The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-04
Methodist General Conference

New YORK, June 3.-Bishop Peck pre-.
sided over the Methodist Conference to.
day,
The Special Committee on the Trial Of
Agents and Editors reported in favor Of
granting power to the Book Committee to
suspend an Agent or Editor by vote OF
two'thlrds. The Bishops shall then choose
one Of their number, who shall appoint
a Committee of Investigation, composed
OF fifteen persons, no two OF whom shall
be chosen from one Conference. This
committee shall have power to suspend
an Agent or Editor until the ensuing
General Conference.
A report was adopted without amend.
ment that three members at New York
or Cincinnati shall have power to sus.
pend.
1t was resolved that the Book Com.
mittee shall hold a monthly meeting ut
New York to inquire into the affairs Of
the Book Concern.
The Committee on Travelling Expenses
made q report showing $1,080 on hand,
which was directed to be paid into the
Book Concern.
The Committee on the State of the
Church reported that all the differences
between this church and the Methodist
Church, South were harmoniously settled,
and they proposed that committe confer
with the leaders Of the Church, South, to
bring about fraternal relations between
the two churches. Several delegates
spoke in favor Of this project
DR.. Fuller said there was growing ten
dency in the church South towards fra
ternal relations. He asked that the re-.
port be adopted and q delegation sent to
the South. The report was adopted
unanimously by rising vote, even the
reverend gentlemen on the platform rising
to sustain it.
The Special Committee on the Sanctity
Of the Sabbath reported the following
resolutions:
ResOlued, That we will oppose every in.
vasion Of the sanctity Of the Sabbath by
social visits, by drives for pleasure, by
railway trains, even for transportation Of
mails, by steamer and canal boats and the
opening OF places OF amusement, by secu-
lar lectures Sunday evenings, and by the
throwing open Of libraries and reading
rooms to the public; that we will resist in
every laudabable way all attempts that
are made to raise our statute books whole.
some and sundry laws, which have come
down to US as an heritage from our fathers.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Conference met at 6:20 p. NJ, in the
Housam Place Church, Bishop Ames,
President. 1t was
ReS0Ired, First, That a Committee oil
nine members be appointed by the .Bishop
to confer with any other religious bodies
desiring to unite with this church.
Second, That none of the Presiding
Elders in conferences or missionaries in
foreign lands be required to serve more
than four years in the same conference
and that 1t Is not advisable that either Of
the recent book agents he placed again on
the Book Committee.
The Committee on Freedmen reported
that they recommended that all members
OF the church should contribute literally
towards the Freedmen's Aid Society, and
that only those persons should be en-
ployed as teachers who shall conscien
tiously work in Sunday Schools anC
cheerlully cooperate with preachers
Adopted.
The greater part of the session was oc.
cupied with debate on boundaries, AMI
the following amendments to the reporI
Of the Committee on Boundaries were
adopted: Arkansas Conference shall in
clude the State Of Arkansas and the Indi
an country west Of that State; the Ala
bama Conference shall include the STATE
Of Alabama; the California Conference
shall include within its boundaries the
Sandwich Islands. On motion, tho city
of Harrisburg was moved from the Phil.
adelphia Conference and placed in Centra
Philadelphia Conference by vote Of 1St
to 80. In Central Illinois, Central Penn
sylvania and Baltimore Conferences there
are no changes.