Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-04-04
GAINESVILLE DISTRICT, N. E
CHURCH SOUTH.


Inc otn District Conference for
GAINESVILLE District was held at Turn
ersville, in Robertson county, March
27-9. Bishop III. n. McTyeire pre-
sided. A. T. Goo6loe was elected
Secretary, and w. A. Turner, Assist
ant Secretary. The opening sermon
was preached Thursday night, March
26, by a. L. Goodloe.
This District embraces GAINESVILLE
station, South GAINESVILLE mission,
Springfield station, New Providence
station, Montgomery circuit, Salem
circuit, Cheatham circuit, Dickson
circuit, Salem and Whites Chapel,
Asbury circuit, Red River circuit.
Cedar Hill circuit and Antioch cir
cult.
Most of the pastors were present.
and a very good attendance of laymen.
DIR. McFerrin was with us and, as is
always the case, added greatly to the
interest of the occasion. Rev. VIM.
Burr, our superior presiding elder,
was on hand of course, and showed
very clearly that he was watching with
| lively interest all the affairs of the
District. The pastors were in good
spirits and generally reported their
charges in healthful condition. The
usual formal manner Of appointing
standing committees was dispensed
with and committees appointed during
the progress of the proceedings on
such subjects as demanded consid-
Grafton. Sunday Schools, Church
Conferences, Parsonages, Finance, the
circulation of religious literature, the
consolidation of small societies SO as
to make fewer appointments and
stronger Churches were considered,
and the sense of the Conference
was:
l. That Sunday Schools be carried on
through the winter, be supplied with
our uniform lessons and Sunday School
literature generally, that special pains
be taken to search out those who are
not in the habit of attending Sunday
School, and that the children be
taught to sing.
2. That parsonages should be
promptly secured in the charges where
there are none, the fact being recog-
nized that they always added to the
character of the work and were indis-
pensable to the successful working of
the itinerancy.
3. That the assessment or distributire
plan of raising money for the support
| of the ministry and other enterprises
of the church be adopted in all the
charges-the enrelop system. to be used
in connection with this in stations
that the stewards be required to furn-
ish written reports at each church con-
ference, showingth the names and amounts
of those who pay and also the names
of those who do not, and that all the
pastors be urged to instruct their peo-
pie from the pulpit in the grace of lib
crafty.
4 That Church Conferences should
be held according to the Discipline,
and the fact was made evident that
they were eminently useful when held
by pastors in the right spirit
8. That large central societies should
be formed by the consolidation of
smaller ones; much damage was being
done in various parts of the district
by brethren refusing to surrender their
personal preferences for the general
good in this matter.
A resolution was passed that the
time of holding the District Camp
meeting be fixed by the Camp holders
and the presiding elder. TWAS agreed
that all the missionary money assessed
to this District be raised by the first of
June. The labors of local preachers
were inquired into, and the gratifying
fact brought out that they were in full
sympathy with the pastorate and, in
the main, performing such labors as
their circumstances would permit.
The General Conference which will
meet in May, in Louisville, Ky, was
memorialized l. To give an express
prohibition ON dancing and making in
toxicating liquors, and 2. To make it
the duty of Quarterly Conferences to
elect Sunday School superintendent,
the nomination to be mlde by the
pastor. bon
Appropriate resolutions of thanks
to the citizens of Turnersville and
vicinity for their generous hospitality
in entertaining the conference, and to
our venerable and beloved brother,
Dr. John B. McFerrin, for his visit to
and labors among US were heartily and
unanimously passed.
! Mallory's, on Asbury circuit, was
elected as the place for holding the
next session of the Conference.
The followingare the delegates elect
ed to the Annual Conference to meet
at Gallatn: G. F. Adams, r. III Pick
ering, j. r. Dunn and ID. w. Stack
Alternates: g. NJ. Fizer, S. A. Cald-
well and j. NJ. Speers.
A. T. GooDLoE. Sec'y.
INan analysis of the returns of the
recent parliamentary elections in Great
Britain, the curious fact appears that,
although the Conservative party elect
ed the majority of the House of Com