The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-05-02
Methoo.st Conference.

BALTIMORE, May 1.-The Seventeenth
Delegated General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Cls,rch assembled
here this morning and was called n order
by Bishop Jones. After tho RELIGIONS
services George w. Woodruff was ,6osen
Secretary, when Bishop Aims mace an
address OF welcome and Bishop Jo.es
responded.
4 resolution was adopted ratifying and
confirming the action whereby the place
Of holding the present General Conference
was changed from ST. Louis to Baltimore
and Rev. |. G. Pershing, Of Pittsburgh,
chosen Assistant Secretary. .,
In pursuance OF n resolution adopted
at the last General Conference in 1872,
that Board Of Bishops propose 10 com
memorate an address and present it to
this Conference on the first day Of Its ses.
sion, to be Immediately published to the
church, with such Recommendations from
this General Conference as will enlist
all our people in the cheerful and devout
observance OF those thanksgiving services
which shall be most appropriate and q
ieryent expression Of gratitude 10 AL.
mighty God, OF faith in Jesus Christ, the
Savior and ruler Of the world, Of love to
our country and loyalty TO free inStitu.
tions which are based upon the immortal
Declaration Of Independence. .n
Bishow Andrews address, among other
suggestions, has the following:
Let the generous gifts be devoted to the
perfection Of Christian training Of our
youth, and thereby to the highest SER
vice Of the State, attcsting the love we
bear to our country and its in
stitutions in this day OF rejoicing as in
the past days Of trial. Let it be seen
that free church is preeminentiy the
friend and ally Of free State. This
special religious commemoration will not
withhold you from Centennial Of which
tho whole people will mark the occasion.
On the contrary community of history,
ofinterests and OF destiny, will insure u
OF patriotic sentiment and
action in company with your fellow citi.
zens. You will joyiully review the
land which God has given
US, and the annals Of our colonial
settlement and training, ft time and men
aud. the deeds OF the revolutionary Strug-
gle; the formation Of more perfect
union under a constitution Of consum.
mate wisdom; the marvellous increase OF
our territory, our population and our
resources; our triumphs in arts and in
arms; our progress in science, literature
and education, and undecayed faith in
the self.evident truths Of the great De.
and their recent stupcndous
reasser,ion in the emancipation and en-.
franchisement Of servile population
more numerous than that OF the colonial
our contributions to nations
from which We sprang, and our predes-
tined part in the great drama Of human
history; and in fine, ,all the facts and all the
forces which have made the century
memorable, and which presage a more
signal future. :,
With your fcllow-citizens you will al
so solicitously study, and us lar as posi-
ble, remedy the evils which threaten our
national life, Issuing some OF them from
the defects OF our political system
and methods; some from sectional an
tipathies and aspirations; some from
the antagonism Of the social classes;
some from Vaccinations Of foreign
despotism, and all having their power Tor
harm in the lamentable prevalency Of in.
dividual ignorance, Indifference and vice.
Upon all these assemblies OF people, all
invoke the spirit OF concord, Of patriot
ism and wisdom; may they fitly intro.
duce century of larger civil good than
the world has yet known, century Of
wider intelligence and better morals, Of
liberty and order, more perfectly allied
Of confirmed unity, peace and prosperity.
The usual outstanding committees were
appointed and Conference adjourned.