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7 . s w .rN JT JOLT 1 nn r 1 IT! ' - VMS c Aft ADVOCA k3 Vol. Ill NT0. r f nj . A Songf for tL Bay of Trouble- t:. '-t LLTfltLI. Brr.tW! v.!-n Ar- fy.a ,n t r, v K-a, When thy w';'jrid';'j i-j.irit bends Lik wi..',w u'e.r th; ;.d ; When thy heart ii faint ar.'J t.,ri, An thy teari can f. . w to nr.re. Lift, lift thine rjj L'p to the tk',-.-'. Thy trouble ali ill soon be o'er. Hav- the f!ftrn:i evrept down thy ct ? Or the 2 .o'Jt thy ve-I wrecked? Slave tnrJan.l, wh'.ch thy henrt hag nought Th? rival's fort-head decked ? ... wiiiltfi. lie (tn-f'jH.in od the ar.d. am-, e l lrom thv fcror.;r, Look u;i, find hear Those words of cheer nz-it Larjd ? Dropping fjoto the ..eavei' ly Wid, Have if briht illumined ..all Echoed t the tred of dea.h? Ila he on thv nursery wall Turned the poison of hi-i breath ? Change I V i.:e upon thy knee The babe wLohe even were lights to thee? Oh ! Mill look ur. ! Th-it hitter up Wa. luinlcd by divine dtcree. Is thy r.;.;h a dreary one, Through cloud, and vraves, and night? is thy Jile a weary one, A storm arid an affright? J-Ioth nn pver-raing sea K'jll it tile of eare round thee? Jf thr tlie dark Christ hteer thy bark, It soon tn u it find a peaceful lee. As the warrior Fmit'en down Amid the piles of dcd, Kre his life's last drops are gone, Lifts his bruini-d head, Whete his f: still blaze? bright, A? the foe breaks into flight, Sends to the fcky His battle cry, Then gladly bids the world "good night." So brother ! when the storms descend, And beat upon thy head, Like to that warrior's, thy end With joy nhall be o'erspread ; Let Fai'h Mill hold her vantage ground, And soon the silver trump shall sound Thy battle done, Thy victory won, And heaven's sweet consolation found. . . - From the Daily Advocate. . HEPORT OF PROCEEDINGS or THE GENERAL CO INFERENCE T''ESDAY, MiV 11. , Bishop Taine called the Conference to order. The opening exercise3 by B M Drake. The minutes of yesterday were read and approved. REPORTS FROM COMMITTEES GEORGIA CONFERENCE. Bishop Pierce being now called to the Chair, announced the ordr of re ports from Committees. L Pearce, from the Committee on Boundaries, submitted their Report, (No 4,) recommending a change in the boundary of the Georgia Conference, proposing that said Conference shall include all the State of Georgia except that part lying south of a line com mencing at Gaines and terminating at the Altamaha river. TEXAS CONFERENCES BOUNDARY. L Pearce, from a majority of the Committee on Boundaries, submitted their Report, (No 5,) adverse to the memorial asking for a change of the bounaary line between the Texas Con ferences. J W Fields I have a minority re port from tne Committee on Bounda ries which I wish to offer as a substitute for that report. The minority report proposes for the boundary between these Conferences, a line beginning at the east pass of the Galveston Bay; thence through the town of Cincinnati, along the northern boundary of Walker and Gaines coun ties, etc. ; thence due north to Red riv er and it is signed by nine out of the nineteen members of the Committee, also by the balance of the delegation from the East Texas Conference on another part of the same paper. The Bishop The names of dele gates, not members of the Conference, ought not to have been placed on the same paper. J W Fields them erased. am willing to have These reports lie on the table one dav. under a provision in the rules of Order. MISSION TO WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA. .T TWInc from the Committee on Missions, submitted their report, (So 4,) declining at present to establish a Mission on the Western Coast of Afri ca, but recommending that the Bishops proceed to organize such a mission whenever, in their judgment, it shall become expedient so to do. J Boring said these reports were of such a character that the Conference would be fully prepared to act upon them on the present reading. The res olution referred to the committee di rected their attention to the establish ment of a Mission on the Western coast of Africa. The committee had ascer tained, to their satisfaction, that the Western Coast was not now an eligible field, but that an -'eligible field could perhaps be found farther in the interi or; and therefore they had submitted bia rpnort. referring the matter to the I ' w discretion of the Bishops. PCEU!HED,WZEEI! 21. j On motion by II N McTycire, the j report was adopted. y.Vi-AOSZ TO THE SLAVES, j J Boring, from the Fame cotamittee, : submitted their report, (No 5,) to the jeffecUhat the cannot recommend the f adoption of any resolution for the ap- pointriterit of a Superintendent of Mis l fciori3 to the slave. I J Boring stated that the report of jthe Alabama Conference, from which this application came, had not reached thU General Conference, and, aa a mat ter of course, was not before the Com mittee; and that, therefore, the report submitted was the best they could do unuer me circumstances. MISSION TO CENTRAL AMERICA. J Boring, from the same committee, also presented their report, (No 5,) unanimously recommending the estab lishment of a Mission at some point in Central America or JNew Oranada, at as early a day as practicable. The report was adopted. J Boring presented a paper, a3 a substitute for our present plan of Mis sionary operations. II McTycire moved its reference to the Committee on Missions. lie said it wa9 the great business of that Com mittee, and perhaps the chief business of the General Conference. It wa3 so referred. II A C Walker presented another plan ; which was, in accordance with his request, referred, without reading,to the same committee. N II D Wilson and D B Nicholson presented a resolution, proposing a mere verbal change in the Discipline ; which was read. and referred to the Commit tee on Revisals. W Barringer, II T Heflin, and D B Nicholson offered the following : Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be requested to inquire into the expediency of preparing a new chapter on the Rules of Evidence in Church trials, to be inserted in the Discipline, as a guide in the adminis tration of discipline. It was moved to refer the resolution to the Committee on Itinerancy. C F Deems proposed to substitute Revisals for Itinerancy. W A Smith said it was an important movement. The Committee on Revi sals had a great deal of businoss. Ev ery thing wa3 dronrjed into that well, from which, he apprehended lew things would come up again. N F Reid proposed a special com mittee as an amendment, which he sub sequently withdrew. J F Hughes moved to lay the matter on the table, which was lost. W J Parks proposed, as a substitute, that the subject be referred to the Bord of Bishops. C J Deems objected. The Bishop3 had enough to do to preside over this body, and look into the other matters committed to their care. If the reso lution should go to the Committee on Revisals, and that committee should find itself overburdened, they could ei ther select the papers which thoy deem most important to report upon, or sug gest the appointment of a special com mittee. The speaker thought that when a committee was raised for this special purpose the revisal of the Discipline all such motions should first be re ferred to that committee. A II Mitchell thought it very doubt ful whether the committee could com prise in a short chapter what would be valuable and profitable on the subject of evidence. We wanted a book, could not put every thing in the Discipline. But he hoped the matter would go to the committee. W J Parks Whoever does the work whether the Committee or the Bish- Jops it will be reported here, and must be sanctioned by this body ; so that it ill be at last the action of the General Conference. The substitute prevailed, referring the matter to the College of Bishops. G W Carter and W W Bennett pre sented the following : Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be requested to inquire into the expediency of preparing, for inser tion in the Discipline, a formula for Church trials, and report the same to this Conference. J W Phillips opposed the resolution. The last resolution covered the ground, and rendered this unnecessary. If ev ery thing were inserted in the Discip line, it would make the book too large. G W Carter offered the following : Resolved, That a committee be ap- poiated to prepare for publication in permanent form, by the Book Agents, an Ecclesiastical Digest, embracing, 1. The Judicial Reports and Decis ions of the several General Conferences from 1812 to 1858 inclusive. 2. The Decisions of the College of Bishops on appeals to them from the Annual Conferences since 1854. 3. The Decisions of the College of Bishops on other than appeal cases, when such decisions are approved by the General Conference. Mr Carter sustained the resolution in- a very lucid and able speech, setting forth thft necessity and utility ct such a compilation. ALP Green "was opposed' to the resolution. It waaldbe a troubleserae, difficult piece cf work to compile the thing ; it would involve a good deal of ' expense to publish it, and when pub ! COirKn3EZ 0F SraE3 RALEI&H, lished there would be no market for it. J Hamilton confessed hi own ml - gmngs, in view of a disposition hereto multiply forms and technicalities. In this way, he feared, it would become next to impossible to get a bad minis- ter or layman oat of the Church. It was tut the other day that the decision of an Annual Conference was reversed here upm the application of a rule of construction which many had never contestable so in theory ; and in ac heard of before. He took exceptions j cordance therewith,the Episcopal Com- particuiariy to the last part of the res u-uumu. ne hlu not c.eneve m tne pro pnety of investing this body with the power of supervising and correcting the decisions of the Bishop'. This body naa claimed and exercisc-d judicial functions, for want of a tribunal of final resort, but he should regret to see this function of the General Conference re cognized Jand-rJ-x,-1i7---l n -tkia-.fQJ.J The idea of giving judicial functions to a legislative body wa3 without a paral lel, unless it might be found in the British House of Lord3, or, perchance, on one occasion in the Legislature of the State of New "irdc. The legisla tive and judicial function were distinct, and Ought to be kept so, especially in the Church. He thought we might safely place the judicial functions of the Church in the hands of the Episcopacy. Besides, the judicial session of the Gen eral Conference would take up a great deal of time, and discussions and de bates of intricate and important ques tion3 would be introduced into a body wnicn, ny reason ot its numbers, would j come out in a manly way and allow him be far les3 competent to decide them j to copy ; but they authorized the pub than five or eight sober, intelligent, j lication of these old records. This had godly men. j been done ; and whatever they con- G W Carter It is not susceptible of j tained of importance was -K4?r "in-ed that construction. I consider that all j at our hands. He had examined these the decisions of the Bishops not repor- j records as far back as 1844, and there ted for the action of the General Con- j was very little in them that could avail ference stand as laws. Certainy I do j anything in accomplishing the object not mean that the General Conference j aimed at in this resolution. So far. shall take up and formally pass upon every decision of the Bishops. The resolution does not propose to perpetu ate these views, but only to have res pect to the past. J Hamilton The explanation of Bro Carter does away with a great deal of my objection. ALP Green added,that if he could see any necessity for thi3 thing, he would be willing to submit to the ex pense. He never felt the need of such a book himself, and did not think it necessary. u the wya -. . v ,. , it is likely that nine-tenths of it would be a compilation of repealed decisions and laws. The very principles and cases necessary in administration were already in the archives of the church. Those desiring to know more might go into the old manuscripts and hunt them up. He regarded the decisions of the Bishops, in regard to all questions of law, as the end of strife. But still, the General Conference had the power to get clear of the decisions and the in terpretation both ; so that we were in no danger of the encroaching power of the Bishops. L Campbell The Holy Scriptures were the supreme law, and we never claimed authority to legislate for the spiritual government of the church. Not only were the Holy Scriptures of supreme authority,but they were adap ted to administration by holy men. It seemed to him that to take rules of ev idence and modes of interpretation which belong to the world, and impose them upon holy men, would be most incong,uous. He concurred in the re mark" of Dr, Hamilton, that the old form3 could not be improved without involving difficulties at every step. He believe that all we wanted was to come down to the simple administration of the New Testament in the hands of holy men. This was a government that could not be patched up by human hands. The tendency of such proposi tions was to involve ourselves in laby rinthe difficulties. He hoped the res olution would pass into the Lethean pocket. W A Smith felt some anxiety that his friends from Virginia might be grat ified, but thought the proposition ought ! to be amended, so as to authorize the committee which shall prepare the de cisions, to publish only such of them as they may deem of practical utility. He" inclined to the belief that they would find very few such. It was only few year3 since that the reports ot the General Conference began to be published : and they would have to go into tbe manuscript journals of the Conference to find a good deal ot the information which the resolution con templates. Then, no doubt, they would find a number of conflicting decisions. He could himself testify to votes li the General Conference on judicial questions in total conflict with decisions of former years, lhe publication oi these conflicting decisions could do no trood. A legislature the interpeter of T -3 T J r its own laws was an idea unnearu oi. A legislative body was more or less a popular body. It was impossible for such a body to make consistent judicial decisions, tied up as they are by per sonal considerations and party influen- eneek This- showed the necessity of having a body separate and apart from the legislature, to- expound and inter pret the-law. He had no objection if a committee could' be found' to wade through the masses- cf the matter,, that I they should publish the result of their labors. Up to the time of the last T02 THE 502TH CAEOUSA COSTE. TI - IUESDAY, IVI j General Conference of tL Methodist ? Episcopal Church, South, the General Conference had been considered the - final jadgeof all questions at law. That Conference commenced a modification of this. By a rale then established, in the nature of a constitutional feature, : the College of B'shops was constituted : a co-ordinate branch of the charch ' government, in facts as thev are in- - mittee reported a rule, which wasadon- - tea, requiring the -juinng tne idods to report and publish their decisions. Carrv out this principle, and the General Confer- ence was no longer the tmal judge of I M IrTV ST 7v lafTmaker dlfl Tint nrnnnso tv i.nn.i ha r.tnr.tiotTf .r lv.K..iljr r. r t Ih : a V , - . . I . . -1 l 1 I1: f" 'I J 1 " inefr Bishops decisions should be aceompa- . r . -L L. v- " v mm V ml V fcUW V. t V VI LUO bVMV tO on which they are founded. C K Marshall thought the resolu tion would be lost ; but to obviate one of Dr Green'3 oMections. he said, the decisions could be published in one column of the great central newspaper organ without charge. L M Lee alledged that all this mat ter had been published. The General Conference of 1850 had acthon'zed him to go to the General Conference at the North and get a copy of the histo ry of Methodism from the old Confer- I ence records. That body would not then, as the acts of the Conference in the past are concerned, we had them. It was our Methodism a3 well as those who published the book. Whatever was Methodistic and legal now; and what has occurred since that time, we have published. If this committee were appointed, he did not think it would be very great labor for them to make a digest of the kind spoken of; for the records were published, and in his judg ment every Methodist preacher ought to have a copy of them, olution was then laid on the tabie- JOHN CARE.. , The Bishop now introduced Father John Carr,of Tennes3e, standhg upon the steps of the forum with Km, who, the Bishop said, was the oldest living member of the Methodist Ciurch in the State, and might have something to say to the body. j The members of the Confermce then rose up,and Father Carr said: "I have been a member of the llethodist Church, since 1790, and have been liv ing in Sumner county ever since. I feel very grateful indeed,inded, in be ing spared to come into thist hall and to see so many of God's preachers. In early times I used to guide tfcreach ers from one fort to another, to hear them preach. I feel grateful D God for the results, and for what I see to day. I thank you, brethren, for yonr attentions." Bishop Pierce then repeatel these words in a distinct voice, and, on his suggestion, it was ordered that Father Carr be invited to a seat in this Con ference, and to take part in its delibe rations. DRESS. J Lusk submitted a resolution (sign ed also by Levi Pierce) to the effect that the 8th section of Chapter III., p 106, of the Discipline be stricken out. Bishcp Soule What i3 the section ? J Lusk It is the section on Dress. I would not oppose the scriptural re strictions on dress : I do jiiLhow our people dress, if they do not exceed the bouuds set by St. Peter and St Paul. The rule in the Discipline is put down with a good deal of stringency; sun. mariv .Aeiuuuisi- a-c m uiatui-.- cently dressed a3 any body else. The rule has become, it seems to me, alto gether inoperative. Our preachers and Bishops wear gold-headed canes and gold spectacles ; and I should not be surprised if some of our reverend fath- ers were to look up tnrougn tneir goia spectacles at the brother now propos- change. Aner tarther re marks in this vein, he movel that the resolution lie on the table. The motion was agreed to. SLAVERY. C C Gilespie If in order, Mr Pres- dent. I wish to read an extract from tbe Journal of the East Texas Confer ence with reference to'the general rale of the Discipline on the subject of slave-' TIT Ml 1 . The Chair ve wuinear it. C C Gillespie then read the report of a special committee of the East Tex as Conference, memoralizing the Gen eral Conference and urging the remo val of said regulation from the Disci pline. On motion by Levi Pearce, the pa per was referred to the Special Com mittee raised upon the Alabama resolutions. Z5CE. K. Z. CITCECH, SOUTH.-BCTCS T. HOTJ3. Ediar. AY StTIsDS. sToO ;TH2 .dhcipllne I TBS GZZliAX t crier - AN j On motion by J B McFerrin, the Conference cow took up the coniidera tionof the Rencrt. (Noli from the ! Committee oa Books and Periodical'., i recommending th' : adoption of such eccre the translation : measures as shall se i publication of the Discipline in the uerman language. J W Phillips moved the adoption the report. The motion wa3 agreed to. J E Edwards and A Hunter presen ; rcor,!,i.;A .. -3;.; .v v-k.. ,ment of the svstem of probation fori church-member'ship ; and another, pro- P,osinS a substitute for that system, if :f ...... ' change shoa 1 be decmw mi. ! . O K w , dient; both of which were referred to the Committee on Revisils. I tian. RZnVvln?K?iiel a resolu DMLfll a delegation, in regard to Mission jarytands, which was referred to the j Committee on Missions. j D R McAnally called for the exhib - jit of the St. Louis Christian Advocate, ! which was hereupon presented by W j II Anderson. It represents the con j cern as in a very safe and prosperous ( tJIiUIUUll. ; red to the The document wa3 refer Committee on Books and : Periodicals. 1 T T I T rr ont T A Tt7-tr nrocontorl a preamble and resolution, setting I forth our deficiencv ai to Church m- sic, and calling for the preparation of a new tune-book, which was referred to the same committee. R Fisk offered a resolution advisin' a plan of ministerial labor for the local ' preachers and exhorters, to be arran- j ged by the first Quarterly Conference j of each vear, in all our circuits and stations. -me iormation and size ot Districts and Bishop Paine made a communication j Annual Conferences, reported (No 2) to the Conference respecting the work their recommendation of such a modi which had been assigned him by the . fication of Sec 5, Rule 14, on page 52 last General Conference, of preparing Discipline, as that " no District shall the memoirs of Bishop McKendree and Uishop boule. lhe biography ot Bish- , op Soule had been turned over to other j hatds. One volume of Bishop Mc-: Kendree s biography he bad ready for i the press, but the Book Agents were i not readv for its rmblieation. Tt will j bring his life down to 1824. The Bishop said he had devoted many hours to thi3 work when others were asleep. It was a severe tax upon his time, but ted and edmea riicti. .a. " ; Kendree was connected with the histo ry ot tne wurcn irom n o ui j TT wm identified with all the great j n i -ii 1 17QQ . 17BQ movements of the Church, her polity, J her struggles in the modification ot her government and the attempts to change it. He had examined a great number of papers, some very impor tant ones, some of which had long been supposed to be lost, which Dr. Bangs, when he wrote his history of the Church, could not find, and which he says he knew not what had become of among them the valedictory of Bishop Asbury, j valuable document, most carefully ; JoreDared. and containing some very j sagacious instructions, a defence of our i Church government and of our minis try, as successors of the Apostolic itin I erancv. He said he could condense jinto one volume the remaining par. m j ! . . t. C ' the h istory. He was very sorry the its could not put the work at once 1 Agents jto press, as he had expectea. h ; p Q Ferguson I would be perfect !not his fault, perhaps not theirs; per-; j wining for thi in commorj witn au jhaps it was a raisfortune, perhaps not. j tfaft t0 ie over one jav, and I It would give him more time, and both cQme . the r lar or(ler of bu3j. volumes coum ue f""5UC'j .w6Vfc"r when the other should be ready, lie I had performed the work at the com ! mand of the Conference, without any i expectation or desire of remuneration. It was theirs at some future day ; but, i a3 the Agents were not ready, he should i t r carry it home with him for the present. T O Summers said Bishop Paine had ' shown him a considerable amount ot j what he had written, and many valua ! ble documents, of which he did not jknow what had become, but which ! would be incorporated into the book. .Tt .ntrlit tn be stvled not "The Life" fsl - mr)1y nt The Life and Times" of -D.-V. VTr-TCondrftft. It WOU1U De a history of the Church, and he was glad the Bishop was going to make two large octavo volume3 of it. He inten ded to have one of them out during this General Conference. It 'would have been put in hand by the middle of April if the Bishop had arrived, as was expected ; bat, said the speaker, voa have ot some miserable rickety J -i j J u- arrangement ot a ranroau uuu cuc.c. C K Marshall We have been lay ing down English iron. 'The speaker continued: And you oub,l to be ashamed of it. Why don't you use American iron? Yoir have plenty of it. Why do yon not U3e it ? Well, any how, the Bishop's railroad wa3 washed away, and he couldxt get here. When- he came, we hadmade arrangements with Dr Wightraan for the publication of the Life of Bishop Capers.- 1 am sorry ine xip determined to carry home that -volume. I wish you would fix it down here, and not let it go bacK. Bishop Paine It goes back certain ly, if I go back. The speaker You ought not to go back, then. T.;l.nr. Paine I intend to be pre sent when that work goes to press. It - : 13 tot joxirs yet, but mine, and ia dt) 4 own nanis. J (r Bruce offered a resolution, fign-j e l Lv himself and one cr two nther rf . the Kentacky delegation, exprcsr.-'1 gratlScatioa the intelligent Sara- t is5ieJ bJ Bishop of the forwa "e ork, thanking bins for arm as i i krs in regard to it, and requesting bin M t-hl wT Ui J l . i VJ proceeo, wun aii convenient d:spatcb, of . to t3 completion; which was unani- mously adopted. i Appointments were now made, an - ; t?e b&(1J adjourned, with the be-iedic- ' tion from th Oh' The-following is the i the pi" for supporting the Bishops. H McTyeire. J E Evans, 7 JKc T tt t . ' comm.ttce on Kr, o n ux -inn, W G Caples. Wei.nesdat, Mat 12. Bishop Paine called the Confrn. i - ; coridicTeU &f opening exercises being ! The journal of yesterday wa, ; and authenticated. " ; Bishop Early now assumed the chair and announced the order of report from committees. NEW ORLEANS STATION. u M Lee, from the Committee on the Itinerancy, submitted their r port (No 1) on the' resolution from the Lou- isiana Conference, recommending the .tri.m,nt .u, r.i.n: -,v. : Etnkint? ut that part of the Discipline, I PaSe.-o, wnicn excepts thfl city of! ew Orleans from the appointing du- 'T nop ; recommending its ; UP""- XUQ refori unaer ttlc rules, lies 0Vcr one da district appointments. L Lee, from the s ime committee. ! to whom was referred the subject of contain more than twelve (instead of iourteen; appointments. The report lies over one day. ministerial appointments. T , 1 L.ee from the 8ame committee, lo wnom fiad been referred a resolution of inquiry into the propriety of chang ing the Discipline regarding the limi tation and restriction of the Episcopal power of appointment, submitted their rprinrf ?n A -mk .,....- - by tne common law of the Church, the Jfresiding Jb-lders are regarded as the Adv;sory Councii of the Bishops, and . t-..- : - ' i. since the Bishops recognize that rela tion in their late Pastoral Address, it is the judgment of the committee that there is no necessity for any change of the Discipline (on page 47) with refer ence to the appointment of ministers. II A C Walker moved a suspension of the rules and the adoption of this report now. L M Lee stated the purport of the amendment of the Discipline which the committee had reported against. In thg tQ the thir(j qucstion on page 47 of the Discipline, are these words : " To fix the appointment of the preachers for the several Circuits ; pro vided," etc. The amendment wa3 to 1 i U. I L V. V -MH) . . . w wor(Jg . Stat;ons Missions, and Dis tdc and whh' thJ a gent of e E1(jer3 of the idvice and con- ness: but. as it 13 the purpose ot Uon- ference that it shall come up now, I suppose we may be indulged with look ing briefly into its merit3. For twenty eight years and better, I have given practical evidence of all due loyalty to the powers that be. I glory, sir, in the well-understood machinery of our Church the Episcopal prerogatives, the self-sacrificing itinerancy, and all that. But the time may come when such a law as that proposed here to be rejected, may be necessary to the pro tection of what we call the inalienable right3 of the Church. The reason of the committee for giving it the go-by seera3 to be, that, in their opinion, there 13 nothing in it. Still, the same committee reports a restriction on the Episcopal authority a3 to the number of appointments in a District, etc. But they say, tSe Presiding Elders are the advisory council of the Bishop, by the common law of the Church. Jf this be true, I grant that there is no u;e for the proposed law. But then the binding force of the common law mighr be denied. Can there be any harm in affirming in our Discipline what you have said here by way of a common law reference? I wi3 1 the Conference to look at this Question without refer ence to men. The very best men some t mes err ; and, to restrain ourselves from errors, we should have laws. L M Lee explained the views aad obiects of the committee. There were two parts in the resolution referred. The first was to add' the words " Sta tions, Missions, and Districti." The term "'Circuit." a3 already in-the Dis cipline, the Committee are of opinion, carries ale ngr with it all she idea of "Station, Mission," etc, and conse quently they did not think it worth while that they should be added. The second Tart of the resolution wa3 not simply to constitute the Presiding El- ' a year. i advance. derr! aer an adv.rr ccnnnl rf tV r? :,v. ej are now revgnizJ hr th- - -'u. .':-.. oreaoa law cf Methisa, and hr the Bishops themselves, in their late"?, toral Address; bat it rror.d t,. --. i . . . -- oeyoni l.-.it, an1 to insert law in tae I):sc!pi;r.e that the hinis iiT r.s 3D ci ir.e J-.Dis:ora'T with re ference to everr ar rvinrrr.'-t nn!... be mais wit!, th e a lrsee and cohspr.t II , , , . ef the Presirlin. Elders. The com a it- tee did Ep:?coj r. think rroper to bind tho '3cy in sach a manner, but rrc- ferrei to leave V 1 . tl . .... 3 arr-ointing rower wnere u nas a Iwajs reposed in tha hanl i C' the Bishori : bliir tti unaer tr.e c.nmoa law of the Ch J , ' -T irea as to this matter, the Bishor dr. ...? will a ls?o with the Presiiinj Elder. E E Wiley moved to lay the matter on the table, which was loit. W J Sasaett ooored an indefinite ncsU j ponement. L.'" y A Smith asked If the- queitlen war postpohhsirTr b was oppoeed t' Mr. Svnett If the motion is tote debited, I withdraw it. Mr Smith Then the motion is or.' the a lopi ion of the report. The object of the resolution on which the cominit- I nn V'' eJ e:,dBl lo " Z fir T V? n- Uf ffr fro? th .of the dmm.atr.. -!0n- A he movers in this matter rro- pose that the administration shall be controlled by the Presiding Elders, as a safe remedy againt the evils appre henJed. Is this the safe or effectual remedy ? Will this afford us ready re lief? I siy not. The relief which wo have sought is to be found only in the appointing power of the General Con ference. We wlint to provide against' injury, not from the legal decisions of the Bishop, but from the party influ. n ccs and personal considerations hich may betray him into an abuse of the apoojnting power. Your present sys tem is to make he episcopacy directly responsible to thi3 body for the moral aspects and influence of their authority for the exercise c'f' abino of their power. Vote down the resolution.and what remedy have you ? An injury is done to some good brother in hit ap pointment: can you hold the Presiding Elders accountable ? The Presiding Elders are an irresponsible body. In stead of guarding against abuses, this measure 'throws the door wide open to' fathers, holding the B'shops .directly and imrnediatelyresponsible to the Gen eral Conference for the manner of their administration. That is your remedy, your only safe remedy not ia prss ing a law that an irresponsible body shall control the Bishop. Bishop Soule deBired to hear again what the Bishops said in their Address as to their constitutional advisers. L M Lee read the portion of the Biahops'Address referred to: II A C Walker moved that the ques tion be now put. J B McFerrin hoped ihat the mo tion would be withdrawn. Ho wanted to propc.se an amenumenti It was withdrawn. J B McFerrin proposed to arnend by substituting the words, "common usage," for the vrcrds, "common law of the Church." L M Lee said'h'e' tfould' accept the amendment, provided none of the' cory rnittee objected. The cortmittee 'nani' momly assented. The reading of the whole report was now called fcr.add wa3' read' and adep ted. BOUNDARIES. L Pearce presented Report (No C) from th Committee on Boundaries, re conrnfndirig' that the Indian Miasi?r rerrrain undivided, which was adopted.- Also Report (No 7) recommending that Mounnt Washington.in Kentucky be put down as included in the Louis tI!1 Conference which lies on the tble under the rule. VOT2 ON THE ALABAMA RESOLUTION, T W Dorrnan presented Report (Nc 1) from the committee to ascertain the vote of the Annual Conferences on the Alabama and Holston Resolutions, to expunge the general rale on "the buy ing and sellirg of men, women, and children,-with the intention to enslave them." The vote stands as follows;' Conference Concurring -Stt Concurring 7 4 i'Z ir, O I 40 IloUton Texar Virginia' Piorida Minftouri North Ca.rr.iina Sooth Carolina LeuUiiiie Georgia Kentucky St Louif Tennessee Looisiar.a W Virginia Alabama Eaet Teia Arkansas Wichita ii i 0 4 79 1 135 : 17 15 43 22 115 53 17 23 12 4 15 0 42 67 0 12 0 0 15 0 Pacific no action Kadsu 31iioo no action, ID-dim Sliasion do action. Whole nsmber of votes eonem-ring, 1160 ; being 60 vote over the consti tutional majority. The Chair announced that the report would lie on the table one day, under the rale. See Fourth Pagf.) i 1