The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-10-10
THE LAST DAYS SESSION
YESTERDAY.
THE DELEGATES AND MEMBERS
RETURNING HOME AFTER
A VERY PLEASANT AND
HARMONIOUS CON-
FERENCE.
Full Proceedings of Yesterdays Ses-
sion-An Immense Amount of
Business Transacted = The
Next Session to BE Held
at BIorristown,. Tenn.

TIE seventh and last days session
afl lhe Holston Conference, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South,
closed its labors last night
The session has been a, peculiarly
pleasant and harmonious one, and
the attendance and amount of bust
ness transacted has been very graft
flying
Many of the members and dele
gates left the city on yesterday =
trains; and the remainder of those
here now will return to their homes
to-day
Oar people, as is usual, haye
thrown open wide their doors. and
extended to the visitors an unstinted
hospitality. The visitors have ap-
preciated the court"sies, and all OF
them hav. been loud in their praise
of the treatment received while
here. They were glad to come to
Asheville, and we are glad that
they came.
Good preaching, good talking and
good singing has been the order of
the day. and much good, we trust,
has resulted from the holding of
this Session of Conference 10 our
city. We shall indeed be glad to
have the body again convene in
Asheviii.., and to each and every
member or delegate, we extend a
cordial invitation to again come ard
see us.
Yesterday, being the last day."
an unusual amount of business was
transacted, as the proceedings SUBJ
joined will show:
The Conference met at 8 o'clock,
a. M, Bishop Hargrove in the chair.
The devotional exercises of the
morning session were conducted
by Rev. ]. H. Bruner.
Minutes of the previous days ses-
sion were read, corrected and ap-
proved.
On motion, the action of the Con-
ference by which Rev. Geo. Stewart
was referred to the Committee on
Conference Relations for supernu>
merary relations, was reconsidered.
The Board oi Finance submitted
and read Nos. 2 and 3 of their re-
port, which was adopted.
On motion, the Secretary was re-
uuested to publish the assessments
on the various districts in the Hol-
ston Conference.
The following resolution submit
ted by the Board of Finance was
introduced anil passed by vote of
the Conference:
" "Resolved, That the preachers
are urged to take up their collection
for Conference claimants separately
from all other collections, thus pre-
sentiug it to our people on its mer-
it's"
JNo. P. DAVIS, Sec'y of Board"
The committee on Conference Re
lations submitted their report,
which was amended and adop.ed.
On motion, Rev. w. P. DDar e
was referred to ths committee on
Conference Relations for the super
numerary relation.
The committee on trial in the case
of A. w. Curtis. submitted their re-
port as follows:
"The committe appointed TO try
A. W.. Curtis on the charges and
specifications herein presented, af~
ter patient hearing of the evidence
in the case. have concluded as
stated below:
"Charge, immoralitY-Grst speci"
fication, breach of trust as agent
of the Holston Publishing Co.
Second specification, dishonesty y
in contracting debts and taking up
goods without probability of pay
ing for them.
!" Third specification, falsehood, in
reference to bank debt due to an
Ksherille bank, which had been en-
dersed by his cousin w. H. Curtis.
THE committee find the evidence
sufficiently strong and clear to sus-
tain each of these three charges and
specifications, and by their unani-
nous vote so declare. They also
unanimously declare that the spec
ifications sustain the charge, and
therefore, A. w. Curtis is expelled
from the ministry and membership
of the M. e. Church, South.
j. H. BRUNER.
The Board of Education submit
ted and read their report.
The Conference proceeded to con-
slider the report, and the resolutions
appended were separately consid-
cred.
The first resolution was, on mo,
ton, adopted. The second, In refer
ence 10 The new college building u,
Jasper, .enn., was also adop ed
with board OF directors recon-
mended The third, in reference t.
a 1dnd for the education of young
ministers, was taken up. The first
resolution was read as fOlloWe:
Resolved, That this conference un-
dertake to raise an educational fund
the object of,Mbich shall be to pay
the tuition fees of young men pre-
pairing for the ministry, and of The
SOUS Of ministers in Holston Con,
ference.
Rey. w. w. Bays offered the fol-
wing substitute to the above
That the resolution read be rsfurree
10 ..the...seYeral district coaferencs!