Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-05-17
Volume T.---No. Al.


exertion, the great object of life, and
the idler puts pleasure exactly in the
place of duty.
This principle of life once admitted.
however manifested, will produce daily
deterioration Of character, until tho
roughly abandoned. Every bodily appe-
tite, every mental fancy, every moment
airy fashion will clamor till indulged.--
The body will be pampered. appetite will
lead on to gluttony. wine to drunken
ness, luxury to every evil indulgence,
while the mind, excited only by novel;
ties and enfeebled by tire lack of con-
tinual exertion, sinks into utter vapidity
and uselessness. There is more hope of
the reformation of the worst sinner than
of the idler. Poverty will sometimes
scourge the vice of idleness out of a man;
but the love of higher and better mode
of life, if once tasted, is the chief hope.
Philadelphia Ledger.
METHODIST GENERAL CONFERENCE
The General Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church (North) is still
in session at the capital of the State of
Indiana. Amongst the papers laid before
it on Saturday last was the Quadrennial
ADDRESS Of the Bishops, showing the con-
dition and progress Of the Church during
the last four years. From this address
we learn that Independently Of the NJ.
L. Church South there are about Il, 600
preachers. travelling and local, and near
ly 500, geo church members. The Epis-
copal jurisdiction exteuds over thirty
eight annual Conferences, including the
Pacific coast and Liberia. The Address
suggests u reduction in the number of
representatives to the General Confer
ence, 50 as to facilitate business 1t
refers to educational statistics The pro-
gresss made in providing the means of
liberal education; the publishing pro-
gress, showing a very large list of read
ers to the various weekly monthly, and
quarterly publications. which have 282,-
461 subscribers, requiring the printing
annually of 800, $40 copies. The
Sunday school cause and tract cause are
alluded to and commended to the consd-
Grafton of the Conference. The mission
airy contributions have exceeded very far
the sums appropriated during the quad
rennial period preceding the present
term, and the missionary work over the
Western Territories aud foreign coun-
tries has been proportionably extended.
The slavery question is alluded to, and
the points submitted to the Conference
whether or not it has the power to change
the general rules Of the discipline upon
the subject If it should be desirable to
make a change it is suggested that the
constitutional right of the Conference TO
make an alteration might be questioned.
The address was ordered TO be printed
in pamphlet form for the use Of the mem
bers.
At Mondays session, amongst the
memorials presented were number on
slavery from the Northern and North
western States; on tobacco chewing and
smoking; on change Of discipline so as
to allow minister TO remain three years
in one station under certain circumstan-
ccs and on the subject'of itinerancy.
boundaries, lay representatives., &c, -
In paper exhibiting the progress of the
cause Of Methodist missions in Germany,
! the Conference was asked 10 take the
superintendent of tie Methodist publi-
cations in that country Nat. Intel. Of
10M instant