The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-09-25
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AN. Z. coNFERRScE-sEcoND DAYS MORN.
saitf ING SESSION. ieS
Thesecord day'slession Of the Confer.
ence found good attendance Of members
At nine o'clock the Bishop appeared and
called the conference to order.
Rev. S. T. Jones conducted the deyo.
tional exercises. '''' ="
The roll Of members was then called.
Rev. Phillips called the attention Of the
conference to the fact that Rev. W. O.
West, who was reported absent, had been
detained on account oil sickness, and that
In all probability would never meet the
Conference again, and asked the prayers
Of the Conference for the brother IN his
affection. a-
Revs. R. q. Morris, Jessie Smith and
w. ]. johnson, all OF the Ohio annual con-
ference, were introduced. .., .u..
The minutes OF the previous days $685.
sion were then read and approved.
Rev. DR.. Jackson arose TO question OF
information, and inquired what relation
Rev. Green sustained to the church. The
question called out quitea lengthy dis.
cussion, pro and con, and different con.
clusion was reached. Rev. Phillips moved
that so much Of the proceedings Of Thurs
day referring TO the case OF Rev. Green be
reconsidered. Lost. Rev. Green made q
short address, as he said, to set himself
right before the conference.
The Rev. D. H. K. Dix Of the N. E.
Church, city, was introduced TO the Bishop
and Conference, and invited to aseat
within the bar. ~
The case OF Bro. Green was resumed,
The principal participants were Rev. 9
Phillips, Brown, Asbury aud Morris, and
hually Bishop Shorter ruled the discus.
sion out oil order.
The financial and statistical reports
were continued. fh
Rev. Mr.. Sampson reported new work
and new church.
A resolution complimentary to the Rev.
Sampson, including also Reys. Countee
and I. II. Cyrus was adopted.
The Disciplinary questions were taken
up, and as far as possible, answered.
Under question tenth, Brother Geo. b.
Knox was offered for local elders orders,
provided he could sustain an examina.
ton.
Rev. Hutchinson johnson aas offered for
local deacon's order under the same re-
striction.
1lth question-Rey. Jas. Jones, at his
own request, was granted location.
18th question Who has Withdrawn
from the connecticut Answer-Thomas
Handheld.
Question-Where shall our next Con-
ference he held.
The following places were nominated:
Washington, Pa, and Wilksbarre, Pa.
The latter received almost the entire vote
OF the Conference.
The Bishop lectured the Conference on
the importance Of raising their contingent
collection before the sitting Of their an
nual Conference from year to year.
Rev. A. A. March and Rev. George
Stevenson, of the Ohio Conference, were
lintroduced 10 the Conference by the
Bishop and invited to seats within the bar.
Rev. &. w. Countee, who has had 10.
cal relation with the Conference for several
years, and who was last year appointed
TO charge by the Bishop, desired to be
put on the active list, but no action was
taken In the matter.
The announcements were made that
Rev, J. W. Barber would preach the
educational sermon; followed by Rev. B
I. Watson, the commissioner OF education,
who would present his plans to raise
money for the educational work.
Rev. ]. E. Russell was announced to
preach at night.
Adjourned to meet at 8 O'Clock TO hear
the educational sermon.
IN THE AFTERNOON.
After singing and prayer, Rev. ]. W.
Barber, OF the Ohio Conference, preached
a sermon on Education" taking for his
text the following words from Isaiah:
"Seek We out OF the book OF the Lord and
read" Alter this an appeal was made to
the congregation on oehalfof Wilberforee
University, Ohio.
In the evening missionary sermon was
preached from the text: go We into all
the world, &C." A collection for the cauie
OF missions was taken up, amounting 10
5000.
TIE CENTENNIAL YEAR OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
| In view OF the Sabbath School celebra'
ton tomorrow, in honor Of the one hun.
dredth anniversary of the establishment
OF the Sunday School system by Robert
4 Raikes, we give our readers few historic
facts in connection with the great event,
Robert Raikes was born in 1886 and died
in 1911. In 1850 he gathered the ragged
and neglected children in his newspaper
Iottice-the Gloucester JoltFnal-and into
his home, and gave them instruction 10
Goods word. His work rapidly spread II.
self until In four years $50, 600 children
were gathered into the schools In the dill.
ferent parts OF the United Kingdom.
Raikes was chosen OF God to commence q
work whose magnitude he had never con.
ceiyed. OF large hearted benevolence, he
felt that something ought to be done for
neglected boys and girls around him.
The journal OF which he was the editor
spread the report ahrosd. The same spirit
whick prompted him to "try" vas In the
minds Of others, and gained ready hear.
ing for tho accounts Of his school, and
moved them to make similar effort. AT
first his teachers were paid, as they were
in all the earlier schools under his system,
but in twenty years paid teachers had en-.
tirely disappeared. The growth and In.
fiuenSs Of lie Sabbath School have been
far reaching and wonderful.
The following exhibit furnished for the
centennial celebration in London by Mr..
z. Payson Porter, Statistical Secretary oil
the international Sunday School conven.
ton, will give an idos of this immense
growth:
ITeaehers iScholaTs Total.
england and WaIs. ~ 9soI a s0o oOo a On Ys0