The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-09-10
HARRISBURG
Conference of the M. E. Church South.
CLARKspuRa, septemberR &.

Conference Of the NJ. L. Church South.
CL~ARKsBURG, septemberS
Edition. IntOllIEencsr:
The Conference Of the N. Z. Church
South has been in session here since
Wednesday last. About sixty members
are present. 1t is an ordinary body. But
very few Of them are active participants in
the deliberations. The others sit quietly
as passive listeners. Bishop Doggett pre-.
sides and is an active, pushing and court,
eous officer. He has pheasant, attractive
and admirable face, and his manner are
easy and refined, rendering him entirely
affable. His talk on Saturday to the can.
didates for Deacon's orders was pointed
and impressive. He told them to be dill.
gent readers and digest well the thoughts
of others, not to be copyists, to investigate
and think, not to plagiarize, to gather the
grain from the field OF Thought, grind it
thoroughly in their mills, prepare the
-four, kneal it into dough and give it well
baked and ready for immediate use to
their hearers. Don't oar away on the
gilded opinions OF q gorgeous Imagination.
At this he smiled and his hearers smiled,
for it so well suited one, to whom We all
listened an evening or two before, al
though the Bishop pleasantly declared he
made no personal illusions. II you fly
with q borrowed plumage fastened to your
body with wax, the suns heat%ill melt the
wax and your fate will be like that OF
lcarus long ago. The only fear is that
the six candidates will soon forget the
good advice given, and after a few years,
Initiating the example of the predecessors,
cease TO read and content themselves with
the hum.drum and rattle.trap OF the mass
Of itinerants. On Saturday evening we
listened to a clear, forci6le and logical
educational talk, By DR.. Bennett,
President Of the Randolph and Macon
College. This object was to advertise
his institution by explaining the work
done there. The members certainly form
ed a good opinion OF it. 1t already had a
good reputation, but the Doctor gave it a
good character. 1t was reputed thorough,
be let us into the inner workings. II is
proud Of its work. Presidents, diyines,
professors, and Senators are among its
alumni. Bishop Doggett was once a Pro-
lessor there. The college wishes the
benediction OF the church. Without reli-
gious culture education may be danger
GUS. It made a ribald and Wanting inf
del Of Tom Paine; a cold, dismal sheptic
OF Voltaire, and it leaves a man but part
ly developed. Space will not. admit OF a
complete analysis Of the talk. 1t was only
q talk such as %persuades, and the Doctor
can go home feeling that he has safely
lodged his institution in the affections OF
his people. Surely the people here had
fine treat on Saturday. Only one thing
occurred 10 mar the harmony, and that
was the %outcropping Of a little southern
sentiment. We would not mention this
to excite any feeling or luminosity. None,
however, a complain, as they had the
Of raising the feeling or silencing it
as they should have done. The Commit.
tee on Books and Periodicals, through It's
chairman, reported among others, this
resolution in substance:
Raolyed, That we commend the Central
Methodist to our people for the energy
with which 1t has defended "our South.
ern Christian civilization" from the Sian.
1ers againstit
Why they should put the word South
arm in the resolution is not clear, and
what the ISLANDERS are does not appear.
We make nc further comments lest we be
nisconstrued. OBSERVER.