Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-11-02
COMMUNICATED.

AND TRIBUNE OF. last week. a most Ia.
mentable vail over the "tabling of the
wise, generous and God inspired resolu-
tons" offered at the late session of Hol.
ston Conference, NJ. E. Church. South. al
Morristown. 1t is due those who voted
for tabling said resolutions, as well as the
public. that q ffeao of the reasons for 50
doing should be given. Z
In the first place, the Holston Confer
ence, North, at its first session at Athens,
East Tennessee, passed a resolution refu-
sing to recognize the Church South, or to
f~raternize her ministers and to this good
time that resolution stands unrescinded.
More than this; up to 1867, the NJ. E.
| Church, North, had seized and were then
holding more than half of the Church prop
erty of the Church South in East Tennes-
see, which called forth the following ae-
ton at the Conference of the NJ. E. Church
South, held at Cleveland, Tenn, Oct. '67.
"Resolved, That a committee of seven
be appointed to memorabilia the General
Conference of the Methodist E. Church,
to be held at Chicago, Ills, in May next,
setting forth distinctly the wrongs we
have suffered in the taking and holding of
property in churches and parsonages by
preachers and laymen co 1neeted with the
NJ. f. Church-property belonging to the
NJ. Z. Church. Southland earnestly pray
the said General Conference thatthey Will
/ devise measures by which said property
shall be restored to its rightiul owners,
for the honor of Methodism n of a COM
mon Christianity"
The following brethren were appointed
said committee: DR.. Z. E. Wiley, W. G..
Z. Cunningham, James Atkins, b. Arbo-
CAST, G. w. Miles. Geo. Stewart, and J.
NJ. McTeer.
DR.. Wiley introduced the following
Preamble and Resolution, which were
adopted
WHEREAS, The question is frequently
asked. why are not the preachers OF the
NJ. E. Church introduced to this confer
ence and whereas the impression is sought
to be made that we are thereby less cath
Ollie than they. and whereas the reasons
for our course ought to be clearly stated
and widely published, for the good of the
/ HUT anu III dtllSlslNNfOll VI AANNA-
ested; therefore,
Resolved. That while we would cordi-
ally shake the hands of many individual
ministers and members of that Church,
who might be indeed brethren beloved in
the lord, we cannot consent to a formal
introduction ofits ministers to this body,
as this would be in our judgement a re-
cognition of their acts as a church towards
US. The hand ofthe HOlstOn Conference
South. cannot take the hand of the Hol-
stOn Conference, North, until that hand
shall release from its grasp and surrender
to us all the property belonging to US
which it now holds"
Has the VI. f. Church done anything
looking to u recognition as a coordinate
branch of the Church, or recognizing our
rights IN the property decided to us? Not
one thing. Thousands of dollars worth of
our Church property all over the country
is now held and occupied by the minis
tiers and members of the NJ. E. Church,
North. To be more definite: The Par
sonage on the Jonesbo-o Circuit is occu-
pied by the preacher of the NJ. E. Church
while the preacher of the NJ. +. Church,
South, is at this time. trying to rent a
house to live in. The minister of the NJ.
E. Church, South, and his family were
driven by threats of violence from the
Parsonage on the Rheatown Circuit, and
it since occupied by a preacher of the NJ.
+. Church, who has declared his purpose
to keep his family in the house another
year, although sent to a different Circuit
at the recent session of their Conference.
One of the, Stewards of the NJ. E. Church
South, was violently expelled from the
Parsonage at Greeneville, to make place
for the preacher of the NJ. Z. Church.
These Parsonages, with others, and many
churches all over this country to which
We nave deeds are held in the same way,
for some of which we have suits pending
now in the Courts, as we have for the
three Parsonages named above. These
and many other reasons might be given
in justification of the action of the Con-
ference in tabling the wise, generous
and God-inpiring resolutions referred to.
Until the NJ. Il. Church is willing to
treat with us as an equal-eatitled to all
the rights of a coordinate branch of the
Church. We cannot preserve ou-self respect
and do less than we have. And in order
that an honest public may appreciate the
pious wall sent up all over the land, be-
cause of our unwillingness to fraternize
the Holston Conference, North, 1 viii
just say, that the only complaints 1 hear
of, are from those who have never by word
or deed given any encouragement to the
Church South, but in most instances been
its bitter enemies.
A MEMBER OF NJ. E. c. SOUTH.
A pOUYcIo RrSJNESS The wide