs at the front of the sanctuary. He was also not the center of attention this time, which greatly improved his mood.
Still, there were some who held back and stared at him as if he carried a contagious disease. Some of these he could forgive because they learned, as had he, that people judge a person according to those with whom he associates. Unscrupulous clergy had long and unforgiving memories, and woe to the one who hanged with unseemly characters.
Sometimes Millson wondered how the church grew a
