Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-11-20
Virginia Methodists.

at the session of the Virginia Methodist
Conference in Richmond yesterday, The re-
port ofthe committee on memorial to the
General Conference declined TO recommend
the amendment proposed by DR.. Whitehead
on the subject of licensing women to preach
or exhort in any public service or mixed
assembly. The committee deems the pro
posed legislation uncalled for"
The proposition was amended 30 as to
provide that no woman shall be licensed TO
preach or exhort in any mixed assembly,
and then adopted.
DR.. P. A. Peterson, chairman of the com
mittee on memorials submitted report
The frat section reads "W. E. Edwards
ssks that the form of reception of members
he an changed as to require candidates for
membership to specifically promise that
thew will refrain from card playing, wine
drinking, theatre going and participation in
the promiscuous dance. Believing that
these and such like practices are forbidden
by the discipline, and that persons received
into the church do promise to refrain from
them, your committee deem it inadVlssble
to recommend the change proposed" Adopt
ed without discussion.
The second reads: 1.-THE paper presented
by E. V. White and W. V. Tudor asks for
legislation by the General Conference go as
to make the church the insurer OF its OVID
nroperty. We deem such legislation mex
nedient. and advise that it be not recon-.
mended to the General Conference.
DR.. Paul Whitebead's proposition, to seek
to amend the church laws 90 as to prohibit a
member of the church who had been ex
pelled from being called back until he bad
repented of the "crime" for which he was
expelled, brought on long discussion. Or.
Whitehead's proposition was finally adopted.
When the committee on memorials, &C.,
reported adversely upon Mr. Richard tergu-
sons unique plan for paying the minister
according to the size of mis- family, the au
thor of the scheme made strong speech 10
ills favor but the conference by practically
unanimous vote rejected it.
The petition of certain persons for trans
ferriDg so much of the Murfreesboro' district
as lies within North Carolina to the confer
ence of that State was referred back to the
conference By the committee without any
recommendations.
Rev. F. NJ. Edwards, the chairman of the
committee on temperance, presented az
other report. This is in substance the same
as that made on Monday, except that for
the clause in the latter to which objection
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reference with the civil laws of the State,
was substituted this declaration in the pre-
amble "Whereas We believe the su1erings
of women and children, together with the
distresses of the reeling victims of this enor.
nous evil, are sufficient to call for general
uprising of the good people of this nation
against It's tyranny, and that thor
ough examna ion OF the danger threat
ening our land should be kept con
stanty before the public mind" The
report was unanimously adopted. The
committee on conference relations submit
ted report recommending that the appi,
cations of the following ministers for super
numersry relations be granted: Reva. T. d.
Early, VIM. II. Camper, Thomas H. Bogee
aud II. c. Bowles. All of the applications
were granted.
1t was announced that Dr.. ]. Powell Gar
land presiding elder of the Richmond dis
trict, was elected the seventh member OF
the clerical delegation to the General Non'
| ference