The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-11-23
,.,<,a ANNUAL CONFERENCE VI
METHODIST EPISCOPAL. CHURCH.
From our Special Reporter.
EIGHTH DhT--EvES1SG SESSION.
prTrpsst-RG. November 81, 1867.

EIGHTH DhT--EvESISG SESSION.
PrTERsBuRG, November 81, 1867.
Conference met according to adjourn
ment at O'Clock tonight, Bishop Early
in the chair.
Religious exercises were ccndnc'ea "
Rev. L. J. HarnSbergcr.
The journal Of the morning session was
read and approved. :,
On motion Of Rev. Dr.. Edwards, the
Conference went into the election OF ON
GERS OF the Domestic Mission Board for the
ensuing year, and the following were
elected:
President DR.. John +. Edwards.
Vice. President Richard NJ. Smith, Esq.
Treusmer--DArcy raul, Esq.
,Sscretary-Re John C. Cranberry.
Clerical ManogcrS-George W. Lang
horne, W. w. Bennett, y. D., p. A. Pc
tcrson, Leroy NJ. Lee, d. D., James a.
Duncan, D. d.
lay .Mnaqcrs-Richard Irhy, William
Willis, Jr., Charles ?. Rady, David b.
Digger.
Rev. John P. Brock asked for copies of
the papers in his case, tried last year, and
his request was granted.
The Committee on Memoirs reported
the deaths of four ministers during the
past year Rcvs. THOMAS A. PEARCE,
WILLIAM II. STARR, ANDREW j. BECK-
WITH, and JOHN II. PAYNE. An appropri-
ate memoir Of each OF those ministers was
read, and tributes paid 10 their memory
by their surviving brethren in the minis
try. 1t was solemn and affecting occa-
sion. Every year some one OF lions
watchmen falls, but they fall 10 rise to
noblcr spheres and higher Joys.
After reading the memoirs and pro-
nouucing eulugies, the Conference engaged
in singing the beautiful hymn commencing
Come We disconsolate, where'er We anguish.
CIV. Langhorpe moved that the thanks
of the Conference be rendered the people
of Petersburg for their hoSpltable enter
taiument of the preachers.
Thanks also rendered 10 railroad and
steamboat companies, and 10 the pastors
of churches who have offered their pulpitS
for the use of the Conference.
A collection was taken up 10 remunerate
the sexton of Washing ton-street church
for his services during the session Of Con-
ference.
Thanks of the Conference rendered to
Bishop Doggett for his kind, considerable,
and able presidency, and he was invited
to attend again, when, in the providence Of
God, he can do so.
Qualification of the Conference was ex-
pressed at the presence Of the venerable
Bishop Early, and the hope expressed that
he might hereafter again he with the Con
ference.
Thanks Of the Conference were extend
ed to the secretary and assistant secretary
of the Conference.
Vote of thanks to reporters OF various
papers for the accuracy of their reports,
and for their courtesyin distributing pa
pers among the members of the Confer
ence.
Bishop Doggett took the chair.
The journal of the proceedings tonight
was read and approved.
The business Of the Conference being
ended, Bishop Doggett announced his
readiness to give the appointments for the
ensuing year.
The Bishop gave out the 27Sth hymn,
commencing
And lat our bodies part,
To different clifnss repair.
PRAYER was then offered by Rev. Will
liam Reid, venerable minister OF the
North Carolina Conference.
bishop Doggett delivered a short but
stirring and appropriate address, the APP
pointments were given, the benedlctlon
pronounced, and the seventy first session
of the Virginia Annual Conference was
ended. DloGENES.