Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-05-26
General COnferenoe-M M. E. Church, South.

OCuCId NOulCI CnCC IA LIZ AAAN
This body is still in session in Nashville
Tenn. Since our last notice the Conference
has been chiefly occupied with the presenta-
ton of memorials, propositions to amend the
discipline and other rules of the church, with
long debates on almost every thing submitted
or alluded to. Very little has been done in
the way of finally disposing Of any thing
brought forward.
We find the following items Of special in
terest IN this section:
On the 14th, Levi Pearce presented report
(No. 81 Of the Committee on Boundaries, as
follows:
The Committee on Boundaries having duly
considered memorials from sundry persons
within the bounds of the North Carolina Con-
ference, prayiDgfo a transfer to the Virginia
Conference, and also remonstrances against
the same, submit the following:
ResoIred, /. That the request of the memo
~rialists be granted, so far as that portion OF
3 the State of Virginia lying in the North Car
I alma Conference is concerned, by a transfer
of said territory to the Virginia Conference.
ResOZUed, 2. That the boundary line be-
tween the Virginia and North Carolina Con
' ference be Albemarle Sound and the Roanoke
river, up to the point where the State lin
crosses the said river, and thence with the
= State line to the top of the Blue Ridge.
The report lies over under the rule.
w. Barringer gave notice that when il
: nhould come up he would offer an amendment
o which he hoped to sustain.
This change, if adopted by the Conference
will throw all the counties of Virginia now il
the North Carolina Conference, into the Vir
ginia Conference, and will retain, as at pres
ent, all that portion of North Carolina lyin!
North of the Albemarle Sound, known as tn
Murfreesboro' District, in the Virginia Con
ference.
y A correspondent of the Petersburg Demo
crat states, that amemorial had been presen
teddy the minority" ofthe N. G. Conference
asking for a new trial in the case of Rev. Dr.
Deems, on account of alleged illegalities i
T. the Pittsboro' trial. A subsequent lette
+ from the same, says that this memorial ha
II been withdrawn, and that anticipated diff
III culties and excitement growing out of it, hav
been removed. The writer says:
| am glad to see that the cold shoulder
given TO q disposition to quarrel, winch ha
manifested itself. And l rather think tina
this subject ofquarrel will receive it's quietu
here. No man or set of men is importar
enough to come here and disturb a great bod
of Christians in their quadrennial session wit
personal matters. You may rely upon it, tn
~ right feeling prevails here on that subject.
al cannot name any particular part, but | thin
NO that the first outbreak on the Conference foo
&c will meet rebuke, such as will justly rewar
the Christian minister that does not bett
lie understand his calling and the duties of tt
ng place.
lor A prolonged discussion of great ability hi
mt been held on the subject of the Alabama re
o~lution, as it is called, which proposes to
o. away witha Rule on Slavery, in the disciplin
a This rule originally applied to the slave trad
lgs but by reason of events not anticipated at tt
time of its adoption, it's terms now are lab
to construction injurious to the church al
inconsistent with all her action. At our !
test advices the vote had not been taken.