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The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he Rev. John Thrush. The journal of yesterday was read and .... Several page were referred to the ... Committee. The parchments of Rev. .... Maybee were ordered to be restored. The Presiding Elders were constituted a committee on Missions. V. F. Ward was elected Assistant Secretary and Statistician. Report of Publication Committee of Baltimore Advocate, and financial report of F. Ward of the Baltimore Advocate, were referred to the Committee on Baltimore Advocate John Lanahan said that he had signed the report of the Publishing Committee as a business paper. At 10 o'clock, on motion, the order of the day was taken up. The time allowed for speaking on the slavery of marital was extended to 30 minutes. The following questions were propounded by the Bishop, in writing, and answered by him in the same way: Sr. David Thomas — Is there anything in the new Discipline which would be a bar to the ordination of a local Preacher holding slaves?
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
is only a question of time. It will be wicked to transfer the war to Maryland. E. R. Vietch rose to a question of privilege. He read from the Baltimore American a statement that the community at Staunton were against the Methodist Church, and that the colored people supported the preacher in charge at this place. It is sent to the American by a correspondent. I will say that I don't know this writer. He is not a Methodist preacher, I know, nor a Methodist layman; but I nail it to the counter as a falsehood. The order of the day was laid over until tomorrow. Mr. Phelps, from the committee to report a committee of fifteen, to whom the memorials on division should be referred, reported as follows: A. Griffith, N. Wilson, N. Y. B. Morgan, S. S. Roszell, John Lanahan, G. W. Israel, Wm. Hirst, F. M. Ritchie, J. N. Davis, Ezra Busey, A. Burhman, John Longstreet, Jos. R. Wheeler, P. B. Smith, R. R. S. Hough. The report was adopted, and the Conference adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Methodist Church, South. This rumor is doing its work. If any man knows of such a thing, he ought to speak out. John Lanahan.--I know that a correspondence has been carried on to carry us into the Church, South. Isaac Gibson.--I call for proof. It is a slander. Mr. Lanahan.--My character for twenty-five years has been known to this Conference. I shall make no further answer to Brother Gibson's remark. E. P. Phelps said: I am sorry that there has been any feeling. Brothe W. T. D. Clemm said: We must have this matter settled. Is that correspondence from a member of this Conference? Mr. Lanahan remarked: It proceeded from a member of this Conference, and from one intimately connected with this Conference. J. W. Start — Is it sufficiently important to call it a plan? John Lanahan — They are respectable. In regard to Mr. Clemm's remark. I have only to say that if a despotism is to be inaugurated, I am ready to bear the brunt of it. Mr. Start
The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
and after religious exercises by Rev. Dr. Ryan, the Journal was read and approved. The report of the Committee on Temperance was read and recommitted. The reports of the Committees on the Tract Cause, on Sunday Schools, and on Seminaries, were read and adopted. On motion, a committee of six was appointed to make one more effort to secure a plan of harmonious action. The following were elected to serve on this committee, viz: B. F. Brooke, N. J. B. Morgan, Samuel Register, John Lanahan, Wm. B. Edwards, Jno. Longstreet. On motion, they were permitted to retire. The report of the Committee on the Baltimore Advocate was taken up. Messrs. Gibson, T. Sewall, S. Cornelius, D. Thomas, T. H. W. Monroe, F. Israel, John S. Martin, E. P. Phelps, etc., etc., discussed the report at great length. After an amendment recommending to the Publishing Committee Dr. Bond as editor of the paper, the report was adopted. It was given in my letter of yesterday. The reports of