New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-13
WHOLE NUMBER 1904.

VwSOAos 20 c0nolO0r topics r0letlng 70 tu0
position, work and responsibility Of Meth.
odism for the worlds evangelization.
Aesolued, That such convention is hereby
empowered to represent and speak for and
IN tne name of the Methodist Episcopal
Cnorcn In the United States, and is directed
10 make q tull report of its proceedings to
tne aenerai Conference of 1880.
hes0eced, That the necessary expenses of
such convention be met in the same manner
as the expenses Of the fraternal delegates
to the committee on the state of the church.
E. n. II. Fleming, of Desmoinee. sub
mitted resolution to inquire into the ex.
pediency Of dissolving the Washingto
to merge them into adjacent conferences,
thus thoroughly abolishing the color line.
Referred to the committee ON the state of
the church.
The hour for the reception of fraternal
messengers from the Methodist Episcopal
Church South having come, that most inter-
esting ceremony took place.
With the exception Of the upper tier,
which was we'll filled. every part of the
during the entire proceedings. The desk
in front Of the presiding Bishop (Janes) and
all the tables Of the secretaries and oficia
reporters ranged at the front of the plat
form were decorated with immense boquets
and wreaths of the rarest flowers. The
scene was happy continuation Of Christian
and floral welcome. Rev. DR.. Foss, presi-
j. P. Newman. of Washington. formally
introduced to Bishop James and the confer =
ence the fraternal messengers, Rev. J. A.
Duncan, D. D., president Of the Randolph
Macon College, Virginia, and Landen e.
Garland, LID, chancellor of the Wander
bilt University Of Nashville, Tennessee.
The messengers, on rising on the plat
ca a bnr %1ns~ ol,1tn To
bishop and conference, were cordially vel
eomed with prolonged greetings.
Bishop James, on welcoming them, ex-
pressed in most feeling manner the re-
gret of the bishops and the conference at
the absence Of Rev. DR.. L. Pierce, one of
| the fraternal messengers from the Church
! South, who had started on his way to this
| conference, but was detained by in nfirmity
| of age.
The secretary then read the credentials
| of the messengers from the General Con-
| ference of the Church South, in which this
conference was also notified of the appoint
ment of commission of five persons to con-
suit upon and adjust the legal points at
issue between the two churches.
An address to the bishops and delegates
of the Methodist Episcopal Church in con
ference assembled, written by the Rev. DR..
L. Pierce, was then read. After expressing
the great pleasure he experienced in
his appointment as frattrnal mes
senger, DR.. Pierce says: 'As regular
appointee in this fraternal delegation,
furnish an instance to the history Of Ameri-
can MethOdism such as l think it likely
was never known before in one sent abroad
In any diplomatic ministry-a, man in the
ninety second year Of his age, and in the
seventy second of his effective ministry
He then alludes to his being sent as q lone
fraternal messenger from the first General
Conference South after the division in
1876 to arrange for and settle on q
basis of intercommunication, 80 that two
general conferences, instead of one. should
be all the difference between us. The re-
lection of that messenger by the Genera
Conference in 1S48 to the wintry night OF
tventy-one years that followed his rejec
ton, succeeded by the star of hope that ap
peared in the voluntary visit of Bishop
! Simpson and DR.. (now Bishop Harris to the
meeting of our bishops in st. Louis in May
1869.
The address then reviews the pr0wess OF
Methodism generally, and concludes, "Ard
! finally let us-as two companies Of brothe rs
intrusted with most precious patrimOnial
estate to enjoy as trustees, and enlarge and
| increase as guardians for an indefinite pos
terity-see which of US can so use on
portion of this Methodist capital as Il
make its percentage of income, the tes
: of comparative fidelity, and its principles
, of operation as Its founders and its fathers
turned it over to US. Let US do this al
brethren of one heart and one mind, o.
one great aim and end, and the future vii
prove that our division into two genera
conference jurisdictions was benedic. 10,
instead of depreciation.
, We will watch each other only with god
jealousy for faithful propagation of on;
undivided MethOdism. This, in as far as i
can be, il my last will and testament
turning over to my successors my estate il
Methodism.
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect
;. be of good comfort, be of one mind, live il
! peace, and the God of love and peace shal
l be with you. L. PIERCE, Dele gate.
During the reading there were frequen
. manifestations of sympathy and approval
: saluting the bishops and delegates in tn
Jesus. He was followed by Mr.. Garland
The rem arks OF both these gentlemen wer
in the most fraternal spirit and were Col
| daily received.
Resolutions of welcome and regret at tn
, absence of DR.. P1efce were unanimOusl
: adopted.
l The Conference then rose and sung
verse of the hymn, "Blest be the tie tina
binds"
< The matter of the appointing of CON
i. mission to meet that appointed by tn
4 Church South TO adjust the legal points a
a issue, was referred to a special cOmmitte
Q of seven, to be appointed.
J. Adjourned until tomorrow.