The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-12-08

Payne had contributed $500. Payne
| Institute at Augusta, Ga. had also
done well. Its Treasurer, G. G. Good
Wich, showed its income from all
sources to be So, 241.SS. This includes
| interest on endowment and dona-
| tion of 5000 from the State fund. The
| church raised the sum of So, $50. 9S.
| The institute has current expense
| fund of about IS, 600. A new building
| is needed and with the S., 900 already
on hand, SIS. 900 more is needed for the
! purpose.
1t was suggested that permanent
committee of five, three clerical and
two laymen be appointed to raise the
amount.
| DAVENPORT COLLEGE.
The report of Davenport College
was read. For buildings and i'm
prOyments have been spent S102.62.
An insurance of $1,000 was carried.
| For double desks, SC. 1877 was spent:
There is on hand 500. Over 81, 600
| will be realized from citizens subScrip-
tiOn which will be used for improve
ments. A collection of 5000 was
asked from conference because the
citizens of Caldwell aided by
contribution of $500 by the late
John Purke of Rutherford, built
the college at an expense of $40, 200
and presented it in fee simple to the
South Carolina Conference. Upon
| change of boundary it was changed to
the North Carolina Conference, which
| was unable to properly support it.
The college was burned and again the
citizens helped to put it on its feet by
subscription of So, 500.
Increased building facilities are
| needed. The amount from collections
has only been half what was expected.
Under President Minnick the college
has prOSpered.
The trustees requested that Rev. J.
f. England be appointed agent for the
college to solicit subscriptions, &c,
and the following additional trustees
be appointed: 2. J. Johnson, J. d.
Minnick, J. M. Hanck and NJ. e. Shell,
and that Conference grant the right to
drop those trustees who failed to show
proper interest in the institution.
AsEEvILLE FEMALE COLLEGE.
Rev. ]. d. Arnold read the report
of Asheville Female College which
| showed it to be in good condition,
though not quite so well patronized
as last year. The college had been
! visited by a gracious revival and all
the students but one young lady had
been brought into the church. The
meetings were held in Central church,
OF Asheville. There have been no
deaths in the forty years history of
the college.
QUESTION TWENTY
Question twenty was resumed "Are
| all the preachers hlameless in their
life and official administration?
Many more ministers were passed
Rev. Messrs. Rush, T. J. Reynolds,
Smith, J. A. Virgins and Franklin
Conference relations for supernumer-
ary relations.
| UNPAID ASSESSMENTS.
J Rev. Mr.. England, of the Pineville
Circuit, Charlotte District, reported
his salary paid, but scarcely any
church assessments paid. He said he
| was not responsible for this because
it had long been a custom in his cir
cult for the stewards to attend to
the matter Of collecting the assess
ments. They had refused to allow
him to do it himself.
The Bishop administered rebuke,
saying he thought it must be very
| humiliating for a minister to report
his own salary paid and hardly any
benevolent collections raised. He said
it was the minister's province to see
that the assessments were paid and
he should not leave it to the stewards.
His Presiding Elder, Rev. A. p. Ty-
er, came to the defense of Mr. ELg-
|
he had made things appear rather
worse than they really were.
The Bishop insisted on the impor-
tance of the ministers collecting the
| assessments. He said the Methodists
were not doing their full duty in the
| matter of giving. He said $500 was
hardly an average collection in large
| NJ. e. churches.
| MR.. LAW SPEAKS.
Rev. DIR. J. II. Law addressed the
Conference and presented the 10th an
nual report of the American Bible
Society. During the last year were
distributed in this and foreign fields,
l ,300,0 Bibles, and in foreign fields
alone over 100000. The work has
been a little crippled this last year by
lack of funds.
The demands of the foreign fields
are now receiving unprecedented at
tention. There is now a Cry for
teachers, male and female. The
| American Bible Society feels the
necessity of expanding it's relations as
| the church is doing in the foreign
field. The work of translating, print
ing and distributing is demanding in
creased funds. New fields are being
entered, as e. G. Corea. New trans
lations are necessary.
The society therefore is asking for
] IDCTcdScu Iu1lUS. LdSU year UIlC uOUdl
expenditures in foreign fields
was $4,000, while the total sub
scriptions to this cause were only $50,
coo, the deficit being supplied by lega
cieS.
The society was also doing mis-
sionary work among the immigrants
that are daily coming among US. We
need $780, 900 contributed by the liv
ing this year.
The society is also trying to put the
: whole Bible in the hands of every
child who can read.
Many children do not own Bible
and thus there is here a great Chris
& tian work for the American Bible
Society to perform.
1--WE see now how Gods word is be
: ing asSailed, alas, even in the churcl
: and its plenary inspiration being de
: MED.
!. s'Last year this conference sent il
about $40 to the Society. The S. c
| conference set a side a day obServ
] ed in all the churches for contributing
/ to this purpose and soon it was fount
that the contributions increased ten
fold. He hoped this Conference woul'
do this also.
NEXT MEETING IN CHARLOTTE.
Question 81 was next called sWher
! shall the next session of the confer
ence be held?" G. w. Tillett, @
Charlotte, said his city would be gla
:. to welcome the conference at it's mex
Il meeting. 1t was unanimously chosen
4 THE ORDINATION.
, r. B. McCurdy, L. d. Gillespie,