Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-09-17

numrary relation on account of i'll
health. Rev. Il. @. Gavitt was appoint
cd chaplain of the North Western Ohio
Hospital for the Insane at the request of
the Superintendent of that institution.
The character of the Supernumerary
Preachers was examined and passed up
on. DIR. Barnes presented the report of
Conference stewards of the distribution
of funds in their hands, and recon-
mendation Of the amount to be asked
for the next year, which was approved.
AT IL o'clock the memorial services
for the dead was taken up.
Then came the question where
shall tho next Conference bo held.
Upper Saddusky, Lakeside and Fremont
were severally urged by the friends of
each. Tho Conference on vote decided
in favor of Fremont.
TUESDAY.
Conference opened with devotional ex-
ercises by Rev, Barnes, after which re-.
ports of committees came in rapidly.
Prominent among these was the report
of the Committee 90 Temperance and
Prohibition, upon which there was
warm and lengthy debate, engaged in
by a large number, and the Dow Law
was pretty thoroughly analizcd, A few
contended that it was doing some good,
but much larger number denounced
it as iniquitous in every respect and
that it did not diminish the evils arising
from the liquor traffic, and while it did
not legalize the business it acknowledged
its legality and thereby sought to make
liquor-selling respectable and therefore
should be opposed by all friends of tenn
perance, The report was amended so as
to embrace these ideas and was passed.
The report of the Committee on the
Indebtedness of st. Pauls Church of
Toledo occupied the attention of Con.
ference for some time, it being, accord
ing TO the report, absolutely necessary
for the Conference which had assumed
portion of the debt, to make some pro-
vision to meet the obligation, as it could
not be deferred longer The question
to settle was how to raise the money.
Many plans were suggested and motions
made and the report was finally so
amended as to satisfactorily meet the
case. Each preacher obligated himself
to raise, or pay, n certain amount by n
certain time, and so, after so long time,
the great burden which has been press
ing down the society of st. Paul's
church will soon be removed, for which
all are devoutly thankful
A resolution passed inviting the Bis
hop to attend at least one of the district
Conferences the coming year.
DIR. Williams, of Delaware, was ap.
pointed chairman of a committee on
memorials.
Reports of the increase of the Confer
ence for the year was read, showing a
very satisfactory increase all over the
Conference.
Report on Lakeside showed that that
very popular religious resort was MAIN
tanning its character for instruction and
usefulness,
A resolution was adopted deploring
and denouncing the persecution of the
Chinese in various States and territories
in this union.
Votes of thanks were passed to the
families of Bellefontaine for the kind
and hospitable manner in which the mem.
bers of the Conference had been enter
tanned to the Ladies for the floral dis
play, and to Biahop j. NJ. Warden for
the able manner in which he had pre-
sided over the deliberations of the Con-
ference, and assuring him of n harty
welcome should he again return.
Devotinnal exercises were then engag-
ed in, followed by few parting words
from the Bishop; when the Conference
closed by the reading of the appoint.
ments for the ensuing year.
Bishop Warden then addressed the
Conference in very appropriate and
impressive manner on the occasion of
his first official visit in his new relation
to the Central Ohio Conference.
The president presented the report of
the joint committee on the boundry
line between the Central Ohio and the
Cincinnati Conference, and stated his
official approval of the same, and an.
nounced that he had transferred David
Bowers and j. ii. Fitzwater to the Gin
cinnati Conference.
In the afternoon DIR. Thoburg preach
ed very fine practical sermon ON the
Christian life rs it should be, and in the
evening the Rev. j. c. Clemens preach
ed the annual Missionary sermon.
APPOINTMENTS FOR 1867
In the Defiance district jackson T. Pope goes
va c. Thomas goes TO North Baltimore, Rev. NJ
Il. c. Love is returned to Upper Sandusky.
TOLEDO DISTRICT.
Elias d. Whitlook, Presiding Elder.
Bettsville le"........- ..-.rhilip Lemasters.
bowling Green Charles W. 1gncyhill
felta Recommendation NJ. Nils.
Elnorc .....,,,..................James C. ClemOns.
Fayette heOdOre ". Brake.
treeport Recommendation !, Ayers.
Fremont ymun t. PrentisS
Genoa and Milbury to be supplied by