The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-11-21

year The Preachers Relief Society distri-
| buted $1,25O and $11.GT2.0S was distrl-
| buted to superannuated list and WIDOWS
| and orphans of deceased preachers.
Among statistics reported in response to
| minute questions are the following:
| Members, 81. 654, a net increase of 1,641:
! infants Baptized. 934: adults baptized.
2,543; Epworth Leagues, 100; members,
S676: Sunday schools, $780, scholars,
ca ,O35; officers and teachers, S,414:
houses of worship, 75S; value, $2,o44,s9o;
debt, S1io,OS3; insurance. ST749IO.
| The usual omnibus resolutions Of thanks
was adopted.
| The night session was devoted to a dis
/ cussion Of the report of the Board of Pub
| fishing Interests, which recommended
| that an expert go over the cooks of Bar
| bee & Smith and report on condition Of
| church publishing interests, the report of
4 the publishers being inadequate.
MEMORIALS CONSIDERED.
The morning session. which, opened
| with prayer-meeting, led by DR.. j. c c.
Newton and further devotional exercises
| conducted by DR. w. W. Lear. was an
exceedingly busy one. Into it was crowd
| ed in addition to other business, tn,
! passing Of the characters of all the pas
tors hitherto uncalled by the bishop, and
| the consideration of numerous memorials
brought before the body about II o'clock
| from the Committee Of Memorials
| Rapd progress was made. the conference
needing the bishops exhcrtation that
!; there be no useless discussion. The BODY
! tnera ted under a. rule. adopted or no
ton, thatano man be allowed TO speak
more tina n twice On the same memorial,
Tie first speech not to be over ten MN
utes; thes second not over five minutes
There was practically no discussion of
| the first few memorials
| The committee recommended nOn-cor-
currenCe with the memorial changing tbr
i rituaIE of ba ptisr1 substituting tho word
faithful for "1ively"2 The conference.
! adopted this part OF the report. The com
| rlittee, however. recommended concur
renee in The second section of the memoir
iaI. Which asks fer a change of tie mar
riase covenant by the insertion of one
| word. This part of the report was reject
ed. Thus the whole memorial was Ia
Tie memorial asking that court OF
appeals be formed to set at least an
nual!y. was recOnlb ended by the COM
n1ittec but tabled by the conference.
! The memorial referring to the ccdiftca-
ton of church constitution in the bn TX
of discipline. was recomn' ended and con-
CURED in by the conference.
The memorial. designed to limit presil-
| ing elders districts to twelve charges,
the elder to hold one. ana to increase the
college OF bishops to thirty, no hjshop to
have charge of more tran two confer
ences, was not recommended by Tie com
mittec and was rejected by the confer
| ence without discussion
| The memorial asking for uniform nIon
| OF raising mission collections was NOT
recommended by the committee and was
| rejected.
The memorial contemplating eoualizing
salarles or pastors took the same swift
course.
The next memorial provoked some dis.
cussion. 1t was introduced by Rev. ]. %.
DcShazo. removing the limit to the terms
| OIL men assigned to the charge of missions
proper.
INTERVIEWED WINE.
! The Conference approved one Of the.
two memorials. asking that the General
! Conference provide that unfermented
wine be used at communion.
Rev. B. F. Lipsconb said he could NOT
vote for the memorial, because he had
never been able to find any valid obiec
| ton to the use of fernented wine.
Key. w, Ashby Christian advocated the
memorial eloquently. quoting the case of
a man who had not taken communion for
nine Years because he was afraid to use
| the fermented wine.
|
table was lost. only 81 voting for the mo-
| ton.
| Inc motion to approve the memorial
was then put and carried by an over
| whelming vote. The result was followed
by applause, which The bishop rebuked
ihe next memorial also provoked con-
! siderable discussion. It asked that the
| General Conference enact such lesisla-
/ ton as will authorize unordained preach
ers in charge Of circuit. station or mis-
| sion. to baptize and marry in the absence
! OF bishop or elder.
The memorial was recommended by the
| committee and heartily advocated by Dr.
| tAtwill, Rev. Z. 2. Wright, Rev T. IT.
Campbell, and others, and opposed by DR.
royal, = substitute. proposed by Rev.
| II N. Hope. was finally adopted This
memorial. that the General Conference
| TO lesislate so that q minister put in
| charge of work be ordained and have
authority to administer the sacrament.
TOBACCO y SIN.
! Upon the recommendation CT the COM
| nlittce the conference refused to approve
| The memorial which design d that no min
/ ister using tobacco ioe admitted to con
| ference, and that & minister admitted
| and afterwards taking UP the use of to-
bacco. be treated as having violated his
ordination vows.
Much time vas consumed in the con
/ sideration of the memorial offered by Rev
/ w Asbury Christian and others. provid-
ms that presiding elders districts may
/ contain as many as fifty charges but not
mors. and tllat the presiding elder es2e-
cialiy attend the first and fourth quar-
/ teriy conferences, the Inference being
that the elder nced not attend the second
/ ana third quarterly conferences II he is
! not needed.
Mr. Christian SPOKE very ably in sup-
~, ,-s4,1 <
meant economy in The pulpit and econo-
nay in finances; it would be better for the
l7!!Snpp and better fer the presiding elder
Dr. " Z. Ju1kins spoke on the other
/ side at some length out OF his own ex-
I sensive experience. Rev. r.. Z. Wilson.