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1878. Leard, Sami Mr. A. M. Simmons. Martin, Wm Mr. J. N. Martin. Massebeau, J. B Mr. J. H. Bolleson. Melton, X. K Jos. M. Baxter Esq. Meynardie, E. J Mr. X. B. Mazyck. Mitchell, T Station Parsonage. Mood, H. M Mr. A. J. Maybin. Mood, J. A Mr. A. J. Maybin. Mood, W. W Mr. A. J. Maybin. Mouzon, W. P Y. J. Pope, Esq. Morgan, H. J Mr. J. K. G. Xance. Munnerlyn, T. W Mr. W. H. Hunt. Murray, J. W Major J. P. Kinard. Mann, C. D Mr. J. D. Smith. Mann, \V. D Mr. J. D. Smith. Merritt, E. M Mr. E. 11. Christian. Meynardie, J. S Mr. T. F. Harmon. Maybin, B. H Mr. W. W. Hodges. Muekenfuss, C. H Dr. S. F. Fant. Maurice, S. W T. S. Moorman, Esq. Meadors, \V. P Mr. S. C. Merchant. Martin, AV. S Mr. R. S. McCorchran. McMillan, D. J Mr. B J. Singleton. Mcßoy, J. W Mr. H. H. Blcase. McKibben, M. A Mr. R.H. Wright. McKain, J. K Rev. R. A. Fair. McFerrin, J. B Y. J. Pope, Esq. McLeod, R. Y Mr. R. H. Wright. McGill, W. T Mr. T. F. Greneker. Xorton, Jas Major J. P. Kinard. Xettles, A Mr. R. C. Chapman. Newberry, I. J Mr. A. M. Bowers. Xeville, J. J Mr. T. F. Greneker. Oliver, R. C Circuit Parsonage. Outzs, D. T Mr. C. P. Dickert. Pierce, G. F Mr. W- T. Tarrant. Prince, W. L Mr. J. H. Kolleson, Pickins, W. S Mr. Wm. Lane. Price, E. G Mr. J. D. Hornsby. Porter, Jas. S Mr. S. C. Merchant. Pate, J. T Major J P. Kinard. Pegues, W. L Mr. C. Chapman. JCatterson, W. C Mr- R. T. Reagin. Platt, J B Mr. B. J. Ramage. Porter, J. A Mrs C Mower. Phillips, T. P Mr. I). B Wheeler. ' Power, W. C Mr. S. P. Boozer. Pooser, G. H Mr. J. 11. James. Pritchard, C. II Mr. T. F. Greneker. Pooser, M. II Mr. Jas. Crawford. Raysor, T Mr. L. E. Fulk. Rogers, W. A Colonel J. R. Leavel. Russell, J. C Mr. G. M. Geredaux. Rowell, C. D Mr. B. J. Ramage. Rountree, O. X Mr. Jacob Sligh. Rollins, E ... Mr. A. M. Bowers. Rushton, J. M Mr D. B. Wheeler. Rushton, Jesse Mr. J. II Blease. Richardson, W. R Mr. T. M. Lake. Rainwater, A. T Mr. Jos. Glenn. Reid, J. W Mr. Jas. Crawford. Sullivan, W. D Mr. E P. Chalmers. Switzer, J. R Mr. P. Rodlespiger. Stokes, B Dr. P. B. Ruff. Senn, R. D Mr. W. C. Parker. Scarhoro, L Mr. R. C. Chapman. Seal, David Mrs. E. A. Bradly. Shipp, A. M T. S. Moorman, Esq. Smith, W. P Dr. P. B. Ruff. Smith, W. II Dr. O 11. Meyer. Sheldon, D. II Mr. E. P. Chalmers. Shnford, J. L Mr. R. C. Chapman. Silley, J. L W. Y. Fair, Esq. Simmons, D. J. Station Parsonage. Smith, Whitefoord Dr. Jas. Mclntosh. Stafford, A. J Colonel J. R. Leavel. Stokes, A. J Dr. S. F. Fant. -CXA.tt, it. t> *.••• r,. a. aoi ,-s, it,sq. Smith, A". C .'......Dr. O. B. Meyer. Stoll, J. C Mr W. M. Langford. Smith, J. F Mr. S. P Boozer. Stokes, J. L. Rev. L. Broaddus. Townsend, J. W Mr. R. C. Clipman. Thomas, Wm Mr. J. E. Chapman. Traywiek, J. B Mr. D. Bushardt. Tiller, Dove Mr. J. D. Hornsby. Tarbourx, J. W W. H. Wallace, Esq. Turner, J. H Mr. T. M. I .ake. Vaughn, S. D Mr. J. A. Chapman. Wightman, W. M Y- J. Pope, Esq. Warren, W. B Dr. O. B Meyer. Wilson, A. W Y. J. Pope, Esq. Wightman, J. W Mr. A. M. Simmons. Whitaker, H W Mr. Jacob Sligh. Williams. G. W Silas Johnstone, Esq. Walker, 11. A. C Mr. G. M. McWhorter. Walker, A. C Mr. G. M. McWhorter. Wannamaker, T. E Mr- L. E. Fulk. Watts, Jno Mr. T. H. Harmon. Weber, S. A Mr. J. X. Fowles. Wells, G. H Mr. B. J. Singleton. Watson, J. E Mr. L. M. Speers. Wightman, J. T Dr. Jos. Mclntosh. Wood, J A W. Y. Fair, Esq. Wood, Landv Mr. Jas. Packer. Workman, J. J Mr. C. P. Dickert. Wells, R. X J. F J- Caldwell, Esq. Wilson, J. B Rev. Z. L. White. Wightman, W. S Mr. X. B. Mazyck. Whitman, G. W Mr. \\. A. Cline. Willson, J. O Dr. S. F- Fant. Walker, C. W Silas Johnstone, Esq. Walker, A. W Mr. W. Lane. Williams, W. W Colonel Lipscomb. Wolling, J. W Mr R. C. Chapman. Zimmerman, J. II Mr. J. O. Peoples. Rail Road Fare. Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line. “Delegates will be passed free on their return on presentation of Secretary’s certificate that they were delegates in attendance and that they paid full fare going. Those who hold half-rate tickets are not entitled to such cir tificates.” Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta, and Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta. •* Return tickets to Columbia good for ten days, will bo sold at three cents per mile each way.” South Carolina Railroad. “ All delegates who pay regular fare going will, upon presentation of certificates to the agent in Columbia, be allowed to return at the rate of two cents per mile. These certificates must be pre sented at ticket office and not on the road.” Northeastern Railroad. “ .tickets will be sold at excursion rates, six cents per mile, to go and return. Cer tificates will not be recognized.” Savannah and Charleston Railroad. “Delegates will be sold round trip tickets’as far as Charleston, for one local fare for round trip.” Greenville and Columbia Railroad. “ Will extend the usual rates on pub lic occasions.” % Cheraw and Darlington Railroad. SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. “ Persons attending the Conference, on paying first class fare going, will be returned on certificate of Secretary of Conference without extra charge until December 21st.” South Carolina Conference. Dr. Meynardie, Columbia District , writes: “ The Fort Mill and the Rock Hill circuits held their Quarterly Meetings last week apart, beginning on Thursday and ending on Sunday night. The meetings were highly interesting and the Conferences in dicate unusual diligence on the part of the pastors and their official. Brother S.’s development into full, clerical manhood, will place him with the foremost in the pulpit. Brother Boyd has placed the Rock Hill circuit where it ought to have been long ago, in the front rank. Every church in the charge has been developed and improved by a general plan of reor ganization which he adopted in the early part of the year. About eight miles from the town of Rock Hill, in an old Presbyterian community, he planted a church, the dedication of which occurred a few weeks since, aud the membership of which now numbers fifty-four. One of the stew ards is a Presbyterian transfer. Pos sibly, others are also. The member ship and congregation are largely composed of this class of excellent citizens, who would have proved faith ful to the Church of their ancestors had they been sought and served pas torally. Brother B. did this for Christ’s sake and their souls’ sake, and conse quently, he is filling the Church with these substantial people. Our brother has received into the Church this year, one hundred and fifty persons. This will indicate the spiritual condition of his charge. His salary has been paid to within sixty dollars, and the Presiding Elder’s en tirely. He will likely- report all his collections in full. The parsonage at Rock Hill is undergoing re-modeling, enlargement and thorough repair, which will make it, with its ample grounds, a most desirable residence. The town is sustained by the circuit cheerfully in this work. Besides, Rock Hill has contributed over four hundred dollars, as its annual quota, for the ministry. Of course, it is ex pected that the well contented Pre siding Elder, who has his hands full of enterprises, in transitu, will, with In.s wtrA-escrngiSraiiy, occupy the new house the ensuing Conference year. The progress of Methodism in the County of York, the current year, has been remarkable, and ought to become historic in the annals of our Conference, for the reason mainly that it is a well known, deep-rooted, Scotch-Irish Presbyterian county. This whole section of the State was settled by a steady, industrious and religious people, exceedingly tenacious of the inherited faith of their fathers. Their descendants are now served by pastors of education, intelligence and j liberality. Lathan, Wilson, and Coop- I er, are among the foremost ministers ! of their Church in the State, and are deservedly esteemed by ours, who know them personally. The doctrines and appliances of Methodism, however, wherever our Church is planted, never fail to make those inroads and reap those fruits which a sound, spiritual and ecclesi astical aggressiveness produces. In doing this, the Church and her liberal ministry dispense blessings where they seem at first to wound. This is the philosophy of Methodism, in a nut-shell, exemplified in Mr. Wesley’s day and ever since. The illustration of it is furnished by every branch of the evangelical Church, and will con tinue to bo, until the mission of Wes leyan Methodism ceases ’with the re vealed glory of the entire kingdom of Christ, at the last day. In Western York, over three hun dred have been added to the Church the present year. This has been ac complished through the able, devoted and piously aggressive ministry of such men as Boyd, of Rock Hill; Stokes, of Fort Mill; Gilbert, of York ! ville, including Philadelphia ; Johnson, | of York ; and Boozer, of Black’s sta tion, who have almost entirely swept I this section, receiving into the Church the cream of society." These, without flattery, for the subject will not admit of such trifling, are workmen who need not to be ashamed. When they rest in the bosom of their God, these works will follow them. What a stimulus this thought should be to the ministry, to be holy, circumspect and laborious!” Rev Manning Brown, takes leave of the Cokesbury District, at the close of his fourth year of service: “ The Lowndesville Station, though not blessed with anything like a revi val this year, has, notwithstanding, under the judicious management of the pastor, made some advancement. The Abbeville Station, the present year, has had the faithful labors of one who always does good work, and whose efforts, I am confident have built up the interest of the charge. Cokesbury Station, though their zealous pastor has worked faith fully, I fear has made no progress. Newberry Station, where our Annual Conference is to hold its next session, has not prospered as I hoped it would by the labors of the experienced pas tor who has charge of it this year. I trust the visit of so many of the servants of God, during the session of the Conference, will result in a most gracious revival in the charge. Most of the Circuits have been blessed with revivals. Newberry Circuit, in the hands of its zealous pastor, who has had charge of it for four years, is in a prosperous condition. He, assisted bv his junior, and the local itinerant, (Uncle Mark, as most people call him), has held meetings at all the churches in the work, which have re sulted in a number of conversions and additions to the church. The North Newberry, though a weak Circuit, has grown somewhat, and by the efforts of the preacher, a parsonage has been put up, which, when entirely com pleted, will be a comfortable home for the itinerant. The Tumbling Shoals Circuit has been favored for the past two years with the labors of one who knows just how to work up afield, and who has been instrumental in bringing into the church a large number, and also in advancing all the interests of the church. This charge is in excellent condition. The Green wood Circuit is in a very good state. The labors of the pastor and his as sistant have been very much blessed. The Saluda Circuit, by the efforts of the preacher in charge, who has been untiring in his work, has been won derfully blessed. I know of no charge that has improved more than this. South Abbeville has also been visited with revivals, and by the efforts of the Presiding Elder, who has had charge of the work for three years, a comfortable parsonage has been built, and all the interests of the church advanced. Cokesbury Circuit has not been as much blessed as some others, but doubtless the faithful preaching of the preacher in charge and his colleague will yet bring forth fruit. The Abbeville Circuit, I am sorry to say, has not improved as it should have done. The 'readier hi#v C . ILitijfui, but ti.i I b/t iuttoii fruit yet from his labors. Lexington Fork Circuit, which was placed in this District at the last Conference, has been in charge of a very faithful man, whose labors 1 trust have re sulted in good to the church. I think, upon the whole, I can report the Dis trict in a good condition. This has been a very trying year to our people. Short crops and the low price of cot ton Will affect our collections, and yet I think they will compare favorably with previous years Methodism is strong in this section of the State, and I think the piety of the member ship will compare favorably' with any portion of the church in the bounds of the Conference.” Rev. T. Raysor, Branchville Ct., writes us encouraging news from his work : • A coincidence. In 1868, I was ap pointed by Bishop Doggett, the sec ond y 7 ear to Branchville Circuit. I am now, ’7B, closing by the appoint ment of the same Bishop, my second y T ear at this place. In 1867, this cir cuit was set off from the old Orange burg circuit, as a sepaiate and dis tinct charge, with four Churches. Last year another (new society) was added, now making a strong and compact circuit, with parsonage in centre of five churches. These build ings are nearly all new, having been built or remodeled since the late war. They are all creditable and comforta ble. The increase iu the membership in the last decade has been about forty per cent., while the finances have nearly doubled. So y 7 ou see we are steadily growing. During the year just closing, there has been a marked and very decided interest in Sunday schools. There never has been, in the history of this circuit, so much vitality on this important interest of the Church. 1 heard one of the super intendents, in a report which he made to the church, say that every child in the neighborhood was a member of the Sunday-school ; certainly' a very gratifying fact. Onward is. .the motto in every department offtbe work. Our fourth quarterly meeting was held at New Hope. Brother Martin was with us, in bodily health, and preached to the comfort ai *1 -difica tion of the Church. At the close of the usual Quarterly, Conference busi ness, resolutions were unanimously 7 passed that Were as creditable to the body, as they were complimentary to the Presiding Elder. Brother M. in response to these resolutions, which were unexpected to him, made our eyes water and our “ hearts burn ” as he briefly reviewed his more than half century in the itinerancy. He left us with the benedictions of the Church upon him. 1 fear the Confer ence claims will not be fully 7 met, owing, in my judgment, to the plan adoptod at our last Conference, the main idea of which is, to make the churches in some measure independ ent. By this plan the churches, to a great extent, lose sight of the connec tional idea and feelings, and the in terest centres i the church and not in the circuit. It may 7, however, (for we do not wish to discuss it here) in the run of y'ears, work out to the in terest of both the churches aud circuit, but in the meanwhile some interests naturally will suffer.” Rev. William Hutto, Rich Ilill Ct., writes us as follows : “ 1 am happy to be able to state that, by the bFessiug of God, I have not been absent from any of my ap pointments, during the year, only when 1 was called to a camp-meeting. Our congregations have been, for the most part, large and attentive, and there have been frequent and evident manifestations of the Divine presence. We held several protracted meetings during the summer and autumn, as sisted at some of them by 7 visiting brethren, who labored zealously and successfully 7. These meetings, togeth er with the regular services of the year, have resulted in fifty-four ac cessions to the church and about the same number of conversions. Twon eiglit of these received baptism. The church has been revived generally, as is evidenced by an increase in the number of prayer-meetings, family altars, communicants, and a greater interest on the subject of religion. Our financial report will be favorable, much better than for many 7 years pre vious. Our people have provided us a comfortable parsonage and a mod erate supply of furniture. Personally we have found many warm friends, and not a few of these among our Baptist and Presbyterian brethren, have been very kind to us in deeds, as well as in words. The Lord re ward them. We have much good ma terial here for the Lord’s building, some of it utilized, and other that is available. We have some earnest, faithlul workers among our lay breth ren, good men and true, who have nsiiilr-id us muck heruice ; “the Lord bless them ; and I see no good reason W'liy 7 the Circuit may not bo number ed among the best, at no distant day. Our people desire to establish a camp ground. I think they will do it. They 7 need it. I believe it would be a power for good here, Brother J. B. T. to the contrary notwithstanding. Wo now have avery 7 interesting meet ing in progress at Glendale. Two ap plied for membership last night, and quite a number knelt at the altar and at their seats for prayer.” Rev. John B. Mood, Graniteville Ct. “My work is doing very well. We have a model Sabbath-school, in which all our Sunday-school literature circu lates. Langley has been greatly afflict ed with sickness all the summer and fall, owing to ihe exposed bottoms of the mil! pond below the town, caused by the unexpected destruction of the dam and the consequent escape of the water. The severe malarial fevers have materially interfered with my work here, butmatters are improving. We will have next year a pretty strong church at Vauciuse, where the magnificent mill just completed has been put into operation. A Methodist Church edifice will be erected by the brethren and friends here as soon as this new village has been regularly incorporated in our Conference work. Benevolences a little above par; min ister’s support considerably below par.” Rev. John O. Willson, Camden Station, reports progress in the erec tion of his Church. The incident de tailed below is very interesting and suggestive. We cordially add our hearty “ amen ” to the pious prayer of Brother Willson that the faith which sustained the honored father may be the support for the son. “ Please give me place for one more incident connected with collections for Camden Church. As I rose to leave a home here, at which I had called, a little boy of seven years handed me two dollars for our church building. He said a friend had given him this sum ‘to buy candy with, but (he) had rather give it to help finish the church.’ This boy is a widow’s son. His father, in our own Conference preached the gospel of Christ, and ‘ fell on sleep ’ five years ago. May the father’s faith support the eon forever.” Rev. J. J. Neville, Walhalla and Seneca City Ct., writes as follows : “ I am now about to wind up my two years’ labor on this circuit. I have much reason for gratitude and en couragement. My 7 unworthy efforts have been owned and blessed by 7 my 7 Master. I will say this much, that the circuit is in a better condition than it was last year, spiritually and finan cially 7. My people, as a general thing are poor, but they seem willing to do their duty. 1 have had many tokens of appreciation and kindness. One hundred and twelve persons have been added to the Church during the two years. At Walhalla we are en deavoring to build a now church. We expect to do all wo can ourselves; but wo need help. All the denomina tions have creditable houses of wor ship except us.” The Richmond Christian Advocate makes the following sensible sugges tion : Wo would suggest a short course of lectures on Preaching and Preachers, by 7 a half dozen experienced ministers, as an interesting feature in the Divin ity 7 School at Randolph Macon Col lege. If Doctors Register, Martin, and Rodgers would put in two lectures apiece, and Dr. Edwards and other brethren of the Virginia Conference a like number, the young men would get much valuable and practical in formation about their vocation. Each lecture would gather pith from the experience of the speaker’s life in the ministry. Care, of course, should bo taken not to engage anybody who would bring a melancholy and un timely essay. [Continued from flrßt page.] the fish and meat shops, are doing a considerable business. We turned in to a lane. “ There,” said our guide, “ is a gambling-den ; there another : and y 7 et another.” We looked into the open door and saw the interior of sleeping apartments-one glance was sufficient. Wo. went into aJoss-house, i. e. a temple for the worship of idols. Tapers were burning. In grim ugli ness sat the wooden, painted god, be dizened with tinsel. Right and left were smaller gods and goddesses, tablets and inscriptions, gaudy dress es and grotesque carvings. Not a solitary seslhetic element of the grand old Greek polytheism was here to impress the imagination. We saw no worshipers. Sometimes on feast-days of tbcitr gods, crowds go to the tem ples. At other times, a worshiper or two drop in, with no apparent de votion, count their beads, burn their “cash,” go through some other sense less ceremony and then saunter out. The superstition is so effete that it has through long generations lost the sparkle of its early enthusiasm, and the heat of its fanatical excitement. It has “ waxed old and is ready to van ish away.” Little had I thought I should ever stand in the veritable temple of an idol ; I left it with min gled emotions of pity 7, disgust, abhor rence. We went into a restaurant. The lower story furnishes cheap fare. Up stairs everything is different. Every thing is “ respectable." You can get a first-class meal if you wish. We look, each of us, a cup of tea. The decoction was madein cups with close fitting covers, and then poured off into the cups in which we drank it. On the other end of the room on a small platform, under a canopy, lay the opium pipe for the use of those who smoke opium, together with one or two small blocks of wood for pil lows. Our curiosity being satisfied, we crossed the street and went into the Methodist chapel, at which there is a daily service at 2 o’clock P. M. This chapel was a common store, and is now fitted up for thepurposesof public wor ship. It will accommodate from eighty to ninety persons. When we went in, it w 7 as nearly full of Chinamen. They sal, for the most part, with their hats on, but were quiet and attentive. One of Dr. Gibson’s young preachers occupies the speaker’s platform and is making an earnest address. Of course the sermon is in Chinese ; but the graceful gesticulation and the tine management of the voice proclaim the preacher a pulpit orator. This service, I understand, has been car ried on every day in this chapel for the last four y'ears, Saturday’s except ed. I rejoice to know that this daily 7 testimony in favor of the true and living God, and of his Son our Lord Jesus Christ, has been and will be heard in the heart of these head quar ters of heathenism in our Christian land. The effect may 7 not be immedi ately perceptible. Yet the influence will be felt in the future, that rises, grand, sublime in its possibilities, yet awful in its portents, before these beautiful lands that extend to the surges of the mighty Pacific, a sea-line of more than twelve hundred miles. Napa, California. 5