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MACON, GEORGIA, APRIL 8, 1870.
Some Historical Facts.
We are now told, by an organ of the M.
E. Church, that the Northern General Con
ference
“Has never ‘declined to receive fraternal
greetings* from the Church South. In 1848
the General Conference did not receive Dr.
Lovick Pierce as a fraternal messenger, be
cause a great lawsuit, brought by the Church
South against us, was pending, but did re
ceive him with personal kindness, invite
him within the bar of the Conference, ten
der him the best pulpit of the city, and show
him every possible attention personally,
and declined to receive him officially, not
from any feeling of bitterness toward the
Church South, but only because it would
prejudice our cause in law."
Let us give a few extracts from the Jour
nals of the Northern General Conference,
to show how false this assigned reason is:
On Wednesday, May 3d, 1848, a commu
nication from Dr. Pierce was laid before the
General Conference, and referred to the
Committee on the State of the Church, in
which he tells them, that ‘ ‘the General Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, appointed me their delegate to bear
to you the Christian salutations of the
Church, South, and to assure you that they
sincerely desire that the two groat bodies of
Wesleyan Methodists, North and South,
should maintain at all times a warm, con
fiding, and brotherly fraternal relation to
each other. And that through mo they make
this offer to you, and very ardently desire
that you, on your part, will accept the offer
in the offer in the same spirit of brotherly
love and kindness.”
This looks like “fraternal greetings.”
On Friday, May 5, the Committee reported:
“Whereas a letter from Rev. L. Pierce,
D.D., delegate of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, proposing fraternal relations
[italics oursl between the M. E. Church,
and the M. E. Church, South, has been pre
sented to this Conference; and, whereas,
there are series questions and difficulties ex
isting between the two bodies; therefore,
“ Resolved , That while we tender to the
Rev. Dr. Pierce all personal courtesies, and
invite him to attend our sessions, this Gen
eral Conference does not consider it proper,
at present, to enter into fraternal relations
with the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. ”
John A Collins moved to amend, so that
the consideration of the report be delayed
until the questions of division of the Church
property and of the division line be settled.
Laid on the table.
J. Holdich moved the following substi
tute to the original resolution of the report:
Resolved, That the General Conference in
vite Dr. Pierce, of theM. E. Church, South,
to take a seat in the house and address us
on the subject of his mission.
Resolved, That as to fraternization, we are
not prepared at present to give any decision,
but shall leave that point open to further
consideration, under whatever light or in
formation we may receive bearing on that
question.
Dr. Holdich’s substitute was laid on the
table.
Dr. Tomlinson moved to amend the report
by adding :
'Provided, however, That nothing in this
resolution shall be so oonstrued as to operate
as a bar to any propositions from Dr. Pierce,
or any other representative of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, South, toward the
settlement of existing difficulties between
that body and this.
Dr. Durbin moved an amendment to Dr
Tomlinson’s motion, as follows :
Resolved, That in so far as Dr. Pieroo may
come with authority to adjust the difficulties
between tho two bodies, we will cordially
confer with him.
Dr. Durbin’s substitute failed; and it was
moved to lay Dr. Tomlinson’s amendment
on the table. Not carried.
Dr. Collins moved to amend, by inserting
instead of “to attend our sessions,” “to take a
seat within the bar.” Laid on the table. [ltal
ics ours].
The yeas and nays were called, and the
vote stood 147 yeas—no nays ; three absent.
So the report as amended was unanimously
adopted.
‘ ‘Sober second thought’’ made the Confer
ence ashamed of their outright refusal of the
courtesy of inviting Dr. Pierce to “a seat
within the bar.” The next day, the Con
ference “ Resolved, That on the vote of yes
terday, laying the motion of J. A. Collins,
inviting Rev. Dr. Pierce within tho bar,
on tho table, w’o did not intend to exclude
Dr. Pierce, but believed the object of the
amendment to bo fully included in the orig
inal report. ” That is, in ecclesiastical cour
tesy, it is all one to invite a distinguished
visitor “to attend our sessions,” and to in
vite him to “a seat within the bar,” even
while laying an express invitation to such a
seat, on the table. We have not so under
stood courtesy.
As some reference had been made in tho
discussion to the fact that Dr. Pierce’s cre
dentials were not before the Conference, on
Tuesday, May 9tli, they were presented—
showing that he had been delegated by a
unanimous rising vote, in the General Con
ference of the M. E. Church, South, to
visit the General Conference (North) “to
tender to that body the Christian regards
and fraternal salutations of the General
Conference of the M. E Church, South.”
This looks like “fraternal greetings."
And now, as to the “law-suit.” What had
it to do with the rejection of Dr. Pierce ?
On 12th May, Commissioners from the
Church, South, sent a paper to the General
Conference, and asked to be informed as to
the time and manner, in which it may suit
your (their) views and convenience to con
summate with us (the Commissioners) the
division of the property and funds of the
Church, as provided for in the Plan of Sep
aration adopted with so much unanimity
by the General Conference of 1844.” Re
ferred to the Committee on the State of the
Church; and on May 15th that Committee
was instructed to invite the Commissioners
to a Conference. Before the report of this
Oommittee was disposed of, there were sev
eral resolutions offered and lost or laid on
the table, but the final decision was, that
the Book Agents were authorized to submit
the claims of the Church, South, to arbi
tration, if, in the opinion of counsel, the
General Conference had the power to con
fer such authority—if not, the Agents were
authorized to tender our Commissioners ‘ ‘an
adjustment of their preferred claims by a
legal arbitration, under the authority of the
court ”
No suit commenced yet.
And four years afterwards, namely, at the
session of the Northern General Conference,
of 1852, the Book Agents reported on Wed
nesday May sth, and in their report, say:
that they consulted legal counsel and “found
that when clothed with all the authority
the General Conference could confer, their
corporate powers would not warrant them,
in submitting the case to arbitration.” Os
this fact they informed the Southern Com
missioners, and informed them that they
“had nothing to offer,” and suit was then
brought in the Circuit Court of New York,
on the 19tli day of June, 1849—more than
one year after Dr. Pierce had been turned
away “not from any feeling of bitterness to
ward the Church, South, but because it
would prejudice our case at law,” as these
modern writers of history tell ns. During
the progress of the suit in New York, the
Book Agents there were in circumstances to
do what the General Conference in 1848
provided for, and they then did it, namely,
tendered “an adjustment of the preferred
claims, by a legal arbitration under the au
thority of the Court.” After the argument
had been heard, the court suggested that
the parties agree to an adjustment by arbi-
tration, the court proposing to make the
agreement the basis of its decree. Our Com
missioners promptly responded to the sug
gestion—but the Book Agents desired that
they first consent to arbitrate the legal right
of the Church, South, to any portion of the
property—and that, on the eve of a decision
from the court, declaring that the legal right
was ours. The Commissioners very properly
refused to submit tins question of arbitra
tion. They wanted no charity—but right.
If legally nothing was ours, they wanted
nothing. So the case went on and the de
cree was in our favor; and through the inter
vention of Judge McLean, that case was set
tled by an agreement to an equitable divis
ion of the property of the N. Y. Book Con
cern and Chartered Fund, which agreement
was made part of the final decree of the
court.
The suit for our part of the Western Book
Concern was commenced still later—l2th
July, 1849. In the Circuit Court of Ohio,
it was decided against us, and an appeal was
taken to the Supreme Court of the United
States. The New York Agents, and Judge
McLean sought to have the Western Com
missioners settle with our Church, agree
to a settlement, on the basis of the New
York decision, but they declined, and the
case was prosecuted to a conclusion in the
Supreme Court—the decision of the Ohio
Court being unanimously reversed by the
Justices of the Supreme Court.
From this history taken from official
records it would seem, that the .pending
Church suits had nothing whatever to do
with Dr. Pierce’s rejection in 1848—for the
suits did not “pend” for more than a year
afterwards.
And though we have no official documents
to draw upon to disprove the assertion, that
the General Conference “did tender Dr.
Pierce the best pulpit of the city and show
him every possible attention personally,”
yet we have Dr. Pierce’s own words to the
contrary. He tells us, “neither Bishop
Soule, Dr. Green, myself, nor any Southern
preacher, so far as I was informed, received
any invitation from the Committeee on Pub
lic Worship or any other Methodist authori
ty to preach wliilo at the General Conference
of 1848 ; and I am the only one who did
preach at all, and that was in the Cumber
land Presbyterian Church, by request of the
pastor. Such was the indignation, among
some of the laymen, at the treatment of the
Southern ministers, that one gentleman pro
posed to proceed to have a first class church
built for the M. E. Church, South, in Pitts
burgh; but lie was advised by Bishop Soule
not to do so.” This settles that matter.
These falsehoods are “nailed to the coun
ter.” What reckless assertion will come
next ?
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Oglethorpe College. —The Trustees of
this Institution met in Macon 31st March,
and perfected arrangements for its removal
to Atlanta. They also elected Dr. Wills,
Pastor of the Presbyterian Church here,
President. We are not advised whether or
not he will accept the position. He has the
matter under consideration, however, and
will make his decision known in due season.
Telegraph <5 Messenger.
Death op Rev. John F. Dickinson. —The
Rev. A. Dowling writes from Troy, Ala.,
April Ist, 1870:—“Through the Advocate I
would announce the sad news of the death
of Rev. John F. Dickinson of the Mont
gomery Conference. He died at his father’s,
near Bethel, Pike county, Ala., March 31st.
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Letter from China.
Mr. Editor: —Rev. W. J. Boone, son of
the late Rev. Bishop Boone, of Shanghai,
arrived here by the January mail steamer
from America, and reports having met you
in Macon. I was very glad to hear from
you by one who had so recently seen you,
and to learn that he was the bearer of affec
tionate remembrances from friends in Geor
gia. lam emphatically a stranger in a
strange land, and have never met one famil
iar face in Chinn. A feeling of solitariness
and sometimes almost home sickness steals
over me, and I have a strong desire, a soul
craving for the communion of other days.
But that may never be ; so, as Poe says, “ I
pacify Psyche and kiss her, and thus dispel
the shadows that inhabit a heart once filled
with friendship.”
Well, we have now entered upon the duties
of the new year, 1870. I have withdrawn
from the school or rather the school has
withdrawn from me, having been removed
to the Chinese Arsenal establishment—too
far away for me to continue my connection
with it. My forenoons are now given to
missionary work proper, while the after
noons are still devoted to the two Chinese
newspapers as formerly. These latter are
agencies in the hands of tho missionary too
important and influential to lie surrendered
without reluctance, and in the absence of
some extra compensating consideration I
shall never consent to a voluntary relin
quishment of my connection with them.
We are also organizing schools and hope
by greater attention, in the future, to this
department of our work, to secure a larger
and more permanent influence among the
Chinese.
During the Chinese new year holidays,
from January 31st to February 6th, my pa
pers were suspended for a week, and I
availed of the opportunity to visit Suchow,
one of our out stations about 72 miles dis
tant. As we arrived there, however, on the
last day of the year, and the next week was
not a suitable time for chapel services, we
i. e. Bro. Wherry, of the Presbyterian Mis
sion, Shanghai, and myself, continued our
journey on to the mountains situated on the
borders of the Taihu—great lake, near Su
chow. For quite three years I had been
confined to Shanghai, without scarcely a
spare moment to relieve my mind or duly
exercise the body; so for three days we
abandoned ourselves, all care and work for
the time being dismissed, to a thorough ob
livion of life among the mountains. Oh !
what a luxury is pure mountain air and the
clear fresh water, gushing from those great
reservoirs of nature. To appreciate them,one
needs only to pass through this muddy plain
that surrounds Shanghai, where every breath
is infected and every drop of water dyed
with sewerage, and constantly floated to and
fro in its efforts to reach the soa. I would
like, if I had time, to give you a description
of these lovely retreats; time would fail me to
tell you of the heights we scaled—the break
neck steeps we descended—the lovely valleys
where the mulberry grows and the silk
worm spins his glossy fabric—the terraced
slopes where the humble tea tree inhales the
fragrant breath of the mountains and trea
sures up that elixir which delights the world
the frowning peaks where Buddha sits en
throned in grand old temples visited by
Emperors—the flowery vales and fruitful
gardens that sleep on the margin of the
lake—the wide spreading plain, the inter
secting canals, the hamlets, villages and
cities seen in the hazy distance—of the beau
tiful pagodas, the elaborate "tombs, and a
hundred other things that lend enchantment
to that pieturesque place, where all nature is
lavish of her charms and only man is rile.
Suffice it to say, that after an absence of
nine days of most beautiful weather, we re
turned greatly rested and refreshed to renew
our toilsome tasks at Shanghai.
A day or two after our return, the United
States mail arrived .with papers to the 17th
December, and a remittance from the trea
surer. The liberal action of the South
Georgia Conference toward the China mis
sion encourages me to hope that henceforth
I shall not only have the means to live but
something more —wherewith to support
schools, purchase or rent preaching places,
print books and tracts —in fine, to employ
all the legitimate agencies of a living, pro
gressive mission for the spread of the truth
and the salvation of these deluded millions
of pagans.
The great mistake of our Board hereto
fore has been to support, that is, give each
missionary just as much as was absolutely
required to feed and clothe him decently,
while other and indispensable auxiliaries
have been neglected. Personally, I desire
and require no more than a decent allow
ance to live on, but while the missionary is
the chief instrumentality for the spread of
the gospel, yet he can no more cultivate this
vast gospel field without other agencies than
could a farmer without the instruments of
husbandry, the agricultural.
I look, therefore, to the generous influ
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
ence of the North and Sonth Georgia Con
ferences to help us arise from the inabilities
of the past, and henceforth to adopt a living
and vigorous economy of action.
This letter I have written to you privately,
as I desired to thank you for the kind
words delivered by the Rev. W. J. Boone,
but should you think fit to make other use
of it, you can do so. Pardon great haste.
Yours, very truly,
Young J. Allen.
Shanghai, China, Feb. 11.
Georgetown, S. C.
At our late Conference, Mr. Editor, you
promised mo room to address my brethren,
through the Advocate —on which condition I
withheld my speech then ; and I will now
offer it in part by your permission.
But first allow me to say, that George
town is not what it was in pecuniary ability,
when I was last here, sixteen years ago; for
though our church here was not noted for
wealth, it is greatly reduced from the money
condition of those times. Our membership
numbers about 180—many unable to con
tribute anything—some (as in every place)
indifferent, and none able to give largely.
The same may be said of that part of the
congregation, who are not church members.
Thus premising, I proceed.
At our late Conference I determined that
under the divine blessing all apportioned to
my charge should be collected—leaving the
stewards, as, of course, I always do, to take
care of my interests—for, I thus reasoned—
those who make these assessments are ju
dicious men and true, and are not likely to
overburden their brethren ; and, on the
other hand, our people are sensible and
kind, and when shown the worthiness of the
object and the reasonableness of the de
mand, are not likely to refuse the required
contribution. So I had a consultation with
my stewards—God bless them ! they are
kind-hearted and wise—the result of which
was, that, instead of six separate collections
(for there are six objects,) there should be
two—one now, tlie other after awhile. So,
having prepared an appropriate sermon on
that blessed, soul-inspiring remark of Paul
—“For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ; that though he was rich, yet for
your sakes he became poor, that ye through
his poverty might be rich,” I preached it
on the next Sabbath morning, and then col
lected in cash and promises the whole amount
I asked for, and something over. But O,
the trouble and difficulty I had in order to
this success! After the sermon (which
might have been preached on an ordinary
occasion without regard to a collection,) I
came down from the pulpit, and spent not
less, I think, than full fifteen minutes in ex
plaining the objects for which I was solicit
ing sympathy and aid, and— took my seat,
while two of the stewards took up the col
lection. “And is that all!” Yes, indeed,
that is the whole of it; and most persons, I
dare say, would think the whole effort
amounted to very little. Be it so—for I
would agree w ith them; but the kindness
and prompt action of the people made the
result very successful. Treasurer Magruder,
in Baltimore, has received the Georgetown,
S. C., share of the Missionary Debt ; the
treasurer of the education fund for Wofford
College has in hand our share of that inter
est and I hold our proportion of the Bish
ops’ Fund (so called) and of delegates’ ex
penses to be carried forward to the General
Conference.
From tlie whole I deduce—
1. That our late Conference was in deep,
grim, settled earnest when discussing the
education and finance subjects, and when
acting on the reports em'tiracing these two
interests.
2. That in the same style of earnestness,
they resolved, each man of them, that the
whole of the collections embraced in these
reports should be secured.
3. That a'slight effort comparatively, right
ly made, in kind, loving earnestness, in each
case will secure the required amount.
4. That on most, if not all, occasions such
a presentation of the subject would induce
all to contribute to raise the aggregate
amount. (In my collection only one per
son gave specific direction to his contribu
tion.)
5. For my ow'n comfort—that when I come
to call for the second half of the whole Con
ference claim upon us, the people whom I
serve—and whom I delight to serve, will be
prepared to meet that demand also. “Per
haps not ?” Well if they don’t, Mr. Editor,
and I be alive and able to write, you shall
hear of it, and so shall they ; and if they do,
as I feel assured they will, should God favor
them, under the same conditions you and
they shall be sure to hear the result; and
then, in either case, I shall expect to give
the second instalment of my promised
speech.
Till then, I earnestly and affectionately
implore my brethren of the Conference to
take up these collections in the early part of
the year as far as practicable. Think: The
Missionary Debt collection should go to
Baltimore forthwith if not already there;
the Wofford College claim admits of no de
lay; tlie travelling expense claim should be
in the hands of the delegates before they
leave for General Conference, and so should
the collection for the Bishops that it may be
in Dr. Redford’s hands at Memphis. We
cannot delay, my brethren, if we be true ;
and we are true, and by God’s grace mean
so to continue. Nor let any one suppose
that the pressing, gently, earnestly, of these
claims will prejudice his own financial in
terests —rather otherwise ; for, fidelity to
duty on his part, will prompt to correspond
ent fidelity on the part of others associated
with him—sympathy felt by him for the in
terests of the church and of his brethren,
will attract a correspondent sympathy from
the people whom he serves—always allowing
that, in his other duties, he is faithful. Then,
be it borne in mind, there remain to be se
cured in their proper season, the Confer
ence and Missionary Collections.
H. A. C. Walker.
Rome District, North Georgia
Conference.
Mr. Editor: —Precisely three months have
been required to complete the first round
upon the Rome District. There are four
teen quarterly meetings—embracing fifteen
charges.
At most points every thing looks hopeful:
improvement, progress is the watchword—
at some points in the District the churches
are behind the age, in conception of and per
formance of duty. Dilapidated edifices—
stoveless log and unceiled plank buildings,
advertise the visitor of unfaithful class
leaders, stewards and members—of cold,
worldly-minded professors, or of communi
ties that, neither reading the Bible, nor the
church papers, are wilfully ignorant of what
God and the church required of them. But,
even they are open to conviction —and here and
there is a man or a woman whose eyes have
been opened, who at least “see men, as trees,
walking. ” Os course such circuits —such a
church—does not “devise liberal things” for
the preacher, the Sunday school, the mis
sionary cause, or any other church enter
prise.
Most of the country embraced in the
Rome District is romantically beautiful,
even amid winter’s snows and rains. In
spring and summer, scenery will present it
self—valleys, mountains, streams, farms and
fields that rival Switzerland itself.
The traveler is elevated, refined—if a lover
of nature, is enthused, as he wanders through
lovely valleys, green with the coming har-
vest —or rides for hours in immediate con
tact with gigantic cliffs “munitions of
rocks,” that defend the strong overshadow
ing mountains—or listens to the gurgling
brooks, “dear as crystal” that spring forth
from every Dili side, and pour out from
every mountain, “streams of living waters."
Poets are born, not made , yet prosaic as
your correspondent is, do not consign me to
the asylum, if I attempt poetry some day,
under the influence of such inspiration as
nature gives in this mountain district.
Can’t you come to our District meeting at
Cave Spring—in the rich and lovely Vann’s
Valley ? (a most unromantic name for such
a vale.) It is the scat of the State Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, the Cherokee Wesleyan In
stitute, the Baptist Hearn Male and Female
Institutes, a Masonic school, and, until re
cently, of Mrs. Ford’s Episcopal Seminary.
Bro. James T. Lin, is Principal of our Wes
leyan Institute, with two or three assistants
in the female and ornamental departments.
Cherokee, Georgia, Floyd, Polk, Chattooga,
and Walker counties, especially—with the
adjoining counties of Alabama, should unite
to make this the most flourishing institu
tion of learning in all that section.
We hope to have Bishop Pierce, and
the venerable and venerated father. Dr.
Lovick Pierce with us. The meeting will
embrace the first Sabbath in July. Come,
drink our sweet, fresh, cold water—breathe
our delightful atmosphere, and look upon
nature’s beauty and grandeur in midsummer;
it will invigorate the physical and spiritual
ma^ —help soul and body. But enough.
Yours fraternally,
H. J. Adams.
Atlanta, March 31.
Marion and McDowell Circuit,
South Carolina Conference.
- This circuit lies upon tho Catawba river,
south of the Blue Ridge mountains and ad
jacent to Holston Conference. It is bound
ed on the north by the Catawba river, on
the east by Bridgewater, on the west by
Pleasant Gardens, and on the south by Dys
ardville, Brackettown, Jamestown and Dev
il’s Ball alley. Pleasant Gardens has been
known as such for more than one hundred
years. Bracket and Jamestown are “without
seaports.” A small river runs at tbe base of
Devil’s B 11 alley. Tho circuit and station
were thrown together in ono charge, at our
last Annual Conference.
Marion is the county site of McDowell.
Marks of improvement are every where vis
ible here. The Western Extension Railroad
passes this place. It is thought the cars
will reach Marion in tw® months. They al
ready run to Bridgewater. Some new dwel
ling houses are going up in Marion. And
prospectively there is a large increase of en
terprise, connected with the future of this
mountain village or town.
I know of nothing more calculated to
make one grow “rotund” or fat, than a good
residence here, with a good farm lying con
tiguous on the beautiful Catawba, except it
be traveling as an itinerant Methodist
preacher, eating chickens and preaching
good sound Arminian doctrines. This cir
cuit embracing Marion affords a good field
for a good and faithful Methodist preacher.
There is travel enough, and there are chick
ens enough, people enough to preach to—
ample room for unfolding the gospel scheme
in its purity.
We have in Marion a model school and a
model teacher. Young Bryce, fresh from
Wofford College—a graduate is a No. 1
teacher. Intelligent and pious, he will hold
up both the standard of education and reli
gion, exerting an influence felt and acknow-
Igfclgml by tbe whole community. Would
that we had a thousand such from Wofford,
with her literary and religions impress upon
them—scattering broadcast a saving influ
ence over these lands.
The Methodist Church in Marion (a brick
house) was beginning to show marks of age,
when the indefatigable J. R. Griffith, their
pastor, projected an arrangement for its re
pair, and going forward, both in effort and
means, he gathered around him the Metho
dist community in effort, with such as were
friendly to the enterprise, and the result is,
that now they have a beautiful and well ar
ranged house of worship. The pulpit re
moved from the middle of the house—a re
cessed pulpit in the end, arranged and fin
ished with taste, with the entire finish ac
cording to the same rule —all handsomely
painted walnut color—thus giving evidence
that they have a right appreciation of a suit
able place in which to worship God. May
the Spirit of the Highest rest upon them.
And to this material and necessary sacrifice,
may they all bring themselves as an offering
upon this consecrated altar, that God may
recognize them, and his presence fill their
place of worship. None will die any poorer
because of this expenditure of means. May
very many old dilapidated places of worship
be thus improved.
Our District-meeting for Spartanburg Dis
trict will convene in Marion on Wednesday
(moonlight) before the second Sunday in
August, and continue till tho following
Monday morning. The good people here
will make ample arrangements to accommo
date. Each charge on my second round will
elect or appoint at least four of their num
ber to attend as delegates.
We expect a Bishop, and we now say,
that, if possible, we must have one. A
Methodist Bishop has never officiated just
here. A direct line of railroad connects
this place with Richmond ; also connects us
with Charleston. After General Conference
we will confer with such as we may hope to
get, as W’e will then see the Episcopal plan
for the following year.
This is a great and growing country, and
is in a state of rapid development. Look
ing at the beautiful Catawba river with its
many tributaries dotted up and clown with
good mansion houses and farms in a high
state of culture, owned by a people of in
telligence and thrift, and looking further
at their schools of a high order, and their
churches all over this country, etc., etc., we
are led to conclude that Western North Car
olina, in physical, social, mental and reli
gious improvements is fully up to the age in
which we live. R. P. Franks.
March 2'2d.
The Baltimore Conference.
Mr. Editor: —l intended to snatch a few'
moments during our Conference to write to
the Advocate, but constant employment dur
ing the session on two committees, prevent
ed it. You have by this time through our
Advocate, and the Episcopal Methodist, seen
our proceedings.
We met in the basement of* Dr. Huston’s
new church. St. Paul’s. The plan of this
structure is very complete and elegant, and
when it is finished, as it will be, there will
be no church more commodious and comely
in that part of Baltimore. The people of
that charge deserve all credit for their ener
gy and perseverance. The session room in
which we met is quite large, and will hold
1000 people in comfort. There was not a
day in which it was not crowded.
Bishop McTyeire presided as he always
does, with dignity and grace, and won high
commendation from all. Bishop Dogget
was also present, and was as pleasant and
popular as usual. He has often been with
ns; but we had never seen Bishop Marvin,
who was also at the Conference, and who
preached for us on Sunday morning. I had,
as I thought, so skillfully arranged my plans,
that I could hear him, but alas ! I was not
so fortunate; for in order to relieve my Pre
siding Elder, who was sick, I was forced to.
preach for Dr. Webster. I learned, how
ever, that the sermon met every demand,
and was considered the sermon, of the Con
ference scst 'i. He is very amiable and
courteous beside, and we are all in "love with
him.
We had a rather painful duty, when we
were forced to reject, the fraternal messen
gers sent us from Frederick.
I am assured, that this was just what they
expected nud desired. They knew we could
do nothing else. Dr. Slieer lias always had
the credit of being very Southern in his
feelings. He is not tbe only man who lias
talked Southern, and acted Northern in my
acquaintance. He was in the General Con
ference at Chicago, but he did not then
move for a fraternal messenger, or message,
and that was the place, nor did Dr. Morgan
or any other one among them. You saw
our action, and our reasons assigned.
While this was true, we are and have al
ways been anxious for peace, and no people
have borne more or sacrificed more for it,
than we have. They have taken our chur
ches in many places, and declare that they
intend to take them in all. In Alexandria,
Leesburg, Lewisbnrg, and Winchester, they
have, by military power and otherwise, seiz
ed churches to which, whatever the law may
say, they know they have no right, and their
people justify them. I was in the store of
Hurst, Purnell & Cos„ dry goods jobbers, on
Baltimore st., to solicit the sum of 85.00 !!
from a Northern Methodist house, which
had a large trade in Virginia, and was not
only refused, but for the first time met a
man who declared it was right to take our
church in Lewisburg—but while it was right
he added—he himself, as a Christian, might
have given it up to us. I did not stay to
see the senior partner. This is true of many
such people in Baltimore and elsewhere; but ■
I am glad not to deny that there is much
genuine sympathy, and true hearted friend
ship for us among the members of this
church even there. Mr. Benj. Darby, of
Darby & Cos., large dealers in candies, etc.,
sent me confectionary for a festival which
netted my good sisters 8-10.00, and sent nlso
to Conference 850.00 for needy preachers—
I am glad he has a good trade in Georgia—
but I digress.
The paper adopted on this subject was
without a dissenting vote. The election for
delegates came oft’ and was tedious. We had a
number of ballots. Drßegester, Roszell, Mar
tin and Wilson, were elected on tbe first bal
lot—Bros. Waugh, Ball and Baird, complete
the delegation. These are all men of the
old Baltimore Conference. They have been
good workers in days gone by and still are,
and are perhaps as ardently Southern as any
men in the connection.
Wilson is the son of Rev. Norval Wilson,
our Nestor. We left the father at home,
merely because he could not go, and sent
the son. He will do fino service ; for he is
not only a capital preacher but a fine lawyer.
The others you know.
Our lay delegation has Dr. Bond as the
local preacher. Considering the number of
distinguished local preachers in our bounds,
this election was quite a compliment to the
man of whom I dure not speak as I feel. I
have merely to say that those who have
known Dr. Bond as an Editor will be not
less in love with him as a man.
The appointments at last were made, and
the statistics having been examined, they
wero read out. As usual, there were some
very hard appointments, and some very
easy ones—some which seemed to be very
good, and some which puzzled everybody
but the Bishop nud tho elders. I was re
turned to Lewisburg for tlie third year, and,
taking advantage of tho indulgence of my
people, have been visiting old friends and
lecturing. I hope to be in my pulpit next
Sunday. I am to-day in Culpepper. It
does not look as it did when, in 1862,1
broiled some bacon on a sharp pointed stick,
and baked my own hoecake, and breakfasted
by a camp fire. It has wonderfully recruit
ed, and is indeed a beautiful country.
We shall be glad to see you in the moun
tains this summer; and offer you mountain
mutton and Durham beef of the finest quali
ty if you will come and take shelter in the
parsonage at Lewisburg.
As ever yours, G. G. S.
Just a wor«l from “Old Methodist.’’
Mr. Editor: I was so very unfortunate, as
not to receive the extra number of the Ad
vocate, which you were kind enough to send
me. But, it matters not. A kind sister,
living some five or six miles from me, loaned
me the copy.
I feel, as though I had done some good,
in causing you to draw your Damascus blade,
with unwonted zeal for the cause you de
fend. Right manfully have you carried
yourself. And it may cause some poor
squire, who, like myself, can only mount a
Dapple, to be more cautious in entering the
lists.
Mr. Calhoun said, that lie regarded words,
as the mere scaffolding of thought. Talley
rand, the wizard statesman of France, said,
that words were given to conceal thought.
Now, though I prefer thediscipleship of the
great Carolinian, I seem to have been so
unfortunate as to have practiced upon that
of the great Frenchman. 1 certainly was
not correctly understood, either by you or
others. But I will not rehash.
You make tho barber’s basin ring upon
many heads, but I feel that you did not hit.
me. I know that it is immodest; but after
all that has been said, as well ns wliat has
been insinuated, as to my motives, I feel
that I should be pardoned for saying, that,
though Ido not claim to have done “what
I could,” I will yet challenge any member
of our church in Georgia, to show that he
has done more for the various enterprises of
our church, in proportion to his means—our
fiscal agents and their books being wit
nesses. And I hereby pledge myself, that
upon proof of any one having done more
than I, for the support of our preachers, or
for our missions, both foreign and home, or
who has given more to Emory College, I
will make up my deficiency. And I hereby
authorize you, Mr. Editor, to give my name
to any one who accepts the gage. Os course,
they will hold themselves bound to respond
to any deficiency that might appear against
them.
Several of yonr correspondents seem dis
posed to aid in the fight against tho “Old
Methodist.” Brother Haygood, iu an ar
ticle on the “Orphans’ Home,” turns aside
to give him a kick. He says, to object to
the “Orphans’ Home,” because all the or
phans may not be provided for at once, is
like offering “to give one hundred dollars to
bring our Missionary back from China,”
because there are so many poor heathen still un
converted.
Now, brother 11. knew or ought to have
known, that I said no such thing, and that
it was not fairly dedncible from what I did
say. I happen to know that brother 11,
has been better instructed than to resort to
such disengenuousness. Asa Methodist, I
am proud of the talents and usefulness of
brother Haygood, aud know that he is in
capable of doing intentional wrong in any
thing. But I would advise him, to be more
guarded. Such a mode of stating the op
posing side, is demoralizing to him who in
dulges in it. Brother H., thought, perhaps,
it might pass for wit, but truth should never
be so degraded, as to pander to wit; and I
trust, for the future, he will be more guard
ed, than to make it subsidiary to anything
less pure than itself.
“An old Methodist. ”
Tlie Orplian’s Dome.
BY JANE T. H. CROSS.
Among the great number of Southern
Methodists scattered over our country it
must happen, and not nnfrequently, that
children are left orphans and helpless; often,
almost friendless. In such cases, is there i
any duty resting upon the Church, or is it a
matter of no concern to the Church? Can
we, with indifference, see those children left
homeless and helpless, or may not their very
helplessness he the lesson that God has pre
pared for us, and placed before us, to teach
us sympathy, kindness, benevolence? It is
a law of our nature that every faculty, that
every power, that every virtue grows and
strengthens by exercise. Benevolence is
very good, but to be entirely good, it must
be strong enough to lead us to beneficence.
I do not object to one weeping over fictitious
sorrow's, if it induces him to administer to
real sorrows, but what is the use of linger
ing with swimming eyes on the story of lit
tle Gretehen, the match girl, of making our
selves one with her, and looking with her
keen eyes of hunger quite through the solid
wall upon the sumptuous entertainment
within, of entering with her, at last, through
the cold portal of want, into the genial at
mosphere of heaven itself, if wo put no
shoes upon tho actual Gretcliens who are
barefoot in the cold, if we provide them qo
shelter, if we throw no arm around them to
snatch them from vice. The tear of sym
pathy is very good, hut I would rather have
it accompanied even by ten cents than to
have it alone. Tho showers of Spring are
beautiful, but what can they produce if there
be no seed in the earth?
I hear someone sigh: “Would that I
could do something for the poor and suffer
ing, but mj’ means are so very small I have
scarcely enough to supply my ow’n wants!”
Is it possible that you are as needy as you
think yourself? Do you never spend a dol
lar that might be saved? Ami do you know
the luxury of saving a dollar even by a stern
self-denial for the purpose of giving it to
anothei'? Os giving, think how it makes
you like God! Think of what a noble privi
lege this is that tho Father lias bestow’ed
upon us! How kingly He makes us when
Ho puts it in our power to help another!
Think of us, weak, helpless ones, still being
able to help and strengthen others! What
a joy is placed before us in thus participating
in tho power of God! And if it bo not a
joy, then are we, indeed, ourselves, sunk into
the depths of poverty, and how terrible is
that leanness that penetrates to the soul!
But you may say, what can I uo with one
dollar? You can add it to your neighbor’s
and he can add it to his neighbor’s, and thus
the dollar may roll until it becomes a moun
tain of silver; and upon this fair mountain
may be erected an orphan house, the halls of
which shall bo filled with the glad voices of
children; and in its groves, and among its
trailing vines and blooming flowers shall beat
happy and innocent hearts that have been
saved from vice and degradation.
This is no dream nor fancy picture. Such
happy homes for orphans can be established
and have been. If our means are small we
can build a small orphan-house, and take a
small number of children; and as our means
increase we can enlarge the house and gather
in the children. If Mary had refrained from
pouring the box of ointment upon tlie head
of the Saviour because she had not a gallon,
it never would have been said of her, “ She
hath done what she could.”
A Freemason informed me that on one oc
casion one of their fraternity proposed to
buy a very valuable piece of property in iNew
York and closed the proposition by laying
one dollar on the table, and saying, “ That
is all I have, I give that.” The proposition
was immediately embraced; they entered
heartily upon the work, and now, ns the fruit
of tho beginning, they own there an enor
mously valuable property.
, Will our Church consider it her peculiar
\ province to take care of her own children,to
| gather up the little homeless ones and give
them a home? Some hearts among us think
of it, they think of it in Georgia; and if the
Georgia Conferences and the Florida Confer
ence unite, ns is proposed, and make a grand
effort, such as they arc capable of doing, we
shall have a monument erected to tlie glory
of God, of which we need not be ashamed.
If I could unite tho voices of all the orphans,
if I could look up with their eyes into your
faces, I would say: “Give it to us! Save us!”
and I know you could not resist.
To tlie Official Members of tbe
CJiurclt in tlie Koine District.
D ear Brethren : I have completed my first
round—have met with and been kindly en
tertained by you—that is by such of yon as
attended upon the quarterly meetings. In
the Quarterly Conferences aud in the pul
pit, I have done all I could to discharge my
duty, and to incite you to yours—but it w T as
quite impossible to do all that should be
done, or to say to you all that, should be
said. Besides, not a few of the officiary,
aud multitudes of the members of our church
within the bounds of the Rome District, I
did not have the pleasure to meet. Not
withstanding the snow, and sleet, and rain
—the swollen streams, and railway delays
and accidents, all the Conferences were held.
The preachers in charge, presiding elder,
and some of the official members were present.
Now, a word to the known and the un
known—to those who by the help of God
overcame all obstacles in the way of the dis
charge of duty during the past quarter, and
to those who did not—to those who listened
to the messages which I delivered to them
in the Master’s name, and in the Mas
ter’s stead, and to those who have not.
To the officers of the church —the preachers,
exhorters, class leaders, stewards, Sunday
school superintendents, and church Secreta
ries. Os many of you I have formed a fa
vorable, of some of you, a very favorable
opinion—of others an unfavorable one. It
was a matter of course that I should have
done so. Some of you came through bad
w'eather,moved by your zeal for God’s cause—
and faithfully performed your duty—proved
your worthiness of the confidence reposed
in you by the church when she licensed you
to preach, or exhort—elected you stewards,
appointed you leaders and superintendents
or made yon secretaries of church-meetings.
Others came to the quarterly meetings it is
true, but had not preached, nor exhorted,
nor led class, nor collected any quarterage,
nor superintended a Sunday-school, nor re
corded the proceedings of a church-meet
ing, during the quarter ! Under the influ
ence of what motives they eame to Quarter
ly Conference, I will not undertake to say—
certainly not because they expected ns to
say “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
Others did not even come to quarterly
meeting. A few of the official members,
providentially prevented, sincerely regretted
it—some sent written and other excuses for
non-attendance, but others turned their backs
upon their duty to their brethren of the Quar
terly Conference, and hence compelled mo to
form an unfavorable opinion of them also.
Do such brethren know that it is as much
their duty to meet me at Quarterly Confer
ence, as it is mine to hold one, and to be
present at it ? May I ask them to auswer
this question : How could the Quarterly
Conferences have been held if all the official
members had acted as they did; that is, re
mained at home?
Would not both these classes of delin
quents have formed an unfavorable opinion
of the new presiding elder had he failed to
hold the quarterly meetings, or, having met
YOL. XXXIII. NO. 14.
the official members, failed to discharge the
duties of presiding officer; nud refused or
neglected to preach, administer the sacra
ment of baptism and the Lord’s supper, or
to hold the love feast ?
“But, I was ten miles from the placo of
meeting and it was very cold, or it rained—
or I had no horse, and certainly was not ex
pected to walk ?”
I answer, I was from 75 to 150 miles awuy,
aud it was cold, then rainy, and I had no
horse, yet had I failed to attend the quarter
ly meetings—any one of them—you would
have thought me very delicate, effeminate—
or certainly not sufficiently alive to tho
church’s interest in my duties.
Let each ono of us do our duiy for the
three quarters that remain; preachers, ex
liorters, leaders, stewards, superintendents,
and Secretaries— and then wc will feel it to be
not only a duty, but a pleasure to attend
these very important meetings, which occur
but four times a year. Brethren, the Mas
ter's eye is upon us. We are His servants.
May wo joyfully say with Him, “ldelight to
do Thy will, 0 God" —and not be partakers
with that one who hid his talent, burying it
iti a napkin, did nothing for his Lord, and
was rejected as “a wicked and slothful ser
vant.” Your brother, H. J. Adams.
Washington Street Church, Co
s S. C.
I fear tho very name of this poor burnt
Church is becoming unpopular. Its case
seems certainly to elicit less sympathy than
in the first year of its desolation; and yet its
demands for sympathy and aid become each
day more urgent. Ever since I have been
advocating its claims, I have also been pas
tor of tho congregation and membership of
tho chapel—tho temporary place of worship.
I had asked of the Conference, aud hoped
for help in my conflicting labor as pastor
and agent combined, but have had thus far
to do tho work, singly and alone. Conse
quently much continuous effort as agent
could not be exercised without militating
against, my work as pastor. Owing to this
and the people’s backwardness in devising
liberal tilings, I have mot with little com
parative success. My applications North
have generally received a negative reply;
those in the various Church papers have
yielded me, all told, the sum of Ilf ty-five dol
lars. From tho preachers of our own Con
ference, in accordance with a resolution of
the Conference recommending personal ef
fort on their part, when I myself could not
be presont, 1 have received no response.
From various sources I have thus far col
lected something over three thousand dollars,
over three hundred of which was necessarily
appropriated in payment of a debt contracted
for tbe building of the chapel.
In the meanwhile tho chapel is already too
small for our present congregation, while the
city is somewhat increasing in population.
We want much more room, especially for
the poor. I am aware that our preachers
have had enough work oiten to obtain their
own pittances of support; still what they
procure for the rebuilding of this Church
will not, I am sure, diminish, but ratlier in
crease their means; for there is nothing so
pvomotive of Christian liberality as getting
people in the way of giving.
So I would liave them all, the poorest-paid
among them, make the interests of this
Church of Columbia a personal matter. In
fact, brethren, it would bo more to your in
terest than mine. I—one of the cllist
preachers of tho Conference—will, iu tho
course of nature, bo gone from earth long
before most of you. This will be a station
for you when I have passed away. The
Church for which I plead I never expect to
preach in, but most of you will, by tho bless
ing of God. Wo once had the largest Church
in the State and ono of the largest and best
parsonages. Would that it were so again,
aud Washington Street Church, Columbia,
station No. J, in the Conference.
For this, all that is wanting—oven now—
is a large Church —when tho increased con
gregation would furnish means eommeusu
rate with tho wants of a preacher of the
largest i'awily. I hopo my brethren will
consider, when they help to build this Church,
that they are helping themselves and their
brethren, and, what is more, tho cause of
Him who is of Zion the chief corner stone.
Wn. Martin.
Columbia, S. C., March 26, 1870.
Our Church at Columbia, S. C. — The
Baltimore Episcopal Methodist says:—“The
Bev. Wm. Martin, pastor of this Churoh,
made a brief visit to Baltimore during the
late session of our Conference. His pressing
engagements at home made it necessary for
him to return immediately. Bishop Dog
gett, however, in a very earnest and im
pressive speech, presented the claims of this
suffering Church. Dr. Sargent and others
of our Conference had also been upon the
desolated spot since the terrible night when
a brutal soldiery laid in ashes a great part of
that b< nu’iful city. Among the buildings
burned was onr large Church on Washington
street, near which rests tho remains of the
sainted Bishop Capers. It will be a work of
mercy to assist our friends in Columbia, and
we most earnestly commend them and their
excellent pastor to the benevolent of all de
nominations. Donations may be sent di
rectly to tho Rev. Wm. Martin, Columbia.
S. O.
STRAY LEAVES.
From the Port-Folio of a Methodist Local
Preacher. By Rev. Lucius Bellinger, of
South Carolina. With« Portrait of the
Author.
This book just issued, is now ready for
delivery. It may be bad of tbe author, at
Bamberg, S. 0.. or of tho Publishers, J. W.
Burke & Cos., Macon, Ga. Price 82 50 per
copy. To those buying to sell a discount of
20 per cent, will be made.
A limited number of copies has been pub
lished, and all of the many friends of the
author may not be able to get a copy, unless
application is made early.
Cash must accompany the order—maariailji.
General Conference Daily Chris
tian Advocate.
A daily paper, to be styled the General
Conference Daily Christian Advocate, will be
published in tho city of Memphis, Tenn.,
during the session of the approaching Gen
eral Conference. Arrangements have been
made with the Office of the Memphis and
Arkansas Christian Advocate for its publica
tion.
No previous session of the General Con
ference of the M. E. Church, South, has
been invested with so much importance as
the one to be held in Memphis, commenc
ing May 4tli, and to none lias the Church
looked with more anxious interest.
In order to place the Daily in the hands
of all who desire to keep fully and promptly
advised of the proceedings of the General
Conference, we offer it at the exceedingly
low price of One Dollar per copy.
Any preacher or other person who may
send us ten subscribers shall receive an
extra copy free.
Subscriptions and money may be sent to
the editors of our Clmreh-papers.
All the traveling and local preachers of
the Church are our agents.
We request the subscriptions to be sent
as early as possible.
We request the delegates elected to the
General Conference to act as special agents
to the General Conference Daily Christian
Advocate. Each Delegate will want two
copies—one for himself and one to be sent
to his family. We also request them to ob
tain all the subscribers they oan. Terms
one dollar.
Mareh 4-8 w A. H. Bedford, Ag’t.
To tlie Members of tlie Tallahassee
District Meeting.
Dear Brethren: —By authority from Major
R. Walker, General Superintendent of the
P. & G. R- R-, those of us who pay full fare
going to the District Meeting will be re
turned free of charge.
In addition to the presence of the Bishop,
Rev. Drs. L. Pierce and Jos. S. Key are ex
pected. A.’J. Wold ridge.
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