Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-07-19
RAPPAHANNOCK Dis.
TRlCT CONFERENCE.
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAcE)

support OF the preacher in charge; and
IN several instances, the secretary failed
to dot the is. The proceedings of the
second Quarterly Conference for this
year have only been recorded in part,
and that with pencil The minutes of
the third and the fourth Quarterly Con-
ferences of last year for this charge
were not before us.
The minutes of the adjourned session
of the. 4th Quarterly Conference of last
year for the West Mathews Circuit are
marred by the fact that the name of
the charge and the date of holding the
said session were made with a pencil:
and the words have been so much rub
bed since as to well-nigh erase the
entries. The place at which said ses-
sion was held is not given; nor does the
record show who presided. 1t does
show, however, that the preacher in
| charge was present. In the answers
/ to question of said proceedings, periods
are not placed after the figures so as to
clearly indicate the amounts raised.
The answer to the said question is
further misleading. The question reads:
What has been raised the present
quarter for other objects 2" Then follow
| the figures; but the note below in brack-
cts reads: eff the above figures repre-
sent the whole year, state the fact here:
yes, or no; then the word Eyes" is
written. So, while the question calls
for the amount raised during the quar-
ter, the word yes written below indi-
Gates that the amounts were raised
during the year. We find reports
on the Registers and Records of
the charge for last year and
report from the trustees of church
property for last year, also statement
purporting to refer to the financial
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leaves of the record for last year and
this year also. We submit that, if those
papers show part of the proceedings
of the Quarterly Conference, their
contents should have been entered in
the supplement and not simply pinned
in the books. The minutes of the first
Quarterly Conference of this year are
not signed by the Presiding Elder, the
Secretary or the Recording Steward.
There is an error in the answer to the
9Th question in the proceedings of the
third Quarterly Conference of this year.
The answer is: applied to Presiding
Elder $500, P. C. SIS. rs, when only
$7S.75 We're reported as having been
raised during the quarter. There is an
lrregularity in the answer to the 9th
question. In one place it is recorded
that $3.50 were raised for the par
sonage. Then little further on it is
recorded that $34. SO were raised for
furnishing the parsonage. We think
that all should have been entered at one
place. The minutes do not show that
questions IL and 20 were answered. In
other respects the minutes of this
charge have been neatly and we'll kept.
The minutes of the White Stone
charge have been well kept: but we
recommend q change in the manner of
entering the answer to the Sth question.
The records of the third and fourth
Quarterly Conference of last year for
this charge were not before us.
The minutes of the East Mathews
Circuit have been neatly and well kept.
except the answer to the Gath question
has not been properly entered. The
question Is: who are elected stewards
for the ensuing Conference year?' The
answer is in the following words: 'sThe
same board that We had last year. See
Official roll 19OS-06." This iS,irregular.
and we think is not satisfactory.
NM- a. ToMPKINS. Chairman.
Place Of next meeting was called for
oy the chair. Rev. E F. Garner invit-
60 the Conference to Irvington and it
was unanimously accepted.
Report on Temperance read, dis
eussed and adopted.
REPoRT-Resolved 1st-That we are
gratltied at the progress the temper
ance cause is making, and will con-
tlnue 70 pray and work till the saloon
IS outlawed In our land.
RESOLVED 2nd-That we commend
all temperance organizations for the
good work they have done in agitation
and otherwise, and especially recon-
mend the Anti-Saloon League to the
encouragement and support of our
people. w. L. WARE.
| w. Med. LEE.
Report on spiritual state of the church
read, widely discussed and adopted.
REPoRT-The reports from the va
nous charges on the District give evil
dence OF a good degree of spiritual life.
Iod and take courage, yet we are fully
aware that the church has not reached
that high spiritual state, which is both
her privilege and duty.
FROM the PASTORAL reports, we OBJ
serve with regret that private Worship
Is not observed throughout our district
as it should be. This we deem a sad
neglect on the part of our Mcthodists
and we cannot urge too strongly upon
preachers In charge constant agitation
and inslstent advocacy of family worshin.
Inc failure to erect the family altar
and the lack of proper observance of
the Sabbath may explain many of our
shortcomings.
The Conference organ, the Baltimore
ana RICHMOND Christian Advocate, in
all or our homes would be a great aid
to spiritual life.
RESOLVED 1st-That we urge all our
people who have not done SO to erect
the family altar.
| RESOLVED 2nd-That we urge all our
members toa careful observance of the
Holy Sabbath day-avoiding SUNDAY
| excursions and social Sunday VISITING,
RESOLVED 3rd-That we will worx
and pray for general revival of
scrlptural holiness and the salvation of
souls throughout the bounds of our
District. 1-
The following resolutions offered and
adopted and subscription was increased
RESoLvED-That the Chair be re-
quested to appoint missionary secre-
tary Tor this District: for the special
purpose OF raising the special fund for
.he support OF our own missionary in
Ihe foreign held PORTER HARDY,
j. w. c. DAVIS.
Whereupon Rev. C. o. futile was
appointed Missionary Secretary.
Following resolution was adopted:
The time has come when this District
can and should provide a home for its
Presiding Elder, therefore,
RESOLVED-That the District Staw-
ards at their next meeting to assess
the several charges of this District
pro rata sum NOT axcaadipo go Sn0