The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-22
ROANOKE, VA. TUESDAY MORNING. MAY a. 1884,
RELIGIOUS GATHERINGS.
The Methodist Conference Ad-
journs-The Presbyterians.

MEMPHIS, May 21.-Bishop Fitzgerald
opened the M. e. conference this morn
Ing. Short devotional exercises were
conducted by DR.. Wilson. After the
morning prayer the minutes OF the last
session were read and approved. Bishop
Fitzgerald then retired and Bishop
Hargrovestook the chair.
Bisop Keefer read paper from the
college OF bishops which vetoed para
gragh $50 of the report OF the oom-
mittee OF seven because it was uncon-
shsutional. The paragraph in question
as offered by the committee Of seven
and adopted by the conference on last
Saturday is as follows:
Every case to be tried shall be re-
ferred to committee not less than nine
nor more than thirteen, who shall be
selected by lot from the members OF the
conference, and who, in the presence of
bishop or chairman, whom the presi-
dent OF the conference shall appoint,
and one or more of the secretaries of
the conference shall have full power to
try the case and their decision shall be
hnal save as TO the right to appeal.
ut will be remem bered that the re-
port was railroaded through and that a
ner In which was done.
DR.. Yale moved that the whole mat.
ter be tabled.
DIR. Alexander raised the point Of order
that the bishops veto could not be
tabled
DR.. Denny finally settled the matter
by moving that the revised calendar be
taken up. The motion prevailed and
me affair that caused such a breeze was
left where it first WAS. DR.. Wilson
moved that when the conference next
meet 1t meet on the first Thursday OF
May, 1898. The motion prevsiled.
The following is a partial plan OF she
Episcopal visitation for 1S94-05: Bishop
ranberry-Huntingdo w. Va, Sep
tomber z; Holsion and Abingdon, Va,
October 10
Bishop Haygood- charlottesville, Va,
November IA
The evening session OF the conference
wa. devoted to winding up the details
OF the business still pending, passing
resolutions, handshaking, exc The
conference adjourned until 1898.
The Presbyterian Assembly
NASHVILLE. May 21.-In the morning
session of the general assembly of the
Presbyterian Church. South, an over.
ture was received from the Presbytery
OF North Alabama 20 select a committee
to confer with com mittee reprssen sing
tho Northern assembly with organiza-
tion in view
The committee on foreign cores
pondence presented it's report on the
overture from the Presby,ery OF North
Carolina, asking that a committee he
appoi. ted 10 negotiate with view to
closer relations with tho Associated Re
formed Church. The committee re-
commended the adoption OF resolutions
expressing the readiness of the General
Assembly to renew negotia tions in any
form agreeable to the mbly of the
Reformed Church. The resolution was
adopted.
Rev Woods, OF Baltimore, offered a
resolution, which, while not referring
to tho Breckinridge case especially,
states that the assembly reafflrms, as it
has always done, that "Sins against the
seventh commandment cannot be toler-
ated in our memhers, and we assert our
adherence and condemnation of such
sins and consider the commission of
this sin an injury to tho church, to So
ciety and to the State"
A motion to lay the resolution on the
Table resulted, ayes, So; nays, "a The
resolution WAS then referred.