Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-03-19
BALTIMORE CONFERENCE NJ. E.
CHURCH SOUTH.

The Baltimore Conference M. Z
Church South met at Harrisonburg
Va, on Wednesday, and was opened
with religious services, consisting oil
reading the 12lst and 122d Psalms
and singing the 9l6th hymn, and
prayer by Rev. Samuel Rodgers, ID. ID
The roll was called, and most oil
the preachers answered to their
names, and the conference porceed.
ed to election of a president por tenn
by ballot. Rev. A. w. Wilson, ID.
d., was elected on the second ballot,
and took the chair, thanking the
conference for the honor conferred.
Rev. DR.. Martin was reelected Sec
Rotary; J. E. Armstrong, G.. I. Ty-
Ter, Il. w. Bond and A Martin as
sistants. On motion OF DR.. Regis
ter, 8 A. NJ. and l p. NJ were made
: the hours for meeting and adjourn
ment.
THURSDAY PROCEEDINGS.
Bishop McTyerie arrived. Con-
ference was call to order ut A. NJ. d,
Bishop McTyerie in the chair. Re
ugious services, consisting Of read
ing the Twelfth chapter of Romans
and singing the 528th hymn and
prayer, were conducted by the Pres
ident. The roll was called, and quite
"A numbeI of ministers and lay dele
gates who had arrived on the after
noon trains Of yesterday answered to
their names. The journal of yester
day was read and approved, A COM
munication from the South Georgia
Conference in reference to church
extension was read and referred to a
committee OF five members.
A communicate from the Pub
fishing House at Nashville, Tenn. 8,
was read showing the following: Sale
of books manufactured by the house,
SOB ,630.33 ; sale of books and mer-
chandise purchased from other
houses, SIS, 600. 21; AdU0cate sub
criptions, $23, $3.50; subscriptions
to Sunday school periodicals SIG POI, :
43. with other items, making the to-
Gal amount of business $154, 313.8 81.
The house has, paid every expense
conctracted in the prosecution OF its
business during the year, and under
its present management is in a
healthy and hopeful condition. Rev.
DR.. McFinin, agent OF the publish
aing house, addressed the conference
The committee of five on the com
munication from the South Georgia
Conference, was announced.
At an early hour during the SEES
sion to-day the conference room and
the gallery Of the church were filled
by spectators, the ladies of the town
and surrounding country being
largely in excess of the other sex
Among the prominent delegates in
attendance at the conference is
Colonel Clarkson, of the firm of Pen
niman Co., North Howard street,
Baltimore, B. w. Walters, of the
Baltimore district; James Edgar
Wilson, Frank Il. Griffith and John
Wesley Mitchell, of the Roanoke 5.
V. IIildebrand, of the Moorlield dis
trict, and VIM. &. Hodgkin, of the
Washington district, were recon-.
mended by the committee as having
passed the requisite examination and
were admitted on probation.
After the character and qualifca-
ton of these young men had, as is
the custom in annual conferences,
been carefully inquired into, Bishop
NcTyerie asked, Are they all sin
gle men ?" and when answered in
the affirmative he said, 81 hope you
will try and keep them SO for rea-
sonable term" Laughter "And, :"
continued the Bishop, "while our
preachers marry, and marry we'll, if
any of these young men have taken
any preliminary steps in that direc-
tion l advise them to postpone fur
ther proceeding for a while" Re-
-newed laughterl.
Rev. DR.. j. o. A, Clark, agent OF
the Wesley Monumental Church at
Savannah, Georgia and editor Of a
wesley Memorial Volume" ad-
dressed the conference in the inter-
est Of the enterprise.
Rev. DR.. Cox addressed the Con-
ference in the interest of, and COM
mending the wesley Memorial
Volume" which is published in the
Interests of the Memorial Church.