The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-22
lFor the Register.l
West virginin Annual Conference M
X. Church, Held at Charlestou, Com
mencing March 10Th, 1870,

West Virginia Annual Conference M,
X. Church, Held at Chariesteu, Com
mencing March iOth, 1870.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.
There have been referred by the Con-
ference to this committee for report:
A circular from c. G. North, CORES.
pouding Secretary of the Board Of Ed.
ucation of the N. E. Church.
We hail with delight the appearance
of this able paper, and trust it is only
the first of great many yet to be re-
ceived from the same excellent source.
The Board Of Education is one of the
results of the celebration of the Gen.
teBary of American Methodism 1t
was, after careful deliberation, organ
lied by our last General Conference.
] Is object among other things is to diff
fuse more generally the blessings of
education and Christianity, to receive
and invest the principal of the Gen.
tenary Educational Fund and appro
pirate the interest TO aid young men
preparing for foreign missionary work,
aud for the ministry of the Church; to
aid Biblical Schools, Colleges and Acad-
emies; TO aid worthy young persons
seeking an education; to care for spe-
cific educational funds, and for the
Sunday School children's fund com.
meDced during the Centenary year; aud
appropriate the interest to assist mer-
itorious Sunday School scholars in Oh
tanning more advanced education: the
funds already amounting to S54, 900 are
reported as in the hands of the Board.
1t gives US pleasure to say that by
act OF this Conference at its session in
1852, now eighteen years ago, tsere was
secured from the Legislature at Rich
moud the Incorporation of "The Educa
tional Society of Western Virginia" for
the same general objects in our bounds.
A certified copy OF the act passed May
9th, 1852, may be found on page II of
our last annual minutes.
The fands in the hands of the Treas
urer, Hon. Nathan Golf, was reported
last year as amounting TO S2400.
We recommend TO the Conference:
lst That our Conference Educational
Society be instructed to increase the
Board 50 that there shall be ON it at
least ooe layman and one preacher from
each presiding elders district in our
bounds, and that they at their discre-
ton CO. operate with or become auxil-
iary to the Board at New York.
I'd. That we will carry out the reso-
luton OF the General Conference,
which designates the second Sunday in
June as the "Children's Day." on which
a collection shall be taken up in all cur
circuits and stations for educational
purposes, and the proceeds be forwarded
Il. llr p har n
Clarksbnrg.
81. That We will on the above occa-
sion lay before our people generally,
and moro particularly the youth of our
charges, the Importance Of a higher
mental culture, and invoke donations
from the living and bequests from the
dying for this cause, and especially to
aid in the education of fervent, labori-
Gus and self-denyiug men who have in
view the preaching of salvation to our
dying lace.
4,h. That in view of the increasing
and pressing demands of the age for the
best training as well as devotion in the
rEinistry, and the fact that many of the
purest, most disinterested, and efficient
laborers in other churches have been
terest accruing from the fund in the
hands of Brother Gof be loaned with
out interest to young men of limited
means who in this respect are trying to
quality themselves for admission into
our Conference.
5th. That we accedo to the Judgment
of the Beard at New York, that DO dis
tribulion of the funds in their hands
shall be made until thGy reach the sum
of 100000.
IL regard to the North Western Vir-
ginia Academy" we have only to say
that the status is as reported in our
minutes last year. La order to termi-
nate this anomalous S ate of things,
Resolved, 1st. That We recommend to
the trustees to take into consideration
the propriety of either securing prIn-
cipal and continuing the institution in
its former functions and relations, or
selling the academy and grounds to the
School Commissioners Of Clarssburg.
ID. That in case they deem this ex-
pedient, the proceeds shall be placed in
the hands of Brother GOtf, as Treasurer
of the Educational Fund, to be by him
invested, and the interest hereafter ex.
clusive}y applied to the education of
the SOUS aud daughters of the ministers
of the West Virginia Annual Conference
of the NJ. Z. Church.
81. That Brothers Walter Ebbert,
Nathan Goff, Moses Tichenel, Andrew
J. Lyda, Samuel Steele, and Alexander |
Martin, be a committee TO bring the
above action before the Board.
Ill.
WHEELING FEMALE COLLEGE.
Your committee have had referred to
them a lengthy communication from
Rev. William II. Morton, A. NJ, Presi
dent of the Wheeling Female College.