Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-03
a Good Showing for the Nash
vile Publishing House.
Report on Missionary Work.

LOUISVILLE, KY, May. 2.-Abouttwen-
ty more delegates arrived last night and
were in attendance upon the meeting of the
General Conference to-day. After prayer
by DR.. Lee, the Committee on Rules made
a report recommending the adoption of the
same rules as were in force in the Confer
ence of 1870, which was concurred in with
slight changes.
Bishop Paine then addressed the Con-
ference, saying: l hold in my hand an i'm
portant document addressed to the General
Conference of Great Britain. | ask the
reading of it, and the appointment of a
Special Committee to which it may be re-
ferred
The address is quite lengthy, sending
fraternal greetings, and reviewing the fact
that the abolition of slavery removes the
cause which has prevented the English
Church from before seeking inter-commun-
ion with the Methodist Episcopal Church
South. 1t continues,
lit is To us a cause of tbankfulnesS that
nothing exists to prevent official intercourse
between your general Conference and our
own, and We pray that both churches and
both countries may be firmly united within
themselves by concord and amity. We be-
lieve that you with us firmly hold the
great Christian truths which we have both
received in common, and that you are
striving to spread livingreligion among your
own people. For ourselves we trust that
We have not ceased TO hold fast the form of
sound words which has beenhanded downtO
us, in the presence of the subtle scepticism
on the one hand and of an increasingly
audaciOus SacerdOtalism on the other. Ii
is our duty and we trust it is our endeavor
To earnestly contend for the faith once de-
livered to the salts Our country is being
blessed at this time with unWanted vista
tions of the divine spirit. Slumbering
churches have been aroused, apathy has
been rebuked, and we live in the eXpecta-
tion of yet better days"
Exhibit of she Publishing House.
The quadrennal exhibit Of the Southern
Methodist Publishing House was then pre-
sented. The report says the credit of the
House is excellent, its affairs in prosper
GUS condition, and its capital largely in
creased in the last four years. A difference
OF SIPS, ,6S4.6G in favor of the House is re-
ported for the last four years. The House
has now a capital of S3I4.031 over and
above all liabilities. 1t has a debt to the
amount of S2l9,540, one hundred thousand
count. The remaining debt must be met
by the debts now due the House and its
current business. The report, which is a
pamphlet of sixteen pages, gives good ac-
count of the publications made and the
circulation Of the Christian AdCOcdte.
The standing committees were then
agreed upon, with the addition of the Com
mittees on Temperance and the Bible
Cause.
Report Of DIR. McFerrin.
DR.. McFerTin, the Missionary Secretary,
presented voluminous report. The total
amount of contributions, donations, be-
quests, etc, from June /, 1870, TO April IL,
1874, amounted to So, ,466. The expenses
for the same period amounted TO S1l4,339,
little less than four per cent of the cost of
the whole machinery.
\ communication from Rev. J. W.
Lambuth of Shanghai, reported that the
confidence of the Chinese in their false
gods had been shaken, ard many cities in
the interior where few years ago Protes-
tants were not allowed to enter, were now
occupied by missionaries. He asked for
more help TO that mission.
Most of the Protestant pulpits in this
and neighboring cities will be filled to-mOr-
row by members of the Conference.