The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-03-14
Reported for the Baltimore Sun.
Annual Meeting Of the Baltimore
Conference Of the Episcopal Metho.
dist Church.
SIXTH DAY,


dist Church.
SIXTH DAT.
The Conference reassembled at Trinity
church yesterday, and was opened with
religious exercises.
Bishop Pierce called the Conference to
order.
| The Rev. David Thomas, from the COM
mittee appointed to select book agent for
the Conference, submitted report stating
terms on which all the important works of
the church could be procured from Messrs.
Selby Dulanay. The report was &C
cepted.
I The committee on the Bible cause,
through its chairman, Rev. Mr.. Thomas,
submitted report on the Importance OF
the general circulation Of the Bible, and
recommending the cooperation Of the Con-
ference with the Baltimore and Virginia
Bible Societies during the coming Confer
ence year. The Rev. DR.. Baird delivered
an address on the subject, and the report
was accepted.
The following members of the Conference
were then elected officers Of the Con-
ference Missionary Society: George G.
Brooke, president; w. ]. Perry, secre-
tary }. +. Armstrong, treasurer; W. V.
Tudor, Thomas E. Carson, ]. P. EtchisoD,
A. Wilson, S. S. Roszcl,. L. Welty, S.
Rogers, J. l.. Gibbons, and j. Landstreet,
managers.
The committee on colleges submitted a
lengthy report on the subject Of educa-
| ton. They report that there is no college
within the bounds Of the Conference for
the education Of young men connected
with the church, and but ono for the moral
and religious culture Of young ladies-the
Wesleyan Female Institute, at Staunton.
St. Ti42othy's Hall, at Gainesville, near
Baltimore, although not officially connect
ed with the Church, is recommended as a
wel.-conducted and meritorious institu-
lion, where the young men of Virginia and
Maryland connected with the Episcopal
Methodist Church can attend their studies
with profit to themselves and advantage
to the Church. The report was accepted.
The Randolph Macon College was en-
{ dorsed by the Conference Us o suitable
| place for the education of the young men
of the Church, the committee appointed at
the last Conference having made favor
able report thereon.
The hour having arrived for the funeral
services of the late Bishop Soule, the Con-
ference adjourned.
THE FUNERAL SERVICES.
The church was filed at an early hour,
large portion of the audience being ladies.
The three Bishops, Pierce, Early, and Dog
gett, occupied seats in the pulpit, and the
members Of the Conference the front seats
in the church. After the singing of a
hymn, and prayer, the Rev. Lovick Pierce,
of the Georgia Conference, and father of
Bishop Pierce, the presiding officer, now
in his eighty-second year, then rose and
delivered a most impressive sermon,
during which he paid fitting tribute to
the deceased Bishop, and took occa-
sion to direct the, attention Of the
ministers present to the shining exam
pie set them by Bishop Soule. He
first became acquainted with the deceased
at the General Conference in New York
in 1872, and from that time until the be-
ginning of the war, when intercourse was
cut off, they had been on the most init
mate terms. He said that but few men
have gone down to the grave gifted as was
the deceased, who was one Of those pecu
liarly constituted persons who knew no.
luiuS oup "hul "oo iiShp anu iohoiopiS,
and who made every other interest SUBJ
servient to the interest of his Church. DR..
Pierce spoke for upwards of an hour, and
during most of the time had large num-
Der Of his hearers in tears, and only con-
cluded when he apparently became too
much overcome to proceed.
The Rev. DR.. A. L. ?. Green, of Nash
vile, Tenn, followed. He WAS present at
the death-bed of the lamented Bishop, and
gave thrilling picture of his last moments.
He bore to the Baltimore Conference al
most the last wish of Bishop Soule, which
was wish for the individual prosperity of
every member. DR.. T. B. Sargent follow
ed in few remarks, and concluded by
reading an original anthem.
The venerable Bishop Early followed in
a prayer, but became so much affected as
to be unable to proceed, and the inte-
resting ceremony closed by singing the
doxology.