Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-22
M. E. CONFERENCE.
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Risho5s and no money to sustain them.
Tbere are seven Bishops and five Confer
ences for each to visit annually. We DO
not need more.
FACTS AND IGUREs.
Rev. Mr.. John, of Texas, opposed the
substitute. He said: If we make mem
bership the basis OF our claim, 5l,z4l
members and ministers in the entire con
nection and "a. 3Ol in Texas, which would
entitle US to nearly o~ne-sixteenth OF the
Episcopal time and labor. II we make
the travelling preachers the basis OF our
claim. we have in the entire connectlon
$50 preachers and POS in Texas, which
will entitle Us to one-thirteenth OF their
time and labor.
If we make the Conferences me basis
of our claim we hsvs thirty Conferences
in the entire connection, i've of which
are in Texas, which would entitle us TO
one-siNth of their labor
II we make the assessment fer the up
port Of the Bishops the basis, the whole
amount assessed IS 81 co., OF which sz440
is assessed to the Texas Conferences,
which would entitle as to one eleventh of
their time.
What have we gots There are seven
Rishops. and twelve months in the year
gives as eighty-four months Of Episcopal
time. We have had, in no one year, more
than three months of their time. or one
d w FnN A-EAAuEh VI VIGIL NAAAANH 1Ao -
little over one half of the amount to
which we are entitled by any basis of cal
culation.
DIR. Lee read the report OF the commit-
tee, and several gentlemen made explain
atoms Of the action OF the committee,
/ who lad already referred the subject to
the College Of Bishops.
THE GREAT QUESTION.
DR.. Evans deemed this the great ques-
tion to come before the Conference. The
Bench of Bishops have taken no action
on the subject, and expressed no opinion.
/ He thought this Conference would be re-
| creant TO trusts repOsed in it If il failedt %
augment the number of Bishops. Those
we have cannot do the work required at
their hands. One must write the life of
Bishop SouIe, and the rest are already
overtasked. and at the same ime the
number of Conferences has been aug
mented. We are rich now-we were poor
when we added our to the nunbe OF
Bishops, Just after the war.
DIR, Hamilton and DIR. Mitchell would
vote for one additional Bishop.
The substitute was lost, which declared
it in~expedient to add to the lumber OF
Bishops, by "a to l04.
DR.. HAMILTON then moved that one ad-
ditiOnal bishop be elected.
DR.. Edwards amended by inserting five
instead of one. Lost.
DR.. Green wanted one additional, be-
/ cause we had three bishops who were not
expected 70 work. One has died, and
/ there is no money lost by increasing the
number. One Conference at least il very
remote. and the bishops are now over
worked. They are old men and should not
I toll too vigorously.
DIR. BEDFORD differed rarely from DR..
! Green. but when be did, he said jOcularly
and modestlv(?) that he (Redford) was
] - zs-hf anH nr Graan alvVQua MrrOnu
He thought that two bishops instead of
one should be added to the College, if the
number were changed at all, which be did
not think necessary.
DR.. Wingield, OF Arkansas, said he had
suffered in Arkansas tor want of the
services OF a bishop He would consider
| the money question, and one more bishop
was his uItimatum. Let Us pay those We
have what we owe them, and then we
may do this thing.
A CIRCUS RIDER.
Mr.. De Ysmpert, of Arkansas, could
q a canvas tent and g Bishop and go
through his district OF Arkansas and
make money by the exhibition. he want
ed-of course he did-a Bishop.
DR.. Marshall despised the money argu-
meut. The presence of the Bishop pays
the costs. Younger Bishops should be
prepared for the office by those that live
/ and now are aged. Physical force and
health were needed.
Or. Andrews said that the tendency was
to the diocesan system, which was to be
deplored. and more did he deplore the
proposition TO select young men.
Or. BigIey, of Texas, spoke earnestly in
favor of the proposition to have Texas
supplied with a resident Bishop. De
spoke of the possible secession of the
Western Conferences.
Bishop Paine said that the Bishops
wholly harmonic. The Bishops ! not
know how many new Conferences would
he created. Every Conference, save
one, has had q Bishop present.
The Conferences are all held about the
same time, and when a Bishop Is sick an
other one must take his place.
Bishop Pierce, for himself, wanted no
help. The Bishops did not know how
many Conferences would be created, and
if the number of Conferences were aug
mented bv four, one should be added TO
the number of Bishops who have worked
tirelesslv. They've done all that is posi-
bic.
DR.. Lee asked whether. if the number
were not increased, the Bishops could do
the work.
and TO any answer, because Questionable
as a precedent. He added that he did not
think that the Bishops influence should
be i-nterpOsed in the matter.
Bishop Marvin said the Bishops had an
swered sufficiently and respectfully the
question of DR.. Lee.
DR.. Lively, Of Texas, asserted the ne
cessity for two Bishops.
The main question was ordered. The
amendment adding one to the number OF
Bishops was lost by a tie ote-Ss for Il
90 against it.
BY consent Of the house, the vote was
taken again, when 10 were for 1t, and lOz
against the amendment.
2Dr. Lee proposed that the bishop TO be
elected must reside west of the Mlssis-
sippi. moi mol" came from all parts Of
the house. The election then occurred,
the Texas Conference saying II would
vote for a man from the eastern side OF
the river.
THE EVENT OF THE DAY.
DR.. Myers proposed that the Conference
mite in prayer before undertaking this
solemn task.
Bishop Marvin approved in an eloquent
address, and the venerable Lovick Pierce
uttered an earnest appeal ia behalf Of the
/ Conference for its endowment with wis
dom. and that the bishop about to be
chosen might be the chosen Of God.
THE REsUL
On the first ballot 1873 votes were count
ed-q2 were therefore necessary TO a
choice. The highest number Of votes, %,
! WAS gwen ~ IT. D. Ns llAAI u ~ . -
Duncan. the President OF Randolph Ma
con College, Va, while Revs. Messrs.
Deems, Green, Myers, Lynn, Morris,
Hunter. Fisher, McAnally, Wiley, sum
mers, SehOn, Finney, McFerrin, Rozell.
Reed, Cranberry, Potter, HARRISON, and
Others, received from one to ten or twelve
votes each. On the second ballot Keener
received 81 votes and Duncan "a, and 10
Votes were indiscriminately given to the
strong men OF the body. After the third
and last ballot, amid profound silence, 1t
was announced hat 20 votes were neces-
sary to a choice, that IS3 were cast and
DR.. Keener received SO, DR.. Duncan s4,
and 3 scattering.
THE SEES BISHOP.
DR.. Keener was declared elected by
Bishop Marvin, who said in solemn &C
cenIs: " accept il as the voice of God"
Most OF the members of the Conference
approached and congratulated DR.. Keener
in his seat.
Tue resolution to adjourn finally on
Monday was then rescinded and the Con-
ventiOn adjournedS
THE E BISHOP, AND ANOTHER As
WORTHY.
DR.. Keener, of Louisiana, made Bishop
Yesterday by the quadriennial Methodist
Convention, is apparently about forty
five years Of age. His features are aqul-
line, his hair light, complexion fair, ms
ewes blue, and his whole face attractive in
expression, and full of thoughtful intel
ligence. OF DR.. Keener's history we
know nothing. He may be none the bet
ter or worse for It, but very evidently be
was not wholly trained in that school OF
the itinerancy which has given the church
many Of its greatest men. He is apt to
employ deriYative terms in his speeches
before the august body which has just in
vested him with its highest honors, and