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These remarks were uttered with great earnestness,
and produced corresponding sensation He con-
cluded by urging the claims OF Petersburg. She
was entitled TO consideration. II was a question of
finance. Less loss would be incurred IN negotiating
drafts There were the laymen in Petersburg who
were not only competent to manage II, but whose
liberaity equal to the emergencies to which the
society would often be subjected This latter point
he insisted on at length. II would, he said, often
prove point of friction. IL important TO have
men to manage il whose enlarged and liberal views
and feelings wouldp equal to the many occa-
sons, in the affairs of the society, that would put
them IN reputation.
Rev. Mr.. McFerrin said he deeply regretted to
hear these remarks
DR.. Longstreet said he was a southerner, and he
would therefore speak, as his brother, DIR. Smith,
had desired them TO take warning. This warning
was certainly in time, for the action has not been
had. He could not but think the alarm was unne-
cessary In taking the missionary and book con-
Germ you take deal Of trouble. He would not OBJ
ec to this; but he did object to taking their papers
rightly divided. He wanted TO be heard through
them. He regretted the warning of DR.. Smith, be-
cause he thought il out of place.
DR.. Smith said he deeply regretted that anything
had fallen from him to disturb the feelings Of any
brother He explained (and we believe very salts
factory TO ally his for springing counsel on
delicate subject, and with 30 much earnestness.
He said the committee seemed bound by sort of
mesmeric attraction to Nashville or Louisville as
the proper place of location. Not even his revered
friend and colleague from Virginia, {pointing to
Rev. Mr. Early, ) honored by age and unusual ex-
perence in financial matters, could get hearing.
He resolved at all reasonable hazards to break this
spell Of attraction. He had accomplished his OBJ
ject. The claims Of Petersburg had been heard.
Even speech in support of his doctrines had been
elected from the venerable Bishop Soule
In the mean time he had taken occasion to ad-
monish them Of an important and delicate matter,
which should never be disregarded. He did not
design to expires, an unkind dstrust of the ruling
majority in these cases. The claims Of Petersburg
had been now fsirly heard. He was satisfied. If
they should think proper to vote against Peters
burg, no man coald more readily acquiesce. In the
mean time he hoped they would not only profit by
his suggestions, but give US the missionary society
east of the mountains.
Bishop Andrew, in rising, said (humorously) he
would be Obliged to the committee to tell him what
latitude and longitude they were in. (Some one an
swered Petersburg.) Very WE'LL be that as il may,
it did TO him, he said that great deal of time
had been uselessly consumed on subject of minor
importance. He had not heard Charleston named,
and yet, said the bishop, Charleston is one of the
most liberal conferences in the connection. There
would be manifest proprety, in pecuniary point
of view, in making that the parent station
In allusion to the manner in which the various
points had been urged in pecuniary point Of view,
DlsnoP hHuTcW TemuTkeu JOCuldTly) uldt the COIL
tri5ution of the blacks under charge of the late
Charleston conference exceeded that of the largest
conferences either in the South or West, and that
among them they might probably find some pretty
good managers but, in Difference to the brethren Of
the South Carolina delegation, he would not press
that point. His only object in rising was to say
that, in his humble judgment, the convention was
consuming the time unproftably.
The vote was now demanded from all sides of the
house.
The first place nominated was Petersburg. The
question to make that place the parent missionary
station being put, only lS rose in its favor. Louis
vile was next in order. For making this city the
parent station, large majority of the convention
arose.
The chair announced the vote to be in favor of
Louisville the parent station Of missions.
The points for two assistant treasurers were then
decided to be Charleston and New Orleans.
The report was read as amended in committee of
the whole, adopted, and on motion the committee
rose and reported the to the convention Bishop
Soule in the chair. On motion by Mr.. Lee, the re-
port laid the table until the report on organi
cation shall have been disposed of.
On motion the convention adjourned.
SATURDAY, May IT,
The following resolutions passed-all unanimous
ly by 81 votes-except the first, which was voted
against by three delegates from the Kentucky con-
ference
BE resoredby The delegates Of ana confer
fine Methodist Episcopal Church TIE slarehoding
dent and necessary to erect the annual conferences repre-
vented In this convention into distinct ecclesiastical
necton separate from the Jurisdiction Of the general
ference Of the Methodist Episcopal Church present
constitued and accordingly We the delegates of said
nua conferences acting under the provisional plan Of sep
araon adopted by the general conference Of s4 do SOL
EMMY declare the Jurisdiction hitherto exercised over said
annual conferences by the general conference Meth
odist Episcopal Church. entirely dored and that said
nua conferences shall be- and they hereby are
separate ecclesiastical connection under plan
separation aforesaid and based upon the discipline OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church comprehending the doctrines
moral ecclesiastical and economical rules and
regulations Of said discipline except only YER
bal alterations may be necessary distinct organization
and to be known by the style and title of the Methodist
Resoired That whilst abandon or compromise
the principles upon which proceed separate
organization the South nevertheless chershing sincere
desire to maintain chsstan union and fraterna
with the church North shall always be ready kindly
and respectfully to entertain and duly and carefully consd
err proposition plan having its object the Of
the great bodies in the North and South whether such
proposed union be jpisdiefionai or connechonaL
Ayes 81, noes none.
Mr.. Early presented further report from the
committee on organization, which is as follows:
Rtsored That this convention request the bishops pre-
the Methodist Episcopal Church. South, to incorporate into
aforesaid conferences any societies stations adjoining
the line of division provided such societies stations
majority OF the members according the provisions
the plan Of separation adopted by the late general
ference, request sucn an arrangement.
Resoped That second Of third section chapter
first Of the book Of discipline be altered and amended
to read iollows
ahe general conference shall on the first day Of May
the year Of Lord 1896 in the town of Petersburg
Virginia. and thence forward in the month Of April May
four years successfully and in such place and
such day shall be fixed on BY the preceding general
ference &c. M fS
Rssored further That the first answe err in the chap
ter altered by striking out the word and insert
ing in its place the word fourteen
The committee on the support of missions made
report establishing the Louisville Missionary So
cety as the parent society, and recommending that
the missions connected with the southern division of
the church be sustained; which was adopted,
The adoption Of a place for the location of the
book concern, postponed till the meeting Of the
General Conference in Peterburg, next May; in the
mean time, it was recommended TO support the book
concerns in New York and Cincinnati.
The convention proceeded to elect two agents,
when John EARLY, Of the Virginia Conference, and
John B. McFerrin, of the Tennessee Conference,
were chosen. Adjourned
PHLADELPHIA, May 81, 1916.