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Board was read, full of congratulations and cordial sentiments, but soliciting the cession of the Montreal appointment, and Lower Canada generally, to their control. A committee, after consulting with the Canada representatives, reported that the great majority of the Methodists, of both Upper and Lower Canada, wished the continuance of the jurisdiction of the American Church, and that therefore "we cannot, consistently with our duty to the societies, give up any part of them." The Conference voted a hundred dollars for the expense of the British messengers from Nova Scotia, and an amicable letter to the Wesleyan Missionary Board. On the fourteenth Enoch George and Robert R. Roberts were elected bishops, the former by fifty-seven, the latter by fifty, votes, out of one hundred and six. A course of study, to be prepared by the bishops, or a committee appointed by them, for ministerial candidates, who were to be examined at the annual Conferences, was ordered; the first example of any such requisition in the Church, though habits of reading and study had always been enjoined. Measures were adopted providing for the better support of the ministry; for repressing heretical opinions; for abolishing pews (which were yet confined to New England Churches) and assessments, or taxes, in support of preaching; and for the licensing of exhorters. Joshua Soule and Thomas Mason were elected Book Agents, and the order for the publication of the "Methodist Magazine" was repeated by a motion of Bangs, and about two years later obeyed. The question of the election of presiding elders was again elaborately debated, but lost. Pickering moved that the "unfinished business of the last General Conference so far as it relates to slavery" be referred to a select committee. The committee reported their "opinion that, in existing circumstances, little can be done to abolish a practice so contrary to the principles of moral justice. They are sorry to say that the evil appears to be past remedy, and they are led to deplore the destructive consequences which have already accrued, and are yet likely to result therefrom. They find that in the South and West the civil authorities render emancipation impracticable, and, notwithstanding they are led to fear that some of our members are too easily contented with laws so unfriendly to freedom, yet, nevertheless, they are constrained to admit that to bring about such a change in the civil code as would favor the cause of liberty is not in the power of the General Conference. They have also made inquiry into the regulations pursued by the annual Conferences in relation to this subject, and they find that some of them have made no efficient rules on the subject of slavery, thereby leaving our people to act as they please." It was therefore "Resolved, by the delegates of the annual Conferences in General Conference assembled, That all the recommendatory part of the second division, ninth section, and first answer of our form of Discipline, after the word 'slavery,' be stricken out, and the following words inserted: 'Therefore no slave-holder shall be eligible to any official station in our Church hereafter where the laws of the state in which he lives will admit of emancipation, and permit the liberated slave to enjoy freedom.'" The report was adopted on a motion by Pickering. A Book Depository at Pittsburgh was authorized, and the Missouri and Mississippi Conferences established. Axley, aided by Myers, again struck against the distillation and retailing of spirituous liquors, but without success. The Conference adjourned on the twenty-fourth of May. ________________________________
1 General Conference Journal,, vol.1, p.71. 2 Dr. Lee's, Life of Lee, p.429. 3 Elliott's Life of Bishop Roberts, p.159. 4 Bangs' "History," Vol. ii, p.281. 5 See vol. iii, p. 41. ENDNOTES 6 Coke's Letter to the General Conference of 1808, in Bangs, vol. ii, p.207. There is an important passage in this letter which further decides the question, (treated in a long note on page 37 of my third volume,) whether there was a session of the General Conference between 1784 and 1792. Coke says, January 29, 1808, "There are few of you who can possibly recollect anything of what I am next going to add. Many of you were then only little children. We had at that time [1791] no regular General Conference. One only had been held in the year 1784. I had indeed, with great labor and fatigue, a few months before I wrote this letter to Bishop White, prevailed on James O'Kelly to submit to the decision of a General Conference. This Conference was to be held in about a year and a half after my departure from the States. And at this Conference, held, I think, the latter end of 1792, I proposed and obtained that great blessing to the American connection, a permanency for General Conferences, which were to be held at stated times. Previously to the holding of this Conference (except the general one held in 1784) there were only small district meetings, excepting the council which was held at Cokesbury College either in 1791 or 1792." This, even without the decisive citation I make from Asbury in my former note, sets at rest the question. 7 The Italics are his own. 8 Lee's Life of Lee, see p.435. 9 Lee's Life of Lee, p. 475, note. Bangs (ii, 332) is erroneous in supposing that there is nothing in the Conference records relating to this question from 1792 to 1808. The record of 1800 shows that it was then acted upon.
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passing through small villages; but
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God. The Scotchman could endure it
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"in the wilds of Virginia, where he
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this melancholy record. I never rea
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at Cabbin Creek, Ky., twenty thousa
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in that vast wilderness, and had no
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poles. This was their bedstead. Som
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Benjamin Lakin, Samuel Doughty John
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Gibson. "Here," say his brethren, "
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of the Little Miami River. On Thurs
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worst for stealing, fighting, and l
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savage men, and venomous serpents."
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