The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-12
4 GIFT 10 TIE NETHODISTS
The Florida Conference Offered a Home
FOR Orphans.

Il Consists OF q House That Cost IS, 600
and Forty--our Acres Of Land e.
Archer The Owner Asks That sne Be
Ee.uburs- d for a Recent Expenditure
Of O. 600 il the Property Is Accepted.
The Conf renee Divided on the Advis-
ability Of Accepting It.
Jacksouvue. Fla. Jan. 11-Nearly all
Of this mornings session Of the Florida
Methodist conference was taken up in
discussing ne reports OF committees, and
The only final action Of any Importance
was the awarding OF the contract Cor
editing and publishing the Florida Chris
uan Advocate. tho church organ. 10 Rev
Or. Josephus Anderson for TIE next four
years.
The rest 81 the day was taken up with
routine work and the discussion Of re-
iorts. and one IS, the latter provoked
long and heated discussion. This was
the reIort Of the committee on = Florida
conference orphans home. which recon-
mended the acceptance of an offer made
by Dr. Murreh Of the North Georgia
conference on behalf Of his wife, to do
nate 90 the Florida conference for an
crphanage a tract Of forty-four acres of
land at Archer. Levy county. The land
.s improved by having en- it house
that cost 5000 eleven years ago. Twelve
acres are set out i'm orange. pear and
other fruit trees. a considerable por-
ton Of the tract is under cultivation,
and the remainder has enough timber
on IL TO supply fuel for some time to
come. The property is given on condition
that 81 600 bo raised and paid to the donor
within ninety days as that amount has
recently been paid out on il by Its pres
ems owner
Dr. Alurleh supplemented the report Of
the committee by givine q detailed des-
criDtion of the property and then naming
some conditions of the gift. which it was
understood were 70 be in TIE deed. Among
these We're q provision that none Of the
proceeds derived from the products Of the
land should ever be used for liquors that
no liquors should be used on the place
ana that no tobacco be raised or used
by any one on the place connected with
it's management
These conditions met with pronounced
opposition, as they were deemed entirely
unnecessary TO impose for an iustitu-
ton over which a Methodist conference
was to have control.
u. q. Lang moved at once that the offer
BE- not received
This brought out a hot discussion. All
We're opposed to accepting the property
with any such conditions named in the
deed.
Others opposed IT, even II all the condi-
tons were stricken out because it was
not deemed advisable to have to mort
gage the property to raise the $500 neces-
sary.
Several Of the ministers who had seen
the property spoke highly of its advan-
tages for the purpose.
Motions and substitutes piled on top of
each other until only a very few knew
what was before the House, but Bishop
Duncan soon Strengthened matters out.
Rev. J. T. Depass then made speech
in which he stated, on the part of DR..
Murreh. that no conditions whatever
would be inserted in the deed and that a
straight warranty deed would be given
if the offer was accepted.
After considerable discussion, Rev Mr..
Lang's motion was tabled by vote of A.
TO 43, and the whole matter was referred
back to the committee So the two Geor-
gia philanthropsts must now wait another
year or else make their proposition TO
some other conference.
Tonight there is a large audience I'm
ATTENDANCE upon the semi-centeuuial iu-
bilee Of the conference at McTyre Mem
orial church.