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The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Proceedings of the Baltimore annualConference.first day. Staunton, Va.,March 13, 1861. The Conference met in the new and elegant Methodist Church--Bishop Scott, of Delaware, presiding. After reading appropriate Scripture lessons, and singing the hymn commencing "Except the Lord construct the house The best concerted schemes are vain," Revs. N. Wilson and Wm. Prettyman led in prayer. Rev. John S. Martin was elected Secretary. Rev. N. Wilson presented a memorial from the late Layman's Convention of Baltimore, on the subject of separation from the Northern Conferences. Memorials on the same subject were also presented from the Alexandria Quarterly Conference, from the Light Street (Baltimore) Meeting, from a member of the Kentucky Conference, and from the Frankfort Circuit Quarterly Conference. These, after a prolonged discussion as to the propriety of reference to a select committee, or to committee of the whole, were ordered to be read. After the
The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
[reported for the Richmond Daily Dispatch.]proceedings of the BaltimoreAnnual Conference.third day. Staunton, Va., March 15, 1861. Religions exercises were conducted by the Rev. Isaac Gibson. The report of the Committee on Preachers' Aid Society was presented and referred. T. H. W. Monroe, W. H. Chapman and John S. Martin were appointed to prepare the Annual Register. An invitation was received from the Faculty of the Blind Asylum for the Conference to attend a concert by the pupils, at 3 P. M., of to-day. It was accepted. The Stewards made their call, which consumed the morning hour. The report of the Trustees of the Baltimore Female College was presented and referred to the Committee on Seminaries. Likewise one from the Female College at Annapolis. Exhibit of the Methodist Book Concern was sent to file without reading. The order of the day — the memorials on subject of Church — was taken up. The following questions were propounded to Bishop Scott:
The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
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 o the missionary appropriation made by the General Missionary Committee. Mayberry Goheen was appointed to carryout this order. On motion, a similar course was ordered for the missionary money of the coming year. Order of the day. John S. Martin addressed the Conference at length. A sketch will be given. The committee of six, having entered the Conference room, reported as follows: the committee to whom was referred the plans of compromise submitted by brothers N. Wil
The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
s, was carried, the Secretary putting the question. The vote was taken by yeas and nays on the first of the concluding resolutions. It stood thus: In the affirmative, 84, in the negative, 3; declining to vote, 45; absent, 39. A rising vote was taken on the other parts of the proposition, and it was afterwards carried as a whole. The following were elected a committee to issue a Pastoral Address to the people, concerning this action: S. Register, S. S. Roezel, E. R. Vietch, J. S. Martin, N. Wilson, T. H. W. Monroe, and Wm. Eggleston. The Bishop rising, after this action had been consummated, read the following, and requested its insertion in the Journal: "The whole action just had, on what is called Rev. N. Wilson's proposition, is, in my judgment, in viciation of the order and Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and, therefore, is hall and void regarded as Conference action.-- Intherefore do not recognize the said action as infracting the integrity
The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Evening session. (search)
It was unanimously ordered to be placed on the Journal. I omitted to state above, that before the action given in the previous part of my letter, a protest was offered by Geo. W. Israel against the action of the General Conference. This masterly document was adopted by a large majority. The following resolution was carried unanimously: "Received, That it was not intended in any remarks offered by brethren favoring immediate separation from the General Conference, to impaga the motives of brethren differing in opinion, of to stigmatize them as having the least sympathy with abolitionism." W. S.Edwards.John S. Martin After some other unimportant action, the Conference adjourned till 7½ o' clock P. M.
The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Shocking wife murder in Sr. Louis. (search)
4th year — E. Phelps, R. L. Nixon, and Davis. For Examination of Candidates for Admission on Trial.--D. W. Arnold and G. V. Leech. Committee on Publication of Baltimore Advocate.--S. V. Blake, Wm. Hamilton, Wm. Krebbs, M. Goheen, and J. S. Martin. Missionary Sermon.--J. Lanahan. Alternate, J. A. McCauley. Several other committees were appointed. The protest of those declining to take part in the action of those who passed Rev. N. Wilson's plan, was presented and read. e Secretary, in the affirmative, on Mr. Wilson's plan. The Missionary appropriations for the different districts of the Conference were read. Committee for Consultation--(According to the last Peace resolution adopted the other day)--J. S. Martin, S. Register, Wm. Eggleston, B. F. Brooke, W. Hirst, N. J. B. Morgan, T. Sewall, E. P. Phelps, and W. B. Edward! W. G. Cor, having made a request to be permitted to withdraw from the traveling connection, it was granted. The minutes
The Daily Dispatch: March 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hard Times in Baltimore. (search)
proach, to give freedom to our preachers, in the discharge of their duties in our territory, and cannot refrain from expressing the hope that the day may speedily come when agitation and strife shall have ceased among us, and the great Methodist family, East, West, North, and South, be again united in the common effort which engaged the hearts and lives of our fathers — that of spreading Scriptural Holiness all over the land. 4th. That a committee of seven, consisting of S. Register, J. S. Martin, S. S. Roszel, S. R.Veitch. W. G. Eggleston, N. Wilson, and T. H. W. Monroe, be appointed to prepare a Pastoral letter for our people, setting forth the grounds and aims of the action. the following is the protest of the minority of the Conference: we, the undersigned members of the Baltimore Annual Conference, differing with a majority of our brethren in regard to the mode of obtaining relief from the evils which have been entailed upon us by the action of the late General Con