Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-03-01
Georgetown and It's Affairs.
GEoRGETowN, March liz m.

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Preparations are making to give handsome
reception to the Maryland Annual Conference of
the Methodist Protestant Church, which win
commence its next session on the 18th of March.
As considerable attention has been directed to
Methodist ecclesiastical polity of late brief
reference to the distinctive features of this church
may not be unacceptable to your readers The
Methodist Protestant is distinguished from the
Methodist Episcopal Church by the following diff
ferences: The annual and general conferences Of
the former are composed of an equal number of
ministers and lay representatives; those Of the
latter, of ministers exclusively The Methodist
Episcopal Church is presided over by bishops,
elected for life by the clergy; the Methodist
Protestant by presidents, elected annually by the
joint vote Of the clergy and people. The office
presiding elder is abolished in the latter church,
the presidents of annual conferences performing
most of the duties. The power invested in the
presidents of the annual conferences is vastly in
ferior to that welded by the bishops. Class
leaders are elected by their respective classes in
| the Methodist Protestant Church in the Meth
odist Episcopal they are appointed and removed
| at pleasure by the preacher in charge. Stewards
and trustees (who, in CONJUNCTION with the preach
| ers and leaders, compose the quarterly confer
! ence) are nominated by the preacher in charge,
and confirmed by the quarterly conference, in the
Methodist Episcopal Church in the Methodist
Protestant, they are elected either by the quar-
| terly conference or male members meeting, the
preacher in charge having no other right of NOM
! ination than that which belongs to the humblest
member All the church property in the Metho-
| dist Episcopal Church is held by trustees "for
| the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the
United States of America" or, in other words,
for the use of the preachers appointed by the
bishops property in the Methodist Protestant
Church is held in trust for the of the society
to which it belongs. e., there being no general
deed of settlement each congregation disposes
of its property as most effectuay to secure its
individual rights There are also some impor-
tant differences in disciplinary regulations, but
this sketch is already too extended to embrace
them. The nucleus of the Methodist Protestant
Church was formed in 1928 by number of min
listers and laymen, who were expelled from the
Methodist Episcopal Church for agitating certain
reforms in that body, similar to those asked for
by the friends of lay delegation in Philadelphia
and elsewhere at present These expelled mem
bers, with number of their sympathizers, who
seeded, laid the foundations of the temple of
Protestant Methodism, which numbers now among
the worshippers in its courts about 10000 mem
bers, and more than triple the number of friends.
The Rev. Mr.. Lanahan, of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, preached lastnight his last sermon
for the conference year, and left this morning for
Cumberland, to attend the meeting of the confer
ence Although it not, strictly speaking, a
farewell DISCOURSE it was highly intellectual and
impressive, and was listened to with marked at
tention by the large audience who had assembled
to hear him for the last time before his removal
from among us. MIR. Lanahan will carry with
him the warm affection of the congregation which
he has served faithfully the Inst two ycers, and
we bespeak for him cordial reception where
ever he may be stationed hereafter.
The great centre of attraction this morning is
friend Remick's Bridge-street Hat Emporium
This is not at all surprising; for those Genin's
best which appear in the front windows are SO
exquisitely beautiful, that, seeing them, one
can hardly resist the temptation to dof the old
winters beaver and fit himself with one at friend
RS very low prices
About 5000 lbs. of butter from wagons sold
this morning at $l7 per one hundred lbs, good
and inferior. Several hundred dozen eggs at 14c
per dozen.
Arrical.-Schooner NJ. J. Farday, Hooper, Sal
isbury, to Joseph Libby s Son. ELECTRO.