The New York herald., 1874-11-17
METHODIST MISSIONS.

Appr0pria tions to Domestic Missions
Yesterday-Devastatio OF the Grass
hoppers In the West-sunering or the
People-Methodist Fraternization In
the south.
This committee convened yesterday morning.
Bishop ANDREWS presided, and alter the conduct Of
the religious exercises and the reading OF the
minutes the appropriations Tor domestic missions
TO the Conference was taken up and considered.
Alabama received S. 500; Arkansas received ST. Oo0
OF which $500 Tor transfers; Baltimore, S. 900.
The second Of these amounts is the same granted
last year; the others are $4,000 less. California
asked for $1,000. for which sum Or. Gibson
pleaded very earnestly. The Conference covers an
area OF three ordinary conferences, and had ex-
tensive mission work. The committee appro-
priated $4,000 therefor DR.. Reid moved 10 COM
bIne the California German appropriation OF $lS75
with tins and have it all distrbu BY tine
California Conference, at its discretion. This was
opposed on various grounds, and on vote was lost.
New York, $s00-being $500 each less than lass
year; Central ONO got 81 l.2OG-ssoo less; Central
Ps1 year. 6oner
ence asked for 1000 There are but I hree Sta
lions in that Conference that pay their preachers
full salary The church IN Denver has seventy
nve members. is self-supportlng and pays about
half the missionary contributions OF the Confer
they can, but are not doing mucn for the support
or the pastors, and $1,000 Is as little as they
ought to have this year. part OF their territory
has suffered from
THE 0RAssHoPPER PLAGUE.
The Episcopaans are building large number
Of churches IN that region, and the methodists
VIII, therefore, have TO do more than they have
done hitherto II they would keep their own. There
are thirty-one missions ID the Conference and no
little enough 10 any man to live upon. The COM
mittee appropriated $500 TO this Conference. The
Des Mones
This Conference had not made representations Of
It's needs TO the district committeeman nor to the
of1ce, and II they suffer 1t is their own ault. De-
troit Conference stood IN q similar light before the
committee. 1t was moved 70 make ius appropria-
tion 81, $50, to which amendment OF $2.500, on
the ground that there was nothing in IT'S mission
territory bus "water, rocks and Cod - and every
tning else was imported IL got $3.50. East
Maine Conference Is very largely mission terri
tory and It's needs are equal to those oil any mis-
sionary conference in the west. IL received
ington Conference asked for s3,5oo-s 900 more
than last year. They have three missions widely
separated, and no minister receives more tnan
than $4,000 and this was granted
them. Erie Conference received sl,2oo-ast
year, $4,000; Florida, s4oo0-last year, $1,000;
Georgia received ss,5oo-last year siO,5oO;
Hoston Conference, 81, 500-ast year, s., 5000; In
diana and Iowa Conferences 5000 each-last year,
$1,000. Kansas Conference asked tor $4,000,
which is an increase OF $4,000 on last years ap.
preparation. Tne grasshoppers have eaten up
every green thing ID tnat land, and thousands OF
tue inhabitants are returning nom that section TO
the older states to winter. Droves oil cattle,
numbering s,OOO nave been driven into Illinois TO
get 1000 ior item Pork could be bought in this
grasshopper-stricken land for one cent a pound
The swarms OF insects have been so thick as to
eclipse the sun in midday, 50 tnat a man could
look upon IL with the naked eye. The churches
are, therefore, unable TO do much, II anything at
all Tor their preachers This country and con-
ference has received from the Missionary society
within the last eighteen years $l334T0 and Ii was
argued that the people should do metning bet
ter Tor themselves and not draw so heavily on the
mission treasury. But their condition this year Is
exceptional. They have
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LEFT BY THE GRAssHOPPrRs,
and they must 1--we on their debts or on their
credits Tor the next year until their crops come
IN, 30 that what Is given now ls TO meet a pres.
eht ara pressing emergency. They viii be even
AL the facts before them tue committee
granted $4,000, which is s., 900 more than was ap-
proprlased o la. ast year. Jump was then made to
sne ,foY conference, 10 permit it's delegate. Rev.
NJ. n nmeleutn 70 advocate It's claims, that ne
mlgns return home 70 meet an engagement It
Conference feceivea szoo Sewark seS
$l.2oo.last year $1,000 eacn New YORK Confer.
snce & $500 New YORK East Conference 81, 500.
lAst year S4,ooo each; Kentucky conference asked
for the same amount 1t had last year-S7' 500 Its
territory Is larger than the i've conferences in
Onlo Ine people Will not receive the nlnistrations
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church South Tbara ere
seven preslding elder districts and 5000 wnite
regions IN which there is no Gospel preacbtng az M
been since the war until lately, w5ea nsa
there. They are very poor, and yet Kentucky ia
an old Stale, an ola conferences, and its pe5pie
who belong to any Church are Metnodists, and
vet we have to support them with missionary
money from year TO year. There must be some.
thing wrong. and DR.. Love thought the giving Of
poyer9y a's This Conference has received SIs oven e,
fll6 600 IN APPROPRIATIONS during the past twenty
years. the Conference received $1,000. Inc COM
lntLee thea TOOK "a recess.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Upon reassembling the committee resumed the