Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-10-30

J Knoxville. 1920; Athens, $3.50; Chat
= tanooga, $165 Sequatchie. S65; Ashe
vile, $lG5; Franklin, so. TotsI
$l,7OO
Assessment by districts for tn
Bishops fund: WytheviIle, $50; Jef
fersonvilIe, 500; Abingdon, $50
Jonesboro', sos; Morristown, $50
Knoxville, $50; Athens, $65; Chatta-
nooga, $75; Sequatchie, $40; Ashe'
Vile, SIS; franklin, $40. Total, $3.50
On motion of Fl. G. Neal, the read
ing of the amount of claims and
receipts of preachers for the past yeal
was dispensed with, and the report
was adopted as a whole.
J.H. Bruu 1er presented the majority
report of the Committee on Fraternal
Relations with the Holston Confer
ence, M. E. Church, which sets forth
that they believe that the interests of
this Conference and Church would be
best subserved by taking no action in
the premises. Signed by J. M. McTeer
aud E. e. Wiley.
The minority report, signed by J. H.
Drummer, believes that the interests of
our common Methodism, as well as
Chuch, Conference, etc, will be pro-
NOTED by adopting the resolution, pro-
viding for the appointment Of two fra
ternal delegates from this body to the
other.
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minority report without any discus
sion.
DIR. E. e. Wiley wished to make
some remarks. He favored Christian
fraternity, but believes it is better to
let the matter take its own course.
You can't" said he, "legislate fra
ternity and love into the heart and
soul of any one" There are men, he
said in the "Northern Church,
whose hands he will not shake in fra
ternity, he can't DO it. Where ever
an effort fer fraternity between the
two bodies has been made, the other
side, he said has always got the best Of
it. He said there had been no offers Of
fraternity from that body to this, as
far as any act is concerned, aud he asks
to be excused when it comes 10 frater-
nizing with men who attempt to build
themselves up at this body'a expense.
He constituted himself q Judge and
jury and passed sentence on MEM
ber of this Northern" Conference,
whose name he didn't call, but who
he claimed to know had 8tO'en $1,000
Of Government claim rightly be-
longing 10 the Trustees of The NJ. e.
Church, South, in this city, and said
he wouldn't shake hands fraternaliy
with that man. He would take them
one at time when he wanted 10 fra
ternize and select his men. He said
there were also some of their Bishops
he would not meet fraterBally. He
then got in an attack on Northern
Methodism" as a whole, saying he
knew it, and what il is, a collection
of Legislative acts against Southern
Methodism. He thought If this feel
ing of fraternity came at all it should
come spontaneously from the heart,
but his judgment is that this whole
fraternity business is grand piece of
hypocrisy on the part of the North
ern " Church. His plan is to just let
the matter go-let them look out for
themselves and this body for them ]
seves; therefore he favored the ma
jority report.
Rev. r. n. Price, in reply, said he
does not take issue with DR.. Wiley in
the main. He was conservative
during the war, and afterwards forgiv-
Ing. He believes there are good and
bad men in all churches and confer |
ences. There are men in both the M
E. and M. E, Church, South, in |
whom he has no confidence. He be- |
lieved large majority of the members
of the III. e. Church would make |
good ones, and he was SO anxious TO |
have only one Methodism, that he
was willing to absorb and take |
them in as body. He |
makes this speech, he says, to pour oil |
or the troubled waters. This is the |
second time, he said, that he had heard |
DR.. Wiley go too far, and by his re-
marks here he thought the waters
were a little troubled. He likes all |
preachers OF the NJ. E. Church, he
said, and meets them in good faith
and with fraternal feeling and does
not sit in judgment on any of their
character. But inasmuch as the NJ.
E. Church has not sent messengers to
this body, and determination does
already exist, he thinks it will be in
appropriate and impertinent to send
messengers to them. He did not want
to be classed as opposed to fraternity,
but favored taking no action.
To stop any further agitation of the
subject, on motion of W.H.Kelley the
whole matter was laid on the table.
Bishop Kavanaugh, however, added
a few remarks on the subject. He had
been North and met with a cordial,
fraternal reception. While at Round
Lake camp-meetiDg he made SON OBJ
and discovered the North.
ern brethren differ about the policy of