National Republican., 1883-03-14

East Baltimore district .................... 32S 10
West Baltimore district. 2y5 90
washington district t....................... 2O9 90
Cumberland district t...................... JOG %
Total amount. t..."...............,.. 4o2 q
Amount last year. ar........................ lOSS 70
Increase 9lo 10
The Rev. DIR. Frysinger, Of the Centenary
Biblical institute, addressed the conference ON
the subject of the education of the freedmen.
The conference was assessed to raise $1,000
next year. The committee on the Winchester
relief fund reported that $602.40 they had
paid this last year, in addition to Sl,627.5O
already paid and $500 from the Church EX-
tension society, makes a total of Sl,729.O9
paid, leaving balance unpaid of S270.01.
They request that the charges who have not
raised the amount assessed upon them collect
40 per cent. of the amount by June l, 1883, SO
that the account can be closed
Resolution of thanks to Holmes Conrad, esq,
was adopted for his defense of the church
property in Winchester Va in three different
suits before the court of appeals.
The amount assessed for the support of the
bishops was $3.50; the amount raised, ST.
1866, deficit of Sl5335.
Resolutions, signed by the Revs. c. II. Rich
ardson and Job Price, ordering that the ex-
aminations of the different classes of minis
ters be oral and that they be conducted as
nearly as possible before the conference as
sembled.
Resolution of thanks to the pastor of the
Winchester church, and the people for their
kind entertainment of the ministers of the
conference, was adopted, '
The treasurer of conference board of edu-
cation was ordered by the conference to pay
the money in his hands to the treasurer of
Dickinson college.
The committee on the state of the church
reported that there were undoubted evidences
OF the prosperity, and that we must be more
careful, as church, to retain those who have
been converted and Joined us; that we are
not as watchful as we should be in this partic-
ular If We desire to strengthen with our
growth, and ever exhibit the stability which
does characterize the thorough permeaton of
the truth itself and our peculiar doctrine.
In regard to Jackson Square church, Balti-
more, Nd, they had not sufficient data to en-
able them to decide ofthe merits OF the question
whether to approve or disapprove, but they
did not hesitate to disapprove of all mort
cages on churches.
resolution of thanks to L. H. Cole agent
of the Baltimore and Ohio railway, for the
many favors received from him, was adopted.
Henry w. Jones, John +. Gray and Bonja-
min +. Deyries were admitted on trial as Ii
eentiates in the itinerancy.
Inasmuch as all the districts of the confer
ence had been canvassed to collect sufficient
money to secure house and lot for Mrs. Fort,
the wife of the late lamented Rev. Edward
Sewell Fort, tho report was not ready. The
conference appointed committee to receive
the money.
The Rev. DIR. Frysinger desired to know
whether there should not be some record
made of the private donations received by him
for the benefit of the Centenary Biblical in
stitute of Baltimore, Md. The conference Or
dered that mention be made Of it in the an
nual minutes in connection with the Freed
mans Aid collection.
The Rev. l.. @. Muller was transferred I
the Wyoming conference, to take effect at the
adjournment of this conference.
resolution was adopted stating that the
good wishes of his brethren went with him.
and they prayed that the same success which
attended him In this conference might follow
him wherever he went.
The statistical committee were only ready
to make a,partial report, as follows:
Probationers, 36A, increase of 30l; full mem
bers 49, 02s increase of 800; local preachers, l5s
increase Of 500; and adults 3Oi, increase of 100.
Church propertymchurches 8H, increase OF .;
ofS; probable value, s2G6,56Oi building and i'm
proving parsonages, Sll ,SlS0S paid on old indeDt-
edness Of churches, sSs O02A2i present indebted
Sunday schools. 1867, decrease of G; officers and
teachers DOLL increase Of lOO scholars OF all ages
benevolent collections Missions from churches
aud sunday schools, S26Oll13i Womens Foreign
sl6l6lO Tract society, sS7G0li sunday school
union, S5i9,72i Freedmans Aid, 81 l,i51.0l; Eluca-
tlo, soool5i BlDle cletY S1l9,56, and other coll
and bishops support, si0i IO87; conference claim!
ants, SOOOl2l current EXPENSE, such as sexton,
fuel gas, aud Sunday schools, s62,3723I.
Theusual committees for examination were
appointed for next year; also the memers of
the board of church extension aud managers
ofthe book depository after which the hymn
And Shall Our Bodies Part" was sung, and
the bishop made feryent prayer. He then
delivered his address to the conference, in
which he alluded to the work about to be
assigned to the ministers, so that they might
not be too much disappointed at the surprises
that would sound upon their ears. The ap,
pointments were then read, as follows
BALTIMORE DIsTRIoT-JoB A. PRICE, P,E.
Baltlmore-First church, j. Il, Goucher; Mount
Vernon place, @. Il. FELTON,; South Baltimore G..
q, Baker, Strawbridge, B, PeytOn Brown, $. A.
wilson, SUPP Wesley chapel, j. i. Ockrman (;
sup; Eutaw street. II. II. Naylor, I. Myers; Hunt
ington avenue, j. Is. NAnmeter; Northwest mis-
sion 9. d, SMITH Bennett memorial, w n. Rogers;
Hanover street, b. L. Clarkson: llin street, W. g.
HERBERT Fort Avenue aud Sailors Union Bethel
Osborn Belt.
baltimore circuit--L. L. Brown c, E. Dudrear.
Calvert-SolOmon German.
Carrollton-H. r. Savage.
Clpper-To be supplied.
Hampstead--Joseph p. Wilson, one to be sup.
piled.
Hunts-E. II. Smith.
Piled.
Mount yernon-G. c. Bacon.
Mount Wushington-AleN. Bielaski.
New Windsor-J. II. Cadder Benjamin +. De-
Vries
Reistertown-w. NJ. Ferguson.
SmithYille-l. L. Peters.
snlOmon's Island--II. IL. Westwood
West Rlver-Honr Nice W. r. Stricken
MesIminsIer-John Edwards, U. A. Reid, sup.
Woodberry-J. L, Amos.