The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-05-26
THE RICHMOND CONFERENCE.
Election of Four Bishops-Brief Sketches OF
these Ofiicials-.O Other Matters of Interest.

reconsider the action of the committee
on the board Of missions, looking to al
important change in it's financial arrange
ments. Action on the subject was post
poned The committee having consid
Grafton of the subject concerning preach
ers whose conduct in general is repre-.
hensible and who don't pay their debts,
reported against further legislation on
the subject.
The report of the committee on pub,
fishing interests affirmed the principle
that the book agent should not decline
any advertisement that may not be
friendly to any patron of periodicals, but
thought that no additional legislation
was necessary.
The following Bishops were elected
The Rev. DR.. VIM. Wallace Duncan, Of
South Carolina; the Rev. DR.. Charles B.
Galloway, Of Mississippi; the Rev. DIR.
Eugene Russell Hendrix and the Rev.
DR.. Joseph H. Stanton, of Kentucky.
The Bishops elect were consecrated on
Thursday evening.
On Wednesday the Rev. ". N.
Prottsmeer, of the Southwest Missouri
Conference, presented an elaborate paper
as a substitute for the report of the COM
mittee. The substitute eliminated the
word sSouth'' from the name Of the
Church, and transposed the words
s'Methodist Episcopal to Episcopal
Methodist. The substitute was rejected
and the report of the committee against
changing the name was adopted. DR..
J. E. Edwards, of Virginia, offered a
resolution that ministers be excused from
reading the Discipline rules annually to
congregations, and that the question
whether they did or did not read them
be not asked at the quadrennial confer
ence. After lengthy discussion, par
ticipated in by prominent members Of
the Conference, the resolution was re-
jected. DR.. Kelly and Judge Tyler, Of
Tennessee, offered a resolution authoriz-
ing the establishment Of conferences il
China and Brazil, and authority to legal
ize ownership of property in those coun-
tries. Referred.
The Conference consumed the greater
portion of Thursdays session in dis
cussing the report of the committee on
missions. The board Of missions was
increased to twenty-five, and the Bishops
were made ex-offcio members. 4 paper
was referred to the board of missions
suggesting steps towards unifying Meth
odism in foreign fields. Bishop Koner
addressed the Conference in opposition
to the paper Drs. J. F. Cox, of Texas,
A. R. Winfield, of Arkansas, E. i.
Wiley, of Virginia, and others also op-
posed the measure. Drs. N. E. Chap
man, of Missouri, Horace Bishop, of
Texas, D. C. Kelly, of Tennessee, W. c.
Black, of Mississippi, J. S. Gardner, of
Virginia, and others favored the propo-
sition of unifcation and comfy. The
discussion was the most earnest Of the
present session.
At the conclusion OF the debate the
committees report, recommending no
change in the status of our foreign mis-
sion work, was adopted by a vote OF 106
to 81.
At o'clock in the afternoon the con-
secration Of the four newly elected
Bishops took place in the presence of an
immense congregation. The sermon
was delivered by Bishop McTyeire, and
the conservation services were conduct
ed in accordance with the Book of Dis
cipline.
The following is brief sketch OF the
four Bishops elected by the Methodist
General Conference in SESSION in Rich
mond, Va:
The Rev. W. W. Duncan, D. D., was
born December 81, 1899, in Mecklen-
burg county, Va, graduated in Wofford
College, S. c., in 1858, and joined the
Virginia Conference in 1859, where he
preached very acceptably, and was much
beloved as pastor. In 1875 he was
elected professor of mental and moral
science in Woford College. This posi-
ton he has filed up to the present time.
In his capacity of financial secretary"
of this institution he has travelled through
and preached in every part of South
Carolina. He developed considerable
power and gained great popu-
larity. His election by such fattering
vote was substantial proof that DR..
Duncan's reputation had reached beyond
the narrow confines of his own State.
Bishop Duncan is in his best years, OF
robust physique, and doubtless will do
good work for his church.
Dr.. Charles B. Galloway was born in
Miss, September l, 1S49,
and was educated in the university of
his State, entered the Mississippi Con-
ference in 1868, and was engaged in reg
rlar pastoral work till 1882, when he was
made editor of the New Orleans Christian
Advocate. He is probably the youngest
Bishop the Methodist Church has had.
The Rev. Eugene Russell Hendrix,
D. D., was born in Teyette, Missouri,
May II, 1S47, graduated at the Wesleyan
University in 1867, and at Union Theo-
logical Seminary, New York, in 1869;
ioincd the Missouri Conference in 1869,
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