American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-03-17
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This body met on Saturday morning at 8
o'clock, pursuant Ito adjournment, and was
opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr.. Norriss, of
Deer Creek circuit.
Reports from committees being in order, Sc
veral were received and read. A resolution
was adopted giving the stationing authority to
the President.
The Conference then went into an election
for President, which resulted in the choice of
Rev. Eli Hinkle on the first ballot.
The following persons were received into the
itinerancy: r. Atkinson and Daniel Wilson.
The following persons were elected to Dea-
cons orders: William S. Dunn, John Morgan,
John J. hurry and S. l.. Prather.
Judge Hopper offered the following resolu-
ton, which was read and after short debate,
adopted:
RESOLVED, That the Conference missionary be
directed to solicit subscriptions to the superan-
uated fund, payable in one, two, and three
years; and that the money so subscribed, when
collected, shall be invested under the order OF
the Conference and made permanent fund,
the interest of which shall be annually applied
TO the support of the superanuated ministers,
their families, and the widows and children of
those who die in the itinerancy, and stand in
need of support.
The hour of IL o'clock having arrived, Mr..
jackson, the Agent of the American Peace So
ciety, took the floor and addressed the Confer
ence on the importance of universal peace.
MIR. Jackson spoke of the necessity of min
isterial action upon this subject. Success de-
pended chiefly on the ministers of Christ; and
to them he confidently looked for spontaneous
and effective cooperation. They were his
main allies; they were his chieftains; and under
their banners he wished to rally in this cause
1t was pre-eminently their own; and they must
lead its van, or it never can succeed Ambas-
sailors of the Prince of Peace it was their APP
propriate business, their imperative duty, to
foster this cause and become its pioneers and
champions.
At the conclusion of Mr. Jackson's address,
the Rev. Ulysses Ward, of Washington city,
offered the following resolutions, which were
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That in our opinion the prophe-
cies of the old Testament, ard the precepts of
the new, justify the expectation that time
will come when war will be banshed from the
whole earth,
RESOLVED, That our hope of this glorious
consummation, (though it may be FASTENED by
the cooperation of phllanthropsts,) must de-
pend, under God, mainly on the prayers and
efforts of christians.
Resolued That while the temporal evils of
war seem almost TO defy calculation, we regard
its agency in destroying the souls of men, and
its influence on the spiritual interests of the
world, as the most lamentable of its results,
and as demanding the special attention of the
Christian world
sentiments on the subject of peace, among
Christian nations, Is necessary to prepare the
way for the complete triumph of the Gospel.
Resolved, That the no ture of our institutions,
the present circumstances of our country, and
its influence on the pubic opinion throughout
the world, conspire TO give the cause of peace
peculiar claims on the friends of God and man
in this land.
Resolved, That since the sole aim of this
cause is to abolish war, we approve of the
course of the American Peace Society," in ad-
herring strictly to this purpose, and keeping en-
tirely aloof from every project foreign to its
great and only object-universal, permanent
peace.
RESOLVED, That we commend this cause to
the Christian community, as worthy a place
among the benevolent objects of the age, and
recommend to our ministers to preach on the
subject, and do what they can to promote its
interests.
After the adoption of the resolutions, reports
from committees were again received, which
were acted upon until IL O'Clock, the hour of
adjournment. The session was closed with
prayer by the Rev. Mr.. Pennual.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Rev. Eli Hnkle, President elect, in the
Chair. Conference opened with prayer by the
Rev S. X. Cox.
Judge Hopper called up resolution which
he had previously offered relative to the mis-
sion question. Several members, in the course
of the debate which sprang up upon the reso-
luton, offered others of a similar nature, but
differently worded; all we believe having the
same object in view.
For proper understanding of the mission
question we here insert a resolution that was
passed at the last Annual Conference.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this Annual
Conference the First Methodist Protestant
Chapel Mission, Philadelphia, and the Liberty
st. Mission in the city of Baltimore, should be
left unsupplied, until their several oficiaries re-
quest an appointment from the Conference; and
in conformity with this opinion, this Conference
hereby resolves that the said missions be lett
unsupplied.
There Is a difference Of opinion as regards
the constitutional power of the Conference, to
thus set up separate mission where one
minister can be kept for an unlimited time;
hence the opposition to the continuance of the
two missions in question. No minister or prea-
cher according to the discipline can be appoint
ed to station more than t,co years;or to circuit
more than three years--n succession. Missions
are ncpent stations or circuits. Some UNDER
stand that the above restrictions do not apply to
missions; bat that missionary may be contin-