The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-03-11
Reported for the Baltimore Fun.
Annual Meeting or the Baltimore
Conference OF the Episcopal Metho.
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The Conference was opened with devo-
tional exercises, after which Bishop Pierce
called the body to order.
The annual report Of A. II. BEDFORD,
book agent at Nashville, Tennessee, was
presented and read. The agent reports as
the assets: Real estate In Nashville, s43,-
l23. &c; fixtures, presses, type, &C., s36,S75;
stereotype plates, s47 500 60; merchandise,
sl7,95s.6s; New Orleans depository, &c.,
| 326.67; furniture, desks, tables, and safe,
1915; cash, s2,42 0.55-making total Of
sl5S,6l9.25. The bills payable amount to
s39, 22T so, and book accounts, s32, 225.s6-
making Ell 1886, leaving balance in ia
vor of the publishing house Of sS7 1870.
There are also the following accounts due
the publishing house, and when collected
will be passed to the credit of the same as
assets, viz:
Book accounts due March !, 1862, $72,-
| SSl %; bills receivable to same date, $780,,
9s3 90 Tract Society, to same date, S32,-
1851; Richmond depository, to same
date, 1924, l45.S9; Nashville subscription,
due same date, s4,3s7. The agent adds
that the publishing house Is doing bust
ness far beyond the hopes of its best
friends, and the present indications are
that ii is entering on prosperous career.
The agent considers the sums against the
| Tract Society, Richmond Depository, and
| Nashville subscription as total losses. The
Rev. DR.. McFerrin made some remarks in
reference to the publishing house, repre-
senting it in very fiourishing condition.
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the Rev. DR.. McFerrin, of Nashville, Tenn,
corresponding secretary of the domestic
board of missions; Rev. DR.. E. W. Sehon,
secretary of the board Of foreign missions !;
Rev. W. W. Bennett, editor of the Rich
mond Christian Advocate; Rev. ]. c..
Cranberry, of Petersburg, Va; Rev. Will
liam B. Rowzie, presiding elder of Frede-
ricksburg district, Virginia Conference /;
and Rev. Nelson Head, formerly Of the
Baltimore Conference, but now of Rich
mond, Va. Rev. ]. Lefevre, Of the Pres
| byterian church Rev. I. ID. Valiant, Rev.
| d. Bowers, Rev. j. 7. Murray, Rev. P.
Light Wilson, Rev. E.-J. Drinkhouse, all
of the Methodist Protestant Church; and
| Colonel Johnson, president of Randolph
Macon College-all of whom were invited
| to seats.
The committee on examinations being
ready to report, the Bishop asked the
question: "Who are admitted on trial ~
The following were reported as having ia
vorably passed examination, and were adj
mitted on trial (: Rufus Ii. Wilson, J. W.
Jordan, Walter W. Watts, of Baltimore
district; H. Monroe Strickland, Rocking
ham district; Robert ii. G. Pecran, and
| Alexander NJ. Cooper, of Lewisburg dis
trct; William Marshall Heiner, James I.
Smith, and Silas Il. Snapp, Of South Branch
district.
Onmotion of Rev. S. REGISTER, the Rev.
Alfred A. ESkridge, Rev. r. p. Frampton,
Rev. j. Newman Hank, Rev. Charles u.
Liuthioum, and Rev. ID. II. Parrish, all
former members Of the East Baltimore
Conference, but who had withdrawn their
connections with that body, were admitted
members Of the Episcopal Methodist Con-
ference. Rev. S. REGISTER, in the course
of some remarks, said that he was happy
to see the members come back to the true
faith. All the test oath he would require
was that they should subscribe to Metho-
dism as il was in the days of the fathers of
the Church, and to preach the gospel as
laid down by the Word of God. He cared
not for the date Of their repentance
whether it was ten, five, or one year ago,
or even the present time-he looked upon
them all as welcome to the folds of the
mother Methodist Church.
On motion, the Rev. Sylvanus Townsend,
who had Withdrawn from the Philadelphia
Conference of the Philadelphia Methodist
Episcopal Church, he having refused to
subscribe to the creed of that branch of
the Church, was admitted as a member of
the Episcopal Methodist Conference.
The Bishop then asked the second ques-
tiou of the Minutes: "Who remain on
trial?" The following were continued !:
Isaac W. Canter, John A. Kern, Milton A.
TAYLOR, BENJAMIN F. Ball, James R. Van
horn, John L. James, Charles W. Cooper,
Robert Ii. Elliott. George H. Williams
was discontinued at his own request.
The Rev. Bishop Early announced that
there was a committee present from the
! Virginia Conference to confer with COM
mittee of the Baltimore Conference in re-
ference to the division of the Baltimore
and Virginia Conferences into three con-
\ ferenceS, the privilege having been granted
by the late General Conference at Rich
mond. The following were appointed the
committee on the part of the Baltimore
Conference Revs. Samuel Rogers, John
L. Gilbert, David Thomas, and John Land
street.
The Rev. Bishop Early also moved the
appointment of committee to confer with
similar committees of the Virginia and
Holston Conferences in reference to ex-
tending patronage to Randolph Macon Col
lege and Emory and Henry College, which
was carried, and the Chair appointed the
following: S. S. Roszel, John Poisal, +. r.
S. Hougb, w. S. Baird, and John Land
street.
To the question, "Who are admitted
into full connection :" the following dea-
cons were reported on favorably and
elected elders: Lewis G. Miller, Ellis H.
Jones, William r. McNeer, and Allen A.
2. Neall.
The names of the superannuated or
vermont preachers were then called.
Norval Wilson was changed, at his request,
from superannuated to that Of supernume-
rary. A. w. Wilson was also changed, at
his request, from superannuated to super
numcrary. Elias Welty, at his own re-
quest, was changed from superannuated to
effective. David Trout and I. M. Mills were
continued on the superannuated list.
The names Of the supernumeraries were
then called, and the following continued !:
III. Hoffman, G.. r. Jefferson, j. +. Bean,
Joseph N. Spangler. Dabney Ball, John
Poisal, and J. IL. Temple were changed, at
their request, and made effective.
The Rev. Mr.. Bull stated that those
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