Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-23
TENNESSEE CONFERENCE.
Consideration OF reports


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SUPPLEMENTARY.
Raw. James 81. Newsom was added to
the list of supernumerares. ~
DISCONTINUED.
Jacob G. Mails was, at his own request,
discontinued from the list of supernunera-
ries.
49, TRANSFERS.
DR.. j. B. McFerrin presented commu
nication from Bishop Pierce, sending good
wishes to the Tennessee Conference, and
asking the Conference to make three trans
fers to the Missouri and Indian country
Conferences from its ranks.
CLAIMANTS WANTED.
The Joint Board of Finance reque sted the
coming forward of claimants for the aid ex-
tended to the widows and orphans of Meth
odist Ministers who died in the work. Su-
perannuated and worn out ministers were
also requested to put in their claims for
aid.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.
The Oh airman of the Conmittee on Ed
ucation presented a lengthy report, which
was read, when the President announced
it would be taken up and considered by de-
tails.
DIR. e. e. WILEY, -s.e--H-se
President of the Emory and Henry Col
lege, in Virginia, being present, was reques-
ted to give in this connection, a description
of the advantages that were offered by the
educational institution with which he was
connected. Complying with this request,
DR.. Wiley said be was surprised to find
~. L., Nf Tannaaaoo had aAa
no provision for institutions of learning for
young men, although they had an abun-
dance of colleges and seminaries for females.
He was very much in favor OF theological
schools for young men, designed for the
Methodist ministry.
The school he represented had no theo.
logical name, but they had fifteen young
preachers among their students last year
who were educated free of expense, so far
as tuition was concerned. He thought his
school offered peculiar advantages to Ten
nesseeans, and of the one hundred and
eighty-three students at the institution last
year, sixty-four were from this State, seven
of them being from Nashville, and out of
the twenty-one graduates, nine were from
Tennessee. He was followed by
DIR. j. G.. WILSON,
of Warren College, situated at Bowling
Green, KY.
DR.. Wilson said he was no stranger here,
having passed his boyhood and early msn-
hood in the city of Nashville. He came
here one of committee of three delegated
by the Louisville Conference and the Board
of Trustees of Warren College, to offer an
alliance of the Conference he represented
With the Tennessee Conference. He said
that he was authorized to offer to this Con-
ference one-third interest in the Warren
College, it being the purpose of the Board
of Trustees to offer another one-third in
terest to the Memphis Conference.
The Doctor gave an interesting review OF
the circumstances under which the school
| he represented was established. They now
have accommodations for one hundred and
| twenty-five students, there being ninety
two in attendance now with an encourag-
| ing prospect of an increase. In effectine
| the proposed alliance there was no preimi
nary condition required of the Tennessee
Conference and whatever money the Con.
ference might put in the school hereafter
| would be placed to its credit so that the
same amount might be withdrawn il such 8
step were thought prudent, or if the Ten
nessee Conference wished to withdraw
from the allil at any time in the future
The report of the COMMITTEES on Educa
ton was then considered in detail. 1t set!
forth the following facts: 49,
All the schools under the supervise ion o.
ths Conference are in very prosp eroui
| condition, the GAINESVILLE Female AGA DENY
being reported as being twenty per cen
better this year than ever before, and tht
Trustees are DESTROYS of having Rev. Jas
B. West, d. D., returned as President o
the institution.
The committee also recommended /;
number of schools not under the control o
Conference, viz: Professors Hughes ant
Mmms, Edgefeld; Rev. A. T. Crawfordi
at Bell Buckle; Prof. Web6's at Culleoka
and Campbell Institute, near Carthage, nov
conducted by S. w. Stevens.
The committee also speak highly of Em
DRY and Henry college, Virginia, under th
superintendent of Rev. E. E. Wiley, d
D., recommending it to the people of tn
State.
These resolutions were embodied in tn
report, the first of which urges upon tn
preachers of the Conference to use all thei
influence TO induce parents Throughout
their respective charges, TO send thei
children to none but Protestant schools.
The second resolution recommends tn
appointment of Rev. w. +. Wister to
professorship in some female college.
The third releases Hammer Highland col
lege, by request Of the board of trustees
from the nominal connection with the Cor
ference, which it has heretofore sustained
The fourth resolution Is to the effect tha
the arduous and very successful labors {
Rev. James A. Ormand as agent OF the
Ministerial Educational Aid Society, ar
fully appreciated by Conference.
The fifth resolution provides that 1t shal
be the duty of presiding elders and officers
of district societies to use all possible effort
to collect the annual dues and to keep u
the organization.
To the foregoing report was appende
the following
SUPPLEMENT-:
Your committee on Education hav
taken into consideration the generous pro
position which the committee representa-
the Louisville Conference and the Boar
of Trustees of Warren College, located il
Bowling Green, KY, presented to yor
body, and we offer the following resol'
tons:
Resolved, That our long and favorable az
quaintance with the Kew. j. g. Wilson
DID,, President of Warren College, give
us confidence in the thoroughness and SUI
cess of that institution.
Resolved, That we highly CONNER
Warren College to the attention and pa
ronage of the people within our bounds.
The report was laid on the table.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CHURC
: PROPERTY.
A synopsis of the report of the Commi
tee on Church Property, was presented b
. Nj. Redford, the chairman. He report
r that the committee had found that thel
4 were 1929 church edifces in the Sta
Calling to state, however, what the commi
tee considered three fourths of church eC
: fice) with 141,9 $50 sittings;lvalue of churcht
l S65S, $40; Parsonages fifteen, valued ;
3 SIS, $50; value of farms, lots, lands, etc
SI6,713; total value of church property +,
ported, S719,692. The committees repo
1 shows further that the plumber of sittin
. is four times the number of members. II
average value of the churches was 81, 33
There is a great lack of parsonages in tt
0 various districts, there being but one hunC
f red and sixteen in the State, which cost p
member sixty-two and half cents. tt
committee strongly recommended I'll
| buil5inr of mora rlarsOuaops