Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-10-25
MINISTERIAL EDUCATION.
A Society Formed to Help Those Who
8 Help Themselves.
Three Thousand Dollars Raised In Aid
tH or ftinerant Preachers. as

We give below report of the pro
ceedlngs of the Tennessee Conferenc,
Ministerial Educational Aid Society
held at Franklin last Tuesday night
the publication Of which has been de
Iayed in consequence of an unusua
press of local matter on our column:
during the past few days: q
Tuesday night was theanniversary o.
the Tennessee Conference MinisteriaI
Educational Aid Society," The Pres.
ident, DIR. Hammer, being absent. DR.
Green was called to the chair. The
meeting opened with religious services
by DIR. Moore, ofSoule Female College.
DR.. ID. c. Kelly, the father of this great
enterprise, in brief speech set forth
the nature and object of this society.
The object of this soeietyis to afford
peeuniary aid to young preachers, in
order to their obtaining an education
preparatory to the work of the itinerant
ministry in the Nj. 4. Church, South.
All members of the Tennessee Annual
Conference shall be ez o6iciio members
of the society, other persons become
members by the payment of ten dollars
annually. Life members are consti-
tuted by giving their notes for one hun
dred dollars each, payable in ten an
nual installments. These payments,
when SO agreed upon, may be made in
board, tuition, books, or any other de-
sirable helps. Whenever any Presid-
ing Elders District shall have within
Its bounds thirty members constituted
as above stated, they may be formed
into an auxiliary society. Every posi-
bic guard is thrown around this soci-
eto to ward off imposition or unworthi-
ness. No young mrn is received as
beneficiary of it until he shall first re-
ceive from the Presiding Elder and
quarterly conference of the circuit or
station of which he is a member. a
recommendation of moral worthiness.
Furthermore, the society doesn't give
money to the applicants, but loans it.
Each applicant for aid is required to
give the Treasurer, from whom he NAV
receive funds, his note and approved
security for all money so received,
which note is placed in the hands of
the hands of the Conference Treasu-
ret, and credit of one hundred dol
lars entered thereon, for everyyear said
recipient shall travel as an itinerant
preacher in the M. E. Church South,
either under the Presiding Elder or
Bishop; provided, in all eases where
the recipient dies or becomes superan-
nuated in the itinerant work, such note
shall be canceled-otherwise, it shall
stand good for value received.
No part of the funds collected BY
this society shall, at any time, be in
vested in school property, or for the en-
dowment pf any professorship, or in
any otherway appropriated, save to de
fray the actual educational expenses of
such benefciaries as are provided for
by the society. With such safeguards, !
the society has and must continue to
be success, and an instrument of great |
and lasting good.
After DR.. Kelly's remarks the Sec
retary read his report, from which we
learn that twenty-five young men, the
past conference year, received from the
society an average of S147.17 each, and
that ten of these were received into the
conference at its present sitting.
The Treasurers report was then
read, from which it appears there are
i've auxiliaries besides the parent soci-
ETY., viz: Nashville District (parent So
,iety), Murfreesboro District, Lebanon
District, Clarksville District, Columbia
District, Franklin District. The fol-
owing disbursements were made this
year: Nashville District (parent soci-
,ty), $40; Columbia District, S433.S8;
Clarksville District, 1872; McMinn-
vile District, 5000; Franklin District,
s439; Carthage District, SO; Muir
'reesboro District, $240; Lebanon Dis
.rict, $3.50; Savannah District, 80;
Jenterville District, S115: total, g.
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