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3. For Christian faithfulness. Prompt and uniform in duty, she has been an example to all. Her
closet, family altar, class, public worship, and Bible, were not neglected. This attention to duty is
kept up with rigid punctuality, even in her advanced age. On last Christmas day she was at class
meeting at 9 o'clock A. M., at preaching 10:30, and at prayer meeting in her grandson's house in the
afternoon.
On this subject she is a constant stimulus to all the Methodist society here.
4. For her usefulness. For many years she has been a wise and safe counselor for the ministers and
others, a faithful sub-pastor in visiting and praying with the sick, a valuable laborer at the altar in
revivals, an unflinching friend of the Church and her ministers, liberal and prompt in supporting the
gospel, and for some time was a useful and faithful class leader. Her house has ever been open to
entertain the gospel, and them that preach it. And even now, in her grandson's residence, there is a
weekly prayer meeting, and also a female class which is led by her grandson's wife.
What moral grandeur there is in thus calmly and peacefully winding up a life that has been so
long, eventful, and useful
May she be spared a little longer to bless the Church with her wisdom, piety, and example.
S. V. BLAKE
Bedford, Pa., Jan. 16, 1854.
The Conference of 1783 began at Ellis' Chapel, in Virginia, in the early part of May; and ended
its business in the latter end of the same month, in Baltimore. This Conference made a new rule,
providing for the wives of the traveling preachers, by making a collection in the circuits for this
purpose. At this time there were eleven, to wit, Sisters Forrest, Mair, Wyatt, Thomas, Ellis, Everett,
Kimble, Watters, Hagerty, Pigman, and Dickens, to be provided for. Many of the leading laymen
objected to this rule, and it was rescinded after a while. A second rule prohibited the Methodists from
making, selling, or drinking spirituous liquors. It was also resolved not to receive European
Methodists without a valid letter of recommendation.
New York, which had been blank since 1777, again appeared in the Minutes as a station; also,
Norfolk. Nansemond, Holston, and Allegheny (a substitute for South Branch), appear as new circuits
in Virginia. In Maryland Cumberland, Caroline, and Annamessex. In Delaware Dover. In North
Carolina -- Guilford, Caswell, Salisbury, Marsh, Bertie, and Pasquotank. There were thirty-nine
circuits, and eighty-two preachers stationed on them.
The Rev. Joseph Everett says: "At the May Conference in 1783, I was appointed, with John
Coleman and Michael Ellis, to travel Baltimore Circuit, where the Lord still blessed his word. By
this time I got to see into the Bible, in a deeper manner than ever; so that it seemed like another, or
a new book to me. By this time the Lord had heard, and answered my prayers, in the conversion of
my wife, which lightened my burden. She saw that she had been fighting against God, in treating me
wrongly, which wounded her very sensibly; and this was sweet revenge to me. She no more objected
to my traveling. The measure she had given me, was measured to her again; her very children spoke