Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-19
M. E. CONFERENCE
Sunday School Convention Missions
Moasy Matters.

DR.. ID. E. Burns, OF the First Baptist
was presented to the Assembly,
and reports Of standing committees were
called for.
The Committee on Episcopaey presented
report No. 4, designating Bishop Wight
man, in compliance with the wishes OF the
late Bishop Soule, to prepare and publish
his biography. Adopted.
Report No. 5 disapprOved Of a proposed
change In the Discipline, by which IL was
designed to require the concurrence OF
two-thirds of the Bishops to effect a
change in the rules Of the church.
Report No. 8 referred to the Bishops the
petition for an increase of clerical force in
the State Of Texas.
The consideration Of propositions con-
templating an augmentation of the num-
Der Of Bishops that Texas may be sup
piled, was postponed
The Committee on Itinsrancy, through
DIR. Edwards, presented a long report,
which, without reading, was referred to
the Committee on the Episcopacy.
The Committee on Books and Period
ieals presented their report, No. IA, re-
commanding the publication Of a German
hymn book, catechism, andsths adoption
of the EUdngelie0E ApOLO0iSt az the organ
of German Methodists for Texas and
Louisiana. Report No. IS pronounced it
inexpedient TO publish hymns in the
Adllb NOAullG Win En6 uAotl DlAIts DLdhk
forms for the compilation Of statistics are
to be prepared and sent to each annual
Conference, to be filed and returned,
that statistics of the church may be COM
piled. The publication of tracts for col
ored churches, and of a newspaper, were
authorized, and another report proposed
the substitution of the words, Method
ist Publishing House, for the name Of
the agent of the church on the title pages
of books emanating from the establish
ment. DIR. Bond jocularly suggested that
unless the appearance OF those volumes
be improved, 1t would be well to omit
wholly the iHlprimatuT. The joke was
lost on a part OF the audience.
The Committee on Missions submitted
a detailed report, which urges the main
teuanee of the present system, at least
through the next four years. It states
that thers is a largo debt demanding adj
iustment, and that 10 new schemes can
be properly entered upon. II proposes
that hereafter there shall be but one
Board, consisting of the Bishops Of the
church, a Secretary and Treasurer and
five managers, appointed by the Bishops.
Five districts are defined.
Rev. John Harrell, by a unanimous
vote, was continued in the Office Of Su-
p~erintendent of Indian Missions.
An interchange Of German preachers
between Louisiana and Texas was recon-
mended, and the Bishops were requested
to designate a committee to prepare and
publish a German hymn book.
A report from the committee, touching
the rebaptism of children, lies on the
table, with q plan of organization for
Sunday Schools.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
The proposition to recommend a
General Sunday School Convention
to sit on the third Thursday OF May next,
in -- city, to be constituted of one
delegate from each Conference for each
forty members, and that a committee be
appointed to arrange the details, was dis
cussed at great length.
Drs. McFerrin and Marshall both Op-
posed immediate action on the PROPOSE
tiOu, the latter saying that Sunday
schools, while doing great good, had
usUrped the place Of Preside religious
training.
DIR. Edwards said that the proposed
convention would be attended with great
cost, probably result in no good, and was
possibly impracticable.
DIR. Mccoy deemed Sunday schools the
greatest agent and most useful employed
BY the Church. He insisted on the adOp-
ton of the committees recommendations.
he said that nine-tenths of the member
ship of the Northern church came out OF
the Sunday schools.
DR.. Register, of Baltimore Conference,
president of the Maryland Agricultural
college, which we have all seen-a mag
niicent structure on the rOad between
Washington and BaltimOre-OppOsed the
Sunday School Convention. Sunday
schools, he urged, are essentially local,
and belong peculiarly to the passionate.
Juoge Jackson, of Athens, Georgia,
earnestly advocated the PROPOSE
ton, and quoted more scripture than
arg preacher who has occupied the
-Or. He wanted cooperative action and
Fisdom and thought that invaluable les
Sons would be learned by members OF
such a convention.
Dr.. Moran sought to make a speech, but
the question pending was decided to be
simply the change of basis of representa-
ton, and the learned doctors feet were
too large for so small a platform, and he
was turned down. The same fortune
befel several gentlemen who attempted
to stand before the rigid presiding officer.
DIR. Moran approved, and COttrel op-
posed, the whole scheme. Drs. Hamilton
and Giddings advocated the report, which
was finally adOpted-ll0 to 81.
ACoNsoLIDATIoN OF CHURCHES.
A opposition, signed by J. K. Nichols,
proposing a consolidation of the Church
South With that nov represented in Bal
timore, which had seeded on the ques-
lion of admitting lay delegations into
Iaw-making bodies, was received and re-
ferred to a committee of five.
1t was azreed that statistical re-
ports from colleges be furnished
the Conference and that a course
of study for local preachers be
| prescribed by the Bishops. The impor-
nee of Corpus Christi was discussed as
Efa4Ae stronghold of MethOdism, and a
report was adopted devising a plan of
operations against ROmanism in that ia
nous border city. Corpus Christi is pro-
posed to be made one more a base OF
operations for the invasion Of Mexico.
The committees report on this subject
lies over.
The validity of a claim of $50, 900 against
the Missionary Board was discussed, its
history given, and its justice unani-
mOusly denied. It seems that the agent
who executed the notes officially never
expected the church to pay them. Hehad
no authority to make such notes, and the
holder only recently had sought to fix the
liability of the Conference. The money
was used in some saw mill operations
which did not concern the church, and
the creditor had sought to make Others
liable, and, falling, now appealed to the
Conferences. He had -endeavOred to fasten
the debt upOu the ChOctaw Nation, the
Federal Government, and other persons,
anu WAS now III PURSUIT u LnAH DOugs LIS
labors were in vain. The debt was de-
clared to be of no binding force.
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