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The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1860., [Electronic resource], Virginia annual Conference.--Second day. (search)
his the various Conferences were assessed to raise each a specific amount, that of the Virginia Conference being $23,000. The treasury was empty, there was a deficit, and owing to the short crops and financial embarrassment, it was feared that the collections would be short, and the means of borrowing limited. The Board recommended that no new Missions be established without imperious necessity, and that the Conferences draw their quotas only in proportion to their collections. The Board hoped that retrenchment would be the order of the day, and the Board be enabled to follow the Apostolic injunction to "owe no man anything." Rev. Mr. Langhorne introduced a resolution, looking to an inquiry into the propriety of instrumental music in public worship, and to the best method of preventing its use, if declared an evil. A "fraternal messenger" from the Methodist Protestant Conference of Virginia was received and welcomed, and shortly after the Conference adjourned for the day.