The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-09-12
METHODIST PROTESTANT
CONFERENCE.
Closing Observation-Disclosures
BnSinesS-List Of Appoint
IncntS, etc.

Closing SesSiOn-Illscella
BnSinesS-List Of Appoint
mcntS, etc.
FAIRMoNr, September II, 1877.
Editors IntCllIEencer:
Conference met according TO adjourn.
ment at r. NJ. Session opened In the
usual manner.
An invitation from Sharpsburg TO hold
the next session Of the Conference at that
place was received, and ShRrpsburg was
selected as the place for holding the next
Conference by unanimous vGle.
On motion, Wm. Tate, ir., was appoint.
ed an agent to receive the money realized
from the sale oil the JohnstoWn Church,
and that loaned TO Soho, Bellevue and
Second Church, Allegheny City, and put
the same into the hands Of the Board Of
Church Extension.
DR.. Clark moved that vote Of thanks
be rendered the reporters for their ac.
counts OF the proceedings Of the Confer.
ence.
Rev. F. CrOwther offered the follow.
ing:
ResOlrsd, That the Board Of Church
Extension be instructed 10 inquire into
the condition OF the Allegheny Seminary
Fund, and report concerning it at the
next session Of this Conference. Adopted.
Rev. J. B. Lucas offered the following
resolution, which was unanimously
adopted by a rising vote:
RtsOlred, That the thanks OF this Confer
euce are hereby rendered to the church,
pastor and citizens Of Fairmont, Palatine
and vicinity for the very kind manner in
which they have entertained us during
the session.
Rev. W. W. Wallace, Chairman Of the
Committee on Statistics, reported mem.
ber'hip ot 6,SS5 within the bounds OF the
district; PrObationers, 1888; the increase Of
membership, G66, after deducling the
churches placed in other Conferences.
The value OF chuch property is S362, 800.
There were l,l9S members received dur.
ing the past year. Rev. Wallace, also
Conference Steward, made report Of the
disbursement oil the funds that had been
placed in his hands.
Rev. W. T. Wilson was elected Treas.
G'eF for the Home Extension Fund for
the next year.
resolution recommending the MoatAly
RieptrtOrS published by Proi. D, s
Stephens, at Adrian, Michigan, to the
favorable confederation OF the church
wa' introduced and passed.
Rev. S. F. Crowther offered paper
prescribing the cOurseo oil study laid down
IN the discipline, as the one to be pursued
by young men desiring to enter the work
OF the ministry in this conference dis
itict. The following named ministers
eons;itutetNe Faculty OF Instruction:
|. Bible Doctrine-S. +. Crowther, b.
%Sys!ematic Knowledge--Wm. Col
8. Mental and Moral science-Johr
Scott, D. D.
4. Grammar, Logic and RhetOric--J. F
Dyer, B. A.
., History and Polity Of the Methods,
Protestant Churches--T. II. Colhour, A
=, 8. Geography and Hi.,Ory--Rev. G. G
Westfall.
Rev, Crowther, who is one Of the workin,
members Of the Conference, introduced /
resolution providing that sermon b,
preached at the opening Of every session
Of the Conference and that it be FOLLOWED
blythe administration Of the Lords Sup
per; also that the election OF President
Secretaries, Conference Steward, Station
11fy Committees, etc, be held on the frs
day Of each annual session at . o'clocl
IN.
Dr.. Laishley urged that all members Of
ihe Conference, young and old, abstain
ron the use Of tobacco, and to give thei
hearty cooperation in temperance worl
during the succeeding year. ], may b,
remarked here that DR.. Laishley gave VI
The use Of tobacco year or two APO. be
cause he did not wishto sc. any bad ex
ample TO young men entering the minis
Wy. Although be had used Il for many
years, he was determined that no on