The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-08
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FIRST ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE
EAST BALTIMORE CONFERENCE
OF THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

FOURTH DAY.-Saturday, March 6.-At o'clock
the Conference called to orderly the President
Bishop Baker.
The usual morning services thenfollowed conduct
ed by the Rev. Philip b. Reese.
The proceedings of the previous day were then
read by the Secretary, and approved.
The relation of the Rev. Noah Schlosser was
changed at his own request, from the supernumera-
ry to the effective list.
The Secretary called on the members who We're
appointed to collect statistics to make their reports
The Conference was asked to change the relation
of the Rev. Mr.. Mckee from the effective to thesu-
pernumerary list, which was done.
At his own request the connection of the Rev.
Henry F. Nicholson with the Conference was discon-
tinued.
The President then called on the Districts for the
recommendations of local preachers suitable to be
elected to Deacons' Orders.
The following gentlemen elected
East Baltimore District-Rev. Thomas NJ. Cath
cart.
Frederick-Revs. DR.. Adreon V. B. Orr and
Samuel Milford.
Carlisle-Revs. James II. McGarra, Charles H.
Zeigler, BENJAMIN G.. Lippincott, Abraham Sahm
and John Williams.
No candidates from the other Districts.
The President then called the districts for the re-
commentators local deacons suitable to be elected
to elders orders. The following gentlemen were
elected Northumberland District, Rev. William
Gebhart; Carlisle, Rev. Archibald G. Marlatt No
candidates from the other districts.
Bishop Baker then introduced to the Conference
| the Kew. Mr. EQQN, EultOf OF tne North western
Christian Advocate and the Rev. Mr.. French, Agent
! of the Wiberforce University. They were invited
to seats within the bar of the Conference.
The Rev. Mr.. Dunlap presented the report of the
| Irving Female College, which, motion was re
| ferred to the Committee on Semnaries.
The Rev. Mr.. Gere presented paper to the Chair
containing some questions in relation to discipline
| for his decision.
The Rev. Mr.. Terrence presented the Report of
the Wyoming Seminary, which referred to the
! Committee on Seminaries.
The Rev. James H. Brown, chairman of the Com
mittee on Memoirs, to whom referred the sub
| ject of preparing suitable memoir of the late
| Bishop Waugh. presented the following =
The committee appointed to prepare suitable
memoir on the death of Bishop Waugh, to go on the
journal of the Conference report the following:
That whilst in common with all the conferences
| we mourn the loss the church has sustained in the
death of Rev. Beverly Waugh, ID, its senior su-
perintendent, especially feel it as the largest d
vision of the old Baltimore conference, with which
he stood so long identified to render humble
tribute of our regard and affection to his memory,
and to record testimony for generations to come
| to the piety which adorned his private and public
life to the power and success that attended his min
istrations and to the wisdom that marked his cOun-
sells in all the various relations he sustained to
common Zion. Therefore,
Resolved, That whilst this conference deeply de-
plores the loss the church has sustained in the death
of one whose unblemished purity of life whose zeal
and fidelity minister of the gospel, and the wis
dom of whose counsels general superintendent
contributed so much to her strength and prosperity
yet bows submissively to that all wise Providence
that has removed him from labor to reward.
Resolced, That endeavor to initiate his fidelity
as minister of the Lord Jesus ''dong the work Of
an Evangelist and that being affected and ad
monished by his death we will consecrate ourselves
more fully to God and as Christian ministers "give
ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry
of the word"
Resolved, That tender to the bereaved widow
and family of our beloved Bishop, the expression OF
our aectionate sympathy, and entreat for them the
continued care and consolation of Him who is ''tht
Father of Merces and the God of all comfort
Resolred, That copy of this memoir be sent t.
the family of the deceased by the hand of the Secre
tary of the Conference.
(Signed) JAS. H. BRowN,
| JoHN MILLER,
SAMUEL KEPLER.
The report was accepted, and ordered to be place
upon the journal.
then continued the call upon the members for claim
upon the funds.
The claim of the Rev. John Thomas was refused
by vote of the Conference upon the ground tha
he very well to do in the world, and was no
in want.
The Rev. DR.. Wise, Agent of the Sunday SchoC
Union, and editor of the Sunday School Advocat,
. was then introduced to the Conference, and spok
; at some length
He referred to the character of the books publisl
, ed by the Sunday School Union, and commende
their use to the brethren, containing all the tene
: recognised by the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Such books should be put into the hands of the SUI
d day School children, in preference to other publ
It cations He sorry to see in the libraries of son
thriving schools, almost every volume bearing IL