The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-03
THE LAYMEN.


Galveston District-Lewis A. Blaylock,
E. B. Wormack.
Chapel Hill District-N. A. Rector, w.
T. Willie, W B. Streetman.
Austin District-J. M. Harrison, r. f.
Hill.
Calvert District-J. A. Graves, Jesse
Scruggs; G. R. Richardson, M. N. Sher-
field.
Huntsville district-Ben. E. McCulloch,
J. D. Thomas.
The roll call finished, the bishop an
nOunced the
ELECTION OF A SECRETARY
as the next regular business in order,
whereupon Rev. HI. V. Philpott was nomi-
mated and unanimously reelected.
Mr.. Philpott named Rev. Messrs: John
R. Morris and Chas. F. Moore as his as
sistants. and they were each elected by the
body.
The following
STANDING COMMITTEES
were announced, being named by the pre-
siding elders:
Books and Periodicals-Rev. Messrs- f.
T. Mitchell, III. M. Sears, Seth Ward, Jas.
A. Duncan, Jos. G. Mickle. Laymen-
Messrs. J. M. Harrison, j. N. Brown, T. G.
Archer, j. D. Thomas.
Conference Relations-ReV. Messrs. G..
Rutledge, Robert B. Sinms, S. G. Little
page, F. B. Graves, John r. Dunn, FL. M.
DuBose, J. B. Sears, E. S. Smith.
District Conference Records = Rev.
Messrs. M. S. Hotchkiss, G.. S. Sandel, E..
W. Tarrant, R. F. Beasley, j. L. Lemons.
Laymen- Messrs. J. D. Thomas, C. M.
Richardson, W. T. Willie.
Bible Cause-Rev. Messrs. J. M. Wesson,
w. K. Turner, E. G. Hocutt N. F. Law, A.
L. P. Green. Laymen-J. M. Harrison,
Jesse Scruggs, w. B. Streetman, Louis
Blaylock, Ben E. McCulloch.
Public Worship-Rev. Messrs. C. H.
Brooks and A. E. Goodwin, and Mr.. r. T.
Hill
Temperance-Rev. Messrs. S. C. Lit
tlepage, James Peeler, M. H. Porter, @. T
Hotchkiss, D. II. Limbaugh, G. M. Keith,
laymen-Messrs. M. n. Shersfeld, Ben E.
McCuilech, G. r. Davis, E. B. Womack.'
FIXING THE HOURS OF CONFERENCE.
The bishop laid before the body the
matter of fixing the hours of meeting
and upon motion of Rev. G. FL. Brooks
it was decided that the conference should
meet at g a. M, and adjourn at 1890 p
NJ, daily.
Certain limits in the church were desig-
mated as the bar of the conference.
RESOLUTION
offered by -Messrs. I. q. T. Morris and
G. W. Briggs, providing for the ap-
pointing of standing committees
at each conference was adopted.
A communication was read from Rev
DR.. J. w. Hinton, editor of the Quarterly
Review, M. E. Church, South, calling at
tention to this
IMPORTANT PERIODICAL
of the church, and soliciting aid, by way
of subscriptions, for the same. Rev. H
M. DuBose was announced as an agent OF
the Review, and the communication re-
ferred to the committee on books and
periodicals.
COLORED SUBSTITUTE.
A communication was read from Rev.
w. G. Dunlap, Atlanta, Ga, commissioner
of Pain institute, setting forth PROPOSE
tion for the establishment of such institu-
tion.
The bishop, good naturally, called the
attention of the conference to the impor-
tance of southern methodlsts assisting this
institution. Bishop Paine, whom he
Bishop McT.) had ordained, had
said if the conferences throughout the
south would raise $4,000 to establish the
institute, he would endow it with
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Bishop McTyeire said the amount asked
of the Texas conference was compare
lively small, and he hoped it would be
raised. He had subscribed $50 toward the
good cause and would give another fifty.
The negro had waited on him long time,
and now he wanted to do something for
him. ''Let's have a mixed committee,
brethren, one preacher and two laymen:or
two laymen and
ONE PREACHER
to whom this matter can be referred. If
you put preacher on the committee, let
him be one used to preach to the darkies a
long time ago."
A motion to refer carried, and the fol-
lowing committee was named:
Rev. William Shapard, and Messrs Ben.
E. McCulloch and G. W. Thomas.
Some merriment was occasioned during
the consideration of this paper.
soULE UNIVERSITY.
Rev. J. Matthews, president board of
trustees, Soule university, submitted his