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Raleigh (Christian JMnmttc. FRANK L. KEiD.) RALEIGH, C, Comm aiiic-xti ons. For the Advocate. SALISBURY DISTRICT CONFERENCE. : In obedience to instructions from our District Conference which assembled in the Methodist Church in Lexington, on the loth inst.. and adjourned on the night of u t u.,,.,:fU -u-, x-,, -i hn'pf cr. ; nopsis of iis proceedings. The attendance was large, both of lay- .-nvi -ivirl nitnr thp. latter all beino- nre- t-. , r, c r j . sent except Rev. . S. Creasy, ot Concord Station, who was kept at home enjoying a very gracious revival which has been in progress for more than three weeks. The President, Rev. W. S. Black, P. E., was promptly at his post at the opening and throughout the session, pleasant, efficient and linn in the discharge of all the duties devolving upon him. Under his intelligent and watchful guidance, every interest of our Church was carefully looked after. Class Meetings, Church Conferences, and Love Feast were brought prominently be fore the Conference, their advantages and power for good, acknowledged by all , and : their more general and frequent use urged and resolutions pledging our efforts to re establish them, wherever they do not ex- ist. were adoDted. Jfnv fiese pood resolu- , v; ' , , i j (ions be faithfully executed. r i r ,i i I Our houses ot worship and parsonages i j t , . , ! were examined and lound generallv to be , In good condition rv t,,., i j 1 here have been sever-1 al new Churches built in the District. , . , i i Others repaired and many initiatory steps ! to build new Churches at some points and I reoair old ones at others, and the same may be said of parsonages. Our people j are certainlv giving much attention to the j important consideration of making and ! keeping our houses of worship and par-! finn!,ffP nnmfnrtfll nnH nftrartiv ' The subject of missions was not over- j looked and home missions elicited a spirit-' ed discussion, manifesting a deep interest ; pervading, relative to the importance of! giving due attention to the inviting fields j and imperative demands of some unoccu- pied territory in our District; It is mani- j iestly the opinion of the Conference, that j some of these fields should receive prompt attention and be cultivated by some of our strongest and best preachers. It is cer tainly a great mistake to send a feeble or wornout minister to supply some of our Home Missions. With proper attention, some of these will develop rapidly and soon, z ery soon, become self-sustaining and de sirable Circuits, but such success can only be achieved by attractive and command ing pastors. Our Sabbath-schools are doing well in most localities. There was some com plaint that Singing -shools, or as some min ister termed them, Sunday frolics, inter fered very seriouly with the Sunday-school. This however was only in a few instances. Our Nashville Lessons and Literature are in very general use and held in high es teem by all who have tried them. Rev. H. P. Cole, R. R. Crawford and Dr. B. C. Clement were appointed an executive com mittee to organize one or more Sabbath- j school Teacher's Institute in our District, i I write the above just after the S. S. closed i and then return to finances and proceed. ! The Finances are in a healthy, condition ' and in almost every case the pastor ex-; pects to bring up his collections in full. The pastors all seemed cheerful, hopeful ! and happy. Revivals already at some 1 points and indications of a gracious out- 1 pouring of the Holy Ghost reported by the ' sevral pastors, as seen, throughout the : District, and our people are praying and ' expecting a rich harvest during the pro- I tracted and camp-meeting season. May zione be disappointed. Methodism in the district is on rising ground even-where. All seemed to receive fresh inspiration at the Conference and we confidently look for still grander achievements. The following resolutions were adopted, viz : Raleigh Christian Advocate: Whereas, We recognize the Raleigh ; Christian Advocate as the well established Organ of our Conference, an important Institution of our Church and of invalua ble aid to every Methodist minister and member : Therefore, Jvcsolt-ed, That it is the dutv of everv : Methodist family to subscribe to and read our Organ. 2nd, That we rejoice to have found the Advoca'e always sound in doctrine, pure in spirit, sweet in temper, orthodox in faith, interesting in matter, and admirable in ar- rangementt 3rd, That we congratulate our Confer- eice upon having su Hum through RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, uhich we may communicate with each other, throughout the entire bounds of the Conference. 4th, That appreciating the real merits of the Advocate as we do, we desire that its circulation may be largely increased, that its influence may be widespread, and the interest of our beloved Church prosper- ed, to the accomplishment of this end we pledge our support and influence. (Signed) C. G. Montgomery, W. A. Wilborn, B. C. Clement, T. J. Gattis, T. L. Triplett. T. T. Rav ottered the following amend- merit, VIZ That we feel very grateful to Aunt Mary, for the labors she has bestow ed and the interest manifested in the Chil dren's Column: it has awakened an interest in our children that we have scarcely seen , , . equaled, and is a source of much happiness and profit in our family circles, and we be lieve that in the future it will be a bless ing to our Church. Accepted, and the whole was unanimously adopted, after speeches by J. T. Ray, J. A. Hudson, Rev. V. T. Cutchin, the writer, and a few re marks bv the President, who was called out. Trinity College : Resolved ist, That we recognize Trinity College as an Insti tution fully abreast with the age and one to which Methodism in North Carolina owes a debt she never can pay, for having ; furnished so manv educated and talented ministers and pious and useful laymen to j the Church. 2nd, That we pledge Trinity College our heartv support and our most earnest 11 endeavors to increase her patronage to r t what it ought to be. & Srci. mat we most earnesiiv urge an t who are under financial obligations to her, to hasten to discharge the same, and thus to ' relieve her of her present ment. embarrass- "th- That we the "Great Head of the Church" t0 sPare Trinity's honored President to the church for many years o' CL speedily restored to his usual mental and physical vigor. (Signed) W. A. Wilborn, W. R. Odell, T. J. Gattis, W. T. Cutchin, W. C. Wilson, R. R. Crawford, Jno. W. Lewis, C. G. Montgomery Discussed by Dr. W. A. Wilborn, Revs. T. J. Gattis and Z. Rush; unanimously adopted. GREENSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE. Whereas, A number of gentlemen hav ing bought the Greensboro Female College property and propose to conduct the school as heretofore as a Methodist college; there fore, Resolved ist. That the thanks of this District Conference are hereby tendered to j all these gentlemen, and we desire to ex press to them our high appreciation of their noble conduct. 2nd. That we hereby pledge to them our hearty support and co-operation for the success of Greensboro Female College and will do all in our power to secure pat ronage to it. 3rd. That the Secretary be instructed to forward a copy of these resolutions to these gentlemen and to the "Raleigh Christian Advocate" for publication. Signed) W. C Wilson, W. R. Odell, H. P. Cole, J. A. Fink. C. G. Montgomery, L. C. Haines, Z. Rush, Tohn W. Lewis, T. J. Gattis, J. A. Hudson, R. R. Crawford, J. W. Cecil, Joseph Eagle, J. H. Haines, B. C. Clement, D. L. Earnhardt, H. N. Heitman, W. A. Wilborn, Thos. W. Smith, M. L. Holmes, A. W. Ellis. Discussed by Revs. W. C. Wilson and Thos. W. Smith and adopted. NASHVILLE ADVOCATE. QUARTERLY REVIEW AND WOMAN'S MISSIONARY ADVOCATE. Resolved, That we recommend to our people the Nashville Advocate, the central organ of our church, the Quarterly Re view and the Woman's Missionary Advo cate, as deserving the respect and patron age of our people. Adopted. (Signed) W. T. Cutchin. NASHVILLE HOUSE PUBLICATIONS. Resolved t That this District Conference urge upon our people the propriety and importance of purchasing and reading the current publications of our Publishing House at Nashville. Adopted. 1 Signed ) W. T. Cuichin. ENTERTAINMENT. Resolved, That the thanks of this Con ference are due and are herepy tendered to the citizens of Lexington for the elegant hospitality and Christian courtesies ex tended to this body during its session in this town. Adopted by rising vote. (Signed) J. Wheeler, W. A. Wilborn. Elected Lay Delegates to the Annual Conference: Dr W A Wilborn, W R Odell, F C Robbins and Dr B C Clement. Alternates H N Heitman, Jonathan Lassiter, Eli Lentz and F M Johnston. Farmington was selected as the place for holding the next District Conference. REMARKS. The Conference and people greatly en joyed the rich treat bestowed by Rev. T. M. Jones, D. D., in his address on Female Education and the merits of Greensboro Female College and also of Trinity College and his sermon at 1 1 a. m. Sunday. Rev. W H Dobbitt, D D., P. E. Greensboro District, spent Friday and Saturday with us. It is needless to say he added much pleasure to the occasion, because all who know him realize that he is pleasure per sonified: he preached a capital sermon Friday night. The hospitality of Lexington seemed un bounded. We all feasted on the "fat of the land," and many sweet things were thrown in. Bro. Thompson was kind and attentive. The church is among the pret tiest in the State, with a few exceptions. The choir well we imagine that we still hear the mellifluous tones of some of the finest female voices it has ever been our pleasure to listen to in our good old State. May the church at Lexington grow and prosper; may we soon hold another Dis trict Conference there; may I be a dele gate thereto, and again be assigned to the charming home of Mr. Mack Heitman. C. G. Montgomery, Secretary. Concord, N. C. For the Advocate. THE lTiXERAXCY-XO. 2. BY A PREACHER. In the roll of traveling preachers a care ful observer may see a marked difference. Some are real traveling preachers; many are merely nominal. The connection with the Conference is the same; but there resemblance ends. In the college of apostles were three favored ones. They still have their descendants, if not in wit nessing the miracles of the Master, in re ceiving favors in their work. With what remarkable tenacity do some of the favor ed ones cling to towns and cities, are loud glorifiers of "the Itinerancy," and are re joiced at circuit life if undergone by oth: ers. We learn that some of these favored ones remain in the same city, year after year, undergoing the extreme labors and sacrifices of itinerant life, until they are regarded as among the oldest inhabitants. It requires a large and vigorous imagina tion to enable us to rise to the plane of generous sympathy with these "poor wan derers," who have in fifteen to twenty years and more, "itinerated" the distance of a few miles square, from parsonage to parsonage. How poor and afflicted they must have been on salaries ranging: from $1500 to $3000 per annum. With what inspiring zeal have their bosoms glowed at missionary meetings. What melting pic tures of itinerant life and the exposures and sacrifices, for Christ's sake, have they drawn to call out our tears and our money. Some outside of the favored circle live, or manage to exist, on small salaries, witH large families, on one sixth of the salaries paid high church dignitaries. Truly we Methodists believe in "parity" among brethren we do especially .vhen the "parity" is on our side. "The latter brethren" expect to migrate regularly, and frequently enjoy the rare pleasure of car rying by wagon, steamer or rail, their lit tle household goods and wife and chil dren, several hundred miles, for the espe cial glorification of itinerancy. A circuit a few miles off would have been equallv appropriate. and circuit and preacher mu tually "acceptable." Excessive itinerancy is vearlv losing to the church some of her most able minis ters. Indeed, we find the largest and best talent often in a local or semi-itinerant j-tate. "The wheel" not only "grinds out" those who ought to be "out," but al so many ot the most "worthy and well qualified." You need not wonder that with the dark shadow of the future before them, so many really gifted and pious ones seek shelter in schools, editorships, agen cies, etc. The work usually pays better and more certain wages. These men, with all their zeal for God and love of souls, cannot help reading the history of itinerancy and knowing how manv are left poor in life's evening hour. The favored few on their stations enjoy their larger salaries and richer perquisites, and have the opportunity of educating AUGUSTJ301882. their children better and cheaper; and of ten by some well invested, well watched, real estate purchase, live long enough to die rich at last. The itinerancy is a most excellent insti tution for diffusing the gospel. Whether it is the better method for our large towns, is by some a matter of doubt. The statis tical facts cf St. Louis, Louisville and even our "Methodist Mecca", are rather in favor of "a more modified and extend ed pastorate," in the opinion of many and especially of those now stationed there. The old process is annually repeated of turning over to the superannuated list, those who have given "the dew of their youth," the strength of their manhood. and the best years of their life, in honest con secration to the itinerant work. Young America is making vigorous and manly, if not modest use of its elbows, and crowd ing to the front. With many the preacher is one of the Lord's servants hired by the year at the smallest sum that will main tain him (the servant) at a point just above respectable pauperism. The law very humanely provides a preacher, whether the previous one was paid or not. The severance of the pastoral tie dissolves all claim of the retiring pastor. A very short hand method of paying a church debt, to send the creditor away. unpaid ! A feeble, insufficient support of the ministry works ill in every direction. It disheartens the preacher, enfeebles his faith in God's providence, or his confi dence in a call to the ministry. It de stroys the keen edge of his pulpit power by the necessity of becoming more or less secular in his efforts, outside of his minis try, to gain bread for himself and family. It gives his children a distaste for Method ism, and sometimes drives them from its communion. The people lose their con scientious sense of duty in regard to all other church obligations, when they fail to care for their pastor; and they find an ex cuse, sometimes, for their neglect of his support, in the fact of his attention to some secular business into which he has been forced by the necessity created by the failure of his brethren to afford him a support. The itinerancy might have many of its rough points filed down and the preachers labors much lightened. There ought to be a parsonage on each circuit or station and district too. These parsonages ought to be made and kept comfortable. All the heavy furniture should be furnished and be part of the equipment. Visits to the parsonage should be frequent by the mem bership, with pleasant words and kind looks and full hands. How little it would cost each one, and how much good would it do materially and in the comfort of the household, for the brethren to take and send something to the parsonage to eat, to wear or to use. An occasional load of wood would be pleasant, and the preach er's assistant, his horse, would not object to a load of hay, oats and corn, every now and then. There is no better, surer re ceipt to muzzle the mouth and soul of the minister than to neglect him and his fami ly in failing to give him such proper sur roundings as are necessary to the comfort of a family. Neither the church nor the preacher should suffer the pastor to be held up in the light of a genteel pauper for the pity of church and people. Methodist pride, as well as Methodist piety, should feel glad of the opportunity to minister to every proper want of the pastor and his family. Let us try and digest the above, till we meet again, face to face, in the Advocate. The Parsonage, ) Enquire Within, ) ASHE VILLE FEMALE COLLEGE, FOR THE Higher Education of Young Ladies. Asheville, N. C. Session Opens 2nd Wednesday in Septem ber. HE V JAUEs ATKINS, Jit., A M , Pkkst Ten percent, discount -when two younjj ladies come from the same familv. Liberal discount to clnbs of 3 or 3 fiom tbe same comm mkj Write to the Piesident at oace and make your arrangement s to cuter for the fail term A teacher will meet yo'ins: ladies txl Murristown or elsewhere alona the railroad line, to escort theni to Asheville, if notillei of the time of their comimr. Send for catalogue. Addies Rev. 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