The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-11-08
Women In the General Conference.
From the Methodist Herald,

From the Methodist Herald.
The action of the General Confer
ence touching this matter, we pub
l.shed short time since, and now
publish it again SO that all may know
just what to do, and how to do it.
Resolved, That in the month of
! October OF November, 1890, there
shall be held III every lace of public
worship of the Methodist Episcopal
church, an election, at which every
member III full connection, who is not
less than tWenty-One Years of age,
shall be permitted to vote upon the
following proposition: shall women
| be eligible as lay delegates to the cleo
| torlal and general conferences of the
| Methodist Episcopal church," That
! those favorinS the admission of wo-
men as such delegates shall cast a bal
lot in the following form: or the
| admission of women as lay delegates. 3"
That those opposed to the admission
! OF women as lay delegates shall cast a
ballot in the following form: Against
the admission of women us lay dele
gates" That the said election shall
be held under the direction of the
preacher i'll charge and two E,ynen,
who shall be chosen by the quarterly
conference or the official board; OF, in
case they fail to elect, by the voters
present at the hour OF opening of such
election, who shall superintend the
details of such election, and, within
| ten days thereafter. shall re-
port the result of the election to the
presiding elder of the district, who
shall report the same to the presiding
bishop of the next annual conference,
to be canvassed by the conference, and
entered upon the conference journals;
provided, that in case of failure of
preacher in charge to be present at
such election, the same may be held in
his absence. That public notice of
such election shall be given by the
preacher III charge TO each congrega
ton nj least twice in the 30 days before
the election on the occasion OF public
preaching, whether on the Sabbath or
on week days, in the church or i'll the
place where he breaches. That The
| same proposition shall be submitted to
all the annual conferences to be held
in the year 1891 by the presiding bish-
OPP, and the vote thereon shall be
taken as the conference may direct
under the law of the church, and,
when SO taken, the same shall he GER
titled by the presiding bishop and sec
rotary of such conference to the next
general conference, together with the
vote of the lay members of the church
AS this vote of laity is for the SIM
PIE purpose of finding out What they
think about the admission of women,
as delegates to the general conference
it would seem as though the vote
should be cast without influence
for or against, on the part
of the preachers. 1t is the laity and
not the preacher, from whom the
church just now wants to hear. \
year later the preachers will be called
on to vote on the same question, but
how viii they know how to vote, that
is to say how will they know what the
laity wants unless their vote can be
cast, without undue influence on the
part of the preachers? 1t shall be as
sumed we think that our people are
sufficiently intelligent to vote on this
subject without any coaching on our
part; and all we ask for is Il free bal
lot and Il fair count. with no regula-
tons present to keep the peace"