National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-02-18
The METHODIST CONFERENCES.
Keeting in Wipohester, virginia

The Baltimore Conference Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, which meets in Winchester,
Va, March 8, 1875, over which Rev. Bishop Jesse
I. Peck, j. D., Is TO preside, numbers loI travel
ing ministers. According 10 the journal there are
4,2J9 probatIoDeTs 1896 members, 2O7 local
preachers, 800 churches, yalued at s. rs 4OO and
70 pArsOnBRes, valued at 1900 200; there has been
raised for recent improvements In churches and
parEonngCs, SlOJ,gT3.O2, and Indebtedness on tho
Enme is S3O6,SI3 The collections for benevolent
purposes arc as fellows: Conference claimants,
STr3oul0; miss ions, by churches, 81 ,ls5.4s; by
Sunday schools, SlG,4T5 o., and In all $40 AZ 81!
WCmnn's Foreign Missionary Society, 81 lpJ3s;
church extension, t2,E30O3; tract cause, s3O3 SO:
sunday School Union, s6llb3; Froedmsn's Aid
bishops. 81 ,OCGJR Home Sunday school GTpenssy,
tsP3s Cl and for support Of ministers, tlS4 900.
The total amount Of money raised, sgOI SOL H. an
average for each member, Eln67ii The average
support Of each minister In the work IL tp2Ll6gS.
Thu IL certainly very encouraging state Of the
church within the bounds Of this conference In a
The baltimore Annual Conference OF the Meth.
odlsl Episcopal Church South will also hold its
S S s fsLs1 .S6n sgsE39 S2 On
IL the presiding bishop, The number Of preachers
IN he conference, including elders, deasghl, sls
preachers, iU5l members 81 iH9 white 10 g6iefsdI
churches, VA value Of churches, 47up 1901 piFs6Hs
ages d. probable value ~, iell sunday schools
Hffl eupefnteBdehLs, 4bpI teachers apJfI scholars
sgitgl conversions, t,al5 volumes IN libraries
hi,ioiI expenses, fH,6eg,7bI paid for ministerial
support, 80, isg il paid TOT missions lB1 bT cd
ueall6h, 4lr44b-tbl Bible, fi7i,44I bishops fund,
VI Milf supefahhuAted fund, VI, 900 10,
The Annual Conference VI the Methodist Prot
estAhl Church e6HYeleH IN the Starr church, on
l6ppletuh street below Lombard, IN this city, on
The 10Th OF march, Rev, David Wilson, president,
The conference includes within it, bounds tha
states Of Maryland and Delaware and the Dis
ulel OF COLUMBIA, There are IN II i0i churches
anu luj ministers, Each OF these ministers ID 40
eOlnphHted by lay delegate, and the COZ feTsRes
Will therefore be constituted OF 100 members,
There are In the conference over twelve thou
sEnd church membersi value Of church property,
gibs,LO0i number VI Sunday school teachers, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty Sunday
school scholars, eleven thousand i've hundred and
ninety. There are eight churches IN baltimore,
Jour In Washington, and two In Georgetown.
There are churches IN every county on the East.
eTI Shore Of Maryland. The Western Maryland
college, al WestminsteT, Nd, costing 60 OO6 and
having one hundred students, male and female, IL
under the patronage Of the conference The con.
ference superannuatod fund amounts 20 $4,000,
and nom II sixty per cent, OF the whole amount
required Tor the supeTannuAted list IL taken The
terms Of the ministers extend 10 four yearI rs 10
the Methodist Episcopal Church South and there
are about the same number OF changes each year
fTAteTnnl messengers will attend the conferences
from different sections Of the country-BGIfimoTS
Sun of HedHegddH