National Republican., 1880-03-17
MARYLAND METHODISTS.
The N. P. Conference at the Ninth
Street Church.
Missions and Cirouit-Another Delegate TO
the General Conference-Report From
the Indian Missions-The Church
PublicatIons-StatistIcs show
Ing General Prosperltyin
tho Church, Etc,
Tho Maryland NJ. +. Conference.

| Tho Maryland NJ. l.. Conference.
| The Maryland annual conference met at the
usual hour yesterday at tho Ninth street NJ
p. church. The committee on boundaries
| submitted their report, which recommended
| tho following which were adopted That the
conference supply tho church organized on
February at Wilmington, Del, with min.
| lister; that All Saints, Centralia and Sim pson.
yllo circuits constitute All Saints mission,
! Patapsco Chapel, White Ground and Mount
! Winans TO form Ellicott City mission, Severn
and Gideon to bo added to Ammo Arundel !:
that Mount Carmel aud Bethel appointments
be detached from Campbell circuit and formed
into new circuit to be called South Side cir.
| cult, aud that Marysville, Pleasant Grove and
Oak Grove constitute Campbell circult that
Milford, Harrington AMI Greenwood be
! constituted Milford mission The commit
| tee on temperance reported that many
| of the counties of Maryland have by popular
vote banished tho sale of Intoxicating drinks
! from their borders and the decrease Of Crimi.
nal cases in those counties has been 80 marked
as to attract the attention of the c, urts and
| elicit commendations from the judges. That
ono great obstacle TO entire success is found in
the an'ngonism of our great commercial cen
| tres.
The report on ministerial supply recon-.
mondng that the request of the First church
of Pittsburg for the return of Rev. DIR, j. J.
| Murray; st. Johns, Baltimore, for tho ap.
pointment Of 7. ii. Lewis; that Heathsyillc bc
| placed in charge of II. l.. LOWS and an assis-
tant appointed, and Montgomery, Ala, be
! supplied, was presented. The report was
amended by requiring that all churches sup
| piled by this conference contribute TO the
suporannuated fund.- adopted.
| report from the committee on Sunday
| schools advocating the establishment Of juva-
nile missionary schools was adopted.
The electoral college resumed its session,
and the tclcrs reported tho election of Rev
| j. L. Ward, of the Western Maryland College,
completing the list and ballot was taken
for alternstes-5 ministerial and lay.
! The electoral college resumed its session,
and reported the election of the following al.
trrnates 10 the general conference: Ministerial
Rows. b. +, Benson, i. 7. Tagg, r. II.
Lewis, J. Il. Nichols, j. b. Jones. Lay-W.
II. Whoatlcy, A. ]. Fairbauk, 5. S. EweIl and
w. L. Bell. A tie being on the fifth layman,
left one vacancy, to which Mr.. a. Donaldson
was added on motion.
On tho conference resuming its session, Rev.
J.T. Murray offered n resolution recommending
that branch aud auxiliary secretaries to coop
pcrato with the Womon's Foreign Missionary
Society be formed, which was adopted.
On tho recommendation of the faculty OF
instruction, Horace G.. Gowan, Charles r.
Blades and Samuel +. Cassen were admitted TO
tho board of ministerial education.
The report of the committee on ministerial
education stated that about seventy men have
beou assisted up to the present time, fifty OF
. whom are now in the active work of the
ministry; that thcro arc thirty young mon
| now in tho two colleges studying for tho
minstry-twenty at Adrian aud ten at
3 Western; that the contributions Of tho confer
cnce for the past year wero about 5000.
The committee on foreign missions reported
that an appropriation had heon made to aid
the Indian mission in West Michigan, aud
several Indian missions arc doing good work
among their own people in that country, All
the homo missions are enjoying good degree
of success that in the foreign department the
board of missions have under its caro- in con-
neCtiOn with the Womcn's Union Missionary
Society of New York, eighteen native girls in
the Mission Homo and School in Yokohama,
japan, who are under training for Bible
readers and missionaries among the people oil
their native land; that Miss l.. NJ. Guthrie had
: been appointed rs the first missionary of the
NJ. p. Church in Japan.
The report of tho committee on statistics
showed that there were 1895 members, in.
cluding 955 Golored persons; ,s59 members re.
Ceived, ,372 members increased, ,3S5 church
periodicals taken, $GSS37j value church prop
3 erty, Sl7S $50 amount Of church debt, l76 Sab
bath schools, 1888 Sachers in Sabbath
schools 1853 officers in tho Sabbath schools
0 1874 scholars in the Sabbath schools 80 ,G3C
D volumes in the library, and 632 conversions.
: The report of the committee literature
showed that the circulation of the MethodiS
Protestant was greater than Mt any time since
1860; that the committee recommend that til,
' annual conference instruct its delegates 10 the
- ensuing general conference TO advocate the
formation OF o separate department for the
Sunday-school literature, with an editor L
supervise the same; that the church publish
ing interests be consolidated under ono board
and that the church periodicals be under thi
management so far that when there occurs al
excess of profit to the one it may go to tn
other in case Of q deficiency; that the reliable
r capital of the Book Concern amounts to SO,
1S6O5 that tho Bible School is a success its cir
culation being 10000 copies per month. Th,
latter report was still under consideration
when the conference adjourned until o'clock
EVENING SESSION.
The conference reconvened at the ap
pointed hour and proceeded 10 reconsider tht
report of tho committee on literature, whicl
~ resulted in its adoption with II few sligh
z amendments.
A motion was adopted to reconsider tht
| action Of the conference fixing tho frs
B. Wednesday In April as tho time for the mex
session of the conference, aud upon the motion
r. Of Alr, Duluuy the time was god back I,
II the second Wednesday in March, which ha
l been tho regular time Of meeting for u mum
@ Der of years.
o Tho committee on finance submitted ,thei
report, which stated that the annual assess
;. mcnt for the executive department of the con
ference was 50, 1875, including 81 ,775 for th
presidents salary; that they had examined tn,
accounts of j. y. Gilbert, agent Of the presi
dents parsonage property, aud found them cor
q rect and recommended that he be continued
Q as agent. Pending discussion on a resolution
D providing for a general convention tho confer
= euce adjourned,
.