Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-05-11

general state OF the church, and the Othel
on Sunday schools. This committee ais,
reported In favor Of petition TO require
transfers from the ministry of Other
churches 10 stand the same examination
in the course Of study required of thos,
who go up to orders in the regular way
PRINT IN SPANISH.
The Committee on Publishing Interests
reported adversely the paper to print the
Bishops address i'm pamphlet form, but
they approve the petition to print the
Discipline chapter on boundaries in Span.
ish.
Ihe report Of the Committee on Educa-
ton is in favor of the creation OF a
general board OF education.
The Church Extension Committee re.
ported favor of establishing city boards
OF church extension, and also in favor
OF requiring quarterly and district con-
ierences to inquire into the subject of
church extension.
Inc Committee on Boundaries reported
iavorably upon the proposed changes in
conference lines in southern and western
work
Inc Committee on Temperance reportel
favorabiy upon the proposition that only
uhiermented wine be used for communion
purposes.
The organization OF the Committee IN
Sabbath Observance was reported DR. y
A. Yates OF North Carolina. is chairman
ana j. II. Prltchett is secretary.
a GREAT BEOUEST.
Dr. Whisner of the Baltimore Confer
ehce' chairman Of the committee TO mako
an acknowledgment of the be1uest Of
MI Barnes tor the establishment of n
hoSp'dl III 81. Louis, made a report. and
the rules were suspended, and the report
WAS adopted by a rising vote. The no
quest was OF more than a million of dol
idIS. Inc report was beautiful tribute
10 tne character Of Mr. Barnes. who had.
III MS lifetime given hundreds of thou-
sahus on dollars TO the Church. II quoted
MS saying that in charity as in business
man should put his money where II
would do the most good The Methodist
,hurch was poor, but it was doing more
LOT the poor than others and a son
would entrust the bulk Of his fortune to
1t to be used in this charity.
NEW BUSINESS.
After Saturday the new business can he
introduced, and so to-day there was n
perfect rush of petitions, memorials. and
RESOLUTIONS. The one Of greatest impor-
lance was one on the subject of a call
TO the Episcopacy. Because of the rllmor
that several feel called to this work. The
paper attracted some attention when II
was read by title. and with other papers
was properly referred.
CHURCH TRIALS.
Nhen the order Of the day was reach
co. winch was the report Of the commits
SION TO change the law of church trials
the fun began. DR.. Yates offered q ma
tlon TO refer the report to a committee az
three but accepted the resolution of DR.
Whitehead, which recited that the report
OF the commission was evidently unac-
ceptable 10 the conference. deficient in
s'gIe' ana subverslve of the expressed
purpose OF the General Conference an
pointing them, inasmuch as IL left off
laymen from the juries to try ministers
ana directed that there be a committee OF
seven appointed, to whom the reDort of
me commission should be referred. which
should report as early as possible 4
substitute TO create a new commission
10 act in the interval of the General Con-
ference was laid on the table After Or.
Whitehead had withdrawn the offensive
declarations Of his resolution II was adopt-
ed, but not without warm discussion and
close vote. The committee is PAM
Whitehead, r. w Anderson. G.. II. HAYES
II. n. Yates, j. H. Carlisle. and G. W.
Hill. BY resolution all members desiring
10 oHer amendments TO the law on church
trials were given leave to go before the
committee 50 that the report might he
perfected before it was Introduced.
PUBLICATION.
The ablcst discussion yet had occurred
on the next report of the Publishing
committee. The first part OF their report.
whlch was adverse TO the publication of
lVo,VW copies of the Episcopal address.
was adopted without discussion. The best
part. which was adverse to the petition
that the General Conference protect those
papers published by authority of the
general and annual conferences. and re-
quire preachers TO refrain from pro-
noting such competing journals, was sup
planted by the adoption of substitute
resolution that the ministry OF the Church
discourage the publication of the papers
whose tendency is To injure those papers
published by authority OF the general
ana annual conferences. when, in the
judgment or the annual conference, they
were regarded as detrimental.
a WIDE RANGE.
The discussion OF this church-paner
question took wide range. Those i'm
favor Of the committee report pleaded for
the liberty of the press, for the Demo-
cratic doctrine Of untrammelled trade.
and against monopoly. Those opposed
contended that ii was not an infringe
ment of the freedom OF the press. and
that 1t was as necessary to choke off
these little one-horse papers as ii was TO
shut out the peripatetic little evangelists.
one was aurtful TO the regular pastorate.
the other just as hurtful TO the regula r
church press. a large majority voted
against the report. The lay fraternal
delegate of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Henry Wade Rogers. president
of Northwest University. was introduced
The trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South, appointed at the last
General Conference reported their organi-
cation and act of Incorporation. and that
they had several thousand dollars of be-
quests subject to the order of this body
Their report was referred to a committee
OF five.
NONCOMPLIANCE.
The Com!nittee on Finance reported
non-concurrence In the paper proposing
that the invitation of city Offering 10
entertain the General Conference without
cost should be accepted. and then the
report was adopted.
The Committee OF Boundaries recon-
mended that State lines be the division
between the Louisiana and Mississippi
conferences. and then the report was
adopted. This gives to the Louisiana Con-
ference that strip OF the State in which
IL located Central College. I'm which JefYer.
son Davis and Judah =. Benjamin were
students.
ADOPTED.
The report OF the Publishing Committee
that the discipline be published I'm Ger
man. was adopted. The first report OF the
Committee OF Itinerancy on Conference
Journals. which disposed OF a few of the
journals OF these conferences, whose inI-
tial letter IL a. was adopted. The vote
of representation In the General Confer
ence was changed to-day. The body will
be decidedly smaller hereafter: the pres
ent vote II one clerical delegate for
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