The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-09


Our men are not a .cringing, fawnlng,
begging race, ready to sacrifice their
manliness Tor good meal or SOFT
pillow. They ask no patronage from
rebel wealth or greatness. Not they.
At TaHadega, where Bishop Clark a
few weeks since formed the Alabama
Conference, the approach Of the ses
sion was duly proclaimed and
the hospitality Of the wiling So
licited; but the people not Offering en-
tertainment, the Bishop aud siiperin-
tenGept-p-It Up at-tke hotel. Our
people. few and sfeeble, entertained
those they could, but the great body
camped ont and enterialned them
selves. They bad. been soldiers, and
the sod, with Gods free air about
them, was not poor bed. As 20 cui-
sjR8, there they we're adopts. This Is
the stuff Cur rising Church IN the
South Is made OF.
Look at the matter geograp
The Holston Conference has extended
its line till it now touches Virginia
on the north, where the brethren in
the old work can shake hands over
the line occasiopal y with tho,e In the
u1Hs AE OCO4&t4 G+y14CACuEG al It's
north line is IN juxtaposition with
Holston, and quite thoroughly covers
the northwestern part Of the State,
while it hasat least one circuit upon
the very gulf. Our work on the Car
olina coast. begun there and prosecut-
ed yet by cur noble brother Lewis
and his coadjntoTs, is advancing to
the northwest, and soon our brethren
from the coast will be within hail of
the brethren of Georgia Conference.
The Alabama Conference is a marvel
of success. It's, In fact, without q par
allel Its work more or less ramifes
through the State, and embraces the
contiguous part of Florida. The Mis-
sissippi Conference is also advancing,
we have not the means to say how fast,
for they are Ia mId-year, but it is
steadily approaching the Tennessee !
line, while the energy Of Missouri and
Arkansas will not permit themselves
to fail In their march southward. By
this view we are In fact planted in all
the South, and in some places planted
deeply, IN most places irremovahly. |
and in all hopefully.
e look again, and historically We find
the greatest encouragement. Once
the Methodist Episcopal Church con-
sidered its Southern wing its wealth:
lest and most Influential portion. aud |
In. strange contrast with the condition !
OF things as We found them, its most |
jealous portion. Yet that great work |
which has, for lol these twenty years. /
been staggering under the blow it re-
ceived at the louisville Convention |
in '46, was as feeble, and more so, at |
its beginning, than is our present work, /
and arose ID the face of opposition not |
less formidable than ours. Let US
look at the figure We omit the Ten |
nesseet Conference, for it may be said |
to have been one of the original Cen /
ferences at the organization of the |
Church. We compare the last reports |
Of the other three Conferences of the
Middle Department with the old Con-
ferences IN the same territory, takiag |
them in the order Of their first origin:
HOUSTON.
MEMBERS. PREA CHEERS.
Whites. Col. Total. Trav. Supplies. Sup'd. T
ST. g.. i. .4a ! ,4si 7 i IS q IS
GEORGIA.
MEMBERS. PREACHERS.
Whites. Col. Total. TRAY. Supplies. sup'd.
SILL 1856 6,l67 2 2; 552 g. -. 7
ST.. r...-.. 49,. l0f230 81 10 ..-..
3 ALABAMA.
MEMBERS. PREACHERS.
Whites; Col; Total. Tray. Supplies. sup'd>
49,. 5, 1876 2,770 1885 40 -. Y
ST.. 80. -. 934l as -. IS
We do not now distinguish between
white and colored in each Conference,
,ut about 81 800 of our total member
hip in this department. are white,
ind about 1900 eoIored.
La the Holston Conference, we ex-
iced the old one at its origin yaboWt 1
!, 1000 members. and We are Sorry to
ay, our colored work In this Cpnfer-
,nce has almost entirely been con-
.eded to others. 1t Is the gfandest
mistake made by that young Confer
nee, and we are glad to knew that
10Th white and e0lored are now busy
the loss MH5 dm.
The old Georgia Conferences seems
o have had double the members we
lave at present Ia that territory. Xes
t must be noted that the very next
ear, the Alabama Conference was
AIKEN out of this--it was first report
q in 1882. but without statistics till
o: 1913 we do in fact count those
members twice. In the Alabama
Conference we have more preachers,
tut about the same number of mem
ers. as rabu5 rs
We thus speak of the Middle De- |
artment only because this more i'm
nefiately falls under our eye. The /
Ike results are doubtless to be seen +
lsewhere. Success has never been E
nore marked, results more wonder
al. tU .F Goi5 +.
The spirit of the Church at the
n IL