New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-09

Methodist EpiscopaI General Conference.
The Conference assembled on Saturday morn
ing at the usual hour, o'clock.
Bishop Payne presided.
"a resolution was passed confirming the division
of the Alabama Conference into two--the Mont
gomery and the Mobile CONFERENCE.-THE these
were severally recognized.
On motion, it was resolved that select com.
mittee Of nine should be appointed to report upon
proposed changes in the economy of the Church
and communication from the Methodist Protest
ant Annual Conference in Mississippi, offering to
mite with the Methodist Episcopal Church South
II lay representation were accorded, was ordered
to be referred to that committee.
a number of memorials were presented from
various conferences and churches, relating to the
Depository at st. Louis, to class meetings. to the
abrogation of the rule for receiving members on
trial, to certificates of church membership, to
examination for pastoral administration, to the
extension Of the term of the itinerate pastorate
TO causes Of communication, to requests made
to the church, to the boundary line between the
Mobile and the Mississippi Conferences, to closed
churches, to the celebration of the centenary Of
Methodisn, to boundaries, and to other matters Of
PIRATE committees.
/. The signatures 81 Bishops Soule and Pierce, to
the Epseopa1 address read on Friday last ordered
to be.accompanie with notes explanatory of the
circumstances under which they were affixed in
the absence Of those pastors themselves.
The financial report of the publishing house in
Nashville was read and referred to the COMMITTEE
on Books and Periodicals. It showed very
favorable state Of AFFAIRS considering all the trials
through which 1t has passed during the past five
years. The debts due to the house are some fit,
or sixty thousand dollars and the available assets
perhaps twice as much more. OF the debts one
half may be collected. s'Ag$gN3y as7tf9sfa@sl e
The Rev! DR.. Scion presented areport from the
committee appointed in 1861, by the missionary
board, to revise the constitution of the missionary
society. 1t was referred to the Committee on
Missions. A'' se @'4t
communication from the Lexington Ky,,
colored church, asking to be allowed to join tie
African Methodist Episcopal church, so that the
power of holding church property should not be
Affected was read and appropriately referred, as
were communication proposing that colored
churches should be placed in position analogous
to that Of the German churches, and d communi.
cation from Bishop Campbell Of the General Con
ference of the African NJ. "a. church.
A Recommendation from the Missouri confer.
ence, that the Introduction of partizan or political
matter in pulpit discourses should be prohibited,
was read and appropriately referred.
! Amemorial was presented from the Texas con-
ference, stating that the congregations were de-
termined to continue their alliance with the
Episcopal Church South, although in,
had been offered to them to join the
Northern church. Itwas appropriately referred
The following preamble and resolutions were
read and adopted: =<stf'
WHEREAS, The general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South isnow III session
in the city of New Orleans; therefore, 7
Resolced, That the New York East annual con
ference hereby present to that venerable represen-
tatjye body our Christian sautation, and cordially
invite them, together with. us, to make next Sab
bath, April s, d day Of spiritual prayer, both in
private and In the public congregations for the
peace and unity of heart of our common country,
ann Tor the full restoration of Christian sympathy
INV INV iove between the churches, especially be-
ss VIZ different branches of Methoiists within
Az a..ion, and upon receipt of an acceptable
ensssaas reply the concert of prayer will be
e1 ~ by this conference as adopted.
lne conference then adjourned, to meet again
AZ o'clock this morning. q ita'i7.lsi q y 9I77
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