The Washington critic., 1886-03-05
THE METIfODIsTS.
Second business Session of the An
nua1 Conference.

Second business Session of the An
nuni Conference.
The second business session Of the
annual Conference Of the NJ. r. Church
convened at the Metropolitan Church
this morning at 8 o'clock, Bishop
Nindc presiding. The devotional
exercises were conducted by Rev. DIR.
FELTON, of Baltimore. Rev. Watson
Case Of Towson called attention to the
suit In regards to the church property,
and requested a collection TO be taken,
which was so ordered. Rev. Job Price
offered communication in the form of
resolution from tho Women's Chris
tian Temperance Unions of Maryland
and the District of Columbia that the
conference indorse the Local Option
and Temperance Educational bills
pending in Congress The com.
munication was referred to the Com.
mittec ON Temperance.
Rev. DIR. Morgan submitted the re-
port of the Educational Board, which
showed that the amount invested was
$50, 900, the annual income being $7,.
g2i.5S. Rev. l.. B. Wilson was ap'
pointed president Of the Conference
Sunday school Board, after which the
conference proceeded to the examna
ton of the respective elders.
Rev. ID. III. Carroll addressed the
Conference at length on the necessity
of making regular settlements to the
accounts of the book depository and
had the subject referred to the Com
mittee on Book Concern, after which
reports of several standing committees
were received and number of visiting
ministers were introduced to the Con
ference
The reports of the Eastern Baltimore
District Missionary and Conference
collection were received and recorded,
was taking up toward defraying the
$40 expenses of q judicial proceeding
against the church at Towson, Md.
The annual report of the Drew Theo-
logical Seminary was received and re-
fcrred to the Committee OH Seminary,
and the report of the Western District
of Baltimore was read and missionary
and conference collections reported.
Rev. f. j. Mex. Riley, presiding
elder for the District of Columbia, sub.
mitted his report for the Washington
district, which showed that the district
had thirty.one ministerial charges,
seventeen of which ore in the city, the
remainder In the county adjacent. No
deaths had occurred during the year.
Two new churches, one at Bladensburg,
the other at Knowles Station, Nd,
had been erected, and one parsonage,
| on Fourth street southeast, would be
completed for occupancy by May. No
debt was incurred by the erection of
these edifices. Foundry Church had
been improved during the year to the
value of $4,000. Missionary societies
had been organizedin many Of the Sun
day-schoOls and the reports from them
were gratifying. Many of the churches
were in debt, but in each case the bur-
den was growing less. The missionary
and conference collections aggregated
about $4,000 and 81 200 respectively.
Rev. G. w. Hobbs, presiding elder
of the Cumberland District, upon sub
mitting his report was presented with
handsome gold watch by the teachers
under his charge. A communication
was received from II. II. Gorsuch of
Baltimore, Nd, inclosed in which was
check for $500, to be placed at the
disposal of the Conference, which was
accepted, and the thanks of the Con-
ference rendered to the donor. Rev.
DR.. Courtney was excused from the
Committee on the Baltimore Methodists,
and Rev. l.. L. Brown designated to
fill the vacancy, after which committee
meetings were announced for this
afternoon, and the Conference adj
| journed for the day.