Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church

X MINUTES

OF THB

Annual Conferences

Melodist Episcopal Church, South,

FOB THE YEAR

1891 .

Nashville, Tenn.: Publishing House oe the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Barbee & Smith, Agents. T

BISHOPS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH.

JOHN CHRISTIAN KEENER, D.D, , New Orleans, La. ALPHEUS WATERS WILSON, D.D, Baltimore, Md. JOHN COWPER GRANBERY, D.D,

&p. Louis, Mo. ROBERT KENNON HARGROVE, D.D., Nashville, Tenn. WILLIAM WALLACE DUNCAN, D.D., Spartanburg, S. C. CHARLES BETTS GALLOWAY, D.D, Jackson, Miss. EUGENE RUSSELL HENDRIX, D.D, Kansas City, Mo. JOSEPH STAUNTON KEY, D.D., Fort Worth, Tex. ATTICUS GREENE HAYGOOD, D.D., Los Angeles, Cal. OSCAR PENN FITZGERALD, D.D, San Francisco, Cal.

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Page ALABAMA CONFERENCE 149 Arkansas Conference 99 Baltimore Conference 176 Brazil Mission Conference. 19 Central Mexico Mission Conference .’ 91 [* China Mission Conference 161 Columbia Conference 7.7 10

Denver Conference ' 11 East Columbia Conference 6 East Texas Conference. 169 Florida Conference 173 German Mission Conference 30

Holston Conference . i 23 Illinois Conference 96 Indian Mission Conference 157 Japan Mission 162 Kentucky Conference 13 Little Rock Conference 109 Los Angeles Conference 17 Louisiana Conference 87 Louisville Conference 93 Memphis Conference 57 Mexican Border Mission Conference 171 Missi b ppi Conference . 137 Missouri Conference 48 Montana Conference 5 New Mexico Conference 9 North ALabama Conference 129 North Carolina Conference 72 North Georgia Conference 76 North Mississippi Conference 65 North Texas Conference 53 Northwest Mexican Conference 163 Northwest Texas Conference 102 Pacific Conference 28 South Carolina Conference 142 South Georgia Conference 165 Southwest Missouri Conference 31 St. Louis Conference ...... 62 Tennessee Conference 39 Texas Conference 36 Virginia Conference. 118 Western Conference 7 Western North Carolina Conference 113 Western Virginia Conference 20 West Texas Conference 45 White River Conference 154

List of Conference Secretaries , , . . . 4 Table No. 1.—Ministerial Relations 185 Table No. 2.—Members and Baptisms 186 Table No. 3.—Sunday Schools and Church Property. 187 Table No. 4.—Benevolent Contributions 188 Table No. 5.—Educational Statistics 189 Woman’s Missionary Society 190 Death-roll for the Conference Year 1891-92 191

.* Directory . 193 - (3) ..

LIST OF CONFERENCE SECRETARIES

Alabama J. M. Mason, Birmingham, Ala.

Arkansas .- J. A. Walden, Eureka Springs, Ark. Brazil Michael Dickie, Piracicaba, Estada de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Central Mexico Mission L. G. Prieto, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. China Mission .M. B. Hill, Shanghai, China.

. Columbia . - . . .. E. E. Phipps,

Denver ; M. H. Moore, Trinidad, Colo. East Columbia ...... J. W. Compton, Palouse, Wash. East Texas L. M. Fowler, Longview, Tex. Florida F. Pasco, Jacksonville, Fla. German Mission J. A. G. Babe. Holston.; W. C. Carden, Abingdon Station, N. C.

Illinois . . . .0. T. Rogers, Schuyler, 111. Indian Mission M. L. Butler, Muskogee, I. T. Japan Mission N. W. Utley. Present address: Eddyville, Ky.

Kentucky...... *. John Reeves, Maysville, Ky. Little Rock J. R. Moore, Pine Bluff, Ark. Los Angeles W. B. Stradley, Los Angeles, Cal. Louisiana John T. Sawyer, Louisiana Avenue, New Orleans, La. Louisville. Gross Alexander, Nashville, Tenn. Memphis Warren Moore, Mayfield, Ky. Mexican Border Mission T. del Valle, Austin, Tex. Mississippi C. G. Andrews, Meridian, Miss. Missouri John D. Vincil, St. Louis, Mo. Montana J. B. Parnall, Stevensville, Mont. New Mexico S. W. Thomas, San Marcial, Tex. North Alabama John W. Newman, Anniston, Ala. North Carolina Donald W. Bain, Raleigh, N. C. North Georgia J. W. Heidt, Atlanta, Ga. North Mississippi J. S. Oakley, Columbus, Miss. North Texas .0. E. McWhirter, Lewisville, Tex. El Paso, Tex. Northwest Mexican Mission, ...... J. F. Corbin, Northwest Texas John M. Barcus, Vernon, Tex. Pacific .L. C. Renfro, Winters, Cal. Hanesworth, Kirkwood, Mo. St. Louis ...... Henry South Carolina V. .H. F. Chreitsberg, Columbia, S. C. South Georgia.,. W. C. Lovett, Savannah, Ga. Southwest Missouri. C. C. Woods, Neosho, Mo. Tennessee .B. F. Haynes, Nashville, Tenn. Tex. Texas ; Seth Ward, Huntsville, Virginia Paul Whitehead, Richmond, Va. Western W. H. Comer, Atchison, Kan.

1 ,C» G. Montgomery, Concord, N. C. Western North Carolina . . Western Virginia J. A. Black, Huntington, W. Va. West Texas. Sterling Fisher, Edna, Tex. Ark. White Riv-er...... R. S. Deener, BatetHulle, I

! MINUTES. I " - ______MONTANA CONFERENCE.

, Held at Helena, Mon i '., July 29-Aug. 3, 1891.

Bishop Duncan, President; J. B. Parnall, Secretary.

Question 1 . Who are admitted on trial? Helena District. None. Mem- ILoe’I ber«. iPr’s. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? None. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. Helena Station 74 1 Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Bozeman Station 40 1 Bozeman Circuit 32 nection? L. Bramble. 1. Boulder and Elkhorn 5»l 1 Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. Willow Creek Circuit 82 Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer East Helena Station 2* B\itte Station l» from other Conferences? S. B. Tabor, from Deer Lodge and Anaconda 88 1 the Missouri ‘Conference W. 0. Waggener, Townsend Circuit 28 ; Whitehall Circuit 12 ] from the Virginia Conference ; W. M. Britt, from the Kentucky Conference. 3. 377 4 1 | Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Missoula District. W. T. Goulder, E. L. Lee. 2. Stevensville Circuit 108 2 Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elect- Demersville 15 ed deacons? None. Wallace Station 15 Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Corvallis and Grantsdale 17 dained deacons? None. 155 2 10. Ques. What local preachers are elected Recapitulation. deacons? None. Helena District i 377 4 Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Missoula “ 155 2 dained deacons? None. Total this year 582 6 Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Total last year 1 448 8 elected elders? None. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Increase 84 Decrease dained elders? None. 2 Ques. 14. What local preachers are elect- Ques. 22. How many infants have been ed elders? None. baptized during the year? 45. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Ques. 23. How many adults have been dained elders? None. baptized during the year? 57. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? H. 24. is B. Cockrill, at his own request. 1. Ques. What the number of Sunday Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? None. schools? 16. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? None. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- school teachers? 103. ing the past year? None. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in school scholars? 698. their life and official administration ? Their Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for names were called over, one by one, and their characters examined and passed. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Ques. 21. What is the number of local ows and orphans of preachers? Nothing. preachers and members in the several cir- Ques. 28. What has been collected on the cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- foregoing account, and how has it been ap- ence? plied? $91.35. Held to be invested.

( 5 ) 6 East Columbia Conference, 1891.

Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Butte Station, J. E. Squires. Deer Lodge and Anaconda, S. B. Tabor. Missions? Foreign Missions, $400 ; Domestic Missions, $150. Total, $550. Boulder and Elkhorn, R. S. Clark. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Bozeman Station, W. T. Goulder. Church Extension? $110. Bozeman Circuit, B. E. H. Warren. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Willow Creek and Whitehall, W. M. Britt. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Great Falls, to be supplied. Number, value, Agent of Superannuated Preachers, Wid- 13 ; $53,200. Stateler. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what ows, and Orphans’ Fund, L. B. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- "• MISSOULA DISTRICT. ber, 6; value, $9,550. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- E. J. Stanley, P. E. tics? No report. Missoula Station, to be supplied. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Stevensville Circuit, J. B. Parnall. the Conference be held? Bozeman, Mont. Corvallis and Grantsdale, T. W. Flowers. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Wallace (Idaho), W. O. Waggener. tioned this year? Demersville Circuit, E. L. Lee. Thompson Falls and Horse Plains, to be sup- HELENA DISTRICT. plied. A. C. Coney, P. E. Montana Methodist, E. J. Stanley, Editor.

East Helena and Alhambra, L. Bramble. J. H. Johnson transferred to the Pacific Townsend Circuit, to be supplied. Conference.

EAST COLUMBIA CONFERENCE.

Held at Dayton, Wash., August 12-17, 1891.

Bishop Duncan, President ; J. W. Compton, Secretary.

Question. 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 14. What local preachers are elect- Answer. C. C. Eagle, C. E. Kirk. 2. ed elders? None. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? W. S. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Hornbuckle, Henry Barnhart. 2. dained elders? None. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- None. nection? F. F. St. Clair, P. M. Bell, George Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? None. H. Gibbs, Michael Larkin, F. C. Adkins. 5. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated ? None. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. Ques. 19.- What preachers have died dur- Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer ing the year? None. from other Conferences? R. G. Isbel, H. B. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in Terry, W. H. Hodges, John H. Shelton. 4. their life and official administration? Their Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? names were called over, one by one, and None. their characters examined and passed. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elect- Ques. 21. What is the number of local ed deacons? F. F. St. Clair, P. M. Bell, F. C. preachers and members in the several cir- Adkins. 3. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- ence? dained deacons? F. F. St. Clair, P. M. Bell, Spokane District. F. C. Adkins. 3. . I Mem- ll.oc’1 bers. IPr's. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected j deacons? W. S. Hornbuckle. 1. Spokane Station 7S| 2 Oakesdale Circuit Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Palouse and Moscow Circuit fi-ij 1 dained deacons? W. S. Hornbuckle. 1. Potlatch Circuit U.j] 9 Big Bend Circuit ill! Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are 11 i elected elders? None. Lewiston Circuit W j Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Kuby Creek Circuit i

j dained elders? None. 4JJ > 1 7 I

Western Conference , 1891. 7

Pendleton District. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Mem- Loc’l tics? Corvallis College: Teachers, 2; stu- bers. [Pr’s. dents, 60; value of property, $1,000. Weston

: Pendleton Station 114 4 High School Teachers, 2 ; students, 36. Walla Walla Station 47 Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Dayton Circuit 93 3 the Conference be held? Palouse City, PomerOy Circuit 50 1 Weston' C ircuit.. .. 118 3 Washington. Heppner Circuit 93 2 Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- La Grande and Moss Cliapel. 59 1 tioned this year? Summerville Circuit 80 1 Baker City and Wingville ... 55 2 Eagle Valley Circuit 40 2 SPOKANE DISTRICT. Boise Circuit 30 1 Reg. B. Swift, P. E. 785 20 Spokane Station, W. H. Hodges. Recapitulation. Oakesdale Circuit, W. S. Hombuckle. Spokane District 469 7 Palouse and Moscow, J. W. Compton. Pendleton “ 785 20 Potlatch Circuit, to be supplied (by M. D.

Total this year «. 1,254 27 Hortonberry.) Total last year 1,034 22 Big Bend Circuit, A. Y. Skee. Circuit, F. F. St. Clair. Increase 220 5 Davenport Lewiston Circuit, H. B. Terry. Ques. 22. How many infante have been Genesee Circuit, H. T. Burger. baptized during the year? 48. Colfax Circuit, to be supplied (by A. Ander- Ques. 23. How many adults have been son.) baptized during the year? 214. Rockford Circuit, to be supplied (by E. P. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Warren.) schools? 31. Camas Prairie, to be supplied. Ques. 25.. What is the number of Sunday school teachers? 194. PENDLETON DISTRICT. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday E. G. Michael, P. E. school scholars? 1,391. Pendleton Station, R. G. Isbell. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Walla Walla Station, M. V. Howard. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Dayton Station, John H. Shelton. ows and orphans of preachers? $50. Dayton and Pomeroy Circuit, G. H. Gibbs. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Weston Circuit, F. C. Adkins. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Heppner and Rhea Creek, P. M. Bell. plied? §21. Still on hand. Mountain Valley Circuit, Michael Larkin. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for La Grande and Moss Chapel, Henry Barn- Missions? Foreign Missions, $443.56; Do- hart. mestic Missions, §111.70. Total, $555.26. Summerville Circuit; to be supplied (by W. Qeus. 30. What has been contributed for M. Fancher.) Church Extension? $205.15. Burnt River Circuit, D. W. Yoakum. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Baker City and Wingville, C. E. Kirk. • is the estimated value, of church edifices? Eagle Valley Circuit, R. B. Crego. Number, 161 value, $39,650. ; Boise Circuit, C. C. Eagle. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- J. W. Shreve transferred to the Columbia ber, 8; value, $7,150. Conference.

WESTERN CONFERENCE.

Held at Hillsdale, Kan., Adg. 26-30, 1891.

Bishop Hargrove, President; W. H. Comer, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Vick, Samuel B. Graves, Richard A. Park- Answer. James Taliafero Smith, James Tel- er. 3. egrande Sells. 2. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? James E. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- . .

8 Western Conferencey 1891.

nection? William P. William Owen, H. Council Grove District ( Continued).

Kincaid, John L. Patterson, Andrew J.' Mem- Loc*I S Notestine, John W. Percell. 5. bers. Pr'«. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. Augusta Circuit 134 3 Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from Bronson Circuit 52 1 other Conferences? W. H. Kincaid, W. P. Winfield 263 1 Wellington Owen, R. A. Parker, from the Missouri Con- Circuit 98 Harper and Barbour Circuit 81 2 ference; J. L. Patterson, from the South- Mt. Hope Circuit 79 west Missouri Conference. 4. Kingsley 40 Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? 1,298 13 H. I. Miller. 1. Recapitulation. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are Atchison Distinct. 2,090 21! elected P. deacons ? W. Owen, W. H. Kin- Council Giove “ 1,298 13 caid, J. L. Patterson, A. J. Notestine, J. W. Percell. 5. Total this year.. 3,388 34 Total last year., 3.227 33 Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are ordained deacons ? W. P. Owen, W. H. Kin- Increase 161 1 caid, J. L. Patterson, A. J. Notestine, J. W. Percell. 5. Ques. 22. How many infants have been Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected baptized during the year? 121. deacons? James T. Smith. 1. Ques. 23. How many adults have been

- Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- baptized during the year? 242. dained deacons? James T. Smith. 1. Ques. 24. What is* the number of Sunday Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are schools? 41. elected elders? Albert H. Moore. 1. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are school teachers? 340. ordained elders? Albert H. Moore. 1. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected school scholars? 2,478. elders? None. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- the superannuated preachers, and the wid- dained elders? None. ows and orphans of preachers? $220.20. 28. has been collected the- Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Ques. What on None. foregoing account, and how has it been applied? claimants. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? None. $205.25. Applied to Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Charles Missions? Foreign Missions, $855.40; Do- Boles, A. J. Lawless, A. A. Lewis. 3. mestic Missions, $265.35. Total, $1,120.75. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Ques. 30. What has been contributed for past ing the year? None. Church Extension? $443.90. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Ques. 31 . What is the number, and what in their life and official administration? is the estimated value, of church edifices? Their names were called over, one by one, Number, 47£; value, $89,100. and their characters examined and passed. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Ques. 21. What is the number of local is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num-

preachers and members in the several cir- ber, 17 ; value, $12,510. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- ence? tics? Collected for Paine and Lane Insti- Atchison District. tutes, $35.70. Mem- Loc’l Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of bers. Pr's. the Conference be held? Elk City, Kan. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- 95 2 Effingham Circuit 132 1 tioned this year? 303 2 162 1 COUNCIL GROYE DISTRICT. 138 1 138 3 J. W. Faubion, P. E. 140 2 155 1 Council Grove Station, F. A. White. 149 2 Circuit, J. D. Austin. 129 1 Council Grove 168 3 Strong City Circuit, to be supplied. 173 2 Augusta Circuit, C. W. Thorp. Hillfwialfi Circuit 108 City, to 100 Howard and Elk be supplied. Labette Circuit, to be supplied. 2*090 21 Bronson, J. E. Vick. Council Grove District. Winfield Circuit, S. B. Graves. Council Grove Station 141 Wellington Circuit, W. P. Owen. Council Grove Circuit 138 Mt. Hope Circuit, to be supplied. Circuit 50 Strong City Kinsley Circuit, to be supplied. Howard and Elk City Circuit 129 JLabette Circuit 831 Hazleton Circuit, W. E. Broadhurst. ;

1 New Mexico Conference, 1801 . 9

ATCHISON DISTRICT. Wyandotte Circuit, R. A. Parker. Kansas City Station, Frank Siler. J. W. Payne P. E. , Shawneetown Circuit, H. D. Hogan. Atchison Station, W. H. Comer. Bucyrus and Stillwell, T. C. Downs. Effingham Circuit, J. T. Smith. Holton Circuit, J. Tillery. J. M. Gross transferred to the Indian Mis- Waterville Circuit, W. H. Kincaid. sion Conference, and stationed at Oklahoma Leavenworth Circuit, H. J. Miller. City. Rulo Circuit, J. L. Sells. J. W. Purcell transferred to the South- Nebraska City Circuit, J. L. Patterson. west Missouri Conference. Kickapoo Circuit, to be supplied. H. C. Kirby transferred to the Missouri Oskaloosa Circuit, A. H. Moore. Conference. r

NEW MEXICO CONFERENCE.

Tex., August 26-31 1891 . Held at El Paso, ,

Bishop Duncan, President S. W. Thomas, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? in their life and official administration? Answer. John E. Saunders, Benjamin J. Their names were called over, one by oner Waugh, Clement H. Govett. 3. and their characters examined and passed. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? J. M. Ques. 21. What is the number of local Crutchfield,. Blanton B. Scoggins. 2. preachers and members in the several cir- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- ence? White members, 405; colored mem- nection? James A. Crutchfield. 1. bers, 1; local preachers, 6. Total, 412. (No Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. details.) Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Ques. 22. How many infants have been from other Conferences? B. J. H. Thomas, baptized during the year? 47. D. P. Brown, L. B. Ellis, C. H. Gregory, W. Ques. 23. How many adults have been B. Jennings. 5. baptized during the year? 29. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday W. P. Clayton, S. W. Thomas. 2. schools?. 20. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday elected deacons? None. school teachers? 123. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday dained deacons? None. school scholars ? 786. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for deacons? None. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- ows and orphans of preachers? .$160. dained deacons? None. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are foregoing account, and how has it been ap- elected elders? Jackson B. Cox, David P. plied? $91. Applied to claimants. Brown. 2. * Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Ques. 13. What' traveling preachers are Missions? Foreign Missions, $301.25. ordained elders? Jackson B. Cox, David P. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Brown. 2. Church Extension? $85. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 31. What is the number, and what elders? None. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Number, 16; value, $26,225. dained elders? None. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Ques. 16. Who are located this year? is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num-

Olin Boggess, J. B. Cox, at their own request, ber, 7 ; value, $5,700. to attend school. 2. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? None. tics? Las Vegas Female Seminary: Pupils, Ques. 18. Who are superannuated ? None. 183 value of property, $20,000. ; Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of ing the past year? None. the Conference be held? San Marcial, New Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Mexico. 10 Columbia Conference, 1891.

Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Las Vegas, B. J. Waugh. tioned this year? Chloride and Fairview, J. L. Allison.

EL PASO DISTRICT. EDDY DISTRICT. J. Stevenson M. , P. E. I. N. Crutchfield P. E. El Paso, W. D. Robinson. , La Mesa, to be supplied. Eddy, to be supplied (by Robert Hodgson).. Deming, B. J. H. Thomas. Roswell, J. D. Bush. Silver City, to be supplied. White Oaks, W. T. Burk. San Marcial, S. W. Thomas. Bonita, B. B. Scoggins. Socorro, C. H. Govett. Penasco, to be supplied (by J. C. Gage). Magdalena, J. A. Crutchfield. Pecos City, J. M. Crutchfield. Albuquerque, D. P. Brown. Alpine, J. E. Sanders. Gallup, W. D. Clayton. Las Vegas Female Seminary, and La Mesa Las Cerrillos, W. B. Jennings. Industrial College, J. D. Bush, Agent.

COLUMBIA CONFERENCE.

- Held at Roseburg, Oreg., August 26 31 1891 . ,

Bishop Duncan, President; E. E. Phipps, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? L. A. Answer. JohnF. Wallace, Wm.J. Fenton. 2. Fenton. 1. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Charles Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- U. Cross, G. S. Hanleiter. 2. ing the past year? None. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- in their life and official administration? i it nection? W. L. Molloy. 1. Their names were called over, one by one, Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. and their characters examined and passed. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Ques. 21. What is the number of local from other Conferences? J. W. Shreve, preachers and members in the several cir- from the East Columbia Conference; J. L. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Futrell, from the Indian Mission Confer- ence? ence; R. A. Reagan, from the Tennessee Willamette District. Conference. 3. Mem- Loe'l Ques. 7. Who are the deaccfns of one year? bers. Pr's. W. B. Smith, W. L. Molloy. 2. Ques. 8. • What traveling preachers are 38 1 elected deacons? None. (55 112 1 preachers are or- Ques. 9. What traveling 102 dained deacons? None. 54 2 Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected 20 1 deacons? None. 42 1 (53 2 Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- 53 dained deacons? None. 95 190 2 Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are 1. elected elders? Edward E. Phipps. S. 834 ie Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are Roseburg District. ordained elders? E. E. Phipps. 1. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Roseburg elders? Robert W. Kennedy. 1. Myrtle Creek Jacksonville Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Applegate dained elders? Robert W. Kennedy. 1. Grant’s Pass Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Co- Coquille City Circuit lumbus Derrick, Edward E. Phipps. 2. Coquille Linkville Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? W. H. Howard, H. S. Shangle. 2. 471 Denver Conference, 1891. 11

Recapitulation. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Mem- I.oe'l tioned this year? bers. Pr's.

Willamette District 8-14 10 WILLAMETTE DISTRICT. 471 4 D. C. McFarland, P. E. 1,303 14 Total last year 1,129 10 Albany Station, to be supplied. Corvallis Station, to be supplied. Increase 176 4 Tangent Station, T. Thomas; W. H. How- Ques. 22. How many infants have been ard, Sup. baptized during the year? 31. Dallas and Dixie, J. W. Craig. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Independence and Louisville, to be supplied. baptized during the year ? 146. La Fayette Circuit, J. W. Shreve. Ques. 24. What is "the number of Sunday Tillamook Circuit, C. U. Cross. schools? 31. Oregon City Circuit, W. L. Molloy. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Brownsville Circuit, to be supplied (by J. school teachers? 155. M. Turner). Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Lebanon Circuit, to be supplied (by J. M. school scholars? 1,208. Parker). Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Santiam Circuit, G. S. Hanleiter. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Junction Circuit, to be supplied (by W. L. ows and orphans of preachers? $125. Blackwell). Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Corvallis College, D. Atkins, President. foregoing account, and how has it been applied? $55.65. Applied to claimants. ROSEBURG DISTRICT. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for T. P. Haynes, P. E. Missions? Foreign Missions, $262.50; Do- mestic Missions, $55.35. Total, $317.85. Roseburg Station, W. B. Smith. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Circuit, supplied S. Oakland to be ; H. Shan- Church Extension? $156.65. gle, Sup. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Myrtle Creek Circuit, P. A. Moses. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Coquille City Station, R. A. Reagan. Number, 22; value, $32,450. Coquille Circuit, W. J. Fenton. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Grant’s Pass and Woodville, J. L. FutrelL is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Jacksonville Circuit, R. C. Oglesby. ber, 10; value, $4,026. Apple Gate Circuit, H. B. Swafford. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Linkville Circuit, John F. Wallace. tics? Schools, 1; teachers, 2; pupils, 50. Lake View Mission, J. W. Bryant. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of the Conference be held? Eugene City, L. Leitch transferred to the China Mission Oreg. Conference.

DENVER CONFERENCE.

Held at Rye, Colo., August 5-10 1891 . ,

Bishop Hendrix, President; M. H. Moore, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 5. Who are re-admitted? William Answer. Joseph M. Bray. 1. B. Wheeler, J. B. Wood. 2. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? N. B. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Henry, E. B. Chenoweth. 2. from other Conferences? A. L. Houston, Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Horatio from the Southwest Missouri Conference. 1 S. Groves. 1. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into fiill con- None. nection? E. Evans Carrington, Francis M. Ques. 8. What 'traveling preachers are Roper, W. de Rouden Pas, W. B. Jennings. 4. elected deacons? Francis Marion Roper, 12 Denver Conference, 1891.

William de Rouden Pas, Willis Benjamin is the estimated value, of church edifices? Jennings. 3. Number, 15; value, $80,568. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 32. What is the number, and what dained deacons? William de Rouden Pas, is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Francis Marion Roper, Willis Benjamin ber, 14 ; value, $23,150. Jennings. 3. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected tics? Pueblo Institute: Teachers, 5; pupils, deacons? Mitchell 1. Joseph Bray. 71 ; value of property, $40,000. Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Ques. 34. Where shall the next session dained deacons? Joseph Mitchell Bray. 1. of the Conference be held? Durango, Col. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- elected elders? William Benjamin Wheeler, tioned this year? Benjamin Perry Searcy. 2. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- PUEBLO DISTRICT. dained elders? William Benjamin Wheeler, P. L. Stanton, P. E. Benjamin Perry Searcy. 2. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Denver: St. Paul’s, John M. Crowe. elders? James Wesley Agee. 1. Morrison Memorial, F. B. CarrolL Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Denver Circuit, George Needham. dained elders? James Wesley Agee. 1. Elizabeth Circuit, to be supplied. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? C. Colorado Springs, E. E. Carrington. C. Thompson, W. T. Ellington. 2. Pueblo, First Church, to be supplied. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? A. H. East Pueblo, N. B. Henry. Quillian. 1. Rye and Beulah, John Moore. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? J. R. Gardner Circuit, to be supplied. McClure. 1. Trinidad, M. H. Moore. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Walsenburg and Rouse, C. M. Cooper; A. H. ing the past year? None. Quillian, Sup. • Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless La Veta Circuit, J. M. Bray. in their life and official administration? El Moro and Folsom, A. L. Houston. Their names were called over, one by one, Arlington, E. B. Chenoweth. and their characters examined and passed, Saguache and Villa Grove, J. B. Wood. except that of J. A. Allison, whose case was Vilas Circuit, F. M. Roper. referred to the presiding elder of Durango Rocky Mountain Methodist, George Needham,. District. Editor. Ques. 21. What is the number of local Pueblo Collegiate Institute, to be supplied. preachers and members in the several circuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- DURANGO DISTRICT.

ence? Local preachers, 11 ; members, 1,348. J. M. Major, P. E. (No details.) Ques. 22. many infants have been # How Durango, 0. F. Sensabaugh. baptized during the year? 67. Pine River Circuit, to be supplied. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Mancos, W. H. Howard. baptized during the year? 72. Montezuma Circuit, to be supplied (by G. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday W. Burnett). schools? 41. La Plata and Flora Vista, P. C. Bryce. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Farmington, J. M. Major. school teachers? 288. San Juan Industrial College, J. M. Major, Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Agent. school scholars? 2,185. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for W. de R. Pas transferred to the Los Angeles the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Conference. ows and orphans of preachers? $350. W. B. Jennings transferred to the New Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Mexico Conference. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- W. B. Wheeler transferred to the Mis- plied? $175.50. Applied to J. R. McClure. souri Conference. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for B. P. Searcy transferred to the Southwest Missions? Foreign Missions, $402.50; Do- Missouri Conference. mestic Missions, $92.05. Total, $494.55. L. P. Smith transferred to the North Texas Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Conference. Church Extension? $204.30. A. S. Blackwood transferred to the Texas Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Conference.

i 13 Kentucky Conference, 1891 .

KENTUCKY CONFERENCE.

Held at Harrodsburg, Ky., Sept. 2-7, 1891.

Secretary. Bishop Wilson, President; John Reeves,

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? R. Answer. Austin E. Calgrove, John Wesley Deering, S. S. Deering, B. F. Sedwick, T. N. Williams, Pemberton Johnson Ross, Jerry Ralston, D. Welburn, W. B. Kavanaugh. 6. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- y M. Johnson, John William Hunter, Benja- min Franklin- Cosby, Orley Jackson Chan- ing the past year? James A. Henderson.. 1. dler. 7. James Alexander Henderson, son ofJohn Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? J. T. J. Henderson and Eva McCulloch, was born Fizer, W. D. Welburn, R. B. Baird, Whitty A. in in St. Louis, Mo., May, 1828 ; and died La Waldrop, J. W. Gardner, Lew G. Wallace, Grange, Ky., January 29, 1891. His parents James E. Wright, T. E. York, James L. West, died while he was an infant. He was cared E. E. Holmes, S. L. Hockenberry, R. M. Lee, for by his maternal grandmother, who gave William Oakley. 13. attention to his religious training until his Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? W. C. twelfth year, when death again robbed him Pryor, G. D. Hyden, E. N. Jones. 3. of his most devoted friend and relative. At Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- the death of his grandmother he went to the nection? D. E. Bedinger, J. R. Nelson, Wil- home of his uncle, H. R. McCulloch, where liam A. Cooper. 3. he remained until he was nineteen years his un- Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? J. W. old. While he was in the family of Hughes. 1. cle, he labored on the farm during the summer and attended school during the winter. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer the Methodist Church at Hop- from other Conferences? P. A. Sowell, from He joined kinsville, Ky., March, 1846, under the min- the Tennessee Conference. 1. istry of Dr. A. H. Redford, during a revival 7. are deacons of one year? Ques. Who service conducted by Dr. Redford and Rev. E. A. McClure. 2. J. P. Strother, G. R. Browder, and was converted shortly “ Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are thereafter. He was wont to say : My con- elected deacons? D. E. Bedinger, J. R. version was clear as a sunbeam, and my Nelson, William A. Cooper. 3. faith in God has never been shaken.” His Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- religious life was full of sunshine and joy. dained deacons? D. E. Bedinger, J. R. Nel- He never became morose or despondent. In son, William A. Cooper. 3. September, 1849, he entered the Cumberland Presbyterian College, at Princeton, as a stu- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected dent, where he remained two years. In 1851 deacons? B. E. Lancaster, J. C. Law, Charles he joined the Louisville Conference, at Elk- C. Washburn, James H. Stamper. 4. ton, Ky., and from that time until he re- Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- ceived the summons calling him hence he B. E. Lancaster, J. dained deacons? C. sustained an unbroken connection with the 2. Law. active itinerant ministry, meeting its obli- Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are gations and doing its work without a day’s •elected elders? J. N. Ison, William F. Wy- respite. He filled the following appoint- att, George W. Crutchfield, E. J. Terrill, M. ments in the Louisville Conference from P. Morgan. 5. 1851 to 1870: Rough Creek Mission, Hawes- Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are orville Circuit, Smithland Station, Henderson, dained elders? J. N. Ison, William F. Wy- Louisville (Twelfth Street), Louisville (Port- att, George W. Crutchfield, E. J. Terrill, M. land), Louisville (Kavanaugh), Lebanon and P. Morgan. 5. Springfield, Bowling Green, Bardstown, and in Louisville Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Middletown Circuit. While he in medicine, graduating in the -elders? W. W. McClure. 1. took a course “ Kentucky Academy of Medicine ” in 1866, Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- and the following year he graduated in the dained elders? W. W. McClure. 1. “University of Louisville,” from which he Ques. 16. Who are located this year? E. received his M.D. In 1870 he transferred to P. Gifford. 1. the Kentucky Conference, in which he has

Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? G. filled the following appointments : Simpson- B. Poage, J. C. Minor, J. J. Dickey, F. W. ville, Georgetown, Taylorsville, Shelby Cir- Noland, H. M. Linney, J. N. Current, E. H. cuit, Paris, Cynthiana, Mavsville, Harrods- Pearce, G. N. Buffington. 8. burg, Richmond, and La* Grange. Some 14 Kentucky Conference, 189L

time during the past year he had a slight attained to a much higher rank as an at- paralytic stroke, from which he never en- tractive and efficient preacher. By the tirely recovered, although to the casual grace of God he was enabled to maintain observer he seemed to be in perfect health. his Christian integrity through his whole But the lingering effects of that attack were life, and has left to the Church and his fam- quite perceptible to those who were much ily an unsullied character, of which they with him. Especially were they observable may justly be proud. May the blessing of in the movements of his mind and the fail- Goa be upon the doubly bereft sons and ure of his memory. I was with the Doctor daughter, and keep them in the way of life from the early part of the day upon which and salvation! the fatal stroke came until after service at night. I never saw him when he seemed Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless more cheerful, hopeful, and nearty. He in their life and official administration? went home from Church, took his accus- Their names were called over, one by one, tomed smoke, read thfe papers for an hour, and their characters examined and passed. and then arose and went into an adjoining Ques. 21. What is the number of local room to get a drink, when suddenly, like a preachers and members in the several cir- bolt of lightning, the stroke came, and he cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- fell to rise no more until the call of the ence? Master shall bid him rise, and “ hail him in Lexington District triumph descending the skies.” His daugh- Mein- Loc’l f: ter Mattie heard him fall; and going to bers. Pr’s. him, found him prostrate on the floor. She succeeded, alone, in getting him to his bed, 525 Lexington City Mission and then went for a physician. I thought, 190 1 as I stood by his bed the following morning 293 and looked upon him in his utter helpless- Versailles 127 Mt. Sterling 300 ness: “How precarious is human life! To- 262 day man stands up like a majestic tree in the 209 4 Old’ Fort” 321 2: vigor of life to-morrow he is prostrate and ; 340 1 riven as by the lightning’s bolt. Surely ‘in 1C1 the midst of life we are in death.’ ” The at- 282 207 tendant physicians had but little hope of 135 2 his recovery from the beginning. His two Georgetown 143 1 sons, the one at Frankfort and the other at New 'Columbus 315 3 517 1 Lexington, were called by telegram, and 51 r to minister to him but, came immediately ; despite the unremitting attentions of loved Corinth Sadi’eville ones and friends, the ebbing tide of life con- i 4,478 1 16 tinued to recede. He lingered for nearly Covington District. two weeks in a semi-conscious state. He 322 2 was never able to carry on a conversation, 218 but recognized his friends when aroused S189 2 from the stupor that enveloped his mind, 133 1 316 and could articulate a few words at a time. 525 4 The power of co-ordination was so far im- 194 paired that he could not always speak the 369 2 fi 205 his mind, frequents words that were in and 465 1 ly called persons and things by the wrong Odriviiie 450 1 name. Less than six months before his Petersburg 365 297 I his devoted wife, to he death, whom was 424 1 married in 1859, preceded him to the spirit 2 world. She was a true helpmate, and the 336 245 felt loss deeply. Thank God, Doctor her we 280

II have a reasonable hope that they have been 260> X reunited in the land of life and immortality. Dr. Henderson was of a genial nature, ! 1 6,155 1» and his high social qualities rendered him til Shdbyville District. very companionable. He was possessed of 249 keen sense of the ridiculous, and his uni- Shelbyv ill e a Simnsonville 250 form good humor and frequent flashes of Taylorsville 345 wit always enlivened anv conversation in Bloomfield 231 270 he participated. His preaching was New Castle which Port Roval 411 mainly expository, and was often charac- Campbellsburg 400 terized by beautiful illustrations and rhetor- Bedford 423 Milton - 861 ical figures. He had fine natural endow- Lockport 458 ments, and had he devoted himself assidu- Polsgrove 170 ously to study, he doubtless would have La Grange and Sbiloh. 227 . Kentucky Conference, 1891

ShelbyviUe District ( Continued)'. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Mem- Loc’l schools? 242. • Hers. Pr's. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Beard’s 286 school teachers? 1,870. Christiansburg 351 3 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Eminence 259 3 school scholars? 13,956.

4,689 18 Ques. 27. What amouut is necessary for Maysville District. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Mavsville ;.... 274 ows and orphans of preachers? $3,000. Millersburg 220 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Ruddle’s Mills 40 . Flemingsbuvg 344 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Tilton and a epton 453 plied? $1,908.92. Applied to claimants. Hillsboro 444 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Mt. Carmel and Orangeburg 343 Missions? Foreign Missions, $5,461.27. Sharpsburg and Bethel 245 .

Carlisle . 257 . Ques. 30. What has been contributed for

Owingsville 250 . Church Extension? $1,852.47. Sylvan Dell 340 Mt. Olivet 420 Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Shannon and Sardis 215 is the estimated, value, of church edifices? Germantown 285 Njimber, 264; value, $712,400. Vanceburg 259 Tollesboro 187 Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Dover.. 317 is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Moon£field ; 335 ber, 53 ; value, $86,415. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Danville District. tics? No report. Danville 361 Ques. 34. Where shall the next session Harrodsburg 174 . of the Conference be held? Middlesboro^ Ferrvville 268 Mackville 180 Ky. Chaplin .. 424 Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Lawrenceburg 142 tioned this year? Oit 275 Salvisa 357 Jessamine 275 LEXINGTON DISTRICT.

Bryantsville 458 . Stanford 206 H. P. Walker, P. E.

Richmond and Providence 201 . College Hill 273. Lexington, E. L. Southgate. Somerset 304 Lexington City Mission, B. F. Cosby. Caintown Mission 101 Moreland 280 Paris, J. M. Boland. High Bridge 190 Frankfort, H. G. Henderson. Versailles, J. R. Deering. Georgetow n, J. R. Savage. Cumberland Gap District. Nicholas ville, G. H. Means; F. W. Noland, Middlesboro 68 .

Pineville 50 . Sup. Meadow Creek 130 Winchester, W. F. Taylor. London .a 207 . Sterling, Broadhead - 42 Mt. R. Hiner. Cartersville. 188 Old Fort, J. H. Williams.

Manchester and McKee 12 . Grassy Lick and Mt. Zion, D. P. Ware. Hazard and Hyden «. 57 Harlan 74 North Middletown, W. T. Benton. Crockettsville 38 Hinton, J. S. Walker. Jackson 120 Mt. Hope, W. W. Chamberlain. Campton 194 Ison. Hazel Green 163 New Columbus, J. N. Frenchburg and Morehead 191 Corinth, to be supplied (by M. S. Clark). West Liberty ; 120 Franklin Mission, J. M. Wilson. Irvine and Reattyville 194 Spears, to supplied (by B. E. Lancaster). JThitesburg and Hindman 140 be Chaplain to Penitentiary, H. H. Kavanaugh.

Recapitulation. COVINGTON DISTRICT. Lexington District 4,478 16 Covington “ 6,152 19 W. F. Vaughn, P. E. ShelbyviUe “ 4,689 18 Maysville “ 5,228 23 Covington: Scott Street, W. T. Bolling. Danville “ 4,469 23 Eleventh Street, W. A. Cooper. Cumberland Gap “ 1,989 23 Newport, I. W. Mitchell. Total this year. 27,005 122 Highland, D. E. Bedinger. last year 122 Total 27,631 Augusta and Foster, D. H. Mariman, and R. Decrease 626 M. Lee. California, J. R. Kendall; J. C. Minor, Sup. Ques. 22. How many infants have been Visalia and Independence, E. E. Holmes. baptized during the year? 280. Falmouth, D. W. Robertson. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Carrollton, C. J. Nugent. baptized during the year? 958. Berry, R. Lancaster. *

16 Kentucky Conference, 1891.

Oddville, W. S. Grinstead. Millersburg Female College, C. Pope, Presi- Petersburg, W. A. Penn and T. J. Dodd. dent. Warsaw, T. W. Barker; J. N. Current, Sup. Sunday School Agents, W. H. Anderson and Brooksville, J. T. J. Fizer; G. B. Poage, Sup. S. L. Hockenberry. Morning View, W. F. Wyatt. Walton, A. F. Duvall; G. N. Buffington, Sup. DANVILLE DISTRICT. •Cynthiana, D. B. Cooper. J. Rand, P. E. Williamstown, P. H. Hoffman. Danville, P. A. Sowell E. H. Pearce, Sup. Glencoe, to be supplied. ; Harrodsburg, J. 0. A. Vaught. Bracken, to be supplied (by E. K. Kidwell). Perryville, W. T. Eklar. Agent American Bible Society, G. S. Savage. Mackville, Lew G. Wallace. Select High School, T. J. Dodd, Principal. Chaplain, H. C. Wright. Lawrenceburg, Povnter and W. D. SHELBYVILLE DISTRICT. W. T. Welburn. J. Fitch P. P. W. , K Leather’s Store, to be supplied (by W. Vaught). Shelbyville, A. Redd. Simpsonville, Salvisa, E. H. Godbey. M. W. Hiner. 0 Jessamine, W. W. Green. . Taylorsville, George Froh. Bryantsville, T. B. Cook. Bloomfield, W. W. Spates. Stanford, W. E. Arnold. New Castle, J. A. Sawyer. Richmond and Providence, F. S. Pollitt. Port Royal, G. W. Crutchfield. College Hill, W. J. Doran. 'Carnpbellsburg, W. H. Winter. Somerset, S. W. Peeples. Bedford, W. H. H. Ditzler. Caintown, to supplied. Milton, William Shoesmith. be Moreland, Whitty Waldrop. La Grange, T. J. Godbey. Lancaster and Junction City, to be supplied. Beard, P. J. Ross. Asbury College, J. W. Hughes, Pleasure ville, J. J. Johnson. Christiansburg, A. P. Jones. MIDDLESBORO DISTRICT. Gratz, J. W. Gardner. T. J. McIntyre P. E. Science’ Hill School, W. T. Povnter, Presi- , dent. Middlesboro, E. G. B. Mann. MAYSVILLE DISTRICT. Pineville, J. M. Johnson. Meadow Creek, E. J. Terrill. John Reeves, P. E. Loudon, F. K. Struve. Manchester, W. B. Ragan. Maysville, Julius E. Wright. McKee, V. B. Daughetee. Millersburg, G. W. Young. Whitesburg, to be supplied. Ruddle’s Mills, J. W. Harris. Hyden, 0. J. Chandler. Flemingsburg, T. F. Taliaferro. Harlan, T. E. York. Tilton and Nepton, M. T. Chandler; Cartel’s ville, G. G. Ragan. Hillsboro, C. E. Boswell. Mt. Carmel and Orangeburg, J. R. Peeples. JACKSON DISTRICT. Sharpsburg and Bethel, J. D. Redd. Carlisle, W. T. Rowland. C. F. Oney, P. E. Owingsville, to be supplied (by J. H. Herron). Jackson, E. A. McClure; J. J. Dickey, Sup. Sylvan Dell, A. E. Colgrove. Irvine, J. P. Strother. Mt. Olivet, R. B. Baird. Beatyville, J. W. Williams. Shannon and Sardis, R. H. Wightman. Campton, F. A. Savage. Germantown, C. M. Humphrey. Morehead, J. W. Hunter. Vanceburg, S. Speer. Liberty, J. L. West. W. West 1 Tolesboro, M. P. Morgan. Hazard, to be supplied (by J. B. Shockley). Dover, J. R. Nelson- Hindman, to be supplied (by W. W. Me* Moorefield, E. C. Savage. Clure). Kinney Mission, to be supplied (by Elza Frenchburg, James E. Wright. Richards). Clay City, to be supplied (by J. T. Breese.)

I I J t « » Los Angeles Conference, 1891. 17

LOS ANGELES CONFERENCE.

Held at Los Nietos, Cal., September 2-7, 1891.

Bishop Haygood, President; W. B. Stradley, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? nessee Conference. In 1838 he transferred Answer. None. to the Alabama Conference, where he con- trans- Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? L. B. El- tinued some years. In 1846 he was lis. 1. ferred to the Arkansas Conference, which at that time included the whole State of Ar- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. kansas. A few years after, the Little Rock Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Conference wr as formed, and he remained in nection? Edward J. Harper, Wade Hamil- that Conference until the fall of 1869, when ton, Oscar I). Crothers. 3. he was transferred to California. He trav- Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? W. A. Fin- eled both the Los Angeles and the San Luis ley. 1. Obispo Districts, and labored on station and Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer circuit work until 1882, when at San Luis from other Conferences? W. E. Vaughan, Obispo he was superannuated. How fitly H. T. Etheridge, S. H. Dimon, J. E. Carpen- was illustrated in this good man the life of ter, W. de R. Pos, C. C. Edington. 6. a Methodist itinerant! Overall these broad lands in Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, and Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? — California he went “ sowing the incorrupti- Archibald T. Dunlap. 1. — ble seed of life,” and planting the kingdom Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are of our Lord and Master. What an immor- elected deacons? Wade Hamilton, Oscar tal harvest of thanksgiving and praise must D. Crothers. 2. have opened to the view of this veteran of Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- more than half a century when he passed dained deacons? Wade Hamilton, Oscar through the gates into the City of God! D. Crothers. 2. Brother Moores was a unique man. His Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected convictions were so deep that many who deacons? None. did not know him often construed them Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- into obstinate prejudices. While he was dained deacons? None. uncompromising as a preacher of righteous- to every Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are ness, he was as gentle as a woman elected elders? None. penitent soul; his hands, heart, and home were always open with a most generous love Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- to all his brethren. We doubt if any Meth- dained elders? None. odist family in the whole Church ever en- Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected tertained at its board more people than did elders? None. that of our sainted brother, whose hospital- Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- ity at his home was simply princely in its dained elders? None. broad and open unselfishness. He was a Ques. 16. Who are located this year? J. student to the end of his days. He was a B. Johnson. 1. great reader of Methodist books, and always Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? A. insisted upon conformity to Methodist doc- Adams, E. C. Knott. 2. ' trines and practices. He preached Christ Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? P. O. and him crucified. He presented him as he Clayton, S. M. Adams, W. L. Allbright. 3. had known him in a personal exercise of Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- his saving power. The depth and power of ing the past year? William Moores. 1. such an experience put to flight in his ministry all sensational methods, and made him William Moores, familiarly known as a preacher of the Pauline type. Sinners Father Moores, has passed from the Church were cut to the heart under his preaching, militant to the Church triumphant. He was and the Church established in its most holy one of the small but heroic band present at faith. He deserves to be ranked with the the organization of the Conference by Bishop truest and best men that have blessed the Wightman in San Bernardino, October, 1870. Church by a holy walk and unflinching de- He had then just transferred from the Little votion to every duty of the ministerial office. Rock Conference, Arkansas. He was born As our venerable brother drew near the gate in Smith County, Middle Tennessee, Janua- of the city, his spirit felt the bracing and ry 26, 1808. He preached his first sermon blessed air of heaven. All through his last on the 3d of July, 1835. That fall, in Octo- sickness his conversation was in the skies. ber, he was received on trial into the Ten- Death had no terror for him; the last ene- 2 18 Los Angeles Conference, 1891.

my had been transfigured into an “ angel of District. II San Luis Obispo light.” Calm, serene, conscious to the last, White Colored Loel Mem’s. Mem's. Pr’s. without a struggle, without so much as the heaving of the breast, he “fell on sleep.” San Luis Obispo 33 Suddenly the portals sway wide and the Ventura Ventura Circuit 44 i glory of God passed by, and he was not, for Carpenteria ' God had taken him. Old comrades in the 21 patience of the kingdom, Glover and Miller, Lompoc 4 Santa Maria preachers from Tennessee, Alabama, and 30 Croston 39 Arkansas—the loved ones of his family, Cambria I who had gone before, the great company who had been turned to righteousness by 393 6 his ministry, greeted him from the other Arizona District. side and gave him glad welcome. This brief Phoenix 87 1 Phoenix Circuit memoir would be incomplete without refer- 111 ,2 2 Tempe Circuit 30 1 ence to the noble woman who stood by his West End 62 side in all his conflicts and seasons of sor- Gila River row and joy. With the small salary he 290 2 4 often received, how could he have given himself with such constancy and devotion Recapitulation. Los Angeles District 913 to the work assigned him by the Church, 15 San Diego “ 416 5 had not this good wife so wisely adminis- San Luis Obispo “ 393 6 ‘ tered the affairs at home? Her manage- Arizona “ 290 2 4 ment, her economy, her skill and industry Total this rear 2.012 2 30 gave confidence and courage to him in his Total last year 1,944 2 28 long tours from home. More than this, she Increase gave to the Church a large family of sons 68 2 and daughters, to preserve and emulate the gentle virtues of their mother and the ster- Ques. 22. How many infants have been ling qualities of their father. What a debt baptized during the year? 81. of gratitude the Church owes to the wives of Ques. 23. How many adults have been itinerant preachers! She “fell on sleep” baptized during the year? 113. the 30th day of October, 1890, and he on the Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday 31st day of January, 1891. “Thanks be to schools? 37. God who giveth us the victory through our Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- Lord Jesus Christ.” school teachers? 293. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless school scholars? 2,224. in their life and official administration? Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Their names were called over, one by one, the superannuated preachers, and the wid- their and characters examined and passed, ows and orphans of preachers? $600. except that of P. B. Jackson, was ex- who Ques. 28. What has been collected on the pelled. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Ques. 21. What is the number of local plied? $393.25. Applied to claimants. preachers and members in the several cir- Ques. 29. What has been contributed for cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Missions? Foreign Missions, $1,426.82. Do- ence? mestic Missions, $252.15. Total, $1,678.97. Los Angeles District. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for White Colored Loc’l Mem’s. Mem’s. Pr's. Church Extension? $318.47. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what 245 Los Angeles: Trinity 1 5 is the estimated value, of church edifices? Bellevue Avenue 69! value, West End 1 Number, 30; $150,726. 67 3 Ques. 32. What is the number, and what 121 2 is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- 131 Newport 28 ber, 19; value, $24,728.92. Norwalk and Ranchito 68 1 Ques. 33. What are the educational sta- Azusa and Duarte 60 2 tistics? No report. 41 1 Cahuenga 28 Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of the Conference be held? Ventura, Cal. 913 15 Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- San Diego District. tioned this year?

San Diego ..... 61 San Bernardino 153 1 LOS ANGELES DISTRICT. Menifee 37 1 Bear Valley 91 1 T. R. Curtis P. E. Escondido 42 1 , Julian and Ballena 18 1 Los Angeles: Trinity, W. B. Stradley. Palomar and Linda Vista 11 West End, S. H. Dimon.

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Los Angeles: Mateo Street, Wiles Pierce. SAN DIEGO DISTRICT. Boyle Heights, to be supplied (by J. B. E. Dunbar P. E. McPherson). , Cahuenga, Wade Hamilton. San Diego, R. W. Bailey. Gardena, to be supplied (by C. W. Harris). Lindavista, R. W. McDowell. Santa Ana, J. F. G. Finley. Escondido, L. B. Ellis. Los Nietos, W. A. Finley. Valley Center, J. M. Langston. Newport, C. C. Wright. Mt. Fairview Circuit, to be supplied (by W. Norwalk and Ranchito, Q. A. Oats. G. Talbert). Azusa and Duarte, J. E. Carpenter; A. Menifee, R. I. Allen. Adams, Sup. San Bernardino, E. J. Harper. Pomona, J. S. Jenkins; E. C. Knott, Sup. Redlands, to be supplied. Editor Methodist Pacific Advocate , H. M. Du- Bose. ARIZONA DISTRICT.

H. T. Etheridge P. E. SANTA BARBARA DISTRICT. , Phoenix, D. F. Fuller. R. H. Parker P. E. , Phoenix Circuit, H. T. Etheridge. Santa Barbara, C. C. Edington. Tempe, E. G. Roberts. Carpenteria, S. M. Chase. Florence and Casa Grande, to be supplied. Ventura, J. M. Weems. West End and Gila River, 0. D. Crothers. Fillmore Circuit, to be supplied (by J. H. Prescott, to be supplied. Sherrard). Lompoc, A. T. Dunlap. T. W. Mansfield transferred to the Western Santa Maria, to be supplied (by R. H. Amon). North Carolina Conference. San Luis Obispo, James Heafy. J. S. Chapman transferred to the North- Paso Robles, to be supplied. west Texas Conference. Adelaide, to be supplied (by C. W. Sanford). T. F. Cason transferred to the Memphis Conference Colporter, J. W. Allen. Conference.

BRAZIL MISSION CONFERENCE.

Paulo, July 23-28 1891 . Held at Piracicaba, Sao ,

Hugh C. Tucker, President; Michael Dickie, Secretary .

local or- Question 1 . Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 11. What preachers are Answer. John L. Bruce, Jose da Costa Reis, dained deacons? None. Antonio Joaquim de Araujo Filho. 3. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Antonio elected elders? None. C. de Fonseca, Hermann Gartner, Jose C. de Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Andrade, Robert C. Dickson, Joao Evange- dained elders? None. lista Tavares. 5. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Manuel elders? None. de Camargo. 1. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- dained elders? None. nection? J. M. Lander, C. B. McFarland. 2. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? None. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? None. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? None. from other Conferences? None. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? ing the past year? None. Felippe R. de Carvalho, Ludgero de Miran- Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless da, Justiniano R. de Carvalho. 3. in their life and official administration? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are Their names were called over, one by one,, elected deacons? None. and their characters examined and passed. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 21. What is the number of local dained deacons? None. preachers and members in the several cir- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- deacons? None. ence? ;

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Sao Paulo District. is the estimated value, of parsonages? There Mem- Loc'l are none. bers. Pr's. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- 17 tics? Number of schools, 4; missionaries, 11 of 13 ; other teachers, 15 pupils, 337 ; value Sao Paulo 64 3 ; property, $40,000. Capivary 63 1 Piracicaba 108 1 Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Santa Barbara 39 the Conference be held? Taubate. Ques. 35. are the preachers sta- - 302 5 Where this Rio District. tioned year? Juiz de Fora 102 3 RIO DISTRICT. Rio Novo 5 2 43 J. W. Tarboux, P. E. 30 Brazilian 46 Rio de Janeiro : English Mission, E. A. Tilly. Portuguese Mission, E. A. Tilly and Lud- 226 5 gero de Miranda. Recapitulation. Palmeiras Circuit, A. Cordoza de Fonseca. Sao Paulo District 302 5 Parahyba Circuit, to be supplied (by Anto- “ Rio 226 5 nio V. da Fonseca). Total this year r>28 10 Juiz de Fora Circuit, J. W. Tarboux, C. B. Total last year 462 8 McFarland, and A. Joaquim de Aranjo. Rio Circuit, Joao E. Tavares. Increase 66 2 Novo Mar de Espanha Circuit, Felippe R. de Car- valho Assistant to be supplied (by Olyin- Ques. 22. How many infants have been ; baptized during the year? 58. pio Alves Fontauro). College, Juiz Fora, John M. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Granbery de Lander, Principal J. L. Bruce, Professor. baptized during the year? 78. ; Agent American Bible Society, H. C. Tucker. Ques. 24. What is "the number of Sunday schools? 10. Treasurer, J. W. Tarboux. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday SAO PAULO DISTRICT. school teachers? 35. Dickie, P. E. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday M. school scholars? 333. Taubate Circuit, J. L. Kennedy and J. R. de Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Carvalho. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Sao Jose Circuit, J. C. de Andrade. ows and orphans of preachers? Nothing. Sao Paulo Station, J. W. Wolling and Her- Ques. 28. What has been collected on the mann Gartner. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Capivary Circuit, R. C. Dickson and Anto- plied? Nothing. nio J. de Nello. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Santa Barbara Circuit, R. C. Dickson. Missions? $1,833.08. Piracicaba Station, M. Dickie and Jose da Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Costa Reis. Church Extension? Nothing. Collegio Americano de Taubate, J. L. Ken-

Ques. 31. What is the number, and what . nedy. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Editor Expositor Christao, J. W. Wolling. ,000. General Treasurer, J. W. Wolling. Number, 3 ; value, $61 Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Treasurer Sao Paulo District, M. Dickie.

WESTERN VIRGINIA CONFERENCE.

Held at Parkersburg, W. Va., Sept. 16-22, 1891.

Bishop Granbery, President J. A. Black, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? H. Burns, William P. Auxier, Richard H. Answer. Walter C. Woodyard, William L. Edens, Willliam U. Fugate. 10. McCoy, Marcellus E. Peck, Bernard C. Davis, Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Francis Albert E. Odell, Hartland P. Smith, Charles M. Canfield, John D. Stalnaker, Stephen A. 1891, 21 Western Virginia Conference ,

Donahoe, Pascal D. Nutter, John W. Crites, White Colored Loo’t S. Thorn, Keenas J. Bevins, Peter Arthur Mein's. Mem’s. Pr's. Clay. 8. Parkersburg 342 1 Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? H. L. Parkersburg Circuit. 219 2 Simons. 1. Lubeck 248 3 Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Elizabeth 205 1 254 3 R. Houghton, James T. Grantsville nection? Thomas Ravenswood 307 1 French, ‘Isaac A. Canfield, Edmond C. Swit- Spencer 284 3 zer, John J. Haynes, George C. Summers, Ripley 451 2 Point Pleasant 153 2 1 A. Lee Barrett. 8. Harry Todd, New Martinsville 193 1 1 Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Elihu R. Tyler 93 Pleasant Ridge 305 2 L. Fitch. 2. Powers, Edwin .Burning Springs 283 3 Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer 23 from other Conferences? S. W. Emory, from 3,337 3 the St. Louis Conference. 1. Clarksburg District. 132 1 Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? 389 1 William I. Canter, Thomas C. Exline, Lucien 370 5 E. Harrison, Charley N. Coffman, Johnsa 1 Glover, James *M. Peters, Simon A. 227 W. 146 Knotts. 7. 260 2 « Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are 416 4 190 3w elected deacons? Isaac A. Canfield, Ed- Randolph 227 2 1r-i mund C. Switzer, John J. Haynes, George C. 250 3w Summers, James T. French, Harry Todd, A. 193 3eo 297 1 Lee Barrett. 7. 386 3 Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- 95 2 dained deacons? Isaac A. Canfield, Ed- 61 Switzer, J. Haynes, George C. mund C. John 4,053 3 29 Summers, James T. French, Harry Todd, A. Fayette District. Lee Barrett. 7. 3551 1 Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected 143 deacons? William L. McCoy, Fielding Rose, 220 2 Isaac N. Fannin, James Ball. 4. Sewell 283! 1 Meadow Bluff 282 2 Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- 310 2 dained deacons? William L. McCoy, Field- 344 3 ing Rose, Isaac N. Fannin, James Ball, John 151 1 Raleigh 106 W. Taylor. 5. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Hawk’s Nest 68 Kanawha Falls 105 1 elders? South G. Preston. 1. elected Sugar Grove 604 2 Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- 267 dained elders? South G. Preston. 1. 1 167 2 Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected elders? None. 3,481 18 Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Charleston Distinct. dained elders? None. Charleston Station 253 Charleston Circuit Ques. 16. Who are located this year? 877 Barboursville ... 339 George R. Mays, at his own request. 1. Huntington: First Church 243 Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? J. F. Second Church 206 Guyandotte 112 Medley. 1. Wayne 403 Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? R. A. Wayne C. 11 210 Claughton, W. Briscoe, G. S. McCutchen, S. Buffalo 144 Hamlin 179 Black, C. S. Murrill, J. T. Johnson, C. F. Lincoln . 134 Crooks. 7. St. Albans 302 Glenwood 138 Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Raymond 176 ing the past year? J. A. West. (No mem- Fair Plains 128 oir.) Cabell Mission 191 20. all Ques. Are the preachers blameless 3,585 3 27 in their life and official administration? CaUcttsburg District. Their names were called over, one by one, Catlettsburg 190 and their characters examined and passed, Ashland Station ....4. 323 2 except that of 0. H. Patterson, who was ex- Ashland Circuit ...... pelled. Louisa 152 Greenup 133 Ques. 21. What is the number of local Grayson 256 1 preachers and members in the several cir- Mt. Zion 282 1 2 Liberty 415 4 cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Kavanaugh 264 2 7 ence? Leon 303 4 22 Western Virginia 1891. Conference ,

Catletisburg Distinct ( Continued). Lubeck, D. L. Bush. White Colored T.ocT | Elizabeth, W. C. Leech. Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Grantsville, S. E. Simpson. Grassland 473 4 Ravenswood, G. M. F. Hampton. Martinsburg *282 3 Spencer, A. Lee Barrett. Ripley, J. 3,131 3 27 W. Simpson. Prestonburg District. Point Pleasant, S. F. McClung. Prestonburg 204 8 2 New Martinsville, AV. P. Auxier. r Paintsville 141 3 8 Tyler, AV. C. AA oodvard. 2 Floyd'. 225 6 Pleasant Ridge, S. A. Knotts. Daniel’s Creek Mission 200 2 Burning Springs, to be supplied (by Oliver Pikeville 604 7 10 Givens). Shelby Mission Eden”. 230 2 3 Blaine 375 8 DISTRICT. Warfield 173 3 2 CLARKSBURG Logan 139 2 Island Creek Mission A. P. Sturm, P. E. Wyoming 200 3 Clarksburg, A. S. Bowles. Cassville. 100 1 Boothsville, E. T. Caton. 2,656 18 49 Marion, AV. I. Canter. Recapitulation. Rivesville, M. V. Bowles. Parkersburg District 3.337 3 23 Greene, to be supplied (by IT. Poling); Clarksburg “ 4,053 8 29 Fayette “ 3,481 18 Sand Rock, to be supplied (by J. F. Sharp- Charleston “ 3(585 3 27 less). Catlettsburg “ 3,131 27 3 Philippi, J. H. Burns. Prestonburg “ 2,656 18 49 Meadowville, AV. R. Chambers. Total this rear 20,243 30 173 Braxton, J. AV. Lambert. Total last year 19,459 24 162 St. George, L. E. Harrison. Increase 784 6 11 Elkins, M. E. Peck. Cedarville, to be supplied (by E. S. Pugh). Ques. 22. How many infants have been Cleveland, J. D. Stalnaker. baptized during the year? 404. Jacksonville, F. M. Canfield. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Mingo Flats, R. H. Edens. baptized during the year? 1,065. Glenville, E. B. Jones. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday schools? 309. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday FAYETTE DISTRICT. schoolteachers? 2,103. C. II. Dowell, P. E. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday school scholars? 14,793. Fayetteville, J. T. French. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Summersville, G. AV. McClung. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Sewell, C. N. Coffman. ows and orphans of preachers? $1,500. Meadow Bluff, AV. M. Hiner. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the AVebster, T. R. Houghton. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Birch, W. L. McCoy. plied? $882.21. Applied to claimants. Cedar Grove, E. S. McClung. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Raleigh, A. E. Odell. Missions? Foreign Missions, $1,257.71; Do- Raleigh C. H. and Leblong, J. S. Lemon. mestic Missions, $732.17. Total, $1,989.88. Hawk’s Nest, E. L. Fitch. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Kanawha Falls, S. A. Donahoe. Church Extension? $422. Sugar Grove, J. K. Hedges and C. P. Smith. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Newton, P. D. Nutter. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Osborne’s Mills, B. C. Davis. Number, 232£; value, $257,400. Addison, J. J. Haynes. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Malden and Brownstown, C. PI. Burns. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- ber, 44; value, $41,200. CHARLESTON DISTRICT. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- H. T. Walts, P. E. tics? Barboursville College: Teachers, 6; students, 140; value of property, $20,000. Charleston and Elk City, C. AV. Cook. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Charleston Circuit, J. AV. Crites. the Conference be held? Clarksburg, W. Va. Barboursville, C. AV. Shearer. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Huntington: First Church, J. A. Block. this tioned year? Second Church, to be supplied (by C. C. PARKERSBURG DISTRICT. Thompson). Guyandotte, J. M. Lauck. S. T. Mallory, P. E. AVayne Circuit, E. Kendall. Parkersburg, J. S. Sims. Wayne C. H., J. M. Peters. Parkersburg Circuit, H. M. Smith. Buffalo, B. S. Chambers. ;

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Hamlin, W. H. Surgeon. Grassland, C. Dean. St. Albans, John Martin. Martinsburg, E. R. Powers. Glenwood, H. L. Smith. Central Methodist, Z. Meek, Editor. Raymond, H. B. Hewlett. Fair Plains, to be supplied (by R. H. Moss). PRESTONBURG DISTRICT. Cabell Mission, to be supplied (by E. Bias). P. G. Walker, P. E. Barboursville College, W. W. Royall, Vice- I president and Financial Agent. Prestonburg, I. F. J. McKinster. Paintsville, E. C. Switzer. CATLETTSBURG DISTRICT. Floyd, K. J. Bevins. Daniel’s Creek, to be supplied (by J. Lafferty). B. F. Gosling, P. E. Pikeville, I. A. Canfield; one to be supplied. Catlettsburg, T. S. Wade. Eden, to be supplied (by R. F. Rice). Ashland, S. G. Preston. Blaine, to be supplied (by James Barrett). Ashland Circuit, J. W. Glover; J. F. Medley, Warfield, W. U. Fugate. Sup. Logan, Harry Todd. Louisa, M. A. Davidson. Island Creek, to be supplied (by E. Hensley). Greenup, J. M. Carter. Wyoming, Peter Clay. Grayson, A. S. Thorn. Mt. Zion, S. W. Emory. E. W. Reynolds and J. S. Bowdes trans- Liberty, T. C. Exline. ferred to the Missouri Conference. Kavanaugh, A. Given. G. C. Summers transferred to the North- Leon, H. Moore. west Texas Conference.

HOLSTON CONFERENCE.

Held at Chattanooga, Tenn., September 30-October 5, 1891.

Bishop Galloway, President W. C. Carden, Secretary.

Question 1 . Who are admitted on trial? from the Baltimore Conference; G. W. Jack- Answer. James F. Hash, Martin P. Carrico, son, from the Western North Carolina Con- Jefferson D. Akers, Floyd D. Surface, Ed- ference. 2. ward C. Rodefer, John M. Maiden, John R. Ques. 7. Who are deacons of one year? Bellamy, T. Ashby Jordan, John M. Paxton, D. V. York, C. W. Kelley, D. C. Clondenen, Elbert N. Woodward, George M. Moreland, A. H. Tow, J. B. Simpson; W. L. Jones, E. Ben F. Gillard, William L. Patton. 13. H. Cassidy, C. B. Le Few, J. A. L. Perkins, Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? W. A. John Woolsey, James W. Moore, Joseph A. Mitchell, Walter R. Spence, James E. Sweck- Darr, Joseph E. Lowry, in class of the third er, William W. Newberry, Tyler D. Strader, year. 13. William E. Bailev, Benjamin C. Horton, Sil- Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are burn H. Little, E.W. Mort, F. F. Threadmll, elected deacons? Thomas J. Eskridge, Geo. Thomas H. Kinzer, George B. Draper, W. I. D. Herman, Isaac P. Martin, James R. Hunt- Fogleman, John M. Romans, E. W. Walker; er, Charles L. Stradley. 5. Frank Y. Jackson, Robert E. Hart, John B. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Frazier, James D. McAllister, Robert M. dained deacons? Thomas J. Eskridge, Geo. Walker, in class of the first year. 20. D. Herman, Isaac P. Martin, James R. Hunt- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? George er, Charles L. Stradley. 5. W. Bogle, W. B. Shelton, R. M. Walker. 3. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- deacons? Thomas H. Kinzer, Benjamin F. nection? Thomas J. Eskridge, George D. Gillard, James E. Swecker, John M. Maiden, Herman, Isaac P. Martin, James R. Hunter, T. G. Neal, Charles E. Steele, Edward W. Charles L. Stradley, Isaac N. Munsey, John Walker, Charles W. Duncan, James R. Mc- B. Carnes, C. R. Brown, Joel W. Hicks. 9. Farland, John D. Dame, Wm. E. Bailey. 11. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? John R. Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Hixon. 1. dained deacons? Thomas H. Kinzer, Ben- Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer jamin F. Gillard, James E. Swecker, John from other Conferences? W. N. Wayner,' M. Maiden, Edward W. Walker, James R. i M

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McFarland, John D. Dame, William E. Bai- His illness was protracted. He was ready ley, Charles W. Duncan, Thos. C. Pulliam. 10. to die. In our eyes he was fit to live a long Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are life; in God’s eyes he was fit to die. God elected elders? George R. Stuart, William took him. His young wife, doubly be- S. Neighbors, Melville C. Graham, James R. reaved—her babe being taken a few days Chambers, George W. Pressley, Joseph C. before her husband—we commend to the Maners, John A. Duvall, Samuel E. Houk, mercy of Him who is always good, though Thomas E. Wagg. 9. his way is mysterious. We loved our young Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- brother. We honor his memory. dained elders? George R. Stuart, William Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in S. Neighbors, Melville C. Graham, James R. their life official Chambers, George W. Pressley, Joseph C. and administration? Their Maners, John A. Duvall, Samuel E. Houk, names were called over, one by one, and their characters examined and passed. Thomas E. Wagg. 9. Ques. 21. is the number of local Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected What several cir- elders? William P. Evans, Meredeth G. preachers and members in the Price, Benton H. Livingston, William M. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- ence? Carter. 4. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Radford District.

I White I Colored I Loc’l dained elders? None. Mem's". Mem’s. Pr’s. [ Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Geo. R. Stuart, James R. Hunter, D. C. Brown. 3. Radford Station New River Circuit Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? J. R. Auburn Circuit Stradley, S. Phillips, J. R. Payne, B. F. Nuck- Pocahontas Station Princeton olls, C. K. Miller, W. H. Dawn, J. A. Davis, Circuit Bluestone Circuit J. R. Cunningham, J. W. Robertson, G. W. Pearisburg Circuit K. Greene, R. A. Kelley, J. W. Bowman, M. Staffoi'dsville Circuit Clear P. Swaim, W. H. Kelley, J. C. Runvan, G. Fork Circuit Concord Circuit W. Miles. 16. Graham Station Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? J. M. Bluefield Station McTeer, William Robeson, J. N. S. Huffaker, Bramwell Station Cooper’s and Coal Bale Mission ... L. C. Delashmit, R. A. Giddens, A. E. Wood- Elk Horn Mission ward, J. W. Belt, George Stewart, H. P. McDowell Mission Waugh, T. F. Smyth, E. B. Robertson, R. M. Seddon Circuit Mechanicsburg Circuit Hickey, T. J. Pope, P. S. Sutton, Jacob Smith. 15. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Jeffersonville District. ing the year? H. F. King (an undergradu- Jeffersonville Station — 274 2 ate). East Tazewell Circuit 428 2

Cedar Bluff Circuit 422 2: Liberty Hill Circuit 396 Henry F. King was born in Wythe Coun- Elk Garden Circuit 230 ty, Va., October 27, 1866. He joined the New Garden Circuit 209 1 Church at the age of fourteen professed re- Richlands Mission 76 ; Buchanan Mission 225 4 ligion at Asbury Camp Ground at or near the Lebanon Circuit 467 1 Gate City Station 160 1 time he joined the Church ; was happily Dickensonville Circuit 588 2 married December 24, 1889, and departed Gladeville Circuit 209 1 2 this life August 13, 1891. It is with his life Big Stone Gap Circuit 235 1 2 as a preacher that we have chiefly to do. Clintwood Circuit 157 5 He was admitted on trial at Morristown, Nickellsville Circuit 227 2 3 Estellville Circuit 369 2 Tenn., October, 1 889. He was, therefore, still a probationer. He was first sent to Creston Circuit, Ashe County, N. C., where he did a Jonesboro District. good work. He was next sent to Sharon Jonesboro Station Springs Circuit. He was removed from there Jonesboro Circuit by the presiding elder and put on the Grassy Johnson City Station. Bluff City Circuit Creek Circuit. Last year he was on the East Blountsville Circuit... Tazewell Circuit, in Jeffersonville District, Kingsport Circuit 395 where, in the midst of busiest labors for the Rogersville Station.. 180 Hawkins Circuit 594 Master, he was smitten of death. He was a Greeneville Circuit young man of fine promise. He was a work- Carter’s Station Circuit.. Circuit er. His consecration was complete. His lips Rheatown Fall Branch were pure. As a preacher he had the gifts Elizabethton of a fine person, a good voice, a persuasive Erwin Mission manner. He was thoughtful, studious, diligent, prayerful, never triflingly employed. Wytheville District. On his last charge he was singularly success- Wytheville Station 365 ful. It was said that his report at his Dis- Wytheville Circuit 831 trict Conference was the best in the district. East Wytheville Circuit 268 . 1 1

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Sequatchie District {Continued). White Colored' Loc'l White Colored Loc’l | Mem's. Mem’s. Pr's. Mem’s.! Mem's. Pr’s.

Lead Mines Circuit 851 3 Jasper Circuit 316 1 Pulaski Station 221 1 South Pittsburg Station 209 1 Max Meadows and Pulaski Mis.. 103 Dunlap Circuit 415 2 Newbern Circuit 312 1 Decatur Circuit 491 1 Jacksonville Circuit 281 3 Pikeville Station 110 Hylton Mission 128 3 Cumberland Circuit 130 4 Old Town Circuit 450 9 Battle Creek Mission.... 224 3 Hillsville Circuit 103 4 3,645 3 20 Elk Creek Circuit 1,160 12 | [ Independence Circuit 629 5 Chattanooga District. Airy 825 5 Mt. Circuit Chattanooga: Centenary 1 Whiteside Street li)U 6,527 3 43 Cherry 130; Abingdon District. Citico 30| St. Elmo 120 Abingdon Station 317 1 Ewing’s Chapel and Rossville ... 112 i Abingdon Circuit 897 5 Ridge Dale and East Lake 126 Bristol: Main Street 452 2 5 Coal City and Etna Circuit 610 14 2 Street Mary Lookout Circuit 359 1 Bristol Mission 98 Trenton Circuit 300 5 Bristol Circuit 440 2 Ooltewah Circuit 327 1 Marion Station 234 2 Cleveland Station 340 2 Marion Circuit 647 2 Cleveland Circuit 232 1 Circuit 627 5 Emory Charleston Circuit 334 4 Saltville Circuit 536 4 Riceville 322 1 Sharon Springs Circuit 451 4 Athens Station 183 Mendota Circuit 282 Athens Circuit 317 2 Mountain City Mission 67 Sweetwater Circuit 224 1 South Fork Mission 195 1 Highland Park & E. Chattanooga. 82 Duck Town 60i 1 5,243 4 29 1

Morristown District. 5, 148 151 23 Morristown Station 375 2 Recapitulation. Morristown Circuit 400 1 Radford D istrict 4.899 2 41 Mossy Creek Station 229 2 Jeffersonville 4.672 4 29 Tate Springs Circuit 330 Jonesboro 44 4,432 1 25 Tazewell Circuit 333 2 Wytheville 6,527 3 43 Powell’s Valley Circuit 444 5 Abingdon u 5,243 4 29 Sneedville Circuit 300 1 Morristown 4k 4.762 2 23 Rye Cove Circuit 487 8 Knoxville 4.736 2 28 Jonesville Circuit 564 2 3 Sequatchie 44 3.645 3 20 Newport Circuit 123 Chattanooga 44 5,148 15 23 St. Clair Circuit 228 Strawberrv Plains Circuit 368 2 ear 44.064 36 266 Parrottsville Mission 232 ear 43,416 40 278 Cumberland Gap Circuit... 97

Rutledge Circuit 252 2 Increase. 648 i Decrease r 4 12 23 22. infants have been Knoxville District, Ques. How many baptized during the year? 1,024. Knoxville: Church Street 544 1 481 1 Ques. 23. How many adults have been 237 2 baptized during the year? 2,018. 111 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday City Mission 20 1 64 schools? 566. 229 2 Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday 217 4 teachers? 4,011. 17 school 12Cp 1 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday 140 1 1 school scholars? 35,003. 278 2 Ques. 27. amount is necessary for 280 2 What 340 1 the superannuated preachers, and the wid- 330 ows and orphans of preachers? $4,000. 231 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Madison ville Circuit 240 3 Eleazer Circuit 384 4 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- 236 1 1 plied? $2,393.86. Applied to claimants. 237 2 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for

1 Missions? Foreign Missions, $5,141.95 ; >o- 4.736 1 2| 28 $4,042.52. Total, $9,184.47. Sequatchie District. mestic Missions, Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Dayton Station 230 1 i Spring City Circuit 251 3 Church Extension? $1,653.59. Spring City and Evansville 297 Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Kingston Circuit 246 1 is the estimated value, of church edifices? Harriman and Cai'diff Mission 72 value, Rockwood Station 83 Number, 501 ; $874,895. Jamestown Mission 156 2 2 Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Hill City Mission 74 is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Hamilton Mission 177 1 value, Jasper Station ber, 85 ; $130,120. 2o Holston Conference, 1891.

Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Newport Station, James I. Cash. tics? Schools, teachers, 7 ; 60; scholars, 950; Parrottsville Mission, E. W. Mort. value of property, $376,000. St. Clair Circuit, J. N. Hobbs. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Rogersville Station, E. H. Cassidy. the Conference be held? Wytheville, Va. Hawkins Circuit, J. M. Wolf. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Greeneville City Mission, R. T. McDowell. tioned this year? Rheatown Circuit, J. D. Hickson. Johnson City Station, K. C. Atkins. WYTHEVILLE DISTRICT. Jonesboro Station, W. L. Jones. E. W. Moore, P. E. Jonesboro Circuit, W. D. Akers. Fall Branch Circuit, George B. Draper. Wytheville Station, G. W. Summers and W. Erwin Mission, F. D. Crumley. W. Newberry. Strawberry Plains Circuit, R. A. Owen. Wytheville Circuit, L. Clendenen. M. E. E. Hoss, Editor Christian Advocate. East Wytheville Circuit, C. L. Stradley. Lead Mines Circuit, S. T. McPherson and J. BIG STONE GAP DISTRICT. W. Moore. Hillsville Circuit, M. P. Carrico. J. S. W. Neal, P. E. Oldtown Circuit, J. E. Bruce; B. F. Nuckolls, Big Stone Gap Station, J. O. Straley. Sup. Gladeville Circuit, G. W. Pressley/ Independence Circuit, to he supplied (by H Clintwood Circuit, W. A. Mitchell. C. Thompson). Buchanan Mission, to be supplied (by Oscar Elk Creek Circuit, J. A. Cook. McNeil). Mt. Airy Circuit, R. F. Jackson and W. Nickellsville Circuit, J. K. Wolf. Spence C. K. Miller, Sup. ; Estelleville Circuit, F. H. Farley. Sharon Springs Circuit, James Mahoney. Gate City Station, J. R. Hixon. Marion Station, J. S. Kennedy; G. Miles, W. Turkey Cove Circuit, to be supplied (by J. Sup. W. Hillman). Marion Circuit, George A. Maiden. Rye Cove Circuit, to be supplied (by J. D. Seddon Circuit, J. A. H. Shuler; G. W. K. Spitzer). Greene, Sup. Sneedville Mission, to be supplied. ABINGDON DISTRICT. Tazewell Circuit, J. J. Henley. Jonesville Circuit, D. H. Carr. J. T. Frazier, P. E. Powell’s Valley Circuit, R. E. Smith. Cumberland Station, J. D. Abingdon Station, W. C. Carden. Gap McAllister. Stickleyville Circuit, S. K. Byrd. Abingdon Circuit, J. R. Chambers. Holston Circuit, E. L. Addington. JEFFERSONVILLE Mountain City Mission, T. D. Strader. DISTRICT. Emory Circuit, E. F. Kahle and F. Y. Jack- W. H. Price, P. E.

son ; J. A. Davis, Sup. Jeffersonville Station, J. E. Naff; Estelleville, S. S. Weatherly. W. H. Kel- ley, Sup. Bristol: Main Street, F. Richardson. Liberty Hill Circuit, S. E. Houk. Mary Street, J. B. Frazier. Cedar Bluff Circuit, W. E. Bailey. Mendota Circuit, W. P. Doane. Elk Garden Circuit, B. W. S. Bishop. Kingsport Circuit, E. W. Walker. Lebanon Circuit, T. F. Glenn. Blountville Circuit, W. D. Mitchell. Dickensonville Circuit, L. H. Little. Bluff City Circuit, G. W. Simpson; J. R. East Tazewell Circuit, P. P. Kinzer. Cunningham, Sup. Clear Fork Circuit, J. M. Romans. Elizabethton Circuit, J. R. Bellamy. Pocahontas Station, J. L. Prater. Beaver Creek Mission, to be supplied (by E. Bramwell Station, Kelley. L. Smith). C. W. Cooper’s and Riverside Station, B. C. Horton. Emory and Henry College, James Atkins, Elk Horn Mission, D. McCracken. President; E. E. Wiley, Professor and Algoma Mission, to he supplied (by J. Treasurer; W. W. Pvott, Financial Agent. C. Cook). Martha Washington College, S. N. Barker, Mission, J. President. New Garden W. Fogleman. Richland Station, E. N. Woodward. Sullins College, D. S. Hearn, President. W. G. E. Cunnyngham, Sunday School Ed- RADFORD DISTRICT. itor. MORRISTOWN DISTRICT. R. G. Waterhouse, P. E.' Radford Station, W. N. Wagner. G. D. French, P. E. West Radford, J. A. Jordan. Morristown Station, R. N. Price. Auburn Circuit, R. S. Umberger. Morristown Circuit, L. M. Cartwright; M. P. Jacksonville Circuit, J. E. Sweeker.

Swaim, Sup. Hilton Mission, D. C. Clendenen. * Rutledge Circuit, S. H. Hall. Newbern Circuit, J. H. Kennedy. Mossy Creek Station, G. W. Jackson. New River Circuit, to be supplied. ;

Holston Conference, 1891.

Staffordsville Circuit, J. R. Walker. Chattanooga: St. Elmo Station, T. J. Esk- Pearisburg Circuit, F. D. Surface. ridge. Concord Circuit, C. B. Lefew. Rossville and Oak Hills, J. W. Hicks. Princeton Circuit, Eugene Blake and J. B. Ridgedale and East Lake, T. C. Shuler and Davis. J. A. Lyons. Bluestone Mission, J. D. Akers. East Chattanooga and Highland Park, J. W. Bluefield Station, A. B. Hunter. Carnes. Graham Station, L. K. Haynes; R. A. Kel- Coal City and Etna Circuit, I. N. Muncy. ley, Sup. Lookout Circuit, B. F. Gillard. Pulaski Station, J. C. Orr. Trenton Circuit, J. C. Bays. Max Meadows Mission, John M. Paxton. Ooltewah Circuit, A. H. Tow. Princeton Academy, Eugene Blake, Princi- Cleveland Station, R. W. Kite. pal. Cleveland Circuit, to be supplied (by W. P. KNOXVILLE DISTRICT. Haynes). Charleston Circuit, E. H. Bogle. A. J. Frazier P. E. , Riceville Circuit, F. F. Threadgill. Knoxville: Church Street Station, W. W. Athens Station, J. L. M. French. Hicks W. H. Dawn, Sup. ; Athens Circuit, to be supplied (by W. P. Broad Street Station, W. M. Dyer. Blevens). Centenary Station, J. A. Burrow. Sweet Water Circuit, L. L. H. Carlock. East Fifth Mission, R. Avenue C. Brown. Ducktown Mission, C. M. James. Methodist Hill Station, J. A. Belderback Centenary College, D. Sullins, President. J. R. Payne, Sup. Hooker Training School, J. W. Smith, Prin- Fountain City Station, to be supplied (by S. cipal. D. Long). Knoxville Circuit, J. E. Lowry. SEQUATCHIE DISTRICT. Jacksboro Circuit, S. S. Catron. T. R. Handy, P. E. Coal Creek Mission, B. T. Sharp. Dayton Station, W. S. Neighbors. Clinton Station, H. C. Neal. Spring City Circuit, J. Woolsey. Clinton Circuit, A. Kincaid. Spring City and Evansville Station, *J. F. Andersonville Circuit, J. D. Dame. Wampler. Maynardville Circuit, J. B. Simpson; J. C. Kingston Circuit, R. E. Hart J. S. Phil- Runyan, Sup. and lips J. W. Robertson, Sup. Sevierville Circuit, D. V. York. ; Harriman Station, J. B. Carnes. Maryville and Chilhowee Mission, I. P. Mar- Rockwood Station, G. W. Moreland. tin one to be supplied. ; Poplar Creek Station, W. L. Patton. Louisville Circuit, w. C. Farris. Jamestown Mission, E. C. Rodifer. Madison ville, H. C. Clemons J. R. Stradley, ; Hill Station, J. A. Duvall. Sup. City Hamilton Circuit, William Witcher. Eleazer Circuit, to be supplied (by W. B. A. Thomas. Martin). Jasper Station, W. Jasper Circuit, J. A. L. Perkins and T. FI. Loudoun Circuit, J. H. Parrott. Kinser. Lenoir Circuit, George D. Hermon. South Pittsburg Station, J. W. Browning. Hiwassee College, J. H. Brunner, President; Dunlap Circuit, John Alley. F. M. Grace, Professor John Boring, Agent. ; Circuit, J. F. Hash. Editor Holston Methodist and Conference Col- New Hope Decatur Circuit, W. R. Snyder. porter, W. L. Richardson. Pikeville Station, F. Alexander. Insane Asylum, W. H. Bates, Chaplain. Cumberland Circuit, M. C. Graham. CHATTANOOGA DISTRICT. Battle Creek Mission, A. D. Stuart. Roane College, J. P. Dickey. C. T. Carroll, P. E. J. and J. C. Pos- Chattanooga : Centenary Station, D .V. Price. T. E. Wagg, W. Bowman, Whiteside Street Station, J. A. Darr. tell transferred to the Western North Caro- Cherry Street Station, J. C. Maness. lina Conference. Citico Mission, to be supplied (by R. E. J. H. Keith transferred to the North Texas Nunn). Conference. 28 Pacific Conference, 1891.

PACIFIC CONFERENCE.

Held at San Jose, Cal., October 7- 12 1891 . ,

Bishop Haygood, President; L. C. Renfro, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? enduring trials unknowT n to brethren of later Answer. Wilds L. Pierce, William T. Mc- times. A man of God and a student of the Dowell, John S. Jenkins. 3. Bible, he preached earnest, gospel sermons, Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Joseph R. often of great power. After some eighty Compton. 1. years of earthly pilgrimage, November 10, Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? M. Datte, 1890, he joined the immortal hosts above, to at his own request. 1. be forever with the Lord. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Boyns, son of Richard and Mary nection? J. A. Bachelor, L. A. Dillard, W. Richard of St. Just, Cornwall, England, was E. Phillips, J. W. Ray, S. T. Reeve, A. F. W. Boyns, 1831. brought in Walters. 6. born June 4, He was up of England, but soon made a Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. the Church choice of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer local or lay preacher from other Conferences? J. H. Johnson, H. and in 1850 became a great usefulness. For upward of thirty R. Singleton, C. E. Patillo. 3. of years he held positions of responsibility in Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? the of his choice, greatly to his own W. E. Edmonson, J. D. Dorsey. 2. Church credit, and the good of the people he served. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are banker he also won elected deacons? W. E. Phillips, J. A. Bach- As mining agent and confidence of all who knew elor, J. W. Ray, S. T. Reeve. 4. the esteem and him. In 1883 he came to America and made Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- of Bishop Granbery and dained deacons ? W. E. Phillips, J. A. Bach- the acquaintance others, joining the ministry in Montana and elor, J. W. Ray, S. T. Reeve. 4. on to California. He wr as a Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected then coming Christian gentleman, eminent in the elo- deacons? John M. Pratt. 1. power of his pulpit addresses, Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- quence and acceptable and efficient preacher wher- dained deacons? John M. Pratt. 1. an went. Suddenly, while staying at Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are ever he the home of his daughter in Hollister, he elected elders? W. G. Swan. 1. of heart disease, April 1891, while ly- Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are died 8, ing in the happiness of unconscious sleep, ordained elders? W. G. Swan. 1. nearly sixty years of age. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected and being elders? None. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- in their life and official administration? dained elders? None. Their names were called over, one by one, Ques. 16. Who are located this year ? examined and passed. None. and their characters Ques. 21. What is the number of local Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? L. D. preachers and members in the several cir- Hargis, R. F. Beasley. 2. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Ques. 18. Who are" superannuated? B. H. ence? Russell, B. C. Howard, T. C. Barton, J. Gru- San Francisco District. well, D. M. Rice. 5. White Colored Loc’l Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Mein’s, Mem's. Pr’s. ing the past year? Iry Taylor, R. Boyns. 2. San Francisco: Centenary 191 San Francisco Mission 35 Iry Taylor was born in Alabama, and Oakland 92 r 345 early in life w ent to Texas, whence he came Sacramento San Jose 190 to California in 1852. Some few years after, Alameda 45 he joined the Pacific Conference, his name Hollister - 132 71 first appearing on the minutes in be- Salinas 1857, 49 T Gilroy ing appointed to the Sacramento Circuit w ith Mountain View 74 C. Gridley. He afterward traveled in eight Walnut Grove 38 or nine other places, and in 1868 was super- Lincoln 109 Wheatland 63 annuated, holding this relation ever after- Galt 56 ward up to the day of his death. With the Bear Valley 28 20 pioneer brethren of his day he labored dili- Penn Valley San Lucas and Bradley 49 gently as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, traveling long distances, swimming rivers, and 1,587 Pacific Conference, 1891. 29

Colusa District. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday White Colored r.oc’l schools? 89. Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Colusa 154 school teachers? 620. Chico 215 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday 108 Butte City school scholars? 4,779. Yuba City.. 124 Willows 52 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Maxwell ... 76 the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Bluff. 68 lied orphans of preachers? $2,000. Biggs and Pennington. 50 ows and Indian Valley 37 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Anderson 76 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Arbuckle 61 plied? $1,552.10. Applied to claimants. Coming and Hcnleyville 40 Millville 40 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Big Valley 72 Missions? Foreign Missions, $2,287.55; Do- 20 Quo mestic Missions, $1,469.05. Total, $3,756.60. 1,197 Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Fresno District. Church Extension? $825. is the number, and what Fresno 240 Ques. 31. What Big Dry Creek 119 is the estimated value, of church edifices? Selina 123 Number, 74£; value, $279,840. Kingsburg and Sanger. 109 32. is the number, and what Wild Flower 63 Ques. What Dinuba 93 is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Visalia 90 ber, 44; value, $52,585. Woodville 143 are the educational statis- Bakersfield 62 Ques. 33. What College, teachers, pupils, 55. Lenore tics? 1 ; 8 ; Porterville Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Watts Valley West Park the Conference be held? Sacramento, Cal. Glennville Ques. 35. Where are the preachers stationed this year?

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Santa Rosa District.t. SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT. Santa Rosa 306 4 Petaluma 58 C. Y. Rankin, P. E. Ukiah 270 4 Cloverdale and Holland. 63 1 San Francisco, H. C. Christian. Healdsburg 118 2 Second Church, C. E. Patillo. Lakeport 2 Oakland, A. C. Bane. Potter Valley 85 Rockville 35 Sacramento, H. R. Singleton. Elmira 1 San Jose, J. Hannon. Winters 86 Alameda, to be supplied (by R. F. Beasly and Woodland 72 Knight’s Landing 54 1 H. M. Du Bose). Anderson Valley 45 Hollister, S. Brown. Japan Mission Salinas, J. C. Simmons.

1,303 15 Gilroy, Z. J. Needham. T. L. Merced District. Mountain View, Duke. Lincoln, E. Edmonson. Merced 112 W. Plainsburg 92 1 Bear Valley, to be supplied. Modesta 47 Wheatland, R. F. Allen. 144 Lincoln 2 Penn Valley, to be supplied. M ariposa 110 4 Stockton 72 San Lucas and Bradley, to be supplied (by Los Banos 62 H. C. Mohn). Sonora 74 San Felipe, to be supplied (by A. Martin). Madera 50 1 Green Mountain 86 2 Berkeley, to be supplied. Swelling and Livingston 18 2 Pacific Methodist Advocate, R. P. Wilson, Bus- iness Manager. 1 1 867 (. 1 6 Recapitulation. SANTA ROSA DISTRICT. i 1,587 9 1.197 9 5 Colusa C. 0. Steel P. E. Fresno 1,10b 10 , Santa Rosa 1,303 15 Santa Rosa, W. G. Swan. Merced 867 6 Petaluma, George Baugh. Total this year 6.06C li 45 Ukiah, M. B. Sharbrough. i 1 22 Total last year 5,55 Cloverdale and Hopland, J. D. Dorsey. A. L. Paul. Increase 50t>1 1] 23 Healdsburg, Lakeport, W. E. Phillips. Ques. 22. How many infants have been Potter Valley, D. Bauer. baptized during the year? 168. Rockvale, J. B. Winton. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Elmira, A. R. Reams. baptized during the year? 280. Winters, L. C. Renfro. HI

30 German Mission Conference, 1891. f|| Woodland, B. F. Burris. Linden, P. N. Blankenship. Knight’s Landing, J. G. Shelton. Mariposa, A. F. W. Walters. Anderson Valley, W. M. Winters. Stockton, J. Wood. Missionary to Japan, W. E. Towson. Sonora, M. J. Gough. Pacific Methodist College, J. Emory, Presi- Los Banos, to be supplied (by C. E. Clark). dent; H. M. McKnight, Agent. Madera, J. C. Pendergrast. Green Mountain, S. T. Reeve. COLUSA DISTRICT. Walnut Grove, A. Odum. W. P. Andreas, P. E. Galt, J. C. Hyden. Snelling and Livingston, J. W. Ray. Colusa, R. J. Briggs. N. Chico, C. Goulder. FRESNO DISTRICT. Butte City, F. M. Staton. Yuba City, A. P. Few. A. L. Hunsaker, P. E. Willows, L. A. Dillard. Fresno, T. H. B. Anderson. Maxwell, W. D. Taylor. Big Dry Creek, H. Neate. Red Bluff, J. R. Compton. Selma, T. A. Atkinson. Biggs and Pennington, J. A. Bachelor. Sanger and Kingsbury, R. A. Sawrie. Orland and Henleyville, J. F. Roberts. Lemore, G. H. Newton. Newville and Elk Creek, E. H. Robertson. West Park, to be supplied. Leesville, J. M. Brown. Dinuba, Z. P. Millington. Arbuckle, J. M. Ward. Watts Valley, to be supplied. Anderson, W. A. Booher. Visalia, J. H. Johnson. Cottonwood and Millville, to be supplied. Woodville, J. Hedgpeth. Bigg Valley, J. S. Hutton. Wild Flower, to be supplied. Ono, J. H. Neal. Burney Valley, to be supplied. BAKERSFIELD DISTRICT. Conference Colporter, W. H. Cooper. W. F. Coffin, P. E. MERCED DISTRICT. Bakersfield, W. F. Coffin. Tulare, to be supplied. W. J. Mahon P. E. , Glennville, to be supplied. Merced, E. A. Garrison. Inyo, to be supplied. Plainsburg, D. T. Belvil. Alila, to be supplied. Modesta, P. F. Page. Porterville, to be supplied.

GERMAN MISSION CONFERENCE.

Held at New Fountain, Tex., November 5-8, 1891.

Bishop Fitzgerald, President; J. A. G. Rabe, Secretary.

1 Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Answer. Edward Konken. 1. dained deacons? None. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Henry Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Jordan, John Willmann. 1. elected elders? G. Gerdes, Ernst Frenzel. 2. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- dained elders? G. Gerdes, Ernst Frenzel. 2. nection? None. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? one. elders? Michael Henschel, Louis Rein- Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from hardt. 2. other Conferences? None. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? dained elders? Louis Reinhardt. 1. None. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are None. elected deacons? None. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? None. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? John dained deacons? None. Prinzing, John A. Schaper. 2. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- deacons? F. A. Grote, H. F. Loehmann. 2. ing the past year? None. Southwest Missouri Conference, 1891. 31

Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Ques. 29. What has been contributed for in their life and official administration? Missions? Foreign Missions, $934.75; Do- Their names were called over, one by one, mestic Missions, $692.30. Total, $1,627.05. and their characters examined and passed. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Ques. 21. What is the number of local Church Extension? $89.30. preachers and members in the several cir- Ques. 31. What is the number, and what cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- is the estimated value, of church edifices? ence? Number, 21 value, $33,300. West Texas District. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Mem- Loc’l is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- bers. Pr'g. ber, 14; value, $11,050. 33. are educational statis- Llano Circuit 165 3 Ques. What the Fredericksburg and Crab Apple Mis 65 1 tics? There is no Conference school. At San Antonio Mission 18 Fredericksburg, however, there is a college New Fountain Circuit 125 2 for Somerset and Medina Mission 83 building valued at $7,000. Collected ed- Cuero and Five Mile Coletto Mission 37 2 ucation, $4; turned over to the Regent of Cibolo and Elm Creek Mission 55 2 the Southwestern University, at Georgetown, New Braunfels and York Crtek Mis 33 1 Maxwell, Lockhart, and Luling Mis 27 2 where we have a number of German stu- Weesatchie and Goliad Mission 13 dents preparing for the ministry. Weimar- Cistern, and Hackberry Mis.... 44 1 , Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of

615 14 the Conference be held? Houston, Tex. Central Texas District. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- this Houston Station 177 1 tioned year? Houston Mission Belleville and East Bernard Mission 40 WEST TEXAS DISTRICT. Industry Mission 42

Long Prairie Mission 28 Jacob Kern , P. E. Williamson County Mission Grassyville Circuit 114 Llano Circuit, J. Bader; J. Willmann, As- sistant. 401 1 Fredericksburg and Crab Apple Mission, Recapitulation. Ernst Frenzel. West Texas District. 615 14 San Antonio Mission, Central Texas “ 401 1 William Lieser. New Fountain Circuit, H. Jordan. Total this year 1,016 15 Somerset and Medina Mission, J. Merkel. Total last j^ear 1,012 15 Cuero and Five Mile Coletto, J. A. G. Rabe.

4l Cibolo Creek, F. Increase 1 and Elm Vordenbaumen. New Braunfels and York Creek Mission, Ed- Ques. 22. How many infants have been ward Konken. baptized during the year? 129. Maxwell, Lockhart, and Luling Mission, E. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Kramer. baptized during the year? 1. Weesatchie and Goliad Mission, G. Gerdes. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday schools? 23. CENTRAL TEXAS DISTRICT. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday William A. Knolle, P. E. school teachers? 144. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Houston Station, P. H. Hensch. school scholars? 811. Houston Mission, G. Mueller. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Bellville and East Bernard Mission, C. Kurz. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Industry Mission, William A. Knolle. ows and orphans of preachers? $350. Long Prairie Mission, A. Scheurich. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Grassyville Circuit, D. Schrimpf. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Williamson County Mission, to be supplied plied? $224.25. Applied to claimants. (by John Prinzing).

SOUTHWEST MISSOURI CONFERENCE.

Held at Sedalia, Mo., September 16-21, 1891.

, | Bishop Hargrove, President; C. C. Woods, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Anderson, William P. Hagler, Charles Scri- Answer. M. T. Fulcher, T. E. Clark, W. H. vener, J. E. McDonald, W. C. Hill, B. F. Suddath, S. G. Welborn, J. R. Strong, Laban Alsup, B. H. Steele, A. H. Barnes, Samuel 32 Southwest Missouri Conference, 1891.

Lopp, J. A. Kenney, W. M. Rader, G. AV. “first saw the light” divine, in 1875, when Moore, B. F. Fielding. 18. he was eighteen years old. With his con- Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? G. H. version came his call to the ministry. To Green, T. B. Harris, E. P. Ryland, G. L. Tay- this he responded in Texas and was licensed lor, Nathan Whitmer, J. E. Harney. 6. to preach at Iredell Church, in the bounds of Qnes. 3. Who are discontinued? R. J. the Northwest Texas Conference. He was Hoare. 1. ' admitted on trial by the Northwest Texas Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Conference in 1880, "and traveled six years nection? A. B. Appleby, C. G. Hamilton, in Texas, then located and attended Van- Perry Long, W. B. Morgan, J. W. E. Roth- derbilt University one year. In 1888 he rock, N. R. Stone, W. A. Whitmer, J. R. was readmitted into this Conference and Hargis, C. C. Howard, Jacob Shook, J. L. immediately transferred to the Western Con- Sullens. 11. ference, where he served one year, returned Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. to this Conference and was appointed to Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Marietta and Sarcoxie, where his health, from other Conferences? W. M. Wainwright, which was never robust, gave way, and he J. P. Caldwell, B. P. Searcy, J. W. Purcell, went to the mountains, hoping to recuperate. W. D. Mathews. 5. At the last session of our Conference his Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? name "was placed on the roll of the superan- H. C. Allen, T. W. Alton, S. J. Brown, S. P. nuates. His health continued to decline till Cayton, R. F. Campbell, R. 0. Eustace, D. June 20, 1891, when in the house of his sis- M. Litaker, J. M. Nickels, A. N. Henderson, ter, Mrs. Raunabarger, in Edmond, Oklaho- Frank Moore, AV. J. Snow. 10. ma Territory, he died in great peace, two Ques. 8. AVhat traveling preachers are days before completing his thirty-fourth elected deacons? A. B. Appleby, C. G. Ham- year. Brother McDonald, having served ilton, Perry Long, AV. B. Morgan, J. AV. E. with us but one year, was known to but Rothrock, N. R. Stone, AV. A. AVhitmer. 7. few of us. He was a good man, faithful and Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- true, finished his work before noon, and has dained deacons? A. B. Appleby, C. G. Ham- entered upon his reward, ilton, Perry Long, AV. B. Morgan, J. AV. E. Rothrock, N. R. Stone, W. A. AATiitmer. 7. Ebenezer G. Frazier was born inAVilson Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected County, Tenn., July 1, 1843; and died in deacons? None. AVaverly, Mo., August 21, 1891. His parents Ques. 11. AVhat local preachers are or- moved to Cape Girardeau. County, Mo., while dained deacons? None. he was yet small, where, in 1860, he was con- Ques. 12. AVhat traveling preachers are verted and joined the M. E. Church, South, r elected elders? B. A . Alton, C. M. Bishop, under the ministry of his brother, J. S. Fra- C. A. Lewis, J. H. Denny, J. A. Jared, AV. zier, when he was just seventeen years old. P. Barrett, H. C. Meredith, E. Y. Ginn. 8. In 1865 he was licensed to exhort by his life- Ques. 13. AVhat traveling preachers are or- time friend, Rev. J. M. Proctor. On Febru- dained elders? B. V. Alton, C. M. Bishop, ary 2, 1867, he was licensed to preach by the C. A. Lewis, J. H. Denny, J. A. Jared, AV. Quarterly Conference of New Madrid Cir- P. Barrett, H. C. Meredith, E. Y. Ginn. 8. cuit, of which J. S. Frazier had charge and T Ques. 14. AA hat local preachers are elected AV. S.AVoodard was presiding elder, by whom elders? None. he was employed to travel as junior preach- Ques. 15. AVhat local preachers are or- er with his brother the remainder of the dained elders? None. year. The fourth Quarterly Conference rec- Ques. 16. AVho are located this year? ommended him to the Annual Conference, T A. Byrd, J. N. Anthony, J. M. Stultz, A\ . and he was received on trial by the St. Louis H. Son, T. AV. AVatts, J. H. Torbert, N. R. Conference at Kansas City in 1867, and sta- T Stone, AV. A. A\ hitmer. 8. tioned by Bishop Marvin in AVestport. In r Ques. 17. AA ho are supernumerary? J. L. 1868 he was transferred to the Western Con- D. Blevens, J. C. Shackleford, T. M. Cobb. 3. ference, and appointed to Council Grove Sta- r Ques. 18. AA ho are superannuated? AV. J. tion, where he remained three years. Then Brown, James McGehee, A. M. Rader, H. N. he wrought two years in Montana and one Watts, AV. M. Prottsman, W. S. Woodward, in AVyandotte, Kan. In 1874 he was trans- J. Spencer, J. M. Kelley, W. D. Stewart, J. ferred back to the Southwest Missouri Con- M. Proctor, J. P. Barnaby, AV. B. McFar- ference, and sent to Chamois Circuit; 1875,

land, G. M. AVinton, T. J. Stringfield, M. Versailles Station ; 1876, Sedalia three years; Duren. 15. then Marshall, two; Longwood, two; Pilot Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Grove, one; Lebanon District,' one; Arrow T ing the past year? Rush McDonald, E. G. Rock, two; La Monte, three; and AA averly " Frazier. 2. to the end of twenty-four years of faithful wr ork in the itinerant ranks of the Christian Rush McDonald was born in Edinburg, ministry. In 1877 he wT as married by J. R. Mo., June 22, 1857, and was “born again ” Bennett to Miss Mary R. Stratton, of Linn, at Blackw'ater Church, in Johnson County, Mo., whom, with his five children, he has where other members of this Conference left to the care of our Conference. Brother —

1891. Southwest Missouri Conference,

Yrazier, as a preacher, was above the aver- Ques. 21. What is the number of local age. As a sermonizer he ranked among the preachers and members in the several cir- best in his Conference. He had a clear, an- cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- alytical, logical mind; perceived truth read- ence? ily and presented it clearly. His language Kansas City District. was forcible rather than abundant. His ser- Mem- Loc’l bers. Pr's. mons were valuable more for the thoughts they contained than the words in which they Walnut Street and South Side 568 3 were dressed. He wrote but little for the Centenary 356 3 Washington Street 145 contributions press, but the few he made to Campbell Street 76 the Church papers were packed with thought Brooklyn Avenue 235 2 and paid well for several readings. They Garlancl Avenue 110 Melrose 102 2 of conciseness, clear- were almost marvels Warfield Chapel 126 1 ness, and force. He ought to have written Independence Station 396 1 more. Had he have cultivated this gift, he Westport Circuit 186 1 Lee’s Summit and Union 229 3 would have ranked with eminent writers Blue Springs Circuit 212 of his day. But the best of all, he was a Pink Hill Circuit 193 1 good man. Quiet, retired, unobtrusive, the Oak Grove Circuit 227 1 Lone Jack Circuit 203 3 world knew not his worth, His wife writes: Pleasant Hill Station 119 “ No one but me knew how good Mr. Frazier Harrisonville and Belton 517 1 was.” He never murmured at an appoint- Peculiar Circuit 238 1 Gunn City Circuit 202 1 ment, and wherever sent, he labored earnestly to do good. He preached every Sab- 4.442i 24 bath; his pulpit was never vacant. He Lexington District. never took advantage of the fifth Sabbath, Lexington Station 296 1 but gave all his time to the Church he loved. Wellington Circuit 351 Odessa and Marvin Chapel 177 His wife writes again: “I am overwhelmed Montserrat Circuit 204 1 by this great affliction. The light has gone Columbus Circuit 362 Iligginsville 156 out of my life. Nothing is left me on earth Station Chilhowie Circuit 208 but sorrow. But for the children, I would Warrensburg Station 140 1 pray God to take me also. My heart is bro- LaMonte and Dresden 180 2 ken. Pray for us.” Brother Frazier had not Herndon Circuit 260 Sweet Springs and Blackwater 172 1 been sick for twenty years. August 16 is Elmwood and Grand Pass 198 remembered by some of us as the hottest Longwood and High Point 21li Sabbath of this year. During that day he Miami and Mt. Carmel 2171 Waverly Station 178 2 preached twice. On Friday following “his Dover Circuit 202 body, with his charge, he laid down, and at Colder Circuit 215 •once ceased to work and to live.” His evening his last text was: “And I, brethren, — — Boonville District. when I came to you, came not with excel- Boonville Station .... lency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto Pilot Grove Circuit , you the testimony of God. For I determined Nelson Circuit not to know anything among you, save Jesus Arrow Rock Circuit Marshall Station Christ, and him crucified. And I was with Orearville Circuit you in weakness, and in fear, and in much Slater Station trembling. And my speech and my preach- Gilliam and Cambridge Circuit,.... | Bunceton Circuit 159 ing was not with enticing words of man’s wis- Prairie Home Circuit 264 dom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of California Circuit 171

jjiv n vi. ii.ii* a x. Latham Mission 120 power.” (1 Cor.vvi. 1-4.)j xiA mostiiiuci fittinglilting textlUAi ,, with which to close one’s ministry. His death jefferso'n cdty Station, was most triumphant. As his feet touched Chamois Station i ' + Vwa ^ dViiIIv c ** I't • ** 7") /?/-»/ 7» no the “chilly wntorwaters” heo nvoloiexclaimed:morl “Death is conquered I Thanks be to God who giveth us Springfield District. * the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, , y c . p 8 ‘ ’ Victor,'!! Kir„‘Tt£.knf A. cloftformo lot’. Victory Sing Rock of Ages,re cleft for me, let Guy Street Mission 58 me hide myself in thee.’ ” One stanza was Campbell Street 211 sung, when grief suppressed further utter- Dale Street 73 “ Springfield Circuit 375 ence, and he added : Finish it to-morrow at Marshfield Station 154 the grave.” Then lie kissed hiq wife and chil- Marshfield Circuit 391 Circuit 363 dren good-by, and with bis latest breath said, Henderson “ Ozark Circuit 94 I must go,” and gently went home. His Morrisville Station 174 body was interred in the Waverly cemetery, Bolivar Circuit 348 but to have final sepulcher at Marshall. Stockton Circuit 130 Jericho Circuit 278 Greenfield Circuit 338 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Bois d’Arc Circuit 140 in their life and official administration? Ash Grove Circuit 191 Willard Circuit 384 Their names were called over, one by one, .and their characters examined and passed. 3 ;:

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Neosho District. Ques. 22. How many infants have been Mem- [Loc’l baptized during the year? 382. bers. Pr's. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Neosho Station 186 baptized during the year? 1,470.

Seneca Circuit 166 . Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Southwest City Circuit 277 . schools? 257. Pineville Circuit 207 Newtoma Circuit 409 Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Exeter Circuit 320 school teachers? 2,308. Pierce City Station 93 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Monette and Sarcoxie 110 Red Oak Circuit 239 school scholars? 17,548. Carthage Station 128 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Webb City Station 264 the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Carterville Station 176 Jasper Circuit 143 ows and orphans of preachers? Five per Mt. Vernon Circuit 375 cent, on preachers’ and presiding elders* salaries. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the' Clinton District. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Clinton Station 219 . Montrose Circuit 415 plied? $4,450. Applied to claimants. Lucas Circuit 282 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Lowry City Circuit 188 Missions? Foreign Missions, $7,450.96 Do- Iconium Circuit 197 ; Lincoln Circuit 155 mestic Missions, $4,020.25. Total, $11,471.21. Drake Circuit 575 Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Calhoun Circuit 277 Church Extension? $1,626.77. Windsor Station 233 Green Ridge Circuit 250 Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Camp Branch Mission 119 is the estimated value, of church edifices? Sedalia Station 319 Number, value, $096,324. Sedalia Circuit 383 300J; Glenstead Circuit 223 Ques. 32. Wliat is the number, and what Versailles Station 120 is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Garden City Circuit 189 ber, 84; value, $89,065. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis-

• Nevada District. tics? Scarritt Collegiate Institute : Teachers,. students, value of property, $30,000 Nevada Station 433 12 ; 207 ;

: Moundville Circuit 282 Morrisville College Teachers, 7 ; students, Deerfield Circuit 199 . 165; value of property, $10,000; Central Fe- Hume Circuit 271 Sprague Circuit 215 male College: Teachers, 14; students, 156; College Rich Hill Station 250 value of property, $50,000 ; Central Sheldon Circuit 317 Teachers, 8; students, 154; endowment, Walker Circuit 206 Montevallo Circuit 256 $110,000; value of property, $80,000. Papinsville Circuit 175 Ques. 34. Where shall "the next session Butler Station 132 . of the Conference be held? Independence, Everett Circuit 284 El Dorado Springs Station 101 Mo. Roscoe Mission 106 Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Kenoma Circuit 115 tioned this year? Lamar Mission 23 KANSAS CITY DISTRICT. Lebanon District. J. E. Godbey, P. E. Lebanon Circuit 398 Walnut Street and South Side, J. J. Tigert Richland 323 Circuit 4 and T. W. Alton. Iberia Mission 378 3 Waynesville Circuit 116 2 Centenary, George C. Rankin. Vienna Circuit 186 1 Washington Street, S. J. Brown. Buffalo Circuit 164 1 Campbell Street and Garland Avenue, L. R. Cross Timbers Circuit 124 4 Urbana Circuit 270 8 Downing; one to be supplied. Humansville Circuit 87 1 Brooklyn Avenue, L. P. Norfleet. Mansfield Circuit 324 3 Melrose, C. M. Bishop. Mountain Grove and Cabool : 179 Plato Circuit 315 3 Warfield Chapel, R. H. Shaeffer. Independence Station, C. M. Hawkins. 2,S04 30 Westport Circuit, M. L. Fulcher. Recapitulation. Lee’s Summit and Union, A. B. Donaldson. Kansas City District 4,442 24 Blue Springs Circuit, J. W. Ezell. Lexington “ 3,727 8 Pink Hill Circuit, L. M. Phillips. Boonville “ 3,522 9 Circuit, D. Litaker. Springfield “ 4,142 37 Oak Grove M. Neosho “ 3,093 23 Lone Jack Circuit, N. A. Auld. Clinton “ 4,144 .19 Pleasant Hill Station, E. P. Ryland. Nevada “ 3,365 '23 Harrisonville, Lebanon “ 2,864 30 Belton and G. W. Moore. Peculiar Circuit, J. W. Purcell. Total this year 29,299 173 Gunn City Circuit, E. Y. Ginn. Total last year 29,169 160 Board of Church Extension, J. C. Morris, Increase 130 13 Assistant Secretary.

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St. Louis Christian Advocate, W. B. Palmore, Versailles Station, Arthur H. Barnes. Assistant Editor. Versailles Mission, W. M. Rader. Appleton City and Spruce, G. L. Taylor. LEXINGTON DISTRICT. Garden City Circuit, W. P. Barrett.

J. King P. E. , NEVADA DISTRICT. Lexington Station, W. J. Carpenter; Thomas M. M. Pugh, P. E. M. Cobb, Sup. Nevada Station, to be supplied. Wellington Circuit, C. A. Emmons. Moundville Circuit, M. McAllister. Odessa and Marvin Chapel, T. M. Horne. W. Deerfield Circuit, Benjamin F. Montserrat Circuit, C. Bruner. Fielding. Rich Hill Station, W. T. Gill. Columbus Circuit, V. M. Crutsinger. Sprague Circuit, J. F. Robb. Higginsville Station, W. T. Eastwood. Hume Circuit, J. Glanville. Chilhowie Circuit, N. M. Dowdy. H. Butler Warrensburg Station, B. V. Alton. Station, L. W. Pearce. Everett Circuit, J. F. Pike. Lamont and Dresden, Preston Phillips. Papinsville Hermon Circuit, H. L. Anderson. Circuit, C. G. Hamilton. Walker Circuit, S. G. Welborn. Sweet Springs and Black water, L. H. Van- diver. Montevallo Circuit, W. K. White. Sheldon Circuit, T. Puckett. Elmwood and Grand Pass, W. W. Jared. C. Lamar Station, S. P. Cayton. Longwood and High Point, J. Y. Busby. Kenoma Circuit, J. fe. Miami and Mt. Carmel, W. B. Cobb. W. Rothrock. El Dorado Springs Station, P. Waverlv Station, T. P. Cobb. J. CaldwelL Roscoe Circuit, J^ L. Dover Circuit, C. T. Wallace. G. Mitchell. Corder and Blackburn, W. J. Snow; J. C. Shackelford, Sup. NEOSHO DISTRICT. Central Female College, W. J. Carpenter, T. I). Payne, P. E. Agent. Neosho Station, W. C. Bewley. BOONVILLE DISTRICT. Seneca Circuit, Nathan Whitmer. Southwest City Circuit, J. R. Strong. J. M. Clark, P. E. Pineville Circuit, A. N. Henderson. Newtonia Circuit, T. J. Reynolds. Boonville Station, J. M. Boon. Exeter Circuit, J. M. Clayton. Boonville Mission, R. 0 . Eustace. Pierce City Station, J. A. Swift. Pilot Grove and Bell Air, J. D. Wood. Monette Sarcoxie, J. A. * Nelson Circuit, Laban Anderson. and Jared. Red Oak Circuit, J. R. Hargis. Arrow Rock and Smith’s Chapel, J. C. Coss. Station, Marshall Station, A. R. Faris. Carthage W. M. Wainwright. Orearville Circuit, T. P. Hill. Webb City Station, H. C. Meredith. Slater Station, W. D. Matthews. Carterville Station, A. B. Appleby. Jasper Circuit, Gilliam and Cambridge, W. F. Wagoner. J. J. Keller. Mt. Vernon Circuit, John A. Bunceton Circuit, J. S. Russell. Kenney. Lawrenceburg Circuit, J. A. Matthews. Prairie Home Circuit, J. L. Sullens. Joplin Station, R. F. Campbell. California Circuit, J. J. Hill. Latham Mission, Samuel Lopp. Scarritt Collegiate Institute, C. C. Woods, President; Bewley, Russellville Circuit, B. H. Steel. W. C. Agent. Jefferson City Station, W. T. McClure. DISTRICT. Chamois Circuit, Perry Long. SPRINGFIELD Central College, C. H. Briggs, Agent. John V. Huggins, P. E.

Springfield: St. Paul’s, J. H. Scruggs. CLINTON DISTRICT. Campbell Street, W. H. Winton. Dale Street, to be supplied. R. S. Hunter, P. E. Guy Street and Ritters, J. M. Nickels. Clinton Station, J. C. Givens. Willard Station, R. J. Nelson. Montrose Circuit, V. J. Sevier. Morrisville Station, J. J. Reed. Lucas Circuit, J. McCrory. Bolivar Circuit, W. F. Briggs. Lowry City Circuit, to be supplied (by A. W. Aldrich’ Circuit, A. C. Briggs. Callahan). Jericho Circuit, A. G. Moore; one to be sup- Iconium Circuit, H. C. Allen. plied. Lincoln Circuit. M. Bahrenburg. Greenfield Circuit, J. E. McDonald. Drake Circuit, J. H. Denny. Ash Grove Circuit, C. N. Scrivener. Calhoun Circuit, R. G. Flummer. Bois d’Arc Circuit, Jacob Shook. Windsor Station, Clinton Clenny. 7 Ozark Circuit, W. B. Morgan. Green RidgS, J. F. Hogan. Henderson Circuit, C. C. Howard.

Sedalia Mission, T. B. Harris. Marshfield Station, J. L. Hagler. : Sedalia Station, to be supplied. Marshfield Circuit, W. P. Hagler.

Otterville Circuit, W. G. Pike. ; Fair Grove Circuit, W. L. McGuire.

Glensted Circuit, J. W. Bond. 1 Morrisville College, J. B. Ellis, President. 36 Texas Conference, 1891.

LEBANON DISTRICT. A. L. Houston transferred to the Denver Conference. Milton Adkisson, P. E. J. E. Carpenter transferred to the Los Lebanon Station, B. P. Searcy. Angeles Conference. Lebanon Circuit, W. H. Suddatli. I. S. Smith and I. A. Thomas transferred Richland and Dixon, W. C. Hill. to the North Texas Conference. Richland Circuit, B. F. Alsup. M. M. Hawkins transferred to the North Iberia Circuit, Thomas Clark. Alabama Conference. Waynesville Circuit, to be supplied. R. A. Holloway and F. A. Taylor trans- 'Vienna Circuit, J. E. Harney. ferred to the Florida Conference. Buffalo Circuit, L. H. Davis. W. H. Hogan transferred to the St. Louis Cross Timbers Circuit, B. H. Gragg. Conference. Urbana Circuit, to be supplied (by T. J. L. A. Blevans transferred to the Western Turner). Conference, and stationed at Kickapoo. Humansville Circuit, J. B. Landreth. C. A. Lewis transferred to the Missouri > Mansfield Circuit, to be supplied. Conference, and stationed at Edgerton. Mountain Grove and Cabool, F A. Moore. J. W. Lowrance transferred to the Mem- Plato Circuit, G. H. Green. phis Conference.

TEXAS CONFERENCE.

Held at Austin, Tex., November 18-23 1891 . ,

Bishop Fitzgerald, President; Seth Ward, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Russell, J. INI. Sitton, R. H. Butterfield, Win- Answer. Joseph C. Moore, John W. Morris, der C. Bracewell. 8. Erastus M. Myers, Thomas R. Cain, J. P. Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Skinner, J. J. Calloway, Augustus M. Eu- dained deacons? R. T. Fort, Samuel W. bank, George E. Clothier, Elijah L. Shet- Holt, Evander M. Sweet, Jr., Samuel J. tles. 9. Rucker, J. L. Russell, J. M. Sitton, R. H. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? W. D. Butterfield, L. W. Carlton. 8. White, Harry May, T. S. Williford, Ira B. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Gordon, W. T. NcDonald, J. W. Brazleton, elected elders? Charles A. Hooper, James J. M. Sutton, John L. Russell, William H. M. Adams, Giles J. Leath. 3. Brooks. 9. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? W. F. dained elders? Charles A. Hooper, James Stoddard, at his own request. 1. M. Adams, Giles J. Leath. 3. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected nection? Samuel H. Morgan, H. G. Wil- elders? John W. Thompson, Daniel J. Mc- liams, Edwin D. Mouzon, DeWitt H. Hotch- Donald, Geo. H. Stovall, A. M. Eubank. 4. kiss. 4. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- •Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Robert T. dained elders? John W. Thompson, Daniel Woolsey. 1. J. McDonald, Augustus M. Eubank. 3. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Ques. 16. Who are located this year? J. A. from -other Conferences? W. W. Horner, Savage, J. F. Gibbons—at their own re- W. H. LeFevre. 2. quest. 2. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? C. L. J. W. McMahan, J. W. Harmon, J. M. Gober, Farrington, D. H. Linebaugh. 2. L. P. Davis. 4. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? John Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are H. Davidson, A. Mizell, W. K. Turner, Jo- elected deacons? DeWitt H. Hotchkiss, Ed- siali W. Whipple, William Shapard, C. W. win D. Mouzon. 2. Thomas, Wesley Smith, W. G. Nelms, F. A. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- McShan, T. W.' Blake, J. M. Wesson, J. M. dained deacons? DeWitt H. Hotchkiss, Ed- Turner. 12. win D. Mouzon. 2. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected ing the past year? None. deacons? R. T. Fort, Samuel W. Holt, Evan- Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless der M. Sweet, Jr., Samuel J. Rucker, J. L. in their life and official administration? . 1

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Their names were called over, one by one, Calvert District.

White I Colored Loc’l and their characters examined and passed. j Mem's, Mem's. Pr'». i Ques. 21. What is the number of local | preachers and members in the several cir- 166| cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Marlin Station 223 1 399 ence? 374 382 6 Austin District. 279 2 White Colored Loo’l 912 1 1 Meni's. Mem's. Fr’s. 249 1 2 Centerville Circuit 313 533 288 2 Twentv-fourth Street 77 107 94 1 29t> 2 Merrilltown Circuit 32o 1 294 1 238 2 260 3 145 2 219 3.765 20 151 1 119 Recapitulation. 133 3.594 14 243 2 2.840 18 266 2 Galveston “ 3,021 4 19 i 183 32103 1 28 166 1 20 398 Flatonia Station 271 1 Total this year 16,523 4 99 Flat.onia Circuit 233 1 1 5 Total last year 15,153 [ 97 1

3,594 14 2

1 ...... 1 Huntsville District. Decrease 1

Huntsville Station 225 Ques. 22. How many infants have been Prairie Plains 1S3 Zion Circuit 210 baptized during the year? 852. Navasota Station 141 Ques. 23. How many adults have been Anderson Circuit 257 baptized during the year? 1,361. 395 Madisonville Circuit of Willis Station 185 Ques. 24. AVhat is the number Sunday Montgomery Circuit.. 168 schools? 157. Cold Springs Circuit.. 319 Ques. 25. AVhat is the number of Sunday Waverly Circuit 228 Plantersville Circuit. 151 school teachers? 1,213. Hempstead Station .... 10: Ques. 26. AVhat is the number of Sunday Hockley Mission 147 school scholars? 9,442. Millican Circuit 221 Ques. 27. AVhat amount is necessary for 2,841 18 the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Galveston District. ows and orphans of preachers? $3,452.64. T Ques. 28. A\ hat has been collected on the Galveston: St.John’s 238! has it been ap- St. James 156 foregoing account, and how West End Mission 149 plied? $3,253.55. Applied to claimants. 497 Houston: Shearn Church. Ques. 29. AVhat has been contributed for Washington Street 220 Missions, $5,069.05 Do- McKee Street 230 Missions? Foreign ; City Mission 82 mestic Missions, $2,139.25. Total, $7,208.30. Bolivar Circuit 63 Ques. 30. AVhat has been contributed for Richmond and Wharton... 209 Cedar Bayou Circuit 205 Church Extension? $1,856.60.

Alvin Circuit 259 Ques. 31 . AVhat is the number, and what 196 Velasco Circuit is the estimated value, of church edifices? Columbia and Brazoria ... 105 143 value, $307,653. Matagorda Circuit 183 Number, 2 ; Eagle Lake Circuit 81 Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Patterson Circuit 148 is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- value, $55,261. 3,021 19 ber, 57 ; Ques. 33. AVhat are the educational sta- Chappell Hill District. tistics? Collected, $786. Paid to Chappell Chappell Hill Station. 191 Hill Female College, $518.07 ; to Southwest- 234 Brenham Station Collected for the Independence Circuit. 87 ern University, $259.03. Giddings and Burton.. 90 Paine and Lane Institutes, $106.06. 121 Caldwell Station Ques. 34. AVhere shall the next session of Caldwell Circuit 211 Tex. Cameron Station 204 the Conference be held ? Calvert, Cameron Circuit 273 Ques. 35. AVhere are the preachers sta- Davilla Circuit 248 tioned this year? Maysfield Circuit 195 Milana Circuit. 349 Rockdale Station 220 GALVESTON DISTRICT. 339 Pleasant Hill Circuit.. J. B. Sears, P. E. Lexington Circuit 239 Set ly and San Felipe. 128 Galveston: St. John, B. H. Greathouse, R^Vville Circuit 174 j St. James, J. AV. Horn. Harry May. 3,303,. 28 1 West End Mission, 38 Texas Conference 1891. ,

Houston: Shearn Church, E. W. Solomon. Bellville Circuit, J. C. Moore. Washington Street, John R. Morris. Chappell Hill Female College, E. W. Tar- McKee Street, D. H. Hotchkiss. rant, President; A. E. Goodwyn, Agent. City Mission, John E. Green. Missionary to Japan, 0. A. Dukes. Bolivar Circuit, R. T. Fort. Cedar Bayou Circuit, J. W. Holt. HUNTSVILLE DISTRICT. Richmond Station, A. J. Wheeler. J. C. Mickle, P. E. Alvin Circuit, to be supplied (by W. R. Campbell). Huntsville Station, Seth Ward; C. L. Far-

• Velasco Circuit, J. F. Follin. rington, Sup. Prairie Plains Circuit, Columbia and Brazoria, J. M. Cooper. to be supplied (by J. R. Matagorda Circuit, J. Walker Morris. Murray). Eagle Lake Circuit, G. C. Summers. Zion Circuit, Thomas R. Cain. Station, Patterson Circuit, G. S. Sandel. Navasota C. M. Keith. Anderson Circuit, L. P. Davis. Wharton and Hungerford, J. W. Kelly. Circuit, Oyster Creek Circuit, S. P. Brown. Madisonville J. M. Adams. Willis Station, George A- LeClere. AUSTIN DISTRICT. Montgomery Circuit, H. G. Williams. Conroe Mission, to be supplied. E. S. Smith, P. E. Cold Springs Circuit, W. T. McDonald. Circuit, Austin : Tenth Street, G. W. Briggs. Dodge to be supplied (by W. C. Twenty-fourth Street, to be supplied (by Bracewell). G. C: Rector). Plantersville and Courtney, J. M. Nickels. First Street, C. A. Hooper. Hempstead Station, F. 0. Favre. Merrilltown Circuit, J. W. Harmon. Hockley Mission, to be supplied. Manchaca Circuit, J. W. Brazleton. Millican Circuit, G. Powledge. Webberville Circuit, J. L. Russell.’ Missionary Secretary, I. G. John. Elgin and Manor, S. H. Morgan. McDade Circuit, G. J. Leath. CALVERT DISTRICT. Bastrop Station, W. Wootton. F. L. Allen, P. E. Winchester, West Point, and Smithville, J. Calvert Station, 0. T. Hotchkiss. F. Sullivan. Marlin Station, H. M. Sears. Cedar Creek Circuit, to be supplied (by H Bremond and Reagan, J. B. Cochran. B. Watts). Hearne and Wheelock, A. J. Anderson. La Grange Station, George E. Clothier. Kosse Circuit, T. S. Williford. Columbus Station, G. H. Collins. Franklin Circuit, W. W. Horner. Weimer Circuit, H. M. Haynie. Bald Prairie Circuit, to be supplied (by J. L. Flatonia Station, G. C. Stovall. Yates). Muldoon Circuit, I. B. Gordon. Jewett and Buffalo, B. J. Guess. Alum Creek Circuit, E. L. Shettles. Centerville Circuit, G. LI. Phair. Fairfield Circuit, T. B. Graves. CHAPPELL HILL DISTRICT. Bryan Station, H. V. Philpott. C. H. Brooks, P. E. Durango Circuit, E. G. Hocutt. Wildersville Circuit, W. D. White. Chappell Hill Station, A. E. Goodwyn. Elliott Circuit, to be supplied (by C. T. True). Brenham Station, E. H. Harmon. Rogers Prairie Circuit, J. J. Calloway. Giddings Circuit, Robert T. Woolsey. Center Point Mission, A. M. Eubanks. Caldwell Station, E. D. Mouzon. Lyons Circuit, J. M. Gober. E. B. Chappell transferred to the St. Louis Cameron Station, J. T. Browning. Conference. Cameron Circuit, H. T. Hart. J. M. Sitton transferred to the Missouri

Davilla Circuit, W. F. Brinson ; D. H. Line-; Conference. baugh, Sup. J. W. Davis transferred to the Louisiana Maysfield Circuit, W. H. Brooks. Conference. Milano Circuit, E. M. Myers. C. A. Evans, F. E. Hammond, I. Z. T. Rockdale Station, J. W. McMahon. Morris, J. M. Armstrong, J. P. Childers, S. Pleasant Hill Circuit, to be supplied (by J. C. Littlepage, and W. H. LeFevre trans- W. Thompson). ferred to the Northwest Texas Conference. Lexington Circuit, J. P. Skinner. W. T. Keith transferred to the East Texas Sealy and San Felipe, A. S. Blackwood. Conference. 39 Tennessee Conference, 1891.

TENNESSEE CONFERENCE.

Held at Nashville, Tenn., October 28-November 3, 1891.

'Bishop Wilson, President; B. F. Haynes, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? loe, Thomas C. Betterton, Fennell P. Turner, John W. Rowlett, George E. Eubank, Mort- George W. Townsend. 19. imer S. Gardner, Elisha Carr Ford, James Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are W. Swindell, John R. Reeves, William J. elected elders? Fountain E. Alford, Benja- Cannon, Samuel G. Thompson, Jerome Win- min A. Cherry, William R. Keathley, James ford, J. Rush Goodloe, Allen P. Walker, An- L. Smotherman. 4. drew J. McClanahan, Bluford W. Dodson, Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- William B. Taylor, William V. Jarratt, John dained elders? Fountain E. Alford, Benja- 45. Rice, James A. Bridges. 17. min A. Cherry, William R. Keathley, James • Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? James H. L. Smotherman. 4. Ray, Andrew Edwin Clement, Alvin P. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Lipscomb, Rolla J. Crump, Elisha M. Har- elders? Elbert S. Bettis, William J. Broad- Tall, Oscar P. Hill, Harva M. Jarvis, George dus. 2. M. Gardner, Emmett L. Gregory. 9. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? James dained elders? Elbert S. Bettis, William J. A. Harvey. 1. Broaddus. 2. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Ques. 16. Who are located this year? nection? William H. Johnston, Aurelius A. George W. Powers, David B. Coleman. 2. Mooney, James J. Ledbetter, David B. Cole- Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? W. man, David F. Osteen, William F. Powers, P. Warren, T. B. Marks, W. G. Dorris, B. F. Jerome Duncan, Daniel J. Proctor, Felix W. Ferrell, J. B. Anderson, W. H. Riggin, W. Johnson, William T. Freeman. 10. R. Warren, Stanford Lassiter, A. H. Reams, Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. J. H. Strayhorn, W. H. Wilkes. 11. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? J. C. from other Conferences? A. L. Prewett, W. Putnam, J. G. Bolton, R. G. Irvine, W. G. F. Wilson, Y. Yoshioka. 3. Hensley, A. J. B. Foster, H. S. Kennedy, Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? George W. Martin, D. H. Merryman, W. P. Thomas W. Noland, Samuel C. Baird, John Hickman, R. P. Ganaway, H. S. Ledbetter, W. Smith, William R. Thornton, William H. J. F. Barnett, W. H. Johnson, Alex. Mat- Lovell, James W. Cherry, Madison W. thews, J. G. Hinson, G. D. Gwinn, J. G. Ray, •Charles, Thomas A. Carden, A. L. Prewett, E. W. White, Garrett W. Martin, A. M. Ezell, John W. Register. 10. S. M. Parks, B. J. Gaston, J. W. Hanner, Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are Sr. 23. elected deacons? Aurelius A. Mooney, David Ques. 19. What preachers have died B. Coleman, William F. Powers, Jerome during the past year? Wallace T. Row- Duncan, Daniel J. Proctor. 5. land, Hugh M. Stone. 2. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are ordained deacons? Aurelius A. Mooney, David W. T. Rowland.—The leading events in B. Coleman, William F. Powers, Jerome the life of our brother are soon told. He Duncan, Daniel J. Proctor. 5. was born in Chaplin, Nelson County, Kv., Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected July 11, brought under Chris- 1849 ; was up deacons? Andrew Edwin Clement, Morti- tian influences, and early in life he gave his mer S. Gardner, Mitchell L. Blanton, James heart to God and his life to the Church. S. Barcus, Melville C. Hardin, Samuel E. He enjoyed the advantages of a com- Hager, George E. Eubank, John W. Row- mon school education, and appreciated lett, Samuel G. Thompson, Bluford W. Dod- his privileges and improved his opportuni- son, James C. Goodrich, Walter B. Nance, ties. In the fall of 1876 he came to the Van- Andrew J. McClanahan, Wm. C. Gunn. 14. derbilt University, where the writer first Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- saw him, and since that time has known dained deacons? Andrew7 E. Clement, Mort- him intimately. He spent one year at the imer S. Gardner, Mitchell L. Blanton, Vanderbilt and in October, at the Con- James ; 1877, S. Barcus, Melville C. Hardin, Samuel E. ference held in Tulip Street Church, this Hager, George E. Eubank, John W. Rowlett, city, Bishop Doggett presiding, he was ad- Samuel G. Thompson, Bluford W. Dodson, mitted on trial into the Tennessee Confer- James C. Goodrich, Walter B. Nance, An- ence, and appointed to Dover Circuit, Cen- drew J. McClanahan, William C. Gunn, terville District, where he spent two years Charles C. Washburn, James Rush Good- in faithful, earnest, and successful service. :

40 Tennessee 1891. Conference,

At Murfreesboro, in October, 1879, he was type. His relations to Christ were vital., admitted into full connection and ordained He was an apostolic Methodist. lie be- deacon by Bishop Paine, of precious mem- lieved that the people called Methodists ory, and appointed to Asbury Station, in the were raised up of God “to spread scriptural Clarksville District, where he remained two holiness over these lands.” He was not vears. He was ordained elder by Bishop afraid of being called a crank, and he did McTyeire at the session of the Conference in not shrink from being denominated a fa- Lebanon in October, 1881, and sent to Elk- natic. He had a profound conviction that ton Station, where he spent one year. In “without holiness no man shall see the October, 1883, he was appointed to Harpeth Lord.” And in his ministry and in his own Station by Bishop Pierce. In 1884 Bishop personal experience he laid great stress upon McTyeire appointed him to the Nolensville purity of heart and of life. Brother Row- Circuit, in the Franklin District, where he land was committed to the “ second bless- spent two years in loving, faithful work, and ing” theory of sanctification, but his was in reaping a glorious harvest. In 1886 he not simply a dry and musty theory of the was assigned to Bee Springs and Shiloh, in great scriptural doctrine of sanctification, the Columbia District, by Bishop Hendrix, but a life and a blessed experience of fellow- and here he spent two happy years in the ship with God and with his Son Jesus vineyard of the Lord. In October, 1888, he Christ. And I must record a fact which was sent by Bishop Keener to Prospect Cir- was well known to nearly all of you, and cuit, in the same district, and here he re- that is that Brothei Rowland professed mained until last October, when Bishop the experience of entire sanctification, and Hargrove appointed him to Pleasant Valley, this experience we doubt not that he pos- r w here he ended his labors March 1, 1891, sessed, for his life was an epistle known and after an illness of four weeks, the result of read of us all. We cannot deny but he was measles. Brother Rowland was married to made perfect in love in this life, for he Miss Minnie Craig, of Pulaski, Tenn.. by the evinced patience, and kindness, and gener- Rev. W. M. Leftwich, D.D., April 5, 1881, osity, and humility, and courtesy, and un- with whom he lived in holy, happy compan- selfishness, and good temper, and guileless- ionship to the day of his death. From the ness, and sincerity, all those elements that first of his illness he spoke of dying, and ex- enter into that love which is the bond of pressed himself as perfectly willing and perfectness. And we cannot deny but he ready to die, but was hopeful until a few was full of faith and the Holy Ghost, for he hours before he died. He told his devoted possessed the fruits of the Spirit, which is wife he thought God would raise him up, “ love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness,, but said: “ I have told the Lord I have only goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.” So two things to live for now: to be a better far as I know, Brother Rowland was the only man, and to be with you and the children; man in the Tennessee Conference during the but if he calls, I will go rejoicing.” His con- past twr elve years who professed entire sancti- stant prayer throughout his sickness was, fication, and who was committed to the “sec- “Not my will, but thine be done,” and he ond blessing” theory, and now he is gone, died with a prayer of perfect resignation on I do not advocate this theory of the great and his lips. It is very becoming of us to pause distinguishing doctrine of Methodism and falls as we do when one of our number at of the Holy Scriptures ; but in avoiding this his post. It is a time for reflection and error in theory, if it be an error, is there not memory. Our brother was well known danger of going so far as to give up the doc- among us. He spent fourteen years of con- trine altogether which Mr. Wesley denom- secrated time and devoted energies in the inated the deposilum of Methodism. Is it Tennessee Conference. He is embalmed in not a fact, brethren, that we are as a Confer- our hearts, and it will be pleasant to cherish ence too far removed already not only from his memory. Brother Rowland was not the experience of this grace, but also from great as the world counts greatness, but in preaching it as a tenet of Methodism the eyes of the Lord and the good he was in and as a doctrine of the Holy Script- favor. He possessed qualities of mind and ures? May we not all learn lessons of heart that made him admired of those who meekness and humility and trustfulness knew him well. It would have been diffi- and purity from the life and character of cult for one to meet him without being im- our brother whom we shall no more see in pressed by him, and he made about the the flesh? Let us follow his example and same impression upon all. You could not emulate his virtues, and let us not forget his meet him without feeling that you had come widow and two children. “ Blessed are the- in contact with a gentleman. He possessed dead which die in the Lord from henceforth true manhood, and then he was as gentle as Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest

a 1 woman. He was modest and courteous • from their labors, and their works do follow and chivalrous, and withal full of benevo- them.” lence. And Brother Rowland was a man full of faith and the Holy Ghost. The ver- Hugh M. Stone came to the M. E. Churchy diet of all who knew him is that he was a South, from the Cumberland Presbyterian good man. His piety was of the primitive Church, and was received on his credentials- 111J1

Tennessee Conference, 1891. 41 into the Tennessee Conference at its last ses- East Nashville District (Continued). sion, which convened in October, 1890, in I Mem- ILoc'I bcrs. Pr's. Pulaski, Tenn. His presence among us was I so short, and our acquaintance with him so Goodlettsville 531 2 limited, that the committee failed to learn Cross Plains 471 1 Fountain Head 245 1 any thing in regard to his parentage, family 1 280 g. relations, and early training, except that he Bethpage ]74| was born in Ohio and that his family were 330 1 Sumner 3161 1 Quakers. The testimony of those who knew 224 him best, however, is that he was an edu- 3671 1 cated, refined Christian gentleman, a quiet, 193 Westmoreland. .7. 695 3 dignified, and one modest man, who was East End 06 1 ever ready to perform the duties assigned Trinity 4s] 1 him in the providence of God. Rev. James | [ 26 G. Molloy, a neighboring pastor, in an 5,837; Lebanon. District. obituary published in the Tennessee Meth- 250 odist of July 16, 1891, writes as follows: 367 i 1 “ Rev. Hugh M. Stone, who was preacher in 593 3- charge of Fall River Circuit, Columbia Dis- 372 1 405 trict, of Tennessee Conference, died typhoid 224 2_ fever at 4 o’clock a.m. Friday, July 3, 1891, at the home of Sister Booth, mother of Rev. Livingston Circuit 825 6- 485 2 H. L. Booth, of the Tennessee Conference. Chestnut Mound Circuit 799 9 Brother Stone was sick about two weeks; 2 was patient and resigned; said from the first 379 1 413 1 he would die. He expressed a readiness Wartrace Circuit 688 8 and willingness to depart and be with Jesus. Hartsville Circuit He was regarded by those who knew him QO

7,12olI dO* best as a gentle, sweet-spirited, consecrated Murfreesboro District. Christian man, and devoted minister of the 598 1 gospel of Christ, good and true. Brother 438 1 Stone died away from kindred, but among 232 1 Christian friends, who did what they could 3s2 Woodbury 312 1 to supply his every want. His funeral ser- 189 mon was preached by this writer at Booth’s 336 1 247 Chapel, July 4, 1891, to a goodly number of 282 his sorrowing parishioners, after which he 526 was laid away in the cemetery at that place 6- to await the resurrection morn.”

787 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless 249 »> in their life and official administration? 611 417 1 Their names were called over, one by one, 117 and their characters examined and passed. 732 3- Ques. 21. What is the number of local t • • -iUi, 31 preachers and members in the several cir- Shelbyville District. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- I 274 ence? 396 i 2.

Nashville District. Rich Valley 2771 1 Mem- Loe’l bers. Pr's. 29* 2 143 1,032 10 612l 3 1,092 6 219 73(5 12 432 1 401 215 1 523 2 235 3 1 200 519 1 337 3 418' 3 199 328 ! 4 128 1 40."

249 311>| i 103 5 291» 3 260 3 Mont Eagle 37!) 1 325 5

138 6,61!)i 27 Blakemore 44 2 Columbia District.

40!11 2' 5,645 50 ,[ r l East Nashville District. Mt. Pleasant 221 1 Tulip Street 923 6 108 1 McFerrin Memorial 556 4 132 1 Gibsonville . 260 3- Alex. Green 291 Olivet and Lynnvillc — .1 3721 2. 1 ::

42 Tennessee Conference, 1891.

Columbia District {Continued). Mem- Loci White Loci bers. Pr’s. Mem's. Pr's.

Diana 571 State Line 254 Pleasant Valley 292 i Ashland Citv „ 581 2 Pulaski .1 452 Sadlersville and Adams Station 368 1 Pisgah 7 Cedar Hill 600 3 Trinity 392 1 Springfield 165 1 Fall River 325 3 Red River 590 Prospect mm Richland 421 1 5,980 20 Elkton and Smyrna 386 4 Recapitulation. Bee Spring ' 556 2 Forest Grove 197 1 Nashville District 5,6451 50 East Nashville “ 5,837 26 6,553 29 Lebanon “ 7,126 33 u Franklin District. Murfreesboro 7,749 31 6,619 27 Franklin 455 6,553 29 336 2 Franklin “ 5,299 20 Spring Hill 133 Savannah “ 3,349 26 Carter’s Creek 308 2 Centerville “ 5,822 50 Neapolis 351 4 Clarksville “ 5,980 20 187 1 Harpeth 228 1 59,979 312 Bettiesda 434 1 Total last year 59,728 299 Woodbine and Thompson’s 212

Nolensville .\ 439 Increase 251 13 Kedron 408 2 College Grove 410 Chapel Pill 490 Ques. 22. How many infanta have been Berlin 363 baptized during the 286 3 year? 1,187. Fernvale 259 2 Ques. 23. How many adults have been baptized during the year? 2,972. .5,299 20 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Savannah District. schools? 524. "Savannah 213 Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Savannah Circuit 345 3 Clifton 218 3 school teachers? 3,576. 221 1 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday 212 3 school scholars? 31,129. 190 1 62 1 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for 210 2 the superannuated preachers, and the wid- avnesboro 200 2 W ows and orphans of preachers? $4,400. Lowrvville 221 4 263 1 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the 301 1 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- 224 2 plied? $5,688.09. Applied to claimants. 360 1 Farmer’ s *V alley Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Henryville../. 109 1 Missions? Foreign Missions, $18,196.89 Do- Eagle Mills ; mestic Missions, $4,892.58. Total, $23,089.47.

3,349 26 Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Centerville District. Church Extension? $4,320.42. Centerville 196 Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Shady Grove 421 2 is the estimated value, of church edifices? Santa Fe 541 7 Number, 528; value, $914,950.79. Midland 144 2 . Goodrich and Warner.. 217 2 Ques. 32. What is the number, and what White Bluff 269 4 is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Dickson and Edgewood 164 2 ber, value, $101,654.24. Charlotte 592 2 99; Dickson 114 Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Yellow Creek 317 6 tics? Vanderbilt University: Teachers, 60; Erin and Cumberland .. 353 3 students, endowment, $900,000; value Dover 117 1 700; Dover Circuit 340 2 of property, $1,000,000. Webb School : Teach- Standing Rock 313 1 ers, 5; students, 250; value of property, Stewart 476 1 $3,000. Nashville College for Young Ladies Hustburg 344 5 Liberty 350 2 Teachers, 25; students, 413; value of prop- Waver!y and McEwen.. 226 erty, $125,000. Tennessee Female College: Tennessee City 322 8 Teachers, 8; students, 112; endowment, of property, $35,000. Clarksville 5,822 50 $3,000 ; value Clarksville District. Female Academy: Teachers, 6; students, 153; Clarksville 5671 value ofproperty, $16,000. Howard Institute New Providence and Bethel. 173 of proper- Teachers, 5 ; students, 103 ; value Montgomery 420 3 ty, $6,800. Wall and Mooney’s School: Indian Mound 470 1 value of proper- Saline 335 4 ^Teachers, 3 ; students, 156 ; Palmyra ty, $8,200. Martin College: Teachers, 8; Antioch 760 5 students, 112 endowment, $30,000 value of Asbury 355 ; ; Pleasant View 312 property, $35,000. Totals: Teachers, 120; ?

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students, 1,999; endowment, $933,000; value Wolf River, Elisha Carr Ford. of property, $1,229,000. Chanute, to be supplied (by J. V. Brown). Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Chestnut Mound, J. W. Rooker. the Conference he held? Tulip Street Mt. Olivet, A. L. Prewitt. “Church, Nashville, Tenn. Pleasant Grove, M. N. Ford. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- New Middleton, R. J. Crump. tioned this year? Carthage, W. T. Dye. Wartrace, to be supplied (by W. H. Baird). NASHVILLE DISTRICT. Hartsville, N. A. Anthony. James A. Orman P. E. , MURFREESBORO DISTRICT. McKendree, S. A. Steel. T. L. Moody, P. E. Elm Street, Lewis Powell. West End, Robert K. Brown. Murfreesboro, A. P. McFerrin. North High Street, W. Weakley. Stone’s River, S. L. Fain. McTyeire Memorial, M. S. Gardner. Salem and Walnut Grove, W. H. Doss. Park Avenue, William M. Green. Concord, George E. Eubank. South Street, F. J. Carl, Milton Circuit, J. R. Thompson. E. Alford ; F. Sup. Carroll Street, R. A. Young. Woodbury, D. J. Osteen. Humphreys Street, W. R. Thornton. Beech Grove, 0. P. Hill. West Nashville, H. S. McBride. Bellbuckle, J. M. Wright. Arlington, B. A. Cherry, L. C. Bryan. Wartrace and Haley, C. S. Gabard. Antioch, S. M. Cherry. Manchester and Summitsville, J. X. Lee. City Mission, George W. Winn. Tullahoma, O. G. Halliburton. Belleview, F. W. Johnson. Normandy, to be supplied (by G. W. Cook). Centenary, W. H. Gilbert. Hillsboro, to be supplied (by J. F. Martin). Cumberland, T. S. Cullom. Bell Spring, M. R. Tucker. Blakemore Chapel, J. W. Rowlett. Hickory Creek, M. J. Mabry. Book Agent, J. D. Barbee. McMinnville, J. T. Curry. Missionary to Japan, W. R. Lambuth. McMinnville Circuit, to be supplied (by A. L. Comer), James W. Swindell. EAST NASHVILLE DISTRICT. Spencer, T. A. Carden. Sparta, J. O. Blanton. IF. M. Leftwich, P. E. Sparta Circuit, J. A. Bridges. Tulip Street, Joseph B. Erwin. Professor in Webbs’ School, G. L. Beale. McFerrin Memorial, T. A. Kerley. Hobson Chapel, T. H. Hinson. SHELBYVILLE DISTRICT. Alex. Green, J. L. Teague. G. P. Jackson, P. E. Greenville, H. J. Ivie. Shelbyville, J. R. Stewart. Goodlettsville, J. W. Hensley. Shelbyville Circuit, W. T. S. Cook. Cross Plains, J. R. Williams. Rich Valley, J. F. Beasley; T. B. Marks, Sup. Fountain Head, J. C. Myers. Unionville, J. H. Nichols. Green Brier, J. S. Rice. Tracy City, R. E. Travis. Bethpage, J. W. Faires. Winchester, R. R. Jones. Gallatin, W. R. Peebles. Lynchburg, S. J. Shasteen. Sumner, J L. Chenault; B. F. Ferrill, Sup. Lynchburg and Mulberry, Samuel G. Thomp- Saunders ville, H. B. Blue W. G. Dorris, Sup. ; son. Hermitage, John T. Duncan. Salem, to be supplied (by J. W. Hatcher). Castalian Springs, B. T. Smotherman. Fayetteville, J. W. Cherry. Westmoreland, A. A. Mooney. Fayetteville Circuit, D. S. Thompson. East Nashville Mission, J. J. Pitts W. R. ; Petersburg, E. Brown. Warren, Sup. W. Marble Plains, M. W. Charles. Editor of Tennessee Methodist, B. F. Haynes. Macedonia, William J. Cannon. Blanche, W. R. Keathley. LEBANON DISTRICT. Cornersville and Lewisburg, W. A. Lusby. J. W. Hanner, Jr., P. E. Medium Circuit, Wood Bouldin. Mont Eagle, J. R. Reagin. Lebanon, W. T. Haggard. Pelham, John R. Reaves. Lebanon Circuit, J. Webster. Cainsville, H. B. McNeal; S. Lassiter, Sup. COLUMBIA DISTRICT. Center Hill, J. L. Smotherman. W. J. Collier, P. E. Alexandria, G. B. McPeak. Short Mountain, W. F. Powers; A. H. Reams, Columbia, T. J. Duncan. Sup. South Columbia, J. Rush Goodloe. Smithville, W. H. Lovell. Mt. Pleasant, W. B. Lowrv. Cookville, C. E. Heriges. Culleoka, W. B. Patty; W. H. Wilkes, Sup. Livingston, Harva M. Jarvis, and to be sup- Bigbyville, R. P. Gray; J. H. Strayhorn, plied (by three local preachers). Sup. 4 44 Tennessee Conference, 1891.

Gibsonville, G. W. Gardner. Flatwood Mission, W. T. Freeman. Forest Grove, S. W. Bransford. Lowryville, H. L. Booth. Olivet and Lynnville, G. W. Anderson. Lawrenceburg, J. F. Tinnon. Diana, N. B. S. Owings. West Point, I. W. Keathley. Pleasant Valley, W. A. Leath. Hampshire and Sandy Hook, W. T. Harwell. Pulaski, J. E. Harrison; J. B. Anderson, Williamsport, G. D. Byrne. Sup. Henryville, J. J. Ledbetter. Pisgah, W. A. Turner. Trinity, J. C. Roberts. CENTERVILLE DISTRICT. Fall River, D. J. Proctor. J. A. McFerrin, P. E. Prospect, J. G. Molloy. Richland, J. G. Gibson. Centerville, T. W. Noland. Elkton and Smyrna, W. W. Graves W. H. Shady Grove, J. G. Blackwood. ; Riggin, Sup. Santa Fe, J. D. Massey. Bunker Hill Mission, to be supplied (by E. Midland, W. V. Jarratt. B. Worsham). Goodrich and Warner, S. C. Baird. Bee Spring, J. L. Kellum. White Bluff, A. P. Walker. President of Martin Female College, R. M. Dickson, W. H. Klyce. Saunders. Charlotte, L. P. Funk. Commissioner of Female Education, J. E. Dickson Mission, to be supplied (by J. E~ Harrison. Harrison). Edgewood Circuit, J. R. Harris. FRANKLIN DISTRICT. Houston Circuit, W. B. Taylor. L. Jackson. T. B. Fisher, P. E. Erin and Cumberland, W. Bear Spring Mission, A. P. Lipscomb. Franklin, W. F. Wilson. Dover Circuit, James A. Kay. Douglass, B. H. Johnson. Standing Rock, J. W. Gilbert. Spring Hill, R. J. Craig. Stewart, A. J. McLanahan. Carter’s Creek, A. E. Clement. Hustburg, W. D. Cherry. Neapolis, B. S. Haggard. Liberty, E. L. Gregory. Brentwood and Smyrna, R. P. Ransom. Waverly and McEwen, J. T. Blackwood. Harpeth, J. J. Ransom. Tennessee City, U. N. M. Berry. Bethesda, G. W. Blanton. Woodbine and Thompson’s,W. H. Johnston. CLARKSVILLE DISTRICT. Nolensville, J. W. Register. Kedron, W. T. Hart. H. B. Reams, P. E. College Grove, R. W. Seav. Clarksville, J. B. West, E. M. Harrell. Chapel Hill, A. T. Goodloe. South Clarksville and Bethlehem, B. W_ Berlin, R. M. Haggard. Dodson. Bethlehem and Johnson’s, J. J. Comer. New Providence and Bethel, W. H. Cotton. Fernvale, to be supplied (by A. W. Whar- Montgomery, J. M. Oakley. ton). Big Rock Circuit, J. N. Handlin. Professor in Vanderbilt University, W. W. Palmyra, to be supplied (by J. M. Stamper)^ Martin. Antioch, G. S. Byrom. President Tennessee Female College, W. F. Asbury, J. W. Cullom. Wilson. Pleasant View, J. G. Rice. SAVANNAH DISTRICT. State Line, Jerome Duncan. Ashland City, G. M. Sanders. T. L. Darnell, P. E. Sadlersville and Adams’s Station, J. W~ Savannah, L. R. Amis. Smith. Hill, J. M. Jordan. Savannah Circuit, to be supplied (by T. S. Cedar Duncan). Springfield, D. C. Kelley. Woodward. Waynesboro and Clifton, Z. W. Moores; W. Red River, T. H. P. Warren, Sup. Mt. Auburn, to be supplied (by P. W. Ward). I. S. Napier and T. R. Clendenin trans- Linden and Beardstown, Jerome Winford. ferred to the West Texas Conference. Linden Mission, to be supplied (by R. P. A. Sowell transferred to the Kentucky Ward). Conference.

\ West Texas Conference, 1891. 45

WEST TEXAS CONFERENCE.

Held at San Marcos, Tex., Oct. 28-Nov. 2, 1891. rt

Bishop Fitzgerald, President; Sterling Fisher, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Answer. M. A. Turner, L. C. Mathis, J. P. ing the past year? W. T. Thornberry, H. A. Garrett, William M. Gillespie, W. J. John- Graves, W. L. Griffith. 3. son, Ira D. Pafford, M. J. Allen, Hiram Gra- ham, James C. Wilson, W. M. Francis, Al- Walter T. Thornberry fell at his post of bert Wilson. 11. duty January 19, 1891. He w*as born Feb- Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Samuel J. ruary 8, 1822; was converted under the min- Drake, Joseph F. Webb, Asa B. Bynum, istry of S. Carlisle, and joined the Methodist 1841 and Thomas S. Ballard, J. Albert Phillips, Wil- Episcopal Church, September 20, ; liam R. Crockett, Thomas Gregory. 7. was licensed to exhort in March, 1842, and Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. licensed to preach in October, 1845, John Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Harrell being the presiding elder on the nection? William J. Sims, John W. Sims, Fayetteville District, Arkansas Conference. Joseph W. Gibbens, John C. Ballard, New He was admitted on trial in the Arkansas Harris. 5. Conference at Van Buren in October, 1846; Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. was ordained deacon by Bishop Capers at Ark., October 1851 and elder Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Camden, 25, ; from other Conferences? James A. Lyons, by Bishop Paine at Clarksville, Ark., in 1852. A. T. Galloway, I. S. Napier, B. A. Cherry, He located in 1857 and moved to Texas, and T. R. Clendenin, J. A. Baker, J. A. Big£s, entered the Texas Conference in 1861. He J. L. Kennedy. 8. was born of religious parents, and was bap- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? tized in infancy. His mother often told H. T. Cunningham, John A. Wright. 2. him of his dedication to God, which, he Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are thought, settled his vocation for life. The •elected deacons? New Harris, Joseph W. following are the appointments filled by Gibbens, John C. Ballard. 3. Brother Thornberry in connection with the

: Blanco Lock- Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- work in Texas 1864-66, ; 1867, dained deacons ? New Harris, Joseph W. hart; 1868, San Antonio District; 1869-70, Gibbens, John C. Ballard. 3. Gonzales District; 1871-72, San Marcos Dis- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected trict; 1873, Lockhart and Prairie Lea; 1874, 1875-76, Gonzales 1878, deacons? C. F. Goodenough, J. P. Garrett, Sutherland Springs ; ; Albert W. Wilson, James G. Palmer. 4. XJvalde District; 1879, San Antonio District; Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- 1884-85, Lavernia Circuit; 1886, Moulton dained deacons? C. F. Goodenough, J. P. Circuit; 1887-88, Fort Davis; 1891, Benton Garrett, A. W. Wilson, J. W. Harrington. 4. Circuit, where he died. Brother Thornberry Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are was true to his vows as an itinerant preach- -elected elders? Charles E. Statham, L. G. er, and always went uncomplainingly to his Watkins. 2. work, however difficult. He was a man of Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are pure life and singleness of purpose, and ordained elders? Charles E. Statham, L. G. consecrated to the work of saving souls. He Watkins. 2. was a man of great zeal for the Master’s Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected cause; mighty in faith and prayer; a good •elders? None. preacher and successful revivalist. He Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- brought many souls to Christ, and many dained elders? None. in that day will rise up and call him blessed. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? He died as he lived: full of faith and the of John W. Stovall, S. H. Brown—at their own Holy Ghost. His last words were words request. 2. triumph and peace. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? J. E. Vernor, J. T. Gillett, S. G. Shaw, N. W. Harrison A. Graves, a superannuated Keith. 4. member of the West Texas Conference, Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? E. G. died in Seguin, Tex., March 1, 1891. Broth- of Kentucky born Duval, J. W. Brown, E. Y. Seale, William er Graves was a native ; Monk, E. H. Holbrook, H. G. Horton, A. F. in 1821, but in early life removed with his Cox, J. H. Tucker, W. M. Shockley, L. D. father’s family to Williamson County, Tenn., Shaw, J. F. Denton, H. S. Thrall, H. T. where he was converted in 1838. He at once Hill. 13. began exercising his gifts in public prayer. ;; .

46 West Texas Conference, 1891. and in 1840 was licensed to preach. The W. L. Griffith was born in or near the next year he was received into the Tennes- town of Butler, Ga., in 1847 ; and died at the see Conference, and having passed the req- old homestead April 28, 1891. Brother Grif- uisite probation, and approved examinations fith began his ministry in Georgia. He w7 as in the course of study, was in due time or- transferred to the North Texas Conference dained to deacon’s and elder’s orders. He in 1880, and in 1881 traveled the Sulphur was a growing and useful member of the Bluff Circuit; in 1882, the Winnsboro Circuit; Conference, filling some of the most im- in 1883-84, the Kingston Circuit. He was portant circuits; but in 1869, owing to the then transferred to the West Texas Confer- declining health of his wife, he asked for ence, and for three years traveled the Blanco^ and received a transfer to the Texas Confer- Circuit, doing very efficient wrork. In 1887 ence. His name does not appear on the he traveled the Lagarto Circuit, and then the minutes of that Conference for some years Waelder and Moulton Circuit. The writer but not long after his arrival in our State, was present when he entered the North Rev. James C. Wilson died near Gonzales, Texas Conference. It w as apparent then that and Brother Graves was employed to fill he was consumptive, and it wT as hoped that the place thus made vacant. His first wife this climate wr ould restore him. But it was having died, he subsequently married Mrs. not to be. Notwithstanding his ill health, Wilson, who is now left a widow a second he was an aggressive man, an earnest preach- time. By a change of boundary, the scope er, and his life was an epistle of the gospel of country in the valley of the Gaudalupe he preached. During the summer of 1890 it River fell into the West Texas Conference. was apparent to all that his work was done. Brother Graves’s appointments in this Con- At the ensuing Conference he was granted a ference were: 1867, Sandies ; 1868, Moulton superannuated relation, and he went back 1869, Sutherland Springs; 1870, Corpus to die among the hills of Georgia. He died Christi; 1872-73, Seguin, where he built in the full triumph of the gospel he preached, the church now in use. In 1874 he was on leaving behind a large family to mourn his the Concrete Circuit; 1875, Helena; 1876, departure. Leesville, after which he was supernumer- Ii ary. effective, in He became again and 1884 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless appointed Mill Circuit, was to Creek near in their life and official administration? Seguin. At the close of the year a trouble- Their names wT ere called over, one by one, some cough admonished him that he must and their characters examined and passed, take a superannuated relation, which was except that of W. C. Rutledge, who was rep- granted him, though for some years he con- rimanded by the bishop. tinued, as his health permitted, to as preach Ques. 21. What is the number of local as practicable. in often His home was Se- preachers and members in the several cir- guin, for four and the years, from 1887 to cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- 1891, he lived most of the time within one ence? block of the parsonage occupied by the writer. We saw each other daily, and I San Antonio District. loved him as I have loved few men in life. White Colored' Loc'l r Mem's. Mem'*. Pr's. His death, w hile not unexpected, is to me a | personal bereavement. His physical and San Antonio: Travis Park 5Bo] 2 mental energy was wonderful, considering noi his constant suffering and bodily weakness. 12 163 hardly able to walk, he went daily When 1(12 down to his little business, determined to 130 2 keep up as long as possible; nor did he give Cotulla and Pearsall Mission 119 1 Uvalde Station up till wasting disease compelled him to Eagle Pass and Brackett Mission. 41 take his bed. In early life this brother did 220 1 2 not have many educational advantages, but 40 15a 1 he became an excellent theologian, thor- 253 5 oughly understanding Arminian theology; 49 while his mind was of a metaphysical turn, 49 1 his preaching was of the popular style. His 2,189 i 14 command of language was wonderful. He Cuero District. was never at a loss for a word, and he chose the word that best expressed his idea. He Cuero Station was clear in statement, logical in argument, Victoria Station ...... 1 Edna Circuit 204 i and effective in delivery. His voice was Williamsburg Circuit 236: 1 musical, well modulated, and at times his Hallettsville Circuit... 130 3 sermons were truly eloquent. He bore his Waelder and Moulton 192 1 De Witt Circuit 275 3 affliction patience, long with exemplary Weesatche Circuit. ... 162 2 cheered by a strong Christian faith, and Leesville Circuit 479 4 his death wT as peaceful. Brother Graves Clear Creek Circuit.. 114 Yoakum Circuit 105 1 was a fine writer, and the author of several books and pamphlets. 2,074 16 1891. West Texas Conference,

San Marcos District. Colored Mem's.

San Marcos Station Seguin Station Lnling Station Gonzales Station Lockhart Circuit Kyle Circuit San Marcos Circuit Elm Grove Mission Dripping Springs Mission. Harwood Circuit Belmont Circuit Seguin Mission

San Saba District. San Saba Station Llano Station Brady Station ..... Fredonia and Camp San Saba Ct.. Pontotoc Circuit Llano Circuit Cherokee Circuit Richland Springs Circuit Oxford Circuit Willow City Circuit Round Mountain Circuit Blanco Circuit

Corpus Christi District. Laredo Station Goliad Station Beeville Station Floresville Station Rancho Circuit Lavernia Circuit Lagarto Circuit Oakville and Tilden Circuit San Diego Mission Helena Circuit Wesley Circuit Kennedy Circuit Rockport Circuit

San Angelo District. San Angelo Station Kerr vi lie and Center Point Bandera Circuit Ingram Mission Junction City Circuit Paint Rock Mission Sherwood Circuit Garden City Circuit London Mission Mason Circuit

Recapitulation. 48 Missouri Conference , 1891.

Hallettsville Mission, J. C. Wilson. Harwood Circuit, W. 0. Shugart. Waelder Circuit, J. T. Graham. Gonzales Station, James A. Lyons. Nursery Circuit, T. C. DePew. Luling and Prairie Lea, A. C. Biggs. Weesatche Circuit, W. H. Killough. Lockhart Station, J. T. Stanley; J. T. Gil- Leesville Circuit, W. J. Sims. lett, Sup. Clear Creek Circuit, J. M. Shuford. Lockhart Circuit, A. G. Nolen. Yoakum Mission, J. P. Rogers. Kyle Circuit, J. A. Biggs. Rancho Circuit, A. T. Galloway. Dripping Springs T. S. Mission, Ballard ; S. G. Shaw, Sup. BEEYILLE DISTRICT. Belmont Circuit, B. H. Passmore. Nockenut Mission, J. W. Vest. R. J. Deets, P. E.

Beeville Station, J. C. Russell. SAN ANGELO DISTRICT. Goliad Station, J. T. Williamson. M. A. Black, P. E. Corpus Christi Station, E. K. Denton. San Diego Mission, J. A. Wright. San Angelo Station, New Harris. Laredo Station, C. J. Oxley. Kerrville and Center Point, W. M. Gillespie. Pleasant Grove Mission, M. A. Turner. Paint Rock Mission, A. W. Wilson. Oakville and Tilden Circuit, J. F. Webb. Bandera Circuit, F. H. C. Elliott. Floresville and Stockdale, J. A. King. Ingram Mission, W. J. Johnson. Lavernia Circuit, Carper Williamson. Junction City Circuit, C. H. Maloy. Shiloh Mission, J. R. Barden. Sherwood Circuit, J. A. Phillips. Lagarto Circuit, Theophilus Lee, Sterling City Mission, A. J. Potter. Helena Circuit, Thomas Gregory. London Mission, J. C. Ballard. Rockport Circuit, J. W. Sims. Mason Mission, H. T. Cunningham. Sonora Mission, W. G. Cocke. SAN MARCOS DISTRICT. Del Rio Station, C. W. Godwin. Montell Mission, Hiram Graham; N. W. H. H. Biggs, P. E. W. Keith, Sup. San Marcos Station, Buckner Harris. San Marcos Circuit, J. A. Greening. W. F. Gibbons and J. W. Holt transferred iSeguin Station, J. D. Scott. to the Texas Conference.

MISSOURI CONFERENCE.

Held at Maryville, Mo., September 2-7 1891 . ,

Bishop Hargrove, President: John D. Yincil, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial?! Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Answer. Erasmus B. Swartz, James M. Rod- from other Conferences? M. B. Chapman, gers, W. J. Parvin, G. M. Wright, Henry D. from the Little Rock Conference; H. C. Kir-

Thompson. 5. * by, from the Western Conference; L. B. No- Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? S. O. land, J. L. Taylor, F. A. Grimes, and C. K. Maughs, G. H. Wilkinson, W. A. Young- Shilling, from the Southwest Missouri Con- man, A. B. Culbertson, L. W. Jones, David ference; E. M. Bounds, from the St. Louis McAllen, M. L. Allishouse, A. C. Browning, Conference; W. B. Wheeler, from the Den- L. C. McCleod, Alpheus Clark, W. M. Baker, ver Conference; J. S. Bowles and E. W. R. M. Neale. 12. Reynolds, from the Western Virginia Con- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? D. M. ference. 10. Conway, A. S. Hickerson. 2. Ques. 7. Who are deacons of one year? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- G. M. Gibson, L. T. Fawks, John Garvin, E. nection? Fielding Marvin, H. C. Garrett, T. E. Bostwick, W. C. Rice, J. C. Kindred, John E. Sharp, W. A. Smith, J. H. French, W. C. Robson. 7. Rice, C. K. Shilling. 7. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? J. C. Car- elected deacons? Fielding Marvin, H. C. ney. 1. Garrett, Thomas E. Sharp. 3. Missouri Conference, 1891. 49

Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- mother and father, and the voice of the dained deacons? Fielding Marvin, H. C. Holy Spirit, called him back; and turning •Garrett, Thomas E. Sharp. 3. away from the fleeting pleasures of earth, Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected he placed his all upon God’s altar. Having deacons? Richard Nelson, William C. Baird, a firm determination to preach, he was li- Henry D. Thompson, Alpheus Clark. 4. censed from Scott Street Church, Covington, Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Ky., and immediately entered the theolog- dained deacons? Richard Nelson, William ical department at Vanderbilt University. C. Baird, Henry D. Thompson, Alpheus Failing health compelled him to leave school •Clark. 4. only a short time before completing the , Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are course. He joined the AVestern Virginia Con- elected elders? G. E. Tanquary, J. 0. Whit- ference, where he remained three years. worth, Marion Moore. 3. Two years after that time, he was stationed Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- at Louisa, Kv., where he succeeded in build- dained elders? G. E. Tanquary, J. O. Whit- ing a beautiful brick church that to-day worth, Marion Moore. 3. stands a monument to his memory. God Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected led him by the way of sorrow, until out of elders? Alex. M. Bedford. 1. his own experience he could offer a genuine Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- sympathy to his suffering friends. During dained elders? Alex. M. Bedford. 1. the first year of his ministry, wT hile holding Ques. 10. Who are located this year? T. a protracted service, a message flashed over M. Rucker, S. S. Hardin. 2. the wires that a beloved brother was dying. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? J. M. He was entering the pulpit and as he could ; L. Hoyle. 1. not make a train that night, praying God Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? J. D. to sanctify the sad intelligence, he preached Houston, T. M. Patterson, S. W. Attebury, with a power seldom realized in all his min- R. A. Austin, S. W. Cope, James Penn, Wal- istry, and souls were saved. One year later ter Toole, C. W. Collett, C. Babcock, Daniel he was called aside to nurse and give up an- Penny, William Warren, D. T. Sherman, J. other brother. Then followed four years of P. Nolan, William Penn, J. S. Todd, B. F. testing. The mother, whom he loved so de- Johnson, M. T. E. Potter, J. H. Hubbard, votedly and whose influence never left him, Henry Kay, Lilburn Rush, Elmore Car- lingered an invalid, whose sufferings were lyle. 21. intense, until she too was called home, hav- Ques. 19. What preachers have died during an abundant entrance into heavenly rest. ing the past year? C. W. Tucker. 1. So interested was she in his life work that after he entered the ministry she always re- Charles Wesley Tucker was born in membered him in prayer at the hour of Boone County, Ky., March 25, 1858; and his public services, and he said that he often died October 28, 1890, at the age of thirty- was made to feel the influence of her prayers two years, seven months, and three days. as he attempted to preach. Delicate health From early childhood he entertained the caused him to go westward in 1883. Join- idea that when he reached mature years he ing the St. Louis Conference, he was sent to would preach the gospel. Playing church Eden, St. Louis County, where he met Miss

. and holding meetings were among the most Bertie Aiken, who afterward became the enjoyable of all his childish amusements. sharer of his joys and sorrows through five When about twelve years of age, a debate years of happy married life, and w\io to-day between two very scholarly men on infant mourns the loss of a most devoted husband. baptism was held near his home, and his Entering the Missouri Conference in 1886, father was surprised at his request to miss he preached successfully and accomplished school and attend. “ If I am to preach, I much good; one year at Monroe City, two must better understand infant baptism,” he years in Hannibal, and was just entering .said. His request was granted. When about upon his third year’s work in Montgomery fourteen years of age, he united with the City, when God spoke to the faithful la- “ Methodist Church, and for years was a con- borer in his vineyard, and said : Come up stant member. There came a time when the higher.” battle that was to decide for time and eternity with him must be fought. The inward Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in -conviction that he must preach grew stron- their life and official administration? Their ger but Satan allured him by the many at- names were called over, one by one, and ; tractions of the world, and for a time he their characters examined and passed, ex- quaffed at the fountains of some of earth’s cept those of D. N. Epperson, whose case was pleasures. He entered commercial life, and again referred to the presiding elder of the such was his success that when he surren- St. Charles District, and J. AV. Jordan, who dered all for a life hid with Christ in God was expelled. “ T it was said : He may make a good preach- Ques. 21. AA hat is the number of local er, but a good business man is spoiled.” preachers and members in the several cir- The world with its joys failed to satisfy the cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- longing of his soul. The prayers of a godly ence? 4 .

50 Missouri Conference, 1S01.

St. Charles District. St. Joseph District ( Continued).

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St. Charles Station 285 Barnard Circuit.... 269 O’Fallon Circuit 274 Savannah Circuit. 300 1 Warren ton and Wright City. 281 2 Winthrop Circuit.. 200 Jonesburg Circuit 2;!8 Fairfax Circuit 147 Troy and Wentzville Circuit. 325 2 Brussels Circuit 413 1 2 Prairieville Circuit 423 1 Gallatin District. Ashley Circuit 127 1 Gallatin Station 319 Louisiana Station 200 Jamesport Circuit 300 Clarksville Circuit 241 3 Edinburg Circuit 150 . Frankfort Circuit 19S 2 Jameson Circuit 281 . New Florence Circuit 500 Albany Circuit 290 Florida Circuit 241 3 Bethany Circuit 280 andalia Circuit 2241 1 V I Lineville Circuit 559 Denver Circuit 276 Breckenridge Circuit 341 Mexico District. Spring Hill Circuit 376 Mexico Station 1 Maysville Circuit 227 Mexico Circuit Eagleville Circuit 272 Auxvasse Circuit 1 3 Ravenwood Circuit 256 Cedar City Circuit 1 Pattonsburg Circuit 347 Readsville Circuit Fulton Station 2 Millersburg Circuit Chillicothe District. Montgomery City Station 1 Chillicothe Station 428 Wellsville Circuit Chillicothe Circuit 208 1 Central ia Circuit 1 Brunswick Station 178 Sturgeon Circuit Carrollton Station 329 2 Mt. Zion Circuit 2 Hale City Circuit Madison Circuit 217 Cowgill Circuit... 318 3 Ham’s Prairie Circuit Norborne Circuit 340 1 De Witt Circuit 401 1 10 Triplett Circuit 315 Fayette District. Humphreys Circuit 278 1 Payette Station Linneus Circuit 455 1 Fayette Circuit Milan Circuit 188 1 West Fayette Circuit Browning Circuit 167 1 1 Glasgow* Station Bogard Circuit 380 2 Armstrong Circuit Green Castle Circuit 71 1 Columbia Station Meadville Circuit 106 Ashland Circuit Rocheport Circuit Franklin and Clark Macon District. Renick Circuit City Station 258 Clifton Hill Circuit Macon Huntsville Macon Circuit 184 2 Callao Circuit 317 5 Salisbury Station 459i 1 Westville Moberly Station 300 Keytesville Circuit Paris Circuit Shelbina Station 324 Boone County Circuit Slielbina Circuit 465 Clarence Circuit 382 1 La Plata Circuit 170 1 Plattsburg District. Kirksville Station 100 Plattsburg Station. Brashear Circuit 149 Osborne Circuit Edina Circuit 188 1 Cameron Station Memphis Circuit 213 210 Platte City and Weston Circuit ... Queen City Circuit 144 1 Hardin Circuit .• Marceline and Bucklin Richmond Station Excello Circuit 158 Richmond Circuit New Boston 166 Millville Circuit ..... Sue City Circuit 123 1 Edgarton Circuit Parkvil.le Circuit Kingston Circuit Hannibal District. Gosneyville Circuit 274 Lawson and Lathrop Hannibal : Park Church Liberty Arch Street 120 Station 257 Missouri City Circuit Palmyra Palmyra Circuit 343 1 Philadelphia Circuit 321 1 3 16 Monroe City Station 219 4 St. Joseph District. Monroe City Circuit 232 St. Joseph: Francis Street Hunnewell Circuit 313 3 Tenth Street 2 Shelbyville Circuit 505 3 ‘Centenary 3 Novelty Circuit 162 Hundley and Hoagland La Bell Circuit 335 1 Spruce Street and South Park... Colony Circuit 263 St. Joseph Circuit 1 1 Rutledge Circuit 244 Dearborn Circuit 4 Kalioka Station 70 Skidmore Circuit Monticello Circuit 514 1 1 Mound City Circuit Canton Station 237 1 Hamburg Circuit 2 Winchester Circuit 196 Elmo Circuit 2

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Recapitulation. Spruce Street, C. I. Vande venter and Henry White Colored Loe'l Kay. Mem's Mem’s. Pr’s. Maryville, T. E. Sharp. St. Charles District..... 3.920 15 St. Joseph Circuit, T. H. Swearingen. 44 Mexico 3,666 1 10 Savannah, Marion Moore. 44 Favette 4.418 1 28 Garrett. Plattsbnrg u 3,939 3 16 Barnard, H. C. St. Joseph u 4.230 2 16 Dearborn, C. Grimes. 4b 4.280 Gallatin 7 21 Mound City, J. T. Moreman. f Chillicothe 44 42179 i 14 44 Fairfax, J. D. Shook. M aeon 4.310 13 44 Hannibal 4,361 i 15 Skidmore, F. M. Cooper. Elmo, J. T. Loyal. Total this year 37,509 19 148 T. Petree. Total last year 36,476 20 155 Hamburg, G. Weston, F. A. Grimes. Increase... 1,033 King City, to be supplied. Decrease 1 7 GALLATIN DISTRICT. Ques. 22. How many infants have been W. E. Dockery, P. E. baptized during the year? 681. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Gallatin, C. N. Broadhurst. baptized during the year? 2,263. Edinburg, David McAllen. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Jameson, H. T. Leeper and G. A. Wright. schools? 364. Maysville, to be supplied (by S. A. Smart.) Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Patlonsburg, G. Tanquary. school teachers? 3,246. Breckenridge, J. M. Settle. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Spring Hill, W. C. Rice. school scholars? 23,705. Ravenwood, L. W. Jones. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Albany, J. A. Wailes. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Lineville Station, J. T. McDonald. ows and orphans of preachers? $6,000. Lineville Circuit, J. H. French. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Jamesport, L. T. Fawks. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Bethany, J. O. Whitworth. plied? $5,472.28. Applied to claimants. Denver, J. C. Kindred. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Eagleville, C. G. Hill. Missions? Foreign Missions, $9,794.59 ; Do- mestic Missions, $4,925.38. Total, $14,719.97. CHILLICOTHE DISTRICT. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for S. H. Milam, P. E. J Church Extension? $2,912.10. Chillicothe Station, J. R. A. Vaughan. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Chillicothe Circuit, W. A. Smith. / is the estimated value, of church edifices? Brunswick, L. B. Noland. Number, value, 410; $738,003. Carrollton, G. J. Warren. Ques. 32. is What the number, and what Hale, J. D. Hunt. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Norborne, L. P. Siceloff. ber, 94; value, $105,105. De Witt, Howard L. Davis. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Triplett, R. M. Dameron. tics? Central College: Teachers, 10; stu- Humphreys, I. T. Nash. dents, 154; endowment, $110,000; value of Linneus, W. G. Shackleford. property, $80,000. Central Female College: Milan, to be supplied. Teachers, 10; students, 149; value of proper- Harris, to be supplied. ty, $50,000. Howard Payne Female College Browning, to be supplied. Teachers, 12; students, 187 value of proper- ; Bogard, M. L. Allishouse. ty, $40,000. Centenary High School : Teach- Tinney’s Grove, to be supplied (by W. CL ers, 6; students, 164 value of property, ; $3,000. Baird.) Macon District High School: Teachers, 6; MACON DISTRICT. students, 149 rvalue of property, $13,000. J. H. Pritchett, P. E. St. Charles College: Teachers, 8; students, endowment, Memphis, A. C. Browning. 58 ; $23,000 ; value of property, $15,000. Queen City, S. O. Maughs. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Edina, O. B. Holliday. the Conference be held ? Montgomery City, Brashear, W. H. Utter. Mo. Kirksville, F. Marvin. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- La Plata, G. E. Tanquary. tioned this year? Sue City and New Boston, to be supplied* Marceline and Bucklin, John J. Rooker. ST. JOSEPH DISTRICT. Mason, W. F. McMurry. Callao, E. M. Capp. R. H. Cooper, P. E. J Macon Circuit, to be supplied. J Francis Street Church, A. G. Dinwiddie. Excello, W. M. Baker. Hundley, G. M. Gibbon. Clarence, John Holland. Tenth Street and Centenary, Z. M. Williams. Granville, W. F. Bell. i

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Lake-nan, J. C. Carney. Montgomery City, E. W. Reynolds. Shelbina, Robert White. Mexico Circuit, J. W. Owen.’ Paris, H. M. Myers. Madison, W. O. Medley. Moberly, T. G. Whitten. Sturgeon, J. W. Ramsey. Moberly Mission, to be supplied. Centralia, J. L. Meftert. Auxvasse, J. S. Allen. HANNIBAL DISTRICT. Hallsville, C. A. Sherman. Millersburg, to be supplied. John Anderson, P. E. Cedar City, J. T. Kimsey. Park Church, J. A. Beadle. Ham’s Prairie, H. C. Kirby. ii Arch Street, E. E. Bostwick. Readsville, E. L. Rutledge. ' Wellsville, B. D. Sipple. it Oakwood, W. H. Younger. ;

.iiit Palmyra, Thompson Penn. Martinsburg, J. R. Divilbiss. . Palmyra Circuit, W. W. McMurry. Monroe City Circuit, W. A. Youngman. FAYETTE DISTRICT. ii Monroe City, B. W. Fielder. - E. K. Miller, P. E. Philadelphia, A. Clark. Hunnewell, C. K. Shilling. Fayette, W. A. Hanna. Slielbyville, J. F. Shores. Fayette Circuit, D. F. Bone. Novelty, H. D. Thompson. Glasgow, J. A. Snarr. Rutledge, W. B. Beagle. Glasgow Circuit, D. R. Shackleford. Kahoka, I. W. Keithley. Keytesville, L. F. Linn. Winchester, L. C. McLeod. Salisbury, M. L. Gray. Colony, R. P. Jones. Westville, R. T. Stith. Monticello, W. H. Roper. Clifton, S. H. Renfro. Canton, J. M. Dempsey. Huntsville, J. O. Edmonston. Labelle, C. T. McAnally. Armstrong, C. W. Herley. E. M. Bounds, Assistant Editor Nashville Renick, M. R. Jones. Christian Advocate. Franklin, J. Y. Blakey. Rocheport, J. B. Rice. ST. CHARLES DISTRICT. Columbia, J. H. Jackson. Brown’s, to be supplied. G. W. Penn, P. E. Ashland, John Robson. St. Charles, William H. Lewis. J. D. Hammond, President Central College. Meehan icsville, J. Y. E. Humphreys. H. D. Groves, President of Howard Female O’Fallon and Wentzville, James L. Taylor. College. Troy, J. S. Bowles. Warrenton, J. M. Rogers. PLATTSBURG DISTRICT. Jonesburg, R. M. Neal. J. 31. O'Bryen, P. E. High Hill, John W. Garvin. New Florence, M. B. Broaddus. Plattsburg, H. C. Bolen. Yandalia, A. B. Culbertson. Osborne, W. C. Wheeler. T. Ashley and Bowling Green, W. S. Rooker. Cameron and Lathrop, J. Winstead. Brisco, W. C. Haggart. Platte City, J. M. Proctor. Brussells, T. R. Kendall. Hardin, H. P. Bond. Clarksville, A. Y. Bayly. Richmond, J. H. Ledbetter. Louisiana, J. S. Frazier. Richmond Circuit, J. P. Godbey. Center, E. B. Swartz. Millville, J. H. Hager. Florida and Santa Fe, T. B. Farry. Edgarton, to be supplied (by Philip Penny). Prairieville, W. T. Ready J. M. L. Hoyle, Parkville and Moscow, W. J. Parvin. ; Sup. Kingston, to be supplied (by Philip Penny.) Springs, L. B. M. B. Chapman, Editor St. Louis Christian Lawson and Excelsior Madi- Advocate. son. Liberty, J. S. Smith. MEXICO DISTRICT. Missouri City, G. H. Wilkinson. Cowgill and Polo, R. W. Howerton. D. C. O’HoweU, P. E.

Mexico, J. A. Mumpower. J. H. Shelton transferred to the East Co- Fulton, W. F. Packard. lumbia Conference, and stationed at Dayton.

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NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE.

Held at Terrell, Tex., November 11-16 1891 . ,

Bishop Hendrix, President; C. I. McWhirter, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Answer. Edgar Cornelius McVoy, James elected elders? Alfred Churchill Benson. 1. Barney Lewis, Joseph M. Nichols, John M. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Sweeton, Isaac Wesley Clark, William El- dained elders? Alfred C. Benson. 1. more Jordan, William Thomas Morrow, Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Houston Monroe Pirtle, John Blair Powers, elders? Daniel Webster Grounds, James Guy Arthur Jameson. 10. Newton Hunter, John William Beckham, Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? John Fos- Willis Judson Adkins, James Lowery Yel- ter Pierce, James M. Peterson, Joseph M. ton. 5. Jameson, John W. Beckham, John C. Carr, Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Dempsey W. Gardner, Ira M. Brice, James dained elders? Daniel W. Grounds, James T. Kirkpatrick, Willis B. Walker, Warren D. N. Hunter, John W. Beckham, Willis J. At- Wheeler, John W. Murphy, James W. Clif- kins, James L. Yelton. 5. ton, James S. McKee, Thomas H. Morris. 14. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? T. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Nathan- A. C. Durr, at his own request. 1. iel C. Little, at his own request. 1. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? W. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- K. Duff, A. A. Wagnon, J. R. Randle, M. H. nection? James A. Kerr, Atwell W. Clark, Neely. 4. William A. Stuckey, Leander H. McGee. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? L. P. James N. Hunter, Joseph C. Moore, James Lively, J. B. Rabb, J. C. Randall, C. J. Cock, I. Lavender, Dudley T. Brown, Robert C. W. R. Davis, W. P. Reed, R. Lane, R. G. Hicks, Joseph P. Rodgers, James L. Morris, Rainey, M. C. Blackburn, J. W. Chalk, A.C. James M. Dunn, Leander A. Hanson, Joseph McDougal, A. H. Brewer. 12. D. Hudgins. 14. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- i

Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. ing the past year? E. M. Clark, J. B. Whit- > Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer ten burg. 2.

from other Conferences? C. H. Gregory, L. 1 P. Smith, Morris Evans, I. A. Thomas, F. C. E. M. Clark was born in Denton County, Mabery, J. H. Keith, J. R. Randle, A. A. Tex., February 9, 1863; and died near Kerr-

Wagnon, J. D. Whitehead. 9. ville, Tex., April 13, 1 891. These dates mark Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? the earthly boundary of a life that was the C. M. Harless, C. H. Peele, W. F. Hodnett, synonym of a true Christian manhood. As W. H. Brown, Stuart Nelson, C. J. Fowler. 6. to his parentage I am not informed, save Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are that his mother was related to the Headlees, elected deacons? James Alexander Kerr, a name honorably connected w’ith Metho- Atwell Wickliffe Clark, Leander Hicks Mc- dism in Missouri and elsewhere. The staid Gee, James Lew is Morris. 4. integrity, native honesty, and moral force of Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- this family were inherited by and found full I dained deacons? James A. Kerr, Atwell W. play in the life of young Clark. His reli- | Clark, Leander H. McGee, James Lew'is gious life began in AVhitesboro, Tex., in

Morris. 4. 1881, when he was converted under the 't ** Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected ministry of Rev. S. C. Riddle. His Chris- deacons? Andrew Pierce Hudgins, William tian experience was clear and pronounced Elmore Jordan, James Montgomery Holt, from the first, and grew more intense to the William Hamilton Bludworth, Zora Babel last. He was licensed to preach by the Pirtle, James Prior Dent, Benjamin Arthur Quarterly Conference of AVhitesboro Station Belcher, Andrew' E. Butterfield, Wesley La- in the winter of 1886-87, and was admitted fayette Fagg, David A. McCurry, Francis on trial in the North Texas Conference at Maricm Goyne, Cornelius T. Gore, Robert Honey Grove in November, 1887. His first Wright, James W. Clifton, Dempsey W. appointment w'as as junior preacher on the Gardner. 15. Sherman Circuit, with Rev. T. L. Miller in Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- charge. During this year he was much in dained deacons? Andrew Pierce Hudgins, my home, and his presence was always a William Elmore Jordan, John Montgomery benediction to my family. He grew upon Holt, William Hamilton Bludworth, Zora his people from the first, and the appoint- Babel Pirtle, John Prior Dent, Benjamin A. ments served by him were more than anx- Belcher, Andrew' E. Butterfield, Wesley L. ious for his return. At the session of the Fagg, Robert Wright, James W. Clifton, Conference in 1888 he was appointed to the Dempsey W. Gardner. 12. Wbitesboro Station as junior preacher, with

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Kev. T. E. Sherwood in charge. lie ex- J. B. Whittenburg wr as born about forty- pected to spend most of his time in school, three years ago. The exact date wr e cannot but a few months of confinement brought on discover. He served our Church faithfully hemorrhage of the lungs, and admonished as a local preacher for many years. He was him that consumption, that dread destroyer then for a few' years in the itinerant min- of so many of his family, was reaching for istry of the Methodist Protestant Church. his own life. He spent several months in From these bretliren he came to the North Southern Texas. His health improving, he Texas Conference three years ago as an attended the session of his Conference at itinerant elder. He has spent these years Greenville in November, 1889, w hen he was in faithful wr ork, and a month ago he died received into full connection and ordained of typhoid fever on October 15, 1891. Our deacon by Bishop Key. His appointment brother was a humble, earnest man of God, this year was to Powderly Mission, Paris who cheerfully did the work intrusted to District, where he labored faithfully and him, however obscure, and however small acceptably until June, 1890, when he had the pay. He was equal to any sacrifice, and another hemorrhage, caused by his being wr as glad to “ endure hardness as a good sol- thrown from his buggy. Although barely dier of Christ.” He has now exchanged the able to be up, he did not leave his wT ork un- heavy cross for a glorious crowr n. The days til September. In November he again, in of his trial are over, and he has entered company with his sister, wr ent to Southern upon his reward. Brother Whittenburg wr as Texas, hoping to be benefited as on a former a peculiar man in some respects, but he was visit, but in vain. His work was ended. a man of unspotted character, w hose w ord Neither climate nor medical skill could stay wT as not doubted, and whose name was a the progress of the destroyer. He aw aited synonym for honesty. wr ith calmness and assurance the approaching dissolution of his earthly tabernacle. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Indeed, the work sometimes seemed too in their life and official administration? slowr for the waiting spirit. He had a de- Their names were called over, one by one, sire to depart. When asked by his sister if and their characters examined and passed. he was willing to die, he replied: “Yes. I Ques. 21. What is the number of local fear sometimes that I am too willing and preachers and members in the several cir- anxious to go where I can be at rest. I am cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- so tired. My only regret is that of leaving ence? you alone. I did wish to live and work Dallas District. more for my Saviour; there is so much to Mem- T.oc’l bers. Pr's. be done. It may be that the reason wr hy I

am not spared is that I am not competent Pallas: First Church <515 3 to do the work I wanted to do, but it is all 328 2 right. God knows best.” Just before his Trinity 213 1 95 death he said: “Tell the preachers, my 254 5 brethren, that when they are having love 332 2*5 feast—” His sister failed to catch the re- 3 221 1 mainder of the sentence. She said to him Weston Circuit 420 3 “ You are having a love feast all the time.” 325 429 He said, “ Yes, yes,” and soon breathed his 1 Grapevine Circuit 305 “ last. He suffered much,” writes his sister, Smithfield Circuit : 352 i “ yet he wr as patient and cheerful through Lewisville Circuit 3S9 3 North Fort Worth Mission it all, never murmuring or complaining.”

Brother Clark was possessed of a good mind, 4,616) was studious and persistent in his efforts to Terrell District. master whatever he undertook. As a preach- Terrell Station 319 er, he was clear, scriptural, and effective. 244 account of his quiet, unobtrusive On man- 171 ner, his first appearance before' a strange 376 congregation was apt to be disappointing; 3161 Allen Circuit 500 but as they knew him better, they found 421 that back of that unpretentious bearing wr as Merit Circuit 346 a bright mind, a sweet spirit, a faithful and 457 true servant of his Lord. conscien- He was Rockwall and Rovse 370 tious in his work, and sought to do what he Garland and Duck Creek 278 believed to be right, without fear or favor. Poetrv Circuit ('87 4*7 No consideration of health or personal com- Roberts Mission 225 fort could induce him to neglect his work.

The fierce norther, the beating rain, the I 5,999 summer’s heat—all witness to a self-forget- Sulphur Springs District. ting spirit. The Master has said: “Well 3581 12* done, thou good and faithful servant. . . . '47 Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” Mt. Vernon Circuit 4‘JO North Texas Conference, 1891, 55

Sulphur Springs District ( Continued). Sherman District ( Continued ).

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Greenville: First Cliurch. 521 2 474 4 425 4 362 3 247 1 320 5 Commerce and Wesley Chapel 525 1 Howe Circuit 2 358 Anna Mission 121 Lone Oak Circuit 300 3 1 540 3 4,6171 31 | 400 I Gainesville District. 560 1 Gainesville: Denton Street. 1 363 2 294 f 360 3 • Broadway 150 3 512 1 Mountain Springs Mission.. 275 5 Emory Mission 250 7 Gainesville Circuit 221 3 Dexter Circuit 334 4 190 1 6,784 40 Marysville Circuit Valley View Circuit 200| 3 Jefferson District. Rosston Circuit 275 2 Jefferson Station 145 Decatur Station 300 4 425 4 Decatur Circuit 318 1 389 4 Era Circuit 211 2 386 2 Greenwood Mission 105 125 Aurora Mission 181 1 411 2 Denton Station 243 1 Daingerfield Circuit 233 1 Denton Mission 225 2 Atlanta Station 261 1 Aubrey Circuit 374 2 Texarkana Station 276 1 77 3,896j 35 Evlau Mission.*. 360 District. Queen City Circuit 306 2 Montague 152 2 357 6 •Cusseta Circuit 233 l 220 Pittsburg Station 274 3 Bowie Circuit 293 4 Linden Circuit 500 3 Bellevue Circuit 251 2 180 1 4,553] 26 Wichita Falls Station 239 1 Paris District. Archer Mission 223 4 100 3 Paris: Centenary 400 1 Post Circuit.. 323 200 1 Oak 1 464 ”7 348 6 435 itoxton Circuit 437 1 5 Blossom Station 223 1 230 Pattonsville Circuit 300 306 3 361 2 St. .Toe Circuit 255 5 358 1 Woodland Circuit 381 1 Grafton Circuit... 285 2 Clarksville Station 187

4,045 1 43 •Clarksville Circuit 325 11 | Detroit Circuit 195 1 - Recapitulation.

329 1 4.616 1 29 581 1 44 5,999 28 Three Springs Mission 146 Sulphur Springs (4 6,784 40 Boston Circuit 2 Jefferson 44 4.553 26 Maxey Mission 225 44 17 De Kalb Mission 226 2 Bonham 44 4,820 28 187 1 44 4.617 31 Powderly Mission 185 44 3.896 35 Montague 44 4,045 43 5,8851 17 | Bonham District. 45,215 277 Bonham Station 288' Total last year 42,217 279 279 2 Tncren.se 2,998 Fannin Circuit > 328 5 Gober Circuit 319 3 Decrease 2 7 Dodd City Circuit 437 2 Ques. 22. How many infants have been Honev Grove Station 378 1 baptized during the year? 1,531. and White ltock 369 Petty" 1 adults 271 Ques. 23. How many have been Ben Franklin Circuit 263 baptized during the year? 3,473. Brookston Circuit 193 5 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Bayley and Randolph Circuit 489 338. Stephensville Circuit 413 2 schools? Wolf City Station 318 Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday school teachers? 2,547. 4,S20 28 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Sherman District.. school scholars? 21,838. Sherman Station 472i 1 is for East Sherman Mission 1981 1 Ques. 27. What amount necessary Sherman Circuit 401:1 1 the superannuated preachers, and the wid-

Bell’s and Savoy 462! i ows and orphans of preachers? $5,000. Van Alstyne Station 278i 4 collected on the Denison Station 235! 3 Ques. 28. What has been r Pottsboro and Preston 33? 2 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Gordonsville Circuit 171 plied? $4,698.20. Applied to claimants. Pilot Point Station 24;i 2

Whitesboro Station 231) 2 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for 56 North Texas 1891. Conference,

Missions? Foreign Missions, $8,979.50; Do- JEFFERSON DISTRICT. mestic Missions, $4,946.95. Total, $13,926.45. O. P. Thomas, P. E. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Church Extension? $2,260. Jefferson Station, S. C. Riddle. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Hughes’ Springs Circuit, J. B. Minnis. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Coffeeville Circuit, J. D. Hudgins. ( Number, 296; value, $467,749. Daingerfield Circuit, J. Woodson. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Atlanta Station, S. A. Ashburn. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Texarkana Station, R. M. Powers. ber, 115; value, $99,928. Texarkana Mission, I. S. Smith. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Queen City Circuit, J. F. Pierce; J. H. Mo- tics? Southwestern University: Teachers, Kelvey, Sup. 19; students, 484; value of property, $113,- Bowie Mission, J. I. Lavender. 000. Central College: Teachers, 10; stu- Kildare Circuit, I. M. Brice. dents, 168; endowment, $13,000; value of Linden Circuit, James McDugald. property, $18,000. North Texas Female Col- Boston Circuit, B. H. Webster. lege: Teachers, 17; students, 250; value of Three Springs Mission, J. T. Kirkpatrick. property, $50,000. Dalby Springs Circuit, W. B. Walker. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of the Conference be held? Sherman, Tex. GREENVILLE DISTRICT. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- J. A. Stafford, P. E. tioned this year? Greenville Station, I. W. Clark; W. K. Duff^ DALLAS DISTRICT. Sup. Kingston Circuit, W. M. Robbins. T. R. Pierce, P. E. Lone Oak Circuit, W. D. Wheeler. Dallas: First Church, C. O. Jones. Emory Mission, J. W. Beckham. Floyd Street, C. N. Riggin. Roberts Mission, J. L. Angel. Trinity, P. L. Smith. Floyd Circuit, J. M. Peterson. Oak Lawn, E. C. McYoy. Farmersville Station, J. W. Hill. South Dallas, W. F. Clark. Merit Circuit, Joseph Jameson. East Dallas, L. A. Hanson. 4 Celeste and Leonard, Josiah Godbey. Cochran and Caruth, W. H. Stephenson. Weston Circuit, W. R. Manning. Plano Station, O. S. Thomas. Nevada Circuit, S. S. Cobb. McKinney Station, C. B. Fladger. Allen Circuit, I. A. Thomas. Bethel Circuit, M. W. Shearer. Anna Mission, Guy A. Jamerson. Frankfort Circuit, J. W. Blackburn. Kyle and Orangeville Mission, C. J. Fowler- Lewisville and Webb Chapel, C. I. McWhir- Wylie Circuit, A. C. Benson. ter. Grapevine Circuit, Samuel Weaver. SULPHUR SPRINGS DISTRICT. Argyle Circuit, Joseph M. Nichols. W. L. Clifton, P. E. Smithfield Circuit, J. B. Lewis. North Fort Worth and Fossil Creek, R. C. Sulphur Springs Station, D. J. Martin. Hicks. Sulphur Bluff Circuit, to be supplied (by~ Regent of Southwestern University, J. H. William Taylor). McLean. Mt. Vernon Circuit, W. A. Coppedge. Cooper Circuit, S. W. Jones. TERRELL DISTRICT. Commerce and Wesley Chapel, A .W. Gibson- Fairlee Circuit, F. C. Mabery. George T. Nichols, P. E. Campbell Circuit, J. M. Sweeton. Terrell Station, F. A. Rosser. Black Jack Grove Circuit, William Hay. Will’s Point Station, W. A. Edwards. Leesburg Circuit, J. C. Carr. Kaufman Station, U. B. Phillips. Quitman Circuit, W. T. Morrow. Forney Station, R. M. Chenault. Winnsboro Circuit, J. N. Hunter. Mesquite Circuit, J. B. Adair. Carrollton Circuit, L. H. McGee. Chisholm Circuit, J. H. White. Pittsburg Station, W. B. Patterson. Kemp Circuit, W. E. Jordan. Mt. Pleasant Station, E. B. Thompson. Rockwall and Royse, J. H. Reynolds. Gilmer Circuit, W. J. Bludworth. Garland Station, J. M. McKee. Barrett Circuit, B. T. Hayes. Poetry Circuit, H. E. Smith. Central College, J. M. Dunn, President- Will’s Point Circuit, H. M. Pirtle. Pleasant Mound Circuit, D. T. Brown. PARIS DISTRICT. Prairieville Mission, to be supplied (by S. D. J. R. Wages, P. E. Cook).

Mt. Zion Circuit, to be supplied (by A. R. Paris : Centenary, P. C. Archer. Nash). Lamar Avenue, C. E. Lamb. Crandall Circuit, to be supplied (by J. A. Emberson Circuit, I. M. Woodward. Rogers). Roxton Circuit, J. T. Bludworth. }

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Blossom Station, E. S. Williams. GAINESVILLE DISTRICT. Pattonville Circuit, C. H. Peele. C. L. Ballard, P. E. Milton Circuit, J. R. Jones; A. A. Wagnon, Gainesville : Denton Street, J. H. Keith M- Sup. ; H. Neely, Sup. McKenzie Circuit, B. H. Bounds. Broadway, J. E. Vinson. Deport Circuit, R. N. Brown. Gainesville Circuit, J. AY. Murphy. Woodland Circuit, J. B. Gober. Dexter Circuit, M. L. Blaylock. Clarksville Station, J. L. Morris. Marysville Circuit, S. W. Miller. Detroit Circuit, M. G. Jenkins. Era Circuit, J. C. Moore. Annona Circuit, J. F. Sherwood. Rosston Circuit, T. J. Beckham. Powderly Mission, R. R. Nelson. Decatur Station, W. M. Leatherwood. Lake Creek Circuit, J. B. Powers. Decatur Circuit, S. L. Ball. Maxey Mission, P. R. Eaglebarger. Greenwood Mission, A. W. Clark. Aurora Mission, H. P. Shrader. BONHAM DISTRICT. Denton Station, W. F. Easterling. Circuit, J. AY. Clifton. J. M. Binkley, P. E. Denton Aubrey Circuit, M. M. Dunn. Bonham Station, E. W. Alderson. Valley View Circuit, AV. A. Stuckey. i Bonham Circuit, T. L. Miller. Mountain Springs Circuit, J. D. Whitehead- Fannin Circuit, H. K. Agee. Gober Circuit, J. S. McKee. MONTAGUE DISTRICT. Dodd City Circuit, C. M. Harless. W. S. May, P. E. Grove Station, J. R. Allen. Honey Montague and Belcher, W. M. P. Rippey. Petty and White Rock Circuit, C. C. Davis. Bowie Station, L. P. Smith. Ladonia Station, A. F. Hendrix. Henrietta Station, E. L. Spragins. Wolfe City Station, E. C. DeJernett. T Bellevue Circuit, AV. AY . Graham. Ben Franklin Circuit, J. P. Rodgers. Alvord Circuit, L. L. Naugle J. R. Randle, Brookston Circuit, T. E. Sherwood. ; Sup. Bailey and Randolph, E. M. Murrill. Sunset Circuit, H. C. Rogers. Lanius, R. S. Gorsline. St. Joe Station, S. Nelson. Chico Circuit, F. C. Pearson. SHERMAN DISTRICT. Crafton Circuit, to be supplied (by J. L- W. D. Mountcastle, P. E. Yelton). Post Oak Circuit, G. C. Hardy. Sherman Station, I. S. Ashburn. Bonita and Illinois Circuit, J. A. Kerr. East Sherman Mission, J. H. Hunter. Burlington and Nocona, AV. T. Ayers. Sherman Circuit, Z. Parker. Wichita Falls Station, F. 0. Miller. Bell’s and Savoy, J. F. Alderson. Holliday Circuit, to be supplied. Van Alstvne Station, J. F. Archer. Dye Mound, D. AV. Gardner. Denison Station, H. O. Moore. Cambridge and Doss, L. AV. Harrison. Pottsboro and Preston, S. Crutchfield. Iowa Park Mission, T. J. Minnis. Gordonsville Circuit, W. F. Hodnett. Archer City Mission, C. C. AVilliams. Pilot Point Station, W. H. Hughes. Benvanue Mission, T. H. Morris. Whitesboro Station, J. C. Weaver. Pilot Grove Circuit, L. F. Palmer. J. AV. Adkisson, AV. M. Shelton, C. H. Collinsville Circuit, W. H. Brown. Gregory, and Morris Evans transferred to- Whitewright and Marvin, J. A. Wyatt. the Northwest Texas Conference. Howe Circuit, to be supplied (by T. B. E. S. Boyd transferred to the East Texas Lane). Conference. North Texas Female College, T. J. Milam, J. A. Lovett transferred to the Indian Chaplain and Agent. Mission Conference.

MEMPHIS CONFERENCE.

Held at Covington, Tenn., Nov. 25-30, 1891.

Bishop Key, President ; Warner Moore, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? E. Brasfield, John C. Wells, Robert P. Wittr Answer. John W. Joyner, Llovd T. AVard, Robert S. Harrison. 8. Byron C. Roach, Robert W. Nance, Robert Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? AVilliam. ;

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E. Sewell, Joseph B. Pearson, Benjamin tinuing to do noble and efficient service as B. Thomas, Henry C. Johnson, Janies H. an itinerant preacher for several years. Feltz, Theophilus M. Harding, Nathan W. Soon after the war between the States, he Lee, Numa R. Waters, William A. Diggs, was transferred from that Conference, and Henry M. Tolley, Robert L. Stanley, Alston was received into the Memphis Conference L. Dallas, John M. Pickens. 13. in 1871. He settled his family at Ralston, Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? William Tenn., in which section of this Conference W. Butler. 1. he filled important appointments, and was Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- an effective and popular preacher and pastor nection? William A. Russell, Thaddeus E. for several years. His health declining, and Smith, William T. Elmore. 3. overtaken with financial embarrassment, we Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Henry C. understand he located for few years and a ; in •Gamble. 1. recovering his health, he again entered the Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer effective ranks, and did efficient work among from other Conferences? J. W. Lawrence, us, as a traveling preacher, for a few years, from the Southwest Missouri Conference; until in the fall of the year 1887, at Browns- T. F. Cason, from the Los Angeles Confer- ville, Tenn., he asked for and received a su- ence. 2. perannuated relation, in which relation he Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? died in December, 1890, at Dukedom, Tenn., Bedford L. Harris, Lee Sanders, Thomas G. and was buried at Ralston, Tenn., much la- Pettigrew. 3. mented by all. He was beloved by his Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are brethren of the ministry, by the Churches elected deacons? Thaddeus E. Smith. 1. and communities, for whom and among Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- whom he labored. His brethren loved and dained deacons? Thaddeus E. Smith. 1. honored him, both on account of his many Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected excellent qualities of head and heart, and deacons? William E. Sewell, Alcuin F. for his work’s sake. He leaves a wife resid- Havnes, William P. Saunders, James F. ing at Dukedom, Tenn. He fought well and England, Thomas F. Maxedon, Benjamin B. faithfully life’s battles, won the victory, and Thomas, Alston L. Dallas. 7. has entered into the Master’s joy. Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained deacons? William E. Sewell, Alcuin John Williams was born May 10, 1837, in F. Haynes, William P. Saunders, James F. Elizabeth City, N. C., in which place he was England, Thomas F. Maxedon, Benjamin B. also reared to manhood. He was the son Thomas, Alston L. Dallas. 7. of Samuel and Elizabeth Williams. He em- Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are braced religion and joined the Methodist elected elders? Joel B. Knight, John L. Church in his youth. He entered Ran- Weaver, George W. Banks, Van D. Humph- dolph-Macon College in 1848 graduated and ; rey, Wiley M. Midyett, William Murray. 6. obtained the degree of A.M. in 1852. He Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- was given license to practice law and was dained elders? Joel B. Knight, John L. admitted to the bar in Elizabeth City, N. C. Weaver, George W. Banks, Van D. Humph- but after about one year he surrendered his rey, Wiley M. Midyett, William Murray. 6. profession and took license to preach the Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected gospel in the M. E. Church, South. In 1856 elders? John W. Wallace, Joseph B. Pear- he accepted a professorship in Murfrees- son, William F. Walker, Wm.W. Butler. 4. boro College (N. C.), where he continued, Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- filling variously the chairs of Mathematics dained elders? Joseph B. Pearson, William and Languages, until the war broke out be- F. Walker, William J. House. 3. tween the States, and broke up the institu- Ques. 16. Who are located this year? tion. He was married, by Rev. C. B. Red- None. ick, to Kate Pugh, of Bertie County, N. C., Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Jere December 21, 1859. He moved to West Moss, B. B. Risenhoover, 0. P. Parker, R. Y. Tennessee and settled at Brownsville in Taylor, J. W. Knott. 5. September, 1867, and soon founded the Wes- Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? T. L. leyan Female College, of which he was the Boswell, J. M. Flatt, James Perry, J. M. honored head for more than twenty years. Major, T. P. Holman, John Randle, S. B. He was ordained deacon by Bishop Mc- Adams, D. C. Wells, D. M. K. Collins, J. A. Tyeire at Paris, Tenn., in 1868, and elder Fife, M. H. Frost, A. H. Thomas, J. A. Rus- by Bishop Wightman in 1872 at Somerville, sell, A. N. Sears, E. B. Plumber. 15. Tenn. He was admitted into the traveling Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- connection of the Memphis Conference at ing the past year? R. E. Graves, John Wil- Trenton, Tenn., in 1880, and wr as appointed liams, John W. Clement. 3. ' to the presidency of the Wesleyan Female College continuously thereafter. He died R. E. Graves first entered the traveling February 19, 1891. He was an active preach- connection of the M. E. Church, South, in er, preaching every opportunity, and always the Western Virginia Conference, where he acceptably. He wns a fine preacher, a fine was born and reared up to manhood, con- educator, a good and great man.

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J. W. Clement, a probationer in the Mem- Jackson District {ContinueJ).

White | Colorod'T.oo’I died August his | phis Conference, 12, 1891 , at Mem's. Mem's. IPr's. brother’s residence, near Gleason, Tenn. He was the son of Rev. Thomas D. and E. Z. Bradford Circuit... •Clement. The deceased was for six years a Dyer Circuit Milan Station local preacher. He was ordained a deacon Milan Circuit Rt Fulton, Kv., by Bishop Hendrix, in 1889, Pinson Circuit and was received on trial into the traveling Henderson Station connection, M. E. Church, South, as a local deacon at the same time and place. He was Union City District. appointed at that Conference to the Lake Union City Station 550] | Bluff Mission by Bishop Hendrix, and re- Union City Circuit 553] Hickman Station 191 turned to the same work by Bishop Duncan j at the last session of this Conference. This Cayce Station 42 young man was, for the most part, educated Lake Bluff Mission 233] Troy Circuit 249 Institute. are at McTyeire We informed by Tiptonville Circuit 655 the Principal, Rev. Dr. Harrison, that he Columbus Station 95 was a faithful and close student, and much Gardner Circuit 520 Martin and Ralston 344 life beloved during his college by the teach- Sharon Circuit 526 ers and all his fellow-students, and is repre- Greenfield Circuit 296 sented as being a practical thinker and Harris Circuit 433 Fulton preacher, Circuit 610 much beloved and reverenced by Fulton Station 269 all within the circle where he was called to Water Valley Circuit 600 move. On his work he was very useful, en- dearing himself to his hearers, and rapidly Brownsville District. built up the Churches he served. He prom- Brownsville Station 443 ised great usefulness, and as a Conference Brownsville Circuit 548 we record his death with much sorrow. He Bell’s Station 172 died in great triumph, being in full posses- Alamo Circuit 687 Denmark Circuit .. 402 full sion of his mental powers, and in assur- Stanton and Mason 154 ance of faith. His last words were words Braden Circuit 418 of victory, saying: “ Peace, all is peace.” Somerville Station 135 Belmont Circuit 373 Dancyville Circuit 340 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless New Castle Circuit 362 in their life and official administration? Whiteville Circuit 312 Toon Circuit 423 Their names were called over, one by one, Bolivar Circuit 191 and their characters examined and passed. Wood ville Circuit 430 Ques. 21. What is the number of local preachers and members in the several cir- Dyershurg District. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- 331 1 2 ence? Dyersburg Circuit 357 1 Hale’s Point Mission 199 2 District. Memphis Curve Circuit 559 5 White Colored I I.oo’l Ripley and 411 1 | Dnrhamville Mem's. Mem's. jPr’s. 475 2 270 Memphis: First Church 562 Covington Station 191 3 Central Church 459 Covington Circuit 307 1 Hernando Street Church 378 Mt. Zion and Bethuel. 309 1

Pennsylvania Avenue Church... 291 i Brighton Mission 130 2 City Mission 148] Newbern Circuit 546 3 Springdale Circuit 338 Newbern Station 208 1 Bartlett Circuit 210! 870 4 Longstroet and Stevenson 147 Trimble Circuit 256 2 Germantown and Bethlehem 144 Wilsonville Circuit 475 1 Collierville Circuit 348 Kenton and Rutherford. 232 2 La Grange Circuit 351 Williston Circuit 251 6,126 1 32 Macon Circuit „ 233 District. Arlington and Gratitude 230 Paducah Embury Circuit 297 Paducah: Broadway 2 Randolph Circuit 600 Third Street I 2301

Tipton Mission 204 Paducah Circuit 214 1 1 Middleton Mission 250 Woodville Circuit 638i 3 Milburn Circuit 425 6

1 Clinton Station 219 1 5.441 | 19 Clinton Circuit 595 3 Jackson District. Wickliffe Circuit 203

Jackson : First Church 1 Bard well and Arlington 445! [ Hayes Avenue 1 Moscow Circuit 515 1 West Jackson Wingo Circuit 500 4 City Mission and Lester Chapel. Mayfield Station 261 2 1 Jackson Circuit 1 Mayfield Circuit 516 4 Spring Creek Circuit 1 Farmington Circuit 597 4 Medina Circuit 3 438 3 Humboldt Station Benton Circuit. 419 2

Trenton Station i Trenton Circuit J 3 1 6,875 1 36 :

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Paris District. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Whit* Colored 'Loc'l | is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- ber, 84; value, $104,990. Paris Station 280 2 Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Paris Circuit 267 tics? McTyeire Institute : Teachers, 3 stu- McKenzie Station 250 6 ; dents, 81 value of property, Jack- McKenzie Circuit 880 1 ; $10,000. Gleason Circuit 655 son District High School: Students, 130; Dresden Station 136 value of property, $4,000. Brownsville Dis- Salem Circuit 381 1 Trezevant Circuit 430 3 trict High School: Teachers, 2; students, 33; Conyersville Cii-cuit 443 2 3 value of property, $2,500. Dyersburg Dis- Manleyville Circuit 690 3 trict High School: Teacher, 1; students, 30; Big Sandy Circuit 485 Lynnville Circuit '461 1 value of property, $6,000. Wesleyan Female Cottage Grove Circuit- 418 1 College: Students, 107; value of property,. New Castle Circuit 540 1 $3,000. Marvin College : Students, 247 val- Murray Circuit 684 3 ; ue of property, $12,000. McFerrin College Murray and Benton .... 210 4 Wadesboro Circuit 627 6 Students, 200; value of property, $14,000. Memphis Conference Female Institute: Stu- To 00 si 2 35 dents, 166 ; value of property, $40,000. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Lexington Station 140 4 Lexington Circuit 552 2 the Conference be held? Mayfield, Ky.

Huntingdon and Long Rock . 156 Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Hollow Rock Circuit 436 7 tioned this year? Camden Circuit 608 4 Sugar Tree Circuit 400 Perry ville Mission 120 4 MEMPHIS DISTRICT. Decaturville Circuit 661 1 Scott’s Hill Mission 419 5 R. H. Mahon. P. E. Sardis Circuit 340 Mifflin Circuit 386 1 Memphis: First Church, W. G. Miller; J. AV. Montezuma Circuit 422 7 Knott, Sup. Bethel and Falcon 183 2 Cranesville Circuit 344 4 Central, A. Monk. Adamsville Circuit 655 2 Hernando Street, H. B. Johnston. Shiloh Circuit 480 Pennsylvania Avenue, R. M. King. Mississippi 6^02 43 Avenue, H. C. Johnson. Recapitulation. Saflarans Street, W. W. Adams. Memphis District 5,441 19 Springdale Circuit, W. D. Jenkins one to be “ ; Jackson 20 supplied (by J. C. Cason). Union City “ 6.907 41 Bartlett Circuit, B. B. Brownsville “ 5,390 13 Thomas. Dyersburg “ 6.126 1 32 Arlington and Gratitude, J. M. Maxwell. “ Paducah 36 Longstreet and Stevenson, R. Y. Blackwell. Paris “ 7,287 2 35 J. Carlton. Lexington “ 6,302 43 Germantown and Bethlehem, W. Collierville Circuit, G. W. Banks. Total this year.. 50,012 3 239 La Grange and Saulsbury, J. P. Walker. Total last year.. 48,431 3 229 Middleton Circuit, A. L. Dallas. Increase. 1,581 10 Williston Circuit, S. F. Chambers. Embury Circuit, C. D. Hilliard. Ques. 22. How many infants have been Millington Circuit, John W. Joyner. baptized during the year? 1,105. Island No. 35 and Richland, IJ. H. Tolley.. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Randolph Circuit, J. V. Fly. baptized during the year? 2,782. Macon Circuit, R. L. Norman. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday schools? 478. BROWNSVILLE DISTRICT. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday W. C. Johnson, P. E. school teachers? 3,408. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Brownsville Station, J. G. Clark. school scholars? 28,301. Brownsville Circuit, W. L. Duckworth. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for AVoodville Circuit, G. T. Peeples. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Bell’s Station, T. G. Pettigrew. ows and orphans of preachers? $3,500. Alamo Circuit, W. A. Dungan. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Stanton and Mason, J. R. Hardin. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Braden Circuit,' J. B. Knight. plied? $4,412.86. Applied to claimants. Belmont Circuit, V. D. Humphrey. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Somerville Station, J. W. Blackard. Missions? Foreign Missions, $10,304.89 Do- New Castle Circuit, A. S. Taylor; R. V. Tay- ; mestic Missions, $2,656.38. Total, $12,961.27. lor, Sup. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Danceyville Circuit, M. F. Leake. Church Extension? $2,993.87. Denmark Circuit, A. C. Smith. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what AVhiteville Circuit, H. J. Turner. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Toone Circuit, D. A. Ross. Number, 478; value, $743,545. Bolivar Circuit, W. J. McCoy. Memphis Conference, 1891. 61

JACKSON DISTRICT. PADUCAH DISTRICT. J. Spence, E. J. H. Evans , P. E. M. P.

Jackson : First Church, J. W. Lowrance. Paducah: Broadway, G. W. Wilson. Hayes Avenue, J. M. Scott. Third Street, W. C. Waters. West Jackson, T. E. Smith. Paducah Circuit, W. B. Matthews. City Mission and Lester Chapel, A. L. Woodville Circuit, R. H. Pigue. Pritchett. Milburn Circuit, W. J. Naylor. Jackson Circuit, Byron C. Roach. Clinton Station, G. K. Brooks. Humboldt Station, W. G. Hefley. Mt. Pleasant Circuit, N. W. Lee. Trenton Station, J. H. Roberts. Spring Hill and Shiloh, R. L. West.

Trenton Circuit, J. T. Wiggins; 0. P. Park- Wickliffe Circuit, to be supplied. ! er, Sup. Columbus Station, E. B. Graham. Dyer Circuit, P.'H. Fields. Moscow Circuit, C. A. Haskill. Bradford Circuit, B. A. Hayes. Bardwell and Arlington, M. M. Taylor. Milan Station, B. F. Blackmon. Wingo Circuit, S. B. Love. Milan Circuit, P. G. Throgmorton. Mayheld Station, Warner Moore. Pinson Circuit, R. W. Hood. Mayfield Circuit, J. G. Burks. Henderson Circuit, T. J. Simmons. Farmington Circuit, C. C. Bell. Lane Institute, T. F. Sanders, Principal. Briensburg Circuit, T. N. Wilkes. Memphis Conference Female Institute, A W. Jones, President. UNION CITY DISTRICT. DYERSBURG DISTRICT. W. T. Harris, P. E. A. R. Wilson, P. E. Union City Station, E. B. Ramsey. Union City Circuit, A. C. Moore. Dyersburg Station, J. C. Hooks. Cayce Circuit, T. J. McGill and F. Bynum. Dyersburg Circuit, W. T. C. Young. Hickman Station, Welborn Mooney. Hale’s Point Mission, to be supplied (by A. Lake Bluff Mission, W. H. Evans. F. Haynes). Tiptonville Circuit, J. D. Sullivan. Curve Circuit, E. E. Hamilton. Troy Circuit, W. O. Lanier. Ripley and Durhamville, G. H. Martin. Harris Circuit, S. Weaver. Barrier. Ripley Circuit, W. F. Fulton Station, W. C. Sellars. Henning Circuit, J. H. Cason. Fulton Circuit, J. W. Waters. Station, T. Sullivan. Covington G. Water Valley Circuit, J. T. C. Collins. Covington Circuit, Lloyd T. Ward. Gardner Circuit, D. M. Evans. Mt. Zion and Bethuel, W. A. Cook. Martin Station, E. K. Bransford. to Brighton Mission, be supplied (by C. H. Martin Circuit, J. R. Bell. Atkins). Dresden Station, E. H. Stewart. Circuit, Friendship T. P. Ramsey. Sharon Circuit, J. A. Moody. Newbern Station, G. W. Evans. Greenfield Circuit, R. E. Brasfield. Newbern Circuit, B. F. Peeples. Trimble Circuit, J. E. Treadwell. LEXINGTON DISTRICT. Wilsonville Circuit, J. S. Renshaw. 1 S. H. Williams, P. E. Kenton and Rutherford, C. J. Mauldin. Lexington Mission, W. A. RusselL PARIS DISTRICT. Lexington Circuit, J. P. Pearson. W. A. Freeman, P. E. Mifflin Circuit, J. G. Jones. Huntingdon and Long Rock, A. J. Meadera. Paris Station, N. P. Ramsey. Hollow Rock Circuit, William Murray. Paris Circuit, W. T. Elmore. Camden Circuit, J. L. Weaver. Station, McKenzie S. L. Jewell. Decaturville and Saltillo, J. H. Feltz. Circuit, McKenzie M. R. Waters. Decaturville Circuit, Robert S. Harrison. Gleason Circuit, J. H. Witt. Sardis Circuit, B. L. Harris. Trezevant Circuit, Henry C. Gamble. Perryville Mission, J. M. Pickens. Manleyville Circuit, W. M. Midyett. Sugar Tree Circuit, W. F. Walker. Big Sandy Circuit, John C. Wills. Bethel and Falcon, W. E. Sewell. Faxton Circuit, T. W. Hardin. Crainesville Circuit, R. L. Stanley. Conyersville Circuit, H. B. Owens. Adamsville Circuit, D. L. Hines. Springville Mission, J. H. Garrett. Shiloh Circuit, N. R. Marr. Cottage Grove Circuit, Lee Sanders. Lvnnville Circuit, C. A. Coleman. A. J. Wheeler transferred to the Texas New Providence Circuit, R. E. Humphrey; Conference, and stationed at Richmond. B. B. Risenhoover, Sup. W. F. Hamner transferred to the Baltimore Murray Circuit, J. H. Cole. Conference, and stationed at Roanoke, Va. Murray and Benton, T. F. Cason. J. C. L. Boehm and R. P. Witt transferred Benton Circuit, J. S. Carl. to the St. Louis Conference. Dexter Circuit, W. A. Diggs. A. L. Prewitt transferred to the Tennessee Conference Colporter, R. W. Newsom. Conference, and stationed at Mt. Olivet. 62 St. Louis Conference,

ST. LOUIS CONFERENCE.

Held at Sikeston, Mo., September 23-28, 1891.

Bishop Wilson, President ; Henry Hanesworth, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? elected elders? Harry AVhitehead, James Answer. Willis M. Freer, Robert M. Steller, K. P. Dickson, Isaac AV. Hickam. 3. William H. Batten, John L. Beard. 4. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? C. Mc- dained elders? Harry Whitehead, Isaac W. Cluer, M. T. Haw, A. H. Russell, F. Eater, Hickam, James K. P. Dickson. 3. R. D. Kennedy, W. F. Tatum, A. B. Weaver, Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected A. B. Halton, L. M. Lee, E. C. Finley, F. T. elders? None. The orders of Alexander M. Threadgill, S. L. Morris. 12. O’Quinn, an elder from the Missionary Bap-

; Pf Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? John L. tist Church, were recognized. jg Carroll. 1. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- jL Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- dained elders? None. nection? Felix R. Hill, James E. McGee, Ques. 16. Who are located this year? J. D. Doherty, Caddis S. Mills, John Dod- None. well, William Q. Donnon, Andrew T. Os- Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? J. C. T born, John F. Triplett. 8. Alexander, L. L. A\ hite*head. 2. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? J. M. Eng- Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? J. C. land, A. M. Robinson. 2. Barryman, J. C. AVilliams, M. Arrington, C. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer E. DeVinney, J. H. Headlee, J. H. Cox, D. 41 from other Conferences? F. W. Tatum, A. J. Marquis, AV. P. Gibson, S. Richmond, A. B. Halton, L. M. Lee, J. C. L. Boehm, from T. Tidwell, W. H. Hogan, J. A. Hyder. 12. the Memphis Conference J. B. 19. AAr ; Reagan, from Ques. hat preachers have died dur- the North Mississippi Conference F. Thread- ing the past year? F. AVil- ; David Renfro, gill, from the Holston Conference; J. M. liam R. Babcock, James R. Ledbetter. 3. Crowe, from the Denver Conference; Z. T. McCann, from the Little Rock Conference; David F. Renfro was born in Franklin W. H. Hogan, from the Southwest Missouri County, Mo., in 1841; and passed away to Conference. 9. the better land April 16, 1891. The exact Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? period and place of his conversion are to the W. F. Talley, A. B. Grumpier, W. Lowe, A. writer unknown. At a camp meeting in the MacFarlane, R. L. Moser, C. M. Threadgill, State of Texas, when about thirty-five years L. L. Pinnell, T. W. Glass, H. M. Eure, A. P. of age, he found the pearl of great price. Up Safford, J. W. Oliver, L. L. AVhitehead, C. P. to that time he had led a praverless life; but

1 Brewer, continued in the class of the third thoroughly converted, he became fully con- year. 13. secrated. Soon he became conscious of a Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are call to preach, and was licensed by the Quar- elected deacons? John Dodwell, Andrew T. terly Conference of St. Clair Circuit in 1876. Osborn, William Q. Donnon, James E. Mc- He was admitted on trial in the St. Louis Gee. 4. Conference at Farmington at the session of Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- 1879. Before this he served acceptably as a dained deacons? John Dodwell, William Q. supply. As a soul-winner Brother Renfro Donnon, Andrew T. Osborn, James E. Mc- was wise above many. Hundreds were con- Gee. 4. verted under his presentation of the truth Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected that saves. As a preacher he wr as strong, deacons? Claude M. Gray, Joseph C. Less- sound, sensible, and scriptural; and as a ley, John Hanes, Lemuel M. Lee, Pleasant pastor painstaking and laborious. His life Rose, William H. Batten, Taylor Mann, John flowed on Godward and heavenward, till F. Stukenbraker, Ransom M. Reddick, John triumphantly he joined the immortals. His C. Simpson, C. McCluer. 11. The orders of last words w'erer“ Glory to God, all is well!” Abner Elam, a deacon from the M. E. Thus passed away in the zenith of his power Church, were recognized. and usefulness our friend and brother. Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained deacons? John Hanes, Ransom M. William Ray Babcock -was born June 1, Reddick, Pleasant Rose, Taylor Mann, John 1803, in Washington County, N. Y. In early C. Simpson, Charles McCluer, Joseph C. Less- youth he moved with his parents to North- ley, Lemuel M. Lee, William H. Batten, John ern Ohio. In his nineteenth year he was F. Stukenbraker. 10. converted and joined the M. E. Church. He Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are was licensed to preach June 18, 1825. Two .. r

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months afterward he entered the itinerancy and their characters examined and passed,, in the Pittsburg Conference; was ordained except that of C. P. Brewer, whose case was deacon by Bishop George in 1827, and elder referred to his presiding elder for investi- by Bishop Soule in 1830. In 1834 he was gation. transferred to the Genesee Conference. In Ques. 21. What is the number of local 1848 he joined the M. E. Church, South, and preachers and members in the several cir- served acceptably in West Virginia, Ken- cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- tucky, and Missouri. He became connected ence? with the St. Louis Conference, and served West St. Louis District. the Churches within its bounds for several White Colored ILoc't years. For over thirty years he was on the Mem's. Mem's. Pr’s. superannuated list, hence his labors belong First Church 238 largely to the generation past. His afflic- St. John’s 2 tions barred him from the pulpit for many Cook Avenue 2 years, but he was an excellent preacher, Lafayette Park 387 i 2 Bellefontaine 172 spoke rapidly, with power and effect. He Bridgeton 91 had a good knowledge of books, and was EderT. 41 2 2 Mt. Zion a pleasant writer. In character irreproach- 101 1 Kirkwood 147 1 able, in deportment amiable, he walked Meramec Circuit 125 with God, having his citizenship in heaven, Labadie 122 Manchester 66 while he dwelt with men. He died of old 33 age. His attitude for months had been St. Clair 159 that of wr aiting till his change came. He Washington 111 New Haven 104 was ready, “ willing to depart and be with Immanuel 57 Christ,” which he felt would be far better. Ferguson '. 37 1 He fell on sleep May 27, 1801, on the very Clavton 40 threshold of his eighty-eighth year. 3,049 3 10 South St. Louis District. James It. Ledbetter was born in Marshall Centenary County, Tenn., November 1834; 1,396 12 22, was con- St. Paul’s 359 verted at the age of fifteen, and licensed to Marvin Chapel and Victor Street.. 296 2 preach in 1861; remained a local preacher Carondelet 71 Hematite 214 till 1872, when he was admitted on trial in Plattin Circuit 182 2 the St. Louis Annual Conference. He con- He Soto 218 1 tinued in the itinerant work till the voice of Potosi 161 2 Bonne Terre .. 352 1 the Master called him to the rest that re- Caledonia and Irondale 164 mained to the people of God. The last Libertyville Circuit * 221 1 charge to which he was assigned by Bishop Arcadia 106 1 Belleview Keener, at the last session of our Conference, 381 1 Farmington 181 was the Thayer Circuit. In the spring his Farmington Circuit 416 3 health failing, he had to relinquish his work Taylor Avenue 93 1 and seek rest among friends and kindred, 4,8571 27 in the neighborhood of Chapel Hill, Butler Charleston District. County. For a time he seemed to be regain- Charleston 315 . ing his lost strength, but on the 7th of Au- Charleston Circuit 287 . gust the final attack came upon him, and he Locust Grove Circuit 155 . Bertrand Circuit 435 . quietly and patiently suffered till the release New Madrid 83 . came. His end was peace. The dayspring Point Pleasant Circuit 425 . of the heavenly land broke in upon him at Morley Circuit 545 . Commerce Circuit 266 . 2 a.m. of August 13, 1891. As a preacher our Sikeston 230 . brother was earnest and zealous. He sung Lutesville Circuit 777 .

as well as preached the gospel of Christ. Jackson 186 . With pathos and power he pleaded with men Pocahontas Circuit 283 . Caruthersville Circuit. 379 . to be reconciled to God, and many were the Gayoso Circuit 322 .

seals of his ministry. Men of greater culture Cape Girardeau 232 .

York Chapel 209 , and larger gifts failed where he succeeded Oak Ridge Circuit 408 in leading souls to Christ. In the neighbor- Fredericktown 238 hood where he passed away especially will Marquand Circuit 358 his memor)' live, for there were many Sikeston Mission 90 sheaves gathered for the heavenly garner. 6,223 37 In God’s acre at Chapel Hill his mortality Poplar Bluff District. waits to put on immortality, when death Poplar Bluff... 96 shall be swallowed up in victory. His spirit Dexter 69 Bloomfield Circuit 346 is with God who gave it. Clarkton Circuit..... 289 Kennett Circuit 332 21 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless 437 in their life and official administration? 284 Their St. Francois Circuit 389 1 names were called over, one by one, Greenville Circuit 170 4 3 .

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Poplar Bluff District ( Continued). of property, $18,000, together with a joint

White Colored r.oc’1 interest in Central College, Fayette, Mo., and if - Mem’s. Mem’s. Pr’s. Central Female College, Lexington, Mo., in

Poplar Bluff Circuit... 2S0 3 common with the Missouri and Southwest 'Williamsville Cii’cuit. 244 1 Missouri Conferences. Piedmont Circuit 153 1 Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Centerville Circuit...., 156 3 the Conference be held? Kirkwood, Mo. Tan Buren Circuit .... 294 1 if Doniphan Circuit 229 3 Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Fair Dealing Circuit 299 2 tioned this year? S 4,067 26 27 Salem District. WEST ST. LOUIS DISTRICT. Salem and Steelville 103 1 T. M. Finney, P. E. Cuba Circuit 158 1 Sullivan Circuit 164 1 First Church, B. Carradine. St. James Circuit 185 1 St. John’s, Houston Circuit 240 1 J. Matthews. Summerville Circuit 350 Cook Avenue, B. M. Messick. Salem Circuit 290 1 Lafayette Park, E. B. Chappell. Licking Circuit 284 1 Bellefontaine, Lane's Praii’ie Circuit.... 158 1 C. M. ThreadgilL "West Plains 137 3 Bridgeton, J. W. Robinson. West Plains Circuit 245 4 Mt. Auburn, to be supplied. Alton 419 1 Mt. Zion, J. L. Current River Circuit.... 228 2 C. Boehm. Willow Springs Circuit. 261 5 Kirkwood, H. Hanesworth. Birch Tree Circuit 369 5 Meramec Circuit, J. M. England. Thayer Circuit 143 Labadie Circuit, S. W. Emery. Pike Creek Circuit . 20t 1 Peace Valley Circuit 218 1 Manchester, M. T. Haw. Richwoods Circuit 17S 2 Fenton, A. C. Johnson. Washington, F. R. Hill. 4,337 1 31 • Recapitulation New Haven, J. E. McGee. Immanuel, C. McCluer. West St. Louis District 3,049 3 10 South St. Louis “ 4,857 27 Clayton, J. F. Triplett. “ Charleston 6,223 37 Ferguson, to be supplied. Poplar Bluff “ 4,067 26 27 St. Clair, H. Blalock. Salem “ 4,337 1 31 W. Superintendent American Bible Society, J. Total this year 22,533 30 132 W. Lewis. 20,314 8 133 t Total last year

Increase 2,219 22 ..... SOUTH ST. LOUIS DISTRICT. Decrease 1 R. P. E. W. Mays,

Ques. 22. How many infants have been Centenary, S. H. Werlein. baptized during the year? 966. St. Paul’s, C. L. Smith. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Marvin, J. H. Early. baptized during the year? 1,827. Carondelet, C. P. Marchman. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Beckville, to be supplied. schools? 279. Taylor Avenue, to be supplied. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Hematite Circuit, J. H. Brendle. school teachers? 2,088. Festus, J. Stephan. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Plattin Circuit, A. H. Russell. school scholars? 18,139. De Soto, L. F. Aspley. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Potosi, J. R. Eddlemon. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Bonne Terre, F. M. Totten. ows and orphans of preachers? $5,000. Caledonia and Irondale, G. W. Nollner. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Libertyville Circuit, A. M. Robinson. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Arcadia, H. Whitehead. plied? $3,290.53. Applied to claimants. Belleview, W. S. Tyler. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Farmington, C. E. W. Smith. Missions? Foreign Missions, $5,078.10; Do- Farmington Circuit, G. H. Adams. mestic Missions, $2,708.20. Total, $7,786.30. St. Louis Christian Advocate, D. R. McAnally, Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Editor. Church Extension? $1,574.75. Bellevue Collegiate Institute, W. E. Boggs, Ques. 31. What is the number, and what President. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Missionary to Japan, J. M. Rollins.

Number, 212} ; value, $599,430. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what CHARLESTON DISTRICT. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- J. T. Kendall, P. E. ber, value, 57 ; $59,810. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Charleston, J. F. Goldman. tics? Bellevue Collegiate Institute, Caledo- Charleston Circuit, to be supplied (by T. J.

: nia, Mo. Teachers, 5 ; students, 127 ; value Lightfoot). Mississippi 1891. North Conference, 65

"Locust Grove Mission, to be supplied (by W. Barnesville Circuit, W. H. Paschall. M. Holland and P. Rose). Doniphan Circuit, S. C. Biffie. Bertrand and Hibbard, AV. Lowe and R. D. Fair Dealing Circuit, A. B. Halton. Kennedy. New Madrid, A. B. Crumpler. SALEM DISTRICT. Point Pleasant Circuit, A. MacFarlane. H. A. Smith, P. E. Morley and Benton, R. A. McClintock and A. B. Weaver. Salem and Steelville, R. L. Moser; one to be Commerce and Oran, E. J. Rinkel and F. supplied (by Taylor Mann). W. Tatum. Cuba Circuit, John F. Stukenbraker. Sikeston, J. M. Crowe. Sullivan Circuit, L. W. Pickens. r Marble Hill and Lutesville, H. M. Eure and St. James Circuit, AA . Q. Donnon. T. F. Threadgill. Houston Circuit, J. K. Matthews. Jackson, J. L. Batten. Summerville Circuit, to be supplied (by J. Pocahontas and Egypt Mills, W. M. Freer C. Simpson). r and W. C. Enochs. Salem Circuit, I. A\ . Hickam; one to be sup- Caruthersville Circuit, C. R. Snow; one to plied. be supplied (by M. M. Blaese). Licking Circuit, T. Lord. Cayoso Circuit, A. T. Osborn; one to be sup- Lane’s Prairie Circuit, to be supplied (by R. plied (by R. B. Ruddle). M. Reddick). Cape Girardeau, V. J. Millis; J. C. Alexan- AVest Plains, R. F. Chew; one to be sup- der, Sup. plied (by C. AY. Orvis). York Chapel Circuit, to be supplied (by F. Moody Circuit, J. C. Davis. F. English). Alton Circuit, to be supplied (by A. M. Oak Ridge Circuit, A. P. O’Quinn); L. L. AVhitehead, Safford ; one to be Sup. supplied (by W. M. Burgett). Current River Circuit, AV. H. Batten. Fredericktown, J. K. P. Dickson. Willow Springs Circuit, to be supplied (by Marquand, J. A. Russell. S. F. Shelton). Sikeston and New Madrid Mission, J. W. Ol- Birch Tree Circuit, R. M. Stellar. iver; one to be supplied (by T. C. Cooksie). Garfield, to be supplied. Thayer and AVillow Springs, L. L. Pinnell. POPLAR BLUFF DISTRICT. Pike Creek Circuit, F. Eaker. Peace Yallev Circuit, to be supplied (by A. J. Green, P. E. George D. Davis). Poplar Bluff, to be supplied. Rich wood Circuit, J. L. Beard. Dexter and Malden, Z. T. McCann. Bloomfield Circuit, S. L. Morris. C. M. Ledbetter transferred to the Missouri Clarkston Circuit, E. C. Finley. Conference, and appointed to Moberlv. Kennett Circuit, W. F. Young. J. A. Hyder transferred to the Missouri •Grand Prairie Circuit, R. Walton. Conference. Piketon Circuit, J. D. Doherty. W. B. North transferred to the Southwest Walnut Grove Circuit, W. F. Talley. Missouri Conference, and appointed to Se- Greenville Circuit, T. W. Glass. dalia. Poplar Bluff Circuit, L. M. Lee. H. I. Stephens transferred to the Balti- Williamsville and Grandin, J. Dodwell; one more Conference, and appointed to Calvary to be supplied. Station, Baltimore. Piedmont Circuit, T. B. Reagan. D. A. Watkins transferred to the North Centerville Circuit, C. S. Mills. Carolina Conference.

NORTH MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE.

Held at Macon, Miss., December 2-7, 1891.

Bishop Hendrix, President; J. S. Oakley, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? William A. Clark, John H. Rogers, William Answer. Lee M. Lipscomb, Thomas B. Clif- F. Rogers, James L. Bowling, James M. Da- ford, Stephen L. Boyd, AYilliam D. Bur- venport, AYilliam A. Bowlin. 12. roughs, AYilliam L. Graves, James A. Poe, Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? B. P. Jaco, 5 66 North Mississippi Conference, 1891.

A. T. Back, E. E. Lewi?, R. A. Meek, J. W. mitted on trial into the Alabama Confer- Ramsey. 5. ence, in session at Columbus, Miss. He was

Ques*. 3. Who are discontinued? J. R. received into full connection February 28 r Rodgers, B. R. Young—at their own re- 1846, in Mobile, Ala., and at the same Con- quest. 2. ference was ordained deacon by Bishop J. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- O. Andrew. He was ordained elder at Mont- nection? C. W. Perkins, George H. Lips- gomery, Ala., in December, 1847, by Bishop comb, R. 0. Brown, J. C. Mimms, W. T. Robert Paine. He was an effective itinerant Burk, J. C. Park, H. C. Edmondson. 7. Methodist preacher for forty-five years, and Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. a superannuate something over two years.. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer An itinerant preacher for a little more than from other Conferences? J. W. Treadwell, forty-seven years! During this long minis- from the Indian Mission Conference. 1. terial career he served the Church in various Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? important appointments, on circuits, stations,. R. C. Morehead, H. P. Gibbs, H. M. Young, and districts. Among the more important H. P. Crowe, T. B. Hargrove, R. H. B. Glad- charges served by him were Marion, Tuske- ney, W. H. Sanders, J. T. Howell, J. W. gee, and Greensboro Stations, in Alabama; Treadwell, W. W. Moss, B. B. Sullivan. 11. Franklin Street Church, Mobile, Ala.; also Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are Columbus Station and Kosciusko and Du- elected deacons? Clarence W. Perkins, Jo- rant, in Mississippi. Beside these and other siah C. Mimms, George H. Lipscomb, Rich- charges, he served several districts, being a. ard 0. Brown, William J. Burk, John C. presiding elder for a number of years. From Park. 6. 1851 to 1854 he was a professor in Centenary Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Institute, at Summerfield, Ala., and Presi- dained deacons? Clarence W. Perkins, Jo- dent of Greeensboro Female College in 1867. siah C. Mimms, George H. Lipscomb, Rich- In his early manhood lie bad prepared him- ardson 0. Brown, William J. Burk, John C. self for the legal profession, and had already Park. 6. entered upon the same, when, hearing the Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected call of the Master, he abandoned his chosen deacons? James M. Webster, William A. profession to follow the higher vocation of a Bruner, Lee M. Lipscomb, Columbus W. minister of the gospel of Christ. Brother Patterson, William W. Edge, James L. Bowl- Ramsey was a preacher of the Wesleyan ing. 0. type. His carefully prepared sermons along Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- the lines of doctrinal and practical religion dained deacons? James M. Webster, Will- were delivered with zeal and earnestness, iam A. Bruner, Lee M. Lipscomb, Columbus In official wr ork and administration he was W. Patterson, William W. Edge, James L. prompt, energetic, and true. He did his Bowling. 6. wr ork faithfully and well. As a presiding Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are elder his intercourse with the brethren was elected elders? M. D. Fly, orders recognized kindly and pleasant. He was considerate from the Methodist Free Church. 1. toward his preachers, and won them as his Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- friends. He was a man of decided convic- dained elders? None. tions and was courageous and ready in the Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected expression of his opinions. He took an act- elders? None. ive part in the work of the Conference ses- Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- sions, and his voice was often heard in ear- dained elders? None. nest debate on the floor of the Conference. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? J. In public life he was dignified and courte- A. Whitehurst, C. R. A. Brankley, A. B. ous, and in the social circle affable without Dearing—at their own request. 3. frivolity. He was one of nature’s noblemen, Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? W. and never lowered his knightly crest to an y- S. Harrison, D. M. Cogdell, J. W. Bates. 3. thing beneath the character of a Christian Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? S. B. gentleman or the calling of the gospel min- Carson, J. H. Brooks, T. J. Lowry, A. A. ister. At the close of the year 1S88 he re- Houston, J. M. Hampton, S. A. Ellis, W. R. luctantly retired from the effective ranks, Rainey, C. N. Terry. 8. and from that time to the close of his life, Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- something over two years, he quietly ac- ing the past year? T. Y. Ramsey, G. W. cepted the relation of a superannuated Brown, C. H. Owen, J. T. Moody. 4. preacher. Two years ago he attended his last Conference session at Holly Springs. Thomas Yancy Ramsey, son of Ambrose Brethren will remember the manifestation K. and Ann G. Ramsey, was born in Chatham of maturing and mellowed Christian life County, N. C., September 2, 1818. He was a which he gave as he spoke in the love feast graduate of the University of Alabama, and at that session. Declining health forbade was converted at the same place in October, his attendance at the session of our Confer- 1838. He was licensed to preach at Demop- ence in Grenada last year. Returning from olis, Ala., November, 18, 1843, by Dr. Jesse tbe Conference, I called upon him at his Boring. On December 27, 1843, he was ad- home. He greatly appreciated the visits of

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liis brethren. I found him much enfeebled his ministr)r and in which the home of , was in body, yet the same courteous and affable his dear friend and our now sainted T. V. Christian gentleman I had long known him Ramsey, had built him a comfortable house, to be. He seemed to apprehend that his which was about completed when the news life’s work was well-nigh done. Accompa- of his death came. They had hoped to have nying me to the door, lie took leave of me, him spend the remnant of his days among asking to be remembered at the throne of them, but his heavenly Father, who loved grace, and spoke hopefully of his spiritual him infinitely above human capacity to love, prospects. This was in December. On the said, “It is enough; come up higher,” and 15th of March following, he died at his at once admitted him into “a house not home, and in the midst of his family, at made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Durant, Miss. His end was peace. It was a striking coincidence that the day of Brother Ramsey’s funeral should be that George W. Brown was born in Pickens of Brother Brown’s death. They were de- County, Ala. About 1852 he was admitted voted friends in life, and were hardly sepa- on trial as a traveling preacher into the Ala- rated in death. A brother said that he could bama Conference, and he continued a mem- imagine Brother Brown as he reached heav- ber of said Conference, serving various cir- en, and on finding Brother Ramsey there, cuits and one district, up to the formation as saying: “Why, Brother Ramsey, I did of the North Mississippi Conference, at not know that you had come.” He died in which time he was in charge of the Craw- Sumter County, Ala., March 16, 1891. ford Circuit, and thus became a member of this Conference. From that time up to 1890 Charles Harris Owen, son of Joshua he continued to render faithful and efficient David and Fannie Owen, was born in De service in all the fields to which he was as- Soto County, Miss., January 19, 1860, and signed. We perhaps had not a more conse- was the ninth of twelve children. His fa- crated man among us than Brother Brown. ther and mother were both earnest Chris- He loved God and humanity fervently, and tians, and they began in his childhood to his heart, mind, and strength were devoted teach him the true principles of Christian to the glory of the one and the salvation of living. How well they succeeded his life the other. He was strictly and emphatically clearly shows. He was converted to God a man of one work. Modesty, gentleness, and joined the M. E. Church, South, in his and amiability were leading and prominent thirteenth or fourteenth year. Though im- traits of his character. He was a close stu- pressed at an early age of his call to the dent of the Word of God and the standard ministry, he resisted it for awhile, “fear- works of theology, and had a clear and well- ing,” he said, “that it was presumption.” defined conception of the plan of salvation, At the age of twenty-one, however, he over- and his sermons were sound and forcible came his fears and doubts, and consecrated presentations of Christianity. His own lov- himself fully to God. He was licensed to ing heart melted under the gentle touches preach by the Quarterly Conference of Chu- of divine truth as he presented it to others, lahoma Circuit July 16, 1881, W. P. Barton, while they were made to realize the fact presiding elder. In the fall of the same that it was “ the power of God unto salva- year he entered Vanderbilt University as a tion to every one that believeth.” Perhaps theologue, where he spent two years prose- we might well hesitate to say that Brother cuting a theological course. Here he made Brown was a popular preacher in the ordi- a good record, and was spoken of afterward nary acceptation of that language, but we by his professors as a young man talented can unhesitatingly say that he was some- and studious. In November, 1883, by the thing far better—he was a much loved North Mississippi Conference, he was ad- preacher. In proof of this statement stands mitted on trial into the traveling connec- the fact that twelve out of twenty years of tion; was admitted into full connection and his ministry in our Conference were spent ordained deacon by Bishop Hargrove De- * on the West Circuit, where his name is to- cember 6, 1885; was ordained elder by “ day as ointment poured forth.” He was Bishop Keener November 20, 1887. The not only noted as a soul winner, but also as first appointment he received from the a temple builder. Some of our neatest Conference was Stoneville Circuit. While churches stand as monuments of this fact. en route to his charge he was notified that Such was the state of his own health, and he was changed to the Horn Lake Circnit. that of his devoted wife, that he was unable He went to this charge and commenced to do the work assigned him for 1890, and work. Here he received a letter stating at the close of the year he asked and ob- that he had been changed again, this time tained a superannuated relation. The pic- to Iuka Circuit. Though mortified and ture of his affectionate farewell to his breth- hurt by these changes, he went to his last ren as he left the seat of Conference to return appointment and labored zealously, accoro- p to his native Alabama lingers on the pages plishing much good. More than one hun- * of memory yet. As a token of their tender dred souls were converted and added to the regard for him and his dear wife, the citizens Church under his ministry during this year. of Durant, where he had spent four years of The following year he was returned, and 138 North Mississippi Conference , 1891. lie served the people faithfully. After this lips he passed through its gates to enjoy its he served the following charges: In 1886, blessedness. Mt. Pleasant; 1887, Early Grove; 1888, Fai- sonia; 1889, Friar’s Point; 1890-91, Bolivar. Jesse T. Moody, son of Robert and Mary He died in the parsonage, October 15, 1991, A. Moody, was born in Gordon County, Ga., a victim of that dreaded disease, hematuria. November 11, 1850; was converted in Drew On October 21, 1886, he was happily mar- County, Ark., in 1863; licensed to preach in ried to Miss Rufie Ivy. His wife was truly May, 1876; admitted on trial into the North a helpmeet to him, and she stood by his Mississippi Conference at Sardis in Novem- side to encourage and cheer him with her ber, 1876; ordained deacon by Bishop Paine counsel and love until he breathed his last. in Macon, Miss., in December, 1878; or- Their home was blessed with two children, dained elder by Bishop Paine in Columbus, whom he has left as a solace and comfort to Miss., in 1880. Brother Moody filled the their mother, his grief-stricken widow. Of following appointments with acceptability him it is eminently true that “he at once and usefulness: In 1878-79, Austin and ceased to labor and to live.” From a pro- Trotters; 1880-81, Louisville Circuit; 1882- tracted meeting he went to his bed, from 85, New Salem Circuit; 1886-89, Bylialia which he never rose. His whole heart was and Victoria; 1890-91, Kosciusko and Du- in his work, and his only desire was to glo- rant Station. These years of his itinerancy rify God and advance his cause. He con- were periods which marked in an eminent tinually sought opportunity to do good that degree his fitness for the work to which he might help fallen humanity. As a pas- God had called him. The Churches grew tor he visited, knew, and loved his people. and multiplied under his leadership, and it He knew and called the children by name. was a matter of just pride—the glory of his They loved him because they knew and saw Methodist preacherhood — that he always his love for them. By the sick bed he sat, left his charge with a better equipment in and with Christian words he cheered to hope all the material and spiritual resources than and faith the sufferer. To the broken-heart- he found it. With characteristic zeal and fied and disconsolate he was comfort and con- delity he addressed himself to each and ev- solation. The penitent and sinner found in ery department of Church work ; the one, as him a guide and counselor. The Christian important, if it was for the glory of God, as knew him as a companion. In the pulpit the other, and nothing had commerce with he was plain, earnest, and forcible. He stud- Jesse Moody that did not tend to the glory ied to know what and how to preach. His of his God. If he is to start on a mission of sermons were made after much hard work mercy to a poor unfortunate member of his and fervent, agonizing prayer. To his pulpit charge, the prayer closet is the point of his he went from his closet. He prayed much, departure to the humble abode of the suf- read much, and thought much. Sin he de- ferer. If he goes—as often, duty impelled, nounced in uncompromising terms. He saw he did—to administer a rebuke to an offend- in its black, hideous deformity the enemy of er, the prayer place would be sought, and on light and life and purity in mark To him bended knees he would talk with his sover- •sin was a leprous disease, infested with can- eign Lord. On such occasions the afflatus divine would rest upon him and to the suf- cerous sores, bringing sorrow and suffering ; and death, and contaminating whatever it fering saint the ministry of our beloved touched. To the Christian he was all peace Moody was as gentle as mercy, and to the ob- and love and gentleness. What words of joy durant offender as firm as justice. Brother he spoke! How rich and mellow his ex- Moody was a bright and illustrious example perience! “In him was life”—the life he of the power of the grace of God to save had received from Christ. Brother Owen man, and to supply adequate resources to was a man of much promise. Had he lived, meet the exigencies of the soul’s need. By he might well have worn the mantle of the nature bold and independent, with a strong •elder. With a broad, clear mind, a ripe will power, which under any attempted co- heart, and thoroughly consecrated soul, he ercive measures would become obstinate could have accomplished much for God. and defiant in the presence of even consti- But he is gone. We see him no more. He tuted authority, and selfish to the last de- does not answer to roll call. We miss him. gree, yet grace—that most wonderful divine The Omnipotent works, the Omniscient di- contrivance to save rebellious man—so tamed rects, a loving Father is in it all; and the the imperious force of his wild nature, and end is good. Shall we ask how he died? It curbed, just long enough to subdue, the ob- is useless. His faith in life was his faith in stinacy of the will, that all these natural death: his Christ in life was his Christ in forces were converted from the evil and to death. Willing? Yes, he was willing to go. the good. The strength of plan and purpose •“ I would like to stay and preach more but is now seen to be an adjustment to God’s ; if God wants me, I am ready to go,” he said. plan and purpose, as that plan and purpose 'Conscious up to within a short while of his is revealed in Jesus Christ our Lord. He death, he never uttered a sound save of res- can stand now with an independent—yea, a ignation and content. “It is not far to free—spirit, but it is an advocate for the truth fceaven,” he said, and with this fresh on his that has made him free. The will power is 1

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not diminished in the least, but it takes on except that of W. T. Barnett, whose case this definite form of expression: “Not my was referred to the presiding elder of the will, but thine be done.” The selfishness Sardis District for investigation. changed into that other self—the brother- Ques. 21. What is the number of local hood—and now, so changed, yet the same, preachers and members in the several cir- self is forgotten in the one unselfish purpose cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- to live for others and, if need be, to die for ence? others, which he literally did. Brother Sardvs District. Moody coveted such a death as heaven White Colored Loo't Mem's. Mem’s. Pr’s. gave him. He would cease at once to work and live. We have alluded to the rich re- 160 sults of his ministry in the upbuilding of the 240 116 Church wherever in the providence of God 271 he was called to labor. But there was a 140 constant growth and development in his Hernando and Coldwater 190 257 own personal experience of the riches of 337 1 grace. He asked for large measures of grace, 454 2 that he might be better equipped for the 409 2 138 ::::::::: work of the ministry. God, for Christ’s 516 & sake, granted his servant’s request. Our ::::::::: brother asked largely and received in full 318| 1 measure. Brother Moody’s pulpit was never 252] converted into stage for mimic show nor 4,0721 12 a ; did he ever invest any gospel theme with Grenada District. anything that was fictitious. No so-called Grenada Station 256 “ legitimate drama,” with its accompanying 362 i Water Valley Station 365 scenic acts, drew the vulgar crowd to Moody’s 338 3 church. The gospel themes of repentance, 426 4 justification, witness of the spirit in regen- 225 1 132 <> fruit- eration and adoption—these were the 322 1 I ful subjects for pulpit discussion. Brother 500 i 1 Moody was liberal in the allowance of time 512 (> 336 3 for pulpit preparation. call study and The 109] ]

to preach meant a call to prepare, and each 38l i Sabbath day’s work evinced thoughtful, 103! 1 602 i 5 prayerful preparation. No speculation in- 396 ! 4 dulged in ever left a hearer in doubt as to Tillatoba 336 2 Moody’s confidence in the certainties of the 460! 1 3: Cherry Hill 251 ! gospel which he preached. Brother Moody

was happily mated. His marriage to Miss i 6.067, 3S 1 Rubie Patton in 1878 was, under God, a great Winona District. blessing. She and three little girls are left 1881 to us—our special care—for Brother Moody ' 447 2 337 1 left them a trust to us. To us he died all 197 too soon. Our selfishness so decides; but 177 God makes no mistakes; and tbe beautiful 450 3 569 s ministerial life was all the brighter in the 152 1 last hour. His last illness was long and 177 painful, but he was ready, and when the Ebenezer 309 2 264 2 summons came to cross over the death-roll- 362 | 2 ing tide, though delirium had seized him, Sallis 603 1 yet he was ready. After lifting his soul 424 2 491 2 to God in prayer that Jesus would go 517 with him, the dying preacher’s prayer was 401 5 j answ7 ered from "the heavens, and then the 180 1 song burst was a pean of victory w hich even 6,243 1 27 the chilling mist from the river of death Columbus District. “ could not repress. How firm a foundation, 425 2 ye saints of the Lord,” was our Moody’s 510 2 coronation hymn. Brother Moody passed 587 a 265 peacefully to his reward November 20, 1891, 259 in Kosciusko, Miss., after a lingering illness 175 of typhoid pneumonia. 92' MashnlavilI-3 — 276 1 i 469 i

Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless 241 1 i in their life and official administration? 267] 276' Their names were called over, one by one, 253] i 236 and their characters examined and passed, West Point Station 1 i . 1 1

70 North Mississippi 1891. Conference,

Columbus District ( Continued). Eecapilulation. White Colored Loc'l WhUe Colored I.oo’l Pr's. Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Mem's. Mem's.

Sardis District 4,072 12 84 u Tampico 152 1 Grenada 6,067 38 Winona “ 6.243 27 Maben 413 2 w Chester 1 Columbus 6.244 2 13 7,694 30 Sturgis 604 i 2 Corinth “ * 6,548 27 Hollv “ 10 6,244 2 13 Springs 3,071 Greenville ^ 1,794 2 Aberdeen District

Aberdeen Station 387 1 Total this year 41,727 2 159 Okolona Station 187 Total last year 40,857 157 Okolona Circuit 281 Tupelo Station 149 Increase 870 2 2 Verona Station 100 Prairie Circuit 162 Ques. 22. infants have been Buena Vista 408 How many Sparta 662 baptized during the year? 687. Pontotoc 453 Ques. 23. How many adults have been Houston and Wesley ... 313 baptized during the year? 2,287. Shannon 525 Nettleton 8501 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Saltillo 692 schools? 425. Tremont 855 Ques. 25. Fulton and Smithville. 813 What is the number of Sunday Athens Circuit 545 school teachers? 2,295. Ebenezer 312 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday school scholars? 20,102. 7,694 30 Corinth District. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Corinth Station 300 superannuated preachers, and the* wid- Corinth Circuit 545 ows and orphans of preachers? §3,169.78. Iuka Station 239 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Iuka Circuit 451 foregoing account, it Harmony 343 and how has been ap- Kossuth 284 plied? §2,392.87. Applied to claimants. Blackland 465 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Jonesboro 442 Missions? Foreign Missions, §7.054.35 Do- Ripley and New Albany 206 ; Ripley Circuit 426 mestic Missions, §2,308.75. Total, §9,363.10. Boonville and Rienzi 301 Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Guntown 638 Blue Spi'ings 22x Church Extension? §2,115.60. New Albany Circuit 602 Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Marietta 574 is the estimated value, of church edifices? Pleasant Ridge 504 Number, 480; value, §484,772. 6,548 27 Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Holly Springs District. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- ber, 105 value, §100,066. Holly Springs Station 252 ; Holly Springs Circuit 207 Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Pine' Mountain 261 tics? Grenada Collegiate Institute: Value Byhalia 400 of property, Mt. Pleasant 332 §30,000. Olive Branch 198 Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Early Grove 129 the Conference be held? Corinth, Miss. Ashland 258 Ques. 35. are the sta- Red Banks 135 Where preachers Shawnee 168 tioned this year? Comersville 214 Shelby Creek 152 Myrtle 365 SARDIS DISTRICT.

3,071 10 H. C. Morehead, P. E. Greenville District. Sardis and Davis Chapel, John Ritchey. Greenville Station 309 Como and Fredonia, J. M. Wyatt; I). M. Eeland and Lake Lee 46| Areola and Hollandale 83 Cogdell, Sup. Indianola and Faisonia 151 Senatobia, E. Johnson. Shaw and New Salem 129 Arkabutla, R. P. Goar. Cleveland and Shelby 153 Australia and Friendship!., 48 Coldwater Mission, to be supplied (by Aaroir Clarksdale Station 119 Braswell). Jonestown Station r 86 Hernando and Coldw ater, J. W„ Malone. Dublin and Brooklyn 129 Belen 94 Nesbitt, C. W. Perkins. Tunica and Lula 80 Pleasant Hill, J. T. Howell. Friar’s Point Station 60 Cockrum, J. H. Leech. Rosedale Station 58 J. Concordia Station 52 Mt. Vernon, W. Poston. Bolivar and Benoit 28 Batesville and Wesley, Thomas Cameron; Lehrton Mission 130 J. W. Bates, Sun. Coahoma and Bonn’s 39 Pleasant Grove, II. P. Gibbs. 1.794' Panola, B. P. Jaco. North Mississippi Conference, 1891. 71

Wall Hill, T. W. Dye. Weir, J. II. Smith. Courtland, R. O. Brown Ethel, L. D. Worsham. Rural Hill, D. M. Geddie. WINONA DISTkiCT. Belzona, J. A. Poe. S. M. Thames, P. E. Lexington and Tehula, R. M. Davis. Pickens, R. G. Porter. Winona Station, J. D. Cameron. Ebenezer, A. W. Langley. Winona Circuit, J. W. Luter. Newport, J. R. Roberson. Vaiden, H. L. Vaughn. Louisville, J. AT. Barnes. Carrollton Station, R. A. Meek. Walthall, J. R. D. King. Greenwood, T. B. Hargrove. Chester, W. C. Lester. West, D. C. Foust. Maben, W. A. Dollar. Black Hawk, W. J. O’Bryant. Poplar Creek, R. C. Calloway. Carrollton Circuit, T. G. Freeman. Conference Colporter and Sunday School McNutt, V. J. Jones. Agent, G. W. Bachman. Indianola and Faisonia, W. D. McCullough. Dublin and Brooklyn, E. S. Lewis. ABERDEEN DISTRICT. Lehrton Mission, to be supplied (by E. H. McNabb). J. B. Stone, P. E. Sidon, W. H. Saunders. Aberdeen Station, J. A. Bowen. Whitworth College, W. B. Murrah, Vice Okolona Station, N. G. Augustus. President. Okolona Circuit, B. B. Sullivan. GRENADA DISTRICT. Tupelo, E. H. Moon. Verona and Nettleton Station, M. E. Tumlin. W. T. J. Sullivan, P. E. Prairie, J. C. Park. Grenada Station, J. J. Wheat. Pontotoc, J. M. Davenport. Grenada Circuit, J. M. Huggin. Buena Vista, J. T. Cunningham. Water Valley Station, J. W. Price. Houston and Wesley, H. R. Tucker. Water Valley Circuit, to be supplied (by R. Shannon, F. P. Spencer. F. Cole). Nettleton and Fulton Circuit, W. W. Wil- Coffeeville, G. W. Gordon. liams. Charleston, James Porter. Saltillo, B. R. East. Oxford, J. E. Thomas. Tremont, to be supplied (by J. W. Raper). Abbeville, J. W. Anderson. Amory and Smithville, F. A. Whitson. Toccopola, J; M. Massey. Athens, W. L. Graves. Banner, C. C. Grisham. Atlanta, R. P. Fullilove. CORINTH DISTRICT. Minter City and Strathmore, 0. L. Savage. W. S. Lagrone, P. E. Chapel Hill, E. H. Rook. 'Tillatoba, S. L. Boyd. Corinth Station, T. Y. Ramsey. Pittsboro, A. J. Foster. Corinth Circuit, J. H. Rodgers. Cherry Hill, to be supplied (by J. C. Wood- Iuka Station, J. W. Bell. ruff). Iuka Circuit, W. A. Clark. Kossuth, W. C. Harris. DISTRICT. COLUMBUS Blackland, H. M. Young. T. C. Wier, P. E. Jonesboro, to be supplied (by W. W. Edge). Ripley Station, T. B. Columbus Station, J. S. Oakley. and New Albany Ma- * Columbus Circuit, K. M. Harrison. lone. Crawford, K. A. Jones. Ripley Circuit, J. W. Ramsey. Brooksville, D. L. Cogdell. Boonville and Baldwin, B. F. Phillips. Macon, J. H. Mitchell. Guntown, J. E. Buck. Hebron, D. W. Babb. Blue Springs, J. C. Mimms. Mashulaville, to be supplied (by C. H. Pitt- New Albany Circuit, M. H. Honnoll. man). Marietta, W. J. Burt. Shuqualak, A. T. Buck. Pleasant Ridge, W. F. Rogers. Starkville Station, J. A. Randolph. Starkville Circuit, T. L. Foster. HOLLY SPRINGS DISTRICT. West Point, Amos Kendall. J. W. Boswell , P. E. Tibbee, A. P. Sage. Tampico, A. P. Leech. Holly Springs Station, T. W. Lewis. Circuit, J. J. Brooks. Sturgis, J. W. Treadwell. Holly Springs Holly Springs Circuit, D. Burroughs. Sparta, J. D. Newsom. East W. Red Banks, J. B. Harris. KOSCIUSKO DISTRICT. Byhalia, J. C. Lowe. Olive Branch, G. H. Jacobs. R. A. Burroughs, P. E. Mt. Pleasant, Joseph Johnson. Kosciusko and Durant, J. F. Evans. Early Grove, Ben S. Ravner. Sallis, R. M. Evans. Ashland, J. L. Bowling. 72 North Carolina Conference, 1891.

Myrtle, 0. N. Koon. Belen, W. A. Bowlin. Eagle Springs, H. C. Edmonson. Tunica and Lula, W. M. Young. Lebanon, to be supplied (by B. C. Gray). Friar’s Point, J. H. Shumaker. Malone Female College, J. W. Honnoll, Rosedale, W .W. Woollard. President. Gunnison, W. D. Fly. Bolivar, R. H. B. Gladney. GREENVILLE DISTRICT. Areola and Hollandale, T. W. Clifford. Coahoma and Bonn’s, J. W. Honnoll. R. M. Standefer, P. E. R. C. Morehead transferred to the White- Greenville Station, J. W. Dorman. River Conference. Stormville and Lake Lee, W. W. Moss. W. D. Bass transferred to the Northwest Shaw and New Salem, H. P. Crow. Texas Conference. Cleveland and Shelby, W. S. Shipman. S. D. Long transferred to the Holston Australia and Sherad, L. M. Lipscomb. Conference. Clarksdale, E. H. Casey. R. A. Ellis transferred to the Texas Con- Jonestown, George H. Lipscomb. ference.

NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE.

Held at Greenville, N. C., Nov. 25-30, 1891.

Bishop Galloway, President; Donald W. Bain, Secretary.

Question 1 . Who are admitted on trial? elected deacons? Robert H. Broom, Rich- Answer. Nathan H. D. Wilson, Kenneth D. ard F. Taylor, Asa J. Parker, Henry G. Holmes, Lucius S. Massey, Edward E. Rose, Stamey. 4. Michael Bradshaw, John C. McCall, Jesse Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- D. Bundy, Elias B. Wilcox, Jesse J. Porter, dained deacons ? Robert H. Broom, Rich- Major T. Best, Jesse W Martin, Jesse T. ard F. Taylor, Asa J. Parker, Henry G. Draper. 12. Stamey. 4. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? William Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Y. Everton, Jasper B. Thompson, George deacons? Joseph B. Game, Major T. Best, W. Starling, George G. Harley, George D. Lucius S. Massey, Wesley Thompson, Jesse Langston, William B. Moore, John A. Rouse, W. Martin, Peter N. Stainback, John T. B. Jesse F. IJsrey, Nathaniel L. Seabolt, John Hoover, Kenneth R. Pugh. 8. C. Jones, William F. Galloway. 11. Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Judson dained deacons? Joseph B. Game, Lucius Vernon. 1. S. Massey, Wesley Thompson, Major T. Best, Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Jesse W. Martin, Peter N. Stainback, John nection? Milton D. Hix, Robert H. Broom, T. B. Hoover, Kenneth R. Pugh. 8. Richard F. Taylor, Asa J. Parker, Henry G. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Stamey, James H. M. Giles. 6. elected elders? Hampton McRae Jackson,. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. Lenoidas M. Chaffin, Daniel C. Geddie. 3. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are from other Conferences? William C. Nor- ordained elders? Hampton McRae Jack- man, Moses J. Hunt, James M. Lowder, son, Leonidas M. Chaffin, D. C. Geddie. 3. John T. Finlayson, from the Western North Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Carolina Conference; Daniel A. Watkins, elders? None. from the St. Louis Conference. 5. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? dained elders? None. John H. Shore, Magruder H. Tuttle, Eli C. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Sell, Neill McKay Watson, Louland S. Eth- None. ridge, Daniel Reid, Joseph G. Nelson, John Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Isaair R. Sawyer, William H. Puckett, Charles F. W. Avent, Thomas B. Reeks, William H. Sherrill, Edwin C. Glenn, George T. Sim- Call, John C. Crisp, Robert O. Burton, Rich- mons, Henderson Cole, John J. Barker, third ard W. Townsend, James B. Bobbitt, Ed- year; James G. Johnson, fourth year. 15. ward L. Pell. 8. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Miles ;

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Foy, James B. Bailey, George E. Wyche, faithful. By the first marriage there was Marcus C. Thomas, Nathan A. Hooker, Jo- one son, who died of typhoid fever at seph H. Wheeler, Thomas C. Moses, David Charleston, S. C., as a soldier, at the age R. Bruton, Thomas C. Lovin, T. Page Ri- of sixteen years; also two daughters, Mrs- caud, Joseph B. Martin, John W. North. 12. W. B. Hutchings and Mrs. William Wynne, Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- of Raleigh, N. C. Since the death of his ing the past year? Daniel Culbreth. 1. second wife he has made his home with his daughters, where his presence was a con- Daniel Culbreth, son of Cornelius and stant benediction, and where he received as Lucy Frazier Culbreth, was born in Samp- tender and unremitting kindness as kinship, son County, N. C., April 29, 1808. He was purified by grace, could bestow. What was the eldest of fourteen children, eight of said of Barnabas well describes Uncle Cul- “ whom are still living. His paternal grand- breth: He was a good man, and full of the father came from Scotland, and all of his Holy Ghost and of faith : and much people children were baptized in the Presbyterian was added unto the Lord.” He was thor- Church. His mother was a member of the oughly renewed by grace—good-tempered, Baptist Church. Through her faithfulness sweet, affable, and guileless. The presence he claimed to have received his first religious of the Holy Ghost made him cheerful and impressions. He was happily converted at happy and successful in being near to Christ* fourteen years of age, under the preaching His confidence in God never failed. Much of Rev. Bond English, of the South Carolina of his work was in very difficult and hum- Conference, who was stationed in Fayette- ble fields, yet he was fully assured that he ville, N. C., and joined the M. E. Church at should have food and raiment, and that the that place October 7, 1825. He was licensed seed-sowing should result in a gracious in- as an exhorter October 18, 1827, and to gathering of souls; and so it was, and shall preach at Parker’s Church, Black River be, for many will arise to call him blessed “ Circuit, by Moses Brock, presiding elder, in the great crowning day.” For several October 25, 1828. He was admitted on trial years he had been confined most of the- into the Virginia Conference at New Berne, time to his sick room, which was indeed a Bethel where the presence of Jacob’s God N. C., in 1831 ; ordained deacon at Peters- burg, Va., by Bishop Hedding March 3, 1833 was his constant comfort. The many min- ordained elder at Lynchburg, Va., February isterial and other friends who honored them- 15, 1835, and received the following appoint- selves by visiting this man of God went away rejoicing at the complete triumph of ments: Trent Circuit, 1831 ; Snow Hill Cir- cuit, 1832; Albemarle Sound, 1833; Raleigh grace in his rich experience. He looked Circuit, 1834; Haw River Circuit, 1835-36; anxiously for the summons of the Saviour, Snow Hill Circuit, 1837; Pittsylvania Cir- wT hich greeted him at 10 p.m. January 7, cuit, 1838-39; Haw River Circuit (January), 1891, at the home of his son-in-law, W. B* Tar River Circuit (December), 1840; Trent Hutchings. He answered the summons Circuit, 1841; Sampson Circuit, 1842-43; cheerfully, and has gone to that home Raleigh Circuit, 1844; Nash Mission, 1845; where there are no partings. Tar River Mission, 1846; Raleigh City Mis- 20. all the preachers blameless sion, 1847-48; Hillsboro Circuit, 1849-50; Ques. Are official administration? Raleigh City Mission, 1851-53; Raleigh Af- in their life and were called over, one by one, rican Mission, 1854; Fayetteville Circuit, Their names characters examined and passed. 1855; Raleigh City Mission, 1856; Bladen and their is the number of local Circuit, 1857-58; South River Mission, 1859- Ques. 21. What preachers and members in the several cir- 61; Magnolia Circuit, 1862; Elizabeth Cir- cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- cuit, 1863; Magnolia Circuit, 1864; Onslow Circuit, 1865-66; Everettsville Circuit, 1867- ence? Raleigh District. 68; Lenoir Circuit, 1869-71 Snow Hill Cir- ; White Colored! Loc'h cuit, 1872 New Berne Circuit, 1873 Craven ; ; Mem's. Mem's. IPr’s. Circuit, 1874-77; Smithville Circuit, 1878; Coharie Circuit, 1879-80. At the Winston 712 1 311 1 Conference in 1880 he closed an unbroken 131 pastoral service of fifty years by asking for 1 a superannuated relation. On December (500 1 3, 479 1 1835, he was married to Miss Emeline L. 39(5 Pullen, daughter of Turner and Elizabeth 3(51 S' 536 1 Pullen, of Wake County, N. C., who shared 3(56 1 his toils for nineteen years, and added much 206 to his ministerial success, and died in great 341 2 (507 1 June 1854. On November 8, 1855, peace 23, 610 1 he was married to Mrs. Elizabeth West 248 Carlton, widow of Rev. Peter Carlton, of 2- 279 3 Duplin, N. C., who was a true helpmeet un- 317 til about five years ago, when she too was called by the Master to the reward of the 7,792 10 . .

North Carolina 1891. Conference,

Durham District. New Berne District (Continued).

White I Colored! Loci White Colored 'Loe'l Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. | Mem's. Mem's. I Pr's.

Durham: Trinity..... Straits Circuit Main Street Core Sound Mission Carr Church ’.. .. Durham Circuit Hillsboro Circuit Chapel Hill Station.. Warrenton District. Leasburg Circxxit Roxbury Circuit Warrenton Circuit 388 Mt. Tirzali Circuit... Warren Circuit 574 1 Person Circuit Ridgeway Circuit 543 2 2

Burlington Circuit .. Littleton Circuit 614 1 Alamance Circuit ... Weldon Circuit 236 1

Haw River Circuit .. Halifax Circuit 425 Pittsboro Circuit Battleboro and Whitaker’s 180 Milton Circuit Rocky Mount and Toisnot 151 2 Yanceyville Circuit Nashville Circuit 394 1 Siler Circuit Wilson Station 375 Wilson Circuit 537 1 Kenley Circuit 256 Northampton Circuit 847 1 2 Fayetteville District. Murfreesboro Station 116 Garvsburg Circuit 486 Hay Street and Campbell ton Mis.. 552 2 Bertie Circuit 344 1 Cumberland Circuit 508 2 Harrellsville Circuit 272 1 Maxton and Caledonia 270 Meherrin Circuit 636 2 Maxton Circuit 337 1 Lumberton Circuit 544 1 7,374 3 15 Laurinburg Station 397 4 St. John’s Station 359 1 Wasliington District. Rockingham Station 248 1 Rockingham Circuit 509 2 Washington Station 379 l Richmond Circuit 356 1 Tarboro Station 207 Manly Circuit 324 1 Bethel Circuit , 456 2 4f-artliage Circuit 544 3 Williamston and Hamilton Sta.. 260 2 Jonesboro Circuit 498 1 Greenville Station 193 Cape Fear Circuit 413 1 Greenville Circuit 252 1 Lillington Circuit 408 Jamesville Circuit 204 2 Deep River Circuit 524 1 2 Vanceboro Circuit 410 3 Mt. Gilead Circuit 480 South Edgecombe Circuit 402 Pekin Circuit 565 5 1 Aurora Circuit 368 Asbury Circuit 801 1 1 Bath Circuit 387 2 Prospect Circuit 483 1 Plymouth Station 216 Columbia Circuit 546 9,180 7 26 Mattamuskeet Circuit 513 1 Fairlield Station 124 Wilmington District. Swan Quarter Circuit 388 Ocraeoke and Hatteras Circuit.. 296 2 Wilmington: Grace Church 541 12 Kennekeet Circuit 460 4 Fifth Street 544 1 Dare Circuit 483 Bladen Street 174 Kitty Hawk Mission 144 1 Market Street 88 Bethel Mission 111 1 Scott’s Hill Circuit 489 1 Kenansville 721 1 Magnolia Circuit 512 1 Clinton Circuit 774 1 Recapitulation. Sampson Circuit 638 1 3 Raleigh District Cokesbury Circuit.... 489 Durham “• Bladen Circuit 620 2 Fayetteville “ Elizabeth Circuit 442 1 1 Wilmington u Carver's Creek Circuit 395 1 New Berne “ Whiteville Circuit 480 2 Warrenton “ Waccamaw Circuit 396 2 Washington “ Southport Station 355 1 Brunswick Circuit 588 2 1 Total this year 55,622 27 143 Brunswick Mission 228 1 Total last year.. 52,758 22 137 Robeson Circuit 420 3

6 23 New Berne District. Ques. 22. How many infants have been New Berne: Centenary 2 baptized during the year? 1,024. Hancock Street. w 1 Ques. 23. How many adults have been Goldsboro: St. Paul 1 St. John baptized during the year? 2,793. Goldsboro Circuit 4 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Fremont Circuit schools? 583. Mt. Olive Circuit 25. is the of Kinston Station 1 Ques. What number Sunday Snow Hill Circuit 2 school teachers? 4,286. La Grange Circuit Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Craven Circuits. 2 Jones Circuit school scholars? 35,035. Onslow Circuit 2 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Morehead Station the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Beaufort Station 1 orphans of Carteret Circuit 3 ows and preachers? $5,000. Pamlico Circuit 1 1 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the ;

North Carolina 1891. Conference, 75 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- FAYETTEVILLE DISTRICT. plied? $5,025. Applied to claimants. J. T. Gibbs, P. E. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Missions? Foreign Missions, $12,215.16; Do- Fayetteville: Hay Street and Campbellton mestic Missions, $6,254.36. Total, $18,469.52. Mission, W. H. Moore and J. W. Martin. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Cumberland Circuit, J. D. Bundy. ^Church Extension? $2,405. Cokesbury Circuit, Philip Greening. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what* Sampson Circuit, N. J. Parker. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Lillington Circuit, Michael Bradshaw. Number, 543; value, $702,744.40. Buckhorn Circuit, Erskine Pope; I. W. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what A vent, Sup. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Cape Fear Circuit, W. S. Chaffin. ber, 92; value, $114,355. Pittsboro Circuit, N. E. Coltrane. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Haw River Circuit, L. L. Johnson. tics? Trinity ( College: Teachers, 17; stu- Deep River Circuit, H. McRae Jackson. dents, 207; endowment, $110,000; value of Siler City Circuit, to be supplied (by J. R. property, $90,000. Wesleyan Female Col- Newlin). lege (Murfreesboro): Teachers, 5; students, Carthage Circuit, J. A. Hornaday. 55; value of property, $25,000. Littleton Manly Circuit, W. J. Crowson.

Female College : Teachers, students, Jonesboro Circuit, John E. Thompson. 10 ; 75 value of property, $12,000. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of ROCKINGHAM DISTRICT. the Conference be held? Goldsboro, N. C. M. L. Wood, P. E. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers stationed this year? Rockingham Station, W. B. Doub. Rockingham Circuit, H. G. Stamey. Richmond Circuit, E. B. RALEIGH DISTRICT. Wilcox. Mt. Gilead Circuit, G. B. Perry. J. A. Cuninggim, P. E. Pekin Circuit, L. S. Etheridge. Prospect Circuit, to be supplied (by J. H. Raleigh : Edenton Street, J. N. Cole. Frizelle). Central Church, J. B. Hurley J. B. Bob- ; Asbury Circuit, D. A. Futrell. bitt, Sup. St. John Station, J. T. Lyon. City Mission and Brooklyn, Kenneth D. Laurinburg Station, R. J. Moorman. Holmes. Maxton and Caledonia Station, S. V. Hoyle. Circuit, Cary P. L. Herman. Maxton Circuit, A. D. Betts. Rolesville Circuit, B. C. Allred. Lumberton Circuit, F. B. McCall. Youngsville Circuit, to be supplied (by R. Robeson Circuit, N. M. Jurney; R. W. H. Whitaker); E. II. Davis, Sup. Townsend, Sup. Franklinton Circuit. N. H. D. Wilson; E. L. Pell, Sup. WILMINGTON DISTRICT. Louisburg Station L. E. Thompson. F. D. Swindell, P. E. Tar River Circuit, B. B. Culbreth. Granville Circuit, V. A. Sharpe. Wilmington : Grace Church, W. C. Norman. Oxford Station, R. F. Bumpass. Fifth Street, L. L. Nash. Oxford Circuit, J. H. Hall. Bladen Street, C. W. Smith. Raleigh Christian Advocate, F. L. Reid, Editor. Market Street, E. C. Sell. Scott’s Hill Circuit, Oxford Orphan Asylum, W. S. Black, Su- H. B. Anderson. perintendent. Onslow Circuit, J. L. Keen. Magnolia Circuit, R. L. Warlick. DURHAM DISTRICT. Kenansville Circuit, A. R. Raven. Clinton Circuit, J. M. Ashby. E. A. Yates, P. E. Bladen Circuit, D. C. Geddie. Elizabeth Circuit, W. H. Townsend. Durham: Trinity, R. C. Beaman. Whiteville Circuit, W. A. Forbes. Main Street, F. A. Bishop. Waccamaw Circuit, to be supplied (by J. M. Carr Church, Oliver Ryder. Marlow). Durham Circuit, Jonathan Sanford. Brunswick Mission, T. J. Browning. Hillsboro Circuit, J. M. Lowder. Brunswick Circuit, J. B. Thompson. Chapel Hill Station, N. M. Watson. Southport Station, C. P. Jerome. Leasburg Circuit, L. S. Massey. Carver’s Creek Circuit, Daniel Reid. Roxboro Circuit, T. N. Ivey. Mt. Tirzah Circuit, D. L. Earnhardt. NEW BERNE DISTRICT. Person Circuit, E. E. Rose. W. S. Roree, P. E. Burlington Circuit, J. E. Underwood. Alamance Circuit, M. J. Hunt. New Berne: Centenary, R. A. Willis. Milton Circuit, J. H. Shore. Hancock Street, to be supplied (bv John Yanceyville Circuit, G. W. Fisher. F. Butt). •General Colporter, T. J. Gattis. Goldsboro: St. Paul, B. R. Hall. 76 North Georgia Conference, 1891.

Goldsboro: St. John, M. D. Hix. Warren Circuit, C. 0. DuRant T. B. Reeks, ; Goldsboro Circuit, M. M. McFarland. Sup. Mt. Olive Circuit, M. H. Tuttle. Ridgeway Circuit, J. W. Jenkins. La Grange Circuit, R. H. Broom. Henderson Station, W. L. Cuninggim. Snow Hill Circuit, J. T. Abernetliy. Littleton Circuit, R. P. Troy. Kinston Station, F. M. Shamburger. Weldon Station, J. A. Green. Grifton Circuit, Major T. Best. Aurelian Circuit, Jesse T. Draper. Craven Circuit, J. G. Johnson. „ Halifax Circuit, W. L. Grissom. Jones Circuit, R. B. Gilliam. Garysburg Circuit, T. J. Daifey. ,

Carteret Circuit, J. G. Nelson. Northampton Circuit, L. J. Holden. i Morehead Station, C. W. Robinson. Meherrin Circuit, J. H. M. Giles. Beaufort Station, C. F. Sherrill. Murfreesboro Station, J. A. Lee. Pamlico Circuit, to be supplied (by F. S. Harrellsville Circuit, B. B. Holder. Becton). Bertie Circuit, Z. T. Harrison. Straits Circuit, George W. Starling. Littleton Female College, J. M. Rhodes, Core Sound Mission, to be supplied (bv President. Joseph Carraway).

WILSON DISTRICT. v WASHINGTON DISTRICT. G. A . Oglesby, P. E.

R. B. John , P. E. Wilson Station, J. H. Cordon. Washington Station, W. S. Davis; W. H. Spring Hope Circuit, to be supplied (by J. Call, Sup. T. B. Hoover). Greenville Station, George F. Smith. Nashville Circuit, L. M. Chaffin. Greenville Circuit, R. F. Taylor. Rdfcky Mount Station, J. O. Guthrie. Jamesville Circuit, N. H. Guyton. Battleboro and Whitaker’s, G. T. Simmons. Plymouth Station, W. B. Moore. Tarboro Station and Mission, D. H. Tuttle Roper City Station, J. T. Finlayson. and J. C. McCall. Columbia Circuit, Henderson Cole. Bethel Circuit, J. C. Jones. Dare Circuit, J. J. Porter. Williamston and Hamilton Station, G. G. Roanoke Island Circuit, J. R. Sawyer. Harley. Kennekeet Circuit, J. A. Rouse. South Edgecombe Circuit, E. C. Glenn. Ocracoke and Hatteras Circuit, N. L. Seabolt. Fremont Circuit, W. W. Rose. Mattamuskeet Circuit, I. A. White. Kenly Circuit, D. A. Watkins. Fairfield Station, C. W. Cain. Smith field Circuit, W. H. Puckett. Swan Quarter Circuit, G. D. Langston. Dunn Circuit, J. D. Pegram. Pantego Circuit, W. Y. Everton. Newton Grove Circuit, J. F. Usrey. Washington Circuit, to be supplied (by W. Clayton Circuit, J. J. Barker. F. Jones). Aurora Circuit, J. E. Bristowe and W. F. W. S. Creasey transferred to the Western Galloway. North Carolina Conference, and stationed Vanceboro* Circuit, to be supplied (by J. W. at Trvon Street, Charlotte. Gurganus). W. A. Wilson transferred to the Westem Conference, and missionary DISTRICT. North Carolina WARRENTON to Japan. S. D. Adams, P. E. F. M. Edwards transferred to the Vir- Warrenton Circuit, Alpheus McCullen; R. ginia Conference, and appointed to Chester- 0. Burton, Sup. field.

NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE.

Held at Cartersville, Ga., December 9-15, 1891.

Bishop Key, President; J. W. Heidt, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Bugg, John R. Lewis, Clayton Quillian,. Answer. Henry M. Harrison, James Walker Henry S. Bradley, Jr., James E. Dickey, Taylor, Joel T. Daves, Jr., Alexander H. S. Henry F. Braham, Lewis A. Green, J. W. F~ North Georgia Conference, 1891.

Gilreath. 11. R. Toombs I)uBose, of class of Congregational Methodist Church; Robert second year, absent on account of sickness, H. Bullock, orders recognized from the Bap- was continued in class of lirst year. tist Church, 0. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? John W. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Quillian, F. W. McCleskev, VV. T. Hunnicutt, dained elders? AV. R. Stilwell, J. L. Ivey, William Murdock, J. P. Burgess, W. R. Ken- J. H. Johnson. 3. T nedy, Felix L. Church, Givens W. Farr, Ques. 16. AY lio are located this year? James E. Russell. 10. John Spier, of class John C. Davidson, at his own request. 1. of third year, absent on account of sickness, Ques. 17. AVho are supernumerary? G. was continued in class of second year. Hughes, E. H. Jones, J. T. Norris, W. T. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. Norman, R. AV. Rogers, J. R. Smith, J. J. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Morgan, B. F. Payne, G. C. Andrews, E. G. Eakes, Augustus A. Til- Murrah, S. D. Clements, J. R. Mayson, A. S. nection? R. Frank t r ly, Arthur B. Pope, John S. Askew, John F. Adams, L. P. Neese, J. AA . Roberts. 15. llavis, Bryan H. Green. 6. Ques. 18. AVho are superannuated? AV. R. Ques. 5" Who are readmitted? Robert L. Branham, N. H. Palmer, R. A. Connor, R. J. Campbell. 1. Harwell, J. M. Bright, W. J. Scott, F. F. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Reynolds, J. AV. Baker, J. Chambers, J. A. from other Conferences? L. H. Green, from Rosser, M. G. Hamby, M. F. Malsby, J. J. the North Alabama Conference; T. R. Mc- Singleton, G. G. Smith, J. M. Armstrong, L. Carty, from the Alabama Conference; J. Rush, T. S. L. Harwell, F. P. Langford, J. L. Ware Brown, from the South Carolina Con- Perryman, M. AV. Arnold, AV. F. Smith, W. ference; C. Evans Pattillo, from the Pacific D. Shea. 22. Conference. 4. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? ing the past year? W. A. Simmons, A. J. J. Lane Ware, Gustavus J. Orr, Fletcher Deavors, J. L. Lupo, AV. AV. Oslin, J. II. Bax- Walton, John F. Tyson, Duncan M. Ed- ter, M. H. AVhite, J. B. C. Quillian, E. T. wards, John W. Bailey, Beverly P. Allen, Hendrick, Eli Smith, AV. H. Potter. 9.

Arthur S. Harris, Simeon W. Rogers, Ander- j son C. Cantrell. 10. ip William Asbury Simmons, one of the pur- Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are est and saintliest of all our brethren, was ^elected deacons? Arthur B. Pope. 1. Hen- born March 17, 1823; and fell asleep in Jesus ry R. Davies, orders recognized from the M. December 16. 1890. He was the son of Rev. Church. John and Eliza Simmons, and grandson of E. ^\ Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- James Simmons, who moved from North

dained deacons? Autliur B. Pope. 1. ; Carolina to Hancock, Ga., in 1782. His an- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected cestry were deeply pious. His father—for deacons? Pitchford P. Manning, Joseph E. many years a member of the old Georgia Duren, Joel E. Coney, Isaac C. West, Robert Conference—lived at Oxford until the grad- P. Neal, John AV. Gober, Thomas J. Turner, 1 uation of his sons—James N., AViliiam A., Wallace R. Kennedy, Andrew J. Hutchison, and John C. His mother was the purest Elijah P. Paden, James A. Park, M. T. Mc- type of a Christian character, and devoted Gee, M. R. Hughes, B. D. Cook, H. D. Hutch- to her children. At the call of the Church ison, J. C. Edmondson. 16. she blessed and sent forth her two youngest Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- boys—AViliiam A. and John C—as mission- dained deacons? P. P. Manning, J. E. Du- aries to California in 1851. AViliiam had ren, J. E. Coney, I. C. West, R. P. Neal, T. been preaching since his graduation, in 1844, J. Turner, W. R. Kennedy, A. J. Hutchison, in the mountains and southwestern part of E. P. Paden, J. A. Park, M. R. Hughes, M. T. Georgia. He preached in California to the McGee, B. D. Cook, H. D. Hutchison, J. C. rough, impulsive miners for nearly three Edmondson, J. W. Gober. 16. years. His health failing, he returned to Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are (Georgia. While in California he married elected elders? Walter B. Dillard, Ford Mc- Miss Georgia B. Coles, daughter of Dr. Coles, Ree, William S. Stevens, John R. Speck, of Boston, Mass., who was herself engaged William L. Singleton, Melville S. Williams, in mission work there—a woman highly cul- Christian Benjamin H. Trammell, William F. Colley, tured and a consecrated ; a worthy Jesse M. Owens, Clarence M. Verdel, Loren- helpmate for thirty-five years. They served zo D. Coggin, Henry R. Davies. 12. the Columbus Mission in 1856; she teach- Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- ing the mission school and he preaching visiting. The next year he served dained elders? W. B. Dillard, Ford McRee,, and J. Speck, Singleton, Vineville and Macon City Mission. His W. S. Stevens, R. W. L. , M. S. Williams, B. H. Trammell, W. F. Col- health again failing, he spent 1858-59 in the ley, J. M. Owens, C. M. Verdel, L. D. Cog- North. He was appointed to Sparta in 1860,

gin. 11. . AVest Point in 1861, and from there, in July, chaplain Ques. 14. What local preachers are electedl went to the army in Virginia, as he elders? Albertus W. Smith, William R.. of the Eleventh Georgia Regiment, where afterward Stilwell, James L. Ivey, John H. Johnson.. remained until the surrender. He Cir- M. F. Kinard, orders recognized from thes served the following charges: Calhoun Georgia 78 North Conference, 1891.

euit, Dahlonega District, Oconee (Athens), tion. His work did not cease with his su- Lexington, Acworth, Cave Spring, Newnan perannuation. He probably w-on as many Circuit, Greenville, Norcross, St. Paul (At- souls to Christ during these years as in the lanta). On account of his wife’s health he regular work. If his holy life had accom- i transferred to the South Georgia Confer- plished no other end than to have touched ence in 1880, and served the Attapulgus the heart of the little boy who watered and Circuit two years. Buying a place in Flor- fed his circuit horse at Watkinsville, and ida, he ti-ansferred to that Conference in who is now Bishop Atticus G. Haygood, 1883, and served one year each at Lake Jes- leading the hope of our Church beyond the sup and Indian River Missions. In 1885, at Rockies, it would have been a grandly suc- the solicitation of his old friends in the min- cessful life. But thousands will rise up to istry, he transferred to his old Conference. call him blessed, and many thousands, whose He was no longer effective, but did work in souls received salvation through him, will some of the Atlanta Churches as temporary give joyful welcome into everlasting habi- supply. Last summer and fall he spent in tation. the mountains of North Georgia, preaching . almost every day at the camp and protracted James L. Lupo was born in South Caroli- meetings, and gained flesh and strength and na March died 2, 1821 ; and June 30, 1891, was baptized afresh w ith the Holy Spirit. in Conyers, Ga. Brother Lupo was con- He had hoped to receive an appointment verted in childhood, and joined the Church at the last Conference, but the baptism of when ten years old. He was married four the Spirit wr as not unto continued labor in times. First, to Miss Turnipseed, then to the field, but in preparation for his transla- Miss Leitner, then to Miss Masengill, and tion to his reward and to the company of again to Miss Clemmie C. Gober, who sur- the sanctified hosts above. After the de- vives him. His Conference history is as parture of his dear wife, the year before, he follows: Entering the old Georgia Confer- thought, talked, and preached much of heav- ence in 1856, he served Fulton Circuit in en. She had often said to him: “William, 1859; Cave Spring Circuit, 1860; Carrollton continue to preach as long as you live on Circuit, 1861-62 Campbellton, 1863-64 Pike ; ; “ earth.” He plowed to the end of his row, Circuit, 1865 : Ringgold Circuit, 1866-67 Fay- ; and the angels met him and took him ette Circuit, 1868-70; Morgan Circuit, 1871- home.” He fell asleep while reading his 72; Rock Springs Circuit, 1873; Lincolnton, Bible, r and he aw oke in glory—in the home 1874 ; Morgan Circuit, 1875-76 was Superin- ; of his dear friend, George Webster, of At- tendent of the Orphans’ Home from 1877 to lanta. He left us without saying good-bye, 1882; Oconee Factory Mission, 1883-84; but w7 e know where he has gone. Snapping Shoals Circuit, 1885; and then

superannuate to the time of his death, f Andrew Jackson Deavors was born in Brother Lupo was an industrious, energetic, : Spartanburg District, S. C., May 15, 1814. earnest man, and in the varied experiences He was converted and joined the Church in of his long and honored life vindicated the 1827, in the thirteenth year of his age. In judgment of his brethren in the positions to 1838 he was admitted on trial in the Geor- which he was assigned. His admirable bus- gia Conference, and ordained deacon in 1842 iness and administrative qualities contrib- and elder 1843. He was junior preacher at uted much to the success of the Orphans’ Elberton in 1839, and at Watkinsville in Home during his seven years’ service there. 1840. The Conference records do not give He was a man of decided convictions, tena- the appointments from 1841 to 1850. He cious in his views but well poised, gentle, ; was transferred to the Florida Confer- and conservative. He had the courage of ence in 1842, and returned to the Georgia his convictions, and was true to the views

Conference in 1845 ; served the Factory Mis- of his duty. He was a wise counselor, and sion (Athens) in 1851; Broad River Mis- will be sorely missed by those who knew sion, 1852-53; Jacksonville, 1855; Clayton him best. God led him gently through the Mission, 1856; Carnesville, 1857; Broad Riv- threescore and ten years of allotted life, er Colored Mission, 1858-59; Paulding Mis- and gathered him then into the heavenly sion, 1860; Powder Springs, 1861; Paulding garner, like a shock of corn fully ripe. Mission, 1862-63; Sandtown, 1864; Powder Springs, 1866; supernumerary, 1867-68; su- William W. Oslin, one of the most use- perannuated, 1869-82; supernumerary, 1883; ful and faithful men Georgia Methodism has superannuated, 1884-91. He departed for known, died at Harlem, Ga., April 27, 1891. heaven in Franklin County, Ga., near Al- He wTas born at Culloden, thajt good old len’s Camp Ground, March 7, 1891. “His town which has given so many strong men labors extended from the mountains to the to Georgia, August 29, 1831. He was con- seashore, during a long life of unceasing verted and joined the Methodist Church at toil. Two leading motives influenced him eight years of age. He was married to Miss through life: to make sure of heaven him- Georgia Y. Hickman December 28, 1855, and self and persuade all he could to go with soon after his marriage entered the ministry, him.” In preaching he often got happy, continuing in the ranks of the local preach- and great power came upon his congrega- ers until 1860, when, at the session of the :

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Georgia Conference which met at Augusta, Christ by him. To his gifts as a preacher he was admitted on trial into the traveling was added in uncommon measure the gift connection. He wr as ordained deacon by of song, and this gift was consecrated to God. Bishop Pierce at Columbus in 1858. Hi's With it sinners were subdued and saints name appears the list, followed comforted in great it, on by the the congregation ; by words “ of Alabama,” which indicates that around the family altar and in social life, he was probably licensed to preach in that his household was inspired and his friends State. He was ordained an elder by Bishop edified, and it cheered the dying and con- Pierce at Athens in January, 1865. His soled the bereaved. And now at last the itinerant life embraced more than thirty-one loving husband, the tender father, the faith- years, during all of which time he was on ful minister, the sweet singer, has gone away the effective list, except during the years to the kingdom above to join the multitude 1879-80 and a part of 1891, when he was su- which no man can number before the throne ill perannuated by health ; and 1885, when of the Lamb. he was supernumerary. His appointments were as follows Lawrenceville Circuit, 1861, James Hamilton Baxter was born in ; with James L. Fowler as his junior preach- Gwinnett County, Ga., March 26, 1848. He er; army chaplain, 1863; Alpharetta, 1864; was converted in September, 1868, and joined Monticello, 1865; Monticello and colored the North Georgia Conference that winter at charge, 1866 Muscogee Circuit (in the South Griffin. He was on the Watkinsville Cir- ; Georgia Conference after the division of the cuit in 1869 as junior to Brother R. J. Har- Georgia Conference in 1866), 1867. He trans- well. He served the Little River Circuit in ferred to the North Georgia Conference at 1870-71; Gainesville, 1872-73; Covington, the end of the year 1867. He was appointed 1874; Greenville and Trinity, 1875; New- to Monticello in 1868; Chalybeate Springs nan, 1876-77; Cartersville, 1878; Dalton, and colored charge, 1869; Putnam, with a 1879; Elberton Station, 1880-82; Edgewood, Marietta, junior preacher to be supplied, 1870 ; Put- 1883; 1884-85; Eatonton, 1886; nam Circuit, with J. S. Embry as his junior presiding elder of Elberton District, 1887-91. preacher, 1872; Putnam Circuit, with S. A. His last appointment was that of presiding Mitchell as his junior preacher, 1873; Wat- elder of the Augusta District. He preached kinsville, with W. W. Lumpkin as his junior his last sermon the first Sunday in March preacher, 1874; Watkinsville Circuit, wr ith at Milledgeville, that being his twenty-fifth W. H. Trammell as his junior preacher, sermon on the new district. Soon after be- 1875-76; Watkinsville Circuit, with W. A. ginning his work this year, he was attacked la its Candler as his junior preacher, 1877 ; Ap- with grippe , and never recovered from pling Circuit, with A. W. Quillian as his jun- effects. Every visit that he made to the ior preacher, 1878; superannuated, 1879-80; charges of the district, from the middle of Newr born Circuit, 1881; East Point Circuit, January to his last quarterly meeting early Little River Circuit, Lincolnton in March, took him from a bed of sickness. 1882 ; 1883 ; Circuit, with E. P. Bonner (supply) as his The exposure affected his already disabled junior preacher, 1884; superannuated and throat, causing him to lose his voice, and attached to Harlem Circuit, 1885; Grove- producing such diseased conditions as ren- town Mission, 1886-87 Acworth, Fac- dered his recovery hopeless. On the first ; 1888; tory Mission, in Athens District, 1889 Flow- day of October last, at his home in Decatur, ; ery Branch, 1890. At the last session of the Ga., in the midst of his loving family, “ he North Georgia Conference he was superan- fell on sleep and wr as gathered to his fa.- nuated on account of ill health. Rallying thers.” Brother Baxter was married May somewhat, and desiring to provide for his 9, 1872, to Miss Fannie Thrasher, of Clarke family, he left his home at Harlem last Feb- County, Ga., and they lived together for ruary, and undertook business in Macon. more than nineteen years in the sweetest Of the remaining days his daughter writes companionship. Her gentle, consecrated life “His health continued to decline; but still warmed the fervor of his own, and refined he would not surrender, thinking he would the stronger fiber of his nature. Their chil- improve, until his physicians told him that dren—four in number—rose up to love and he had heart disease and was likely to die bless the counsels and guiding hands of par- at any moment. Then he wrote us saying ents who were agreed and made home happy. that he was coming home right away. Fear- Brother Baxter belonged to a race of heroic ing for him to come alone, Alfred went after lineage. He was descended from Scoteh- him and brought him home. He suffered lrish ancestry, and was manly and brave. greatly, and lived only an hour after he He was a man of one book, and yet he read reached home, though he ate supper and and pondered many books, as comments walked all over the house after he came. and suggestions on the “Book of books.” Hence we had no idea that the end wr as so His sermons were chiefly expository and near, and his death was a great shock to us.” doctrinal. He put his best, mind into his He was a clear, cogent, honest, and fearless pulpit work, and most of it could be printed preacher, whose ministry was always and as uttered. His habit and practice of accu- everywhere beautiful. It is not an overstate- racy were demands of his mental nature. ment to say that thousands were brought to Figures had life for him, and he made them ;

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tell in argument and conclusion. He was a nett, of Columbus, Ga., brought to him the consecrated man. Every movement of his sympathy and encouragement of a devoted soul was toward Christ. He longed for him, wife and opened the way for increased effi- looked for him, waited for him, knew his ciency in his loved employ. Having a great touch and was familiar with the Master’s fondness for the medical profession, he pur- voice. He loved his Lord, and has never sued the studies necessary, and in due time seen an hour since he gave his heart to him received the degree of M.D. His skill as a that he would not willingly have died for physician, as all his gifts, was laid at the him. Brother Baxter was fond of writing Master’s feet, and enabled him to minister for his own improvement, and for the press. to the bodies of men at the same time that His busy pen began early in his ministry, he cared for their souls. His Conference

on his sermons and articles for the Church history is as follows : He entered the Geor- papers. He wrote on many subjects, always gia Conference, and his first appointment well and to the point. In 1885 he prepared was Altamaha Mission in 1835; Lincolnton, and portly St. Tallahas- published a pamphlet on the 1836; Mary’s and Satilla, 1837 ; subject of sanctification. The publication see and Quincy, 1838; Fort Gaines, 1839; was well received, and lips passed through Zebulon Circuit, 1841-42, and at some time several editions. It is well written, and pre- between 1842 and 1851 was appointed pre- sents his views with clearness and ability. siding elder (the records are not perfect); Last year his sermons on Three Dis- Mission, without $4 “The Columbus Factory 1851; pensations ” and “ The Spiritual Life ” wore appointment on account of ill health, 1852; published, and are fine productions. His superannuated, - supernumerary, 1853 59 ; style is terse and logical, and his produc- 1860-66 ; Culloden, 1867 ; Greenville, 1868 tions may be read and reread with profit. superannuated, 1869—70; Thomaston, 1871- As Conference Secretary, during the past six 72; transferred to the South Georgia Con- ears, he achieved a record of high rank, ference and appointed to Camilla, 1873; aving been repeatedly commended by the Camilla, 1874; transferred to the North General Conference as keeping a journal of Georgia Conference, and superannuated, rare excellence. He was patient and kind 1874; Whiteside, 1876-77; Grantville, 1878- in his official intercourse with his brethren, 80; superannuated, 1881-91. Thus it ap- and never lost an opportunity of doing them pears that his ministn7 embraced a period every possible kindness. He was a secre- of nearly sixty years, and extended over tary of secretaries. He died as he had lived the entire State, from the seaboard to the —full of confidence in God. He did not mountains. It had in it all the variety of doubt for one moment. He believed that work the system affords, short of the gener- his conversion entered him into God’s king- al superintendency. He was junior preach- life er, circuit dom. and at death the begun continues, then preacher in charge ; preach- expanding into rich completeness. He often er, station preacher, and presiding elder. “ said : Eternal life is the life, after all. This He was supernumerary for awhile, and I life is given that we may secure that.” In when literally worn out, took a superan- whispered words which can never be for- nuated relation. In this relation he passed gotten he said to the writer a day or two be- the last decade of his life, ripening and mel- fore his death, when he knew he was in lowing for his translation. The good people sight of the pearly gate: “I shall not die. of Grantville loved him as children love a I shall live forever; for ‘whosoever liveth father. The preachers on the circuits, and and believeth in me shall never die.’ I the presiding elders on the districts, gath- have not been or done all that I might have, ered immeasurable helpfulness in their work but Christ is my all in all, and I shall soon from association with him. He was always be with him in his glory.” And so he passed ready to preach, when his health permitted, away, and is even now with the Lord. and the calls for his services in the contigu- ous pulpits far exceeded the limits of his Miller H. White was born October 17, ability to meet them. On his deathbed he 1813; and died at Grantville, Ga., April 23, said: “I had prepared some new sermons, < r 1891, in the seventy-eighth 3 ear of his age. and wanted to preach them, but if my Lord Converted to God in early life, he was little says it is enough, I am content;” and then “ more than a youth when he began the he- added : I would not live always, I ask not roic life of the “rifle, ax, and saddlebags.” to stay. All is well.” His end was peace. Honored of God with marked usefulness He sleeps in £he little cemetery at Grant- and rare pulpit power, his days were many, ville, by the side of his faithful wife, who, when, in the ripeness of mellow age, he was for nearly fifty years, had been the cheerful summoned from the ranks of the veterans companion of his toilsome pilgrimage, but to the rewards of glory. He was one of the who had entered into rest a short while last survivors of the noble band of Metho- before him. Six children survive to cher- dist itinerants who organized circuits in ish the memory of one of the kindest, most Georgia which are now districts, and trav- devoted fathers that ever lived. eled districts whose territory now includes a whole Annual Conference. His marriage, J. B. C. Quillian was born in Habersham d September 30, 1841, with Miss Sarah Ben- County, Ga., October 27, 1824. When quite ;

North Georgia Conference, 1891. 81 a little boy be was converted, and joined only one purpose—that of fidelity to the the Methodist Church. At the age of sev- trust reposed in him. He died at his post, enteen he was licensed to preach, and ad- laying down his life as a sacrifice to the mitted on trial into the Georgia Conference cause he loved so well. A good man has in 1845. He was married most happily to gone from us—one true and tried, pure and Miss Elizabeth J. Causey, October 11, 1840. faithful—and his “ works do follow him.” In his home at Douglasville, Ga., he sweetly fell asleep May 29, 1891. Brother Quillian’s Eli Smith was born in Jackson County, first charge was the Waynesboro Circuit. Ga., and was about forty-three years old at After that he served successfully the Elber- the time of his death. His parents were ton and Cassville Circuits, which at that religious, and at an early age he joined the time included Rome, Cave Spring, and Ce- Church to which he gave his life. He was dartown Powder Spring Circuit, Blairsville received on trial in the North Georgia Con- ; Mission, and Franklin Circuit. On the last- ference, November 27, 1872; ordained a dea- named work his health gave way and he con by Bishop Wightman in 1874; and an was superannuated, which relation he sus- elder by Bishop Pierce in 1876. He served tained at the time of his death. Brother Clayton Mission in 1873; Pike Circuit, 1874; Quillian was a man of rare character and Cleveland, 1875-76; Roswell, 1877; Blairs- endowments. Never of robust frame, and ville, 1878; Waleeca, 1879; Danielsville, 1880 forced to take special precautions as to his -81; Dawsonville, 1882; Ringgold, 1883; health through the greater part of his life, Clarkesville, 1884-85; Homer, 1886; Beth- he yet found time and opportunity to preach, lehem, 1887-88; Fairmount, 1889; Coosa visit, and write in the interests of the Circuit, 1890; Ringgold, 1891. These nine- Church. His preaching, his frequent con- teen appointments were faithfully served, tributions to the religious press, and his with the exception of Coosa in 1890. Ow- books gave evidence of a mind rich in spiring to the condition of his health, he was itual and poetic material, and of that high permitted to rest. From a record in his order which commands the closest atten- Bible, I find that he received one thousand tion, while it affords the purest pleasure. nine hundred and fifty-one persons into the As his life lengthened out in the peaceful Methodist Church, or a little over one hun- retirement of his happy home, he came dred annually. At the time of his death nearer and nearer to the hearts of his neigh- thirty-three had joined the Church on the bors and friends. He was their counselor Ringgold Circuit. This w^as the least num- and comforter in times of distress and pre- ber that he had ever received. On the Ros- plexity; married their children and buried well Circuit he received two hundred and their dead. His conversation truly was in sixty-one. His annual salary ran from $34 heaven, and death was to him only a transi- to $575. Most of the years in these nine- tion to a happier and holier state. teen he received less than $400. He wae twice married. His first wife was Miss Hat- E. T. Hendrick was born in Warren Coun- tie Trimble, of Bartow County. They wr ere ty, Ga., November 21, 1856. He was power- married December 23, 1879. She died De- r fully converted when about fourteen years cember 7, 1889. His second w ife was Miss of age. He was licensed to preach in 1876, Helen Trimble. They were married Octo- and admitted on trial into the North Geor- ber 24, 1890. He leaves two children by his gia Conference in 1880. In 1883 he was first wife. He preached his last sermon on happily married to Miss Georgia Lovingood, August 30, 1891, at Boynton’s, on the Ring- who, with four children, survives him. His gold Circuit. One distinguishing character- death occurred at Thomaston, Ga., August 1, istic of Brother Smith was his power over 1891. His Conference history is as follows: men. Without seeming effort or intention Lavonia Circuit (as supply), 1880; Franklin he led and controlled them. In addition to Springs Mission, Etowah Mission, 1882; his gifts and unction as a preacher, he had 1881 ; Hiwassee Mission, 1883; Salt Springs Mis- that rare wisdom of knowing just how' to sion, 1884; Etowall Circuit, 1885; Morgan- bring the penitent soul to Christ. He town Mission, 1886; Tilton Mission, 1887; worked to the close of life, preaching on Fairmount Circuit, Circuit, the Sunday before his death on the Saturday 1888 ; Coosa 1889 Upson Mission, 1890-91. This list of ap- following. On September 5, at 4 o’clock in pointments tells of a life of hard work with the afternoon, after talking triumphantly little pay. But it tells yet more emphatic- of a crown and kingdom, the chariot of his ally of a life consecrated to Christ and his Lord called for him. He stepped within, Church. Brother Hendrick’s endowments and was borne into the mansions of bliss.

for this work were : A body of unusual size and vigor, a clear, wrell -balanced mind, a Weyman H. Potter was born in Laurens will which faltered at no difficulties, and a County, S. C., April 11, 1828. He was con- faith which took hold upon Christ and his veiled to God at the early age of twT elve word like the heart of a little child. He years, at Salem Camp Ground. In 1851 he was a man of sweet and gentle nature, pa- was married to Miss Sarah Betterson, and tient and earnest, asking only the privilege this happy union continued for nearly forty of serving the Church of his Lord; and wfith years, during which time five children were 6 82 North Georgia Conference, 1891. born unto them. His second marriage was the Holston Conference sick, he passed into to Mrs. Georgia S. Bray in 1890. Dr. Better’s the heavens after a short illness in the bo- Conference history is as follows: He joined som of his family at his home, in Austell^ the Georgia Conference in 1853, and was Ga. A mighty man and prince in Israel sent to Cuthbert in 1854-55; Andrew Fe- has fallen. His end was peace. male College, 1856; Hamilton, 1857; Trinity Church (Savannah), 1858-59; Rome, 1860; Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in St. John, 1861-62; Georgia Relief Hospital their life and official administration? Their Association, 1863-65; St. John (Augusta), names were called over, one by one, and 1866. 'He was presiding elder of the Au- their characters examined and passed, ex- gusta District, 1867-70; Atlanta District, cept that of I. M. Blanton, who wr as expelled 1871-74; Athens District, 1875-78; La for immorality. Grange District, 1879-81; Rome Station, Ques. 21. AVhat is the number of local 1882. In the left early part of 1882 he preachers and members in the several cir- Rome to take the editorial chair of the cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Wesleyan Christian Advocate, and continued ence? in this position during 1883-89. He was Missionary Secretary in 1890-91, until his Athens District. valuable and honored life closed at Austell, Mem- Loc’l’ Ga., October 11, 1891. The early years of bers. Pr's. this gifted and distinguished man gave First Clmrclv 593 4 promise of the rich endowments which un- Oconee Street...'..... 354 2: ceasingly unfolded and enlarged to the close Factory Mission 279 1 Athens Circuit 387 of his life. In 1849 he graduated at Emory Watkinsville 490 a College with the highest honors of his class. Winterville 4(58 i His brain power was ponderous and mass- 292 i W ood stock ive, so that his acquired learning was 24(5 grounded upon foundations of extraordi- Green Circuit 315 nary strength. As a preacher his great White Plains * 383 2 Norwood 507 a mind grasped the fundamental truths of Washington 197 the word of God, and his sermons mani- 523 2 fested the genius of keenest analysis and Little River 370 3 Jefferson Mission 212 2 clearest exegesis. In preaching he usually began calmly, advanced steadily, gathering 5,693 24 step by step related truths to his main North Atlanta District. theme, until the side lights were all con- 1,310 ft verged into the focal blaze of his thought, 600 2 1 which now shone upon his audience a sun- Merritt’s Avenue 157 4 burst of brilliancy and power. There were Hendrix Mission 331 1 times when he preached with such wonder- 141 530 2 ful unction as to bear his hearers completely 458 4 aloft with him, sweeping everything in the 507 4 spiritual current of his mighty baptismal 540 & W'oodstock 401 3 tide. At Trinity Church, Atlanta, a great 410 3 sermon by him, on Missions, confirmed the 335 a heart of Miss Laura Haygood in a determi- 359 1 152 4 nation to go as missionary to China. As a 165 1 presiding elder he wT as esteemed in the cab- 318 2 inet, as well as by his brethren in his dis- 344 2 203 1 wisest, tricts, one of the tenderest, most Powder Springs 555 1 faithful and successful officers of the Church. He was many times elected to the General 8,219 49 South Atlanta District. Conference; was a delegate to the first Ecu- menical Conference (London); also to the 1.045] ft 753 ft at r as Presi- second, Washington, D. C. He w St. Paul’s.... 654 a dent of the Board of Trustees of the AVes- 390 i leyan Female College, and a member of the 270 2 279 2 Board of Trustees of Emory College. In ed- 584 2 iting the Wesleyan Christian Advocate for eight 426 years, he kept our Church organ in the fore- Palmetto and Faii’burn 309 1 Palmetto Circuit 508 3 front of all the grand religious movements 208 of the times. His writings w’ere always 540 1 fresh and strong. When made Missionary 413 4 436 r Secretary, those w ho knew him felt that his 240 long study of the mission fields, and advo- Morrow’s Station 491 2 cacy of the cause made him in this depart- 521 1 584 2 ment “the chariot of” our “Israel, and the horsemen thereof.” Returning home from 8,651 36 S

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St. John Logansville St. James Gwinnett 69, 4 Asburv Jug Tavern 482 5 St. Luke Monroe 536 1 Broad Street Flowery Branch. 458 4 Richmond Dawson ville 511 7

Grovetown , Appling 8,145 52 Harlem Thomson Griffin District. Mesena Griffin 465 Warren ton Milner 505 4 Culve'rton Orchard Hill 294 Sparta Zebylon 650 Hancock Barnesville 370 1 Mission... 341 2 Milledgeville .... Upson Baldwin The Rock 350 1 South Baldwin Thomaston 207 Culloden 258 Forsyth 231 Forsyth Circuit. 431 1 Datdonega District. West Monroe 368 3 Dahlonega 236 4 Senoia 5891 3 Lumpkin Mission 348 2 Turin 4751 2 Cleveland , 1,055 11 Jonesboro 402' Clayton 351 Hampton 442 1 Towns County Mission 248 Concord 210 Blairsville 479 Morgantown 251 6,588 18 Ellijay 294 Jasper 184 1 La Grange 469! 2 522 3,446 28 238' Dalton District. 545 2 Dalton 394 4 425 Dalton Circuit- 463 3 739 Spring Place ... 372 1 338 Cohutta 400 1 240 2 Tunnel Hill 254 2 550 2 Ringgold 390 1 Chipley 337 3 Chiekamauga.. 293 4 Pine Mountain 169 1 Kensington 385 1 396 Lafayette 568 2 274' 1 Subligna 414 4 532 Summerville ... 740 2 241 1 Floyd Springs., 389 Bowden 685 4 Calhoun 914 5 347 5 Adairsville 516 5 West Heard 213 I Fairmount 737 4 Whitesburg 377 Tilton 345 2 Kingston 593 1 7,637 23 Oxford District. 8,167 42 Oxford 1 840 23 District. Elberton Covington SOS Elberton 394 2 Conyei-s 471 3 Bethlehem 451 2 Lithonia 707 2 757 3 Clarkston 40< 1 628 Decatur 155 1 49S 3 Social Circle.... 347 Carnesville 633 4 Newborn 54J 3 Lavonia Shady Dale 39^ 2 1 Toccoa 287 Monticello 379 Clarkes ville 192 1 Madison 180 .... Cornelia 325 Rutledge 160 240 3 Eatonton 17- Daniclsville 440 East Putnam.. 528 2*

Jefferson 444 5 West Putnam. 398 ; Harmony Grove 782 1 Hillsboro 844 Lincolnton 317 Morgan 444 1 Homer 655 4 Ocmulgee 1* I Clinton.... 35f .j 7,498 29

i 39 Gainesville District. 7,205 j j District. Gainesville 619 6 Rome Mvrtle Street 125 3 First Church 810! 4 Gainesville Circuit 409 4 Second Church 3231 S Hall Circuit 454 8 City Mission 11)7 329 2 Forestville 806! 6: Chestatee 361 1 Coosa Circuit 372 Alpharetta 483 1 Cave Spring 18S) Roswell 600 4 Cave Spring Circuit. . 48 9 11 Norcross 768 4 Cedartown 37 1 31 Lawrence ville 25( 1 Rock Mart 2£17 North Gwinnett 36C 1 Polk Mission 4(X) 3 Snellville 281 1 Dallas ..) 4

34. shall the next session of Rome District ( Continued). Ques. Where the Conference be held? Madison, Ga. bers. Pr’s. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- East Paulding 185 tioned this year? Paulding Mission... 208 Villa Rica 500 ATHENS DISTRICT.' Hickory Level 628 4 410 10 Buchanan Mission . H. H. Parks P. E. Tallapoosa 180 4 , Carters ville 495 6 Athens: First Church, T. R. Kendall.

6,9001 50 Oconee Street, T. O. Rorie. Recapitulation. Factory, H. W. Morris. Athens District.. 5.693 24 Athens Circuit, C. A. Conaway. North Atlanta u 8.219 49 Watkinsville, E. B. Rees. “ 8.651 36 South Atlanta Winterville, E. K. Akin E. G. Murrah, Sup. Augusta “ 7.910 25 ; Dahlonega “ 3,446 28 Lexington, E. A. Gray. “ Dalton 8,167 42 Woodstock, J. C. Sorrow, supply. Elberton “ 7,498 29 Greensboro, J. J. Ansley. 'Gainesville “ 8,145 52 Gi’itlin “ 6,588 18 Green, F. W. McCleskey. “ La Grange 7.637 23 White Plains, J. B. Allen. Oxford “ 7.205 39 Norwood, J. B. Holland. Rome “ 6,900 50 Washington, H. S. Bradley. Total this year. 86,059 415 Broad River, A. J. Hughes. Total last year 81.112 411 Little River, Crawford Jackson. 4,947 IT. M. Harrison. Increase i Apalachee, DISTRICT. Ques. 22. How many infants have been NORTH ATLANTA baptized during the year? 1,846. J. W. Heidt, P. E. Ques. 23. How many adults have been B. Robins; J. W. baptized during the year? 3,922. Atlanta: First Church, J. Sup. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Roberts, S. R. Belk. schools? 710. Payne’s Chapel, McCleskey. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Grace, J. R. Hopkins. school teachers? 5,257. Merritt’s Avenue, 1. S. A. Parks. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Hendrix, W. J. R. Smith, Sup. school scholars? 45,960. Edgewood. J. M. White; F. Colley; J. R. Mason, Sup. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Epworth, W. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Fulton, F. P. Brown. ows and orphans of preachers? $18,000. Marietta, H. J. Ellis. Caldwell. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Acworth, W..T. Smith J. A. Burtz, supply. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Cobb, F. R. ; plied? $15,484.56. Applied to claimants. Woodstock, S. D. Evans. Sullivan, supply; and James Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Toonigh, J. N. Missions? Foreign Missions, $19,039.62; Do- W. Taylor, Jr. mestic Missions, $8,606.03. Total, $27,646.65. Canton, J. H. Little. Daves, Jr. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Walesca. J. T. Moon. Church Extension? $4,419.74. Douglasville, J. L. Arthur S. Harris. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Lithia Springs, Edmondson. Is the estimated value, of church edifices? Austell, L. H. Powder Springs, W. P. Rivers. Number, 737* ; value, $1,053,825. Christian Advocate, V . F. Glenn, Ques. 32. What is the Humber, and what Wesleyan Is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Editor. Secretary, H. C. Morrison. ber, 147 value, $207,178. Missionary ; of Technology, I. S. Hop- Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Georgia School tics? Emory College: Teachers, 15; stu- kins, President. H. L. Crumley, Agent. dents, 279; endowment, $200,000; value of Orphans’ Home, College, C. E. Pattillo, property, $125,000. Wesleyan Female Col- Reinhardt Normal lege: Teachers, 18; students, 306: endow- President. Society, C. E. Evans, Agent. ment, $50,000; value of property, $250,000. Preachers’ Aid Da Grange Female College: Teachers, 17; DISTRICT. property, $75,000. SOUTH ATLANTA students, 207 ; value of Dalton Female College: Teachers, 10: stu- E. Thomas F. Pierce , P. dents, 135; value of property, $4,000. Rein- Atlanta: Trinity, Walker Lewis. hardt Normal College : Teachers, 5: students, Street. J. R. King. 212; value of property, $5,000. Piedmont In- Walker value of St. Paul, W. T. Bell. stitute : Teachers, 7 ; students, 200 ; J. W. Lee. property, $10,000. Georgia Female College: Park Street, Side, W. P. Smith. Value of property, $8,000. Young L. G. Asbury and West Cary. Harris College: Value of property, $11,000. St. John, C. C. North Georgia Conference, 1891. 85

East Point, C. V. Weathers. Mt. Zion, N. A. Parsons, supply. Bolton, J. M. Owens; B. F. Payne, Sup. Fairmount, E. M. Stanton. Palmetto and Fairburn, T. A. Seals; L. P. Calhoun, W. T. Hamby. Neese, Sup. Adairsville, F. S. Hudson. Palmetto Circuit, W. C. Fox. Resaca and Tilton, John D. Pope, supply. Jackson, J. H. Eakes. Floyd Springs, William Murdock. Fayetteville, John Speir. Subligna, L. D. Coggin. Inman, M. Verdel. Summerville, George W. Griner W. C. Sam- C. ; Flovilla, J. M. Tumlin. pler, supply. Jenkinsburg, R. A. Eakes, supply. La Fayette and Trion, F. Walton. Morrow’s Station, E. C. Marks. Chickamauga, R. R. Johnson. McDonough, J. E. Rosser. Kensington, W. R. Kennedy. Snapping Shoals, D. C. Brown. Ringgold, H. M. Newton. Conference Colporter, W. A. Dodge. Tunnel Hill, J. W. Gober, supply. Kingston, J. E. England. AUGUSTA DISTRICT. Dalton Female College, G. J. Orr, President. George W. Yarbrough P. E. , ELBERTON DISTRICT. Augusta: St. John, W. W. Wadsworth. J. F. Mixon, P. E. St. James, W. F. Quillian. Asbury, J. W. G.Watkins. Alberton, W. L. Wootten. St. Luke, B. E. L. Timmons. Bethlehem, L. M. Lyle. Street, B. F. Bowman, F. D. Cantrell W. T. Norman, Sup. Broad Fraser. ; Richmond, J. I). Milton. Hartwell, J. Ware Brown. Grovetown, R. Toombs DuBose. Rovston, J. M. Sewell. Apjding, A. D. Echols. Carnesville, R. B. 0. England. Harlem, H. L. Embrv; A. S. Adams, Sup. Lavonia, M. D. Smith. Thomson, A. W. Williams. Toccoa, B. P. Allen. Mesena, J. T. Curtis. Avalon, W. A. Cooper, supply. Warrenton, W. T. Irvine. Danielsville, N. E. McBreyer. Culverton, G. W. Thomas. Jefferson, George T. King. Sparta, E. R. Cook. Harmony Grove, W. R. Branham, Jr. Hancock, A. G. Worley and John R. Lewis. Lincolnton, Sanford I^eake. Milledgeville, A. C. Thomas. Mayesville, W. M. D. Bond. Baldwin, J. V. M. Morris. South Baldwin, F. L. Church. GAINESVILLE DISTRICT. Missionary to Japan, S. Shaw. J. T. Gibson, P. E. Asylum Chaplain, T. H. Gibson. Paine Institute, R. L. Campbell, Professor. Gainesville, M. L. Underwood. Myrtle Street and Pendergrass, L. P.Winter. DAHLONEGA DISTRICT. Hall Circuit, S. H. Braswell, supply. Flowr erv Branch, J. A. Sewell. M. J. Cofer, P. E. Buford, W. A. Fariss. A. B. Pope G. Hughes, Sup. Chestatee, I. G. Davis, supply. Dahlonega, ; Lumpkin, W. L. Singleton. Cumming, H. M. Strozier. Cleveland, N. C. Ledford, supply. Jug Tavern, C. S. Owens. Clayton, W. A. Simmons, supply, and Clay- Gwinnett, W. R. Stilwell, supply. ton Quillian. Lawrenceville and Suwanee, S. B. Led- J. II. Ellis, better. Towns, C. C. Spence ; supply. Blairsville, T. C. Hughes, supply, and F. R. Logansville, J. F. Balis. Seaborn, supply. Monroe, W. B. Dillard. Morganton, J. C. Atkinson, supply. Snellville, F. A. Ragsdale, supply. Ellijay, W. T. Hunnicutt. Norcross, J. W. Quillian. Jasper, Ford McRee. Alpharetta, J. L. Ware. Dawsonville, G. W. Farr. •Roswell, T. F. McCarty. Belton, A. C. Cantrell. Clarksville, A. H. S. Bugg ; Robert McClure, supply. Mossy Creek Academy, H. R. Davies. GRIFFIN DISTRICT. Young L. G. Harris College, C. C. Spence, J. S. Bryan, P. E. President. Griffin, B. H. Sasnett. DALTON DISTRICT. Griffin Mission, C. C. Davis, supply. Milner, O. B. Quillian. W. C. Dunlap P. E. , Orchard Hill, L. II. Green. Dalton, A. W. Quillian. Zebulon, S. R. England. Dalton Circuit, J. R. Speck. Barnesville. H. J. Adams. Cohutta, Thomas J. Turner, supply. Upson, J. W. Bailey. Spring Place, J. N. Myers. The Rock, W. G. Hanson. \

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Thoraaston, D. J. Myrick. Madison, S. P. Richardson. Cnlloden, R. A. Seale. Rutledge, J. L. Ivey, supply. Forsyth, J. M. Bowden. Eatonton, J. A. Timmerman. Forsyth Circuit, R. P. Martyn. East Putnam, H. M. Quillian. Rogers, Sup. West Putnam, W. Dunbar. West Monroe, B. Sanders ; R. W. Senoia, T. H. Timmons. Morgan, C. L. Pattillo. supply. Turin, W. J. Cotter. Ocmulgee, H. M. Newton, Jonesboro, W. M. Winn. Clinton, M. H. Edwards: J. J. Morgan, Sup. Hampton, B. H. Trammell. Emory College, W. A. Candler, President; Magath, Concord, Robert Hamlin, supply. M. Calloway, J. S. Moore, Julius Henry S. Bradley, Jr., J. E. Dickey, Pro- LA GRANGE DISTRICT. fessors. W. F. Cook, P. E. ROME DISTRICT. La Grange, W. D. Anderson. W. P. Lovejoy, P. E. and Factory, W. H. Speer. Troup Rome: First Church, W. W. Bays. West Point, W. R. Foote. Second Church, George W. Duval. West Point Circuit, J. S. Embry. City Mission, C. A. Jamison. Hogansville, J. T. I^owe and P. A. Heard. Forestville, T. S. Edwards. W. Rrinsfield. Grantville, W. Coosa, W. B. Austin. Newnan, F. G. Hughes. Cave Spring, W. S. Stevens. Coweta and Pierce Chapel, J. S. North Cave Springs Circuit, J. E. Rorie. r Askew . Cedartowm, J. T. Daves; J. T. Norris, Sup. Chipley,T. J. Christian; one to be supplied. Cedartown Circuit, T. J. Edwards; J. D. Trinity, J. M. Lowry S. D. Greenville and ; Turner, supply. Sup. Clements, Rock Mart, R. F. Eakes; R. H. Jones, Sup. Meriwether, J. S. L. Sappington. Dallas, W. J. Wood. Woodbury, E. H. Wood. East Paulding. J. E. Russell. Carrollton, J. R. Parker. Paulding, C. E. Dowdell, supply. Whitesburg, A. Lester. Villa Rica, M. S. Williams. Roopville, J. P. Burgess. Hickorv Level, S. W. Rogers. Bowden, W. E. Tarpley. Buchanan, J. C. Edmondson, supply; J. M. Hamilton; G. C. Andrews, Franklin, W. T. Crowe, supply. Sup. Tallapoosa, W. F. Robison. Heard, W. L. Davenport, supply. West Cartersville, J. H. Mashburn. Female College, H. M. Smith, La Grange Piedmont Institute, E. W. Ballenger, Prin- Professor. cipal. OXFORD DISTRICT. Orphans’ Home, S. P. Jones, Agent.

R. J. Bigham, P. E. J. W. McCrary transferred to the Indian Oxford, M. H. Eakes and W. A. Candler. Mission Conference. Covington, R. W. Bigham. Henry F. Branham, B. H. Green, D. M. A. Conyers, M. H. Dillard. Edwards, J. F. Davis, J. J. N. Kenney, L. and J. W. F. Gilreath Lithonia, J. W. Stipe. Green, John F. Tyson, Pacific Conference. Clarkeston. J. A. Reynolds. transferred to the Los Ange- Decatur, P. M. Rybiirn. A. A. Tilley transferred to the Social Circle, J. T. Richardson. les Conference. transferred to the South- Newborne, J. H. Daniel. A. B. Weaver stationed at Shady Dale, T. J. Warlick. west Missouri Conference, and Monticello, 0. C.' Simmons. Benton.

j Louisiana 87 Conference, 189L

LOUISIANA CONFERENCE.

- Held at Alexandria, La., December 16 21 1891 . ,

Bishop Keener, President; John T. Sawyer, Secretary.

Question 1 . Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? E. B. Answer. Samuel S. Bogan, James Russell Galloway, A. M. Wailes, Walter Dunstan, Roy, Noel B. Norwood, John B. Kent, C. R. Christian Keener. 4. Seward, William D. Gaskins, William A. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? J. H. Richardson. 7. Stone, P. H. Diffenweirth, Jesse Fulton, E. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? James W. Yancey, George Jackson, R. S. Trippett, Matthew Henry, in class of second year; E. B. Foust, J. L. Wright, M. C. Manly. 9. Benjamin H. Sheppard, William F. Sanders, Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Henry M. Banks, H. W. Knickerbocker, E. ing the past year? John Pipes, B. F. Alex- T. Denson, in class of first year. 6. ander. 2. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Richard M. Walker, at his own request. 1. John Pipes was born in Ouachita Parish, Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- La., February 21, 1818. In his boyhood the nection? Henry Herman Ahrens, Isaac T. church services of the neighborhood were Reames, William George Evans, William held at his father’s house. He was con- Schulhle, Charles E. McDonald, Ewel L. Sin- verted October 14, 1840, while on his way geltary. 6. to a camp meeting near Minden, La., at Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. which place he was received into the Church Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer by Rev. Richmond Randle. In 1842 he re- from other Conferences? E. B. Galloway, ceived license to exhort from Rev. Edwin from the Little Rock Conference; John Phillips, pastor of the Ouachita Circuit. In White Davis, from the Texas Conference. 2. 1843 he was licensed to preach by the Quar- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? terly Conference, where Rev. D. M. Wiggins, John F. Foster, Thomas L. Lallance, George presiding elder, presided, and was admitted E. Greene, A. D. McVoy, Jr., Charles F. on trial into the Mississippi Conference at Staples, James E. Riddle, Walter Dunston, Woodville, at the close of this year, and James J. Kelly. 8. was sent to Caddo Circuit as junior preacher Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are with Rev. P. M. Goodwyn. In 1844 Bishop elected deacons? Isaac T. Reames, William Janes, who presided at the Conference con- G. Evans, William Schulhle, Charles E. Mc- vened at Port Gibson, sent him to Monroe Donald. 4. Circuit as junior preacher with Rev. R. M. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Crowson. He was ordained deacon by dained deacons? I. T. Reames, W. G. Evans, Bishop Soule at New Orleans in 1845, and W. Schulhle. C. E. McDonald. 4. was sent to the East Feliciana Circuit as Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected junior preacher with Rev. Thomas Clinton. deacons? John M. Nelson, Henry C. Mur- In January, 1847, he was present at the or- phy, George W. Bruce, Thomas J. Martin, ganization of the Louisiana Conference, and Wilson Lumpkin Hamil, James Matthew wr as sent to Andrew" Chapel, in New Orleans. Henry. 6. At the next Conference, which met at Min- Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- den, Bishop Paine ordained him elder, and •dained deacons? J. M. Nelson, II. C. Mur- sent him to the Preston Colored Mission, phy, G. W. Bruce, T. J. Martin, W. L. Hamil, which work he served three years (1848-50). J. M. Henry. > 6. In 1851 he was sent to the Chicot Circuit; Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are 1852, Milliken’s Bend; 1853-54, Mansfield elected elders? W. J. Porter, J. B. Williams, and Pleasant Hill; 1855, Homer Circuit; C. B. Carter, C. M. Lyons, James E. Densen, 1S56-57, Bastrop; 1858-60, Shreveport Dis- W. H. Hill. 6. trict, as presiding elder; 1861-62, Pleasant Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Hill Circuit; 1863-65 (as a war measure), dained elders? W. J. Porter, ,T. B. Williams, Natchitoches Mission; 1866-69, Mansfield C. P>. Carter, C. M. Lyons, J. E. Densen, W. Circuit; 1870-73, Shreveport District; 1874- H. Hill. 6. 77, De Soto Circuit; 1878-81, Logansport Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Mission 1882-83, Caddo Circuit; Grand ; 1884, •elders? None. Cane Circuit. At the Conference in Min- Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- den in January, 1885, Brother Pipes, in a very

• dained elders ? None. affecting talk, asked to be placed upon the Ques. 16. Who are located this year? J. superannuated list, which was done with re- 1L Calloway. 1. gret to all. From that time on he lived for d

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heaven, and as far as he was able worked of his native town. He was converted at for the good of his fellows. In 1849 he was home in March, 1849, and received into full married to Miss Harriet Postell Shaffer, who Church membership in December of the- bore to him four children, and who, for over same year, but had served as Superintend- forty-two years, was a helpmate worthy of ent of the Sunday school and class leader such a man. Brother Pipes was a man of since June previous. He was licensed to the most transparent character. His sim- exhort in 1850, and to preach on Scottsville plicity was very marked. His integrity of Circuit by Rev. N. H. Lee, presiding elder. purpose was above question. His earnest- He was admitted on trial into the Louisville ness in work was rarely equaled. His love Conference in September, 1852, at Louisville, for his friends was beautiful to see. His de- Ky., and sent as junior preacher to Hop- votion to the Church was never excelled. kinsville Circuit and South Christian Mis- His quietness of manner was most striking. sion, but in February, 1853, was placed in His preaching was fervent, practical, and charge of the mission for the remainder of pathetic. His administration of discipline the year. In 1853 he was sent to Rumsey was loving and judicious. His purity of Circuit, but returned home after the first life was a most attractive exhibition of the quarter on account of failing health. He powT er of divine grace. He loved God and was admitted into full connection in 1854; worshiped him most devotedly. He loved ordained deacon by Bishop Paine, and trans- and ap- men and wrought diligently for their phys- ferred to the Louisiana Conference ; ical, mental, and moral improvement. Lou- pointed by Rev. Dr. Keener to take charge isiana Methodism has received much from of Thibodeaux Station. In 1855 he served the life and work of her loved and loving New7 Iberia Circuit; 1856, Opelousas Cir- son, Rev. John Pipes. For several years cuit, and at the close of the year was or- Brother Pipes has been in a low state of dained elder by Bishop Kavanaugh at Wa- health. He went on a visit to his daughter terproof, La. In 1857 he served the New in the early summer, in hopes that a more Orleans Circuit, and during the year the Al- bracing climate would recover him suffi- giers Church was built and paid for, and the ciently to enable him to meet his brethren Cadiz Street Church, of which St. Charles once more in Conference. This wTas the Avenue Church is the successor, was begun. great desire of his heart, expressed in a let- From 1858 to 1860 he was agent for Pierce ter to the editor just as he was leaving for and Paine College, and in 1860 in charge of Missouri. God had better things for him. Pleasant Hill Circuit. In 1861 he served That trip was his last earthly journey, and the Lake Providence Circuit; 1862, Grosse in the midst of those he loved so well he Tete Circuit; 1863, Washington Circuit, but paased into the beatitudes above. The in April he entered the Confederate States’ writer loved him as a father, and the tears / Army as chaplain of the Twenty-eighth flow at the thought that we shall see him Regiment of Louisiana Volunteers, where no more on earth. Respected by all his he remained in 1864-65. In June, 1865, he brethren, highly esteemed by his friends, was appointed presiding elder of Shreve- honored of all men, and loved by his Saviour, port District, and continued there through he lived and wrought and has attained to 1869—the last year increasing his labors by his reward. A day before his death he dic- becoming agent for the Southwestern Bible tated the following, addressed to Bishop Society. On November 10, 1867, he wa« mar- Keener and the members of the Louisiana ried to Miss Frances L. Bow'man, at Mans- Conference: “ It was my greatest earthly de- field, La., by Rev. John Pipes. In 1870-71 sire to see you again and be with you at he wr as presiding elder of Lake Providence Conference. This I am denied. Since Au- District and agent of the Southwestern Bi- gust 1—three long months—I have been ble Society. He w'as in charge of the Wa-

prostrated from sickness; not able to get up terproof Circuit in 1872-73 ; Tensas Chapel when I was dowr n without help. I shall see Station, 1874; Delhi and Madison Circuit, Circuit, you no more, my precious friends, especially 1875-76; Floyd 1877 ; Winnsboro mine among the older members of the Con- Circuit, 1878; Sicily Island, 1879, but in ference. I learned to love you all very May he w as made presiding elder of Delhi much, especially you, my dear bishop. I District by Bishop McTyeire, and continued have been deprived these three months of there from year to year through 1882, and any religious privileges; have imt seen a from January, 1883, to 1886 was sent to Methodist preacher. When you think of Shreveport District. In 1882 his wife de- me, think of me as being very, very happy parted this life. From 1887 to. 1890 he was on the other shore. This is what I have residing elder of the Alexandria District, lived for, and I have attained to my reward. ?n May, 1889, he was married to Mrs. M. E. My dear love to you and the brethren.” . Landrum. In December, 1890, he was ap- . the Morgan City Patterson pointed to and j B. F. Alexander, son of Amzi C. Alexan- Circuit, where, September 29, 1891, he closed der and Elizabeth Watkins Holliday, daugh- a useful life. We feel our utter incompe- ter of Rev. Charles Holliday, was born near tence to w'rite about such a man as Brother Scottsville, Alien County, Kv., April 12, 1829. Alexander. He was the most complete itin- His education was received in the Seminary erant we have ever known. He has labored '

1891. ^ Louisiana Conference, 89 in every pari of Louisiana, either as preach- preachers and members in the several cir- er in charge or as presiding elder; and no cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- man ever did more earnest or more faithful ence? work. He has served the Church in every New Orleans District. capacity that usually falls to the lot of a White Colored Loc’l preacher. He was a painstaking pastor, Mem’s. Mem’s. Pr’s. keeping every department of the work in New Orleans: Carondelet Street.. 606 2 4 good shape. He was a model presiding 434 1 elder, and with a thorough knowledge of 1 Church law and usage he combined a most 131 105 efficient administration. As a college agent Louisiana Avenue 235 he was successful as far as he went in that 113 1 work. As an army chaplain no one of that 182 1 Plaque-mine and Donaldsonville... 59 ‘i class had a stronger hold upon the affections 61 of his soldiers. As a representative in the 1 10 General Conference he did good work in 339 4 Grosse Tete and False River Ct.... 96 2 the committees and upon the Conference 25 1 floor. As a preacher he was earnest and Lower Coast Mission 50 l forcible, and some of his sermons were real- 2.821 7 I 13 ly eloquent. He was the best Conference Shreveport District. man we had, watching all the proceedings 411 with sympathetic interest and oftentimes 34 1 carrying the day over much opposition. No 238 1 man among us could be so missed on the 256 li 168 will Conference floor as he be. He loved Many Circuit 350 18 1

the Church with a sincere love and worked 229 I 1 for her interests with an untiring devotion. 203 i 2 Anacoco and Bell wood Circuit 180 I 3 Being well known all over the Conference, 1 395 he will be missed everywhere and mourned 142 by every one. He suffered much during his 1 133 i 331 2 last illness, but that suffering was the last 39 process through which the Holy Spirit led 212 171 his trusting spirit, and we do not doubt that isoi when he awoke on the other side of death 284

! he awoke to the consciousness of a perfect | likeness to the Saviour he loved so well and i 3,950| 19 13 served so faithfully on earth. Some one Opelousas District. has said that the place where the good die Opelousas and Washington 284 1 Plaqucmine Brulee aua Rayne .... 473 % is favored beyond the common walks of life, 100 1 because it is the place where the last battle Abbeville Circuit 222 221 of many campaigns is fought, wdiere the last 1 140 1 victory is won that ends the war, in endless 216 £ peace, and crowns the victor with life eter- 207 nal. We are satisfied, from many affirma- 98 1 “ 2 tions of the dying, that Our Father” some- 828 1 times lifts the veil that kx$, thinly intervenes 2 between us and the fair country we seek. Sabine Mission

One who was nearest and dearest told me 2,199 14 that our departed brother, just before the Alexandria District. moment of his loosing came, said, like Alexandria 117 1 Stephen: ‘'I see the Lord, the heavenly Lecompte and Evergreen 11(8 host; I hear the music of their songs.” Simmesport Circuit 100 Bavou Boeuf Circuit 203 2 Filled with more than mortal rapture by Mellville and Big Cane Circuit 91 these visions and strains of heavenly song, Spring Creek Circuit 201 5 201 it is not wonderful, but it would have been Sugar Town Circuit “ Montgomery Circuit 475 i wonderful if he had not said: I am saved, 259 Ada Circuit "2 cut the cords and let me go.” Gravitation, Centerville Circuit 325 shifting, had turned the other way, and his Vidalia and Trinity 150 Columbia 90 "i liberated soul rose like an exhalation and Boyce and Colfax 184 ascended to be with his risen Lord. Pineville Circuit 375 3 Castor Mission

Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless 2,909 15 in their life and official administration? Arcadia District. were called Their names over, one by one, Homer Circuit 4551 and their characters examined and passed. Haynesville Circuit 572 1 Charles Albert Coomb withdrew from our Miiiden Circuit 297 2 Gibbsland Circuit.... 845 2 Church and ministry. Ringgold Circuit 392 2 Ques. 21. What is the number of local Sparta Circuit 3451 .. j :

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lection, $690.45; Centenary Endowment Arcadia District ( Continued). White' Colored Loc’l Fund, $302.85; Scarritt Bible School, $107.- Mem’s. Mem’s. Pr’s. 10; education of ministers, $112.50. 292 1 Ques.. 34. Where shall the next session of 278 2 the Conference be held? Lake Charles, La. SuramerfleW Circuit 474 3 35. are the preachers sta- 333 1 Ques. Where 364 tioned this year? 437 603 3 NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT. 234 P. E. 250 C. W. Carter , 348 315 1 Carondelet Street, W. H. La Prade and W. Dunston. 6,234 23 Felicity Street, J. M. Beard. Delhi District. Rayne Memorial, S, S. Keener. Monroe 288 West Monroe 142 1 Moreau Street, J. B. Walker. Bastrop 76 1 Plaquemine and Donaldsonville, J. E. Riddle. Lind Grove Circuit 240 1 Carrollton, J. M. Henry and C. Keener. Delhi 65 Floyd Circuit 329 1 Gretna, to be supplied. Late Providence Circuit. 107 Parker Chapel, F. N. Parker. 164 Oak Ridge Circuit Louisiana Avenue, John T. Sawyer. Harrisonburg Circuit 161 Waterproof Circuit 90 Algiers, H. S. Johns. Winnsboro Circuit 165 1 Baton Rouge, Charles T. Evans. Rayville Circuit 170 Grosse Tete and False River, Noel B. Nor-

1,997 ll 4 wood. | Recapitulation. Dryades Street, Alfred E. Clay. INew Orleans District 2,821 7 13 Craps Street and Soroparu, J. B. A. Ahrens. “ 19 13 Shreveport 3,956 Coast Mission, James R. Ray. Opelousas “ 2.499 14 Lower Alexandria “ 2.969 15 Thibodeaux and Houma, to be supplied. Arcadia “ 6.234 23 Colporter, F. D. Van Valkenburgh. “ 1 Delhi 1,997 4 Advocate C. Car- New Orleans Christian , W. Total this year 20,476 27 82 ter, Editor. Total last year 20,370 8 90 Ahrens, Editor. Familien Freund , J. B. A. Increase 106 19 Decrease 8 SHREVEPORT DISTRICT. Robert J. Harp, P. E. Ques. 22. How many infants have been baptized during the year? 1,045. Shreveport, J. L. Pierce. Ques. 23. How many adults have been City Mission, to be supplied. baptized during the year? 823. Mooringsport, William Schulhl^. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Caddo, S. Hugh Whitley. schools? 218. Mansfield, T. K. Faunt Le Roy, Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Many, J. H. Brown. school teachers? 1,363. Sabine, E. L. Singeltary. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Grand Cave, T. L. Lallance. school scholars? 10,179. Anacoco, to be supplied. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Bellewood and Cane River, to be supplied. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Pleasant Hill, W. F. Henderson. ows and orphans of preachers? $4,500. Natchitoches, A. D. McVoy, Jr. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Coushatta, J. E. Densen. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Wesley, L. A. Reed. plied? $4,116.70. Applied to claimants. Red River, S. J. Davies. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for South Bossier, J. S. Sanders. Missions? Foreign Missions, $5,863.64; Do- North Bossier, J. B. Williams. mestic Missions, $1,253.15. Total, $7,116.79. De Soto, H. J. Boltz. „ __ Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Mansfield Female College, A. D. McVoy, Sr. Church Extension? $2,368.85. Fort Jessup, S. S. Holliday. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what is the estimated value, of church edifices? OPELOUSAS DISTRICT. Number, 234; value, $431,340. John A. Miller, P. E. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Opelousas and Washington, T. S. Randle. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Plaquemine Brulee and Rayne, R. M. Blocker. ber. 61 value, $62,915. ; H. Armstrong. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Lafavette, C. B. Carter. tics? Centenary College (one-half interest) Crowley, students, 138 endowment, $70,- Abbeville, E. T. Densen. Teachers, 10 ; ; Iberia, F. S. Parker. 000; value of property, $40,000. Mansfield New students, 166; Franklin and Jeanerette, J. B. Cassity. Female College : Teachers, 11 ; Upton. value of property, $30,000. Educational col- Lake Charles, T. J. Central Mexico Conference, 1891 . 91

Pattersonville and Morgan City, T.B. White. Ringgold, A. A. Cornett. Sulphur Mine, J. B. Kent. Sparta, J. J. Kelley. Grand Cheniere, C. F. Staples. Arcadia, John F. Foster. Indian Bayou, C. R. Seward. Summerfield, J. 0. Bennett. Lake Arthur, to be supplied (by J. L. Gibson). Ruston, J. D. Harper. Sabine Mission, to be supplied. Vienna, Robert Parvin. Huron Mission, to be supplied* Vernon, Daniel C. Barr. Downsville, R. A. Davis. ALEXANDRIA DISTRICT. Farmersville, W. J. Porter and W. A. Rich- ardson. James Ivy Hoffpauir, P. E. Gunnsville, W. F. Sanders and E. M. Wailes. Alexandria, Robert Randle. Tulip, D. H. McClendon. Evergreen, C. M. Lyons. Valley, Reuben S. Collier. Simmesport, J. F. Scurlock. Melville and Big Cane, J. M. Johnson. DELHI DISTRICT. Spring Creek, H. M. Banks. II. 0. White, P. E. Sugar Town, to be supplied (by R. C. Grace). Montgomery, W. H. Hill. Monroe, B. F. White. Ada, B. H. Sheppard. West Monroe, C. T. Munholland. Centerville, W. D. Gaskins and E. B. Gallo- Bastrop, H. W. Knickerbocker. way. Lind Grove, George E. Greene. Vidalia, H. H. Ahrens. Delhi, J. M. Brown. Columbia, J. F. Patterson. Floyd, C. R. Godfrey. Boyce and Colfax, F. G. Hocutt. Lake Providence, R. S. Isbell. Pineville, J. F. Wynn. Oak Ridge, C. E. McDonald. Castor, W. G. Evans. Harrisonburg, R. P. Howell. Bayou Chicot, Wilson Moore. Waterproof, N. S. Cornell. Black River Circuit, J. W. Davis. Winnsboro, Robert Harry. Rayville, Isaac T. Reames. ARCADIA DISTRICT. Oakley, Samuel S. Bogan. Indian Village, George A. Mandeville. L. John P. Sheppard, P. E. Homer, James A. Parker one to be supplied. William Wimberly transferred to the In- ; Haynesville, Harry W. May. dian Mission Conference, and stationed at Minden, J. W. Medlock. Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory.

CENTRAL MEXICO CONFERENCE.

Held at the City of Mexico, Mex., November 25-30, 1891.

Bishop Haygood, President; L. G. Prieto, Secretary.

Question 1 . Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are Answer. J. S. Pina, Noe Aguilar. 2. elected deacons? V. P. Rubin, S. G. Paz. 2. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Alejandro Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Mejia, Rafael Garcfa, Teodulo Becerra. 3. dained deacons? V. P. Rubfn, S. G. Paz. 2. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Rami- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected rez Tello, A. B. Garcfa, Carlos M. Sotomayor, deacons? None. F. Mendez. 4. Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- dained deacons? None. nection? V. P. Rubin, S. G. Paz. 2. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? T. Nor- elected elders? D. O. Monsalvo. 1. wood. 1. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from dained elders? D. 0. Monsalvo. 1. other Conferences? T. S. Rivera, from the Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Northwest Mexico Mission Conference; A. elders? None. H. Sutherland, from the Mexican Border Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Mission Conference; A. Moya, from the dained elders? None. Florida Conference. 3. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? None. ;S. M. Reyes. 1. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? None. i 92 Central Mexico Conference, 1891.

Tepetlixpa, to be supplied (by C. Espinoza- Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? None. dur- and E. Palomino). Ques. 19. What preachers have died Texcoco, to be supplied (by M. H. Obregon). ing the past year? Sostenes Juarez. (No J. R. Oliva, one to be supplied (by M. memoir.) Tula, Culhuaca). Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Caracas (Venezuela), to be supplied. in their life and official administration? American Society in Venezuela, 1 Their names were called over, one by one, Bible Norword. and their characters examined and passed. of local El Evangelista A. H. Sutherland, Editor. Ques. 21. What is the number , Treasurer, A. H. Sutherland. preachers and members in the several cir- Conference of the Confer- cuits, stations, and missions SAN LUIS POTOSI DISTRICT. local preachers, 40. ence? Members, 2,599 ; G. B. WinUm, P. K Total, 2,639. (No details.) have been Ques. 22. How many infants San Luis Potosi, L. G. Prieto. baptized during the year? 283. San Luis Potosi (English congregation), G. been Ques. 23. How many adults have B. Winton; one to be supplied. baptized during the year? 442. Leon, D. F. Sandoval. of Sunday- Ques. 24. What is the number Aguas(jalientes, D. Paz. Godinez. schools? 65. . „ , „ Puru&ndiro Zirondaro, P. of Sunday y Ques. 25. What is the number Morelia, S. G. Paz. 116. school teachers? _ , Acambaro, V. P. Rubin. of Sunday . Ques. 26. What is the number El Collegio Central, G. B. Winton, President; 1,301. school scholars? . L. G. Prieto, Professor. lor Ques. 27. What amount is necessary wid- the superannuated preachers, and the PUEBLO DISTRICT. of preachers? $150. Aguilar P. E. ows and orphans F. F. , on the Ques. 28. What has been collected ap- Pueblo, A. Portugal. foregoing account, and how has it been Matamoras, R. Garcia. plied? $16.71. To be put in bank lor Toehimisolco, F. Gonzalez. Ques. 29. What has been contributed Acatzingo, to be supplied (by A. Ortiz). Missions? Foreign Missions, $615.07. for Orizaba, A. Moya. Ques. 30. What has been contributed A. Mejfa. Church Extension? $223.32. Cuernavaca, what Alpuyeca, to be supplied (by D. Ortiz). Ques. 31. What is the number, and supplied (by E. W. Adam). estimated value, of church edifices* Cuautla, to be is the (by T. Salazar). $56,134.37. Yautepec, to be supplied Number, 32; value, , what Jonacotepec, to be supplied. Ques. 32. What is the number, and of parsonages ? dum- is the estimated value, GUADALAJARA DISTRICT. ber, 5; value, $33,061.37. . statis- J. D. Scoggins, P. E. Ques. 33. What are the educational pupils, 792. tics? Schools, 26; . Guadalajara, M. Zavaleta. session of Ques. 34. Where shall the next Tlajomulco, J. M. Sandoval and N. Aguilar the Conference be held? City of Mexico. Ciudad Guzman, to be supplied (by E. »- are the preachers sta- Ques. 35. Where *Femiza). . .. . tioned this year? Tecolotlan, M. H. Cuevas, one to be supplied (bv A. Hernandez). DISTRICT. TOLUCA Ahualulco y Tequila, C. Martinez. Alvarez). D. F. Waikins, P. E. Autlan, to be supplied (by F. Cuyutlan and Sn. Cristobal, to be supplied Salazar. Toluca, E. C. (by A. Alvarez). to lie supplied (by D> Navas). Joquitzingo, Colotlan and Mesquitie, C. C. Mevro. be supplied. Villa Guerrero, to and Santiago, F. Reyes, one to be sup- supplied (by E. Gomez). Tepic Santa Marfa, to be (by G. Dalli). Monsalvo. plied Rincon, D. O. Santa Maria del Oro, to be supplied (by *. to be supplied (by A. Sardaneta). Metepec, Reves). Oro, N. Gomez, one to be sup- Estapam del T. C. Becerra. Rosa' Morado, o _ plied (by M. Gomez). _ Sandoval,, Institute Lopez Cotilla, J. M. Pina. Capulhuac, J. Principal. DISTRICT. the Mississip- MEXICO J. M. Weems transferred to P. E. • A. H. Sutherland , pi Conference. . to the Mexican S. W. Grimes transferred City: San Andres, B. G. Reyes. Mexico Border Conference, and appointed presiding Nahuatlato, A. Blanco. elder of the Monterey District. B. Alarcon. Xoehiaca, J. Agent of the Church property in the three S. M. Reyes. Cocotitlan, Conferences, S. W. Grimes. Rivera. Amecameea, Y. S. Spanish translations, A. T Ti. MM. Revisers of Tulvehualco, to be supplied (by J. Sutherland, G. B. Winton. Morales). Louisville Conference, 1891. 93

LOUISVILLE CONFERENCE.

Held at Cadiz, Ky., September 16-21, 189L

Bishop Wilson, President; Cross Alexander, Secretary.

Question 1 . Who are admitted on trial? T. Reid, R. H. Rivers, C. Y. Boggess, J. W. Francis E. Lewis, James B. Galloway, Curtz Bunton, William Hamblen, H. M. Ford. 14. Y. Smith, B. F. Sheffer, U. G. Foote, Charles Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- W. Hesson, Eugene Harrelson, Claude ing the past year? Matthew N. Lasley. 1. Thompson. 8. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? J. H. Rich- Matthew N. Lasley was born Decem- ardson, T. J. Winfrey, Joel U. Watson, C.F. ber 1, 1812; was licensed to preach July Hartford, T. F. Roland, W. A. Black, R. H. 12, 1834; and admitted into the Kentucky Roe, R. T. McConnell, A. D. Leitchfield, A. Conference, on trial, in the fall of the same P. Lyon, J. L. Stamper, A. L. Mell, in class of year. He was ordained a deacon by Bish- the second year; and J. W. Crowe, in class op Soule October 5, 1836; and an elder by of the first year. 13. Bishop Morris October 1, 1838. He was Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? S. J. married in March, 1842, to Miss Frances Ann Loveall. 1. Day. During the first six years of his min-

Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- istry he filled the following charges : Burkes- nection? Elias Smith, James S. Mitchell, C. ville, Salt River, Lebanon, Pulaski, Coalbank, D. Ward, S. P. Stiles, H. G. Summers, Smith and Prestonburg. He located in the fall of

Givan. 6. , 1840, but after some years was readmitted. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? George F. He alternated between the itinerancy and Campbell, F. M. Rose. 2. the local ranks thereafter, filling some of the Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer hardest and some of the best appointments from other Conferences? C. B. Riddick, in the Conference. In 1881 he was super- from the North Alabama Conference. 1. annuated, and continued in that relation Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? until his name was transferred to “ the roll E. E. Joiner, S. F. Ashbrook, W. J. Cole, J. of the honored dead.” The above gives a B. Seay, in class of the fourth year; J. R. very brief and meager outline of a long and Crandell, J. E. King, A. C. Gentle, E. Smith, useful life. For lack of information touch- in class of the third year. 8. ing the matter, we cannot speak particularly

Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are of his childhood and youth ; but the fact •elected deacons? James S. Mitchell, C. that his father was a Methodist preacher and Ward, S. P. Stiles, H. G. Summers, SmitlT a prominent member of the Conference jus- Givan. 5. tifies the conclusion that the influences of Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- the home were such as to develop early dained deacons? James S. Mitchell, S. P. Christian character. This conclusion is fur- Stiles, C. D. Ward, H. G. Summers, Smith ther strengthened by the fact that both he Givan. 5. and his brother William entered the minis- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected try in early manhood, he having joined the deacons? Alfred Morgan. 1. Conference when in his twenty-second year. Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- He was a good English scholar, and above dained deacons? None. the average as a preacher. Possessing an Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are ardent temperament, and feeling deeply elected elders? Patrick H. Davis, Charles the importance of his message, his preach- W. Myers, Henry T. Gaines. 3. ing was earnest, animated, and searching. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- We record with profound pleasure that in a dained elders? Patrick H. Davis, Charles ministry extending through fifty-six years W. Myers, Henry T. Gaines. 3. no immoral act stained his character. His Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected ministry was blessed in the conversion of elders? None. many, and many were comforted and helped Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- on their way to the better land. It may be dained elders? None. truly said of him that he was- a good man, Ques. 16. Who are located this year? full of faith and the Holy Ghost, and much Charles W. Myers, at his own request. 1. people were added to the Lord. In extreme Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? J. age, and weakened by many infirmities, his J. Ruddell, Silas Spurrier, Val. P. Thom- mind became clouded, and he was taken to as. 3. theasylum at Anchorage, where his redeemed Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? G. W. spirit passed on to be forever with the Lord, j Cruinbaugh, A. C. DeWitt, Thomas Bottom- lev, William Alexander, R. B. McCown, J. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless R. Dempsey, W. W. Mann, J. W. Taylor, W. in their life and official administration? .

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Their names were called over, one by one, Princeton District. White Colored I.oc’I and their characters examined and passed. | Mem's. Mem's. Pr'i. local Ques. 21. What is the number of ! preachers and members in the several cir- Princeton 216 cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Marion 598 Shady Grove. 350 ence? Carrsville 379 Louisville District. Smithland 81 Dyersburg .... 384 White Colored Loci 364 j Eudyville Mem's, Mem's. Pr’s. Kuttawa 618 Cadiz 202 562 2 Canton 257 Broadway 5971 1 3 Wallonia 330 304 3 La Fayette... 217 445 Empire 225 Jefferson Street 477 1 2 245 4,221t 1 24 138 276 Russellville District. 311 1 Russellville 225 235 1 Adairville 440 45 Ely ton 318 163 Fairview 449 1 330 Hopkinsville 414 64 Allensville 281 Auburn 433 4,192 2 13 Lewisburg 426 Trenton 225 Elizabethtown District. Sharon Grove 497 Greenville 183 Elizabethtown 178! Greenville Circuit. 356 217 230 Hardinsburg Crofton Mission ..... Hodgensville 344 447 2 25 Vine Grove i 4,477 Brandenburg 375 Big Spring 441 Bowling Green District 2(55 Long Grove 341 175 Bowling Green : State Street.... Falls of Rough 99 246! Barry Street McDaniel’s 319 1 455 Rich Pond Constantine 282 165 Smith’s Grove Stcphensport 140 408 Franklin Louisville Circuit. 410 250 Franklin Circuit Wolf Creek. 136 214 Glasgow Leitchfleld 460! Millerstown 260 New Roe Scottsville 610] 339 4,470l 21 Horse Cave Richardsville 390 262 Henderson District. Morgantown Brownsville 174 Henderson 205 Glasgow J unction 300 Henderson Circuit... 57 Woodburn ..... 241 Carydon 383 Robards 386! 4,503 2i 23 114 Morganfleld Lebanon District. Morgantield Circuit. 407 Caseyville 409 2 Lebanon 171 Hebbardsville 408 1 Bardstown 164 Madisonville 220 2 Springfield 134 Hanson 364 5 Bradfordsville 227 Slaughterville 603 l New Haven 193 Sacramento 248 1 Canipbellsville 416 460 Sebi*ee 436 5 Mannsville Dixon 251 1 Greensburg 466 Munfordville 250 40' 4,581 24 Shephei’dsville Buffalo 303 250 Owensboro District. Upton ville Magnolia 165 Owensboro: Settle Chapel. 385 Lebanon Junction Main Street 76 Owensboro Circuit. 427 3,606 10> 200 Yelvington Columbia District. Oakford 348 2 Calhoun 295 2 Columbia 420 Beech Grove 274 4 Breeding’s 621 Hartford 438 4 Thurhrw 319 Hawesville 395 3 Fountain Run... 288 497 Cloverport 240! 1 Cumberland Rockport 251 1 Albany 460 Ceralvo 312 2 Wayne 409 Lewisport 360 1 Burkesville 360 350 Fordsville 389 4 3 Monticello South Carrollton 356 1 Russell 236 285 1 Creelsboro 141 Livermore 313 Rosine 515 2 Jamestown Rochester 263 Summer Shade. 394

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Recapitulation. Jeffersontown, E. M. Crowe. White Colored Loc'l David Morton, Secretary of the Board of Mem's. Mem’s. Pr’s. Church Extension. Kentucky Female College, E. Rowley, Pres- Louisville District 4,192 2 13 Elizabethtown u 4,470 5 21 ident. Henderson “ 4,581 24 Owensboro “ 5,803 4 31 ELIZABETHTOWN DISTRICT. Princeton “ 4,221 1 24 Russell vj lie “ 4,477 2 25 R. IF. Browder, P. E. Rowling Green “ 4,503 2 23 Lebanon “ 3,606 2 10 Elizabethtown, J. L. Edrington. Columbia “ 4,808 2 44 Hardinsburg, L. E. Campbell. Hodgensville, G. S. King. Total this year 40,667 20 215 Total last year 39,214 221 Vine Grove, R. C. Alexander. Brandenburg, W. C. Hayes. Increase., 1,453 20 Big Spring, F. C'undiff. Decrease 6 G. Long Grove, J. E. King. Ques. 22. How many infants have been Falls of Rough, T. L. Crandell; S. Spurrier, baptized daring the year? 732. Sup. Ques. 23. How many adults have been McDaniel’s, R. B. Campbell. baptized during the year? 1,964. Stephensport, S. P. Stiles. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Constantine, A. G. Fraser. schools? 319. Louisville Circuit, L. W. Browder. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Wolf Creek, C. Y. Smith. school teachers? 2,237. Leitchfield, L. M. Russell. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Millerstown, J. B. Galloway. school scholars? 18,647. South Leitchfield, Charles W. Hesson. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the supersfnnuated preachers, and the wid- OWENSBORO DISTRICT. ows and orphans of preachers? $4,000. J. M. Lawson, P. E. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Owensboro, G. C. Kelly and H. T. Gaines. plied? $2,209.75. Applied to claimants. Owensboro Circuit, B. A. Cundiff and W. J. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Cole. Missions? Foreign Missions, $4,910.69; Do- Yelvington, B. F. Sheffer. mestic Missions, $3,001.87. Total, $7,912.56. Oakford, D. F. Walton. Ques.* 30. What has been contributed for Calhoun, J. S. Crandell. Church Extension? $1,829.50. Beech Grove, J. R. Crandell. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Hartford, E. E. Pate. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Hawesville, J. P. Goodson. Number, 397 value, $666,400. Cloverport, W. C. Brandon. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Rockport, A. C. Gentle. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Ceralvo, W. R. Godbey. ber, 97; value, $123,472. Lewisport, J. S. McDaniel. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Fordsville, C. F. Hartford. tics? Institution, 1; officers and teachers, South Carrollton, S. L. C. Coward. Livermore, W. F. Cashman. 12; students, 153 ; value of property, $35,000 contributed for education of colored people, Rosine, R. D. Bennett. $282.96. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of BOWLING GREEN DISTRICT. the Conference be held? Campbellsville, Ky. D. S. Campbell, P. E. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Bowling Green, J. W. Lewis and C. D. tioned this year? Ward; Val P. Thomas, Sup. Bowling Green Circuit, J. G. Freeman. LOUISVILLE DISTRICT. Smith’s Grove, A. P. Lyon; J. J. Ruddell, G. H. Overton, P. E. Sup. Louisville: WalnutStreet, H. C. Settle. Franklin, R. F. Hayes. Broadway, C. B. Riddick. Franklin Circuit, F. A. Mitchell. Chestnut Street, W. K. Piner. Glasgow, P. T. Hardison. Main Street, E. W. Bottomley. New Roe, J. F. DeWitt. Jefferson Street, S. H. Lovelace. Scottsville, P. A. Edwards.

! Portland, G. E. Foskett. Horse Cave, G. M. Everett. Asbury Chapel, M. M. Hunter. Riohardsville, E. E. Joiner. West Broadway, G. W. Dennis. Morgantown, L. B. Davison. Fourth Avenue, Joseph H. Young. Glasgow Junction, R. H. Roe. Jeffersonville, J. S. Scobee. Woodburn, T. C. Peters. \ Clifton, S. G. Shelley. Munfordville, B. F. Biggs. Virginia Avenue, S. C. Allen. Rochester, A. D. Leitchfield. Middletown, J. W. Bigham. J. F. Bedford, Agent of Col portage. ' .

Illinois Conference, 1891.

HENDERSON DISTRICT. Lamasco, J. U. Watson. Kuttawa, W. F. Hogard. G. H. Hayes, P. E. Cadiz, Silas Newton. Cerulean Springs, R. C. Love. Henderson, J. C. Petrie and U. G. Foote. Canton, R. T. McConnell. Corydon, T. J. Randolph. La Fayette, J. D. Fraser. Robard, J. C. Brandon. Empire, J. H. Richardson. Morganlield, V. Elgin. Dawson, F. E. Lewis. Morgantield Circuit, T. V. Joiner. Caseyville, W. W. Lambuth. LEBANON DISTRICT. Hebbardsville, R. Y. Thomas. Madisonville, J. T. Cherry. S. X. HaU, P. E. Hanson, J. W. Love. Lebanon, J. D. Sigler. Reid. Slaughterville, J. L. Bardstown, George F. Campbell. P. Duvall. •Sacramento, C. Springfield, J. T. McCormick. L. Corbin. Sebree City, W. Bradfbrdsville, W. B. Lucy. P. Hogard. Dixon, John New Haven, A. L. Mell. R. Crowe. DISTRICT. Campbellsville, C. RUSSELLVILLE Mannsville, W. W. Prine. J. A. Lewis, P. E. Greensburg, S. L. Lee. Shepherdsville, W. T. Davenport. Russellville, D. L. Collie. Buffalo, J. S. Mitchell. Adairville, I. W. Emerson. Uptonville, J. L. Stamper. Rushing. . Elkton, J. T. Magnolia, to be supplied (by John Smith- Bowles. Fairview, D. S. son). Hopkinsville, G. W. Lyon. Allensville, J. P. Stubblefield. COLUMBIA DISTRICT. Auburn, P. H. Davis. J. D. Gilliam, P. E. Lewisburg, D. C. Clarkson. Chandler. Trenton, E. H. Morrison. Columbia Circuit, James S. Shugart. Sharon Grove, T. C. Frogge. Breedings, G. W. Kirkmansville, E. Harrelson. Thurlow, S. Givan. T. F. Roland. Greenville, J. B. Cottrell. Fountain Run, Crowe. Greenville Circuit, E. Smith. Cumberland, J. W. A. McCown, Sup. Albany, T. G. Harrison. Crofton, W. A. Black ; Gross Alexander, Professor in Vanderbilt Wayne, S. F. Ashbrook. Winfrey. University. Burkesville, J. T. Monticello, John L. Brown. PRINCETON DISTRICT. Russell, to be supplied. Creelsboro, F. M. Rose. P. E. B. F. Orr, Jamestown, J. L. Murrell. J. M. Thrasher. Princeton, J. B. Seay. Summer Shade, Marion, S. K. Breeding. the North Ala- Shady Grove, E. M. Gibbons. M. H. Wells transferred to Conference. Salem, Claude Thompson. bama . transferred to the Florida Carrsville, W. H. Archey. J. T. Waters •Smithland, J. V. Guthrie. Conference. . transferred to the Illinois Smithland Circuit, H. G. Summers. S. H. Gregory Eddyville, Joseph S. Chandler. Conference.

ILLINOIS CONFERENCE.

Held at Wayerly, III., September 23-27, 1891.

Rogers, Secretary. Bishop Hargrove, President; O. T.

remain on trial? R. J. Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 2. Who Hinckle, J. Answer. John M. Edwards, Houston J. Brewer, J. W. McDaniel, J. P. Wheeler, Reece A. Jacobs, Thomas M. Cal- H. Bunnell, R. J. Wells. 5. are discontinued? W. W. vert, Dennis Wesner, Augustus G. Organ, Ques. 3. Who Hall. 2. Joseph F. Rogers. 7. Jacobs, J. A. 1

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Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- tendant upon this request will not soon be nection? H. J. Charlton, G. N. Wilkerson, forgotten. He moved to Centralia soon after R. Howell, E. E. Gunnett. 4. the Conference, where he had organized the Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. Church, and where he had preached his last Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer sermon. He died at Tomalco in great peace, from other Conferences? C. P. Brewer, and was laid away to rest at the Hey worth /Samuel H. Gregory. 2. Cemetery, until he who is the Resurrection Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one and the Ijfe shall call him from his slumbers T year? C. S. Smith, J. W . Ogden, Samuel H. to the full reward of an everlasting inher- Gregory, J. E. Garrett, I. R. Haun, J. C. itance. Denton, J. M. Gordon, A. C. Clendening. 8. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elect- Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless George N. Wilkerson, Elmer ed deacons? in their life and official administration? E. Gunnett. 2. Their names were called over, one by one,- preachers or- Ques. 9. What traveling are and their characters examined and passed, dained deacons? George N. Wilkerson, El- except those of E. F. Senter, located ; A. D. mer E. Gunnett. 2. Hocker and C. P. Brewer, expelled ; and J. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected M. Hunter, withdrawn. deacons? Thomas W. Brendle, R. J. Watts, Ques. 21. What is the number of local Sogers, R. Moody, Joseph F. James Joseph preachers and members in the several cir- Albert Shreve, Richard W. McDaniel, C. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Oliver. 7. ence? Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained deacons? Henry G. Fansler, Thom- Rushville District. as W. Brendle, Joseph F. Rogers, James R. Whit® Loc’t Moody, Joseph W. McDaniel, Albert C. Mem's. Pr's. Oliver. 7. Shreve, Richard 218 Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Rusliville Circuit 169 1 elected elders? John F. Purdue, William 91 ISO! Nesbitt, Orville T. Rogers. 3. M. 180 2 Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- 91 238 dained elders? John F. Purdue, William . 174 1 Nesbitt, Orville T. Rogers. 3. M. 105 1 Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected 121 4 elders? Thomas M. Calvert and William T. 12 Miller. 2. 15 Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained elders? T. M. Calvert, W. T. Miller, 1,601 12 John H. Ballance. 3. Pana District. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? E 106 1 1 F. Senter, P. L. Davis. 2. 60 2 Ques. 17. WTio are supernumerary? The- 57 1 70 2 odore Rogers, H. N. Walters. 2. 55 Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? R. P_ 70 2 Holt, A. F. Rogers, Herbert Reed. 3. 121 1 140 Ques. 19. What preachers have died during the past year? Thomas E. Wamsley. 1. 679 9 T. E. Wamsley was born in Nelson Conn Salem District. ty, Ky., October 25, 1807. His father died, leaving him an orphan in early infancy. He Salem and Iuka..... 118 1 132 4 ordinance of baptism while Kimmindy Circuit. received the Clav City Circuit.. 400 3 very young. In the vigor of young manhood Altitmont Circuit.. 317 1 he gave his heart and life to God, and joined Rinard Circuit 120 1 206 2 the Methodist Church in 1825 was licensed Xenia Circuit ; Rome Circuit 300 5 182 2 to exhort in 1840, and afterward was licensed Centralia Circuit .. to preach. He moved to McLean County, Odin Circuit 200 1 113 Keysport Circuit .. 111., in October, 1853; and remained in the Patoka Circuit .... 277 1 State until called away by death, October 20, 1890. Brother Wamsley did efficient work 2,365 21 for the M. E. Church as a local preacher for Ashley District. a number of years; was recognized as an Woodlawn 188 elder, and joined the Illinois Conference, at Ashley and Nashville Station ias Marion, September, 1880. He was full of Duquoin Cii’cuit 145 energy and zeal, and did efficient work for De Soto Circuit 336 1 201 4 one of his age, until the Conference at Mur- Marion Circuit Stone Fort Circuit 150 5 physboro,in 1891, at his request, granted him Murphysboro Station... 215 2 a superannuated relation. The scene at- Ora Circuit 228, 1

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1801 Illinois Conference,

El Dara and Detroit, IT. J. Charlton. Ashley District ( Continued White Mt. Sterling, J. M. Edwards. Meiu's T. Rogers, Sup. Girard, D. T. Hinckle ; J. P. Hinckle. Baldwin Circuit New Douglas, Pulaski Circuit Litchfield, to be supplied. Grand Tower Circuit Rusliville Mission, to be supplied (by Joseph. Poplar Ridge Circuit Quinn). Cant) Mission..... East Cape Girardeau Mission Mt. Zion and Heyworth, W. D. Blaylock. Galatia Circuit Sherman and Glenarm, G. W. Jones. Taylorville, C. S. Smith. Jacobs. Gosport District. Ramsey, R. A. Gosport District... Herrick, to be supplied. Nashville Station. Geneva Circuit ... SALEM DISTRICT. Nashville Circuit.

J. W. Westcott , P. E. Kinmundy, W. H. Nelson and G. W. Gil- more. ; Salem and Iuka, A. J. Ewing. Centralia, to be supplied. Odin, J. E. Garrett.

73 Rome, J. N. Craig. 69 Rinard, J. F. Hensley. — Clay City, J. F. Purdue. 4 Xenia, J. H. Bunnell. Patoka, W. H. Cunningham. en Altamont, J. D. R. Brown; one to be supplied. 23. many adults ha?ve been Ques. How Keysport, to be supplied (by J. A. Morgan). baptized during the year? 790. Foxville Mission, to be supplied (by William. is the number of Sunday Ques. 24. What Whistnant). 128. schools? Casey, G. N. Wilkerson. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Dennison, J. M. Gordon. school teachers? 997. Pana Station, R. M. Hardaway. 26. What is the number of Sunday Ques. Shelbyville, R. J. Brewer. school scholars? 6,817. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for ASHLEY DISTRICT. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- ows and orphans of preachers? $400. C. C. Mayhew, P. E. AVhat has been collected on the Ques. 28. Nashville Station, W. M. Nesbitt. account, and how has it been ap- foregoing Ashley and Woodlawn, J. C. Denton. plied? $512.99. Applied to claimants. DuQuoin, J. F. Rogers. Ques. 29. AVhat has been contributed for De Soto, J. W. McDaniel. Missions? Foreign Missions, $303.29; Do- Galatia, W. C. Wilson. Missions, $172.12. Total, $475.39. mestic Stone Fort, T. M. Calvert. has been contributed for Ques. 30. What Marion Station, Robert Howell. Extension? $232. Church Pulaski, R. J. Wells. is the number, and what Ques. 31. AVhat East Cape Girardeau, A. G. Organ. of church-edifices? is the estimated value, Grand Tower, E. E. Gunnett. Number, 111 value, $133,175. ; Poplar Ridge, J. M. Long. is the number, and what Ques. 32. AVhat Murphysboro Station, W. B. Lewellen. estimated value, of parsonages? Num- is the Ora, W. K. Dempsey. ber, 36 value, $19,850. ; Baldwin, J. W. Ogden. AVhat are the educational statis- Ques. 33. Fountain, M. M. Durard. tics? No report. Pinckneyville Mission, to be supplied (by shall the next session of Ques. 34. AATiere W. W. Jacobs). be held? Pana, 111. the Conference Wolf Prairie, L. F. Lawrence. Ques. 35. AVhere are the preachers stationed this year? GOSPORT DISTRICT.

RUSHVILLE DISTRICT. G. T. Clawson, P. E. J. D. Crooks, P. E. Nashville (Indiana) Station, G. T. Clawson. Clendening. Rushville, I. H. Lewis. Nashville Circuit, A. C. Schuyler Circuit, O. T. Rogers; H. W. Buck- Gosport, C. M. Cagle. ner, Sup. Geneva, H. K. Jones. Canton and Marietta, H. J. AVheeler. Storyville Mission, S. H. Gregory. to be supplied. Waverly, G. M. Buford ; one Nance transferred to the North- Worden. I. R. Haun. George A. Tioga, Dennis AVesner. west Texas Conference. 99 Arkansas Conference, 1891.

ARKANSAS CONFERENCE.

1 Held at Russellville, Ark., November 25-30, 1891.

Bishop Duncan, President; J. A. Walden, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? elected elders? Young A. Gilmore, Jesse M. Answer. Samuel F. Goddard, Douglass Reed, McAnally. 2. Jesse A. Mclver, Jesse M. Williams, James Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are E. Sutton, Stonewall Anderson, John D. ordained elders? Young A. Gilmore, Jesse Wasson, James C. Hooker, Jefferson M. M. McAnally. 2. Hively. 9. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? William elders? M. V. Adney, Frank Thomas. 2. H. H. Gilmore, Joseph S. Simmons, Arthur Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Marston, William H. Hatfield, John H. dained elders? William F. M. England, Sturdy, John C. Shipp, Green B. Griffin, Martin V. Adney, Frank Thomas. 3. Daniel H. Groover, John S. Hackler, John Ques. 16. Who are located this year ? B. Winsett. 10. John W. Head, at his own request. 1. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Foster Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? None. A. Hill, at his own request. 1. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? James Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Cox, Josephus Loving, George W. Evans, nection? William Sherman, John W. Grif- John H. Wade, Alex. Mathes, Thomas A. fin, William M. Taylor, James H. Roberts, Graham, W. R. Gardner, F. A. Taff. 8. Henry R. Shinn, John P. Humphreys. 6. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? John J. ing the past year? None. Tarlton, Berry T. Crews, Charles E. McClin- Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless tock. 3. in their life and official administration? Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Their names were called over, one by one, from other Conferences? Thomas J. Rey- and their characters examined and passed, nolds, from the Southwest Missouri Confer- except that of J. H. Walsh, who was left in ence; John B. Stevenson, from the Indian the hands of the presiding elder of Clarks- John T. Bagwell, from ville District for investigation; and J. W. Mission Conference ; the Western North Carolina Conference; Baldwin, who surrendered his credentials Samuel M. Godbey, from the Pacific Con- and withdrew from the Conference. ference. 4. Ques. 21. What is the number of local Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? preachers and members in the several cir- James C. Weaver, Charles H. Culpepper, cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Andrew J. Cullum, Kirby S. Vanzandt, Wil- ence? bur P. Hamilton, John H. Smith, William H. Fort Smith District. Dyer, William S. Bristow, Pierce Merrill. 9. White : Colored I.oc'l 'Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are Mem’s. Mem's. Pr's. elected deacons? Henry R. Shinn, John P. Fort Smith: First Church. 265 Humphreys. 2. Central Church 250 2 Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Fort Smith Circuit 384 4 dained deacons ? Henry R. Shinn, John P. Greenwood Circuit 245 4 Ilackett City Circuit 300 1 Humphreys. 2. Sugar Loaf Circuit 236 Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Mansfield Circuit 415 4 deacons? Samuel F. Goddard, Oscar E. Waldron Circuit 396 7 Charleston Circuit 314 6 Goddard, Jesse B. Carter, E. Albert Adney, Booneville Circuit 219! 2: Leonidas B. Monroe, Alfred E. Holloway, Paris Station 134 ...... J Arthur T. Ramsey, Josiah A. Smith, James Roseville Mission 238 i Cauthron Mission 207 2 J. Hol- Greeson, Stonewall Anderson, James Sugar Grove Mission 260 | 1 land, William A. Mitchell, James C. Hooker, I 3,863| 34 Green B. Griffin, Jackson B. McDonald. 15. l Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Clarksville District. dained deacons? J. H. O’Rear, R. A. Mow- Clarksville Station 146 ry, John East, Samuel F. Goddard, Oscar E. Clarksville Circuit 390 S Goddard, Leonidas B. Monroe, Alfred E. Ozark Station 126 Holloway, Josiah A. Smith, James Greeson, Ozark Circuit 325 3 Van Bureu Station 188 X: E. Albert Adney, Stonewall Anderson, James Van Buren Circuit 175 2: \ William A. Mitchell, Jamgs C. Alma and Mulberry Station 120 J. Holland, J Hooker, Green B. Griffin, Jackson B. Mc- Lamar Circuit I 344 t Coal Hill Circuit 212 18. Donald, Jesse M. Williams, R. N. Davis. Altus Circuit 146 2 Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Dyer Circuit 363 & . 1 .

1891. 100 Arkansas Conference ,

Clarksville District {Continued). Eureka Springs Distinct {Continued). White Colored Loc’l White Colored LocT Mem'a. Mem's. PCs. Mem's. Mem'a. Pr's.

126 2 Cassville Mission 55 1 88 155 13? 3 Kingston Mission 18i 4

2,888 23 2,206 27 Recapitulation. Dardanelle District. Fort Smith District 3,863 34 Dardanelle Station... 170 Clarksville 2,888 23 Russellville Station... 138 Dardanelle 3,374 31 Dardanelle Circuit ... 378 Morrillton 4,253 49 Dover Circuit 280 Fayetteville 3,437 30 Appleton Circuit 274 Harrison 3,196 44 Atkins Circuit 497 Eureka Springs 2,106 Danville Circuit 310 Rover Circuit 351 Total this year. 23,217 238 Gravelly Hill Circuit 296 Total last year.. 23,105 251 Walnut* Tree Circuit 316 Prairie Circuit 364 View Increase.. 112 Chickalali Decrease 13 3,374 ,J 31 Ques. 22. many infants have been Morrillton District. How baptized during the year? 660. Morrillton Station 304 23. adults have been Conway Station . 227 15 Ques. How many Quitman Station 205 2 baptized during the year? 1,576. » Springfield and Hill Creek Station 1 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Morrillton Circuit lSpringdale Station 178' Missions? Foreign Missions, $2,330.64 ; Do- Rogers Station ., 98 Bentonville Station 173 mestic Missions, $1,923.90. Total, $4,254.54. Bentonville Circuit 384 Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Center Point-Circuit 282 $823. Prairie Grove Circuit 333 Church Extension? Boonsboro Circuit - 310 Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Elm Springs Circuit 341 is the estimated value, of church edifices? 271 Wedington Circuit value, $172,764. Robinson Circuit 304 Number, 186; Bloomfield Circuit 357 Ques. 32. What is the number, and what 150 White River Mission is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- $36,210. 3,437 30 ber, 76; value, Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Harrison District. tics? Quitman Male and Female College: Harrison and Bellefonte Station... 200 value of property, Teachers, 7 students, 218 ; Bellefonte Circuit 338 ; Teachers, stu- Valley Springs Circuit 391 $40,000. Hendrix College: 7 ; Wiley’s Cove Circuit 261 dents, 158 value of property, $95,000. Gal- 128 ; McPherson Circuit College: Teachers, 20; stu- Mountain Home Circuit 430 loway Female Ytfllville Circuit 216 dents, 240; value of property, $52,000. Four Powell Circuit 223 District High Schools: Teachers, 13; stu- 233 Bead Hill Circuit value of property, $17,500. Witt’s Springs Mission 43 dents, 600; Archie Mission 321 Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Big Flat Mission 138 the Conference be held? Bentonville, Ark. Oakland Mission 126 Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Omaha Mission... Yellville Station 148 tioned this year?

> 3,196 1 44 FORT SMITH DISTRICT, i riel. J. A. Anderson, P. E. Eureka Springs staStation 122 1 Huntsville Circuit. 362 6 Fort Smith : First Church, J. T. Bagwell. Berryville Circuit 280 3 Carrollton Circuit 300 4 Central, J. B. Stevenson. Goshen Circuit 241 3 Fort Smith Circuit, S. F. Goddard. 203 3 King’s River Mission. Hackett City, J. M. McAnally. Clifty Mission 220 3 Jasper Mission 87 Huntington Station, W. P. Hamilton. Arkansas 1891. 101 Conference. ,

Greenwood Circuit, B. T. Crews. Quitman College, 0. II. Tucker, President; Mansfield Circuit, AV. H. Metheny. J. M. Cantrell, Agent. Waldron Circuit, G. W. Dameron. C. B. Moseley, Missionary to Japan. Cauthron Mission, AV. S. Bristow. Sugar Grove Mission, AY. B. Harner, supply. FAYETTEVILLE DISTRICT. Booneville Circuit, J. M. C. Hamilton. F. S. II. Johnston, P. E. Roseville Circuit, J. F. Gates, supply. Paris Station, J. L. Hayes. Fayetteville Station, S. Anderson. Charleston Circuit, J. B. AVinsett. Springdale Station, A. Marston. Galloway Female College, S. H. Babcock, Rogers Station, AV. Sherman. President. Bentonville Station, AV. B. Johnsey. Bentonville Circuit, B. AVilliams. CLARKSVILLE DISTRICT. Center Point Circuit, P. B. Hopkins. Prairie Gro.ve Circuit, P. B. Summers. G. W. Hill, P. E. Elm Springs Circuit, AV. H. Dyer. Clarksville Station, R. M. Traylor. Boonsboro Circuit, J. R. Maxwell. Clarksville Circuit, J. H. Myers. Wedington Circuit, J. J. Holland, supply. Lamar Circuit, G. AV Boy Is. Robinson Circuit, J. H. Sturdy. Ozone Circuit, M. Taylor. W. Springtown Circuit, P. Merrill. Coal Hill Circuit, B. Aston. W. AVhite River Mission, H. A. Armstrong. Altus and AVebb City Station, AV. H. Corley. Sulphur Spring Mission, J. P. Humphreys. Altus Circuit, I. L. Burrow. Prairie Grove Institute, S. M. Godbey, Ozark Station, C. E. McClintock. Principal. Ozark Circuit, Y. A. Gilmore. Mulberry Mission, R. D. Benson, supply. EUREKA SPRINGS DISTRICT. Alma and Mulberry Station, AV. J. Stone. Dyer Circuit, J. E. Martin. A. II. Williams, P. E. AV. Van Buren Station, AV. H. Burns. Eureka Springs Station, J. A. AValden. Van Buren Circuit, J. H. O'Brien, supply. Huntsville Circuit, B. Monk. Chester Circuit, H. M. Conger, supply. Carrollton Circuit, P. P. Burke. Hiram and Lydia College, I. L. Burrow, Berrvville Circuit, D. Reed. President. Goshen Circuit, J. N. Villines. Kingston Circuit, K. S. Vanzandt. DARDANELLE DISTRICT. Hindsville Circuit, S. S. Bristow, supply.

& 8. Key, P. E. , King’s River Mission, AV. H. Hatfield. Russellville Station, B. C. Matthews. Jasper Mission, J. S. Simmons. Dardanelle Station, N. Futrell. Cassville Mission, W. A. Mitchell, supply. ' r St Paul Mission, J. W. Dutton, supply. Dardanelle Circuit, G. AA . 0. Davis. Atkins Circuit, E. L. Massey. AVeslev Mission, to be supplied. Dover Circuit, AV. A. Mclvor. Appleton Circuit, H. R. Shinn. HARRISON DISTRICT. r Prairie View Circuit, J. C. A\ eaver. S. F. Dykes, P. E. Danville Circuit, J. AV. Deshazo. Harrison Station, T. J. Reynolds. Chickalah Circuit, AV. H. H. Gilmore. Yellville Station, D. C. Ross. Rover Circuit, J. E. Dnnnaway. Bellelonte Circuit, J. H. Cummins. Gravelly Hill, J. C. Shipp. Valley Springs Circuit, AV. K. Biggs. Walnut-Tree Circuit, AV. N. Corbett, supply. Yellville Circuit, L. L. Seawell, supply. Mountain Home Circuit. J. C. Hooker. MORRILLTON DISTRICT. T Wiley’s Cove Circuit, J. H. A\ atts. 1). J. Weems, P. E. Lead Hill Circuit, J. W. Griffin. Morrillton Station, J. L. Massey. Powell Circuit, D. H. Groover. Conway Station, V. V. Harlan. Big Flat Circuit, J. S. Hackler. Conway Mission, J. B. McDonald, supply. Archie Circuit, J. M. Hivelv. Quitnmn Station, J. M. Cantrell. Oakland Mission, G. B. Griffin. Quitman Circuit, Z. AV. Lindsey. Omaha Mission, C. C. Johnson, supply. Quitman Mission, J. AV. Harrison, supply. r Plummerville Circuit, AV. P. Whaley, supply. AA . M. Baldwin, I. B. Hickman, J. D. Was- Springfield Circuit, A. C. Ray; I. F. Harris, son, T. A. Martin, J. II. Roberts, and J. M. Junior Preacher. Russell transferred to the Indian Mission Mt. Vernon Circuit, J. H. Smith. Conference. Clinton Circuit, J. M. Williams. R. D. Moon transferred to the Northwest Martinville Circuit, J. E. Sutton. Texas Conference. Perryville Circuit, C. H. Culpepper. B. H. Greathouse transferred to the Texas Perryville Mission, J. A. Mclver. Conference. Cleveland Mission, G. W. Brown, supply. Dr. J. A. Peebles and .T. C. Brown trans- Ada Mission, A, J. Cullum. ferred to the AVhite River Conference. Hendrix College, A. C. Miller, President; E. J. S. Clower and J. J. Tarlton transferred A. Tabor, Agent. to the Little Rock Conference. L

102 Northwest Texas Conference, ISO

NORTHWEST TEXAS CONFERENCE.

Held at Corsicana, Tex., Nov. 25-Dec. 1, 1891.

Bishop Fitzgerald, President; John M. Barcus, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Answer. James Hall, S. B. Sawyers, James I. dained deacons? T. H. Davis, E. C. Martin, Davis, S. Warner Lowe, Edward T. Harri- E. T. Harrison, C. L. Browning, J. A. Noel, son, Ethalmore V. Cox, Paul M. Jones, N. A. T. G. Patterson, L. M. Midgett, W. C. Grant, McLaughlin, J. W. R. Bachman, William B. J. R. Wallace, E. R. Wallace, W. D. Ellis, Ford, Albert Hussey, J. T. Griswold, Charles C. D. Whitely, G. W. James. 13. E. Lindsey, James L. Hollars, Edwin R. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Wallace, Robert H. Goode, James A. Burks, elected elders? George A. Green, George J. Matthew L. Hallenbeek. 18. Irvin, Charles W. Irvin. 3. J. B. Elder, or- Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Charles V. ders recognized fixup the Methodist Protest- Bailey, J. N. Gibson, J. W. Hall, George W. ant Church. Harris, M. E. Hawkins, R. S. Heizer, I. E. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Hightower, William B. McKeown, Tilmon dained elders? G. A. Green, G. J. Irvin, C. G. Patterson, N. B. Read, M. W. Rogers, W. Irvin. 3. James M. Sherman, Charles D. West, Will- Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected iam Garvin. 14. elders? Richard Oden, Emmett Hightow- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. er. 2. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- nection? John M. Hacket, Edward J. Max- dained elders? Richard Oden, Emmett well, George M. Calhoun, James N. Snow, Hightower. 2. Isom N. Burks, Hiram A. Boaz, W. B. Mc- Ques. 16. Who are located this year? M. Keown, M. E. Hawr kins, B. F. Jackson, Will- K. Irvin, J. E. McLeskey, W. A. Derrick, AV. iam C. Hilburn, W. S. P. McCullough, T. J. P. Wilson—at their own request. 4. Lasseter, S. J. Vaughan, E. D. Cameron. 14. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary ? F. P. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Emmety Ray, James D. Odom, D. H. Dickey, John F. Hightowr er, Thomas B. Hilburn. 2. Neal. 4. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? O. M. from other Conferences? R. D. Moon, F. V. Addison, J. M. Jones, A. Davis, Levi F. Col- Hammond, W. D. Bass, H. Bradford, W. INI. lins, H. W. South, J. W. Walk up, Thomas Shelton, William Sproule, J. P. Childress, J. Stanford, John Carpenter, M. Yell, P. W. M. Armstrong, C. A. Evans, J. S. Chapman, Gravis, John Powell, James Grant, W. G. J. W. Adkisson, I. Z. T. Morris, R. A. Ellis, Connor, S. S. Scott, G. W. S wofford, James G. A. Nance, G. C. Summers, A. E. C'arro- Peeler, J. W. Kizziah, J. S. McCarver, W. F. way, J. F. Marshall, S. C. Littlepage, Morris Graves, W. R. D. Stockton, E. R. Barcus, I. Evans, W. H. Le Fevre, C. H. Gregory. 21. N. Reeves, Jere Reese, J. P. Hulse, J. T. Hos- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? mer, M. D. Reynolds. 2G. N. B. Bcsfiiett, C. N. N. Ferguson, J. G. Mil- Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- ler, J. D. Odom, Thomas Ragsdale, J. W. ing the past year? J. M. Johnson, William Storv, George S. Clark, J. T. Blud worth, D. Vaughan, J. Fred Cox. 3. C. Ellis, W. H. Harris, A. B. Roberts, B. A. Snoddv, G. S. Hardy. 13. James M. Johnson was born in McCrack- Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are en County, Ky., November 21, 1817: and at elected deacons? James N. Snow, E. D. about the age of twenty was happily mar- Cameron, William C. Hilburn, T. J. Lasse- ried to Miss Nancy Johnson. To their un- ter, W. S. P. McCullough, Mac M. Smith, H. ion were added four pledges of lovo* John, A. Boaz, George M. Calhoun. 8. James, William, and Samuel. The three Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- first named still survive, but Samuel has dained deacons? J. N. Snow, E. D. Cam- been “gone to the good world” for several eron, W. C. Hilburn, T. J. Lasseter, W. S. P. years, and no doubt rejoined the company McCullough, M. M. Smith, H. A. Boaz, G. M. of his sainted mother, who died in Stephen- Calhoun. 8. yille July 19, 1868. Brother Johnson was Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected married a second time to Miss Mary J. Poe deacons? Thomas H. Davis, E. C. Martin, December 3, 1868. To them were given lorn- one girl. Edward T. Harrison, Caleb L. Browning, precious children : three boys and John A. Noel, T. G. Patterson, Lacy M. Mid- Brother Johnson did not keep a diary, hence gett, William C. Grant. John R. Wallace, little is known of his youth and early life, Edwin R. Wallace, W. D. Ellis, Charles D. but from the data in hand it is evident that White! v. George W. James. 13. he was converted and joined the M. E. — ;

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•Chtirch in the flays of his youth. Soon vive, and help them to say in their hearts: ufter his first marriage he moved to Ala- “Sing on, glorified ones, and ‘in the sweet bama, and was licensed to preach in 1846 or by and by ’ we will join your happy com- 1847. He then moved to Texas in 1848, and pany ‘under the shade of the trees’ "in the stopped nine miles east of Marshall, where city of our God.” It is proper to add, before he remained two years. He joined the closing this memoir, that in all of Brother Texas Conference in 1849, and traveled the Johnson’s itinerant work west of the Brazos Mt. Pleasant Circuit in 1850-51; Sulphur it was necessary for him to carry carnal Bluff Circuit in 1852-53. In 1854 Brother weapons i. e. a six-shooter— in order to f Johnson obtained a supernumerary relation protect and defend himself from the scalp- in order to settle and improve a home for ing knife of the savage Indians, as they his family, which he did on Big Creek, never ceased to visit this country until Hopkins County, where they remained six about a year before he superannuated. Thus years. However, Brother Johnson was su- armed with the habiliments of litoral and pernumerary only two years. Fired with spiritual warfare, he traveled over this West- the missionary spirit, he sold his farm in ern country, planting the cross and unfurl- Hopkins and moved his family west of the ing the banner of salvation to a perishing

Brazos in 1860, and stopped at Stephenville, world. But his work i* done ; he rests from Erath County, and traveled the Stephenville his labors, and his works are following him. and Comanche Mission in 1861-63. He was No doubt many will rise up in that day and then appointed presiding elder of the Lam- call him blessed. pasas District, which he traveled in 1864-67. ^ The boundaries of the district being consid- Wioliam Vaughan, a superannuate mem- erably changed in the fall of 1867, Brother ber of this body, fell aaleep at the home of Johnson served it the fifth year as presid- his son, Dr. Basoom Vaughan, in Hill Coun- ing elder in 1868. He was then returned to ty, February 26, 1891, in the seventy-fourth circuit work and traveled the Grand View year of a most useful life. He was bom in Circuit in 1869; Stephenville Circuit, 1870- Sinclair County, Ala., December 30, 1817. 71; supernumerary, 1872; superannuated, In 1834, at the Goldwine Campground, in 1873, which relation he retained in the Marion County, he was converted, and Northwest Texas Conference until his death, joined the Church of his choice. He was which occurred at his home, near Oak Dale, licensed to preach in 1841, and was admitted Erath County, Tex., February 18, 1891. on trial into the Alabama Conference in the Brother Johnson was one of the thirty- fall of that vear. His first work was as a eight traveling preachers who composed the junior preacher on the Carlton Circuit, his organization of the Northwest Texas Con- second on the Fayetteville Circuit, in the ference at Waxahachie, Tex., October 26, same relation. He was ordained deacon in 1866, Bishop Marvin presiding. It was a 1844, at Wetumpka, admitted into full con- great joy to him that he was permitted to nection, and appointed preacher in charge live to see the membership of the North- of the Jones Valley Circuit, which he served west Texas Conference reach its marvelous two years. Bishop Soule ordained him elder number. Brother Johnson was ordained at Tuscaloosa in November, 1846. He trav- -deacon by Bishop James O. Andrew in eled the following circuits: Lexington, two 1856, and elder by the same bishop in I860. years; Fayetteville, with Charles. Hurt, Jr., He was a man of God, who had received one year; Big Sandy, two years; Brush that most indispensable qualification, “ the Creek, two years; Macon, two years; Co- anointing of the Holy Ghost,” and was in- lumbus, one year; Caledonia, two years: deed a master workman. His premise was Athens, one year; Pickens, /two years; Cal- always well taken, his text well chosen, his edonia, a second term of two years; a col- Scripture quotations well arranged, his ar- ored mission in Caledonia Circuit, two gument invulnerable, his logic invincible, years; Columbus, again, one year; Tuxah- his description wonderfully lucid and clear, paliah, two years. At the end of this pas- and while in his manhood he had a full, torate he was transferred to this Conference, round voice of easy control. There was and was appointed for the remainder of the melody in his songs and power in his elo- year to a charge in Hill County by John S. quence and oratory. Sinners were convicted McCarver, who was presiding elder of the under his preaching, penitents.comforted, Corsicana District. At the session of the and the Church strengthened and edified. Conference in 1869 he was appointed to the He preached his last sermon (from 1 Thess. Peoria Circuit, which he traveled two years

v : 22) eleven days before he died. This text then the Hillsboro Circuit, two years; the was the rule of his life. Bless God, Uncle Chatfield, two; the Milford, one; the Fort Jimmie is done with evil forever, and his Graham, three; the Granburv, two; the glorified spirit is gone to join the company of Simms and Glenwood, three; the Dresden, his sainted companion and children in their two: the East lVaco, one. This long list of “anthems of praise to him who hath loved dry details, dry in their simple statement, but 'them and washed them from their sins in full of our dear brother’s precious life work, his own blood.” May the Lord bless Sister brings us to the end of the year 1887, to him Johnson and all the children who yet sur- a most eventful occasion, for here he must ;

104 Northwest Texas Conference , 1891. receive his last appointment to active work, come among us, will catch the banner of the Bishop Wilson sent him to the West Circuit, cross, which has dropped from the grasp in the Waco District. About January 12, of this failed hero, and bear it on to con- 1888, his gentle wife was stricken with seri- quest and victory, ous illness. He had found her, forty-two years before, away back in the Jones valley J. Fred Cox was born in Washington- Circuit, Alabama Conference, and with unit- County, Tex., April 12, 1838. His father, ed destinies, hearts and hands, they had jour- Euclid M. Cox, fell on the field of battle in neyed together all these years. It was a pit- a fight with the Indians at Battle Creek,

iable sight to see him stand by her bedside Navarro County, Tex. ; his wife remained a and look with such loving solicitude at her widow for forty-six years, and reared her- last sufferings. But it was more touching three children to be models of Christian life still to see her, with her last efforts of cour- and conduct. J. Fred was the second of the age, trying to strengthen him for the ordeal three. He was converted at eight years of at hand. Never had wife been helpmate age, entered McKenzie College at sixteen, in truer, broader sense. It is not detract- and graduated at that institution. While ing from his good name, but it is doing a there he heard the caH of God to preach the necessary deed of justice to her to say that gospel. He was not disobedient to the he could not have made this forty-two years’ heavenly vision, but at once gave his life journey through the wilderness below with- to the work. He was admitted on trial into out her strong, brave heart, cheery voice, the Texas Conference, at Chappell Hill, in and nature of sunshine. On the 25th, after the fall of 1860, Bishop Andrew presiding, an illness of twelve or thirteen days, she He was married in Fort Worth March 23, died. Our brother bore this blow with 1862, to Miss Molly Vannoy, a classmate at Christian resignation, but it was too much McKenzie. Their life was a unit in love for his feeble frame. Soon after he almost and purpose from that time forward. It is lost his voice, and at the ensuing Con- still so, though she is at home on earth with ference he requested a superannuated rela- the children, and he has gone to their final tion. At the end of his one year in this abode. He joined the Confederate Army relation he came “ with the clans,” a year and went with the first company from Tex- ago at Abilene, to render his account. The as as chaplain, and later as First Lieutenant, brethren will remember how he said, at the He was faithful in both offices, in camp, on “ response of his elder, Nothing against him, battlefield, or in the , hospital. He died in ” bishop: “ If, when my name is called over Fort Worth, Tex., May 21, 1891, at 2:05 p.m. yonder, the answer is, ‘ Nothing against him, His appointments in the Conference were

.Lord,’ then, bishop and brethren, I am as follows: In 1860, Corsicana Circuit; 1861 r made up forever.” That solemn roll call chaplain in the army; 1862, Hillsboro Cir- has been made, the great Conference above cuit; 1863, Anderson Circuit; 1864, Fort has heard the angel, as he looks up from the Worth Circuit; 1865, Hillsboro Circuit; 1866, record, say: “Nothing against him, Lord.” Georgetown Circuit; 1867, Brazos Circuit; “ He that sitteth upon the throne ” hath 1868, Port Sullivan and Cameron 1869, ; said, the character of our brother Waxahachie Station 1870, Georgetown Cir- “Then ; passes without your vote,” and our dear cuit; 1871, agent of Owensville High School “Uncle Billy” is “made up forever.” Of 1872, Wheelock Circuit; 1873. Groesbeck Cir- him as a preacher it is impossible for any cuit; 1875-76, Hillsboro Circuit; 1877, Cal- pen to adequately speak. All judges, even vert and Hearne; 1878-79, presiding elder the most critical, would characterize him as of the Georgetown District; 1880-81, Waxa- a preacher of rare and w'onderful power, hachie Circuit; 1882-83, professor in Marvin- With few sermons, comparatively speaking, College; 1884-85, Ennis Station; 1886, pre- and these repeated on occasions almost ver- siding elder of the Abilene District; 1887- batim, he had a versatility which brought 89, presiding elder of the Fort Worth Dis- him into demand at every Annual Confer- trict; 1890, junior preacher at Mulkey Me- ence, and upon other special occasions, when morial. He was at the organization of this packed houses heard him with hushed at- Conference, and through the twenty-five tention. His versatility was of that kind, years of our history he has been held in our not unknown among us, which comes of the fullest confidence and love. He was for a divine anointing and makes the same ser- long time .a member of our Board of Publi-

7 7 mon always new . He talked as if he w ere cation, for several years Treasurer of the inspired, and he was. When preaching on Board of Missions, and a member of the the transfiguration of our Saviour, he was General Conferences of 1886 and 1890. He transfigured himself, and his hearers with lived and died on the effective list. I quote him. With Peter, they saw the shining now from the obituary written by the Secre- Christ, Moses, and Elias, and fain would tary of our Conference: “Early in 1890 he build them tabernacles and dwell there for- began to suffer with a throat affection. At ever. As a man Brother Vaughan wT as as first he thought it only temporary trouble,., simple as a child and as true as steel. His but it grew more and more serious, baffled like in many respects we shall never see the skill of the best physicians, and was fi- again. But we may hope that his son, lateiy nally pronounced a hopeless case. His suf- Northwest Texas Conference, 1891. ferings were great; he could neither eat nor glory among the blood-washed throng. The drink without great pain, and for weeks be- voice that once spoke so earnestly for God,, fore his death he could not drink water at then sank for a year into a whisper, scarcely all. Yet no murmur escaped his lips. The audible, now sings in clearest tones the song trial was great, but he bore it like a martyr. of the Redeemer. His wife and children His sick chamber became the vestibule of gaze into the mists of death’s river and faith heaven. So unselfish, so patient, so cheer- sees his form and hears his song, and they, ful, so hopeful. As the end drew near he and the Northwest Texas Conference, say; became a little impatient to go. On Wednes- “ We will meet him again.” day, while his mind was as clear as ever and he was perfectly conscious, he saw angel Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in spirits in his room, and said that they had their life and official administration? Their come for him. But said he: ‘There are so names were called over, one by one, and many of you holding me back you wont their characters examined and passed. ; let me go now but maybe you will let me Ques. 21. What is the number of local ; go this evening.’ Turning to his precious preachers and members in the several cir- ’ ‘ wife, he said : ‘Won’t you let me go? Yes, cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- darling,’ she said, ‘ I have many a time stayed ence? with the children and let you go, and I’m Georgetown District. White Colored I.oc’l willing to do it again.’ His' son said: ‘Papa, Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. where are you going? ’ He pointed upward, and said: ‘To heaven, of course; there is Georgetown Station 562 32 but one place to go.’ Many were his ex- West Georgetown Circuit 97 3 Liberty Hill and Leander. 247 1 pressions of triumph. Those who looked Bertram and Mt. Horeb 242 on him ‘ saw his face as it had been the face Burnett Station 213 1 of an angel.’ He approached the end with Marble Falls Mission 174 5- Florence Circuit 361 4 the tread of passed through a conqueror, and Round Rock Circuit 266 1 the gate of death into eternal life without a Taylor Station 191 ] struggle or a shudder. He leaves among us East Taylor Mission 100 Jonah Circuit 195 his faithful wife, four sons, and two daugh- Bartlett Circuit 435 3 T ters. His surviving brethren w ill breathe a South Belton Circuit 193 1 prayer for God’s blessing on those he loved North Belton Circuit 417 1 Belton Station 458158 2 so fondly. May we all meet in heaven!” Corn Hill and Salado 541 J. Fred Cox was small in stature, but large in heart. His open countenance was a correct expression of the truth and candor of Waco District. Waco: Fifth Street his character. His broad, high forehead was Morrow Street a true index of a massive brain. His calm, East Waco and Tenth Street

blue eyes revealed both the courage of a Whitney Circuit 425 i 4

Lorena Circuit 391 | hero and a charity akin to that of the Son of Temple Station 300 2 God. He loved his friends with an undying Abbott Circuit 527 3 love. When misfortune overtook them, his Bruceville Circuit 619. %' Oenaville Circuit 428 1 friendship grew stronger, and if they sinned Bosqueville Circuit 393 * 8 he wept, but his love was the same. As a Rogers Circuit 134 1 preacher he was methodical, clear, instruct- West Circuit 363 3 McGregor Circuit 411 2 3 ive, scriptural. edifying, and always The Crawford and Valley Mills 137 3 Church of Christ invariably grew under his Clifton Mission 161 1 ministry. In Conference, in cabinet, in com- Mart Mission mittee, in office, he was always outspoken, brave, and true. When momentous issues Corsicana District. were on us, we instinctively turned to him Corsicana Station for counsel, and he gave us words and works Corsicana Circuit Wortham Circuit of wisdom. At home, with his wife and Mt. Calm Circuit children, he was a guide, support, and wor- Dresden Circuit thy model. Earth is much richer because Irene Circuit Itasca Circuit he lived. Heaven is happier and more to Rice and Chatfield be desired because he is there. He had Kerens Circuit much treasure before him, and much more Mexia Circuit Groesbeck Circuit in will follow him. His name will be kept Covington Circuit 281 the minutes as one of our ascended heroes. Thornton Circuit 325 The name of his dear wife will, we trust, Mexia Station 200 Hillsboro Station his 288 long continue on our roll of honor, and Drane Mission 60 sons, just now received on trial into our Bethel Mission 37 Conference, will, we doubt not, keep the name in sweet rhythm, on the Conference Waxahachie District. roll, by noble work among the effective Waxahachie Station. preachers of the gospel. The life that was Waxahachie Circuit. hidden with Christ in God is revealed in Alvarado Station Grand View Circuit.... 5 Lipan Circuit -.. Sims and Glen wood ... 2 Carlton Circuit Italy Circuit 2 Comanche and De Leon, Avalon Circuit Reason Circuit Ennis Circuit Brownwood District. Bristol Circuit Brownwood Station Lancaster Ferris, and Coleman Station -Oak Cliff Station Wesley and Rush Santa Afia Circuit Ballinger Circuit Red Oak Circuit May Circuit Indian Creek Circuit Glen Cove Circuit Fort Worth District. Comanche Circuit Fort Worth: First Church Zephyr Circuit Missouri Avenue Goldthwaite Circuit Mulkey Memorial Milton Circuit Mansfield Circuit Cottonwood Circuit Glen Rose Mission Sipe Springs Mission Granbury Station Round Mountain Circuit. Cleburne' Station Fort Cliadbourne Mission Kopperl Mission Camp Colorado Mission ... Arlington Circuit Acton Circuit Bluff Dale Circuit Weatherford District. Fort Worth Circuit Barton’s Creek Mission Marystown Circuit Boonville Circuit . Morgan and Blum Whitt and Jacksboro . Cleburne Circuit Weatherford Circuit Weatherford Station East Weatherford Circuit Vernon District. Springtown and Goshen Garvin Circuit "Margaret Mission Bryson Mission— - Mack Circuit Graham Station Quanah and Childress Finis Circuit- Cliillicothe Circuit Mineral Wells. Vernon Station Caddo Mission Vernon Mission Farmer Circuit Frazier Mission Duke Mission... Mangum Mission — Clarendon Mission- Gatesville District. Wellington Mission, 1 Gatesville Station Amarillo Mission— 2 Lampasas Station Plain View Mission., 3 Meridian Station Della Plain Mission 3 Iredell and Walnut Benjamin Mission Killeen Circuit Seymour Station Martin Gap Circuit.... — Henson Creek Circuit 34 Hamilton Circuit Abilene District. Shive Circuit Lampasas Mission Abilene Station Brookhaven Mission ... Big Springs and Midland. Copperas Cove Circuit, Albany Station Bee House Circuit Colorado Station Hico Circuit Sweet Water Circuit Jonesboro Circuit- Baird Circuit Coryell City Circuit— Anson Circuit Buffalo Gap Circuit Throckmorton Circuit Recapitulation. Haskell Station Georgetown District Mission Roby aco “ Abilene Mission W Corsicana “ Snyder Mission Waxaliachic “ Stonewall Mission Fort Worth “ Haskell Mission “ Mission Vernon Colorado Abilene “ Hitson Mission ... Cisco “ Brownwood “ Weatherford “ Cisco District. Gatesville “ >Carbon Circuit Dublin Station Total this year 50,785 Armstrong Mission Total last year 43,659 Steplienville Circuit East Stephenville Mission Increase amBreckinridgeccium mge Circuit Decrease 'Crystal Falls Circuit Cisco Station infants have been Cisco Circuit Ques. 22. How many Eastland Circuit baptized daring the year? 2 170. Gordon and Strawn .... Ques. 23. How many adults have been Green’s Creek Circuit year? 3,733. Sipe Springs and Rising Star baptized during the . Northwest Texas Conference, 1891. 107

Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Whitney Circuit, G. A. Green. schools? 400. Dripping Springs Mission, G. Wi, Harris. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Mart Mission, N. M. McLaughlin. school teachers? 2,922. Temple Station, C. S. Field; D. II. Dickey, Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Sup. school scholars? 24,104. South Temple Mission, W. H. Terry. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Rogers Circuit, E. W. Simmans. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Bosqueville Circuit, J. P. Calloway. ows and orphans of preachers? $6,500. Waco Female College, F. T. Mitchell, Agert. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the i foregoing account, and how has it been ap- .CORSICANA DISTRICT. plied? $6,309.15. Applied to claimants. v George S. Wyatt, P. E. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Missions? Foreign Missions, Do- Station, J. R. Nelson. $1 0,492.44 ; Corsicana mestic Missions, $7,556.30. Total, $18,048.74. Corsicana Circuit, J. M. Bond. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Mt. Calm Circuit, M. B. Johnson. Church Extension? $3,258 60. Hubbard City Mission, W. J. Lemons.

Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Dawson Circuit, W. D. Bass. , is the estimated value, of church edifices? Wortham Circuit, H. Bradford. Number, 292; value, $473,594.25. Kerens Circuit, N. A. Keen. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Mexia Station, W. M. Shelton. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Mexia Circuit, R. R. Raymond. ber, 124; value, $109,995.10. Groaebeck Circuit, W. H. Moss. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Thornton Circuit, G. J. Irvin. tics? No report. Hillsboro Station, M. S. Hotchkiss. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Itaska Circuit, C. E. Galligher. the Conference be held? Waco, Tex. Bethel Mission, to be supplied (by R. Oden). Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Dresden Circuit, M. H. Major. tioned this year? Irene Circuit, J. W. Sansom. Rice and Chatfield Circuit, G. S. Clark. r GEORGETOWN DISTRICT. Drane Mission, to be supplied (by C. W . Young). Horace Bishop P. E. , Georgetown Station, Samuel P. Wright. WAXAHACIIIE DISTRICT. North Georgetown Circuit, to be supplied John S. Davis, P. E. (by R. J. Tooley).

Florence Circuit, J. M. Sherman, Waxahachie Station, John A. Wallace ; F. P. Round Rock Circuit, A. P. Smith. Ray, Sup. Liberty Hill and Leander, H. B. Henry. Waxahachie Circuit, W. E. Hawkins. Bertram and Horeb, J. W. Story. Simms and Glenwood, J. E. Walker. Burnett Station, C. W. Daniel. Italy Circuit, S. J. Franks. Marble Falls Mission, R. H. Simpson. Reagor Circuit, R. D. Moon. Taylor Station, E. A. Smith. Avalon Circuit, T. G. Patterson. East Taylor Mission, James Hall. Bristol Circuit, William Sproule. Jonah Circuit, H. A. Boaz. Ennis Station, J. A. Walkup. Bartlett Circuit, E. T. Harrison. Lancaster and Ferris, J. P. Childress. Holland Mission, C. D. West. Oak Cliff Station, T. S. Armstrong. Corn Hill and Snlado, C. J. Shutt. South Oak Cliff Mission, S. W. Lowe. Belton Station, C. R. Wright. Wheatland and AVest Dallas, B. A. Thoma- South Belton Circuit, I. N. Burks. son. North Belton Circuit, W. W. Henderson. Red Oak Circuit, F. M. Winburne. Ocala Circuit, to be supplied (by J. T. W hite). Grand View Circuit, H. C. Jolly. Alvarado Station, J. M. Armstrong. WACO DISTRICT. Tract Agent, George W. Owens.

R. C. Armstrong, P. E. FORT WORTH DISTRICT. Waco: Fifth Street, H. A. Bourland. W. L. Nelms, P. E. Morrow Street, F. V. Hammond. East Waco and Tenth Street, C. N. N. Fer- Fort Worth: First Church, AY. F. Lloyd. guson. Missouri Avenue, T. C. Ragsdale. Lorena Circuit, Charles Davis. Mulkev Memorial, J. W. Hampton. Bruceville Circuit. W. T. Melugin. Fort Worth Mission, C. A. Evans. Moody Station, M. L. Moody. Arlington Circuit, D. C. Ellis. Oenaville Circuit, W. M. Adams. Mansfield Circuit, E. Hightower. Crawford and Valley Mills, J. J. Davis. Marystown Circuit, J. R. Steele. McGregor Circuit, J.’ D. Crockett. Cleburne Station, J. S. Chapman. West Circuit, S. Morriss. Cleburne Circuit, B. F. Badgett, Abbott Circuit, S. B. Ellis. Cresson Circuit, W. K. Simpson. 108 Northwest Texas Conference, 1891.

Granbury Station, T. W. Rogers. De Leon Circuit, T. B. Hilburn. Glen Rose Circuit, H. M. Glass. Carbon Circuit, R. H. Good®. Morgan and Walnut, J. G. Miller. Dublin Station, J. H. Chambliss. Blum Circuit, A. Long. Green’s Creek Circuit, B. F. Gassaway. Bluff Dale Circuit, S. C. Vaughan. Armstrong Mission, E. R.- Wallace. Covington Circuit, J. M. Hacket. Stephenville Circuit, J. J. Harris. Sunday School Agent, J. H. Collard. Duffau Circuit, J. H. Trimble. Granbury College, E. M. Sweet and R. F. Carlton Circuit, J. A. Gardner. Dunn, Professors. Hick Circuit, G. M. Calhoun. Polytechnic College, J. W. Adkinson, Presi- Rising Star and Pisgah, M. M. Smith. dent. Sipe Springs Circuit, J. A. Burks. Colporter, I. Z. T. Morris. Proctor Mission, to be supplied (by U. J- Morton). VERNON DISTRICT. GATESVILLE DISTRICT. M. K. Little, P. E. G. W. Graves, P. E. Vernon Station, John M. Barcus. Vernon Mission, E. T. Bates. Gatesville Station, G. F. Boyd. Mack Circuit, L. G. Rogers. Lampasas Station, James Mackey. Seymour Station, C. D. Jordan. Lampasas Miasion, G. D. Wilson. Benjamin Circuit, J. T. Griswold. Lometa Circuit, M. L. Hallenbeck. Crowel Circuit, J. R. Henson. Bee House Circuit, R. S. Heiser. Chillicothe Circuit, to be supplied;. J. D. Copperas Cove Circuit, W. H. Harris; J. F. Odom, Sup. Neal, Sup. Quanah and Childress, R. A. Ellis. Evant Circuit, G. A. Nance. Childress Mission, Thomas Duncan. Jonesboro Circuit, M. Mills. Frazier Mission, G. S. Hardy. Gatesville Circuit, J. W. Hall. Duke Mission, to be supplied. Brook haven Mission, to be supplied. Mangum Mission, A. B. Trimble. Coryell City Circuit, W. B. McKeown. Clarendon and Claude, B. M. Stephens. Killeen Circuit, A. B. Roberts. Amarillo Station, J. N. Gibson. Hamilton and Shive Circuit, D. T. Holmes. Plainview Circuit, B. F. Jackson. Meridian Station, W. E. Caperton. Floyd and Brisco, W. B. Ford. Martin Gap Circuit, G. C. Summers. Guthrie Mission, R. M. Morris. Iredell and Hico Circuit, William Price. Mobeetie Mission, S. B. Sawyer. Harmony Chapel Circuit, W. V. Jones. Seymour Mission, to be supplied. Memphis Mission, C. S. McCarver. BROWNWOOD DISTRICT. Amarillo Circuit, to be supplied. J. P. Mussett, P. E. WEATHERFORD DISTRICT. Brownwood Station, J. G. Putmarw Coleman Station, A. E. Carraway. J. T. L. Annas, P. E. Santa Afia Circuit, J. W. Dickinson. Weatherford Station, E. F. Boone. Ballinger Station, J. N. Snow. Weatherford: Spring Street, M. R. T. Davis. Ballinger Mission, W. S. P. McCullough. Aledo Circuit, G. W. Bruce. Robert Lee Mission, D. C. Stark. Springtown Station, C. W. Irvin. May Circuit, G. F. Fair. Springtown Circuit, N. B. Bennett Indian Creek Circuit, T. J. Lasseter. Garvin Circuit, I. E. Hightower. Glen Cove Circuit, R. W. Welborn. .Tacksboro Station, C. V. Bailey. Comanche Station, C. V. Oswalt. Whitt Circuit, C. Rowland. Comanche Circuit, J. T. Bludworth. Graham Station, A. T. Culbertson. Zephyr Circuit, D. Morgan. Booneville Circuit, J. S. Tunnell, Goldthwaite Station, W. C. Hilburn. Bryson Mission, C. E. Lindsley. Mullen Circuit, to be supplied (by G. W- Finis Circuit, J. W. Montgomery. Templin). Farmer Circuit, B. A. Snoddy. Thrifty Circuit, J. W. R. Bachman. New Hope Mission, J. M. Hollars. Cottonwood Circuit, W. A. Gilleland. Barton Creek Circuit, A. Hussey. Santo Mission, J. M. Baker. ABILENE DISTRICT. Mineral Wells Circuit, H. H. Vaughan. ' E. L. Armstrong, P. E. Weatherford Circuit, E. J. Maxwell. Abilene Station, S. R. Hay. CISCO DISTRICT. Albany Station, C. C. Armstrong. Big Springs and Midland, N. B. Read. E. A. Bailey, P. E. Colorado Station, B. R. Bolton. Cisco Station, R. A. Hall. Haskell Station, J. Haralson. Breckinridge Circuit, S. J. Vaughan. Anson Circuit, I. L. Mills. Eliasville Circuit, M. W. Rogers. Weinda Circuit, to be supplied (by T. C. Eastland Circuit, J. J. Canafax. Eason h Gordon and Strawn, V. V. Cox. Sweet Water Circuit, J. H. Wiseman. Little Bock Conference, 1891. 109

Merkel Circuit, J. C. Carter. Snyder Mission, R. V. Galloway. Baird Circuit, W. L. Harris. Iatan Mission, T. L. Adams. Buffalo Gap Circuit, J. T. Rascoe. Throckmorton Circuit, W. P. Garvin. J. F. Marshall, Morris Evans, W. F. Le- Abilene Mission, J. B. Elder. Fevre, A. K. Miller, E. D. Dameron, T. B. Roby Mission, J. I. Davis. Norwood, C. H. Gregory, and S. C. Little- Rayner Mission, P. M. Jones. page transferred to other Conferences.

LITTLE ROCK CONFERENCE.

Held at Arkadelphia, Ark., December 2-7, 1891.

Bishop Duncan, President; J. R. Moore, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Couch, Lewis Christian, E. F. Wilson, F. G. Answer. Edwin R. Steel, Samuel W. Rainey, Davis. 9. Luther C. Wilson, James Thomas, John F. Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Taylor, Matthew W. Manville, Samuel C. dained deacons? L. C. Wilson, D. C. Col- Dean, Alexander C. Kelly. 8. George W. quette, F. P. Allgood, J. W. Miller, T. E. McCarty remains in this class. Bolding, Lewis Christian, E. F. Wilson, T. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? E. F. Wil- G. Crouch, J. A. Henderson. 9. son, J’. A. Henderson, J. W. Yantrease, J. J. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Colson, W. C. Hilliard, T. E. Bolding, G. E. elected elders? J. M. Pinnell, R. J. Raiford, Parsons, H. D. Thweatt, F. P. Doak, R. G. B. A. Few, G. W. Rice, A. M. Robertson. 5. Rowland. 10. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? David dained elders? J. M. Pinnell, R. J. Raiford, Bolls, by vote of Conference; Samuel W. B. A. Few, G. W. Rice, A. M. Robertson. 5. Rainey, at his own request. 2. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- elders? B. A. White, G. E. Parsons. 2. nection? G. E. Cameron, G. C. Jones, J. J. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Menefee, W. J. Hearon, C. R. Montgomery, dained elders? B. A. White, G. E. Parsons. 2.

B. A. White, R. T . Riley, J. R. Rushing, F. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? W. N. Brewer, H. M. Whaling. 10. A. Freeman, G. E. Cameron—at their own Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? J. W. F. request, 2. » :Scott, William F. Locke, L. M. Powell. 3. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? H. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer R. Withers, H. Townsend. 2. from other Conferences? J. S. Clower, J. J. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? An- Tarlton, from the Arkansas Conference; E. drew Hunter, A. W. Simmons, W. J. Scott, M. Pipkin, from the White River Conference; R. H. Saunders, A. Avery, J. E. Caldwell, A. R. D. Smart, from the South Carolina Con- B. Winfield, J. H. Blakely, Joseph Turren- ference; J. F. Follen, from the Texas Con- tine, E. N. Watson. 10. ference. 5. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? ing the past year? Benjamin Watson, Z. F. J. Shaw, K. W. Dodson, C. W. Drake, W. W. Richardson. 2.

. r . Evans, G. S. Turrentine, Edward Rush- ing, G. S. Saxton, B. F. Scott, A. S. Scott, J. Benjamin Watson, son of Benjamin and W:F. Scott. 10. Elizabeth Watson, was born in Hyde Coun- Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are ty, North Carolina, April 10, 1810; and de- elected deacons? G. E. Cameron, G. C. parted this life March 23, 1891. Under the Jones, W. J. Hearon, C. R. Montgomery, J, pious training of a Methodist mother, he

. R. Rushing, F. N. Brewer. 6. J. J. Mene- was led to Christ in his youth, became a fee, B. A. White, and R. T. Riley, of this member of the Church in his twenty-first class, are already deacons. year, and was licensed to preach in June. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- 1831, and employed immediately on the dained deacons? G. E. Cameron, G. C. Roanoke Circuit of the Virginia Conference. Jones, W. J. Hearon, C. R. Montgomery, J. He was received on trial in the Virginia R. Rushing, F. N. Brewer. 6. Conference in 1832, and appointed to Wil- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected liamsburg Circuit; 1833, Amherst Circuit; deacons? L. C. Wilson, D. C. Colquette, F. 1834-35, Tarboro Circuit; and 1836, Raleigh I P. Allgood, J. W. Miller, T. E. Bolding, T.G. Circuit. During these years the ministry of — !

110 Little Rock Conference , 1891. the young preacher was attended with great battles bravely, but his early manhood was revival power. The converts were numbered given to the service of Satan. G. T. Sulli- by many hundreds every year. In the midst van, of the Memphis Conference, gives the of a great revival on Raleigh Circuit a blood following description of his conversion: vessel w as ruptured in his lungs, and he wr as “ My acquaintance w ith Z. W. Richardson brought down apparently to death’s door. began in the summer of 1877. I wr as assist- There followed a lingering sickness and dis- ing George K. Brooks in a meeting at Hayes ability for some years; indeed, a nervous Avenue Church, Jackson, Tenn., which trembling continued all his life. After re- meeting continued three weeks, resulting in covering sufficiently to do so, he removed to eighty-two conversions; and Brother Rich- Tennessee; and in 1838-40 he taught school ardson was one of them. I shall never for- in Hardeman County, preaching as strength get my first conversation with him. In and opportunity served. He was transferred company with a young friend of his, in to the Memphis Conference in 1841, and ap- Jackson, he approached me one morning ointed to Salem Circuit; in 1842-44, to the second w eek of the meeting—and these ‘ ?aris District in 1845. to Holly Springs Cir- are about the words he spoke : I am very ; cuit; in 1846, to Marshall Circuit; in 1847, much interested in the question of personal to Hernando Circuit. On this circuit he was religion, that you are earnestly discussing prostrated with throat disease, and the next day and night in this meeting; but I have year closed a fruitful wTork of eight years read Thomas Paine and Hume until I have in the Memphis Conference. Not many re- become very skeptical. Tell me something member these revivals in the forties. They that will relieve me. There must be some- were more than forty years ago, and the thing real about this thing, for I see unmis- great company of the worshipers had passed takable evidence.’ Being but a boy, and in away before the preacher who pointed them my second year as a preacher, I hesitated to- so successfully to Christ. No longer able to say anything, but requested him to return preach as before, he devoted himself to for the night service, which he promised to- teaching. Having been elected President of do. That night great pow'er fell upon the Soulesbury Institute, at Batesville, Ark., he congregation and preacher. When penitents transferred to the Arkansas Conference in were invited, Zac.h Richardson was among 1849. This wras forty-twr o years ago. From them. O howr he prayed! Shall I ever for- that time he was chiefly engaged in educa- get it? He wTent away without the witness. tional work at Batesvilie, Tulip, Hamburg, Next morning, before preaching, an oppor- Holly Springs, and Toledo, until disabled by tunity was given for experience from young the infirmities of age. His was always pre- converts. Among the first to rise wr as this eminently a religious school. His solicitude skeptical young man. Said he: ‘I have for the salvation of his pupils knew no rest. been miserable all night. On inv way to He counted a session a failure if the pupils this service this morning an inexpressible converted. His sermons and peace filled my soul my soul is all love to were not ; prayers and personal pleadings and exhor- God. I cannot see him; but my faith saves tations prevailed. Many mothers who pre- me, and Christ’s blood cleanses me. I am side to-day in Christian homes were con- his, nowr and forever.’ We had no preaching

verted in his schools, and their ministry that, morning, for that was gospel : and transmitted the sacred wr ork to their chil- mourners crowded the altar, and many dren and their children’s children. For the more rejoiced in the same forgiveness.” He last ten years of his life he was blind, and entered the Memphis Conference, at Browns- suffered much from isolation, poverty, and ville, in the fall of 1877. Several years he full of religious fervor. preached in the White River Conference; affliction ; but he was His interest in the work of the Church spent several more in the local ranks. He knew no abatement. It was a benediction entered the Little Rock Conference at Pine to visit the old veteran, and hear him recount Bluff tw'o years ago; traveled the Hickory the conflicts passed, and read the hope that Plains Circuit the past year. This year he brightened his future. His energy and suc- was sent to Emmett Circuit. He began cess in his ministerial work were alike re- wrell, but God called him to the triumphs of markable. Fourteen years ago he deliber- heaven. Nine days after his death w7 e laid ately penned this statement: “I think I to rest his loving companion. The blow have traveled, in attending ministerial was too great. What a sad, sad scene ! The work, at least 60,000 miles, preached 7,000 three little children—fatherless, motherless sermons, and received 10,000 souls into the The Christian people of-Emmett cared for Methodist Church.” them until they were taken to the home of their aunt, Mrs. Scarboro. We learn that Z. W. Richardson passed away February the babe has since died. May God be mer- girl! 6, 1891, of pneumonia, contracted while in ciful to the remaining boy and the discharge of his duty. His illness was short and severe. His early years were Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless spent in Tennessee. Then he gave promise in their life and official administration? of a brilliant life. He was left fatherless Their names wr ere called over, one by one, when quite young. He fought life’s young and their characters examined and passed. . .

Little Bock Conference, 1891. Ill

). Ques. 21. What is the number of local Washington District ( Continued preachers and members in the several cir- White Colored Loc'l cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Mem’s. Mem's. Pr's. ence? 216 1 158 1 Little Rock District. Chapel Hill 415 fr 127 1 White Colored Loo' I 651 3 Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. 588 4 450 1 441 Texarkana 100 2 322 257 165 2 278 6 4.525 27 265 1 22 l Camden District 202 1 331 1 211 421 2 387 128 1 Ouachita 394 1 206 1 Carolina 440 1 England Circuit 311 5 210 1 600 3 383 1 361 2 3,692 23 380 425 2 Pine Bluff District. Lapile 441 Hampton 2 < Pine Bluff: First Church. 43S 200 2 Lakeside 112 263 i Sheridan 391 310 2 Toledo 321 300 2 Kingsland 352 New Edinburg 490 5,070 2b Lehi 365 Auburn 165 Monticello District. Arkansas Post. 254 White River 419 Monticello Station 145 De Witt 186 Mt. Pleasant Circuit .. 370 Stuttgart 38 Lacy Circuit 255 1 Old River 36 Selma Circuit 309 2 Pastoria 140 Holly Grove Circuit ... 96 a Redfield 216 Arkansas City Station 27 Lake Village 10 3.923 3 19 Cariola Circuit 75 1 Bartholomew Circuit 169 1 Hot Springs District. Fountain Hill Circuit 317 4

Hamburg Station 104 1 Hot Springs; Central Avenue 338 3 Hamburg Circuit 241 3 112 3 Palestine Circuit Glen Street and ^lalvern Hill ... i90 1 Warren Station 155 365 4 216 1 1 2,630 15 301 5 437 5 Recapitulation. 368! 4 232 5 Little Rock District. 3,692 23 290 6 Pine Bluff “ 3.923 3 19 Cove 171 1 4 Hot Springs “ 3.448 2 45 Saline 428 4 Arkadelphia “ 5,356 27 Washington “ 4,525 27 3,448 2 45 Camden “ 5,070 20 Monticello “ 2,630 15 Arkadelphia District. Total this year. 28,644 5 176 Arkadelphia 324 2 Total last year 27,441 6 180 250 1 116 1 Increase 1,203 510 1 Decrease.. 350 1 260 4 364 2 Ques. 22. How many infants have been 400 baptized during the year? 811. Tulip 572 2 510 2 Ques. 23. How many adults have been 427 6 baptized during the year? 1,879. 238 1 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday 390 2 645 2 schools? 377. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday 5,356 27 school teachers? 2,198. Washington District. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday school scholars? 17,629. ier 1 301 2 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for 454 the superannuated preachers, and the wid- 193 1 orphans of preachers? $4,131. 276 4 ows and Fulton 175 1 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the 112 LUtlle Bock Conference, 1891. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- MONT1CELLO DISTRICT. plied? |3,753.45. Applied to claimants. A. 0. Evans , P. E. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Station, F. Follen. Missions? Foreign Missions, $5,847.25; Do- Monticello J. Pleasant Station, W. M. Crowson. mestic Missions, $3,322.35. Total, $9,169.60. Mt. Star City Circuit, C. R. Montgomery. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Lacy Circuit, W. C. Hilliard. Church Extension? $2,100. T Tillar Circuit, W. J. Rogers. Ques. 31. W hat is the number, and what Arkansas City and Dermott, L. B. Hawley. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Lake Yillage and Cariola, T. D. Scott. Number, 355 7-10; value, $277,312. Macon Hill’s Circuit, to be supplied (by G. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what W. Duncan). is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Bartholomew Circuit, J. M. PinnelL ber, value, $60,296. Hamburg Station, Boone Keeton. 63 ; Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Hamburg Circuit, R. J. Raiford. tics? Hendrix College: Teachers, 7; stu- Berea Circuit, E. F. Wilson. dents, 135 value of property, $95,000. Palestine Circuit, F. J. Shaw. ; T Galloway Female College: Teachers, 20; W arren Station, S. N. Burns. students^ 250; value of property, $50,000. Arkadelphia Methodist College: Teachers, CAMDEN DISTRICT. students, value of property, $40,000. 10; 170; J. R. Cason P. E. Little Rock Conference Training School:. , Teachers, 3; students, 100; value of proper- Camden Station, J. F. Carr. tv. $3,000. Stuttgart Collegiate Institute: Camden Circuit, E. L. Beard. Teachers, 2; students, 50; value of property, Ouachita Circuit, J. M. Cline. Carolina Circuit, B. A. Few. $6 000 . , Sanders. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Magnolia Station, J. R. the Conference be held? Magnolia, Ark. Stephens and Waldo, J. A. Sa»e. Atlanta Circuit, J. H. Bradford. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- El Dorado Circuit, G. W. Logan. tioned this year? Lapile Circuit, J. R. Rushing. Hampton Circuit, J. B. Thomas. LITTLE ROCK DISTRICT. Fordyce Station, R. R. Moore. H. H. Watson, P. E. Bearden Circuit, J. S. Nicholson. Buckner Circuit, J. J. Menefee. Little Rock: First Church, R. D. Smart. Lewisville Circuit, W. W. Mills. Winfield Memorial, E. N. Evans; H. R. Magnolia Circuit, J. L. Johnston. Withers, Sup. Asbury, W. A. Steel. WASHINGTON DISTRICT. Mabelvale Circuit, J. A. Henderson. G. M. Hill, P. E. Maumelle Circuit, F. P. Doak. Liberty, R. C. Atchley. Prescott Station, T. H. Ware. Austin Circuit, J. S. Clower. De Ann Circuit, B. G. Johnson. Lonoke Station, W. F. Evans. Emmett Circuit, R. W. McKay. Hickory Plains Circuit, K. W. Dodsoti. Hope Station, John McLauchlan. Des Arc and De Vail’s Bluff, J. M. D. Sturgis. Washington Circuit, J. C. Rhodes. Carlisle and Hazen, C. L. Adams. Fulton and College Hill, G. S. Sexton. Wattensas Circuit, S. C. Dean. Genoa Circuit, B. F. Scott. England Circuit, J. W. F. Scott. Pevtonville Circuit, E. R. Steel. Richmond and Rocky Comfort, C. D. Mc- Swain. DISTRICT. PINE BLUFF Little River Circuit, R. T. Riley. Chapel Hill Circuit, L. M. Powell. J. H. Riggin, P. E. Locksburg Circuit, A. M. Robertson. Pine Bluff: First Church, J. R. Moore. Mineral Springs Circuit, J. H. Gold. Lakeside, C. B. Brinkley. Center Point Circuit, H. B. Scruggs. Sheridan Circuit, G. S. Turrentine. Nashville Circuit, J. W. Rerry. Toledo Circuit, J. D. Whitesides. Kingsland Circuit, F. N. Brewer. ARKADELPHIA. DISTRICT. New Edinburg Circuit, B. A. White. H. I). McKinnon, P. E. Lehigh Circuit, G. W. McCarty. Arkansas Post Circuit, L. C. Wilson. Arkadelphia Station, H. M. Whaling. 'White River Circuit, G. V. Parsons. Clark Circuit, J. M. G. Douglass. ’ De Witt Circuit, H. D. Thweatt. Smithton Circuit, W. .T. Hebron. Goldman Circuit, T. E. Bolding. Gurdon and Bierne, W. J. Davis. Stuttgart Station, William F. Locke. Okolona Circuit, A. Turrentine. •Old River Circuit, W. H. Browning. Murfreesboro Circuit, J. J. Tarlton. Pastoria Circuit, G. W. Mathews. Social Hill Circuit, E. Garrett. Redfield Circuit, J. R. Sherwood. Dalark Circuit, C. M. Keith. Western North Carolina Conference, 1891. 113

Holly Springs Circuit, A. S. Scott* Mountain Valley Circuit, Edward Rushing. Princeton Circuit, S. A. Hill. Crystal Springs Circuit, G. W. Riee. Lono Circuit, A. C. Kelly. Mt. Ida Circuit, J. Y. Christmas. Malvern Station, J. R. Harvey. Amity Circuit, C. W. Drake. Benton Station, M. W. Manville; H. Town- Dallas Circuit, R. G. Rowland. send, Sup. Potter Circuit, J. J. Colson. •Collegeville Circuit, 0. H. Keadle. Silver Hill Mission, J. F. Taylor. Bryant Circuit, C. A. Bayless. Saline Circuit, J. B. Williams. Arkadelphia Methodist College, G. C. Jones, President M. B. Chapman and J. T. McCann transferred to the St. Louis Conference. HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT. H. W. Brooks transferred to the Memphis Conference. A. D. Jenkim, P. E. E. B. Galloway transferred to the Louis- Hot Springs: Central Avenue, C. C. Godden. iana Conference. South Hot Springs, W. R. Harrison. A. T. Galloway transferred to the West Malvern Hill and Glen Street, James Texas Conference.

Thomas ; one to be supplied. W. C. Adams and Wade Preston trans- New Liberty Circuit, J. W. Vantrease. ferred to the White River Conference.

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE.

Held at Asheville, N. C., November 11-16, 1891.

Bishop Galloway, President; C. G. Montgomery, Secretary.

Question 1 . Who are admitted on trial? J. Poe, Parker Holmes, Walter L. Dawson, Answer. Marshall 0. Ligon, William F. Joseph H. West, Anthony W. Jacobs, Wil- Womble, Andrew J. Burrus, John C. Mock, liam V. Honeycutt, Thomas J. Rogers. 8. Miles H. Vestal, Henry H. Jordan, James J. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Gray, Charles H. Curtis, Robert B. Shel- dained deacons? Alfred R. Surratt, Edward ton. 9. J. Poe, Parker Holmes, Joseph H. West, An- Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? James M. thony W. Jacobs, William V. Honeycutt, Rice,Walter M. Curtis, William S. C. Cherry, .Walter L. Dawson, Thomas J. Rogers. 8. Perley E. Parker, William H. Perry, Tevis Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected E. Weaver, William L. Sherrill, Thomas B. deacons? Nathan H. D. Wilson, William McCurdy, Robert D. Sherrill, Ebenezer H. Perry, John C. Mock, Jacob Simpson, Myers, Henrv T. Hoover, James T. Crocker, Alfred H. Starnes, Noah A. Miller, James L. L. D. Gillespie, John F. Crowell, William H. Crook, John E. Brown. 8. Nelson, W. A. Wilson, T. W. Mansfield. 17. Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? John T. dained deacons? Nathan H. D. Wilson, Bagwell. 1. William H. Perry, John C. Mock, Jacob Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Simpson, Alfred H. Starnes, Noah A. Miller, nection? William P. McGee, D. Franklin James L. Crook, John E. Brown. 8. Carver, Alfred R. Surratt, Edward J. Poe, Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Parker Holmes, Walter L. Dawson, Joseph elected elders? J. W. Clegg, J. M. Lowder, H. West, Anthony W. Jacobs, William V. S. P. Douglas, T. W. S. Parker, Ira Erwin, L. Honeycutt, Thomas J. Rogers. 10. M. Brower, R. S. Abernethy, C. M. Camp- Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? John T. bell, N. R. Richardson. 9. Bagwell. 1. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer dained elders? James W. Clegg, James M. from other Conferences? J. W. Bowman, Lowder, Samuel P. Douglass, Thomas W. S. R. W. Pickens, J. C. Postell, T. E. Wagg, D. Parker, Ira Erwin, Lewis M. Brower, Rob- Atkins, R. M. Taylor, T. W. Mansfield, W. S. ert S. Abernethy, John A. Clark, Nereston Creasy, W. A. Wilson, S. S. Gasque. 10. R. Richardson. 9. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected L. A. Falls, S. B. Turrentine, H. L. Atkins, elders? Andrew J. Burruss. 1. J. C. Troy, J. F. Austin, William G. Malo- Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- nee. 6. dained elders? Andrew J. Burrus. 1. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are Ques. 16. Who are located this year? elected deacons ? Alfred R. Surratt, Edward None. 8 1S91. 114 Western North Carolina Conference ,

congrega- Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? E. moving with great power the J.'Eudaly, C. D. Smith, J. S. Burnett, S. H. tions that waited upon his ministry. As a- out for Helsabeck, I. F. Keerans, J. D. Carpenter, J. pastor his warm, loving heart went Ghost had P. Reynolds. 7. the flock over which the Holy naturally of a Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? W. made him overseer. He was spirited W. Albea, W. S. Haltom, C. M. Anderson, C. most amiable disposition — sweet friends M. Pepper, J. W. Wheeler, C. W. King, S. and kind, drawing to himself lifelong D. Peeler, W. H. Cooper, W. M. Kerr, J. W. wherever he went. Above all, he was a manifesting a Bird, J. W. Puett, S. M. Davis, J. C. Thomas, man of God, deeply pious, con- T. H. Edwards. 14. Christlike spirit in his daily walk and brightest Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- versation. His piety shone with His ing the past year? W. C. Cannon, J. F. resplendence when under stress of trial. affliction on Washburn. 2. atience and faith during his Eis last charge were mighty sermons for William Calvin Gannon was born in good to many of his sorrowing flock. He all his Guilford County, N. C., January 19, 1828; attended energetically and wisely to the Church and died in Winston, N. C., January 9, 1891. duties as a preacher, building up In 1849 he was converted at a camp for Christ wherever he went. During the meeting at Pleasant Garden, and shortly year he spent on the Uwharrie Circuit more afterward joined the M. E. Church, South, than two hundred and fifty souls were con- in Greensboro, N. C. Here he served as class verted, and during his pastorate at New leader and superintendent of Sunday school, Berne his labors were signally blessed. Under visited by and it was here that in 1856 he joined the his ministry there our Church was also, in of the most remarkable revivals in all its North Carolina Conference ; and here one history and among our people in that con- 1889, he answered to the Conference roll call ; to- forthe last time. In the beginning of 1852 he gregation the name of W. C. Gannon is entered the Normal College, from which in- this day as an ointment poured forth; and stitution he graduated in the class of 1856. so on the Roanoke Circuit and various other thir- He served as supply on the Guilford Circuit charges that might be mentioned. For during the remainder of this year, and at ty-four years he gathered precious sheaves the close of the year he joined the North for the kingdom. With an unwavering pressed the battle against the power Carolina Conference at Greensboro ; and for faith he thirty-four annual gatherings, without miss- of darkness, winning scores and hundreds ing a single session of Conference, he gladly of souls to the service of the Master, and in- met with his brethren, and accepted and en- spiring hope and courage in the hearts ot tered upon his appointments with a fidelity thousands of God’s people. Wherever lie to God, and that knew no abatement. On April 1, 1857, went sinners were converted he was happily married to Miss Mary Leach, the saints lifted to a higher life. At the close daughter of James Leach, Esq., of Trinity of the year 1890, on the Pineville Circuit, College, N. C. Five children were born to his health had become so enfeebled that he them, four of whom and the mother sur- asked for a superannuated relation, hoping ac- vive. He served the following charges: that by rest he might be restored. He to Winston, 1857, South Iredell Circuit; 1858, Uwharrie cordingly moved with his family Circuit; 1859-60, North Iredell Circuit; 1861- that he might be with his son and married Mocksville Circuit; 1863, Granville Cir- daughter. For the first few weeks his 62, would cuit; 1864, Wentworth Circuit; 1865-66, friends entertained the hope that he Granville Circuit; 1867, Wentworth Circuit; recover; but his work was done, and we 1868-71, Roanoke Circuit; 1872, Granville soon recognized the fact that the end was Circuit; 1873-76, New Berne Station; 1877, near. No man was ever readier to depart Salisbury Station; 1878-79, Wayne Circuit; than he. When first entering upon his “ s will 1880, Warren Circuit; 1881-82, Warrenton season of rest he said: If it be God Station; 1883-84^ Kinston Station; 1885-86, that I should recover, all well; if it be his Wadesboro Station; 1887-88, Monroe Sta- will that I should go, all well.” As he came 1889-90, Pineville Circuit. In the down near the river his soul was undaunted, tion ; death of Brother Gannon our Church has and he frequently gave forth utterances that in Not lost one of its most useful and consecrated signified his unfaltering faith God. “I ministers. He was a warm and untiring long before he expired he exclaimed: of Christian education he was for have fought a good fight, I have finished my advocate ; many years a Trustee of Trinity College, and course, I have kept the faith.” His life had victory his death was a triumph. no man loved that institution more warmly been a ; or labored for it with a more earnest zeal than he. From the beginning of his minis- James F. Washburn, son of Perry and try to its close he was a close and unremit- Elizabeth Washburn, was born in Cleveland ting student. He did not go into God’s County February 27, 1854; and died in Yad- sanctuary with unbeaten oil. He had a kinville, N. C., June 29, 1891. His life was well-furnished mind, and was preeminently one of devotion to the Church. Though he a Bible student. As a preacher he was has been called from labor to rest so soon in that strong, clear, and impressive — sometimes •life, yet he has started currents of good |

Western North Carolina Conference, 1891. 115 will flow on to induce succeeding generations Wmslon District. to meet and bless him in eternity. He had White |

unassuming . manner and upright walk al- 3,S50 10 21 ways won the hearts and confidence of his Statesville District. flock. They loved him. They honored Statesville Station 388 1 1 him as the representative of God. No one Statesville Circuit ever doubted the genuineness of Brother Mooresville Circuit 994 3 Washburn’s pietv. He loved his brethren, Iredell Circuit (569 1 Newton Circuit 2 was faithful to his friends, and helpful to 767 1 the unfortunate. He was happily married 1,100 2 to Hattie F. Foy, of Craven County, October Caldwell Circuit 630 3 Hickorv and Lenoir 44(1 i 1 4, 1887, who has been a faithful sharer in all LenoirCircuit 601 21 1 the toils and hardships of an itinerant life. Connellv Springs Circuit 542 3 During his sickness he expressed a perfect 16(JI 1

T Morganton Circuit 2 resignation to the w ill of God. He was will- Table Rock Circuit I ing to live and work for him, or to depart. Marion Station 127 1 He was a good man, and died triumphantly, McDowell Circuit 644t and has passed into a higher and nobler 9,807 Ij 22 state of existence. Salisbury District. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Salisbury Station 4341 Salisbury Circuit (579 in their life and official administration? 895 Their names were called over, one by one, Rowan Circuit 500 and their characters examined and passed. Chestnut Hill Mission 143 Farmington Circuit 888 21. is Ques. What the number of local Concord Station 222 preachers and members in the several cir- Concord Circuit 399 cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Forest Hill Station 367 Mt. Pleasant Circuit...., 711 ence? Albemarle Circuit 896 Greensboro District. Stanly Circuit 306 438 White Colored Ooc'l S«lem Circuit 389 Mem's. Mem’s. Pr’s. Mt. Zion Station Enoch ville Circuit 375 428 3 1 242 7,645' 2 15 Greensboro Circuit 474 Reidsville Station 351 2 Charlotte District. Ruffin Circuit 611 2 Charlotte: Tryon Street.. 897 fc Summerfield Circuit 470 1 Church Street 225 1 369 1 Charlotte Circuit 423 2- Pleasant Garden Circuit 447 1 Matthews Circuit 556 1 Randleman Station 315 2 Clear Creek Circuit 464 1 I Asheboro Circuit 664 3 Pineville Circuit 289 Randolph Circuit 3 Pleasant Grove Circuit... 773 2: High Point Station Monroe Station 347 Cwharrie Circuit 460 J. Monroe Circuit 654 i Randolph Mission 243 2 W adesboro Station 1 1 Wadesboro Circuit 2 6,304 21 Ansonville Circuit 2 . )

been Ques. 22. How many infants have Charlotte District ( Continued - baptized during the year? 1,716. White Colored r.oo'i been 1 23. many adults have Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Ques. How year? 1,840. • baptized during the 519 is the number of Sunday Lilesville Circuit ... , Ues. 24. What 141 Q schools? 615. _ , number of Sunday 6,691 4 18 Ques. 25. What is the

. school teachers? 4,241. District. Sunday Shelby Ques. 26. What is the number of Station 40,973. Shelby school scholars? _ Shelby Circuit . amount is necessary lor Circuit Ques. 27. What King’s Mountain preachers, and the wid- Gastonia Circuit the superannuated Me Adensville Circuit ows and orphans of preachers ? $o,000. Circuit on the Stanley Creek Ques. 28. What has been collected Circuit ..... Mt. Holly how lias it been ap- Mountain Island Station foregoing account, and Rock Springs Circuit plied? $4,228.68. Applied to claimants. Circuit contributed tor Lincoln ton Ques. 29. What has been Circuit Cherrvville 1.06 Do- Circuit Missions? Foreign Missions, $9,492 ; South Fork ; $13,81/ .81. Fallston Circuit ' mestic Missions, $4,325.75. Total, Circuit for Double Shoals 30. What has been contributed ; Ques. Henrietta Circuit. 5 $1,685.05. Circuit Church Extension? Forest Citv number, and what Rutherford Circuit i Ques. 31. What is the Circuit church edifices. Folk - is the estimated value, of 5 Number, 604; value, $620,212.24. is the number, and what . Ques. 32. What Asheville District. parsonages? ruim- is the estimated value, of $104,032. ‘ Asheville: Central i ber, 84 value, .... ; statis- North Asheville Ques. 33. What are the educational Riverside value of prop- Circuit 3 tics? Endowment, $50,000; Weaversville students, 4-4. Circuit teachers, 27 ; Swannanoa i erty, $211,000; Circuit next session of Cain Creek 3 Ques. 34. Where shall the Circuit Old Fort v 1 he held? Winston, N. C. Hendersonville Station. the Conference the preachers sta- Mills River Circuit Ques. 35. Where are Circuit ••• Brevard 2 tioned this year? Sulphur Spring Circuit Leicester Circuit i f DISTRICT. Hot. Springs Circuit GREENSBORO Burnsville Circuit ••• E. Bakersville Station J. R. Brooks, P. River Circuit.... Toe Street, S. H. Hil Spring Creek Circuit.... \'r Greensboro: West Market Ivy Circuit - L liard. 24 Centenary, S. Pool. Greensboro Circuit, J. A. Bowles. District. Franklin Reidsville Station, W. R. Ware. -• Circuit, N. R. Richardson. Franklin Station . Ruffin Circuit F. W omble. Franklin ‘"i Wentworth Circuit, W. Macon Circuit..... Summerfield Circuit. J. F. Cravep. Wayuesville Station- Crocker. River Circuit, 5 Jamestown Circuit, J.T. Pigeon Parkei Haywood Circuit Pleasant Garden Circuit, T. W. S. Webster Circuit Hamburg Mission Bryson City Station.. Bryson City Circuit.. Hayesville Circuit.... Murphy Circuit Hiwassee Mission Robinsville Mission..

Recapitulaiion.

Treensbor© District Winston “ Mt. Airy Statesville Salisbury ** Charlotte “ Shelby Asheville (Franklin H. lurrenune. a Winston: Centenary, b. year.... Chapel, Ira Total this 7. Burkhead and East Winston Total last year Erwin. _ _ A. J . Burrus. Increase. 8 9 Forsythe Circuit, Decrease Western North Carolina Conference, 1891. 117

Kemersville Circuit, E. J. Poe. Salem Circuit, W. V. Honevcutt. Madison Circuit, H. F. Wiley. Mt. Zion Station, M. A. Smith. Danbury Circuit, J. C. Mock. Enochville Circuit, J. D. Buie. Stokes Circuit, T. H. Pegram; S. H. Helsa- Gold Hill Circuit, Z. Rush. beck, Sup. Thomasville Station, R. G. Barrett. CHARLOTTE DISTRICT. Zion and Prospect Circuit, W. M. Curtis: A. P. Tyer, P. E. Lexington Station, T. A. Boone. Charlotte: Tryon Street, W. S. Creasy. Davidson Circuit, W. M. Boyles. J Church Street, J. B. Carpenter. North Yadkin Circuit, E. G. Pusey. Charlotte Circuit, S. P. Douglass. South Yadkin Circuit, to be supplied (by N. Circuit, C. C. Brothers. G. Whittington). Matthews i Clear Creek Circuit, T. W. Smith. MT. AIRY DISTRICT. Pineville Circuit, J. F. England. Pleasant Grove Circuit, J. W. Strider. R.M. Hoyle, P. E. Monroe Station, J. C. Rowe. Monroe Circuit, J. C. Posted. Mt. Airy Station, J. E. Gay. Wadesboro Station, F. L. Townsend. Mt. Airy Circuit, H. L. Atkins. Wadesboro Circuit, R. T. N. Stephenson* Dobson Circuit, W. H. Perry. Ansonville Circuit, G. W. Hardison. Elkin and Jonesville Station, J. C. Harteell. Lilesville Circuit, M. V. Sherrill. Wilkes Circuit, A. E. Wiley; E. J. Eudaily, Rocky River Mission, S. C. Cherry. Sup. W. Reddie’s River Mission, to be supplied. SHELBY DISTRICT. Sparta Circuit, J. M. Rice. Jefferson Circuit, T. E. Weaver. T. W. Guthrie, P. E. Watauga Circuit, M. H. Vestal. Shelby Station, J. E. Thompson. Creston Circuit, T. F. Gibson. Shelby Circuit, H. T. Hudson. Circuit, E. Parker. Boone P. King’s Mountain, W. S. Hales; one to be W. A. Wilson, missionary te Japan. supplied (by L. T. Mann). Gastonia Station, C. M. Campbell. STATESVILLE DISTRICT. McAdensville Circuit, J. B. Tabor. J. R. Scroggs, P. E. Stanley Creek Circuit, L. A. Falls. Mt. Holly Circuit, T. L. Triplett. Station, J. Statesville H. Page. Mt. Island Station, T. J. Rogers. Statesville Circuit, R. S. Webb; James Wil- 'Rock Spring Circuit, T. S. Ellington. son, supply. Lincoln Circuit, J. F. Austin. Iredell Circuit, D. Giles. M. East Lincoln Circuit, J. W. Clegg. Mooresville Circuit, F. H. Wood. South Fork Circuit, M. T. Steele. Catawba Circuit, J. M. Downum. Fallston Circuit, D. P. Tate. Circuit, Ivey. Newton G. W. Double Shoals Circuit, S. S. Gasque. Alexander Circuit, J. T. Stover. Forest City Circuit, B. A. York. Hickory and Lenoir Station, C. G. Little. Henrietta Circuit, A. G. Gantt. Lenoir Circuit, H. H. Jordan. Rutherford Circuit, M. H. Hoyle. Caldwell Circuit, J. J. Brooks. Polk Circuit, R. W. Pickens; one to be sup- Circuit, Connelly Springs W. L. Sherrill. plied (by J. A. Belk). Morganton Station, T. B. Bonner. Morganton Circuit, J. M. Lumlv. ASHEVILLE DISTRICT. Table Rock Circuit, A. R. Surratt. J. H. Weaver, P. E. Marion Station, C. M. Gentry. McDowell Circuit, J. H. Totton. Asheville: Central Church, C. W. Byrd; J. S. Barnett, Sup. SALISBURY DISTRICT. North Asheville, R. D. Sherrill. Riverside, J. C. Troy. ^ J. J. Renn, P. E. Bethel and College Street, E. L. Stamey. Salisbury Station, W. H. Leith. Weaverville Circuit, T. E. Wagg, J. J. Gray.

Chestnut Hill Mission, to be supplied (by . Sulphur Spring Circuit, J. H. Moore. A. L. Coburn). Swannanoa Circuit, H. T. Hoover. Salisbury Circuit, R. F. Bryant. Ivey Circuit, E. Myers. Woodleaf Circuit, W. L. Dawson. Leicester Circuit, P. L. Terrill; J. P. Rey- Mocksville Circuit, J. S. Nelson; W. C. Wil- nolds, Sup. son, Sup. Cane Creek Circuit, W. M. Boring. Farmington Circuit, L. E. Stacy. Hendersonville Station, D. Atkins.

Concord : Central Church, H. W. Bays. Mills River Circuit, J. A. Clark. Forest Hill, H. M. Blair. Brevard Circuit, to be supplied (by R. H. Concord Circuit, L. M. Brower. Penland). Mt. Pleasant Circuit, T. T. Salyer. Hot Springs Circuit, T. W. Mansfield. Albermarle Circuit, R. M. Taylor. (Burnsville Circuit, J. A. Sronce; one to be Norwood Circuit, Z. Paris. supplied (by R. D. Proflit). .

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Webster Circuit, W. P. McGee. Bakersville Station, J. W. Bowman. Mission, C. M. Curtis. Elk Park and Toe River Circuit, L. D. Gil- Hamburg Brvson City Station, T. F. Marr. lespie; one to be supplied. Bryson City Circuit. R. B. Shelton. Spring Creek Mision, to be supplied (by J. Hayesville Circuit, L. T. CordelL C. Logan). Murphy Station, J. 0. Shelly. Old Fort Circuit, J. H. West. Arnold, Pro- Andrews Circuit, T. B. McCurdy. Asheville Female College, J . D. Hiwassee Mission, to be supplied. fessor. Robinsville Mission, J. A. Wiggins. FRANKLIN DISTRICT. Hayesville College, H. P. Bailey, President. R. Barnett, P. E. Powder, W. M. J. Hunt, W. C. Norman, J. M. transferred to the North Franklin Station, D. H. Comann. and J. T. Finlayson Franklin Circuit, A. W. Jacobs. Carolina Conference. transferred to the Co- Macon Circuit, W. G. Malonee. Marshall O. Ligon Waynesville Station, P L. Groome. lumbia Conference. the Arkansas Pigeon River Circuit, W. B. Lyda. J. T. Bagwell transferred to Haywood Circuit, D. F. Carver; J. R. Long. ConferBiic© the Holston North Haywood Circuit, to be supplied (by G. W. Jackson transferred to appointed to Mossy Creek. Z. Cordell). Conference, and

VIRGINIA CONFERENCE.

11-18 1891 . Held at Petersburg, Va., November ,

hitehead, Secretary. Bishop Keener, President; Paul W

are Ques. 8. What traveling preachers Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? deacons? John L. Bray, M. S El- Answer. Charles H. Galloway, Edgar A. elected James H. Pike, E. S. Gunn, W llliam Potts, W. J. Williams, Albert S. J. Rice, Ben- liott, Arthur R. Goodchild, R. H. Ben- iamin M. Beckham, G. Haneford Spooner, R. Proctor, William C. Smith. Asa Driscoll, William E. nett. 7. . traveling preachers are or- John B. Winn, Frederick B. Ques. 9. What Thompson, Bray, James II. Daniel B. Austin, dained deacons? John L. Glenn. Leroy L. Banks, Proctor, Pike, Elijah S. Gunn, William R. Samuel W. Day. 14. . Arthur R. Goodchild, Mumford S. Elliott, Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Otway P. Richard H. Bennett. 7. Moorman, James W. Heckman, Samuel R. A , 10. What local preachers are elected Drewrv, E. H. Rawlings, Samuel W. Eason, Ques. Edgar A. Potts, William L. Owens, William B. Jett, John A. Smith, Emmett I. deacons? W. A. Christian, Roger G. Jones, James W. Garner. 8. . , n discontinued? George Heckman. 5. Ques. 3. Who are or- Ques. 11. What local preachers are T. Fortune, Robert E. Bentley. 2. dained deacons? Edgar A. Potts, William Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Owens, Roger G. Jones, James W . Heck- nection? Leroy J, Phaup, Richard H. Ben- L. John L. Bray, man. 4. * nett, Esthmus V. Carson, are Ques. 12. What traveling preachers Thomas N. Potts, M. S. Elliott, James H. elected elders ? John R. Tillery, Charles W . E. S. Gunn, Randolph T. Clarke, W ll- Pike, William W. Southall, Charles L. liam R. Proctor, Arthur R. Goodchild. 11. Turner, Bane, James O. Babcock, Walter J. Hub- Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. bard, Benjamin F. Smith, Richard I. \N ll- Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer B. E. Ledbetter, son. 8. from other Conferences? or- 13. What traveling preachers are from the Florida Conference; W. J. Young, Ques. elders? John R. Tillery, Charles W from the Baltimore Conference; F. M. Ed- dained Turner, William W. Southall, Charles L. wards, T. J. Bayton, from the North Caroli- James 0. Babcock, Walter J. Hub- 4. Bane, na Conference. Wilson. 8. year? bard, Benjamin F. Smith, R. T. Ones. 7. Who are the deacons of one Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected James H. Moss, W. A. S. Conrad, Porter John T. Better. 1. Hardy, James Cannon, Jr., C. R. James. 5. elders?

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Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- was always done without parade or ostenta- dained elders? John T. Better. 1. tion. His virtues were exhibited and his Qnes. 16. Who are located this year? influence felt in the home circle rather than •Clarke W. Leftwich, John C. Roper, W. in public gatherings. Brother Dalby had Dickson Mower. 3. naturally a good mind, which had been Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Wil- trained by years of study and the varied liam H. Camper, Thomas H. Early, Henry experiences of his calling. As a preacher Bowles, Charles 4. plain and practical but some of his C. H. Green. he was ;

Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Alex- sermons have shown evidences of careful ,

ander M. Hall, J. J. Edwards, D. P. Wills, preparation and exhibited decided merit i James A. Riddick, W. A. Crocker, John B. both in thought and delivery. As an itin- ' Dey, R. N. Crooks, John McClelland, H. T. erant he was loyal to his Church and to the Bacon, J. B. Laurens, Leo Rosser, W. A. appointing power. Never seeking an ap- Robinson, Jacob Shough, J. R. Waggoner, pointment, he went without murmur or J. F. Brannin, F. J. Boggs, D. M. Wallace, complaint to the work to which he had T. J. Bayton, Joseph R. Sturgis, E. P. Wil- been assigned. He did that work w ell. He son, James F. Twitty. 21. always brought up the finances of his charge. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- His people loved him. No complaint has ing the past year? James H. Dalby, Robert ever been made against him for failure to A. Arimsted, W. Compton, E. do his wr ork faithfully and no stain or sus- James John ; Edwards, William McGee, John G. Rowe, picion tarnishes his reputation. He gener- John M. Saunders. 7. ally labored in obscure fields, sowdng all alone beside the still waters; and while James H. Dalby, the eldest son of James other reapers were shouting in solid ranks F. and Mary E. Dalby, was born in Norfolk, in the mighty harvest field, he quietly thrust Va., February 24, 1852. In 1860 his family in his sickle, in some solitary nook, to gather moved to Norfolk from Northampton Coun- the golden grain where he had gone to scat- ty, Va., where, at a very early period in the ter the precious seed of truth and life. How history of our country, their ancestry had much the wr orld owes—how much our be- settled. Five years after the removal, at loved Methodism owes to men of this type, the age of thirteen, our brother was con- eternity alone will reveal. The grandest re- verted to God, at a meeting which was held sults are not always accomplished by those in the old Christian church, the only church whom the world regards as its brightest in- then in the town. With this he connected tellects. Mediocrity has its mission. In himself, and remained in its communion for that list of illustrious heroes, whose names four years, when he united with the Cum- sparkle on the page of our Church history, berland Street Methodist Church in Norfolk. the men whose deeds wrere as sublime as the early of fifteen, years after their mission, and as immortal as their des- At age two , his conversion, he became impressed with tiny, were men whose power and influence the idea that it was his duty to preach, but were not measured by the brilliancy of their resisted the impression. Several years there- intellects or the greatness of their genius. after he read a book entitled “A Call to the “ Not many of the wise, not many of the Ministry,” when, through its instrumental- mighty are called.” Not the number of tality, and after much earnest prayer, he be- ents, but faithfulness in their use is God’s came fully and finally convinced of his duty, test of true worth. He does well who does and determined no longer to be disobedient his best. Judged thus, Brother Dalbv’s life to the heavenly calling. He accordingly was eminently successful. He “ lived not in prepared to enter Randolph-Macon College, vain, neither" labored in vain.” Large re- which he did in 1871, remaining three years, vivals of religion attended his ministry, and and graduating in several schools. During many saved through his instrumentality his last session at this institution, he was li- will rise up “in that day ” and call him censed to preach, and in the following fall blessed. Happy for us if we may meet the (1874) he entered the Virginia Conference to reward of such faithfulness. During the accomplish the work to which his life had year preceding the death of Brother Dalby, been devoted. During his ministry he served his health at one time was so impaired that

the following charges : Leeville Mission, one he sought the medical skill of Dr. McGuire, year; Dorchester Mission, four years York of Richmond, Va., and remained for several ; Circuit, three years; Currituck Circuit, two weeks under his care at the “ Retreat for the years; Fluvanna Circuit, two years; Mid- Sick.” Upon the improvement of his health, dlesex Circuit, three years. Briefly thus is he returned to his charge, where he re- summed up the history of a quiet and unob- mained until the close of the Conference T trusive, but faithful and useful life. Being year, winding up his work w ith a glorious naturally of a retiring disposition, he was revival of religion. With his family he then intimately acquainted with but few in the visited his father and mother, at their resi- •Conference, but those who knew him best dence in Berkeley,Va., intending to go thence -esteemed him for his modesty and humility. to Conference at Lynchburg. But God had He never spoke upon the Conference floor willed otherwise. Almost immediately on except to make a report of his work, which his arrival he wr as taken sick. The svmp- 1 .

120 Virginia Conference, 189 toms were not at first considered dangerous, sion of many souls, and in the building of but he gradually grew worse until December three churches. In 1873 he was pastor of 27, 1890, when his spirit took its flight to Princess Anne Circuit, a large and laborious the God whom he loved, and whom he had field, and there were many added to the served. The writer of this tribute visited Church. From thence on he served as pas- him frequently during his illness, and al- tor the following charges in the order and ways found him cheerful and hopeful. His dates as follows: Lunenburg Circuit, 1874; trust was fixed in God. As he came nearer Dinwiddie Circuit, 1875; West Hanover Cir-

the end, he said to the dear ones who gath- cuit, 1876-78 ; Goochland Circuit, 1879 ; Spott- ered around his bedside: “I am feeling as sylvania Circuit, 1880 Caroline Circuit, 1881- ; 1885-86 Oaklette and if the end is almost at hand.” Later he 84 ; Edenton Station, ; said: “I am thinking all the time about Bethel* 1887-88. This year closed his active those who have gone on before. It seems as pastoral work. In November, 1888, at the ” if their spirits were here with me —at the Conference held in Portsmouth, Va., he was, same time mentioning the names of several at his own request, placed on the superan- of our departed brethren. During all this nuated list. At his death he lacked but two time hope was entertained, both by his phy- months and one day of completing his eigh- sician and his friends, of his ultimate recov- ty-third year. This record shows that he ery, and the suddenness of his death came was a steadfast Christian for nearly sixty- at last as a sad surprise. Gradually he sunk five years, a minister of the gospel over fif- into a stupor, which ended in death. “Well ty-five years, and a member of our Confer- done, good and faithful servant.” We doubt ence over twenty-two years. His funeral not that he has entered “into the joy of his took place from Centenary Church, Rich- Lord.” mond, Va., where he was ordained an elder more than forty-seven years before. After Robert A. Armistead, son of Robert and he was placed on the superannuated list he Elizabeth Armistead, was born in Hampton, preached but seldom, but as long as his Elizabeth City County, Va., May 7, 1808; health permitted, he was regular in his at- and died in Richmond, Va., March 6, 1891. tendance upon the services of the Church, On October 26, 1826, he professed religion, and aided the writer in administering the and in the evening of the same day joined sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. His health the M. E. Church. In September, 1827, he was feeble for some months before his death. was appointed a class leader. On Septem- His mind was clear and active to the last, ber 14, 1835, he was licensed as an exhorter, and his end one of peace. Pages could be and on October 16, following, he was li- written in truthful exposition of the many censed as a local preacher, under Rev. Moses noble qualities of our venerable brother, but Brook as presiding elder. On February 23, the limits of this paper permit only a brief 1840, at an Annual Conference held at Farm- summary. He was a fine type of a dignified, ville, Va., he was ordained a deacon by Bish- courteous, and refined gentleman; retiring- op Waugh. At the Conference held in Cen- in disposition, gentle in manner, and true in tenary Church, Richmond, Va., he was or- his friendship. He had a thirst for knowl- dained elder by the same bishop November edge; was studious, read much, thought 19, 1843. His record as a local preacher much, and wrote much. The last two years was a noble one. He stood by the Church of his life he spent largely in reading and of his choice through the stormy period of writing out his views upon a number of re- her division in Hampton in 1828, and was ligious themes. As a minister he had a largely instrumental in the building of a high ideal. His conscientious attention to new house of worship in that town, the old the details of his pastoral work, his untiring having passed into the hands of the Meth- industry, and his patient toils, often under odist Protestants. The late war, resulting in adverse circumstances—in old age and away the burning of his native town and home, from his children—bespoke the fullness of compelled his removal, and put an arrest his consecration and his ardent desire faith- for awhile upon the labors to which he had fully to serve his generation by the will of been accustomed. Removing to Richmond, God, and thus make full proof of his minis- Va., he gave up secular business, and in try. As a Christian he was humble, con- 1866 we find him preaching in Rocketts, in sistent, earnest, and devoted. His life that city. A gracious revival followed, and showed the strength and constancy of his many were added to the Church. He con- faith, and the reality of his profession. In tinued his labors here through 1867. In his last illness his chief concern centered in November, 1868, at the session of our Con- the spiritual welfare of his children. To ference held at Charlottesville, Va., he ap- them and the Church he so loved and so plied for admission, and was received on served he has bequeathed the priceless leg- trial into the traveling connection. His first acy of a life high-minded and honorable, appointment was to Richmond as a city mis- and one spent in the service of his God* sionary. In this field he remained two His life and death place him in the category “ vears. In 1871-72 he was pastor of the Nor- of those concerning whom it is said : Pre- folk Circuit. In this charge his ministry cious in the sight of the Lord is the death was very successful, resulting in the conver- of his saints.” :

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James Whitefield Compton was born in book in which he was accustomed, after the southwestern part of Bedford County, leaving off the keeping of a diary, to record Va., December 5, 1835; and died a few miles his meditations at the close of the year: from the place of his birth on the evening “ We now bid adieu to 1890 and hail 1891, of March 20, 1891. When a lad of fifteen, not knowing what it has in store for us. If he was converted at Emmaus Church under spaced to see its close, the good Lord help us the ministry of Rev. M. L. Bishop, and at to spend it better than we have spent any of once joined the Church, quickly manifest- the preceding years of life; and if any of us ing a zealous interest in the work of God, are summoned away, Gpd grant that we and giving indications of the divine call to may be as servants watching and waiting be a minister of the gospel. He was how- for the coming of our Lord.” His wife says ever not licensed until October 13, 1860, and “ He talked more about death and the un- then recommended to the Annual Confer- certainty of life, all the winter, than I ever ence, which received him on trial at its ses- heard him before.” What was “ in store for sion in Alexandria, Va., in November, 1860. him ” in the year 1891, about to unfold, was The shadow of the Civil War was even then a painful and violent end. He had spent upon the face of the whole country. Begin- the evening of March 13 with Rev. John W. ning to itinerate at such a time, he labored Parrish, preacher in charge of the West Bed- in the Conference for twenty years, going ford Circuit, at the house of Sister Nimmo,. from mountain to seashore. His ministry widow of a kinsman and dear friend, Josiah was fruitful; many souls were converted, Nimmo, deceased. At the family worship and the circuits he served improved in most he prayed appropriately and fervently for respects. His health, never robust, gave his hostess that God would sustain her in the way to a considerable extent in these toils, bereavements she had suffered. Going by and he was finally obliged, because especial- the Emmaus post office next morning for his ly of the condition of his throat, to take a mail, as he was dismounting, his horse took supernumerary relation, which he received fright at something and ran off ere he had at the Conference of 1880. He settled upon disentangled his foot from the stirrup. He a farm, inherited from his father, a few miles was dragged for some distance, and so from Emmaus Church, and for the last ten bruised about the head as to produce con- years he worked out a support for his fam- cussion of the brain. He was brought in an ily, preaching as far as strength allowed and unconscious state to Brother Isaac Cundiff’s opportunity was given, selling books (for house, and there lingered until the evening which he developed great aptitude in the of March 20, when at 7 p.m. his soul depart- itinerant work), teaching, and otherwise ed out of this life. He had not recovered striving to be usefully employed, and to do consciousness nor shown any indication of good to all he met. Living in the midst of improvement, and thus “making no sign” a community in which he was reared, he he passed away, leaving as his testimony maintained a good character, exerted a the record of his life and the habitual frame steady influence for God and a pure reli- of mind which found expression in such en- gion, and performed the duties of a good tries as that we have above quoted, the last neighbor and citizen. On several occasions, that fell from his pen. Of his piety, his when the preachers of his circuit, or on trust in Jesus, his consecration to the serv- some neighboring work, were disabled or ice of God, his sincere desire to do good, his cut off, he filled the appointments until per- submission to the divine will there .can be manent arrangements could be made. His no doubt. Of the years he spent in the itin- last work of the kind was on the Staunton erant ministry, many fruits abide and testify River Mission, after the death of Rev. Jo- to his diligence and fidelity. His funeral and seph A. Crowder in March, 1890. Small in burial services were conducted bv Brother person, and often suffering from infirmities Parrish at Emmaus, the church in which he of ill health, he was nevertheless a model of was converted, in the presence of a large industry, energy, patience, and punctuality congregation. in his business. As a preacher he was clear, concise, pointed, and often very forcible. John Ellis Edwards, full of days, labors, His reading, though not wide, was exact; and usefulness, entered into rest March 31, he was well-grounded in Biblical and theo- 1891. He was born of Methodist parents in logical knowledge, and discriminated quick- Guilford County, N. C., August 1, 1814. His ly and correctly between truth and its coun- birth into the kingdom of God at a camp terfeits. He was an affectionate husband meeting September 11, 1832, was an event to and father, and brought up his family in which he ever testified with full and joyous the fear and love of God. He was twice assurance. From that hour religion was to

married : first to a daughter of Mr. Gustavus him a very positive, definite, and blessed Campbell, of Campbell County, who left a experience. He had the witness in himself. daughter, now grown; the second time to He received license to preach April 17, 1834. Miss Eliza J. Norvell, of Buckingham, who He spent the remainder of that year as as- with five children survives him. His death sistant to Rev. Joshua Leigh on the Iredell was unexpected and tragic. At the close of Circuit, and joined the Virginia Conference 1890 he wrote as follows, in a manuscript in February, 1835. His ministry, begun in. 122 Virginia Conference, 1891. his twentieth year and finished in his sev- ed in a person of his mercurial temperament enty-seventh, had a remarkable uniformity. and variable health, he had seasons of de- He never located; never took a supernu- pression, but they were rare and brief, and left scarcely appreciable in his labors and social merary or superannuated relation ; never the pastorate to fill an agency or editorship intercourse. Usually he carried sunshine in or professorship or any other office; was his face and cheerfulness in his voice. From never a presiding elder. His business from the start to the Close of his ministry he was first to last wr as the direct care of souls. attractive and useful. In widely separated There was a break of one year caused by States of the Union and in distant Brazil, left after the lapse of almost half a century, men extreme and protracted sickness ; he was without appointment in 1843, his life being spoke with admiration and gratitude of the despaired of when the Conference met. He hoy preacher, Edwards, anu of particular lectured on mental and moral science in the discourses which they had heard from him, Petersburg Female College two years, and, on circuits, or at camp meetings in Virginia with David S. Doggett, originated and ed- and North Carolina. His preaching grew ited the Episcopal Methodist in Richmond for richer in thought with the maturing of his one year, just after the close of the war; but powers, but never declined in freshness, these engagements did not interrupt his re- charm, and unction. His style, while free lation or labors as preacher in charge. He from eccentricity, had marked individuality. served on two circuits in the Virginia Con- It was the unaffected outcome and expres- ference and on two circuits in the North sion of the man. The most conspicuous Carolina Conference, which was formed in feature in his early years was the lively, 1837. He was stationed one year in Beau- changeful fancy which pervaded the entire fort, two in New Berne, and two in Raleigh. discourse, as color pervades summer land- After eight years in the North Carolina Con- scape, and the frequent occurrence of bold ference he was transferred to the Virginia and lofty imagery, like hills and rocks that Conference, and put in charge of Centenary diversify and ennoble the scene. This dom- Church, Richmond. The remaining years inance of imagination provoked adverse of his ministry were spent in Richmond, criticism from a few grave brethren, who Norfolk, Petersburg, Danville, and Lynch- thought it inconsistent vyith evangelical sim- burg. He was eminently the city pastor by plicity; but God gives to each star his own if it true of meats, how much adaptation and by length of service. In his gloryj and be youth he attended for four or five years a more of gifts of mind and speech, that each Quaker school near his home. Probably the variety is good, and not to be refused, be- leaching was thorough as far as it went, and cause it is sanctified by the word of God we do not doubt that he learned readily and and prayer. The imagination relatively to fast. In addition to this important, though other faculties was less prominent in his not extensive preparation, he brought to the riper years, but continued a striking charac- ministry an acute and active mind, thirst teristic, and imparted both force and beauty for knowledge, aspirations after excellence, to his latest sermons. Dr. Edwards was literary tastes, and urgency of conscience to an instructive preacher. He brought forth fit himself as far as possible for the most ef- abundant and varied stores, things new and fective discharge of his high office. He was old, from a treasury enriched by reading, all his days a diligent student, but also not reflection, and experience. His sermons a less1 diligent worker; he studied that he were ornate, but they possessed depth of might be the better worker. Brimful of life foundation, breadth of structure, and solid- and energy, he threwr his whole soul into ity of material to bear the wealth of orna- whatever he did. Books were to him a per- ment. Exposition, argument, and applica- petual feast, poetry an exhilaration. He in- tion had each its full measure of space and tensely enjoyed both the composing and emphasis. The arrangement was so orderly, preaching of sermons. He wr as fond of con- the thought so lucid, the language so simple, versing with his clerical brethren on Scrip- that children and the illiterate listened with tural exegesis and doctrine, and on the plan- interest and understanding; his freshness ning of sermons. His pen ran rapidly over and fervor, together with a due proportion of the page, and writing was no drudgery. Ran- narrative and description, reasoning and il- dolph-Macon College recognized his scholar- lustration, and pathetic and impassioned ap- ly and theological attainments by conferring peal, held the attention without weariness on him the degrees of M.A. and D.D. That to the end of the discourse, which not sel- he worked so hard and accomplished so dom was an hour in 'length. Dr. Edwards much was not due to exceptionally good excelled as a pastor. Faithfully did he keep health. He had, it is true, a large measure his vow to visit from house to house. His of physical visror and endurance. But in visiting was thorough, systematic; overlook- the prime of life a disease of the throat ing no member of his flock, single or mar- threatened to drive him from the pulpit, ried, prominent or obscure. He knew them and to pass into consumption. Buoyancy all by name and face, character and condi- of spirit, energy of character, tenacity of tion. He gave special attention to the sick purpose, and delight in life and work fur- and troubled. He loved children, and no- nish the explanation. As might be expect- ticed them at their homes, on the street, and Virginia 1891. 123 Conference , in the Sunday school it was hia habit to go calm resignation and a sure hope. “Is all ; from class to class every Sunday and speak well?” inquired a friend in the last mo- singly to the children. He was a successful menta! Feeble, yet decided, was the re- minister. God gave him many souls as the sponse: “All is well.” It was a good time seal of his call to preach the word. He to die. He had preached his semicenten- looked and labored for fruit each' year, and ial sermon. He had celebrated his golden was not disappointed. A number of great wedding. He was in charge of a prosperous revivals occurred under his pastorate. His Church who prized and loved him. His labors were very efficient at camp meetings three song and their families were members and at protracted meetings in which he as- of the M. E. Church, South, one of them an sisted. He gnthered the converts into the honored member of this Conference. A fold and cherished and trained them care- number of his spiritual sons Were publish- fully. He was a skillful organizer and ad- ing the glorious gospel which had come to ministrator of Churches, a builder of elegant their hearts with saving eflicacv from his and commodious houses of worship, and an lips. His name was written indelibly on the adept in collecting funds for ecclesiastical hearts of hundreds of his converts and of and benevolent purposes. Every charge thousands who had been converted and edi- prospered in his hands. He wrote as he fied by his ministry. His own Conference spoke: easily and naturally. He published had given him every proof of confidence and four books: “Life of Rev. John Wesley affection, and assigned him the foremost Childs,” “Travels in Europe.” “The Con- place as chairman of their delegation in the federate Soldier,” and the "Log Meeting last General Conference. Our whole con- ” also a valuable series of “ Revival nection held him in honor, and awaited House ; Tracts.” He was a zealous Trustee of Ran- with tender solicitude tidings from his sick dolph-Macon College and Manager of the room; and many ministers and laymen of Virginia Bible Society. He served with other communions shared the sentiment. ability in every General Conference from His infirm and aged wife and his fond chil- 1858 to 1890. He had a large circle of de- dren were with him, ministering to his com- voted friends. His name is cherished as a fort to the latest breath. He had finished household word throughout the bounds of his course, and the Master he had served the Virginia Conference and beyond. No- stood at the goal with the crown of glory in where did he appear to greater advantage his hand. The hour had come for rest and than in his own happy and beloved home. reward. n He was married in 1838 to Miss Elizabeth A. Clarke, of Prince Edward County, Va. William McGee was born in Richmond,

With the heart of a true wife, and not less Va., December 23, 1821 ; and died at the par- consecration to Christ and to the Church for sonage of Bethany Station, Northumberland his sake than marked her husband, she was County, Va., April 2, 1891. At a very early his helpmate for over fifty-two years, and age be was left a penniless orphan, without now cherishes his memory as her richest relatives or friends who were specially in- earthly treasure. The mental powers of Dr. terested in his welfare. By some means he Edwards showed no failure to the end, but found employment in the shop of a tinner, physical infirmity had grown on him for by whom he was apprenticed to the trade. some years. It particularly impaired his In the family of this humble tradesman he power of locomotion. He could not keep found a home, and was treated with kind- up his reputation as the brisk and tireless ness and affection. His early education, pastor who visited diligently all his people. both secular and religious, was almost whol- In the pulpit and the prayer meeting his ly neglected. The associates of his youth strength did not abate, and in heart he ware ignorant and vicious. Up to his nine- never grew old. Early in 1890 he suffered teenth year he had seldom, if ever, entered with the prevailing influenza, called la grippe. a house’ of worship, and had no intelligent After partial relief he had several new at- idea of God or religion. About this time he tacks. He resisted bravely, but at length was led by curiosity to attend a revival meet- succumbed. While pastor of Market Street ing conducted by Rev. B. R. Duval at Union Church in 1884, he was suddenly seized with Hill Chapel. The sermon arrested his at- a violent disorder, which threatened speedy tention and made a deep impression on his death. He was himself surprised at the per- mind. After several days of great mentai fect peace with which he then in full pos- anguish and earnest prayer, he was happily session of all his faculties confronted death. converted. He immediately connected him- “ I have no preparation to make,” he said to self with Old Trinity Church, and entered his physician and friends; “ that was settled with his whole heart upon the Christian long ago.” A worn-out invalid, he bore the life. His fervent piety, good sense, and same testimony in 1891. To the Trustees of force of character soon attracted attention. Randolph-Macon, who met in Lynchburg Though so young, both in years and his re- three weeks before his death, he sent by Dr. ligious life, he was appointed class leader, Sledd a message of love and the assurance and older Christians gladly accepted bis of readiness for his departure. There was leadership. In the missionary prayer meet- neither eagerness nor reluctance to go, but ing, held in the neglected portions of the 124 Virginia Conference, 1891.

city and suburbs, be took an active part, and of the grace of God.” With a single eye and' displayed such earnest zeal and useful gifts a steady purpose he pressed forward toward as to inspire the minds of his brethren w ith this mark, looking neither to the right hand the conviction that God was preparing him nor to the left. He took heed both to him- j for a wider sphere of usefulness. In the self and to all the flock over which the Holy early part of 1843 Rev. T. G. Clayton, a Ghost made him overseer. Brother McGee Methodist Protestant minister, having charge was twice married. His first wife was Mar- of a circuit in Charles City and New Kent tha C. Winfree, of Lynchburg, to whom he Counties, began to visit Richmond to look was wedded in 1847. She bore him four after the spiritual interest of a few families children, all of whom died young. This de- of his charge residing there. On such occa- voted companion he buried in 1884. In sions he held religious services in their 1885 he married Mrs. Robert Spratly, of homes. Young McGee often attended these Berkley. She, by her gentle and assiduous services and took much interest in them. devotion, cheered his declining years, and His pastor remonstrated with him, and survives to mourn his loss. Our sainted sought, perhaps rather harshly, to prevent brother died as he wished: at his post and his further attendance upon them. This on the field of battle. He died in the midst the young class leader resented as an undue of his weeping flock, who to the last shared encroachment upon his personal liberty. his thoughtful solicitude. To use the lan- office, of of them had known him. The result was that he gave up his ! guage one who severed his relation, and united well and long: “ His death was like a grand Church , himself with the little band of Methodist and peaceful autumnal sunset.” Its halo Protestants. In the summer of 1843 he ac- still lingers over the spot where the veteran companied Mr. Clayton to his circuit, and hero fell. Servant of God, well done. attended a series of protracted meetings. Led on by his zeal, encouraged by his suc- F John Gallatin Rowt e wr as born in Fred- cess in winning souls, and urged by his pastor ericksburg, Va., February 27, 1827. He was and brethren, he found himself, at the close of the son of George and Lucy Rowe, strict the Conference year, without purposely seek- members of the Baptist Church. John was ing to become such, not only an exhorter, converted at a Methodist altar under the but a preacher of the gospel of Christ. In ' ministry of Rev. John Lannahan, of the- Conference, in his native city in this spirit, distrustful of himself, yet willing . Baltimore

to be led, he attended the Virginia Annual . 1877. The Methodist doctrines and usages Conference of the Methodist Protestant i met the desires of his mind and heart, and Church, which held its session for that year in 1848, when the Church of his native city in Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Va. divided, he adhered South, and was the At this Conference he w7 as admitted on trial same year licensed to exhort, and ,in Janu- into the traveling connection. He was sent ary, 1849, was licensed to preach, and sent to Hampton and Fox Hill, and there began by his presiding elder, Rev. J. H. Davis, to his career of a Methodist itinerant preacher Westmoreland Circuit to assist Rev. H. Gary. —a career which, without a single break, he At the Virginia Conference held at Peters- continued to the day of his death—a period burg in 1849 he was admitted on trial into of nearly forty-eight years. For twenty- the traveling connection, and sent as junior seven years he ministered at the altars of preacher to the Mecklenburg Circuit. He the Methodist Protestant Church, and for was married this year, November 21, to Miss- twenty-one years he prosecuted his labors Margaret A. Purcell. In 1851-52 he was in connection with this Conference. As a sent to Middlesex, a small circuit set off from Methodist Protestant minister he served Gloucester, a single man’s appointment. But the following charges: Hampton, Norfolk, he had a wife and would have been greatly Lynchburg, Smithfield, Charles City and embarrassed had it not been for Capt. Robert New Kent, Surrey, and Princess Anne. He Haley, a prince in our Israel, who took him was for three years President of the Confer- and his wife to his elegant home and gave ence, and served as a delegate both to the them every comfort for two years without General Conference and the General Con- charge. From 1869 to 1871 he was Agent for vention of the Church. In 1870, by the un- the Virginia Conference Sunday School Soci- ion of the two Virginia Conferences, he be- ety, and from 1871 to 1877 was Agent for the came a member of this body, and received Virginia Bible Society. In these positions, from it the following appointments: East as in all the work committed to him, he was Norfolk, Berkley Station, Manchester Sta- active, diligent, and; as far as possible, suc- tion, Eastern Shore District, Elizabeth City cessful. As a preacher the concurrent testi- Station, Hampton and Fox Hill, Murfrees- mony is that he was earnest, direct, and boro, Liberty, McKendree, Norfolk, and faithful in presenting the great cardinal Bethany Station. Everywhere, and at all truths and doctrines of Christianity, and in times, he was the same holy, consecrated pressing home upon the hearer the necessi- man of God; the same earnest, diligent, ty of the new birth. For several years he faithful minister of Christ. He set out in his had been a sufferer from cancer, and while- Christian and ministerial life with the noble lie did not murmur or complain, yet he- and loity aim to preach and live “ the gospel seemed to be anxious to depart and be at

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Test. Amputation of the arm was contem- General Conference of 1886 in Richmond. plated and he was consulted, and at the At Columbia he was bereaved of his wife in same time informed that it would likely January, 1890; and there, June 22, 1891, he prove fatal. His faith failed not. He saw breathed out his own spirit into the bosom Him who was invisible. He called his fam- of his Lord. In disposition and manners ily around him and made the operation a Brother Saunders was genial, affectionate, subject of prayer, and then left the whole cordial, and open. His hospitality was broad matter there, willing to suffer amputation and warm. His brotherly kindness was gen- or not, as God seemed to indicate. The op- uine and unreserved. He had no secret or eration was not performed. He was a ripe bitter dislikes and antagonisms. There was sheaf ready to be gathered in, and on April about him a quaint humor, a sharpness of 16, 1891, he heard the voice of his Redeemer, observation and discernment of human na- and gladly quitted this vale of suffering and ture, which gave a peculiar charm to his went home to be with God and the breth- conversation. Great men like Bishop Pierce ren who had gone before him. and Dr. Duncan felt it, and were drawn to him with an uncommon degree of interest John Martin Saunders saw the light in and affection. As a preacher he wr as some- the city of Norfolk, Va., April 23, 1817. At what unequal. At times he seemed to fall an early age he tasted the bitterness of or- below alike his own ideal and the expecta- phanage. Deprived of both parents, he was tion of his hearers. But at others he soared left in poverty and loneliness to drink a cup aloft and spoke with pathos, point, and of dependence and neglect. Painful recol- power. His endurance of the sufferings and lections of his sad and cheerless childhood languor of his last years was heroic and pa- haunted his maturer life. He spoke of that tient. His life was faithful and his death part of his history with a shuddering pain, was full of peace. and always with reluctance. But God is 4L the Father of the fatherless.” He guided Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless and watched over the helpless orphan boy. in their life and official administration? He was, by the blessed agency of the Sun- Their names were called over, one by one, day school, brought into contact with loving and their characters examined and passed. Christian people, in whose company he pro- Ques. 21. What is the number of local gressed from the lowest class to the superin- preachers and members in the several cir- tendency of the school at the Cumberland cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Street Church. He wr as licensed as a local ence? preacher while Dr. Waller was pastor in Nor- Richmond District folk, and at first took charge of a large col- White Colored Loci Mem’s. Mem’s. Pr’a. ored congregation. Meantime he attended school and increased his educational qualifi- 474 cations. Assisting for a time Dr. Waller at Trinity 480 746 Trinity, Richmond, whither he had moved, 142 he entered the Virginia Conference in 1842, 180 and gave forty years to the active work of Manchester: Central 550 i 203 the itinerancy in every part of our territory, 167 in circuits and stations, and for one term of Henrico 269 1 i four years as presiding elder of the Danville 231 2 New Kent./. 216 2 District. He had large usefulness, saw hun- 263 3 dreds of souls converted, and the Church 198 growing and flourishing under his^ninistry 231 i Gloucester 1,165 and that of his brethren. Comforted by the Williamsburg ' 84 love and helped by the devout counsels of York 869 1 3 his noble wife (whom he had wedded in Newport News 145 Carolina, Sallie Thorpe, of that North Miss 6,613 9 6 State), enjoying the society of such a help- West Richmond District. mate, and occupied with two daughters given Richmond: Centenary 1 6081 2 to them, life along, for the most part, went 669 1 serenely and sweetly with him. In his lat- Park Place 568 2 ter years his health gradually became im- Laurel Street 542 1 134 1 paired, which broke specially by neuralgia, Hanover 368 2

him down, as it has some others of our best 1 274.1 men. In 1882 he retired from the active 343 West Hanover 465 1 1 work, took superannuated relation, and a 387 1 moved to Missouri to spend the remainder Goochland 4.i0| of his life with his son-in-law, Prof. E. A. 561 West Goochland Mission 3231 Allen, who had gone to that State, first at Cartersville 253 j Fayette, then at Columbia, the seat of the Chesterfield 22.‘ 1 s State University. Hence he came no more West Chesterfield Mission 24 1 South Chesterfield 325>1 3 4o Virginia, except for a short visit with his

wife and grandson, about the time of the 6,2361 l| 22 . . .

1891. 126 Virginia Conference,

Northern Neck District. FarmviUc District. White Colored Loc'l I White I Colored jLoc'l Mem’s. Mem’s. |Pr’s. Mem's. Mem’s. Pr's.

229 1 Whitestone 371371 . 1 Farmville 288 2 Lancaster 427427 . 3 Prince Edward . Heathville 472 3 Prospect 533 1 432 Bethany 360 . Charlotte 418 2 Marvin Grove 286 . 1 West Buckingham Westmoreland 401 11 Buckingham 437 - Montrose 346 Cumberland 508 1 King George 488 Amelia 525 3 2 Spottsylvania 37b376 1 Burkeville 203 2 Bowling Green 316 Crewe and Nottoway C. H. 283 Port Royal Mission 72 Nottoway 520 Essex 393398 1 Lunenburg 443 1 390) 1 1 West Lunenburg Mission... 288 2 King and Queen 390 i Middlesex 411 Mecklenburg . 388 West Matthews 468 3 North Mecklenburg 562 2 Matthews li°70,070 3 1 Boydton 81 1 Chase City 266 1 $47 5| 16 Clarksville 223 423 Charlottesville District. South of Dan 544|.. Charlottesville 7,0501 13| 8; Albemarle 566 Petersburg District. Scottsville 348 ®|9 . Batesville """ Sti’eet.... 5211 T >87 1 Petersburg: Washington 354 2: 476^76 i| 1 Market Street Amherst High Street 438 1 West Amherst 477177 Mti. ; " 514 ’2 Wesley 228 1 Mt. Pleasant £14 . »02 Blandford Mission 114 Milton Mission 20'2 • 151 1 B30 3 2 West Street Mission Fluvanna £30 2571 1 1545 3 1 Ettrick Louisa £45 3291 2ib27t5 2 Matoaca Gordonsville Dinwiddie 406' 1 1 220 ...... 2 West Orange Circuit 443 1 594 i Dinwiddie Greene 484 2 9(55 1 East Dinwiddie Madison , ££" 482 2 281owi .. Prince George Woodville 205 1 503108 1 "Wakefield Culpeper * 473 1 1 459 "1 Sussex Culpeper Circuit 9 367 024 2 4 Greenville — Rappahannock 624 644 2 ! South Brunswick Brunswick...... 545 1 ,850 14 21 j West Brunswick 534 1 1 Lynchburg District.

Lynchburg: Centenary 528( . Court Street 3 Suffolk District. 494 • Memorial . . Trinity 116 1 Suffolk and Nansemond Mission- City Mission Chuck atuck Dahielstown 1271 1 Isle of Wight...... Madison Station 171| Smitlifleld and Benn’sBenn’s.. BedfordKeuiorci uiy...City 230, 47 Surry...... Surry Bedford Circuit 489 1 South Norfolk 30* North Bedford , Newsom’s — Bedford Springs »81 l Southampton Middle Bedford -403 1 - Boykin’s West Bedford 493 1 North Gates Staunton River Mission 205 ...... Gates. West Campbell 256 2 EdentonEdenl Campbell »7< 2 HertfHertford 1 Pasquotank 330 . 1 Elizabeth City. 1 272 Currituck 6,562 4 18 Danville District. 666 Norfolk District. 174 l 302 1 Norfolk: Cumberland Street.... 318 Pittsylvania 333 2 1 579 Queen Street.. 292 McKendree.... Asbury North Pittsylvania 469 1 520 448 1 3 Portsmouth : Monumental. Central Snow Creek Mission. 91 215 Wright Memorial West Franklin Mission Mission. 386 1 1 Effingham Street Norfolk Circuit Martinsville 202 261 3 3 Churchland Patrick 2£f 281 2 5 East Norfolk Oaklette and Bethel South Boston. 498 2 1 Halifax 440 East Halifax. 197

6,672 12 13 1891. 127 Virginia Conference,

Eastern Shore District. ers, 10; students, 50. Suffolk Female Col- White lege: Teachers, 9; students, 120; value of Mem's. property, $25,000. Southern Female Col- lege (Petersburg) (No report). Chesapeake Eastville and Cobb’s Tsland Mis... 409 ; 35 Academy: Teachers, 7; students, 79; value 355 of property, $5,000. 781 Ques. 34. Where shall the next session 380 South Accomac 269 of the Conference be held? Norfolk, Ya. 484 Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- 360 tioned this year? Wicomico 288 Berlin 264 Salisbury 110 RICHMOND DISTRICT. Cambridge Station 207 Cambridge Circuit 311 Paul Whitehead, P. E. Dorchester 293 Richmond Broad Street, W. Y. Tudor. Hooper’s Island 117 ; 315 Trinity, P. A. Peterson. Fox Hill 195 Union Station, G. H. Ray.

5,173l 10 Howard’s Grove, L. J. Phaup. | Recapitulation. Denny Street, W. A. Laughon.

Richmond District 6,613 91 6 Manchester: Central, W. C. Vaden. 6,236 ' h 22 Fifth Street, John P. Woodward. 16 West End Memorial, T. P. Wise. 8,850 14l 21 Lynchburg “ 6,562 4^ 18 Henrico, N. B. Foushee. 6,672 12 13 Charles City, McDaniel Rucker. Farmville “ 13 8 New Kent, J. B. Askew. 6(985 a 19

' Suffolk “ 8,099 1 17 West New Kent, O. P. Moorman. Norfolk “ 6,758 J 8 West Point, W. G. Boggs. Eastern “ Shore 5,173 10 East King and Queen, to be supplied. Gloucester, W. H. Gregory and C. H. Gallo- ! 75,645 63 158 Total last year 76,938 63 169 way. | Williamsburg, James H. Moss. Decrease 1 l,33Sl 11 York, Joseph E. Potts. Newport News, R. M. Chandler. Ques. 22. How many infants have been Richmond Christian Advocate, J. J. Lafferty, baptized during tlje year? 1,312. Editor. Ques. 23. How many adults have been baptized during the year? 3,104. WEST RICHMOND DISTRICT. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday schools? 790. A. G. Brown, P. E. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Richmond: Centenary, R. N. Sledd. school teachers? 8,281. Clay Street, E. H. Rawlings. Ques. 26. is the of What number Sunday Park Place, J. Wiley Bledsoe. school scholars? 55,250. Laurel Street, W. E. Judkins. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Washington Street, R. H. Bennett. the superannuated preachers, the and wid- Hanover, J. R. Griffith. of ows and orphans preachers? $12,000. King William, W. E. Bullard C. H. Green, ; Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Sup. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Ashland, W. J. Young. plied? $11,505.54. Applied to claimants. Ashland Circuit, to be supplied (by D. H. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Kern). Missions? Foreign Missions, $18,267.86; Do- Ashland Mission, to be supplied. mestic Missions, $11,749.29. Total, $30,017.15. West Hanover, C. S. Wamsley. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Caroline, John A. Smith. Church Extension? $3,810.27. Goochland, E. P. Parham. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what West Goochland Mission, R. H. Mullen. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Cartersville, Paul Bradley. Number, 724; value, $1,647,770.19. Chesterfield, F. M. Edwards. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what West Chesterfield Mission, to be supplied is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- (by H. E. Johnson). ber, 124 value, $238,475. ; South Chesterfield, S. H. Johnson. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- General Superintendent of Colportage, A. G. tics? Randolph-Macon College: Teachers, Brown. 18; students, 126 endowment, $125,000; val- ; Powhatan Mission, to be supplied. ue of property, $105,000. Randolph-Macon

Academy (Bedford City) : Teachers, 13 stu- ; RAPPAHANNOCK DISTRICT. dents, 161 value of property, $100,000. Dan- ; W. E. Payne, P. E. ville College for Young Ladies : Teachers, 12; students, 142; value of property, $40,000. Whitestone, John T. Payne. Bowling Green Female Seminary: Teach- Lancaster, N. H. Robertson. .

1891. 128 Virginia Conference, DANVILLE DISTRICT. Heathville, W. G. Bates. Bethany, J. T. Moore. Joseph H. Amiss, P. E. Richmond Circuit, W. B. Jett. Main Street, Herbert M. Hope. Westmoreland, Joseph W. Shackford. Danville: Floyd Street, A. S. J. Rice. Montross, S. W. Bay. Mt. Vernon and Sunnyside, J. S. Hunter. King George, J. 0. Babcock. North Danville (Calvary), J. C. Martin. Spottsylvania, Thomas H. Boggs. Pittsylvania, R. T. Clarke. Bowling Green, W. E. Grant. Chatham, E. V. Carson. Port Royal Mission, to be supplied (by S. L. Cascade, H. J. Brown. Thrift). North Pittsylvania, W. J. Williams. Essex, 0. L. Martin. Franklin, James 0. Moss. King and Queen, R. E. Barrett. East Franklin, J. L. Pribble. Middlesex, W. F. Robins. Creek Mission, J. W. Heckman. Matthews, G. H. McFaden. Snow West Mission, J. H. Pike. one to be supplied West Franklin Matthews, D. G. C. Butts ; Henry, B. M. Beckham. (by G. H. Thomas). . Martinsville, T. 0. Edwards. Bowling Green Female Seminary, E. H. Patrick, T. P. Duke; H. C. Bowles, Sup. Rowe, Principal. one to be Meadows of Dan, S. R. Drewry ; (by J. W. Shockley). DISTRICT. supplied CHARLOTTESVILLE South Boston, J. R. Deshazo. Oscar Littleton, P. E. Halifax, J. D. Forkner. Williams. East Halifax, M. L. _ . Uni- Charlottesville, B. F. Lipscomb. W. F. Tillett, Professor in Vanderbilt Albemarle, J. D. Southall. versity, Nashville, Tenn. Scottsville, W. T. Williams. DISTRICT. Bates ville, C. H. Boggs. FARMVILLE Crider. Kelson, J. W. T. H. Campbell, P. E. Amherst, W. E. Allen. West Amherst, B. E. Ledbetter. Farmville, George W. Wray. Eason. Mt. Pleasant, R. B. Beadles. Prince Edward, S. W. Milton Mission, M. S. Elliott. Prospect, R. W. Watts. Fluvanna, W. H. Riddick. Charlotte, E. S. Gunn. F. B. Glenn. Louisa, J. Q. Rhodes. West Buckingham, Gordonsville, W. F. Bain. Buckingham, W. A. S. Conrad.

• Reed. Grange Circuit, Ernest Stevens; W. H. Car Cumberland, L. S. penter, Sup. Amelia, C. C. Wertenbaker. Beckham. •Greene, Charles L. Bane. Burkeville, T. M. H., J. T. Mastin. Madison, M. S. Watts. Crewe and Nottoway C. Woodville, G. H. Spooner. Nottoway, R. B. Blankenship. Hildrup. Culpeper, J. T. Bosman. Lunenburg, J. W. Mission, J. L. Spencer. Culpeper Circuit, J. E. Gates. West Lunenburg Rappahannock, Charles H. McGhee. Mecklenburg, W. P. Jordan. North Mecklenburg, C. R. James. LYNCHBURG DISTRICT. Bovdton, W. F. Davis. Chase City, W. R. Smithey. J. P. Garland, P. E. Clarksville, J. B. Winn. Dan, William A. Tompkins. Lynchburg: Centenary, W. H. AtwiU. South of Sup. Court Street, L. B. Betty; T. H. Early, PETERSBURG DISTRICT. Memorial, E. M. Peterson. Trinity and Cleveland Avenue, J. W. Hub- J. H. Riddick, P. E. bard. Bled- Petersburg: Washington Street, A. C. City Mission, J. Manning. Danielstown, John L. Clarke. SO0. Market Street, H. C. Cheatham. Madison Station, C. W. Turner. High Street, W. W. Lear. Bedford City, W. P. Wright. Wesley, J. R. Tillery. Bedford Circuit, Jacob H. Proctor. Blandford Mission, Porter Hardy. North Bedford, to be supplied (by J. W. Par- West Street Mission, L. L. Banks. rish). T. G. Pullen. Bedford Springs, C. F. Comer. Ettrick, E. A. Potts?. Bedford, Asa Driscoll. Matoaca, Middle Dinwiddie, R. M. Maxey. West Bedford, W. E. Thompson. West Dinwiddie, John 0. Moss. Staunton River, E. A. Gibbs. Dinwiddie, J. E. McSparran. West Campbell, Bascom Dey. East Prince George, N, J. Pruden. -Campbell, Charles E. Watts. E. R. Riddick. John M. Burton. Wakefield, J. Concord, George E. Booker and W. C. Smith. Appomattox, John H. Kabler. Sussex, Greenville, A. C. Jordan. West Charlotte, George H. Wiley. 129 North Alabama Conference , 1891.

South Brunswick, R. H. Younger. Portsmouth: Monumental, T.McN. Simpson. Brunswick, J. C. Watson. Central, James Cannon, Jr. West Brunswick, W. J. Twilly. Wright Memorial, T. J. Taylor. Effingham Street Mission, A. A. Jonea. SUFFOLK DISTRICT. Norfolk Circuit, R. F. Gayle. Churchland, W. T. Green. James C. Reed, P. E. East Norfolk, R. A. Compton. Suffolk, George C. Vanderslice. Oaklette and Bethel, J. L. Bray. East Suffolk and Magnolia, W. W. Southall. Princess Anne, Joseph T. Routten. Chuckatuck, W. W. Sawyer. South Princess Anne, John W. Carroll. Isle of Wight, C. D. Crawley. Chaplain to Seaman’s Bethel, Joseph B. Smithfield and Benn’s, J. W. Stiff. Merritt. Surry, B. F. Smith. EASTERN SHORE DISTRICT. South Norfolk, M. S. Colonna and J. A. Proctor. J. D. Hank, P. E. Newsom’s, E. E. Harrell. Z Eastville and Cobb’s Island Mission, W. R. Southampton, C. E. Hobday. Crowder, one to be supplied. Boykin’s, T. J. Wray. Cape Charles City Mission, A. R. Goodchild. North Gates, Richard Ferguson. Belle Haven, to be supplied (by T. Burton). Gates, John W. Tucker. Pungotague, J. M. Anderson. Edenton, W. R. Proctor. Onancock, A. C. Berryman. Hertford, J. W. S. Robins. South Accomac, Y. W. Bargamin. Perquimans, J. G. Lennon. Accomac, J: W. Nicholson. Pasquotank, B. S. Herrink. Atlantic, R. B. Scott. Elizabeth City, E. M. Jordan. Wicomico, E. F. Garner. Camden, C. R. Taylor. Berlin, to be supplied (by J. A. Thomas). Currituck, J. B. DeBerry. Salisbury, T. N. Potts. Cambridge Station, H. P. Mitchell. NORFOLK DISTRICT. Cambridge Circuit, J. S. Wallace. W. E. Edwards, P. E. Dorchester, D. J. Traynham. Hooper’s Island, to be supplied (by A. A. Norfolk: Cumberland Street, Wm. G. Starr. Whitmore). Granby Street* and Huntersville, W. E. Hampton, William H. Christian. Evans and D. B. Austin. Fox Hill, W. F. Hayes. Centenary, S. S. Lambeth. Queen Street, J. T. Whitley. J. W. Howell transferred to the Southwest McKendree, W. H. Edwards. Missouri Conference. Asbury, R. H. Potts. J. A. Duncan transferred to the Denver Berkeley (Chestnut Street), R. T. Wilson. Conference.

NORTH ALABAMA CONFERENCE.

Held at Decatur, Ala., December 3-7, 1891.

Bishop G-alloway, President; John W. Newman, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? A. J. Answer. Ethelbert B. Notion, Basil H. 0. Lee, L. W. Cain, W. B. Woodall—at their Cochran, Euclid H. McWhorter, Frank H. own request. 3. Gardner, George A.White, William M. Wade, Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Edward L. Brown, James D. Lockhart, Rob- nection? Isaac B. Sargent, Joseph D. Ellis, ert M*. Archibald, Samuel F. Matthews, James Walter L. Rice, George E. Driskitl, Wallace M. Parker. 11. C. Driskill, Samuel B. Smith, Frank W. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Charles Brandon, George W. Read, James H. Mc- F. Herring, William K. Simpson, H. C. How- Coy, James W. Cary, Harry C. Howard. M. ard, Thomas 0. Jones, M. R. Smith, G. L. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? W. A. Mont- Crow, J. H. Jennings, D. W. Bouley, J. L. gomery. 3. Williams, John W. Worsnop. 10. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer 9 !

130 North Alabama Conference, 1891. from other Conferences? Marshall H. Wells, Penn., May 11, 1803; professed religion and from the Louisville Conference; Milton M. joined the Methodist Church at Taylor’s Hawkins, J. C. Morris, from the Southwest Springs Camp Ground, Va., in 1820. He Missouri Conference. 3. was licensed to preach by the Quarterly Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Conference of Lafayette Circuit, Alabama G. E. Boyd, G. L. Jenkins, R. E. Walston, Conference, in 1845. Two years after this, W. E. Foust, H. T. Strout, E. D. Emerson, January, 1847, at Tuscaloosa, Ala., he was Henry Trawick, F. P. Culver, W. J. Davis. 9. admitted on trial into the Alabama Confer- Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are ence. In 1850 he was ordained deacon, and elected deacons? Joseph D. Ellis, Walter L. in 1852 was ordained elder. These dates Riee, George E. Driskill, Samuel B. Smith, set for theventful periods in the long life of Wallace C. Driskill, Frank W. Brandon, this great and good man. He fell on sleep George W. Read, James H. McCoy, James October 28, 1891, full of years, and with the W. Cary, Harry C. Howard. 10. full assurance of hope in a glorious immor- Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- tality. His ministry extended over a period dained deacons? J. D. Ellis, W, L. Rice, G. E. of forty-four years, during which time he Driskill, W. C. Driskill, S. B. Smith, F. W. was called to fill many important and re- Brandon, G. W. Read, J. H. McCoy, J. W. sponsible places in the Church. He saw Cmy, H. C. Howard. 10. and experienced many features of the itin- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected erant life, cheerfully enduring its hardships deacons? Benjamin F. Joiner, Samuel H. and enjoying all of its pleasures, to the full, Striplin, William P. Hawkins, James A. J. both social and religious. For many years Brock, Livingston C. Wiggins, George M. he filled the responsible office of presiding Randle, Dennis W. Boulley, William L. Hen- elder, and was always efficient and popular, dricks. 8. both with the people and the preachers who Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- served under him. Having traveled hard dained deacons? S. H. Striplin, William K. circuits himself, he knew just how to sym- Simpson, W. P. Hawkins, G. M. Randle, D. pathize with and encourage men in such W. Boulley, James M. Edwards, George W. positions. He continued in the active work Sims, Jerome Bailey. 8. about thirty years, retiring only when age Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are and feebleness forced him to do so. He was elected elders? David T. Dye, Eugene H. about seventy-five years ojd when placed on Price, Clinton M. Rice, William B. Wilson, the superannuated roll. Few men retain William E. H. Mabry, Andrew J. Chappell, their vital forces so vigorously and to such William B. Andrews, John S. Robertson, an age as did Father Duncan. He was nat- Joshua Warren, Wilhelm F. Sanford, James urally demonstrative, and usually expressed F. Allison, Robert B. Baird, Eugene P. Crad- himself with a great deal of earnestness on dock. 13. The characters of Hamilton B. all subjects upon which he had occasion to Ralls, William B. Bayless, James S. Glas- speak. He was truly a man of God; he gow were examined and passed, being al- walked and talked with God. His “ inter- ready elders. views” with his heavenly Father during Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- the last two years of his life were very pre- dained elders? D. T. Dye, E. H. Price, R. B. cious to him, especially when he was pass- Baird, C. M. Rice, W. B. Wilson, E. P. Crad- ing through the ordeal of giving up his wife,. dock, A. J. Chappell, W. B. Andrews, W. E. Rachel, who left him about eleven months H. Mabry, J. S. Robertson, Joshua Warren, ago. It became necessary for Brother Dun- W. L. Sanford, J. F. Allison. 13. can, a few months ago, to leave his old home Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected in Talladega and go to Birmingham to live elders? None. with his daughter, Mrs. J. Morgan Smith. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- He said to me, as a kind of compensation dained elders? William J. Canterberry. 1. for giving up the society of his old neigh- Ques. 16. Who are located this year? G. bors and friends; “I shall be where I can L. Hewitt, J. H. Hamilton, Henry Trawick, frequently meet many of the preachers and M. M. Hawkins, W. J. Davis—at their own other friends whom I have known.” In my request. 4. last’ talk with him, which was about six Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? L. M. weeks before his death, he was unusually Wilson, J. N. Dupree. 2. hopeful of the complete fulfillment of all of Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? W. C. God’s promises to him. He did not believe Hearn, J. S. Marks, J. G. Walker, J. L. Cole- anything would be left out. “And, if so,” man, J. T. Bartee, W. D. Nicholson, C. D. he said, “ what a glorious inheritance is soon Oliver, E. F. S. Roberts, W. Williams, C. to be mine.” He spoke of the prospect that “ Godbey, G. J. Mason, C. S. D. Lassiter, J. E. he would soon go too. “ But,” said he, if McCain, A. G. Copeland, N. H. Self. 15. I can only keep my right senses, I do not Ques. 19. What preachers have died dim- want any grander testimony to leave behind ing the past year? Daniel Duncan, Benja- than the sublime words of Alexander Pope: F. Lea, C. McCoy. 3. min W. Vital spark of heav’nly flame, Quit, O quit, this mortal frame Daniel Duncan was born in Shippenburg, Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, —

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O the pain, the bliss of dying! tion. At the close of the second year in this nature, cease thy strife, Cease from station we all felt that his work was doite, And let me languish into life. and that soon he would be transferred from ! Angels say: Hark! they whisper us to be with the saints and angels beyond ‘ Sister spirit, come away.’ classical What is this absorbs me quite, the sunset. Brother Lea was not a Steals my senses, shuts my sight. scholar such as schools make, but he was a Drowns my spirit, draws my breath man who read much and thought more. So Tell me, my soul, can this be death? familiar was he with the language of the The world recedes; it disappears! Bible that, in sermon, prayer, and conversa- Heaven opens on my eyes ! My ears With sounds seraphic ring! tion, he used the divine words so well that Lend, lend your wings; I mount, I fly! one felt that he lived in a holy scriptural at- 4 0 grave, where is thy victory? also in song. It ’ ” mosphere. He excelled O death, where is thy sting? would not be exaggerating to say that Broth- God gave him the grace and strength, and er Lea had sung more people into the Church I am told that he did make this his testi- and up to heaven than most of us are able mony on his deathbed. Peace to his ashes, to save with all other agencies. As a pastor and blessings on his memory! he had few equals. He saw all, knew all, and visited all in his charge—Methodists and Benjamin Franklin Lea was born in Wil- all others. Brother Lea was married to Miss son County, Tenn., March 17, 1838. His par- Elizabeth Rebecca Blankenship in 1852, who ents were devout Christians, and there were now survives to mourn her loss. Two daugh- two daughters and four sons born unto them. ters and two sons remain with their mother Frank, as he was called, was the oldest of to miss his smiles here, but to follow on the boys. He embraced religion in the fall after him. Just three weeks before his death, of 1844, at Walnut Grove Church, near Leb- which took place August 7, he sent for me to anon, Tenn., during a quarterly meeting held visit him, that he might leave with me his by Revs. John Kelley and William Doss, message to his brethren of the North Ala- and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian bama Conference. When he saw me, his Church with his parent’s family. His fa- eyes sparkled with heavenly luster, and he ther died and his mother with her children ; drew me to his bosom and kissed me, say- moved to Indiana, where he united with ing: “ I am so glad you have come. I have the Methodists in 1854, and was made class prayed to see you and give you my last mes- leader, which office he filled well till he en- sage to the brethren of the Conference. Tell tered the pastorate. In 1855 Brother Lea them when they meet in Decatur I shall be returned to Tennessee, and became a citizen in heaven. As the good Dr. McFerrin said: of Nashville, and a member of the Elysian ‘ They will know where to find me.’ Tell Grove charge. Here in 1858 he was licensed them the gospel I have preached these many to exhort by Rey. William Large, preacher years sustains and comforts me now as I am in charge. He was licensed to preach August nearing the river. Christ is mine and I am 4, 1860, by Rev. A. S. Riggs, presiding elder. his. Glory to his name! Tell the brethren He was ordained deacon by Bishop Mc- I love them with a brother’s love. Tell them Tyeire in Tennessee, October 28, 1866, and I shall watch and wait for them at the beau- ” was set apart to the office of an elder in the tiful gate. God bless them, every one ! Church of God by Bishop G. F. Pierce in Florence, Ala., at the request of the North r William Clark McCoy was born near Alabama Conference, in 1871. During the Granville, Monroe County, Mo., October 8, late war, he was in the army three years and 1843. But little is known by this writer of six months, battling for what he thought his his parents or his early history. His moth- country’s honor and rights. Eight months er was a pious, industrious housewife, with he suffered in a Northern prison. In 1865 holy and lofty aspirations. It was from her he was recommended to the Tennessee Con- no doubt that William inherited much that

ference by his Quarterly Conference. . But afterward developed into true greatness. a hard spell of sickness prevented his enter-' His early years were passed at home in a ing upon the work of an itinerant preacher rural district. While there was plenty, the till 1867. His first charge was Coffeetown educational facilities were quite limited; so (now Langston) Circuit, and his second was much so that when the war broke out be- Larkinsville Circuit. On these two charges he tween the States he was in his eighteenth remained till the North Alabama Conference year, and had been to school only throe was formed. His lot fell in this last-named months in all his life. He grew up inured body, and here he did for us twenty-one suc- to toil, with an ardent, impulsive nature, a cessful years’ service, to the joy of the charges strong physical constitution and great cour- served by him. Madison, Meridian, Dan- age. So that when the first drum beat for ville, Somerville, Jones’s Valley, and Jones- braves to defend their country’s cause, it boro Circuits all had his useful services and found William McCoy, with intense -South- were greatly blessed. His last two years’ ern convictions ready to take up-arms in her work was in the Fayette Station. Now here defense. The first service rendered was un- else did our dear brother impress himself on der Quantreffs band of partisan rangew. the Church more graciously than in this sia- That did not suit Mm. He -soon ieft^Qnan- :

1891. 132 North Alabama Conference, trell and joined the army of Northern Vir- for four years. His next and last appoint- ginia, under Stonewall Jackson. In a short ment, in November, 1890, was to the Decatur while he was one of Jackson’s trusted cour- District as presiding elder. In many things iers. Shot and shell never came too thick he was a model presiding elder. The expec- and fast for him to go to any part of the tations of the people were always fully met line with an important message. In a hand at 11 o’clock on Sunday. A Quarterly Meet- to hand contest on Sunday, May 12, 1864, being Conference where William McCoy was ing overpowered, he surrendered himself a presiding elder was always an occasion of in- prisoner of war. The prisoners were taken terest. As a college agent he was par excd- at once to Elmira, N. Y. It was here in lence. He seemed to the manner born. No prison, through a kind providence, under man ever did so much in so short a time for the labors of Rev. Mr. Blount, of Alabama, reviving and building up the Southern Uni- he was led to “ repentance toward God and versity as he did. As editor of a religious faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.” After the sur- journal he made quite a reputation. His render of the Confederate forces, Missouri labors during the time he edited the Advocate was in such an unsettled state that it was were great and incessant. In January, 1890, thought best for him not to go back to loved that fearful malady known as la grippe seized ones at home. So aimlessly the soldier boy upon him, and from that time he never had wandered in tattered garments, till late one a well day. The Advocate was given up by afternoonhesatontherailroadtrackinNorth him in the fall of 1890, in hope of regaining his lost health appointed by Alabama, in a pensive mood ; the tears from ; and he was his eyes unbidden fiowr ed. Approaching Bishop Granbery to the Decatur District as night and hunger drove him from his place presiding elder. Feeling relieved of a great of despondency. In the not far distance responsibility, his health seemed to improve could be seen smoke curling from an unpre- for awhile, and some of his friends had great tentious hut. Thither the downcast wan- hopes of his complete recovery. In April derer went and asked for food and lodg- he took his bed, and for nearly four months ing for the night. It was here he fell into be lingered, a great sufferer, but never corn- good hands. It proved to be the house of a plained. One day a physician said to him local preacher in our Church. That night “ It seems hard for you to have to suffer so began an attachment between James Cox much and so long.” But he said: “Stop! and W. C. McCoy that knew no abatement. For forty-six years I had uninterrupted good On July 25, 1867, he was happily married to health, and shall I now complain? No; I Miss Annie E. Vaughn, of Blount County, will not.” It was my good fortune to be Ala. To this union were born six children, much with my brother, for such he was to “ one of whom, little Gurley, preceded him to me, in his last illness. On being asked, Do the heavenly mansions. On November 27, you find the gospel you have preached so 1869, he was granted a license to preach by long to others real and sufficient in this try- ” “ the Quarterly Conference of Marshall Circuit, ing hour? he said : Real does not express Tennessee Conference, M. E. Church, South, it; it is everything to me.” He settled all signed by A. F. Driskill, presiding elder, his temporal matters and called to his bed- The next he traveled the Marshall Circuit side his wife and children, and gave to each as a supply under A. F. Driskill. In the fall his parting blessing, and said: “Wife, train of 1870 he was admitted on trial at the organi- the children so that, with you, they will zation of the North Alabama Conference at meet me in heaven.” May the Church help Gadsden, Ala. Bishop Paine sent him that her in this work! Just before the spirit “ year to Sand Mountain Mission. In 1872 he went to God we sung, On Jordan’s stormy served the Coffeetown Circuit. Among the banks I stand,” to the chorus “ Home, sweet deacons ordained by Bishop Doggett at Tus- home,” and when the chorus was first sung, ealoosa, Ala., in November, 1872, stood W. he pointed his finger up and clapped his C. McCoy. When the appointments were hands in holy ecstacy, while a heavenly ra- read, his name was announced with the Van diance beamed in his countenance. Just be- Buren Circuit. This charge he served for fore' he breathed his last I told him that he four years. In the Methodist Church in would soon be at rest, and asked him: “Do ” Huntsville, Ala., in November, 1874, he was you still trust the Saviour? He said: “Yes, is precious to me.” With all his mental • ordained elder by Bishop Doggett. His next he charge was Jones’s Valley Circuit, for four faculties unimpaired, at 8 o’clock Friday even- years. At the Conference at Tuscaloosa, ing, August 14, 1891, Rev. W. C. McCoy died Ala., in November, 1880, he was appointed, in great peace, and his spirit joined the tri- by Bishop Paine, presiding elder on the Bir- umphant hosts on high. In June, 1886, the mingham District. In this field he served honorary title of D.D. was conferred upon College, the Master four years. His next appoint- . him by the Trustees of Emory Ox- ment was Decatur District, which he served ford, Ga. The North Alabama Conference, only about six months, when, in June, 1885, at Huntsville, in November, 1889, put him Bishop McTyeire appointed him Financial at the head of her delegation to the General Conference. The General Conference at St. • Agent of the Southern University. In 1886 he was appointed editor of the Alabama Louis put him on the Board of Missions. In Christian Advocate, which paper he edited all these positions of trust he was faithful ! 1 .. .

North Alabama Conference, 1891. 133 and true to the interests committed to him. Anniston District (Continued).

May his name and memory like oint- White Colored I Loe'l be | ment poured forth Mem’s. Mem’s. Ohatchee Circuit Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Alexandria Circuit in their life and official administration? Jacksonville and White Plains. Piedmont Circuit Their names were called over, one one, by Spring Garden Circuit and their characters examined and passed. Ques. 21. What is the number of local preachers and members in the several cir- La Fayette District. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- La Fayette Station 220 ence? Oak Bowery Circuit 570 Fredonia Circuit 434 Huntsville District. Chappell Circuit 449 White Colored Loe'l Koanoke Circuit 833 Mem’s. Mem's. Pr's. Dadeville and Alexander City.. 25: Daviston Circuit 476 Huntsville Station 508 Camp Hill Circuit 391 Huntsville City Mission 131 1 Alexander City Circuit 297 Madison Station 206 2 Pinckneyville Circuit 492 Triana Circuit 144 Good Water Circuit 468 Meridianville Circuit 90-1 Coosa Mission 169 Hazel Green Circuit 140 Rockford Circuit 362 Lineville New Market Station 208 2 Circuit ; ... 452 Maysville and Cameron 261 3 Mellow Valley Mission 209 Guriev Circuit 291 Wedowee Circuit 309 Paint Rock Circuit 226 1 Vienna Circuit 520 4 6^83 3; 39 357 3 Talladega District. Scottsboro and Stevenson 235 3 Talladega Station 324 Stevenson Circuit 270 „ 3 Mumford Circuit 353 Bridgeport Station 171 2 Talladega Circuit * 353 Island Creek Circuit Plantersville Circuit 382 Fabius Circuit 107 2 Coosa Valley Circuit 435 Leeds Mission 88 4.067 26 Harpersville Circuit 411 Guntersmlle District. Mountain Mission 271 Pelham Circuit 497 Guntersville Station 92 Caiera and Helena 258 Warrenton Mission 323 Calera Mission 123 Summit Circuit 828 Montevallo Circuit 146 Blountsville and Oak Grove . 200 Columbiana Circuit 430 Cleveland Circuit 332 Fayetteville Circuit 458 Murplnee’s Valley Circuit 273 Chandler Springs Mission 215 Jones’s Valley Circuit 405 Morris Circuit 464 4,744 35 Warrior and Blount Springs. 202 Arkadelphia Circuit 302 Birmingham District.

Walnut Grove Circuit 549 Birmingham: First Church ... 3.1 08 f

Albertville Circuit 408 St. John 334 .

South Hill Circuit 490 Trinity 122 . Langston Circuit 607 Wesley Chapel 258j!

Deposit Circuit 510 St. Paul 122 ;, Baileyton Circuit 288 Pratt Mines Station 217), Elyton Station 168! 5,833 60 Avondale Station 203! Gadsden District. Woodlawn Station 148 East Lake Station 160) Gadsden Station 439 Birmingham Circuit 370; McTyeire Memorial 97 North Birmingham Circuit ..... 320 Gadsden Circuit 430 Bessemer and City Mission 229 Atalla Station 180 Jonesboro Circuit 466, Atalla Circuit 449 Wheeling Circuit 284 Collinsville Circuit 434 Ensley City Circuit 172 Fort Station 118 Pavne Coketon Circuit 518. Valley Head Circuit 273 Birmingham German Mission DeKalb Mission 310 Lookout Mountain Mission. 411 .,199!. 31 Spring Creek Circuit 350 District. Cedar Bluff Circuit 508 Tuscaloosa Center Circuit 421 Tuscaloosa Station 3091. Hokes Bluff Circuit 525 North Port Station 184 Asheville Circuit 471 North Port Circuit 383 Sp»ingville Station 130' Gordo Circuit 485 1

4(50 5 5,7(57 29 Kennedv Circuit 320 2 Berry Circuit 321 2 District Anniston 339 5

Anniston : First Church 391 304 1 Glen Addie 178 Hurd’s Shoals Mission 334 ::::::::: 3 West 160 ‘isol. 2 . 272 2 Oxford Station 278 189 i Heflin Circuit 298 83 315 6

Chulafinnee Mission 221 4 4,664 1 1 34 1891. North Alabama Conference ,

Jasper District. 5 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday

White Colored i schools? 581. | Mem's. Mem's. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday school teachers? 3,455. Jasper and Cordova. [ Corona Circuit Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Fayette Station : school scholars? 30,355. Luxapalila Circuit is necessary for Fern Bank Circuit.. Ques. 27. What amount Vernon Circuit 5 the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Detroit Circuit ows and orphans of preachers? $5,000. Hamilton Circuit... | has been collected on the Beaverton Mission. i Ques. 28. What Fayette Circuit 3 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Iridge Mission. plied? $3,683.23. Applied to claimants. Jasper Circuit J Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Falls Mission .. I Godfrey Mission. 6 Missions? Foreign Missions, $8,505.93; Do- Winston Mission. Total, $13,089.03. 1 mestic Missions, $4,583.10. contributed for 5 Ques. 30. What has been Florence District. Church Extension? $2,395.45. is number, and what Florence Station 2 Ques. 31. What the edifices? Cole Avenue Mission. .. is the estimated value, of church Oakland Circuit 7 Number, 614 value, $654,842. Waterloo Circuit | ; is number, and what Cypress Circuit 2 Ques. 32. What the Lexington Circuit l is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Center Star Circuit.... value, $159,545. £ ber, 121; Lentzville Circuit are the educational statis- Sheffield Station Ques. 33. What Tuscumbia Station.... 1 tics? Southern University (one-half inter- Leighton Circuit * est): Teachers, 12; students, 192; endow- Russellville Station.... ment, $50,000; value of property, $100,000. Bell Green Circuit .... 3 Pleasaut Site Circuit. 4 Athens Female College: Teachers, 10; stu- Colbert Circuit - dents, 100; value of property, $30,000. Circuit Mt. Mills shall the next session of Cherokee Station 2 Ques. 34. Where — the Conference be held? La Fayette, Ala. 28 Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Decatur District. tioned this year? Decatur: First Church. l East Decatur Mission.. HUNTSVILLE DISTRICT. South Decatur Mission. Athens Station 1 F. T. J. Brandon P. E. Limestone Circuit , Mt. Pleasant Circuit ... 2 Huntsville Station, J. D. Simpson. Elkmont Circuit Brandon. Trinity Station *3 McCullough Church, F. W. Hillsboro and Moulton 1 Madison Station, J. W. Worsnop. Courtland Station — Triana Circuit, R. I. Walston. Town Creek Circuit R. A. Thompson. Chapel Hill Circuit "2 Meridianville Circuit, Landersville Mission... 2 Hazel Green Circuit, C. L. Herring. Union Hill Circuit.. ... Station, J. D. Ellis. | Newmarket Hartselle Circuit Persinger. Danville Circuit Mavsville Circuit, J. C. Somerville Circuit 3 Gurley and Paint Rock, W. K. Simpson. Falkville Circuit ® Vienna Circuit, E. B. Norton. Cullman Circuit _ Paint Rock Circuit, D. T. Dye. 43 Larkinsville Circuit, M. E. Johnson. Recapitulation. Scottsboro Station, W. W. Dorman. Huntsville District. 26 Stevenson Circuit, D. W. Ward. Guntersville “ “ Bridgeport Station, J. H. Leslie. Gadsden Rice. Anniston “ 2~ Fabius Circuit, W. L. La Fayette “ 39 Sharp’s Mountain Mission, to be supplied Talladega M “ (by George Gibson). Birmingham College, A. B. Jones. Tuscaloosa “ Huntsville Female Jasper “ 26 President. Florence “ 28 Decatur “ GUNTERSVILLE DISTRICT. Total this year. M. E. Butt, P. E. Total last year. g§ Station, J. I. Williams. Increase Guntersville Decrease 51 Warrenton Mission, B. H. O. Cochran. Summit Circuit, to be supplied (by W. M, Ques. 22. How many infants have been Yarbrough). baptized during the year? 1,308. Blountville and Oak Grove, J. W. Norton. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Cleveland Circuit, Joshua Warren. baptized during the year? 2,981. Murphree’s Valley Circuit, R. J. Wilson. North Alabama Conference, 1891.

Mt. Pinson and Remlap Circuit, I. B. Sear- Daviston Circuit, W. F. Herndon. gant. Camp Hill Circuit, W. W. Turner; L. M. Wil- Morris Circuit, to be supplied (by James D. son, J. N. Dupree, Sup. Haddaway). Alexander City Circuit, J. D. Lockhart. ' Warrior and Blount Springs, I. Q. Melton. > Pinckneyville Circuit, H. S. Matthews. Arkadelphia Circuit, to be supplied. '< Good Water Circuit, J. W. Tucker. Walnut Grove Circuit, H. T. Strout. Coosa Mission, to be supplied (by Benjamin Albertville Circuit, J. T. Black. Stewart). South Hill Circuit, J. H. Braswell. Rockford Circuit, L. A. Holmes. Langston Circuit, W. B. Bayless. Lineville Circuit, C. L. Dobbs. Deposit Circuit, to be supplied (by L. C. Mellow Valley Mission, to be supplied (by J. Sims). H. Clegg). Baileyton Circuit, to be supplied (by G. W. Wedowee Circuit, to be supplied (by C. B. * Green). "V Cole). Randolph Mission, to be supplied (by R. N. GADSDEN DISTRICT. Snugg).

IF. E. Mabry, P. E. TALLADEGA DISTRICT. Gadsden Station, Thomas Armstrong. J. T. Morris, P. E. McTyeire Memorial, E. H. McWhorter. Gadsden Circuit, J. T. Millican. Talladega Station, W. T. Andrews. Atalla Station, David Leith. Talladega Circuit, J. W. Spencer. Atalla Circuit, to be supplied. Munford Circuit, T. A. Kerr. Collinsville Circuit, C. C. O’Neal. Plantersville Circuit, W: B. Andrews. Fort Payne Station, S. L. Dobbs. Coosa Valley Circuit, W. McD. Howell. [; Valley Head Circuit, C. M. Rice. Leeds and Irondale, W. E. Foust. BeKalb Mission, H. P. Berry. Harpersville Circuit, T. P. Roberts. Lookout Mountain Mission, J. M. Igou. Mountain Mission, to be supplied (by H. M. Spring Creek Circuit, to be supplied (by J. Millstead). B. Culpepper). ^ Pelham Circuit, C. E. McGiboney. Cedar Bluff Circuit, S. R. Lester. Calera and Helena Z. A. Dowling. Circuit, Circuit, Center R. A. Speer. ! Montevallo T. M. Wilson. Hokes Bluff Circuit, Rufus Nicholson. Columbiana Circuit, J. L. Ferguson. Asheville Circuit, George E. Driskill. Fayetteville Circuit, F. K. Hewlett. Springville Station, J. W. Akin. Chandler Springs Mission, to be supplied

Bear Mountain Mission, to be supplied (by' (by R. L. Wilson). J. K. Ensey). ^ Alabama Methodist Orphanage, S. P. West, Agent. ANNISTON DISTRICT. BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT. T. G. Slaughter, P. E. Anson West, P. E. V. Anniston, First Church, J. W. Newman.

Glen Addie and Oxanna, T. W. Ragan. Birmingham : First Church, J. C. Morris.

West Anniston and Mechanicsville, W. F. St. John, J. B. Gregory,*

Andrews. t- Trinity, E. M. Glenn. Coming Mission, to be supplied (by Simonx Wesley Chapel, C. M. Hensley. ) Jewell). Twenty-first Avenue, W. E. H. Mabry. Alexandria Circuit, W. 0. Horton. St. Paul, S. V. Blythe. Ohatchee Circuit, R. B. Baird. Elyton, S. R. Emerson,

Jacksonville and White Plains, F. A. Rogers.i. Pratt Mines, A. S. Whitehurst. Piedmont Circuit, J. T. Wilkins. Coketon, W. C. Driskill. Spring Garden Circuit, Frank H. Gardner. Sunnyside, T. K. Tierce,

Oxford Station, F. P. Culver. i Wylam, J. T. Miller, Heflin Circuit, D. A. Burns. Bessemer and City Mission, J. S. Robert- Graham Circuit, to be supplied (by H. J.r. son. Horton). Jonesboro Circuit, T. B. McCain. Chulafinnee Mission, J. H. Jennings. Avondale Station, W. R. Kirk. Southern University, E. L. Brown, Professor.\ Woodlawn, J. S. Glasgow. N East Lake, H. C. Howard. LA FAYETTE DISTRICT. Birmingham Circuit, G. W. Read. Birmingham Mission, W. M. Wade. L. H. Darsey, P. E. German Mission, to be supplied (by S. H. H. La Fayette Station, F. J. Sturdivant. Witte). Oak Bowery Circuit, H. S. Hamilton. Chaplain to State convicts, Evan Nichol- Fredonia Circuit, G. G. Smith. son. Chapel Hill Circuit, W. F. Bames. Superintendent American Bible Society, Z. Roanoke, D. L. Parish. rd A. Parker. Dadeville and Alexander City, J. H. McCoy.r. General Colporter, M. H. Wells. 136 North Alabama Conference, 1891.

TUSCALOOSA DISTRICT. Poplar Springs Mission, to be supplied. Cypress Circuit, W. B. Wilson. Timmons, P. E. R. A. Lexington Circuit, to be supplied (by W. D. Tuscaloosa Station, S. M. Hosmer. Breckenridge). North Port Station, W. F. Sandford. Center Star Circuit, E. P. Craddock. North Port Circuit, E. H. Price. Sheffield Station, G. H. Smith. Gordo Circuit, G. W. Hamilton. Tuscumbia Station, G. L. Jenkins. Carrollton Circuit, R. W. Anderson. Leighton Circuit, to be supplied (by W. P. Millport Circuit, R. S. Hullett. Hawkins). Kennedy Circuit, W. J. Reid. Russellville Station, M. N. Morris. Berry Circuit, E. D. Emerson. Bell Green Circuit, S. F. Matthews. Marcumville Circuit, to be supplied (by P. Pleasant Site Circuit, J. S. Davis. A. Doss). Colbert Circuit, to be supplied (by W. J. H Sipsey Mission, to be supplied (by 0. M. Smith). Holmes). Cherokee Station, W. M. McIntosh. Hurd’s Shoals Mission, to be supplied (by W. L. Mills). DECATUR DISTRICT. Tuscaloosa Circuit, T. 0. Jones. V. 0. Haivkins, P. E. Ifv Cottondale and Woodstock, S. Gay. Blocton Station, J. J. Crow. First Church, L. C. Branscomb. Brookwood Mission, Robert M. Archibald. New Decatur Mission, R. W. Coons. Athens Station, H. G. Davis. JASPER DISTRICT. Limestone Circuit, R. T. Bentley, Cambridge Circuit, to be supplied (by C. E. P. K. Brindley, P. E. Epperson). Jasper and Cordova, L. F. Whitten. Elkmont Circuit, to be supplied (by Theo. \i Corona Circuit, E. V. L. Finch. Copeland). Fayette Station, J. W. Shoemaker. Lentzville Circuit, P. P. Riley. Luxapalila Circuit, to be supplied (by W. I. Trinity Station, Edward Fulmer. Gregory). A Town Creek Circuit, M. L. Whitten. j Fern Bank Circuit, A. J. OTiappell. Chapel Hill Circuit, J. F. Allison. Vernon Circuit, H. B. Ralls. Landers ville, M. R. Smith. Sulligent Circuit, S. B. Smith. Union Hill Circuit, to be supplied (by W. P. Detroit Circuit, George A. White. McDonald). Hamilton Circuit, W. A. Montgomery. Hartselle Circuit, W. T. Pattillo. Beaverton Mission, to be supplied (by F. Danville Circuit, T. W. Hays. M. Otts). Somerville Circuit, E. W. Jones. Fayette Circuit, J. L. Williams. Falkville Circuit, to be supplied. Eldridge Mission, to be supplied (by W. W. Cullman Station, D. S. McDonald. Davis). Hillsboro and Moulton, G. E. Boyd. Carbon Hill Circuit, D. W. Boulley. Courtland Station, Charles Taylor. It South Lowell Mission, to be supplied (by W. Athens Female College, M. G. Williams, C. Owen). President. Falls Mission, to be supplied (by J. E. L. Lane). L. H. Green and T. R. McCarty transferred Godfrey Mission, to be supplied (by Robert to the North Georgia Conference. Wilson). T. W. Hardin transferred to the Memphis Winston Mission, to be supplied (by J. W. Conference. Cowan). C. B. Riddick transferred to the Louisville Conference, and stationed at Broadway, Lou- FLORENCE DISTRICT. isville, Kv. J. E. McCann and A. L. Andrews trans- F. J. A. Heard, E. ferred to the Alabama Conference. Florence Station, L. G. Johnson. G. W. Briggs transferred to the Texas Con- Florence Mission, G. L. Crow. ference, and stationed at Austin, Tex. Oakland Circuit, A. J. Maddox. S. H. Dimon transferred to the Los An- Waterloo Circuit, J. W. Cary. geles Conference.

t i Mississippi Conference} 1891. 13

MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE.

Held at Brookhaven, Miss., Dec. 9-14, 1891.

Bishop Hendrix, President; C. G. Andrews, Secretary.

Queotion 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Answer. Harrison B. Vandenburg, Thomas dained deacons? A. C. Burt, W. J. Fergu- Jones Norsworth, Charles E. Evans, Paul son, G. H. Thompson, B. W. Lewis, J. C^ Marvin Brown, Thomas E. Winecoff, Will- Ellis, W. J. Dawson, J. R. Zachry, W. M. iam Thomas Woodward, John Pattres Ha- Sullivan, J. T. Leggett. 9. ney, Joseph C. Campbell, William T. Currie, Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are William T. Griffin, Ira Francis Hawkins, elected elders? John D. Crymes, William

i Matthew J. Miller. 12. W. Morse, Joseph N. Ware, William L. Lin- Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Martin L. field. 4. White, John G. Ellis, Henry W. Wallace, Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Hiram R. Trevillion, George A. Guice, John dained elders? J. D. Crymes, W. W. Morse, W. Crisler, Edwin L. Rawls, John W. Tin- J. N. Ware, W. L. Linfield. 4. nie, Wiley Jones Ferguson, William J. Daw- Ques. 14. What local preachers are elect- son, Gabriel R. Ellis, Robert H. Barr, James ed elders? Jacob C. Long, Thomas H. Riv- Thomas Abney, Kirby Smith Enochs, James ers. 2. Edwin L. Rawls, orders recognized J.Smylie, Barney W. Lewis,William Monroe from the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Sullivan, George H. Thompson, Jerome R. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Whittington, James Thomas Leggett. 20. dained elders? J. C. Long, T. H. Rivers. 2. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? William Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Waldo Moore, Walton P. Meader, E. Byron William W. Drake, at his own request. 1. O’Quinn, Henry Francis Hawkins—at their Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? John own request. 4. A. Vance. 1. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? T. Z. nection? Hervie Mellard, William H. Lew- Armstrong, E. R. Strickland, D. Merchant, L is, Henry Copeland Brown, Charles W. Cris- Pearce, T. Price, A. B. Nicholson, G. T. Vick- ler, William M. Stevens, Henry L. Norton, ers, W. E. Ballard, E. A. Flowers, B. Jones, Patrick Henry House. 7. J. W. Harmon. 11. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? George W. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Ferrer, in class of the fourth year. 1. ing the past year? John D. Hays, Richard Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Abbey, Francis Marion Featherstun, James from other Conferences? James M. Weems, M. Gann. 4. from the Central Mexico Conference. 1. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? John D. Hays was born in Twiggs County, James B. Galloway, Lewis W. Wood, William Ga., November 4, 1827. Early in 1828 his P. Jones, Francis M. Keen, Bourbon H. parents moved to Marengo County, Ala. In elder’s orders James G. Sibley. 6. 1836 they moved to Lauderdale County, Rawls, in ; The following were continued in class of the Miss., where he spent the early part of his third year: William G. Forsythe, Hicksell life. In November, 1844, at the age of sev- Ellis, James M. Cowan, Nathan J. Roberts, enteen, he was converted, and joined the James G. Cammack, Robert W. Tucker, Methodist Church, under the ministry of George D. Anders. Rev. C. Calloway. He was baptized and re- Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are ceived into full fellowship in the Church, in elected deacons? Henry Copeland Brown, October, 1845, by Rev. Wilson Wier, the fa- Charles W. Crisler, William H. Lewis, Will- ther of Dr. T. C. Wier, of the North Missis- iam M. Stevens, Patrick Henry Howse, sippi Conference. Brother Hays soon de- Henry L. Norton. 6. veloped a call to preach; and, though blind, Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- he conferred not with flesh and blood, but dained deacons? II. C. Brown, C. W. Cris- consecrated all his powers to the work of the ler, W. H. Lewis, W. M. Stevens, H. L. Nor- Christian ministry. He was a man of de- ton, P. H. Howse. 6. cided ability, and of thorough devotion to Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Christ and duty. On October 11, 1849, he deacons? Arthur C. Burt, Wiley Jones Fer- was licensed to' preach by Rev. William A. guson, George H. Thompson, Barney W. Smythe, presiding elder, by order of the Lewis, James Calvin Ellis, Francis Asbury Quarterly Conference to which he belonged. Lane, William J. Dawson, James Robert He spent 1850-51 at school, preparing, as Zachry, William Monroe Sullivan, James best he could under the difficulty of blind- Thomas Leggett, Joseph C. Campbell. 11. ness, for his life work. He spent 1857 as a supply on the De Kalb Circuit, then in the died young, except one daughter. It was Alabama Conference. After that he con- also during this time that he began his ca- tinued to exercise the functions of his min- reer as a writer in the editorship of a newspa- istry in the local ranks until the latter part per in Natchez, which proved his introduc- of 1861, when he was received on trial into tion into that wide field in which he made his the Mississippi Conference. He continued a greatest reputation. He was a writer of no member of that body for twenty-nine years, mean ability, having published thirteen vol- doing faithful and efficient work all the umes on various subjects, besides many arti- while. During this period he served the cles in our reviews and religious journals, following charges constcutively : Westville, In 1839 he moved to Yazoo County, and was Garlandville, Paulding, Mt. Olivet, Newton, licensed to preach by the Quarterly Confer- Forest and Morton, Enterprise, Spring Hill, ence of Yazoo City in 1841. He was em- Lake, Forest and Morton, Hickory, Lake, ployed in local work until 1857. In 1858 he Fannin, Georgetown, Bayou Pierre, Terry, was elected to the position of Financial Sec- Pearlington, Scranton, and Poplarville. In retary of the Publishing House at Nashville, all these charges Brother Hays maintained Tenn. During the dark days of war and the same unblemished reputation, faithful- ruin, he alone remained to defend it against ness to dutv, and fervent zeal for the salva- the ravages of fire and sword, and to his tion of souls; and the Lord crowned his tireless energy and legal skill we are largely ministry with abundant results. In 1882 indebted to-day for that flourishing institu- Brother Hays was happily married to Miss tion. In 1867 he returned to Mississippi Martha Barnes, of Hinds County, Miss. She and entered again the regular work of the contributed largely to his happiness and itinerant, but again in 1872 he was appoint- usefulness. She was converted under his ed as Special Agent of the Publishing House, ministry at the age of twelve. At our late with headquarters at Washington City, where Conference in Canton, Brother Hays was he remained until 1881. From that time appointed to Covington. He was not able forward his name appears upon our minutes to attend this session of the Conference, and in the relation of a supernumerary. His soon after its close news reached us that he powers in the pulpit were appreciated most was very ill at Terry, Miss., and then came by the thoughtful and those capable of fol- the sad news that he was gone from us. He lowing his close lines of reasoning. Not- thinker died in peace December 29, 1890. On the ! withstanding his powers as a and night of the 28th he seemed to be better, and writer, he was a modest man, preferring to conversed freely about our late Conference, be a quiet listener to an obtrusive speaker, asking many questions about the brethren He continued to preach to the end, having and the appointments. He seemed pleased an appointment to preach in the Methodist with his own appointment, and expressed Church in Yazoo City the day after his bur- the hope of being able soon to go to it. But ial. Thus at once he ceased to work and his work was done. Early the next morn- live. Truly may it be written in his death, ing the pure spirit of our brother was trans- that “ there is a prince and a great man fall- lated to glory. en in Israel.” His last illness was brief, as his physical strength was unable to cope Richard Abbey, second son of Richard with the much dreaded hematuria. His end and Dolly Abbey, was born near Rochester, was peace. During his last illness, he re- N. Y., November 16, 1805; and died at the quested that his favorite hymn, “Saviour, home of his only child, Mrs. Julia Magruder, more than life to me,” should be sung. The in Yazoo City, Miss., October 23, 1891. In night before his death he repeated the twen- 1821, when sixteen years of age, he came ty-third Psalm, dwelling with peculiar em- South in search of work to aid in the sup- phasis on the words: “Yea, though I walk port of his mother, his father having been through the valley of the shadow of death, killed in the war. He found employment I will fear no evil: for thou art with me, in the mercantile establishment of P. F. ... and I will dwell in the house of the Merrick, in the city of Natchez. In a few Lord forever.” His last message to his Con- “ years, by reason of his great diligence and ference was : Tell my brethren that I am excellent business capacity, he rose to the ready to go, willing so stay.” headship of the establishment. Early in life he became a Christian and joined the Meth- Francis Marion Featherstun, son of Bur- odist Church, serving for many years as class well .and Rebecca Adams Featherstun, was leader, steward, and Sunday school worker, born in Robertson County, Tenn., September During his stay in Natchez, he helped to or- 24, 1827. Before attaining his majority he ganize the first temperance society in the moved to Mississippi and settled in Warren Southwest, and throughout his life was an County. In June, 1848, he married Miss ardent advocate of that cause, having repre- Mary Eliza Rundell. Unto them were born sented his county several times in the Pro- ten children, two of whom became Metho- hibition Conventions of the State. On May dist preachers and honored members of the 3, 1831, he was married by Rev. 0. L. Nash Mississippi Conference. In 1878 his wife to Miss Julia Barthurst, of Natchez. To this and seven other members of the household union were added four children, all of whom died of yellow fever in the short space of «

Mississippi 1891. Conference, 139 two weeks. He and his widowed daughter ty, Ala. At any rate he grew up in this por- went down into the valley of the shadow, tion of Alabama. The old field common but were permitted to return and were school, as it was known fifty years ago, af- raised to health again. Late in the fall of forded him the only school advantages in 1879 he married Miss Virginia Markham, of his reach. The curriculum of these schools Warren County, Miss., who became the embraced the three “ R’s,” with here and mother of one child, a daughter. He died there in rare cases, a smattering of English in Woodville, Miss., January 30, 1891, in the grammar and geography. It is manifest sixty-fourth year of his age. Three children that young Gann, with an ambition to ex- of the first marriage, and the widow and cel in everything he undertook, made the child of the second marriage survive him. best possible use of the meager advantages His parents were Christians, and he early that such schools afforded. In spite of these learned to love his Saviour. He gave his disadvantages he read and studied until he young heart to God, and ever thereafter attained a degree of excellence as a preacher maintained an exalted Christian character, and pastor that few surpass. I think our He was pure in thought, word, and life, brother did not become religious until after While yet a lad he united with the Church his marriage to her who now sadly deplores and faithfully kept his vows. In the sum- his departure. He was licensed to preach mer of 1853 he was licensed to preach, the not long after his conversion, and exercised divine call having been clear and unmistak- his gifts for a year or two as a local preacher able. At the following session of the Mis- before he applied for admission into the sissippi Annual Conference he was admitted Alabama Conference. He was admitted on on trial into the traveling connection and trial into this Conference in 1854, and con- appointed to the Warren Colored Mission, tinued to fill acceptably and usefully various The first four years of his ministry were de- works in reach of his home until he trans- voted to missions to the negroes. Except- ferred to the Mississippi Conference in 1866. ing 1866-67, which were spent in Tennessee, His first charge in this Conference was De and 1880-84, in California, his labors were Kalb Circuit, which he served for four years all within the boundaries of the Mississippi acceptably and profitably to the people of Conference. In 1863 he was an independ- that charge. In December, 1869, he trans- ent missionary in the country about Vicks- ferred to the North Alabama Conference for burg, when the armies of Grant and Sher- the purpose of disposing of property which he man had sway. He was loyal to the South, owned in that State. Having accomplished and rendered invaluable services to Joseph that object, he again transferred to the Mis- E. Johnston. The general minutes show that sissippi Conference, and was put in charge he was on missions seven years, circuits of what was then called the Spring Hill Cir- fourteen, in charge of stations eight, and cuit, including in its bounds the Cooper In- presiding elder eight. In 1885 Hiwassee stitute, at which place was located the par- College conferred on him the honorary de- sonage. He filled several works of impor- gree of D.D. Our brother was not with us tance, and always to the delight and profit at our last session. He was too unwell to of the people, after leaving Spring Hijft. In come. He was reappointed to Woodville 1880 he was appointed presiding elder of the Station. He fell on sleep January 30, 1891, Brandon District. In the middle of the life’s labors ended, life’s duties done. Three third year on this district his strength failed, weeks before he died his last sermon was and he was compelled to retire. At the Con- preached, the text being John xiv. 2, a fa- ference following, he was placed on the su- vorite theme with him since his experience perannuated list, from which death has in 1878. He was eminently practical and of erased his name. When asked by Brother remarkable common sense. Firm, wise, and Howell as to his spiritual condition a short kind, he had few equals as a presiding elder, while before he died, his answer was: “ I am He was the friend of the young preachers, ready.” Too feeble to talk, except in a He drew young people to himself and led faint whisper, yet he was permitted to send them to Christ. Little children loved him. back from the very gates of death, to his His religion was full of love, light and glad- brethren of the Mississippi Conference, this ness. He was always hopeful and helpful, note of triumph. Farewell, my dear broth- His loins were girded, his lamp was burn- er, till we meet and greet each other on the ing. He was ready for the coming of the “ shining shore.” Son of man. He has gone to our Father’s house and met the many loved ones gone be- Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless fore. He waits for the* others. He died in in their life and official administration? the Lord and is with Christ at home. Their names were called over, one by one, and their characters examined and passed, James M. Gann was born February 16, except that of J. R. Savage, who withdrew

1821 ; and died at Poplarville, Miss., August from our Church and ministry. 22, 1891. I am not informed as to the place Ques. 21. What is the number of local of his nativity, but going upon my recollec- preachers and members in the several cir- tion of what he told me of his early life, I cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- would say that he was born in Marion Coun- ence? j :

140 Mississippi Conference, 1891.

Brandon District. Woodville District. Mem- Loe’I Mem- Loc’l bers. Pr’s. bers. Pr’s.

437 2 244 213 1 157 8 179 1 97 304 3 106 164 90 588 2 477 3 322 499 12 475 1 253 1 304 1 587 4 524 7 216 1 224 1 250 1 311 393 3 455 379 1 2 477 5 Hillsboro 373 2 337 2 533 3 606 7 325 1 Shilob 169 295 1 1 404 1 312 400 1 224 187 2

6,839 33 6.051 47 Seashore District. Meridian District.

a*224 . Heidelberg "2 Church 589'; 2 289 Meridian: Central Ellisville West End 240 Estabutchie 266 . 128 346 2 East End Hattiesburg Circuit 367 2 437 1 Meridian Mt. Carmel. Binnsville 195 1 Williamsburg.. 324 . De Kalb 504 1 180 . Perry Lin wood 288 1 Columbia 467 3 81 219 3 Daleville Purvis Porterville 217 Pearlington 177 259 200 2 Lauderdale Bay St. Louis.. 328 2 493 4 Marion Whittington.... Enterprise 238 2 Vancleave 604 5 Manassas 329 1 Ocean Springs. 223 2 334 134 1 Vossburg Moss Point Shubuta 358 1 Americus 510 321 8 Clarke * 165 25 Waynesboro 5,0931 Winchester 427 1 Vicksburg District. State Line 132 1 406 2 Vicksburg 5,500 18 South Vicksburg 144 2 Jackson District. Utica 539 2 110 Washington Church.. 3181 415 2 Jackson: First Warren Capitol Street .'. 1941 South Warren 141 1 166 342 Madison Natchez: Jefferson Street 17o| 281 2 Canton Wesley Chapel 301)' 84 Sharon Rolling Fork Camden 221 Rocky Springs 541 1 432 3 Benton Martin 211 208 339 1 Yazoo City Meadsville Yazoo Circuit 313 Auquilla 83 1 63 1 Silver Creek Bartonton 160 66 444 Lake City and Lodi Roxie Bee Lake 13 Mayersville 388 479 2 Mt. Olivet Fayette S3!. 14b Bentonia and Dover Port Gibson Flora and Brownsville. 13b* 160 20 Edwards 4,941 Raymond 277 Brookhaven District. Spring Ridge 165

Brookhaven 214 1 3,700! 14 171 1 Brookhaven Circuit - Recapitulation. Crystal Springs Station 35f 3 Crystal Springs Circuit 8f 6.839 33 Hazelhurst 32" 2 Seashore u 5.093 25 Wesson 69 1 Vicksburg “ 4.941 20 Gallman 28 Brookhaven “ 5,865 28 McComb 505 5 Woodville “ 6.051 47 Caseyville 21 ! 1 Meridian “ 5.500 18 Magnolia 30 Jackson “ 3,700 14 41 ) 2 China Grove ...... Pleasant Grove 35 [> 1 37.989 185 Providence.. 34 I 1 Total last year 37,652 168 Bowertou.... 45 9 3 i Lebanon Increase 337 1 17 Adams 489 4 Beauregard 32 Summit 24 2 4 Qnes. 22. How many infants have been baptized during the year? 1,378. 1 5,8b3 28 : ;

1891. 141 Mississippi Conference,

Ques. 23. How many adults have been JACKSON DISTRICT. baptized during the year? 1,194. E. H. Mounger, P. E. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday schools? 398. Jackson: First Church, W. C. Black. Capital Street, L. S. Jones. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Madison, H. L. Norton. school teachers? 2,212. Canton, T. B. Holloman. Ques. 26. is the number of Sunday What Camden, E. F. Edgar. school scholars? 17,051. Benton, D. C. Langford. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Yazoo City, R. J. Jones. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Yazoo Circuit, H. Mellard. ows and orphans of preachers? $4,025. Silver Creek, W. J. Ferguson. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Lake City and Lodi, W. L. Linfield. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Flora, J. D. Crymes. plied? $4,245.55. Applied to claimants. Pocahontas, T. J. Norsworthy. ; Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Raymond, J. A. B. Jones. Missions? Foreign Missions, $7,060.55; Do- Edwards, I. L. Peebles. mestic Missions, $3,077.05. Total, $10,137.60. Mt. Olivet, J. W. Ellison. Sharon, V. D. Skipper. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Orleans Christian Advocate, B. F. Lewis, Church Extension? $2,141.70. New Assistant Editor. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Missionary to Japan, J. W. Lambuth. is the estimated value, of church edifices? University of Mississippi, W. R. Sims, Pro- Number, 425 value, $429,075. ; fessor. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Millsaps College, A. F. Watkins, Agent. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Colporter, W. D. Dominick. value, ber, 95 ; $94,650. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- BROOKHAVEN DISTRICT. tics? Centenary College of Louisiana (male) E. S. Woodward, P. E. Teachers, 10; students, 138; endowment, $70,000; value of property, $80,000. Mill- Brookhaven, J. M. Weems.' saps College (male): Endowment, $64,000; Brookhaven Circuit, to be supplied (by M. value of property, $60,000. Port Gibson Fe- Ferrell). male College: Teachers, 7; students, 150; Crystal Springs Station, R. D. Norsworthy. value of property, $10,000. East Mississippi Terry, W. T. Griffin. Female College: Teachers, students, Gallman, W. W. Morse. 10 ; 120; •value of property, $25,000. Edward McGee Providence, F. M. Williams.

: L. J. Jones. College for Girls Teachers, 7 ; students, 147 Pleasant Grove, value of property, $10,000. Whitworth Fe- China Grove, M. J. Miller. male College: Teachers, 16; students, 150; McComb City, M. L.*Burton. value of property, $75,000. Holmes ville, J. H. Woodward. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Magnolia, V. V. Boone. the Conference be held? Natchez, Miss. Summit, J. G. Cammack. Adams, P. Howard. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Wesson, T. S. West. tioned this year? Beauregard, J. G. Galloway. Caseyville, H. P. Lewis. VICKSBURG DISTRICT. Bowerton, A. D. Miller. D. A. Little, P. E. Hazlehurst, I. W. Cooper. Lebanon, B. W. Lewis. Vicksburg: Crawford Street, W. B. Lewis. District Superintendent American Bible So- South Vicksburg, I. B. Robertson. ciety, J. W. McLaurin. Warren, J. W. Brown. South Warren, W. M. Stevens. BRANDON DISTRICT. Rolling Fork and Anguilla, F. M. Keen and

• * C. McDonald, P. E. I. F. Hawkins. Rocky Springs, G. A. Guice. Brandon Station, W. H. Huntley. Utica, N. J. Roberts W. H. Lewis. H. R. Caldwell. ; Fannin, Natchez: Jefferson Street, J. T. Nicholson. Clarksburg, E. L. Rawls.

Wesley Chapel, H. M. Ellis. Homewood, C. C. Evans. < Washington, C. W. Crisler. Marvin, to be supplied (by J. F. Robinson). Meadville, H. B. Vandenburg. Raleigh, R. A. Sibley. -Mayersville, J. W. Crisler. Forest and Morton, D. P. Bradford. Port Gibson, B. F. Jones. Shiloh, J. G. Sibley. Burtonton, D. F. Guice. Westville, R. H. Barr. Fayette, R. Bradley. Montrose, B. H. Rawls. Roxie, W. P. Jones. Lake, W. B. Hines. Martin, J. M. Cowan. Newton and Hickory, J. M. Morse. 142 South Carolina Conference, 1891.

Decatur, D. G. W. Ellis. . Purvis, H. D. Howell. Neshoba, to be supplied (by J. C. Long). Hattiesburg, J. S. Parker. Hillsboro, J. C. Ellis. Whittington, G. W. Ferrer. Walnut Grove and Carthage, G. H. Galloway. Vancleave, N. B. Young.

Carthage Circuit, to be supplied (by J. K. Americus, J. H. Holland, i Hays). Williamsburg, J. H. Evans. Walnut Grove Circuit, to be supplied (by Ir- Ellisville, R. B. Downer. Columbia, M. H. Moore. vin Miller) ; J. A. Vance, Sup. Trenton, R. S. Gale. Heidelberg, W. G. Backus. Rose Hill, G. H. Thompson. Mt. Carmel, M. L. White. Missionary to the Choctaw Indians, W. W. East Pearl, to be supplied. Cammack. Estabutchie, G. R. Ellis.

MERIDIAN DISTRICT. WOODVILLE DISTRICT. T. L. Metten, P. E. P. A. Johnston, P. K Meridian: Central Church, C. G. Andrews. Woodville Station, H..JV. Featherstun. East End, H. C. Brown. North Wilkinson, J. W. Sandell one to be West End, N. B. Harmon. ; supplied (by J. W. Huff). Chunkey Circuit, P. H. Howse. Gloster and Centerville, W. W. Simmons. Marion, George Bancroft. Amite, J. Campbell. Chambers. C. Enterprise and Stonewall, J. W. Wilson, R. W. Tucker. Waynesboro and State Line, J. V. Penn. Bayou Sara, J. R. Whittington. Vossburg, B. S. Rayner. Jackson (La.) Station, L. Carley. Shubuta, J. P. Drake. Clinton (La.) and Slaughter, J. J. Smylie Waynesboro Circuit, J. W. Tinnin. and T. E. Winecoff. Clarke, J. N. Ware. East Feliciana, G. D. Anders. Binnsville, J. M. Pugh. East Baton Rouge, H. B. Trevillion. Lauderdale, N. M. Clarke. Port Vincent, H. W. Wallace. Porterville, J. T. Abney. Live Oak, W. T. Currie. Daleville Station, R. F. Witt. Springfield, W. T. Woodward. Linwood, J. Dawson. W. Amite City, P. M. Brown. De Kalb, R. A. Breland. St. Helena, C. D. Cecil; one to be supplied. Leaksville Circuit, L. P. Meador; one to be Covington, T. W. Brown. supplied. Talisheek, J. P. Haney. Franklinton, W. M. Sullivan one to be sup- SEASHORE DISTRICT. ; plied (by J. R. Henderson). J. A. Ellis, P. E. Centenary College, W. L. C. Hunnicutt, Pres- ident and Financial Agent; B. M. Drake, Point, A. Powell. Moss C. T. E. Winecoff, Professors. Scranton, L. W. Wood. Ocean Springs and Biloxi, R. Selby. Perry Circuit, K. S. Enochs. Harrison Bradford transferred to the Bay St. Louis, G. W. Forsythe. North Texas Conference, and appointed to Pearlington, T. W. Adams. Northam, Tex.

SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. . %

2-7, 1891.' Held at Darlington, S. C., December t

Secretary. Bishop Granbery, President; H. F. Chreitzberg,

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Hucks, E. W. Mason, J. Hubert Noland, Answer. A. J. Cauthen, Jr., J. Clarence David A. Phillips, Z. H. Zimmerman. 5. Spann, C. Hovey Clyde, Alexander N. Bran- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None, son, James H. Thacker, John D. Crout, Wil- Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Albert liam C. Winn. 7. nection? Jefferson S. Abercrombie, Copeland, Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? David H. Best, Rufus A. Child, J. R. South Carolina Conference, 1891. 143

George W. Davis, Melvin B. Kelly, J. Marion was but a boy. His godly mother deeply Rogers, John W. Shell, Whitefoord S. Stokes, impressed his young heart with the precious A. B. Watson, Eli M. McKissick. 11. truths of the religion of Jesus; so that,, Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. though he was greatly tempted to embrace Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer unbelief as held by TJniversalists, these sub- from other Conferences? None. tle suggestions of Satan found no perma- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? nent footing in his mind and heart. While N. G. Ballinger, M. W. Hook, P. F. Kilgo, quite a young man he was converted to John L. Ray, R. E. Stackhouse, Ellie P. Tay- God, during his attendance at a Presbyte- lor, W. A. Wright, T. M. Dent. 8. rian meeting. He went to the church next Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are day, and exhorted sinners with earnest- elected deacons? Jefferson S. Abercrombie, ness and effect. He sought the communion J. R. Copeland, George W. Davis, Melvin B. of his mother’s Church at once. In 1858,

- > Kelly, J. Marion Rogers, Whitefoord S. while teaching school in his native county, Stokes, Artemus B. Watson. 7. he felt called to preach the gospel. He con- Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- ferred not with flesh and blood, but, laying dained deacons ? Jefferson S. Abercrombie, aside all previous plans for his life work, he James R. Copeland, George W. Davis, Mel- arranged his temporal affairs, and soon after vin B. Kelly, J. Marion Rogers, Whitefoord went into the traveling ministry. For some S. Stokes, A. B. Watson. 7. years he went forth as a flame of fire. Hun- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected dreds were converted under his ministry* deacons? John N. Isom, Joseph Kelly, Under excessive fatigue he exhausted his James H. Thacker, Benjamin D. Moss. 4. nervous energy, and fell into poor health Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- and asked for a supernumerary relation to dained deacons? John N. Isom, Joseph his Conference, which he sustained up to the Kelly, James H. Thacker, Benjamin D. time of his death. With him this relation Moss. 4. meant to do all the work he could, as health Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are and opportunity opened the way. He was elected elders? James P. Attaway, S. T. a tireless worker. He was one of those who Blackman, Watson B. Duncan, Alston B. would pray and sing with a poor penitent Earle, John L. Harley, Robert L. Holroyd, until low noon, or later if need be. He was James W. Kilgo, James E. Mahaffey, W. L. true to the right, as he saw it. He studied Wait, Robert A. Yongue. 10. God’s word daily, and was much in prayer. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are He professed and preached the fundamental ordained elders? Janfes P. Attaway, S. T. truths of entire sanctification. He was a Blackman, Watson B. Duncan, Alston B. sweet -spirited, joyous, all -the -year -round Earle, John L. Harley, Robert L. Holroyd, Christian. He was a man of affairs. Hav- James W. Kilgo, James E. Mahaffey, W. L. ing married an elect lady of fortune (Miss Wait, Robert A. Yongue. 10. Frances Thompson, of Charleston, S. C.), he Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected so wisely and prudently managed her es- elders? None. tate that, after leaving her entire estate to Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- her at his death, and dispensing many bene- dained elders? None. factions during his life, he bequeathed more Ques. 16. Who are located this year? than fifty thousand dollars to benevolent ob- James R. Betts, H. C. Bethea—at their own jects. Seven hundred and fifty dollars are request. 2. to be paid out of his estate, annually, into Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? J. F. the treasury of the Foreign Missionary So- Smith, E. L. Archer, S. M. Fridy,T. E.Wan- ciety of the South Carolina Conference. A namaker, A. W. Jackson. 5. conspicuous feature in his character was his Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? S. warm affection for his brethren of the Con- Leard, J. J. Neville, Whitefoord Smith, I. J. ference. In all essentials he was one in Newberry, J. M. Carlisle, Sidi H. Browne, thought and purpose with them. “Speak W. Hutto, W. Carson, T. W. Munnerlyn, L. evil of no man ” was a scripture binding on Wood, G. W. Gatlin, J. L. Shuford, R. L. his conscience. He was never known to Duffie, R. P. Franks, W. C. Patterson, D. W. speak harshly of his brethren. He suffered Seale, L. M. Hamer, M. Brown, S. Jones, M. much and long, but with patience; declared A. Connolly, W. W. Mood, L. C. Loyal, J. J. he was ready, and went home to God. Workman, F. Auld, A. H. Lester, J. A. Wood, A. W. Walker. 27. Allen A. Gilbert was born in Waiter- Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- boro, S. C., November 19, 1829. His father ing the past year? Robert C. Oliver, Allen died when he was quite young, and, the fam- A. Gilbert, John W. Murray, Basil G. Jones, ily being in straitened circumstances, he was William Thomas (no memoir). 5. barred the privileges of the schools, and was apprenticed for a term of years to a printer Robert C. Oliver was born in Edgefield in Columbia, S. C. His apprenticeship

County, S. C., in 1834 ; and died near Chero- trained him into the channel of journalism. kee Springs, in Spartanburg County, S. C., He moved to Sumter, S. C., in 1849, and aid-

August 2, 1891. His father died when he ed in founding the Black River Watckmant .

1891 . 144 South Carolina Conference,

Rock, which soon absorbed its contemporary, the Newberry Circuit, 1882-83; Hanging assumed the name of 1884-85; Greenville Circuit, 188(5-87; Gafl- Sumter Banner , and Sumter Watchman. In the columns of this ney City Circuit, 1888-91, where he ceased paper he served his generation well. Its to labor and to live, August 25, 1891. Brother columns.were aqueducts to convey pure and Gilbert, in the latter part of his life, had de- subject healtliful waters. His record as a journalist cided and strong convictions on the was among the purest and best. He served of entire sanctification, which state he pro- his county in the State Legislature with fessed to have attained, and which he main- credit to himself and usefulness to the State, tained unwaveringly to the end. His last in the extreme but His opinions were patiently and conscien- illness was distressing ; “ tiously formed, and they were so close-fitting he endured as seeing him who is invisible, that he could not quickly change them as men His success as a minister vindicated his call change their overcoats. What he thought to the ministry. It was no new service to in heart he was in appearance. For these him—only a new form of the same service causes he was at one time grievously misun- that he had been accustomed to from his but the State had no truer son and youth. None among us are more loved and derstood ; humanity no truer brother than was he. loving and faithful than was our deceased Though 'exempted by law from military brother. His body lies in the cemetery at service, yet when he heard the battle cry of Sumter, S. C. He rests from his labors, and his State, he laid down the editorial pen and his works do follow him. grasped the sword in her defense. His record as a soldier was most honorable to him. John Wesley Murray was born in what He was among the last to quit the field, when wr as then known as Charleston District (now the sun of the Confederacy went down into Berkeley County), in the year 1831. In early Citadel Academy, a starless night. As a Churchman he was manhood he entered the foremost among his peers. He entered the of South Carolina, where he took a full to Miss service of God in the Methodist Episcopal course. He was happily married never Church, South, early in life, and continued Frances Davis. A man and wife were devo- faithful until his last breath. For about a more devoted than these two. That quarter of a century he was an efficient Sun- tion was witnessed in the last intelligible he day school superintendent. As a steward he expression of the dying husband. As thoughts went was a prince among his fellows. From the lay in full view of death, his he time that laymen were admitted into the back to the companion of his youth, and Annual Conference until his death he was a murmured: “ What will my poor wife do? member of that body, either as layman or Soon after he graduated, he became teacher these minister. He was elected to all the District of a country school. It was amidst Conferences within his district, and was duties and responsibities that the Master twice a delegate to the General Conference called him to a wider field. The Holy Spirit and discovered of his Church. He was licensed to preach came with convicting power, day, being over- late in life. From early manhood he felt the sinner to himself. One he left the school- that perhaps it was his duty to preach. Time whelmed with sorrow, and again these impressions came in the room, and sought the solitudes of a neigh- communion with an flush of his prosperity, but he allowed them boring grove, to hold While there shut in with to remain unsettled. He thought that per- inviting Saviour. of was haps he could serve God as well in the God, the silent message peace into his soul and a clear, sharp, spheres already referred to. But while coast- breathed ; which being along these dangerous shores, he became and glorious conversion ensued, the well-nigh a wreck. Now the struggle became that experience wrought out in thing of came an agony to know the whole truth and inner consciousness never to be a returned to the surrender to the demand. The agony was doubt or uncertainty. He prolonged He kept in close communion schoolroom shouting the praise of God, to anxiously with his pastor, and told him all. When the great consternation of the returned home the struggle was the fiercest, his pastor left awaiting pupils. When he forth to meet him one evening, feeling that the issue was that afternoon, his wife went : John, well-nigh settled. Our brother spent the the happy comer, and exclaimed O are converted for I see it yourfaee first part of the night in prayer, the latter in you ; m fixed. He was praise. He was early at the parscmage, next Froip that day his heart was preach morning, to declare, with beaming face, that impressed that it was his duty to the great decision was made; and hence- “Christ crucified and the resurrection. He himself to the work in Novem- forth he would, by God’s help, abide the is- committed without reserve, and did the work sue. The clouds were forever gone; the her, 1856, hag°ard look and the drooping form were assigned him without hesitation. As a man Christian he transformed, and from that day good cheer he was strong and noble; as a consecrated and true and as a preacher reigned in his heart. He w'as licensed to was ; clear, and preach in 1879; served Wedgefield as a sup- of the gospel he was analytical, Con- forceful—never commonplace, but sometimes plv in 1880 • joined the South Carolina heights of eloquence. All through ference on trial, at the close of 1880; was rising to in to North the thirty-five years of his ministry he was sent to Wedgefield Circuit 1881 ; South Carolina Conference, 1891. 145 successful. He was enthroned in the hearts Their names were called over, one by one of his wife and children, and of those who and their characters examined and passed. knew him best. He left his home and the Ques. 21. What is the number of iocal unsuspecting loved ones to attend this ses- preachers and members in the several cir- sion of the Annual Conference, to make his cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- last report. The year’s work was done, well ence? done, and he awaited another appointment. Charleston District. That appointment was soon made; for the White Loc'l Mem’s. Pr’s. great Bishop of souls called him higher, and appointed him to the “ rest that remaineth to 518 1 the children of God.” It was in the house 400 285 2 •of worship, while aiding in a missionary Cumberland 203 anniversary (Wednesday evening, December Summerville Station 126 104 2, 1891), that the summons came that bade 104 him cease to work and to live. He was 435 stricken with apoplexy, and expired in one 375 2 hour. “He died at his post.” His body 395 3 388 was accompanied to the railroad depot by 512 1 members of the Conference and committed 529 1 ; to the earth at Lamar, S. C., where he now 530 581 peacefully sleeps, awaiting the resurrection Walterboro Circuit 616 2 •of the just. 227 1 360 392 Basil G. Jones was born July 30, 1814; Hardeeville Circuit 339 3 died February 9, 1891. He was with us, in ithe enjoyment of his accustomed health, at 7,419 16 the last session of our Conference. He re- Chester District. turned to his home, in Aiken County, with Chester Station 1% 255 the impress of the Conference session upon 147 him, and full of hopes and plans for work 109 under the circumscribed conditions of his 338 1 Chester Circuit superannuated relation to this body. Though Rock Hill Circuit 566 2 infirm from age, and in poor health, he' pro- 357 posed to himself regular ministerial and King’s Mountain Circuit 479 Fortf Mill 705 1 pastoral Circuit work in his neighborhood and at Lancaster Circuit 323 his neighborhood church. He was soon, Ti’adesville Circuit 388 2 however, stricken down with a fatal illness. Chesterfield Circuit 467 1 Jefferson Circuit 620 2 It was the privilege of the writer to be with 129 1 him, at his request, during days of approach- East Chester Circuit 373 1 ing dissolution. To have been with him, Catawba Circuit 217

and to have ministered to him, will always 6,215 11 be remembered as at once a privilege and a Columbia District. blessing. He went down to the valley of the Columbia: Washington Street 4401 2 shadow of death without slavish fear, Marion Street 281 and yet without a particle of affectation New Brooklyn 20 either in word or tone. Death, in its inevi- City Mission 134 ”i Aiken Station 82 l table approach, was to him simply a de- Winnsboro Station 84 cease, a departure. (Compare Luke’s ac- 107 l 361 ount of the transfiguration with 2 Peter i. 15.) 446 Brother Jones a North Carolinian, 1 was and Lexington Circuit 764 4 was born in Davie County. He was a man Batesburg Circuit 642 1 of great intellectual activity and power, and Johnston 'Circuit .... 314 299 of no inconsiderable culture. He preached 410 in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. Graniteville, Langley, and Vanchise Ct. 320 1 Under a rather rugged exterior he had a Ridgeway Circuit....*. 366 Fort Motte Circuit 223 tender and a loving heart. He talked so sweetly during the latter weeks and days of 5,293 12 his life about his love for his brethren and Cokesbury District. his love for the Church he served so long Abbeville Station 160 and faithfully. He joined the South Caroli- Newberry Station 275 Lowndesville Station...., na Conference in 245 1853. He spent one year Greenwood Station 330 1 on a station, one year on a mission, and Ninety-six Circuit 349 1 thirty-one years on circuits. He was for Donnald’s Circuit 382 Abbeville Circuit four years a superannuated preacher. His 734 McCormick Circuit 508 1 record is among men and on high. Newberry Circuit 484 1 Kinard’s Circuit .... 154 1 Saluda Circuit 584 1 20. all the preachers blameless Ques. Are Richardsonville Circuit. 325 in their life and official administration? Parksville Circuit 140 10 1

Conference 1891. 146 South Carolina ,

Orangeburg District {Continued). Cokesbury District ( Continued). — — Mem- Loo*l Mem- Loot bers. Pr’». bers. Pr’s.

522 303 2 Princeton Circuit 347 447 I 317 1 484 2 271 538 4 430 1 538 1 F.llenton Circuit 232 1 6,557 8 174 1

Florence District. 6,159 22 329 1 Florence Station Spartanburg District. Darlington Station 242 Georgetown Station 166 1 Spartanburg: Central Church 528 8 Cheraw Station 185 City Mission 279 2 Mars Bluff Circuit 206 Union Station 189 . 1 Society Hill Circuit 348 1 Laurens Station 185 Cheraw Circuit 335 1 North Laurens Circuit..... 425 2 Clyde Circuit 573 2 Pacolet Circuit 595 1 Darlington Circuit 584 2 Cherokee Circuit 501 2 Bower Darlington Circuit 585 3 South Union Circuit 355 Timmonsville Circuit 337 Jonesville Circuit 985 Effingham Circuit 265 Gaffney City Circuit- 414 East Effingham Circuit 391 2 Clinton Circuit 490 2 Scranton Circuit 336 1 Belmont Circuit 486 1 Lake City Circuit 777 Campobello Circuit 423 3 Salters Circuit 437 1 Clifton Circuit 560 1 Kingstree Circuit 304 1 Johnsonville Circuit 692 1 6,415 18 Georgetown Circuit 477 2 Cartersville Circuit - 267 Sumter District. Camden Station 210 7,836 18 Sumter Station 372 168 ...... Greenville District. Manning Station Richland Circuit 385 ...... Greenville Station 555 1 Bishopville Station 355 Anderson Station 280 Sumter Circuit 531 1 Anderson Circuit 339 2 Lynchburg Circuit 352 ...... "West Anderson Circuit 444 2 Wedgefield Circuit 319 1 644 5 Greenville Circuit Santee Circuit - 426 1 Seneca City Circuit 312 1 Foreston Circuit 264 1 North Gi’eenville Circuit 655 1 Oakland Circuit - 350 2 Reidville Circuit 828 1 New Zion Circuit 452 2 544 462 Fork Shoals Circuit . Hanging Rock Circuit Williamston and Belton Circuit 471 1 East Kershaw Circuit 484 Piedmont Circuit 861 5 West Wateree Circuit 277 Anderson Circuit 369 2 Townviile Circuit 493 5,407 8 Pendleton Circuit 808 3 Pickens Circuit.— 601 3 Recapitulation. 368 Walhalla Circuit 7,419 16 540 Charleston District Easley Circuit “ 6,215 11 370 1 Chester Westminster Circuit Columbia “ 5,293 12 “ 6,557 8 9,482 30 Cokesbury Florence “ 7,836 18 Marion District. Greenville 9,482 30 “ 8,477 22 351 1 Marion Marion Station “ 6,159 22 121 Orangeburg Conway Station “ 6,415 18 Station 215 Spartanburg Bennettsville Sumter “ 5,407 8 Waccamaw Circuit 400 4 102 Pee Dee Mission 69.260 164 499 1 Total this year Centenary Circuit year 66,883 160 North Marlboro Circuit 531 1 Total last 615 2 Clio Circuit....: Increase 2,377 Circuit 701 Blenheim Decrease - 4 Mullins Circuit 594 3 Little Pee Dee Circuit 559 2 Little Rock Circuit 353 Ques. 22. How many infants have been 339 2 Loris Circuit baptized during the year? 2,281. Conway Circuit 650 1 Bayboro Circuit... 631 2 Ques. 23. How many adults have been Bucksville Circuit 162 during the year? 1,778. 495 1 baptized Bennettsville Circuit of Sunday Brightsville Circuit 644 Ques. 24. What is the number Latta Circuit 515 1 schools? 686. 25. What is the number of Sunday 8,477 1 21 Ques. school teachers? 4,709. Orangeburg District. . is of Sunday 376 Ques. 26. What the number Orangeburg Station I Orangeburg Circuit 439 1 school scholars? 38,725. 411 Lower St. Matthew’s Circuit.- I 27. What amount is necessary for 693 3 Ques. Providence Circuit superannuated preachers, and the wid- Branchville Circuit ;•••• 370 1 the Bamberg and Buford’s Bridge Circuit- 329 2 ows and orphans of preachers? $11,000. 421 1 Graham Circuit Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Edisto Circuit 404 2 South Carolina Conference, 1891, foregoing account, dnd how has it been ap- Tradesville, to be supplied (by A. S. Leslie). plied? $8,833.86. Applied to claimants. Chesterfield, R. A. Yongue. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Jefferson, J. L. Ray. Missions? Foreign Missions, $12,436.33 Do- Blackstock, J. W. Humbert. ; mestic Missions, $10,481.44. Total, $22,917.77. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for COKESBURY DISTRICT. Church Extension? $3,199.92. J. B. Campbell, P. E. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what is the estimated value, of church edifices? Cokesbury, G. M. Boyd.

Number, 661 ; value, $817,688.50. Greenwood, P. F. Kilgo. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Ninety-six, M. M. Brabham. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Donnald’s, E. W. Mason. ber, 148; value, $215,540.75. Abbeville, M. Dargan. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Abbeville Circuit, H. W. Whittaker, W. Cl tics? Two colleges and one Conference Winn. school: Value of property, $128,272. McCormick, J. M. Steadman. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Lowndesville, J. S. Porter. the Conference be held? Charleston, S. C. Princeton, E. P. Taylor. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Waterloo, J. Manning. tioned this year? North Edgefield, to be supplied (by J. M. Shell). CHARLESTON DISTRICT. Newberry, W. W. Daniel. Circuit, R. N. Wells, P. E. Newberry C. D. Mann. Kinard’s, O. N. Rountree. Charleston: Trinity, W. A. Rogers. Saluda, A. F. Berry. Bethel, J. A. Clifton. Butler, A. M. Attaway. Spring Street, J. L. Stokes. Parksville, M. H. Pooser. Cumberland, A. M. Chreitzberg. Prosperity, J. B. Tray wick. McClellanville, to be supplied (by J. C. Welch). COLUMBIA DISTRICT. Berkeley, D. R. Brown. C. Power, P. E. Summerville Station, J. E. Carlisle. W. St. Paul’s Mission, E. B. Loyless, Cypress and Columbia : Washington Street, H. F. Chreite- Ridgeville, J. C. Yongue. berg. St. George’s, J. W. Elkins. Marion Street, S. P. H. Elwell. Reevesville, to be supplied (by J. A. Giv- City Mission, J. E. Beard. ings). New Brookland Mission, G. H. Pooser. Colleton, W. H. Ariail. Lexington Fork, R. L. Holroyd. Round 0, S. S. Blanchard. Lexington, T. C. Ligon. Walterboro Station, J. W. Kilgo. Batesburg, J. K. McCain. Walterboro Circuit, C. E. Wiggins. Johnston, T. G. Herbert. Hampton, A. C. Walker. Edgefield, A. B. Watson. Allendale, J. L. Sifly. Graniteville, J. W. Neeley. Black Swamp, W. C. Gleaton. Aiken, J. H. Noland. Hardee ville, to be supplied (by W. R. Buch- Upper St. Matthews, W. P. Meadors. anan). Fort Motte, M. L. Banks. Beaufort Station, A. J. Cauthen. Ridgewa)', M. W. Hook. Winnsboro, S. A. Weber. CHESTER DISTRICT. Fairfield Station, W. S. Stokes. Monticello, A. J. Cauthen, Jr. G. T. Harmon P. E. , Leesville Circuit, A. N. Brunson. Chester, J. W.- Daniel. Cedar Creek Circuit, George W. Davis. Chester Circuit, George H. Waddell. Columbia Female College, S. B. Jones, Prefr East Chester, to be supplied (by James Rus- ident; J. Marion Rogers, Professor. sell). Paine Institute, George W. Walker, Pres- Richburg, T. Raysor. ident. T Rock Hill, E. O. W atson. Southern Christian Advocate, W. D. Kirkland, Leslie Circuit, A. W. Attaway. W4 Editor. Catawba Circuit, to be supplied (by J. N. \ Isom). FLORENCE DISTRICT. Yorkville, R. E. Stackhouse. J. B. Wilson, P. E, Blacksburg Station, L. A. Johnson. Hickory Grove Circuit, R. R. DagnalL Florence, H. B. Browne. York Circuit, J. A. Porter. Mars Bluff, A. H. Best. L. Darlington, J. Fort Mill, J. Harley ; one to be supplied A. Rice. (by J. J. Stevenson). Cheraw, W. M. Duncan. Lancaster, E. G. Price. Cheraw Circuit, to be supplied (by 8. M. Lancaster Circuit, W. L. Pegues. Jones). I4S South Carolina Conference.

Bennettsville, W. S. Wightman. Hartsville, E. M. Merritt. Bennettsville Circuit, W. S. Martin. Clyde, G. R. Whittaker. Brightsville, R. W. Barber. Darlington Circuit, S. J . Bethea. North Marlboro, W. H. Lawton. Lamar, J. E. Rushton. Cartersville, J. R. Copeland. ORANGEBURG DISTRICT. Tim monaville, W. B. Duncan. Bailey).. Effingham, to be supplied (by S. D. J. Walter Dickson, P. E. East Effingham, to be supplied (by 1. JN. Orangeburg, G. P. Watson; T. E. Wanna- Stone). maker, Sup. Scranton, J. S. Abercrombie. Orangeburg Circuit, J. W. McRov. Lake City, W. B. Baker. Lower St. Matthew’s, W. W. Williams. Kingstree, S. D. Vaughan; A. W. Jackson, Providence, D. D. Dantzler. Sup. Branchville, P. F. Kistler. to be supplied (by R. W. Spigner). Salters, Bamberg and Buford’s Bridge, 0. A. Darby. Georgetown Station, W. T. Capers. Graham, J. E. Grier. Georgetown Circuit, J. D. Frierson. Edisto, B. M. Grier. Johnsonville, to be supplied (by D. Durant). Upper Edisto, to be supplied (by J. C. Ab- GREENVILLE DISTRICT. ney). Barnwell Station, P. L. Kirton. J. 0. Wilson, P. E. Blackville, W. M. Harden. Boiling Spring, J. B. Platt. Greenville: Buncombe Street, J. Thomas D. Z. Dantzler. Pate. Orange, Williston, D. Hucks. West End, R. II. Jones. Branchville, L. S. Bellinger. Greenville Circuit, E. A. Wilkes. South Aiken, J. C. Spann. Reidville, T. P. Phillips. South North Greenville, J. H. Thacker. SPARTANBURG DISTRICT. Fountain Inn, J. F. Anderson. Williamston, J. C. Stoll. J. M. Boyd, P. E. Anderson, C. B. Smith. Spartanburg: Central Church, W. R. Rich- Anderson Circuit, J. D. Crout. ardson. West Anderson Circuit, to be supplied (by „ „ „ Bethel Mission, W. L. Wait; J. F. Smith, 0. L. Durant). Sup. Townville, to be supplied (by J. N. Wright). Union, T. E. Morris. Pendleton, T. C. O’Dell. Cherokee, J. C. Bissell; E. L. Archer, Sup. Pickens, B. 0. Berry. Santuck, M. B. Kelly. Seneca City, A. B. Earle. Goshen Hill, W. A. Clarke. Westminster, G. R. Shaffer. , „ Jonesville, D. Tiller; one to be supplied (by Walhalla, H. C. Mouzon. H. Miller). Blue Ridge Mission, E. M. McKissick; one W. Gaffney, N. B. Clarkson. to be supplied. Laurens, W. I. Herbert. Easley, N. G. Bellenger. North Laurens, J. W. Shell; J. M. Fndy, Piedmont, S. H. Zimmerman. Sup. Williamston Female College, S. .Lander, Enoree, J. C. Counts. President. Clinton, W. A. Betts. MARION DISTRICT. Belmont, D. P. Boyd. Campobello, S. T. Blackman. Clyde, P. E. T. J. Pacolet, John Attaway. Davis. Marion, J. S. Beasley. Clifton, J. C. Financial Centenary, W.W. Jones. Wofford College, J. C. Kilgo, Gat- Agent. Britton’s Neck, to be supplied; G. W. . University, A. Coke Smith, Pro- lin, Sup. Vanderbilt Conway, A. J. Stafford. fessor DISTRICT. Conway Circuit, W. A. Wright. SUMTER Bucksville, J. A. Mood. E. T. Hodges, P. E. Waccamaw, N. K. Melton. H. Wroton. Bayboro, to be supplied (by A. N. Dusen- Sumter Circuit, W. Creighton. bury). Lynchburg, C. W. Chandler. Loris, M. M. Ferguson. Wedgefield, J. C. H. Kirton. Little Pee Dee, D. A. Calhoun. Bishopville, W. Mahaffey. Mullins, J. Owen. Santee, J. E. Pritchard. Latta, L. F. Beaty. Foreston, C. H. Little Rock, P. A. Murray. Manning, H. M. Mood. E. Barre. Clio, R. A. Child. Oakland, W. Clyde. Blenheim, J. W. AriaiL New Zion, C. H. Pee Dee Mission, to be supplied (by W. Camden, M. L. Carlisle. Quick). Hanging Rock, T. M. Dent. Alabama Conference, 1891. 149

Richland, J. P. Attaway. C. G. Harmon transferred to the Columbia East Kershaw, to be* supplied (by E. B. Conference. Hayne). J. W. Brown transferred to the North West Wateree, D. A. Phillips. Georgia Conference. Conference Colporter, J. C. Chandler. R. D. Smart transferred to the Little Rock W. H. Hodges transferred to the East Co- Conference, and stationed at Little Rock, lombia Conference. Ark.

ALABAMA CONFERENCE.

Bishop Hsndrix, President; J. M. Mason, Secretary.

Held at Selma, Ala., December 17-21, 1891.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Answer. George N. Winslett, Robert C. Wil- dained elders? Andrew J. Briggs, James M. liams, Samuel T. Sanders, Albert S. J. Hay- Shofner. 2. good, William T. Ellisor, Isaac F. Blair. 6. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Leander elders? None. W. Powell, William S. Street, Charles A. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Cornell, Benjamin E. Feagin, Mark H. Holt, dained elders? Melanchthon Crews. 1. T Hugh Baird, Thomas P. Fincher, Caleb Ques. 16. W ho are located this year? Bates, Joseph 0. Lawrence, C. Prescott At- Daniel B. H. Jeflfcoat, at his own request. 1. kinson, William K. Dennis, James A. Strip- Ques. 17. Who are supernumerarv? S. ling. 12. A. Pilley, L. F. Dowdell, G. F. Ellis,* C. R. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Thomas Williamson, C. M. Martin, W. H. Morris. 6. H. Cooper, at his own request; Neely F. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? J. W. Jones. 2. Solomon, J. Barker, W. Hargrave Morris, M. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- M. Graham, F. H. Wardlaw,A. H. Mitchell, nection? James F. Daily, Joseph M. Sollie, J. 0. Andrew, W. K. Norton, J. M. Scott, J. Charles W. Gavin, Byrd L. Moore. 4. S. Peavy, S. H. Cox, D. C. Standley, W. A. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Edward McCarty, G. F. Fisher. 14. E. Cowan, James M. Glenn. 2. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer ing the past vear? J. W. McCann, D. C. from other Conferences? James E. McCann, Crook, H. D. Hill. 3. from the North Alabama Conference. 1. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? J. W. McCann was born April 2, 1820; Daniel J. Hartzog, Charles A. Rush, William and died at the residence of his son, Rev. W. D. Taylor, John B. Tate, James R. McGlaun, A. McCann, in Havana, Ala., January 28, Robert S. Adair, James M. Glenn. 7. 1891. Converted in early life, he became a Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are member of the Methodist Church. While elected deacons? Joseph M. Sollie, ByrdL. yet a young man he was licensed to preach, Moore. 2. and as a local preacher served the Church Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- faithfully for several years. In 1845, while dained deacons? Joseph M. Sollie, Byrd L. teaching school in the bounds of the Hilla- Moore. 2. bee Mission, Brother McCann, at the solici- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected tation of Rev. W. Ira Powers, applied for ad- deacons? Samuel Z. Bellah, John W. Bur- mission on trial into the traveling connection, ton, Rosier S. Gavin, Caleb Bates, J. P. D. and at the close of that year was received by Wilkerson, James A. Price, Charles A. Cor- the Alabama Conference, at its session helct nell, Jefferson B. Adams. 8. in Mobile, and appointed to the Choctaw- Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- hatchie Circuit. On December 12, 1848, dained deacons? A. P. Peacock, Samuel Z. while in charge of the Pascagoula Circuit, Bellah, John W. Burton, Caleb Gates, John embracing a large territory in East Missis- P. D. Wilkerson, Charles A. Cornell, Jeffer- sippi and West Alabama, he was married to son B. Adams. 7. Miss J. T. Goff, of Mississippi, with whom Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are he lived happily until her death, or more elected elders? Andrew J. Briggs, James M. than thirty years. In her he found an effi- Shofner. 2. cient aid in his ministry. No better com- —

150 Alabama Conference, 1891. ment can be made on the character of that months in the summer and fall. He was Christian home than the simple statement converted at Pleasant Hill camp meeting in that their two sons are honored and useful 1853, and joined the M. E. Church, South. ministers of the gospel, and their only daugh- In 1856 he entered college and studied four ter the consecrated wife of a minister. On years, leaving school in 1860 with the inten- March 18, 1885, Brother McCann was mar- tion of taking up the profession of law. ried to Miss Annie E. Ezell, of Clarke Coun- But at this time the spirit of secession and ty, Ala., who survives him. In this elect revolution was firing the Southern heart; lady he found a true helpmate, in full sym- and upon the first call for troops from his pathy with his work, entering heartily into native State he raised a company of volun- all his plans for the Church. In the forty- teers, and was mustered into the Confeder- four years of his itinerant ministry his labors ate service in July, 1861. By his upright touched much of the territory now embraced and manly course he soon won the confi- by the Alabama, the North Alabama, and dence of his comrades in arms, and upon the Mississippi Conferences. Faithful to the reorganization of his regiment was Him who called him, he went everywhere, elected lieutenant-colonel. In this position and success in the saving of souls always the command of his regiment for a consid- attended him. His converts were numbered erable time devolved upon him, and for a by hundreds, and the children of his later time the command of his brigade. July 21, were as numerous as those of his earlier 1864, while gallantly leading his regiment ministry. More than one preacher who in a charge on the Federal lines in front of knew him well and kept acquainted with Atlanta, he fell, pierced through by a Min- his record has expressed the opinion that no ie ball. Then it was he said to a bosom man who ever preached the gospel in Ala- friend: “I am severely wounded, and may bama had so many seals to his ministry in die. If I die, tell my father and family that souls converted. Brother McCann’s strong I fell like a soldier, in the line of duty. Bat point as a preacher was in revival work. He I don’t believe I will die and I have prom- ; had the strategic instincts of a good general, ised God that if he will spare my life I and was never so fully at home in his work shall spend whatever strength and energy I as when directing the forces of the Church may have in his service, trying to induce amid the flaming fires of revival. His use- sinners to forsake the error of their ways fulness did not wane with increasing age, and seek the peace and joy of a Saviour’s but continued to the last. Perhaps no bet- love. I believe that my prayer has been ter work was ever done in the Alabama heard, and that I have been accepted, and Conference than that which he accomplished shall one day preach the gospel of Christ.” on the Grove Hill Circuit in the four years After the war he gave himself to his life

between 1882 and 1886. Conversions were work ; was licensed to preach in 1866, and many, new churches were built, and an al- soon after joined the Tennessee Conference. most dead work was not only revived, but In 1870 he transferred to the Alabama Con- placed firmly—and, we believe, lastingly ference, where he remained until his death. upon a higher plane. At Greenville, in De- As a man and Christian Brother Crook was cember, 1889, he applied for and wr as granted true and sincere, ever striving after Christ- the superannuated relation. So bravely and liness of heart and character. He was nat- so sweetly did he take this step that none urally a nervous man, and his nervousness but the few of us who knew the great heart was increased by the effects of the terrible of the man suspected how keenly painful wound which he had received during the was the laying aside of his lifelong labor of war, and from the effects of which he was love. The time between his superannuation never entirely freed. This in a measure ob- and his death was not long. In little more scured his real character from the passing than one year “ the weary springs of life observer, put him at a disadvantage among still at last ” laying his those who knew him only casually, and fre- stood ; and, well-worn armor by, the soldier of the cross entered quently caused him to be misunderstood into rest. and misinterpreted by the masses. But- where he was well known, when men would David C. Crook was born in White Coun- come in such constant and close contact with ty, Tenn., May 27, 1837 and died at Girard, him as to see him as he really was, and to ; Ala., March 8, 1891. He preached with un- understand him as he intended, they soon usual power in his pulpit in the morning, learned to love him as a humble, conse- and before the hour for the evening service crated follower of our blessed Lord. As a had arrived he was called to his reward. preacher, owing to this same cause, he was Walking out into the street about 6 o’clock unequal—at times rising to the heights of a t in the afternoon, a few minutes later he was sublime eloquence, and at others falling be- found lying upon the sidewalk, dead. Thus low his own average; but his ministry was suddenly ended the life of this consecrated one of power, and often attended with won- and devoted minister of the gospel. His derful manifestations of the Spirit. Brother boyhood was spent on his father’s planta- Crook was a man of unquestioned courage. tion, assisting in the ordinary duties of the As a soldier he was the peer of the bravest, farm, and attending public school a few and as a Christian minister he was equally .

151 Alabama Conference, 1891. as fearless. He denounced sin and that Mobile District. which he conceived to be wrong, sometimes White ColorediLoe'l 1 in such a manner as to gain the antagonism Mem’s. Mem's. Pr ®. of men, but always retaining their esteem Mobile: Government Street 444 and confidence. He led many souls to St. Francis Street 482 Christ, and lifted many Christians to a Broad Street 274 Toulminville and City Mission... 30 higher plane of life. His was a useful and Grand Bay Circuit and Mission.... 53 impressive life. Ellington Circuit 525 Whistler Station 200 Mauvilla Circuit 164 Henry D. Hill was born in North Caro- Citronelle Circuit— 234 lina, but the exact place of his nativity and Isney Circuit 475 Bladon and St. Stephens 331 b© the time of his birth are unknown. He Washington Circuit 230 CO came from North Carolina to Alabama about Suggs ville Circuit 256 b© the year 1870, and for a time was engaged Grove Hill Circuit- 338 b© Coffeeville Circuit 196 • in teaching school. In 1873 he was admit- Daphne Circuit - ...... 92 U> ted on trial in the North Alabama Confer- I ence, at Talladega, Ala. At the close of 1880 4,324 O he was transferred to the Alabama Confer- Greensboro District. ence. During his connection with this Con- Greensboro Station 360 ference he was appointed to important Greensboro Mission 132 • Newbern Circuit. 196 M eharges, among which we may mention — Havana Circuit - 663| IK Summerfield, Marianna, Camden and Oak Greene Circuit «... 296 Lawn, and Citronelle. His last appointment Gainesville Circuit 253 CO Livingston and Eutaw 191 M to Mt. Sterling charge, was the Butler and Cuba Circuit 291 but he was unable to enter upon his duties Gaston Circuit 255 M ill re- Butler and Mt. Sterling 111 on account of health. Although he4 Choctaw Circuit and Mission..... 464 M* ceived the best medical attention and the Demopolis and Jefferson 183 H> most skillful nursing, he died at Atlanta, Belmont Circuit and Mission J 162 Ga., January 13, 1891. As a preacher Brother 3,557 31 Hill had few equals among us. For some time, in the absence of the preacher in Selma District. charge, he filled the pulpit of the First Selma Station 495 1 Selma and Mission .... 137 Methodist Church in Atlanta, Ga. and the East ; Summerfield Station 108 testimony of all is to the effect that he Cahaba River Mission 354 pleased and edified the large and intelligent Marion Station 159 Marion Circuit 300 congregation of that Church. was a He Uniontown Station 198 friend to Christian education, and no one Spring Hill Circuit 262 among us worked more constantly and inter- Orrville Circuit 216 Rembert Hills Circuit 430 for University than he. estedly our Southern Arlington Circuit 458 He was, perhaps, the founder of the fund Lower Peach Tree Circuit 383 used in that institution in aid of poor young Choctaw Corner Circuit .... 225 struggling to secure education, and men an 3,725 exerted his influence in life to make the fund Prattville District. sufficient for the demands upon it. In his Prattville Station 256 as pastor especially success- work a he was Robinson Springs Circuit and Mis. 450 ful in his labors in Sunday schools and among Autaugaville Circuit 394 the children. He knew the names of all the Clanton Circuit 184 Verbena Circuit 207 children in his charges, always a and was Wetumpka Station 135 welcome guest at their homes. In his per- Randolph Circuit 514 sonal piety he was distinguished as a man of Plantersville Circuit 343 Lowndesboro and Union 55 prayer. It is safe that died as he to say he Pleasant Hill Circuit 100 had lived—a praying, loving, earnest Chris- Camden and Oak Lawn 84 tian—and there is no doubt of his having Pine Apple Circuit 493 Bell’s Landing Circuit 310 entered into his reward. River Ridge Mission 2041 Centerville Mission 147 Coosa River Mission Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in their life and official administration? 3,876 13 Their names were called over, one by one, Montgomery District. their characters passed, and examined and Montgomery: Court Street. 803 * m ~ except that of William H. Morris, whose 305 2 case was left in the hands of his presiding 34 Tnskegee Station 303 3 elder. 390 2 Warrior Stand Circuit 284 Ques. 21. is of local What the number Salem Circuit 477 2 preachers and members in the several cir- Crawford Circuit 400 1 cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Opelika Station 501 3 Auburn Station 218 2 ence? Loachapoka Circuit 477 1 -

1891. 152 Alabama Conference,

Recapitulation. Montgomery District ( Continued!). Colored I.ocT White I Colored] tool White Mem’s. Mem's. Pr's. Mem's. Mem's. Pr's..

Harmony Circuit and Mission 388 4,324 6 20 Tallassee Station 229 3,557 1 31 Pleasant Grove Circuit 505 3,725 9 Tallapoosa Circuit 300 3,876 2 13 5,614 27 5,614 27 5,034 23 5,668 i 35 Eufaula District. 5,224 1 26 4,779 3 23 Eufaula Station .. 390 8 306 2 Villula Circuit 41,801 14 207 244 1 Seale Cii'cuit 40,150 20 216 Phoenix City Station 395 251 Girard Station and Mission. 1,651 Enon and Midway 238 1 Decrease 6 9 Perote Circuit 219 1 Mt. Andrew Mission 100 Clayton Station 216 Ques. 22. How many infants have been Louisville Circuit 400 3 baptized during the year? 1,120. 470 1 Ozark Circuit adults have been Abbeville and Clopton 318 Ques. 23. How many Shortersville Mission 439 1 baptized during the year? 1,638. 4 Asbury Circuit 350 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Eufaula Circuit 550 5 Beulah Circuit 8C 1 schools? 502. Glennville and Malone 68 Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday school teachers? 2,963. 1 5,034 23 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Marianna District. school scholars? 24,704. amount is necessary for Marianna Station 81 Ques. 27. What Greenwood Circuit. 364 1 the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Campbellton Circuit 700 3 ows and orphans of preachers? $9,900. 266 1 1 Freeport Mission been collected on the Cottonwood Mission 333 2 Ques. 28. What has Geneva Station 163 2 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Geneva Circuit 625 3 plied? $8,229.94. Applied to claimants. 560 8 Elba Circuit for 594 5 Ques. 29. What has been contributed Dothan Circuit Do- Snead’s Circuit and Mission 250 Missions? Foreign Missions, $14,034.15 ; Chipola Mission 160 mestic Missions, $4,339.96. Total, $18,374.11. 293 3 St. Andrew’s Bay Mission.... has been contributed for Columbia and Gordon 236 2 Ques. 30. What Echo Circuit 579 4 Church Extension? $3,517.77. Newton Circuit 464 6 Ques. 31. What is the number, and what value, of church edifices? 5,668 1 35 is the estimated Number, 510; value, $608,889. Union Springs District. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what of parsonages? Num- Union Springs Station. 211 1 is the estimated value, Troy Station 406 1 ber, 91 value, $118,055. 619 6 ; Brundidge Circuit Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- 414 1 2 Briar Hill Circuit University (male college): Pine Level Circuit 580 3 tics? Southern Mt. Meigs Circuit 126 1 Teachers, 11; students, 195; endowment, 492 Rockv Mount Circuit. $50,000; value of property, $80,000. Alabama Deposit Circuit... 267 Fort College: Teachers, 13; Greenville Station 284 Conference Female Greenville Circuit 392 2 students, 175; value of property, $60,000. 498 Rutledge Circuit 3 Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of 2 Oaky Streak Circuit.. 299 Eufaula, Ala. Andalusia Circuit 210 8 the Conference be held? Mt. Hilliard 426 2 Ques. 35. Where are the preachers stationed this year? 5 2241 1 26 1

Pensacola District. MOBILE DISTRICT. 356 2 Pensacola Station J. A. Peterson, P. E. Milton and Bagdad 152 Douglasville Circuit 480 1 : Government Street, J. 0. Keener. 233 Mobile Stockton Circuit 1 Dickinson. Monroeville Circuit 281 2 1 St. Francis Street, W. P. Sepnlga Circuit 493 1 Broad Street and City Mission, I. F. Bil- Brewton and Pollard 418 2 460 1 4 Georgiana Circuit....- Mission, R. C. Wil- Evergreen and Castleberry, 290 1 Grand Bay Circuit and Powellton Circuit 285 4 liams. Monterey Circuit — 308 Ellington Circuit, J. W. Killough. 468 1 Bellville Circuit- ...... Johnson. Bav Minette Circuit 250 1 Whistler Station, J. C. Garland Mission 212 3 Mauvilla Circuit, T. P. Fincher. Warrenton and Brent 93 1 Citronelle Circuit, J. L. Grace.

4,779 3 23 Isney Circuit, E. G. Price. . Alabama Conference , 1891 155

Bladon and St. Stephens, C. R. Lamar. MONTGOMERY DISTRICT. Circuit, J. A. Seale. Washington A. J. Lamar, P. E. Suggsville Circuit, 0. S. Perry.

Grove Hill Circuit, J. O. Nogle. Montgomery : Court Street, J. W. Rush. Coffeeville Circuit, R. Smiler. Dexter Avenue, J. B. Cumming. Baldwin Mission, to be supplied (by S. Z. City Mission, to be supplied. Bellah). Tuskegee Station, W. A. Rice. Tuskegee Circuit, J. L. Skipper; L. F. Dow**^ GREENSBORO DISTRICT. dell, Sup. Warrior Stand Circuit, W. Bancroft. J. R. Peavy, P. E. Salem Circuit, R. A. Foster. Greensboro Station, O. C. McGehee; G. F. Opelika Station, T. F. Mangum; C. R. Wil- Ellis, Sup. liamson, Sup. Greensboro Mission, C. A. Rush. Crawford Circuit, George Fontaine.

Newbern Circuit, N. Gillis. Loachapoka Circuit, A. J. Cousins ; C. Mar- Havana Circuit, J. M. Patton. tin, Sup. Green Circuit, to be supplied. Harmony Circuit and Mission, D. D. Reeves. Gainesville Circuit, C. S. Perry. Tallassee Station, P. M. Guthrie. Livingston and Eutaw, J. P. Hamilton. Pleasant Grove Circuit, A. B. Brown. Cuba Circuit, E. M. Turner. Tallapoosa Circuit, A. A. Easley. Pushmataha Circuit, C. W. Gavin. Auburn Station, G. M. Roper. Butler and Mt. Sterling, R. F. Dennis. Sunday School Agent, C. L. Chilton. Choctaw Circuit and Mission, L. W. Powell. Chaplain in United States Navy, W. G. Marion Station, J. H. James. Isaacs. Marion Circuit, B. D. Gayle. Cahaba River Mission, J. W. Hamner. EUFAULA DISTRICT. Southern University, A. S. Andrews, Presi- W. H. Wild, P. E. dent; J. A. Moore, F. M. Peterson, Pro- fessors. Eufaula Station, W. M. Motley. Villula Circuit, B. C. Glenn. SELMA DISTRICT. Seale Circuit, A. L. Andrews. J. S. Frazer, P. E. Phoenix City Station, J. B. Nelson. Girard Station and Mission, W. J. Price. Selma: Church Street, H. D. Moore. Enon and Midway, C. B. Pilley. Water Street and Mission, L. C. Calhoun. Perote Circuit, A. H. Moore. Summerfield Station, R. H. Lewis. Mt. Andrew Mission, G. N. Winslett. Uniontown Station, J. B. K. Spain. Clayton Station, J. W. Glenn. Faunsdale and Marion Junction* R. S. Louisville Circuit, J. F. DeBardeleben. - Adair. Ozark Circuit, A. Hood. Demopolis and Jefferson, G. M. Sellers.* Abbeville and Clopton, S. W. Roberts. Belmont Circuit, J. D. Kersh. Shorterville Mission, G. W. Mathison. Dayton and Spring Hill, J. W. Menefee. Asbury Circuit, T. L. Adams. Orrville Circuit, W. T. Rencher. Eufaula Circuit, J. M. Sollie. Rembert Hills Circuit, G. K. Williams. Beulah Circuit, T. D. Albright. Arlington Circuit, D. W. Barnes. Lower Peach Tree Circuit, E. E. Cowan. MARIANNA DISTRICT. Choctaw Corner Circuit, W. P. H. Con- , nerly. W. S. Wade, P. E

PRATTVILLE DISTRICT. Marianna Station, 0. R. Blue. Greenwood Circuit, L. P. Latham. J. M. Mason, P. E. Campbellton Circuit, J. K. Powell; one to Prattville Station, T. Y. Abernethy. be supplied. Robinson Springs Circuit and Mission, J. W. Freeport Mission, W. S. Street. Shores. Big Creek Circuit, I. F. Blair. Autaugaville Circuit, J. E. McCann. Geneva Station, C. P. Atkinson. Clanton Circuit, B. E. Feagin. Pond Town Circuit, to be supplied (by H. Verbena Circuit, J. P. Saunders. B. Register). Wetumpka Station, A. L. Sellers. Coffee Springs Mission, J. A. Stripling. Randolph Circuit, W. F. Arnold. Elba Circuit, A. Dowling. Plantersville Circuit, Hugh Baird. Dothan Station, H. T. Johnston. Lowndesboro and Union, S. G. Boyd. Ocheese Mission, S. T. Sanders. Pleasant Hill Circuit, Caleb Bates. Chipola Mission, J. F. Dailey. Camden and Oak Lawn, W. D. Taylor. St. Andrew’s Bay Mission, W. D. Owens. Pine Apple Circuit, H. M. Gillis. Columbia and Gordon, I. F. Betts. Bell’s Landing Circuit, M. H. Holt. Echo Circuit, D. J. Hartzog. River Ridge Mission, D. L. Lindsley. Newton Circuit, T. H. Jones. Centerville Mission, B. L. Moore. Headland Circuit, W. T. Ellisor. 154: White River Conference , 1891.

UNION SPRINGS DISTRICT. PENSACOLA DISTRICT.

H. Urquhart, P. E. M. S. Andrews, P. E.

Union Springs Station, J. Bancroft. Pensacola Station, W. P. Hurt. Milton and Bagdad, A. Hundley. TroyStation, E. L. Loveless ; S. A.Pilley,Sup. C. Brundidge Circuit, J. L. Mathison. Brent Mission, to be supplied (by J. A. Shady Grove Circuit, G. W. Jones. Green). Greenville Station, W. M. Cox W. H. Mor- Powellton Circuit, J. B. Tate. ; ris, Sup. Bay Minette Circuit, W. B. Dennis. Greenville Circuit, A. S. J. Haygood. Stockton Circuit, W. K. Dennis. 'Port Deposit and Bolling, J. M. Dannelly. Brewton and Pollard, J. P. Roberts. Letohatchee Circuit, J. M. Glenn. Douglasville Circuit and Mission, C. A. Rocky Mount Circuit, W. A. McCann. Cornell. Pine Level Circuit, H. H. McNeill. Evergreen and Castleberry, L. H. S. Chap- Mt. Hilliard Circuit, J. M. Shofner. pelle. Mt. Meigs Circuit, A. J. Briggs. Georgiana Circuit, B. L. Selman. Rutledge Circuit, N. W. Beverly. Monterey Circuit, J. M. Greene. Oaky Streak Mission, J. 0. Lawrence. Sepulga Circuit, D. J. Wright. Andalusia Circuit and Mission, J. S. Wil- Monroeville Circuit, W. I. Powers liams. Bellville Circuit, J. R. McGlaun. Henderson Mission, to be supplied. Garland Mission, to be supplied.

WHITE RIYER CONFERENCE.

Held at Newport, Ark., December 16-21, 1891.

Bishop Duncan, President; R. S. Deener, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Answer. Benjamin D. Holley, Silas B. Bar- deacons? S. B. Barker, W. B. Mason, Wil- ker, Thomas A. Bowen, William J. Yick. 4. liam B. Hays. 3. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? H. L. Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Bugg, Frank Barrett, I. B. Manly, N. E. dained deacons? William B. Hays, Silas B. Gardner, H. E. May, W. B. Hays. 5. Barker, Arthur T. Ramsey. 3. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? P. E. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Hileman. 1. elected elders? P. B. Wallis, W. W. Hen- Ques. 4. Who are admitted into Ml con- drix, H. M. Cryer, R. M. Manly, F. C. Ster- nection? L. C. Craig, A. C. Graham, J. W. ling, G. W. Smith. 6. Watson. 3. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. dained elders? P. B. Wallis, W. W. Hen- Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer drix, H. M. Cryer, F. C. Sterling, G. W. from other Conferences? W. C. Adams and Smith, R. M. Manly. 6. Wade Preston, from the Little Rock Confer- Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected ence; J. A. Peebles and J. C. Brown, from elders? William J. Vick. 1. the Arkansas Conference; C. H. Gregory, Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- from the East Texas Conference; R. C. dained elders? William J. Vick. 1. Morehead, from the North Mississippi Con- Ques. 16. Who are located this year? J. Millie, from the St. Louis Con- at his own request; N. B. Fizer, by ference ; J. Y. F. Troy, ference; J. C. Hooks, from the Memphis vote of Conference. 2. Conference. 8. Ques. 17. Who are "supernumerary? B. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Harris, W. A. Pendergrass, S. D. Evans, C. W.. D. Kelley, W. E. Bishop, F. M. Smith, M. H. Gregory, S. C. Stone. 5. B. Corrigan, S. F. Brown. 5. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? John Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are Rhyne, James G. Miller. 2. elected deacons! L. C. Craig, J. W. Wat- Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- son. 2. ing the past year? E. M. Baker. 1. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are ordained deacons? L. C. Craig, J. W. Wat- Elias M. Baker, son of Joshua and Mary in Giles County, Tenn., son. 2. Baker, was born White River Conference, 1891.

June 27, 1828. He professed religion in his brethren on the other shore, and to be eighteenth year, and joined the M. E. crowned victor forever. During the last Church, South. Almost immediately after days of his illness the wr riter, with other his connection with the Church he was li- brethren, visited him several times, and al- censed to exhort, and in a short time was li- ways found him peaceful and happy. He censed to preach, and at once joined the said all was “clear and bright.” Not a Tennessee Conference. Two years later, Oc- shadow of doubt or fear crossed his enrap- tober 17, 1852, he was ordained deacon by tured vision. He lived like a hero, and died Bishop Soule. Two years from the time of like a conqueror and a saint. his ordination as deacon he was ordained elder. At the close of the war he transferred Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in from the Tennessee Conference to the Mem- their life and official administration? Their phis Conference. In 1868 he transferred names were called over, one by one, and from the Memphis Conference to the Arkan- their characters examined and passed, except sas Conference, and remained a member of that of Lewis Kelley, who was reprimanded the same until the organization of the White by the President. River Conference, with which organization Ques. 21. What is the number of local he united and remained until his death. In preachers and members in the several cir- 1853 or 1854 he was married to Miss Arabella cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Daniel, the fruit of which union was one ence? ‘ child. In about three years after his marriage his first wife died. He was again mar- Searcy District. ried September 17, 1858, to Miss Justine White Colored Loci Mem's. Mem’s. Pr’s. White, of Humphreys County, Tenn., who i still survives to mourn her great loss. By Searcy Station 289 his last wife he had three children, all Searcy Circuit T 421 daughters, all of whom are yet living. Beebe Station 161 ; El Paso Circuit - 578 Brother Baker possessed in a very high de- i Mineral Circuit 373

gree the genuine elements of a noble man- | Augusta Station 125 hood. He was richly endowed with a high 1 Jacksonville Cii*cuit - 908 Beebe Circuit 403 of honor and lofty sentiment. dis- sense He West Point Circuit 258 dained a sickly sentimentalism, and he Bradford Circuit 295 maintained his integrity to the end. He Red River Circuit 309 Argenta Station 112 was fearless and uncompromising in his ad- Union Circuit 175 herence to and vindication of what he be- Weldon Circuit 164 lieved to be right. His conclusions were not hastily reached, but when formed he had the courage of his convictions. He was Helena District. a Methodist by birth, choice, and education, Helena Station 154 and he fondly cherished her doctrines and La Grange Circuit 79 polity, and the Church never had a more Marianna Station 98 Forrest City Station 150 loyal son than Elias M. Baker. From prin- Haynes Circuit 240 ciple he was an itinerant preacher in the Colt Circuit 300 true sense of the term. He accepted the Wynne and McCrory Station 257 Wheatley Circuit 244 episcopacy as the best form of Church gov- Spring Creek Circuit 223 ernment, and he was true to its spirit and Clarendon Station 67 Anderson Station ... 172 letter and, as a loyal subject, he never tried Brinkley and ; Howell and Cotton Plant Station.. 170 to manipulate his own appointments, but De View Circuit 174 committed himself fully into the hands of Cypress Ridge Circuit 170 the appointing power, without courting Holly Grove Circuit 246 Poplar Grove Circuit 53 special favor or fearing disastrous results. As a preacher he stood in the front rank of his Conference, as the peer of any. was He Jonesboro District. a good pastor, a fine leader, and a successful Jonesboro Station organizer. He was four years on district Jonesboro Mission work, and made a good presiding elder. Vandale and Harrisburg Station... HSJUUiiMJ Some two years ago his health began to fail, Harrisburg Circuit Shiloh Circuit and before the last session of the Confer- Circuit Lorado 1 ence he became satisfied that he wT ould not Paragould Station be able to work. The thought of having to Paragould Circuit M-*- Gainesville Circuit retire from the active ministry gave him Marmaduke Mission painful solicitude, but he yielded like a hero Boydsville Circuit at the post of duty. His name was placed St. Francis Circuit SSOIHUiOliit* Lake Citv Mission by his presiding elder before the Committee Buffalo Island Mission on Conference Relations, and he was super- Marion Circuit annuated by the last session of the Confer- Osceola Circuit Chickasawba Circuit ence, and in about three months his triumphant spirit crossed over the river to join his .

1891. 156 White River Conference,

Newport District. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- White Colored Loo’l tics? Notreport. Mem's. Mem's. PCs. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of 122 7 the Conference be held? Batesville, Ark. 257 Ques. 35. Where are the preachers star 151 tioned this year? 53 76 1 136 2 SEARCY DISTRICT. 92 2 149 3 F. A. Jefet, P. E. 461 2 Searcy Station, H. Jewell.; S. D. Evans and 329 3 W. A. Pendergrass, Sup. 379 4 West Searcy, J. M. Talkington. 250 1 to be Center Hill Circuit, I. B. Manly ; one 349 2 70 supplied. 470 3 Beebe Station, A. M. R. Branson. 117 1 Auvergne Station, G. W. Smith. Circuit, J. A. Peebles. 2,561 25 El Paso Batesville District. Mineral Circuit, L. C. Craig. Station, B. Hays. Batesville Station 281 Augusta W. West Batesville Mission Jacksonville Circuit, W. C. Adams. Rock Circuit 641 7 T Sulphur Beebe Circuit, W . L. King. 244 2 Jamestown Cii’cuit Point Circuit, W. W. Anderson. Bethesda Circuit 432 3 West Evening Shade Circuit- 319 5 Bradford Circuit, Frank Barrett. Ash Flat Circuit 35D 4 Argenta Station, R. C. Morehead. Calamine Circuit 275 1 Circuit, W. R. Foster. Salem Circuit 500 1 10 Union Viola Circuit 245 3 Weldon Circuit, J. W. Patton. Newburg Circuit 649 11 State Blind School, J. H. Dye. Melbourne Circuit 375 1 Arkansas Methodist, Z. T. Bennett. Mountain View Circuit 290 2 Cedar Grove Circuit 388 6 Sunday School Agent, G. A. Dannelly. Oil Trough Circuit 327 2 DISTRICT. 5,316 1 57 HELENA M. B. Umsted, P. E. 4,571 * 19 1 Helena Station, J. C. Hooks. 2,797 8 Helena S. F. Brown. Jonesboro 48 La Grange Circuit, Newport . 2,561 25 Marianna Station, H. M. Crver. 1 57 Batesville . 5,316 Forest City Station, W. D. Kelley. Whittaker. 1 157 Haynes Circuit, Thomas Total this year. . 20.903 147 Castle- Total last year. . 19,985 1 Wynne and McCrory Station, E. C. berry. Increase. .. 918 10 Wheatley Circuit, R. G. Brittain. Spring Creek Circuit, S. B. Barker. Ques. 22. How many infants have been Clarendon Station, F. C. Sterling. during the year? 541. baptized Brinkley and Anderson Station, N. E. Gard- Ques. 23. How many adults have been ner. the year? 1,777. baptized during Howell and Cotton Plant Station, M. B. Cor- 24. What is the number of Sunday Ques. ngan. 236. schools? Review Mission, to be supplied (by J. K. 25. What is the number of Sunday Ques. Pope). teachers? 1,504. school Cypress Ridge Circuit, William J. A ick. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Holly Grove Circuit, J. I. Maynard. school scholars? 12,362. Poplar Grove Circuit, W. W. Hendrix. 27. What amount is necessary for Ques. Taylor Creek Circuit, Eli Bickley. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- ows and orphans of preachers? $1,760. JONESBORO DISTRICT. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the J. C. Ritter, P. E, foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Station, M. M. Smith. plied? $1,268. Applied to claimants. Jonesboro Circuit, John Edison. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Jonesboro J. H. An- Missions? Foreign Missions, $1,863.20; Do- Vanndale and Harrisburg Station, mestic Missions, $800.12. Total, $2,663.32. derson. been contributed for Harrisburg Circuit, A. J. Blakemore. Ques. 30. What has 7 Church Extension? $843.47. Shiloh Circuit, W . M. Watson. Mission, J. Watson. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Lorado W. Station, J. V. Millis B. Harris* is the estimated value, of church edifices? Paragould ; Number, 212; value, $184,655. Sup. Circuit, A. C. Griffin. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Paragould Gainesville Circuit, J. D. Rutledge. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Mission, B. D. Holley. ber, 61; value, $30,840. Marmaduke 157 Indian Mission Conference , 1891.

Boydsville Circuit, P. B. Wallis. BATESVILLE DISTRICT. St. Francis Circuit, A. C. Graham. H. T. Gregory, P. E. Lake City Mission, to be supplied (by Y. B. Smith). Batesville Station, R. S. Deener; S. C. Stone, Marion Circuit, T. B. Williamson. Sup. Osceola Circuit, J. F. Jemigan. West Batesville Mission, J. C. Brown. Chickasawba Circuit, R. M. Manly. Sulphur Rock Circuit, J. S. Brooke. Pecan Point Circuit, W. E. Bishop. Jamestown Circuit, W. Preston. Bethesda Circuit, S. W. Register. NEWPORT DISTRICT. Evening Shade Circuit, W. S. Southworth. Ash Flat Circuit, J. J. Alexander. F. E. Taylor , P. E. Calamine Circuit, T. J. Settle. Newport Station, F. Ritter. Salem Circuit, F. R. Noe. Jacksonport and Tuckerman Station, D. W. Kelley. Ried. Viola Circuit, Lewis Newburg Circuit, J. R. Edwards. Swifton Circuit, H. L. Bugg. Melbourne Circuit, T. A. Craig; C. H. Greg- Walnut Ridge and Black Rock Stations, S. ory, L. Cochran. Sup. Mountain Circuit, F. M. Smith. Corning and Reno Station, N. E. Skinner. View Cedar Grove Circuit, W. C. Toombs. Reno Circuit, W. D. Ellis. Oil Trough Circuit, to be supplied (by C. L. Portia Circuit, E. M. Davis. Castleberry). Pocahontas Circuit, H. E. May. Mammoth Spring and Hardy Station, D. T W. F. Wilson transferred to the Tennes- Walnut Hill Circuit, R. H. Grissett. see Conference. Imboden Circuit, H. A. Story. W. D. Mathews transferred to the South- Smithville Circuit, J. S. Watson. west Missouri Conference. Siloam Circuit, T. A. Bowen. E. G. Kilgore transferred to the St. Louis Clover Bend Circuit, J. F. Armstrong. Conference, and stationed at Cape Girar- Warm Springs Mission, to be supplied (by W. A. Downing). deau. Cache Mission, to be supplied (by J. F. E. M. Pipkin transferred to the Little Rock Clark). Conference.

INDIAN MISSION CONFERENCE.

Held at Oklahoma City, I. T., November 4-8, 1891.

Bishop Hendrix, President; M. L. Butler, Secretary.

" Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? ence; J. W. Treadwell, from the North Mis- Answer. D. W. Hughes. 1. sissippi Conference; W. M. Baldwin, J. W. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? J. W. Hol- Baldwin, from the Arkansas Conference. 11. land, T. C. Ely, T. H. Prim, P. C. Atkins, E. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one F. McClannahan, D. E. Shaffer, J. H. D. Ter- year? J. S. Lamar, L. W. Cabb, J. F. Wag- rell, J. O. Shanks, Joseph A. Trickey, A. S. non, J. W. Lloyd, R. H. Grinstead, J. R. Cook. 10. - Holland, L. H. Stucky, H. T. Lyles. 8. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elect- Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con: ed deacons? J. T. Fariss. 1. nection? A. M. Belcher, J. T. Fariss, J. L. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Southward. 3. dained deacons? J. T. Fariss. 1. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer deacons? D. E. Shaffer, Nicholas Bitting, A; from other Conferences? J. M. Grass, from R. Montgomery, Travis C. Ely, A. M. Lusk, the Western Conference; F. C. Mayberry, Sebastian Armstrong, Luther Amos. 7. Webster Futl, J. R. Randell, H. C. Parrott, Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- from the North Texas Conference; N. F. dained deacons? D. E. Shaffer, Nicholas Law, from the Texas Conference; D. D. Bitting, Travis C. Ely, A. M. Lusk Sebastian Warlick, from the Little Rock Conference; Armstrong, Luther Amos. 6. J. J. Lovett, from the Mississippi Confer- Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are served two years. In 1887 he was appointed to Randolph Circuit. In 1888 his character passed, but his appointment does not appear in the minutes. In 1889 Brother Edwards was transferred by Bishop Hendrix to the Indian Mission Conference, and appointed to Purcell and Wayne. In 1890 he was re- appointed to the same charge. It was here that he did his last work, and fell asleep in Christ June 11, 1891. Brother Edwards was ordained deacon at Dyersburg, Tenn., in White elder, at Memphis, Tenn., in 1884. Mem’s. 1882 ; and He was left an orphan boy at the age of ten Ardmore Station the cold chari- years. Being thrown out on Leon Circuit ties of the world at this tender age, he thus Simon Circuit learned in early life to endure hardships. Overbrook Circuit Brown Circuit Through his own exertions he obtained a Mannsville Circuit ... fair English education, and fitted himself Duncan Circuit

for usefulness. His removal to our Confer- Washita Circuit MMMWMhOCOM Lebanon Circuit ence was voluntary, being made in response Thackerville Circuit to a call from Bishop Hendrix for volun- Red River Circuit .... teers. He was married to Miss Flora Stew- Lone Grove Circuit... Dixie Circuit art, at Paris, Tenn., December 3, 1890. His stay among us was brief; yet he was so sweet-spirited, earnest, and true that we had Canadian District, learned to love him. He fell at his post, with the armor on. Muskogee Station Canadian Circuit- Pheasant Bluff Circuit J. C. Powell, of whose early life but little Lee’s Creek Circuit. Skullyville Circuit is known, came to Washington County, Ark., Muldrow Circuit in 1865, and was married to Miss Alberty, of Sans Bois Circuit that county. He was for several years Prin- Hanson Circuit Cameron Circuit cipal of the Evansville Academy. In 1877, while in charge of that academy, he was Balisaw Circuit, ,

Indian Mission Conference, 1891, 159

Canadian District (Continued). Wynnewood District (Continued). White Indian Loci White Indian Loo’ 1 Mem’s. Mem's. Pr'i. Mem’s. Mem's. Pr s.

Fort Gibson Circuit 82 56 Velma Circuit mm 2 4 Webber’s Falls Circuit. 106 30 Fred Circuit 92 1 1 Wagoner Circuit 40 72 1 Dougherty Circuit 219 11 1 Anadarko Circuit. 9 24 1,648 618 11 Purcell and Wayne 78 1 Paoli 278 13 Cherokee District. Beef Creek 250 12 2 Tahlequab Station 24 118 Arbuckle Circuit 116 13 1 Vinita Station ..— 33 60 Catoosa Circuit - 33 19 1 1,830 128 16 Pawpaw Circuit - 156 3 Spring Creek Circuit— 64 2 Recapitulation. Praine Grove Circuit 47 89 1 Ardmore District— l,580i 52 16 Choteau Circuit 59 91 , 1,648 618 11 Claremore Circuit 61 65 1 660 1,071 12 Chelsea Circuit 30 45 ...... Choctaw 44 154 656 40 Vinita Circuit 30 95 ...... 911 123 12 Olympus Circuit 129 2 961 7 Tahlequah Circuit 93 110 1 825 661 28 Flint Circuit.. 121 159 1 1,830 128 16

660 1,071 12 Total this year 8,069 3,309 142 Total la«it year 5,911 3,506 136 Choctaw District. Clear Creek Circuit- 1 181 Increase - 2,158 6 Kulli Chito Circuit 40 Decrease 197 Rnk Luna Circuit „ 41 60 70 Ques. 22. How many infants have been 120 baptized during the year? 662. Boggy Circuit 4 185 been Kiamitia Circuit 110 Ques. 23. How many adults have Sugar Creek Circuit 29 19 baptized during the year? 1,265.

154 656 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday schools? 189. McAlister District. is of Sunday Atoka and Caddo 144 30 2 Ques. 25. What the number McAlister and Krebs 87 .. school teachers? 930. South Canadian 122 17 1 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Boggy Depot 116 .. 2 Durant Circuit 55 5 school scholars? 7,570. Stonewall Circuit 119 3 2 is for Chickasaw Circuit Ques. 27. What amount necessary Stringtown Circuit 44 6 1 the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Kiowa Circuit 102 28 ows and orphans of preachers? $451.15. Lehigh and Coal Creek 20 .. 1 a Colbert Circuit ... 102 34 o Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Aforegoing account, and how has it been ap- 911 123 12 jplied? $408.95. Applied to claimants. Oklahoma District. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Guthrie Station 12 'Missions? Foreign Missions, $2,403.11 Do- Lexington Circuit 206 2 ; Little River Circuit 127 2 'mestic Missions, $697.85. Total, $3,100.96. Kingfisher Circuit 86 contributed for Korma Station 100 1 iues. 30. What has been West Oklahoma 111 Church Extension? $325.52. Oklahoma City Station—., 74 2 Stillwater Circuit- 31 Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Moore Circuit— 76 is the estimated value, of church edifices? East Oklahoma Circuit ... 108 ^Number, 134£ ; value, $52,900. El Reno and Kingfisher ... 30 Ques. 32. What is the number, and what is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Okmulgee District. ber, 38 ; value, $19,015.60. Enfanla Station 18 35 Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Arbeka Circuit 23 10 1 International Institute (for Choska Circuit 147 10 2 tics? Harrell : pupils, value of Checote Circuit 44 53 girls) Teachers, 11 ; 215 ; Seminole Circuit 350 7 property, $25,000. Willie Halsell Institute: Springfield Circuit 120 7 pupils, value of property* Okmulgee Circuit- 3 38 7 Teachers, 6; 100; Coweta Circuit - '81 2 $24,000. Oklahoma District High School: Eufaula - 90 4 2 Circuit Teachers, 4; pupils, 75; value of property, Sapulpa 10 : pupils, $1,270. Pierce Institute Teachers, 2 ;

I 325' 6611 28 of property, 55 ; value $3,800. Wynnewood District. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Wynnewood Circuit 375 25 8 the Conference be held? Ardmore, I. T. Mill Creek Circuit 118 5 1 Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Leeper Circuit 42 2 2 Fort Sill Circuit - 20 tioned this year? 160 Indian Mission Conference, 1891.

CHEROKEE DISTRICT. OKMULGEE DISTRICT.

W. B. Austin, P. E. John D. Edwards, P. E. Vinita Station, to be supplied. Eufaula Circuit, to be supplied (by H. H. Vinite, Circuit, to be supplied (by E. M. Goode). Lemming). Checote Circuit, J. A. Trickey. Blue Jacket Circuit, to be supplied (by A. Choska Circuit, to be supplied. R. Bogle). Okmulgee Circuit, D. L. Berryhill. Nowatah Circuit, to be supplied. Sapulpa Circuit, to be supplied (by James Claremore Circuit, C. W. Burks. Towne). Chelsea Circuit, J. S. Lamar. Coweta Circuit, to be supplied (by M. Afl- Afton Circuit, L. W. Rivers. bury). Choteau Circuit, J. T. Hall. Springfield Circuit, William Jimboy. Olympus Circuit, F. M. Suttle. Seminole Circuit, Thomas Little. Tahlequah Station, J. J. Lovett. Arbeka Circuit, John Y. Brice. Tahlequah Circuit, to be supplied (by N. Cerryville Circuit, to be supplied (by G. W. Bitting). Jamerson). Flint Circuit, G. W. Atkins. Red Fork Circuit, to be supplied. Oaks Circuit, to be supplied. Cherokee Circuit, M. A. Clark. McALISTER DISTRICT. Willie Halsell Institute, L. W. Rivers, Agent. M. A. Smith, P. E. ", Cherokee Orphan Asylum, J. F. Thompson, Superintendent. McAlister Station, G. S. Yarborough. Atoko and Caddo Station, N. F. Law. CANADIAN DISTRICT. Lehigh and Coal Gate Station, to be supplied (by W. M. Davis). C. M. Coppedge, P. E. Chickasaw Circuit, H. T. Lyles, Gibson Muskogee Station, M. L. Butler; H. C. Pai> Grayson. rott, Sup. Colbert Circuit, F. E. Shanks. Canadian Circuit, W. P. Pipkin. Stringtown Circuit, T. 0. Shanks. Wagoner Circuit, A. M. Belcher. Leader Circuit, to be supplied (by D. D. Fort Gibson Circuit, W. M. Baldwin. Mullins). Brooken Circuit, to be supplied. Durant Circuit, M. H. Wagnon. Sans Bois Circuit, to be supplied (by D. C. Eufaula and South Canadian Station, F. M. Murphy). Moore. Pheasant Bluff Circuit (to be supplied by R. South Canadian Circuit, to be supplied (by A. Cowan). E. J. Mathis). Bokoshe Circuit, T. H. Prim. Boggy Depot Circuit, Miles Sturgeon. Cameron Circuit, to be supplied (by G. W. Kiowa Circuit, J. W. Lloyd. Reubush). Cale Circuit, J. A. Lovett. Skully ville Circuit, to be supplied. Krebs Circuit, to be supplied (by J. H. God- Muldrow Circuit, to be supplied. frey). Hanson Circuit, J. W. Cowart. Conference Colporter, J. Y. Bryce. Salisaw Circuit, P. C. Atkins. Webber’s Falls Circuit, F. Naylor. ARDMORE DISTRICT. Harrell Institute, T. F. Brewer, President, J. N. Moore, P. E. CHOCTAW DISTRICT. Ardmore Station, J. O. Shanks. Lone Grove Station, to be supplied (by J. W. M. Keith, P. E. W. Davenport). Kulle Tuklo Circuit, to be supplied (by John Dixie Circuit, J. W. Holland. Taylor). Overbrook Circuit, L. H. Stocky. Kulli Chito Circuit, to be supplied (by Ker- Thackerville Circuit, to be supplied. mahubie). Duncan Circuit, E. F. McClannahan; one to Bok Lusa Circuit, to be supplied (by S. Cal- be supplied (by J. B. Williams). bert). Beaver Circuit, J. H. D. Terrell, J. A. Rowan. Olear Creek Circuit, to be supplied (by R. S. Red River Circuit, T. C. Ely. "Frazier). Simon Circuit, to be supplied (by G. Green). Kiamitia Circuit, L. W. Cobb. Lebanon Circuit, A. S. Cook. Boggy Circuit, to be supplied (by Charles Leon and Burneyville, 'A. K. Miller. Armby, Moses Wade, Taylor Durant). Mannsville Circuit, D. E. Shaffer. Wister Circuit, John McElhanon. Washita Circuit, to be supplied (by William Sugar Creek Circuit, A. C. Pickens. Hawkins). Mashulatubbee Circuit, to be supplied (by Leon Circuit, to be supplied (by J. T. Arm- G. Baltice and William Watson). strong). Cedar Creek Circuit, to be supplied. Eastman Circuit, to be supplied (by D. P. Pleasant Hill Circuit, to be supplied (by J. Wilburn). - ' ‘ — I. Irvin). Chickasaw Orphan Home, W. S. Derrick. China Mission 1891. Conference ,

WYNNEWOOD DISTRICT. West Oklahoma Circuit, D. D. Warlick. Norman Station, E. D. Cameron. J. L. Keener , P. E. Wynnewood and Paul’s Valley, T. A. Martin. Moore Circuit, D. W. Hughes. White Bead Hill, R. H. Grinstead. Little River, to be supplied (by J. P. Lane). Paota Circuit, C. W. Mvatt. Norman Circuit, J. H. Miller. Beef Creek Circuit, J. F. Wagnon. Lexington, C. F. Roberts. Purcell and Wayne Station, A. N. Averyt. Edmon, M. D. Long. Velma Circuit, J. L. Southward. Guthrie, to be supplied. Marlow Circuit, J. C. Scivally. Stillwater, W. Full. Fred Circuit. J. K. Florence. East Enmon, to be supplied (by P. S. Kerr). Dougherty Circuit, J. R. Holland. Kingfisher Circuit, F. M. Sherwood. Arbuckle Circuit, to be supplied (by A. B. J. Brown. L. Hunkapillar). Minco and El Reno, H. District High School, J. T. Fariss. Sulphur Spring, to be supplied (by C. M. Oklahoma Brown). Spring Brook,to be supplied (by J. A. Gibson). J. R. Randell, J. D. Whitehead, A. A. Waco Circuit, to be supplied by T. C. Wagnon, and T. C. Mayberry transferred to Gillum). the North Texas Conference. Anadarko, T. J. Methvin, J. J. Roland. J. B. Stevenson and J. W. Baldwin trans- Fort Sill, to be supplied. ferred to the Arkansas Conference. OKLAHOMA DISTRICT. J. W. Treadwell transferred to the North A. J. Worley, P. E. Mississippi Conference. Oklahoma City, J. M. Gross. J. J. Mercado transferred to the Mexican East Oklahoma Circuit, P. T. McWhorter. Border Conference.

CHINA MISSION CONFERENCE.

Held at Soochow, China, October 14-19, 1891.

A. P. Parker, President; M. B. Hill, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Answer. Ng Dong-shien, Ling Tsz-yien, deacons? None. Yau Me-kung, Dzung Tsz-kiung, Tsiau Lan- Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- sung. 5. dained deacons? None. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Herbert Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are L. Gray, C. K. Marshall, Dzung Ying-kyin, elected elders? None. Dong Moh-san, Tsa Vong-tsang, in the class Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- of the second year; Oswald E. Brown, in dained elders? None. the class of the first year. 6. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. elders? None. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- nection? Sz Tsz-kia, Dzung Zing-san, Sung dained elders? None. Yon-peh. 3. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. None. Ques! 6. Who are received by transfer Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? None. from other Conferences? Langhome Leitch, Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? None. in the Ques. 19. What preachers from the Columbia Conference, and have died dur-s class of the first year. 1. ing the past year? None. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Li Tsz-i, and remains in the class of the in their life and official administration? third year. 1. Their names were called over, one by one, Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are and their characters examined and passed. elected deacons? Dzung Zing-zan, Sung Ques. 21. What is the number of local Yon-peh. 2. preachers and members in the several cir- Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- dained deacons? None. ence? ;

1891. 162 Japan Mission ,

Shanghai District. is the estimated value, of parsonages ? Num-

Foreign Native I.oc'l ber, 14 ; value, $49,860.* Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Ques. 33. What are the educational statistics? Anglo-Chinese College: Teachers, 9; Shanghai Station 6 156 5 College Chapel 3 33 pupils, 161; value of property, $60,000.* Hongkew Circuit Boys’ Boarding School, teachers, pupils^ 1 ; 5 ; TsihJPao 8 1 Circuit 75 value of property, $5,500.* Anglo-Chi- Sungkiang Circuit 1 13 2 ; 3 56 1 nese School: Teachers, 6; pupils, 63. Girls’ Tee So Circuit 3 1 Boarding Schools, 2; teachers, 6; pupils, 46. _ Day schools, teachers, pupils, 783 13 269 10 44; 49; value of property, $56,600* Soochow District. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Soochow Station 10 63 5 1 the Conference be held? Soochow, China. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- 4 tioned this year? Nanzing Circuit 6 SHANGHAI DISTRICT. M. B. Hill, P. E. 10 85 1 Recapitulation, ft Shanghai Station, W. B. Bonnell, C. F. Reid, Shanghai District 13 269 10 Sz Tsz-kia. 10 85 1 College Chapel, Y. J. Allen. R. B. D. Lucas. Total this year 23 354 11 Hongkew, G. Loehr, Sungkiang Circuit, W. B. Burke, Ling Tsz- to supplied (by Dzung Sau- yien ; one be Decrease tsung). Kiahing, M. B. Hill. Ques. 22. How many infants have been Taitsang Circuit, O. E. Brown, Dzung Zing- baptized during the year? 15. san. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Kading Circuit, Sung Yon-peh, Yau Me- baptized during the year? 45. kung. Circuit, Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Chwanshan Tsiau Lan-sung. schools ? 24. Tsih Pao Circuit, to be supplied (by Tseu % Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Tsz-vun). Presi- school teachers? 80. Anglo-Chinese College, Y. J. Allen, dent; B. Bonnell, R. Loehr, B. D. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday W. G. school scholars? 853. Lucas, Professors. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for I SOOCHOW DISTRICT. the superannuated preachers, and the wid- ows and orphans of preachers? Nothing. D. L. Anderson, P. E. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Soochow Station, A. P. Parker, Dzung Ying- foregoing account, and how has it been ap- kyin. plied? Nothing. Konghong, T. A. Hearn, Dzung Tsz-kiung. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Changshuh, H. L. Gray, Li Tsz-i. Missions? $398.40.* Wusieh, L. Leitch. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Nanzing, J. L. Hendry, Ng D6ng-shien. Church Extension? Nothing. West Nanzing and Dispensary, C. K. Mar- Ques. 31. What is the number, and what shall. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Kwenshan, Dong Moh-san. Number, 10; value, $23,641* Luhchih, Tsa Vong-tsang. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Buffington College, A. P. Parker, President.

JAPAN" MISSION. - Held at Kob£, Japan, August 26 30 1891 . ,

J. W. Lambuth, President; N. W. TJtley, Secretary.

The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Japan dent, no bishop being present. N. W. Utley Methodist Episcopal Church, was elected English Mission of the Secretary ; H. Nakamu- South, was held in the Methodist Church rai, Japanese Secretary; and C. B. Moseley, in Kob6, August 26, 1891. Statistical Secretary. J. W. Lambuth, D.D., was elected Presi- In answer to the first question, Who are * Mexican currency. .

Northwest Mexican Conference, 1891. 163 admitted on trial? Y. H. Tanako, E. Naka- APPOINTMENTS. yama, K. Usaki. 3. Superintendent. W. B. Lambuth, Who remain on trial? In the first year, Y. Yoshioka, T. Datte. 2. Kobe District. W. A. Wilson was examined and passed J. W. Lambuth, P. E. to the second year. 1. Kobe Station, W. E. Towson and K. Usaki. T. W. B. Demaree, O. A. Dukes, and N. Kobe Circuit, J. W. Lambuth. W. Utley were r~ sed to the third year. 3. East Kobe, S. H. Wainright. Hiogo, to he supplied. STATISTICS. Sumiyoshi, to be supplied. Kakogawa, J. C. C. Newton. Mission stations 6 Himeji, T. W. B. Demaree. I Organized societies 8 Kwansei Gakuin: Biblical Department, J. Married missionaries 11 C. C. Newton, Principal; T. W. B. Dema- Unmarried male missionaries .... 3 ree, Y. Yoshioka, S. H. Wainright, Pro- Female missionaries 5 fessors. Whole number of missionaries. . 30 Book Agent, S. H. Wainright. Native workers 69 Palmore Institute, to be supplied. Total number of workers 99 Academic Department, N. W. Utley, Prin- Foreign members 18 cipal and Chaplain. Native full members 381 Kobe Bible Woman’s School, Miss M. F. Native probationers 128 Bice. Whole number in the Mission. . . 508 Dispensarv and Training School for Nurses, Infants baptized 21 Miss Y/M. Kin, M.D. Adults baptized 94 Osaka Circuit: East Osaka and Sakai, 0. A. Bible classes 23 Dukes; West Osaka, J. M. Rollins. Students 248 Night schools 2 Hiroshima District. Pupils 94 B. W. Waters P. E. Boys’ day schools 4 , Pupils 131 Hiroshima Circuit: Hiroshima, Hatsukaichi, Girls’ day schools 3 and Iwakuni, Obataki, B. W. Waters. Pupils 42 Oshima, Yanai, Y. Tanaka. Mixed day school 1 Yamagnchi Circuit: Yamaguchi, Hagi, Ogo- Pupils 70 ri, Mitajiri, Miyaichi, Yuda, S. Shaw. Boys’ boarding school 1 Hiroshima Girls’ School, Miss N. B. Gaines, Pupils 47 Principal; Bible Woman’s Department, Girls’ boarding school 1 Miss L. Strider. Pupils 60 Matsuyama District. Sunday schools 34 C. B. Moseley P. E. Sunday school scholars 902 , Churches 2 Matsuyama Circuit: Matsuyama, and Mit- Chapels 24 suganama, C. B. Moseley. Parsonages 4 Tadotsu, E. Nakayama. Value of parsonages $ 6,415 00 Oita Circuit: Oita, Kitsuki, and Saiki, W.A. Value of school property 24,640 15 Wilson. Value of church property 3,700 00 Uwajima and Yawatahama, W. A. Davis.

NORTHWEST MEXICAN CONFERENCE.

Held at El Paso, Tex., November 12-16, 1891.

Bishop A. G. Haygood, President ; J. F. Corbin, Secretary.

Question 1 . Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into foil con- Answer. None. nection? Robert C. Elliott. 1. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? John C. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. Cavener, Josu6 O. Maldonado, Marcos de la Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Garza. 3. from other Conferences? Rosend E. del Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. Valle, John C. Cavener. 2. :

164 Northwest Mexican Conference.

Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques. 22. How many infants have been Julian Castro. 1. baptized during the year? 107. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are Ques. 23. How many adults have been elected deacons? None. baptized during the year? 122. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday dained deacons? None. schools? 24. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday deacons? None. school teachers? 52. Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday dained deacons? None. school scholars? 573.

• Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for elected elders? Rosendo E. del Valle, Pe- the superannuated preachers, and the wid- dro Grado, Pedro Vasquez. 3. ows and orphans of preachers? $60. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 28. What has been collected on the dained elders? Rosendo E. del Valle, Pedro foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Vasquez, Pedro Grado. 3. Emeterio Qui- plied? $56. Applied to claimants. nones, from the Baptist Church, was recog- Ques. 29. What has been contributed for nized in elder’s orders. Missions? Foreign Missions, $478.24. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 30. What has been contributed for elders? None. Church Extension? $102.42. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Ques. 31. What is the number, and what dained elders? None. is the estimated value, of church edifices? Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Number, 5; value, $8,700. None. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Ig- is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- ber, value, nacio Escalante. 1. 5 ; $9,800. Ques. 33. are the educational statis- Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? None. What tics? MacDonell Institute : Teachers, 3 stu- Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- ; dents, value of property, $10,000. Pal- ing the past year? None. 54; more College : Teachers, 4 students, 35 ; val- •V Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless ; ue of property, $12,000. El Paso Seminary in their life and official administration? Teachers, 3 students, 146 : value of property, Their names were called over, one by one, ; $500. Nogales Seminary: Teachers, 2; stu- and their characters examined and passed. it dents, 40; value of property, $1,200. 21. is the local Ques. What number of Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of preachers and members in the several cir- the Conference be held? Nogales, A. T. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- ence? tioned this year?

Chihuahua District. CHIHUAHUA DISTRICT. White Loo'l Mem’s. Pr’s. J. F. Corbin, P. E.

86 Chihuahua and Aldama, A. de Leon. Santa Rosalia and San Pablo 26 Santa Rosalia and San Pablo, J. O. Maldo- El Paso .’. 64 1 nado. Oginaga 22 1 59 El Paso and La Mesu, R. E. del Valle. Port Davis 60 1 La Luz and Lincoln, Pedro Vasquez. Ft. Davis and Presidio, Juan Breto, supply. 317 3 Durango, D. F. Deviatu, J. C. Cavener. Durango District. Cuencame, Pedro Grado.

Durango ! 81 1 Nombre de Dios, Julian Castro. Nombre de Dios 91 1

172 2 SONORA DISTRICT. King, P. Sonora District. , W. D. E. Nogales and Altar, E. Quinones. a Nogales (English), J. A. ThomasThomas, supply. La 3 :::::: ffi^ Phoenix and Tempe, R. C. Elliott. Bisbee, to be supplied. Guaymas, M. Villanado. Alamos, to be supplied (by J. Bustamente). La Paz, Lower California, to be supplied. * Recapitulation. Culiacan, Marcos de la Garta. Chihuahua District ... Rosario, H. L. Hernandez. Durango “ Mazatlan and Sonora “ •' S. G. Kilgore and Ignacio Escalante trans- 620 Total this year — I ferred to the Mexican Border Conference. Total last year I. S. Rivera transferred to the Central 1 Mexican Conference. South Georgia Conference, 1891, 165

SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE.

Held at Cordele, Ga., December 2-7, 1891.

Bishop Keener, President; W. C. Lovett, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 12. What traveling preachers am Answer. Herman C. Jones, Charles E. elected elders? William E. Mumford, Thom- Choate, John M. Outler, Robert S. McCord, as B. Kemp, James E. Wray, Orson W. George W. Childress, Jeremy M. Glenn, Wil- Branch, Thomas E. Davenport. 5. i liam N. Ainsworth, Jesse M. Aldredge, Logan Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- TJyz Peebles, Aaron Kelly, Robert M. Wes- dained elders? William E. Mumford, Thom- ley, Mitchell J. Adams, Jefferson D. Sni- as B. Kemp, James E. Wray, Orson W. der. 13. Branch, Thomas E. Davenport. 5. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? R. B. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected T. Beals, C. E. Ross, J. Y. Weathers, M. elders ? John S. Evans, Ovid 0. Latimer. 2. Crawley, -Daniel D. Bateman, Rufus M. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Allison, George P. Pournelle, Edward L. dained elders? John S. Evans, Ovid Oscar Tucker, George P. Riviere, Wingfield C. Latimer. 2. Brewton, A. J. Bell, G. W. M. Luke, J. A. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? B. Harmon. 13. W. Huckabee, H. W. Key, G. P. Parker, J. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. B. Culpepper—at their own request. 3. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? S. S. nection? John H. Mather, James W. Tin- Sweet, C. H. Carson, C. J. Toole, W. C. Da- lev, Elliott F. Morgan, John C. Greener, vis, T. B. Reams, L. A. Snow, J. W. Burke. 7. Melville A. Morgan. 5. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? F. R. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. C. Ellis, W. H. Thomas, S. G. Childs, T. B. are received by transfer Ques. 6. Who Lanier, W. F. Bearden, W. F. Roberts, W. S. J. S. Chapman, from other Conferences? Baker, Charles A. Moore, John M. Marshall, from the Los Angeles Conference; R. L. McK. T. McCook, P. C. Harris, J. B. Ward- Wiggins, from the Florida Conference. 2. law, W. M. Watts, T. K. Leonard, R. B. Les- are deacons of one year? Ques. 7. Who the ter, J. J. Giles, W. T. McMichael. 17. L. Stokes, Lemuel R. Allison, John Freeman Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Boland, D. F. Miles, Gor- W. Connor, J. M. ing the past year? None. don F. Roberts, E. F. Cook, I. C. G. Rabun, Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Oscar B. Chester, C. T. Clark, J. C. Flanders, in their life and official administration? Walter C. Jones, John T. Mims, J. W. Foy, Their names were called over, one by one, T. R. McMichael, T. W. Ellis, H. Stubbs, and their characters examined and passed. John R. Dickinson, James S. Funderburk, C. H. McCord, Jason Shirah, J. C. Parker, B. Ques. 21. What is the number of local F. Bales, W. E. Vaughn, W. C. Glenn, G. B. preachers and members in the several cir- Culpepper. 26. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- ence? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected deacons? John H. Mather, James Savannah District. W. Finley, E. F. Morgan, J. C. Greener, Mel- White Colored Loe*l Mem’s. Mem’s. Pr'». ville A. Morgan. 5. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- 667 dained deacons? J. H. Mather, Melville A. Wesley Monumental 508 1 1 125 Morgan, James W. Tinley. 3. 1 New Houston....'. 350 Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Guyton Station 232 deacons ? James William Thompson, George Eden Circuit 338 1 2 390 1 H. Walker, Sheffield S. Kemp, Mitchell J. 1 Adams, Marion C. Austin, William E. Ar- 589 2 nold, Jefferson D. Snider, William J. Thom- 199 2 1 254 as, George P. Riviere, G. P. Pournelle. 10. Milfen Circuit 381 Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- 264 1 dained deacons? John W. Thompson, G. Scarbo'ro Circuit 191 504 1 J. A. Walker, Sheffield S. Kemp, Mitchell "Louisville and Davisboro 198 Adams, Marion C. Austin, William E. Ar- Statesboro Circuit 300 3 nold, Jefferson D. Snider, William Jefferson Bullock Mission 179 3 Hinton Circuit 542 2 4 Thomas, George P. Pournelle, George P. Ri-

viere. 10. 7,082 fa 21 . 1 |

166 South Georgia Conference, 1891.

Macon District. Valdosta District. White Colored Loc’l White Colored T.oc’l Mein’s. Mem’s. Pr’s. Mem's. Mem's. Pr’s.

Macon: Mulberry Street 814 4 Valdosta 245 First Street 729 1 Adel Circuit 376 2 80 Greenfield Mission 421 3 333 Branch Circuit 242 4 350 Alapaha Circuit 273 2 223 Sycamore Circuit 245 1 398 4 Lowndes Circuit 430 2 Sandy Run 57 Ashburn and Warwick Mission.... 480 2 434 3 Cordele 145 1 Manchester Mission 65 Worth Mission 312 2 432 1 Willaeoochee and Mission 221 214 1 Roberts Circuit 373 1 2 Fort Valiev 313 1 Abbeville Circuit 144 374 Seville Circuit 517 5 270 280 1 434 Quitman Circuit 209 628 2 Brooks Circuit 430 2 Vienna Circuit 496 1 Douglas Circuit 584 3 ^ 32 ft Ail 7 18 5,959 1 32 Columbus District. Eastman District. Columbus: St. Luke 800 Eastman 1891 350 St. Paul 492 Cochran Circuit Broad Street 452 Dempsey Circuit 807 Rose Hill 184 McRae Circuit 493 East Highlands and Midway 100 Rhine Circuit 373 Cataula Circuit 489 Jacksonville Circuit 469 Hamilton Circuit 417 Towns Circuit 428 Talbotton 218 Lumber City and Spring Hill.... 463 Talbot Circuit 326 Mt. Vernon Circuit 531 Central Circuit 392 Graham 380 Baxley 788 Geneva Circuit 482; Sterling Mission 317 Butler and Reynolds 220 1 \ Howard Circuit 257 Reidsville Circuit 757 Crowell Circuit 324 z\ Eason Mission 116 Buena Vista Circuit 350 2 Altamaha 413 Marion Circuit 431 Odum Mission 228 Cusseta Circuit 290 7,102 .40 6,174 ll 14 Brunswick District. Brunswick: First Church. 395 District. Americas McKendree 108 Americus: First Church 422 W aycross 478 Second Church and Mission 277 Blackshear Mission 241 Sumter Circuit 318 Bickley Circuit 260 La Crosse Circuit 200 Jesup and Johnston 173 Ellaville Circuit 397 Hinesville Circuit 160 Oglethorpe Circuit 337 Taylor’s Creek Circuit 314 Magnolia Circuit 520 Darien Station 68 180 Sumter Mission..... 46 •Tonesville Mission Weston Circuit 302 St. Mary’s 110 Dawson and Georgetown 433 Bryan Mission 254 180 Brownwood Circuit 342; Hortense Mission Terrell Circuit 323 Camden Circuit 247 Shellman Circuit 407 South Camden Mission 123 Cuthbert Circuit 377 Homerville Mission 267| Spring Vale Circuit 398 Statenville and Mission .... 388: Fort Gaines Circuit 419 Waresboro 302 Lumpkin and Richland 316 Duke Mission 173 Florence Circuit 263 Trader’s Hill Mission 80

1> 4,501 1 22 1 6,097' 16 1

Sandersville Distriicf. District. Thomasville 305 1 460 3 Warthen Circuit 330 247 1 Gibson Mission 473 3 237 Washington Circuit 425 156 1 New Hope Circuit 409 452 5 Wrightsville and Mission Ridge... 182 2 399 2 Arline Circuit 475 5 633 5 Corinth Circuit .*. 276 371 1 Lovett Circuit 390 3 175 1 Dublin and Mission 145 263 Summertown Mission 406 1 280 1 Swainsboro Circuit 937 5 134 Irwinton Circuit 376 2 313 i Gordon Circuit 461 2 422 i Brewton Circuit 417 2 hi 124 i Jeffersonville Circuit 478 406 4 Regnant Circuit 330 1

5,0721 27 6,815 3ti I I il

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Recapitulation. Jefferson, J. D. Mandlin. White Colored Loci Louisville and Davisboro, G. C. Thompson. Mein's. Mem's. Pr's. Statesboro, J. C. Flanders. Savannah District Bullock Mission, to be supplied. “ 7,082 6 21 Macon 6,644 18 Hinton, R. F. Evans. Columbus u 6,174 1 14 Americus “ “ 6,097 1 16 Thomasville 5,072 27 MACON DISTRICT. Valdosta “ 5,959 i 32 Eastman “ 7,102 40 J. 0. A. Clarke P. E. Brunswick “ , “ 4,501 22 . Sandersville Macon : Mulberry Street, J. P. McFerrin S. 6,815 30 ; S. Sweet, Sup. 55,446 9 220 First Street, T. M. Christian C. J. Toole, 150,804 7 211 ; Sup. Vineville, J. E. Wray. East Macon, J. W. Weston. Ques. 22. How many infants have been Centenary, 0. B. Chester and J. W. Burns; baptized during the year? 1,919. W. C. Davis, Sup. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Grace, W. A. Ainsworth. baptized during the year? 3,192. South Macon Mission, E. J. Burch. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Bibb Circuit, T. E. Davenport. schools? 583. Manchester Mission, H. C. Jones. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Byron Circuit, T. D. Strong. school teachers? 3,656. < Hawkinsville, J. W. Simmons. Ques. 26. is ' Fort Valley, J. A. What the number of Sunday" 0. Cook. 1 1 . .1 .1 n rkA r\rm^ Hr _ 1 1 _ _ fll _ 1 1 * i school scholars? 28,272. v Marshallville and Montezuma, K. Reid. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Perry, N. D. Morehouse, the superannuated preachers, and the wid- % Knoxville Circuit, T. R. McMichael. ows and orphans of preachers? $7,863.75. 4 Snow Circuit, T. I. Neese. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Vienna Circuit, T. W. Darley. *' foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Henderson Circuit, J. T. Ainsworth, plied? $5,627.44. Applied to claimants. 0 Commissioner of Education, W. M. Hayes. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for % Wesleyan Female College, W. C. Bass, Pres- Missions? Foreign ident. Missions, $12,334.99 ; Do- mestic Missions, $6,499.47. Total, American Bible Society, H. P. Myers, Dis- $18,834.46. \ Ques. 30. What has been contributed for > trict Superintendent. Church Extension? $2,501.65. 4 Orphans’ Home, L. B. Payne, Superintend- Ques. 31. What is the number, and what -5 ent; F. A. Branch, Agent, is the estimated value, of church edifices? 2 Western Christian Advocate, T. T. Christian, Number, 550; value, $690,046.27. Assistant Editor. Ques. 32. What is the number, and what is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- COLUMBUS DISTRICT. bebC 5; 8 50 ?'' +• *• JJ.B.- B - McGhee, P. E. a « il tf rwJwQues. ASAwS33. What are the educational statistics ? Collected for endowment of Emory, v. Columbus : St. Luke, J. B. Johnston. $4,835.32. St. Paul and Pearce, J. W. Domingos. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Rose Hill, D. F. Riley. the Conference be held? Columbus, Ga. East Highlands and Midway, J. G. Harri- Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- son. tioned this year? Catawba, I. F. Griffith. Hamilton Circuit, M. B. Ferrell. SAVANNAH DISTRICT. Talbotton, O. A. Thrower. Talbot Circuit, W. C. Wade. W. C. Lovett, P. E. Prattsburg Circuit, L. R. Allison. Savannah: Trinity, A. J. Darrell. Waverly Circuit, J. B. Grimes. Wesley Monumental, C. E. Dowman; C. Geneva Circuit, R. M. Allison. H. Carson, Sup. Butler Circuit, J. T. Mims. City Mission, J. H. Mather. Cedar Greek, to be supplied (by S.E. Allison). New Houston, G. S. Johnston. Buena Vista, G. C. Clarke.

Guyton, J. M. Austin. Marion Circuit, G. T. Roberts, a Eden, G. P. Riviere. Cusseta, J. M. Boland. Springfield, W. D. McGregor. W. P. Harrison, Book Editor. Burke, J. W. Arnold. Sylvania, W. J. Flanders. AMERICUS DISTRICT. Bethel, J. M. Foster. • E. H. McGehee, P. E. Waynesboro, B. Anthony. • Millen, J. S. Jordan. Americus: First Church, A. M. Williams. Wadlev and Bartow, J. O. Langston. Second Church, C. W. Snow. Scarboro, W. J. Stallings. Lacrosse Circuit, W. W. Tidwell. 168 South Georgia Conference, 1891.

Ellaville, C. H. Branch. Dempsey Circuit, E. D. Phillips; one to be Oglethorpe Circuit, Wesley Lane. supplied (by J. W. Pope). Magnolia Circuit, C. T. Clarke. McRea, W. A. Huckabee. Sumter and Mission, D. R. McWilliams and Rhine Circuit, to be supplied (by G. W. A. H. Ogletree. Pharr). Richland, G. B. Culpepper. Jacksonville Circuit, G. W. M. Luke. Dawson and Georgetown, E. M. Whiting. Scotland Circuit, M. J. Adams. Brownwood Circuit, S. W. Stubbs. Springhill and Lumber City, R. L. Wig-- Terrell Circuit, W. T. Clark. gins.

Shellman Circuit, H. M. Morrison. . Mt. Vernon, J. S. Lewis. Cuthbert, H. R. Felder. 1 Graham Circuit, A. H. Olmstead. Randolph, to be supplied (by J. S. West). Boxley Circuit, G. B. Allison. Springvale, C. E. Crawley. Reidsville Circuit, E. A. Sanders. Fort Gaines, N. Stubbs. Wiggston Gircuit, D. F. Miles. Lumpkin, H. C. Brewton. Altamaha Circuit, W. M. C. Conley. Florence, J. T. Lowe. Odum Mission, to be supplied (by W. T. ' Andrew Female College, P. S. Twitty. Rea). Glenwood Mission, C. C. Hines. ‘ THOMASYILLE DISTRICT. Bellville Circuit, R. M. Wesley. Spring Hill District High School, Y. J. 0. Branch, P. E. W, Ellis. Thomasville, A. M. Wynn T. B. Reams, Sup. ; Albany, W. J. Robertson. BRUNSWICK DISTRICT. Attapulgus, M. A. Phillips. O. G. N. MacDoneU, P. E. Bainbridge, W. W. Stewart.

Boston Circuit, W. E. Mumford. Brunswick : First Church, J. A. Thompson. Blakely Circuit, W. F. Nixson. McKendree Mission, E. F. Cook. Cain Circuit, D. D. Bateman. Waycross, G. W. Mathews. Camilla Circuit, W. C. Jones and R. S. Mc- Blackshear Mission, M. F. Beals. Cord. Bickley Circuit, to be supplied (by D. Morris Decatur, J. M. Glenn. son). Leary, to be supplied (by J. S. C. Glenn). Jesup and Johnston, J. R. Owens. Whigham, to be supplied (by W. R. Talley). Hinesville Circuit, J. W. Smiley. Pelham, J. S. Funderburk. Taylor’s Creek, J. P. Dickenson. Pierce Circuit, J. M. Outler. Darien, J. S. Ryder. Sumner, E. L. Padrick. Jonesyille Mission, J. J. Bell. Pond Town Mission, W. C. Bruton. St. Mary’s, T. B. Kemp. Bryan Mission, J. C. Griner. VALDOSTA DISTRICT. Hortense Mission, G. P. Pournelle. Camden, R. B. Ross. J. P. WarcUaw, P. E. South Camden, J. C. Parker.

Valdosta, B. F. Breedlove. Homerville Mission, A. H.-Bazemore; one to > Adel Circuit, S. N. Brown. be supplied (by H. Pafford). Greenfield Mission, A. Kelly. Statesville, F. L. Stokes. Branch Circuit, to be supplied (by J. D. Waresboro, W. C. Glenn. Clark). Duke’s Mission, to be supplied (by M. C. Alapaha, P. N. Crumpler. Austin). Sycamore, J. W. Conyers. Trader’s Hill Mission, W. J. Meadors. liowndes, to be supplied (by J. M. Hendry). Ashburn, R. M. Booth. Harmony Grove Mission, E. L. Tucker. SANDERSVILLE DISTRICT. Cordele, 0. W. Branch. /. W. Hinton, P. E. Worth, to be supplied (by J. J. Williams). Lewisville, Willacoochee Circuit, J. Shirah. Sandersville and H. A. Hodges. Circuit, F. Roberts Circuit, J. S. Chapman. Warthen E. Morgan. Abbeville, J. W. Foy. Gibson Circuit, to be supplied (by G. T. Seville Mission, L. U. Peeples. Flanders). Crisp Circuit, C. H. McCord. Washington Circuit, I. F. Casey. Circuit, Quitman, J. M. Lovett. New Hope C. E. Boland. A. Brooks, J. W. Childress. Wrightsville, M. Morgan. Douglas Circuit, W. L. Carter. Arline Circuit, F. W. Flanders. Circuit, to Irwinville Mission, J. V. Weathers. Corinth be supplied (by W. K. Methvin). EASTMAN DISTRICT. Lovett Circuit, to be supplied (by R. W. Bugg). J. D. Anthony, P. E Brewton, J. Carr. Eastman, B. S. Sentell. Dublin Mission, W. F. Smith. Cochran Circuit, C. D. Adams. Summertown Mission, C. T. Bickley. Texas 1891 . East Conference,

Swainsboro Circuit, H. C. Fentress. Nannie Lou Warthen Institute, M. A. Mor- Stillmore Mission, J. D. Snider. gan, Principal. Irwinton, J. A. Harmon; L. A. Snow, Sup. Gordon Circuit, C. E. Choate. W. T. Etheredge and W. E. Vaughn trans- Jeffersonville, I. G. C. Rabun. ferred to the Los Angeles Conference. Regnant, J. M. Aldredge. E. A. Carraway transferred to the North- Allentown Mission, E. Bales. west Texas Conference.

EAST TEXAS CONFERENCE.

Held at Henderson, Tex., December 9-14, 1891.

Bishop Fitzgerald, President; L. M. Fowler, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? A. Sampey, R. W. Thompson, J. B. Hall, A_ Answer. James W. Bridges, W. D. Lum, D. Parks. 4. Wiltz W. Watts, Homer W. Bowman, Ellis Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? H. M. Smith, James W. Cullen, Jas. B. Luker. 7. Booth, R. Minafee, M. Donegan, W. N. Bon- Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? G. B. ner, A. G. Scruggs, W. H. Ardis. 6. Haynes, T. B. Vinson, T. W. Boynton, A J. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- Weeks, S. N. Allen, W. H. Dean, J. C. Box, ing the past year? R. M. Kirby. 1. L. A. Webb, J. W. Griffin. 9. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Charles R. M. Kirby was born in the State of Ten- Pressley. 1. nessee about 1814; he was received into the Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Tennessee Annual Conference in trans- 1841 ; nection? Charles B. Smith. 1. ferred to the Arkansas Conference in 1844; Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. transferred to the East .Texas Conference in Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer or about 1854. He was a member of this from other Conferences? W. H. LeFevre. 1. Conference for thirty-seven years. Brother Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Kirby was a man of some eccentricities, of 0. C. Fontaine, E. R. Large, J. L. Wyche, great earnestness, abounding in zeal, and V. A. Godbey. 4. was a good gospel preacher. He labored Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are mostly on missions, and sometimes walked elected deacons? Charles B. Smith. 1. to his appointments. He was a faithful, la- Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- borious traveling preacher. He died at his dained deacons? Charles B. Smith. 1. home last June, and his funeral obsequies Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected were conducted by Rev. William Sproule. deacons? J. W. Griffin, W. W. Watts, J. W. He leaves a wife and five children as a leg- Sanford, C. S, Baker, T. J. Watson, James acy to the Church he served. W. Cullen. 6. Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Watts, J. W. San- dained deacons? W. W. in their life and official administration? T. J. Watson, James W. ford, C. S. Baker, Their names were called over, one by one, Cullen. 5. and their characters examined and passed. traveling preachers are Ques. 12. What Ques. 21. What is the number of local Scudday, J. D. Burke, elected elders? H. G. preachers and members in the several cir- Porter, Sproule. 5. W. P. Pledger, J. M. Wm. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- ence? * dained elders? H. G. Scuddav, J. D. Burke, Marshall District. P. Pledger, J. M. Porter, W. Sproule. 5. W. Mem- Loo’t Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected bers. Pr's. elders? S. N. Allen, Thomas McKnight. 2. Marshall Station 448 2 15. local preachers are or- Ques. What Marshall Mission 188 dained elders? S. N. Allen, Thomas Mc- Harrison Circuit 220 Knight. 2. De Berry Circuit 262 1 Centennial Mission 143 2 Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Hallville Circuit 390 1 None. Longview Station 270 3 Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? W. Kilgore Circuit 855 2 170 East Texas Conference, 1891.

Marshall District (Continued). Ques. 22. How many infants have been Mem- Loo’l baptized during the year? 838. bers. Pr’s. Ques. 23. How many adults have been Church Hill Circuit 4&s 4 baptized during the year? 1,474. Henderson Station 189 1 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Henderson Circuit 220 2 schools? 207. Beckville Circuit 505 1 Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday

1 school teachers? 3,671 1 19 1,291. Tyler District. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Tyler Station 573 1 school scholars? 10,113. Tvler Mission 185 Ques. 27. is for Tvler Circuit 737 2 What amount necessary Mineola Station 202 1 the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Lindale Circuit 446 1 ows and orphans of preachers? $1,500. Canton Circuit 299 2 Ques. 28. collected Grand Saline Cii'cuit 447 3 What has been on the Edom Circuit 713 2 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Athens and Malakoff 254 1 plied? $1,357. Applied to claimants. Larissa Circuit 565 1 Ques. 29. for New York Circuit 637 2 What has been contributed Lawndale Mission 406 1 Missions? Foreign Missions, $3,661.70; Do- "Troup and Overton 526 3 mestic Missions, $1,438.10. Total, $5,099.80. Ques. 30. What has contributed for 5,990 20 been Palestine District. Church Extension? $1,569, Palestine Station 451 3 Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Palestine Mission .. 304 8 is the estimated value, of church edifices? Kickapoo Circuit m 1 Number, 21 value, $216,209. Augusta Circuit 309 1 3£; Grapeland Circuit 152 2 Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Crockett Station . 386 3 is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Cfockett Circuit 454 2 ber, value, $34,150. Trinity Circuit 712 2 46; Alto Circuit 500 5 Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Homer Circuit 322 2 tics? : Alexander Institute Teachers, 5 ; stu- Busk Station 293 1 dents, 160. Collected for education, $528.60. Jacksonville Station 149 1 Jacksonville Mission 213 2 Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Lufkin Station 195 1 the Conference he held? Nacogdoches, Tex. V Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- 4,839 29 San Augustine District. tioned this year? San Augustine and Sexton 140 1 Melrose Circuit 672 7 MARSHALL DISTRICT. Center and Thompson 303 2 Center Circuit 517 3 John Adams, P. E. Shelbyville Circuit 544 6 Marshall Station, I. S. Mathis R. Carthage Circuit 216 ; W. Thomp* Mt. Enterprise Circuit 639 2 son, Sup. Nacogdoches and Garrison, 216 Marshall Mission, W. W. Watts. Hemphill Mission 420 2 Geneva Circuit 498 2 Harrison Circuit, J. W, Lively. Linn Flat Circuit 308 2 DeBerry Circuit, T. B. Vinson. Teneha Circuit 232 3 Hallville Circuit, G. B. Hines. Murvail Mission 216 3 Martinsville Mission 259 4 Longview Station, L. M. Fowler.

Kilgore Circuit, J. M. Smith ; J. B. Hall, Sup. 5,180 37 Church Hill Circuit, to he supplied (by A. Beaumont District. A. Wagnon). Beaumont Station 270 4 Orange Station 283 1 Henderson Station, John A. Smith. Jasper Station I 78 Henderson Circuit, J. W. Bridges. Jasper Circuit 346 3 Beckville Circuit, W. W. McAnally. . Livingston Circuit 201 1 Texas Christian Woodville Circuit 350 1 Advocate, James Campbell, Moscow Circuit 242 3 Editor. Orange Circuit 601 2 Alexander Institute, W. H. LeFevre, Finan- Burkville Circuit ..... 385: 3 Sunset Circuit 97 1 cial Agent. Colmesneil Circuit 130 1 Liberty Circuit 269, TYLER DISTRICT. Sabine Pass Mission 45 1 T. P. Smith, P. E. 3,297 21 Recapitulation. Tyler Station, D. F. C.. Timmons. Tyler Mission, R. S. Finley. Marshall District 3,671 19 City Tyler “ 5.99C 20 Tyler Circuit D. W. Towns. Palestine “ 4,839 29 Mineola Station, W. P. Pledger. San Augustine “ 5.18C 37 Circuit, O. Fontaine. Beaumont “ 3,297 21 Lindale C. Canton Circuit, D. P. Cullen. Total this year 22,977 126 Grand Saline Circuit, E. R. Large. Total last year 21,44f 123 Edom Circuit, S. N. Allen. Increase 1,524 3 Athens and Malakoff, J. C. Calhoun. Mexican Border Mission Conference, 1891. 171

New York Circuit, J. M. Mills. Carthage Station, W. H. Crawford. Lawndale Mission, J. W. Griffin. Mendon Circuit, G. R. Hughes. Larissa Circuit, J. B. Luker. Nacogdoches and Garrison, Leon Sonfield. White House Circuit, T. T. Booth. Hemphill Circuit, L. F. Smith. Troupe and Overton, C. H. Smith. Lynn Flat Circuit, J. S. Wilson (supply). Teneha Circuit, W. L. Pate. PALESTINE DISTRICT. Murvall Mission, E. T. Bridges (supply). Martinsville Mission, E. T. Brasher. J. T. Smith, P. E. Palestine Station, H. G. Scudday W. A. Sam- BEAUMONT DISTRICT. ; pey, Sup. F. J. Browning , P. E. Elkhart Mission, T. W. Boynton. Beaumont Station, C. H. Ellis. Kickapoo Circuit, J. Helpenstell. Beaumont Mission, T. G. Watson (supply). Augusta Circuit, V. J*\Veeks. Orange Station, G. Y. Ridley. Grapeland Circuit, J. R. Richie (supply). Jasper Station, L. C. Ellis. Crockett Station, J. L. Dawson. Jasper Circuit, J. C. Burgamy (supply). Crockett Circuit, J. N. Warren. Livingston Circuit, J. H. McKnight. Trinity and Groveton, Y. A. Godbey, C. Woodville Circuit, J. L. Wyche. Sharon Mission, J. M. McCarter. Colmesneil Circuit, J. M. Porter. Alto Circuit, G. W. Riley. • Moscow Circuit, J. W. Cullen. New Birmingham Mission, Ellis Smith. Orange Circuit, T. M. Pledger (supply). Homer Circuit, C. B. Smith. Sunset Circuit, 0. A. Shook (supply). Lufkin Station, J. C. Box. Liberty Circuit, W. H. Dean. Rusk Station, J. W. Johnson. Burkeville Circuit, W. D. Lum. Jacksonville Station, A. Little. Trinity River Mission, D. C. Neel (supply). M. D. Long transferred to the Indian Mis sion Conference. SAN AUGUSTINE DISTRICT. G. A. LeClere transferred to the Texas Conference, and stationed at Willis. A. J. Frick P. E. , William Sproule transferred to the North- San Augustine and Sexton, L. A. Webb. west Texas Conference. San Augustine Mission, H. W. Bowmen. C. H. Gregory transferred to the White Melrose Circuit, G. W. Langley A. D. Parks, River Conference. ; Sup. W. T. Keith transferred to the Texas Con- Central and Thompson, C. F. Smith. ference, and stationed at Velasco. Center Circuit, J. D. Burke. E. S. Boyd transferred to the North Texas Shelby ville Circuit, L. A. Burk. Conference.

MEXICAN BOEDER MISSION CONFERENCE.

[Held at Laredo, Tex., November 5-9, 1891. >

Bishop Haygqod, President; T. del Valle, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Answer. Manuel C. Perez, Antonio Hoesch, C. Quesenberry, J. M. Chavez. 2. Carlos Cantu, Felipe Galvan. 4. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Andres elected deacons? M. V. Pineda. 1. Osuna, Pedro Armendariz. 2. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Pedro dained deacons? M. V. Pineda. 1. Ehlers. 1. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- deacons? Matias Villareal. 1. nection? B. G. Marsh, M. V. Pineda. 2. Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. dained deacons? Matias Villareal. 1. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are from other Conferences? David W. Carter, elected elders? H. T. Ethridge. 1. T. del Valle, S. G. Kileore, H. T. Ethridge, Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- J. J. Mercado. 5. dained elders? H. T. Ethridge. 1. Mexican Border 172 Mission Conference, 1891.

Ques. 14. What local preachers are elect- and cheerful experience. He leaves a wid- ed elders ? None. ow and one child. Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained elders? None. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Ques. 16. Who are located this year? in their life and official administration? None. Their names were called over, one by one, Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary ? None. and their characters examined and passed. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? None. Ques. 21. What is the number of local Ques. 19. What p.eachers have died dur- preachers and members in the several cir- ing the past year? Elias Robertson. 1. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- ence? Elias Robertson was born in Polk Coun- Monterey District. Whit* Loo’l ty, la., in February 11, 1853; and died San Mem’s. Pr's. Antonio, Tex., June 18, 1891. When a child he was taken by his parents in 1856 Monterey 38 5 Saltillo./. 22 1 to Missouri, and from there to Panora, la., San Francisco 33 1 in 1863, where he first felt called to preach Hu aj nco 2 I while listening to a sermon preached at the Cadereyta 33 1 39 3 funeral his eldest sister, Florence. of The Laredo 174 4 same year his parents returned to Missouri. • Thence they came in 1867 to Collin County, 336 16 Tex. Here, on the first Sunday in August, San Antonio District. San Antonio 81 2 at Circuit, 1874, Bethel Church, Bethel Dal- Lodi 180 2 las District, he was converted to God under Medina and Bandera 93 1 the preaching of Rev. H. W. South, but did San Marcos 51 Austin join until in 33 not the Church May, 1875. Corpus Christi 24 Thereafter he frequently led the prayer San'Diego 88 meeting, and was licensed to exhort July Bastrop/. 15 1 1876. licensed 29, On May 25, 1878, he was 671 6 to preach by H. W. Hughes, and was recom- Tamaulipas District.

mended for admission on trial into the Camargo : 43 i North Texas Conference at its session held Mier 74 2 Agualeguas 23 at Terrell, from which Conference he was | Cerralvo 12 sent by Bishop Keener to Grape Vine Mis- Rio de San Juan 25 1 sion, and was returned to it the following Reynosa 72 year. In August of the next year he felt 1 249 3 himself called to the work of a foreign mis- Mondova District. sionary. The Board of Missions accepted Porflrio Diaz 92 1 and recommended him for appointment in 22 Mexican Mission. In 1880 16 the Border he Cuatro Cienegas..... 13 was appointed to the American Mission in Zaragoza ancfGuerero 72 Laredo, Tex., which he faithfully served, Del Rio 127 1 studying Spanish in the meantime, In 1881 1 342 2 he was in charge of the American Mission Recapitulation.

at Del Rio, Tex., and still diligently studied Monterey District : 336 16 Spanish. In 1882 he was sent to Monclova-, San Antonio “ 571 6 Tamaulipas “ 249 Mex., sickness caused to leave 3 but him be- Monclova “ 342 2 fore the end of the year. In 1883 he was presiding elder of the San Diego District, Total this year 1,498 27 Total last year 1,389 19 and in 1884 of the Monterey District, but

I was compelled to leave Mexico again by Increase 109 8 reason of feeble health, and thence to the end he was on the supernumerary and su- Ques. 22. How many infants have been perannuated list. He was Treasurer of the baptized during the year? 165. Border Conference from 1886 to 1890. In Ques. 23. How many adults have been 1884 he was married to Miss Lizzie Hender- baptized during the year? 140. shot, teacher of the mission school at Mon- Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday terey, Mex. He was a man of very temper- schools? 59. ate habits, and enjoyed the peace of God in Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday his soul. He was a devoted and faithful school teachers? 110. missionary to the end, and when no longer Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday able to preach he labored with his pen. He school scholars? 1,195. translated into Spanish a “ Manual of Holi- Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for ness,” compiled and translated “ Perfect the superannuated preachers, and the wid- Love,” and wrote “The Human Heart.” ows and orphans of preachers? $100. These little books he published at his own Ques. 28. What has been collected on the expense. He was a man of conservative foregoing account, and how has it been ap- character, calm and sound judgment, steady plied? $83.36. Kept on deposit. ;

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Ques. 29. What has been contributed for SAN ANTONIO DISTRICT. Missions? Foreign Missions, $545.67. D. W. Carter P. E. Ques. 30. What has been contributed for , Church Extension? $186.68. San Antonio, Santos Romo. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Lodi, to be supplied (by M. Villareal). is the estimated value, of church edifices? Medina and Bandera, J. P. Rodriguez. Number, 14; value, $21,215. San Marcos and Luling, P. G. Verduzco. | Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Austin, T. del Valle. is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- Corpus Christi, E. Rodriguez. ber, value, $2,050. 5 ; San Diego, M. San Miguel. Ques. 33. What are the educational statistics? English College (Saltillo): Teach- TAMAULIPAS DISTRICT. ars, 5; students, 100; value of property, $6,000. Villa de Fuentes School: Teacher, A. San Miguel, P. E.

1 ; students, 37. Border Institute: Teachers, City, P. Ar- 2; students, 60; value of property, $700. Camargo and Rio Grande M. Laredo Seminary: Teachers, 13; students, mendariz. 310 value of property, $40,000. Southwest- Mier and Guerrero, M. Trevifio. ; Agualeguas, M. V. Pineda. ern University : Teachers, 17; students, 412; value of property, $123,000. Cerralvo, J. M. Chavez. Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Rio de San Juan, Carlos Cantu. the Conference be held? San Marcos, Tex. Reynosa, M. C. Perez. Ques. 35. Where are the preachers stationed this year? MONCLOVA DISTRICT. MONTEREY DISTRICT. S. TafoUa, P. E. 8. G. Kilgore, P. E. Porfirio Diaz, L. Gomez. Monterey, Andres Osuna; one to be sup- Monclova, J. Acosta. Buenaventura, A. Hoesch. plied (by S. Torres). San Monterey (English), B. G. Marsh. Cuatro Cienegas, J. J. Mercado. Muzquiz, to be supplied (by G. Hinojosa). Saltillo, C. J. Quesenberry. A. Rodriguez. San Francisco, to be supplied (by M. Pompa). Allende, C. Villaldama, E. Chavez. Del Rio, F. N. Galvan. Kilgore, Mission Huajuco and Cadereyta, to be supplied (by S. G. Treasurer. U. Osuna). Lampazos, B. Soto. A. H. Sutherland transferred to the Cen- Laredo, A. R. Cardenas. tral Mexico Mission Conference.

FLORIDA CONFERENCE. ' , ^ - " Held at Tampa, Fla., January 6 11 1891 . ,

Bishop Granbery, President F. Pasco, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Abbott, John B. Davis, C. A. Moya, A. W. J. Answer. Charles B. Ames, James W. Brad- Beers. 16. ford, J. L. Jones, Samuel A. McCook, John Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? C. M. A. Hendry, William B. Tresca, G. W. Gate- Tillman, J. H. Riggs. 2. wood, William A. Conoly, Edward W. Bar- Ques. 4. Who are admitted into fall con- rington, Asbury S. Whedon, Miguel J . Perez, nection ? John A. White, Alpheus W. Mann, William C. Norton, Josephus P. .Deluance, Thomas G. Lang, Mahlon H. Outland, J. H.

John Beers. 14. \ • Vann, Thomas H. Sistrunk, Thomas S. Hu- Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Charles bert, H. A. H. Crumpton, William Scott, C. F. Blackburn, A. O. Brown, E. J. Gates, H. C. Temple. 10. Hice, J. W. Henson, S. G. Meadows, A. E. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. Pierce, S. W. Lawler, A. D. Penney, E. K. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Whidden, C. S. Claridy, F. M. C. Eads, J. P. from other Conferences? R. A. Holloway* 174 Florida Conference, 1891.

F. A. Taylor, from the Southwest Missouri Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday

Conference ; D. D. Warlick, from the Indian school scholars? 12,228. Mission Conference. *3. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? the superannuated preachers, and the wid- F. E. Shipp, J. A. Howland, B. T. Rape, J. ows and orphans of preachers? $2,900. C. Sale, William A. Brown, B. F. Mason, W. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the J. J. Whidden, James S. Barnett. 8. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are plied? $2,488.97. Applied to claimants. elected deacons? John A. White, Alpheus Ques. 29. What has been contributed for M. Mann, Thomas G. Lang, Mahlon H. Out- Missions? Foreign Missions, $3,332.45; Do- land, Thomas H. Sistrunk. 5. mestic Missions, $2,351 .99. Total, $5,684.44. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 30. What has been contributed for dained deacons? J. A. White, A. M. Mann, Church Extension? $879.42. T. G. Lang, T. H. Sistrunk, M. H. Outland. 5. Ques. 31. What is the number, and what Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected is the estimated value, of church edifices? deacons? Calvin S. Claridy, Arthur D. Pen- Number, 254; value, $284,818. ney, John P. Bessent, Wightman F. Melton, Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Edgar M. Forrest, Charles 0. Curry, George is the estimated value, of parsonages? Num- W. Gatewood, James M. Dieffenwierth, ber, Dan- 67 ; value, $59,770. iel T. Mullen. 9. Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- > Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- tics? Florida Conference College: Professors, dained deacons? C. S. Claridy, A. D. Pen- 9; students, 148; value of property, $10,500. ney, W. F. Melton, C. O. Curry, J. M. Dief- Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of fenwierth, D. T. Mullen, G. W. Gatewood. 7. the Conference be held? Ocala, Fla. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- elected elders? Thomas L. Strickland, Jer- tioned this year? emiah L. Rast, Ira S. Patterson, Albert M. Daiger, Charles W. Inneman, Walter S. Mc- TALLAHASSEE DISTRICT. Mannin. 6. E. J. Holmes, P. E. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Tallahassee, W. M. Poage. dained elders? T. L. Strickland, J. L. Rast, Leon Circuit, L. W. Moore. I. S. Patterson, A. M. Daiger, C. W. Inne- Monticello, T. C. Bradford. man, W. J. McMannin. 6. Jefferson Circuit, J. H. Vann. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Madison and Ellaville, G. D. Turner. elders? None. Madison Circuit, W. H. F. Robarts. Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- Moseley Hall and Greenville, R.M.Williams. dained elders ? None. Taylor Mission, T. M. White. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? A. Waukeenah Circuit, J. W. Bradford. 0. Hiscock, George W. Forrest. 2. Wakulla Circuit, J. S. Barnett. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? E. F. Concord Circuit, C. B. Ames. Gates, G. Taylor, C. S. Bird, J. A. Giddens, Midway Mission, W. J. Gray. G. J. Kennedy. 5. Quincy, F. R. Bridges. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? J. G. Gadsden Circuit, T. S. Armistead. Graham, A. Johnson, W. R. Johnson, W. G. Liberty Mission, John Beers. Boothe, A. Peeler, J. E. Neal, R. Stock, J. D. Apalachicola, R. L. Honiker. Rogers, W. Scott, A. A. Robinson, E. L. T. Blake, S. Woodbery. 12. LIVE OAK DISTRICT. Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- A. A. Barnett, P. ing the past year? E. G. Chandler. 1. (No E. memoir). Live Oak and Mission, T. G. Lang; one to Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless be supplied. in their life and official administration? Jasper Circuit, A. M. Daiger. Their names were called over, one by one, White Springs and Mission, T. J. Evans and and their characters examined and passed. J. P. DePass. Ques. 21. What is the number of local Welborn Circuit, J. T. Waters. preachers and members in the several cir- O’Brien Mission, J. S. Collier. cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Bradford Circuit, J. B. Davis. ence? White members, 20,497; colored La Fayette Circuit, J. P. Abbott.

members, 15 ; local preachers, 159. (No de- Newnansville Circuit, T. B. Reynolds. tails). Columbia Circuit, S. Scott. Ques. 22. How many infants have been Lake City. J. A. Castel. baptized during the year? 960.- Corinth Mission, W. S. McMannin. Ques. 23. How many adults have been McClenny, J. A. White. baptized during the year? 914. Lake Butler Mission, C. C. Temple. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday Starke, F. Pixton. schools? 311. Waldo Mission, E. Wilson. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday Brooklyn, to be supplied (by S. C. Butler). school teachers? 1,752. Conference Colporter, R. H. Barnett. } ;

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GAINESVILLE DISTRICT. Stewart’s Chapel, S. W. Lawler. W. F. Norton, P. E. Brooksville and Mission, G. W. Sellers; A. S. Whedon. Gainesville and Mission, J. M. Pike one to ; Floral City, W. F. Alexander. be supplied (by F. M. Hartman). Pasco Circuit, W. H. Parker. Circuit, J. Ley.. Archer C. West Pasco Mission, J. W. Hanson. Levy Mission, A. M. Mann. Dade City and Lakeland, G. W. Mitchell. Bronson and Cedar Keys, W. S. Richardson. Lakeland Mission, T. H. Sistrank. Circuit, Melrose T. J. Phillips. Hillsboro Circuit, J. P. Durrance. Rochelle and Hawthorne, E. F. Ley. Clear Water Circuit, E. H. Giles. Orange Springs Circuit, C. W. Inneman. Florida Christian Advocate, Josephus Ander- Micanopv, J. P. Hilburn. son, Editor. Millwood and Mission, J. A. Howland. Florida Conference College, H. E. Partridge, Citra, R. A. Holloway. President; T. Griffith, F. A. Taylor, Pro- Anthony, W. F. Shoemaker. fessors. Ocala, J. B. Ley. Cotton Plant, C. S. Claridy. TAMPA DISTRICT. Summerfield Mission, S. A. McCook. S. E. Phillips, P. E. Wildwood Circuit, B. F. Mason. Sumter Circuit, J. R. Taylor. Tampa and Mission, J. C. Sale and I. S. Pat- Mannfield Mission, J. L. Jones. terson. Palmetto, James Bolton. JACKSONVILLE DISTRICT. Manatee, J. M. Sweatt; E. F. Gates, Sup. Sarasota, A. 0. Brown. T. W. Tomtrn, P. E. Plant City Circuit, I. A. Vernon.

Jacksonville: McTyeire Memorial, J. B. An- Alafia Circuit, W. A. Brown ; G. J. Kennely, derson. Sup. St. Matthew’s Mission, W. L. Conoly. Bartow and Mission, F. E. Shipp and W. C. Riverside Mission, M. H. Outland. Norton. Duval Mission, J. W. Porter. Homeland Circuit, W. C. Jordan. Fernandina, J. F. Shands. Fort Meade Mission, E. J. Gates. Callahan Circuit, F. M. C. Eads. Bowling Green Circuit, S. B. Black. King’s Ferry and Chester, N. R. Hamer. Wauchula Mission, W. B. Tresca. Mandarin Circuit, J. N. Jones. Arcadia and De Soto Circuit, A. W. J. Best Green Cove and Middleburg, H. F. Phillips. and W. J. J. Whidden. Palatka, A. E. Householder. Charlotte Harbor and Chuckaluskie, T. S. West Putnam Mission, C. F. Blackburn. Hubert and G. W. Gatewood. St. Augustine and Moultrie Mission, C. A. Myers and Caloosatchie Mission, H. B. Fra- Fulwood. zee and A. B. Pierce. Fruitland Circuit, I. Ryder. Key West: First Charge, T. Bishop. Volusia Circuit, D. D. Warlick. Spark’s Chapel, D. A. Cole. Halifax River Mission, H. S. Miller. Memorial, T. M. Strickland. Sanford, T. W. Moore. Key Largo, R. M. Evans. Titusville, A. D. Penney. Cocoanut Grove Mission, E. W. Barrington Indian River Mission, J. L. Rast. r C. S. Bird, Sup. Lake Worth Mission, to be supplied. Key West and Cuban Mission, H. B. Someil- Duval High School, Frederick Pasco, Prin- V^/lan and M. J. Perez. cipal. ORLANDO DISTRICT. B. E. Ledbetter transferred to the Virginia Conference. T. J. Nixon P. E. , S. S. Gasque transferred to the Western Orlando, B. K. Thrower; G. Taylor, Sup. North Carolina Conference. Oviedo and Geneva, J. E. Penney. W. J. Dowell transferred to the South Maitland Mission, E. K. Whidden. Georgia Conference, and appointed to the Kissimmee, H. Hice. Perry Circuit. Osceola Mission, J. A. Hendry. R. L. Wiggins transferred to the South Apopka Circuit, J. H. D. McRae. Georgia Conference. Altoona Circuit, B. T. Rape. R. 0. Wier transferred to the North Ala- Umatilla Circuit, W. H. Steinmeyer. bama Conference, and appointed to thq Leesburg, J. F. Marshall. Falkville Circuit. Lady Lake Circuit, W. C. Collins. / C. A. Moya transferred to the Central Yalaha and Mission, S. G. Meadows. Mexico Conference. ;

EXPLANATION

Hrrkafthr the minutes of the Baltimore Conference will form the commencement of the volume. This is necessary in order to bring the date of publication forward, according to the resolution of the bishops. For this reason the Minutes of the Baltimore Conference for 1891 are reproduced in this volume. The minutes of 1892 will begin the record of the

current year. . Book Editor.

The following memoir was received too late for insertion in its proper place in the min- ntes of the Florida Conference: Edward G Chandler was born in Accomac County, Va., in 1853; was converted to God in early life, and joined the Methodist Church. He was educated at Xtandolph-Macon Col- lege, and joined the Virginia Conference. There he labored several years. In 1883 he was • transferred to the Florida Conference and stationed at Fernandina, where he labored with great acceptability and fidelity. He was much loved by this people, all recognizing the goodness of his character and the sweetness of his disposition. Failing in health, he obtained a superannuated relation, and returned to Virginia, as he and his friends thought, to die. Near to the gates of death he came; yet calmly he looked through them, and was ready to depart and be with Christ. God raised him up from this sickness, and he was able to return to Florida and begin again the work he so much loved. Many of the brethren of the Conference doubtless recall the ringing of joy of his words at the Gaines- ville Conference at the prospect of taking up again the work of his calling. He was appointed to Green Cove Springs, which charge he served untH called to the professorship of Latin and Greek in Florida Conference College. This position he fitted very acceptably until in March he was forced to refrain from work. The Board of Trustees, in token of their appreciation erf his worth and work, elected him profemor emeritus. In his long and trying sickness he was as patient and resigned as in his strength he had been diligent and faithful. Not a doubt clouded his sky, not a fear shadowed his soul. Joyfully did he press toward his home on high; cheerftilly did he wait the caM. Brother Chandler’s was a refined nature, a noble character, a gentle disposition, a faithful, pure life. In May he left his adopted home in Florida for his old home in Virginia, to be with his mother and sisters and on August 7, 1891, he left them for his heavenly home, to be forever with the Lord.

BALTIMORE CONFERENCE.

Held at Roanoke, Ya., March 11-16, 1891. ’ •

Bishop Hendrix, President; J. E. Armstrong, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 5. Who are re-admitted ? None. Answer. Linwood Hammond, Robert Lee Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer Fultz, Frank Leighton Day, Charles Mc- from other Conferences? Felix R. Hill, Comas Garver, John Calvin Hawk, Samuel from the St. Louis Conference Morris Ev- ; Dinsmore Bennington, Archibald C. Ham ell, ans, from the Kentucky Conference. 2. Charles William Stump, Oscar William Lus- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? by, James Howard Wells. 10. Charles H. Wood, Milton M. Long, Thomas Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? William J. Miller, William M. Waters, Charles K. L. Smith, Frederick C. Rollman, Alfred B. Millican, William F. Locke, John K. White, Sites, Samuel M. Bowman, John W. Beall, Carleton D. Harris, Charles S. Stanton, William T. Gover, William H. H. Joyce, Har- Charles M. Bragg. 10. ry C. Febrey, John S. Engle, John L. Grant, Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are William H. Marsh, Isaac G. Michael, John elected deacons? Jacob Markwood Evey, H. Willhite, Charles A. Scanland. 14. Harry Lee Meyerly. 2. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Robert Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- E. L. Wright; Leroy F. Snapp, at his own dained deacons? Jacob Markwood Evey, request. 2. Harry Lee Meyerly. 2. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full con- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected nection ? Jacob M. Evey, Harry L. Meyer- deacons? Frank Dulin Orrick, Randolph ly. 2. C. Anderson, R. L. Fultz, L. B. Atkins. 4.

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Ques. 11. What local preachers are or- license being signed by the same minister dained deacons? Frank Dulin Orricks, Ran- who had received him into the Church. At dolph Charles Anderson, Robert Lee Fultz, the succeeding Quarterly Conference he was Levi Burrell Atkins. 4. licensed to preach and at the next session ; Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are of the Baltimore Conference, which met in -elected elders? Norman Norwood Hall. 1. Baltimore City March 10, 1830, he was re- Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- ceived on trial and appointed to Northum- dained elders ? Norman Norwood Hall. 1. berland Circuit, Northumberland District, Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Pa., James M. Dunnahay being preacher in elders? None. charge, and D. Steel presiding elder. Broth- Ques. 15. What local preachers are or- er Eskridge’s first field of labor extended dained elders? Abram Hogan. 1. from the forks of the Susquehanna to the Ques. 16. Who are located this year? State of New York, having a compass of not John Miller, Thomas M. Jones, at their own less than three hundred miles. There were request. 2. but five or six churches in the whole circuit, Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? J. the preaching being chiefly done in school- Newman Hank, John W. Boteler, Ephraim houses and private dwellings. He had L. Kregelo, Joseph J. Engle, Edward F. Het- twenty-four appointments to fill in four erick, Adam P. Boude, Larkin H. Crenshaw, weeks, or six a week. There were not less Asbury R. Martin, William A. Wade. 9. than four hundred conversions the first year, Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Fran- and the foundation was laid for large results cis M. Mills, David Thomas, Nelson Head, in the future. In March, 1831, at the Con- George Stevenson, Henry Hoffman, John ference at Washington, D. C., he was appoint- W. Tongue, Joshua M. Grandin, Robert ed as assistant on Prince George and St. Smith, John Landstreet, Charles G. Linthi- Mary’s Circuit, Md., then in the Baltimore cum, Presley B. Smith, Francis A. Mercer, District, Christopher Frye, presiding elder. Aaron Boon, William Hedges, Mabury G. At the Conference in Baltimore in 1832 he Balthis, Wesley Hammond, Robert Ross, was admitted into full connection ordained ; Hamilton W. Kinzer. 18. deacon by Bishop McKendree, and appoint- Ques. 19. What preachers have died dur- ed to Warm Springs Circuit, Rockingham ing the past year? Alfred A. Eskridge, District, Va., C. B. Tippet presiding elder. Francis H. Richey, John W. Ewan, Samuel In the following year he was placed in S. Troy, Paris M. Henderson (probationer), charge of Christiansburg, Va., in the same Maurice C. Mehrling (probationer). 6. district. In 1834, at the Conference at Alex- andria, he was ordained elder by Bishop Alfred Augustus Eskridge was born in Andrew, and appointed to Woodstock, Va. Centerville, Fairfax County, Va., March 1, In 1835 he was sent to his first station, Ebe- 1798; and died in Staunton, Va., January nezer, Washington, D. C., the first Method- 16, 1891. Reared in the place of his nativ- ist Church built in that city, and afterward ity, he entered when quite a young man the known as Navy Yard Station. At that time clerk’s office of Loudon County, Va., at there were but two Methodist Churches at Leesburg, and shortly after was elected to the National Capitol: one for the whites the clerkship. While an employee in the under Brother Eskridge, the other for the clerk’s office, his conversion occurred under colored people in charge of Solomon Mc- peculiar circumstances. Nothing had pre- Mullen. In 1836 he was appointed to Rocky viously taken place to produce any special Spring Circuit, Augusta County, Va.; 1837, religious 1840- impression. Retiring one night Ilncastle Circuit; 1838-39, Lexington ; earlier than usual, he awoke at midnight 41, Rockingham Circuit; 1842-43, Severn under deep conviction, caused by a dream. Circuit; 1844, Lancaster Circuit; 1845-46, He spent the remainder of the night in Winchester Circuit 1847^18, Moorfield, Va. ; prayer. At early dawn relief came. The 1849, South Branch Circuit. In 1850 he Day-spring from on high visited him, filling was placed on the supernumerary list at his his heart with unearthly peace and joy. own request, and continued in that relation He had been reared in the Protestant Epis- the succeeding year, assisting the preacher copal Church, and most of his kindred were in charge of the Staunton Station. In 1852 of that communion. He rarely attended he again became effective, and was appoint- the Methodist Church, and then only ed to Augusta Circuit, Rockingham District, through curiosity. Immediately, however, and was re-appointed the following vear. upon his conversion he reported the fact to In 1854 he was assigned to Bladensturg,

Rev. Charles B. Tippet, pastor of the Meth- Md. ; 1855-56, to Patapsco Circuit; 1857, to odist Church at Leesburg, and expressed a Williamsburg. In 1858, by a division of the desire to connect himself with his charge. Baltimore Conference, he fell into the East His newborn soul panted for spiritual fel- Baltimore Conference, and was re-appointed lowship and for those means of grace pecul- to Williamsburg; in 1859, Manor Hill; in iar to Methodism, and that especiallv tend 1860, to Kishacoquillas; 1861, to Middletown. to foster the hidden life of faith. He was Here the Civil War intervened. Brother licensed to exhort November 20, 1829, by Eskridge’s sympathies being with his native the Quarterly Conference at Leesburg, the section, and finding himself proscribed for 12 178 Baltimore Conference, 1891. his Southern proclivities, he was compelled tles. I remember how his countenance- to retire from the active work and take a would beam as he recited the closing part superannuated relation. In this relation he of the eighth chapter of Romans, also the continued till the war closed, spending; the first nine verses of the fifth chapter of Sec- interim on his wife’s farm, on West River, ond Corinthians.” In the latter years of his Md. In 1866, the Baltimore Conference not life he w7 as an occupant of her own home, having yet organized in connection with the and she speaks of the graceful manner in. M. E. Church, South, he served under the which he grew old, and what a privilege it presiding elder on West River Circuit. The was to watch the beautiful ripening of a following year Conference met in Baltimore, true Christian character in advanced age. and he connected himself with it, and was He onlv grew gentler, brighter, and more appointed to Calvert Circuit, Baltimore Dis- cheerful as life declined. His companion- trict. He was re-assigned to the same ship to the last wT as attractive to the young charge in 1868 1869-70, East Harford 1871, as well as to those of maturer years. He ; ; Baltimore Circuit; 1872, Church ville; 1873- took a lively interest in every thing around 74, Rockingham Circuit. In 1875, at the him, and whenever his strength and the Conference at Washington, D. C., he was state of the weather -would permit, was reg- placed on the superannuated list, being then ular in liis attendance at the house of God, seventy-eight years of age, and so continued ever ready to aid the pastor as he might be till the day of his death. Brother Eskridge able in the services of the sanctuary and the was a man of deep-seated, earnest piety. administration of its ordinances. Death Religion to him was a great inward life and came to him by very gentle and gradual ap- power, permeating all the elements of his proaches and as a thrice welcome visitor. spiritual being. Sinners were awakened He was sick but a few days. Says his and converted, believers quickened and edi- daughter whom we have already quoted: fied, and “ much people added to the Lord.” “ I wish it had been your privilege to wit- His Christian character and life were of that ness the great peace and brightness of his pure and lofty type that challenged the con- last days. It was like a glorious sunset.” A fidence and admiration of all who knew few days before his death he related an ac- him, and gave tenfold power to the words count of a vision he had had more than a he uttered from the pulpit. He was a man year before. Like Paul, he scarcely knew of Christ-like meekness and gentleness; of “ whether he was in the body or out of the retiring modesty; unobtrusive in manner body.” Such a foretaste had he of the and speech much more ready to sound oth- heavenly world that he felt as though he ; ers’ praises than his own. And yet he was had already been there, had beheld its a man of lion-hearted courage and fearless- glory and shared in its unutterable joys.

ness : “ shunning not to declare all the coun- From that time he had felt surer than ever sel of God;” faithfully rebuking sin, and of his future inheritance. Toward the last shrinking from no sacrifice or peril in dis- his physical suffering were severe, but when charging the duties of his sacred calling. allusion was made to his spiritual condition He was marked by the punctuality with he seemed for the time to lose sight of his which he met all his public engagements. bodily pains; he would straighten up in his Nothing short of serious illness, or some chair, his eyes brightening, and his face il- equal necessity, would keep him from his ap- lumined with a heavenly light, as he bore pointments. The people knew the preacher testimony to the sustaining power of divine would never be missing if they could by any grace, and the preciousness of a Saviour’s means get to the house of God. His private love. The night before his death he said to and domestic life were in keeping with his his attending physician: “I am not afraid more public demeanor. One of his daugh- to die. All I want is something to relieve ters, in a letter to the w'riter of this sketch, this cough, that I may die easily.” His de- speaks of his uniform and beautiful Christian sire in this respect was granted. As his end example before his owT n household, and the drew near he gave minute directions con- regularity with w hich he maintained family cerning his funeral and some matters to be “ his Shortly before worship. From the time of his first mar- attended to after ( death. riage,” says she, “ the family altar was never he died his pastor, J. T. Williams,* said to neglected, morning nor evening, no matter him: “I suppose it is all right with you?” what the circumstances. Other things might “All right!” he exclaimed, adding, “pos- be omitted and hurried, but family worship sibly you do not know what my experience never. Then,” she adds, “ he always had is.” He proceeded inr a few words to tell his regular seasons each day for private him how richly God had blessed him in the prayer, when he shut himself up in his own past, and how graciously near he was to him chamber to talk alone with God. The wr ord in that final hour. Just as he had finished of God was his daily companion and coun- a sentence to his daughter and while the selor. He had made it such a constant doctor was writing a prescription for him, study that he had memorized all the more he fell sweetly asleep in Jesus, without a important parts of it, the Psalms and the struggle or a groan, closing his eyes on earth New Testament especially. He was particu- to open them upon the glories of the heav- larly fond of repeating portions of the Epis- enly world. The funeral services were held 17i> Baltimore Conference, 1891. in the Southern Methodist Church at Staun- thought, and conclusiveness when the end ton, on the Sunday morning after his death, of argument wT as reached. His studious life in the presence of a crowded assembly. fitted him to be a teacher of the people. He Persons of all classes and all denominations would not have claimed scholarship in the gathered to do honor to the memory of one broad sense of that word, but according to so universally esteemed and revered in the the standard by which most of his brethren community in which he had spent the clos- are measured the distinction would have ing years of his earthly life. By his special been justly his.” His death closes a min- request, Dr. James S. Gardner, who had istry of nearly forty-eight years. Every known him for thirty-eight years, and to year, whether in effective or superannuated whose father’s household he had sustained relation, his was a true and holy ministry. a very intimate relation, delivered the fu- Of him, as a preacher, many pages might be nerafdiscourse. The text, from Second Tim- written. A success much beyond what his othy iv. 5-8, was of his own selection and modest life-sketch indicates attended his eminently appropriate to his case. Rev. J. labors. To be useful and have “ fruit that T. Williams added a few remarks concern- should remain ” were the fixed purposes of ing his last interview with him, and Rev. J. his life. With the rank and file of his Con- W. Wolfe, a friend of many years, closed ference brethren, and dreamless of promo- the services at the Church with prayer. tions or honors at their hands, he marched The burial service at the grave was conduct- bravely on; joined them in the battle-cry, ed by Rev. J. H. Waugh, D.D., whom Broth- fighting side by side with as bold strokes as er Eskridge especially designated to assist they. The cross was never struck in Rich- in the obsequies. Our venerable brother ey’s sight undefended, nor Methodism as- was borne to his burial by his sons and saulted in his presence unchallenged. As sons-in-law, accompanied by several honor- the strength of an edifice is not to be sought ary pall-bearers. Brother Eskridge was in the polish .of its marble or the beauty of

twice married : first, to Miss M. V. Buch- its sculpture, so the power of his sermons anan, daughter of Mr. John Buchanan, of need not be sought in rhetorical finish. Rockbridge County, Ya. and as his second They were severely simple, but strong in ; wife to Mrs. Ann Eliza Wings, a sister of thought and doctrine, and in the power of the late Richard Brown, a prominent min- the Holy Ghost.” It is evident that in his ister of the Baltimore Conference of the M. pulpit preparations and work, his effort was E. Church. All his children were by his to see and understand all the fullness of the first marriage—namely, Mrs. J. W. Newton, selected text, and better still, if possible, to Dr. C. W. Eskridge, of Pocahontas County, experience its power, and then with forcible Ya., A. A. and B. B. Eskridge, and Mrs. M. plainness and spiritual fervor to deliver it Y. Kern, wife of Dr. John A. Kern, of Ran- in the name of Christ and for the salvation dolph-Macon College. of men. God honored his servant’s work, and saved many who believed through him. Francis H. Richey departed this life on Another Conference associate, James E. the morning of February 21, 1891, at his Armstrong, furnishes the following to the home in Woodstock, Ya. He had been in committee: “ Visiting the home of Brother feeble health for several years preceding his Richey, 1 was struck with his naturalness, death. Paralysis in August, 1890, hastened his good common sense, his excellent judg- his end. A second attack on Friday night, ment as to Church law, his wisdom and February was fatal. He died peacefully prudence in administration also his fidelity 20, ; at 5 o’clock next morning, thus ending a life to his work, his honesty of purpose and full- of seventy-three years and six months. ness of knowledge of Methodist doctrine Physically Francis H. Richey was a man and polity. Socially he was as simple as a of remarkable presence. Tall, finely pro- child in manners and equally as loving his ; portioned, dignified in movement, he could greeting was always cordial, and his heart be in no company unadifiired. His shapely was in his talks.” For this memoir we avail head, with its lofty brow regular, yet strong ourselves of an abstract from one written by ; that sincerity love, Ball, pastor features ; eyes spoke and Brother B. F. at Woodstock at “ yet could burn with withering fires the false the time of Brother Richey’s death : This and unclean; a mouth that expressed the place was the scene of one of the greatest finest sensibility and gentleness, yet capable revivals of his ministry. He was greatly be- of compressing into every shade of firmness loved by the Church and the people gener- or scorn, combined to make him in appear- ally. After his superannuation he preached ance much above the average of men. In- when able; took some other part in con- tellectually his mind was strongly logical ducting the services when no longer able to and analytical. A Conference associate of preach; attended Church when unable to many years—Dr. Samuel Rodgers—writes of participate publicly, and deplored his sick- him: “Brother Richey, though well known ness most of all because he could not be to only a minority of his brethren, was, present even to wr orship. In my last inter- nevertheless, a man of superior endowments. view with him he quoted Second Corinthi- He was remarkable for his clearness of ans v. 1 in this personal manner: ‘For T view, exactness of statement, expansion of know that, if my earthly house of this tab- 180 Baltimore Conference, 1891. ernacle were dissolved, I have a building of for the pulpit. He possessed a dignified God, a house not made with hands, eternal presence and winning manner, and his voice in the heavens.’ ” The lowliness of spirit that was peculiarly musical. He was a general could find expression, so deeply tender and reader, and kept abreast of the times, and pleading, as in the last lines of his autobiog- was able to “ bring forth out of his treasure raphy, on looking over a field of such long things new and old.” He was a man of and wide success is most truly sublime. strong convictions; and, if occasion required, More need not be said. “ He hath passed would “contend for the faith once delivered into the heavens,” and the memory of the to the saints,” but always in a Christian noblest virtues of Christian manhood, the spirit. In the pastorate, no less than in the finest traits of Methodist loyalty, and an un- pulpit, he was successful. He was “all faltering fidelity in the ministry of Christ, things to all men,” without impairing the is the legacy to his Conference brethren and dignity of his high profession, for his object the Church. was that he “might by all means save some.” Inheriting a delicate constitution, John W. Ewan was born at Newtown, his life was a continual battle with disease; Frederick County, Va., November 10, 1831; but as a heroic soldier he did not leave the and died in Washington City December 29, ranks until his strength had completely 1890, aged fifty-nine years. His parents failed. In March, 1877, the Conference were Methodists of the Wesleyan type, and granted him an honorable discharge from their children were brought up in the nurt- active work, and he reluctantly passed to the ure and admonition of the Lord. It is not rear, to view the battle in retirement and strange that their eldest son, living in so pure aid as best he could his brethren at the and spiritual an atmosphere, should give evi- front. So, for thirteen years, Brother Ewan dence, even in childhood, of those gifts and bore, uncomplainingly, the strokes of Provi- graces which afterward shaped his character. dence, and was thus made meet to be a par- He attended a select classical school at Har- taker of the inheritance of the saints in risonburg, Va., and made satisfactory prog- light. He entered into his reward at mid- ress in his studies. Owing to a combination night December 29, 1890. He fell by a of unfavorable circumstances he did not stroke of paralysis, and died in a few hours, enter college, but took the advice of friends, conscious almost to the last, but speechless. and went into the '‘school of the prophets,” His funeral discourse was preached in his in the Methodist ministry. While at school beautiful residence at Washington, D. C., by he was happily converted, at Bridgewater, Rev. J. T. Wightman, D.D., and his body Va., under the ministry of the lamented Dr. sleeps at Front Royal, Va. Samuel Regester, and he was licensed to exhort on April 14, 1851. He was authorized Samuel S. Troy, son of Henry and Susan to use his gifts as local preacher January 10, Troy, was born in Talbot County, Md., Oc- license bearing the signature of the and died at Franklin, Pendle- 1852, his tober 25, 1861 ; late A. A. Reese, presiding elder. In March, ton County, W. Va., July 12, 1890. His par- 1853, he entered the Baltimore Confer- ents were both Methodists. His father ence on trial, and was appointed to Front died when Samuel was but four years of Royal Circuit. Here commenced an affec- age. His mother survived him. Under the tion between the boy preacher and this peo- sacred influence of a praying mother he ple which continued to the day of his death, was “ brought up in the nurture and admo- and at his request his body sleeps in the nition of the Lord.” Quite early in life he beautiful cemetery overlooking the quaint received religious impressions, and at the old town. At Baltimore, March 11, 1855, tender age of thirteen years he gave his he was ordained deacon by Bishop Scott; heart to God. He was converted at Easton, and elder bv Bishop Waugh, March 8, 1857, Md., under the ministry of F. T. Tagg, of in the same city. He was married to Miss the M. P. Church. He was true to God and Reubena E. Hill, daughter of Reuben D. Hill, to his vows, and never fell a victim to any of Esq., of Staunton, Va., on February 29, 1856, the forms of vice so common to young men. who, with two daughters, survives him and In early life there came to him the convic- mourns their irreparable loss. His appoint- tion of a call to the ministry. At the age of aoents were: In 1853, Front Royal; 1854, nineteen he was licensed as a local preach- East Rockingham; 1855, Augusta; 1856, Clin- er, and was received on trial into the Balti - tonville; 1857-58, Jacksonville; 1859, Lex- more Annual Conference of the M. E„ Covington; 1862- at Fredericksburg, Va., in ington; 1860, Luray ; 1861, Church, South, 4 War- jun- 186o-67, Monroe ; 1868, 1882. He was sent that year as 'A, Frank ford ; March, densville; 1869, Frederick; 1870-71, Jeffer- ior preacher to the West River Circuit, with son; 1872, Front Roval; 1873-74, Ohristians- L. R. Jones preacher in charge. In 1883, burg; 1875-76, Bladenburg. It will be seen with V. W. Wheeler preacher in charge, he that his work embraced a territory which • was sent to Prince George Circuit; in 1884, extended from the Alleghanies to tide-water, to White Sulphur Springs. In May of that and wherever he labored his memory is as year he was united in marriage to Miss An- ointment poured forth. His preaching was nie E. Wooters, of Talbot County, Md. In careful preparation Springs Charge; Tal- instructive. He made i 1885-86, Warm 1887, Baltimore Conference, 1891. cott; 1888, Morgan Mission. In 1889-90 he East Baltimore District. was sent to Franklin; and here, having White Colored served God and the people faithfully, he Mem's. Mem's, “fell on sleep.” Physically Brother Troy Trinity weak mentally spiritually he was Calvary was ; and strong. He was frail from childhood, and North Baltimc Taylor’s was always a great sufferer. And yet from West Harford, childhood he was studious. He loved his East Harford hooks—his Bible best of all. He was one of those who as a man must be known, and Hillsboro, as a preacher must be heard in order to be Trappe appreciated. He did not hastily reach con- Kent Queen Anne’s.... clusions, but opinions once fixed were hard Church Hill to eradicate. He had the courage of his Severn convictions. The mere fact that a thing was West River Calvert popular weighed but little with him. The Prince George’s, first question that presented itself to him Charles St. was, “ Is it right? ” and he must be assured Mary’s of an affirmative answer to this before he would espouse the cause. He held firmly to Washington District. his opinions, and stated them boldly, regard- less of the consequences to himself. He may have made mistakes; and who of us have not? His sermons evinced study, Falls Church, thought, and careful preparation. His ministry was blessed of God, and he wr on souls for the Master. In the very midst of his usefulness and his years, he was cut down. Hillsboro Middleburg He was not aware of the near approach of London r death until the hour had come. Hence w e Piedmont ... have from his lips no full expression of faith Warren ton. Fauquier. and hope in his closing hour. He was laid Occoquan to rest in the cemetery at Franklin, Pendle- Sudley Manassas ton County, W. Va., Sunday, July, 1890. We Morrisville ask the sympathy of all the people of God Stafford for his aged mother, young widow, and little Fredericksburg boy.

Winchester District. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless Winchester in their life and official administration? W inchester Circuit Their names were1 called over, one by one, Front Royal and Riverston and their characters examined and passed, Linden Warren except that S. Holland, with- of William who Page drew. Cedarville Ques. 21. What is the number of local Berryville preachers and members in the several Brucetown cir- Martinsburg cuits, stations, and missions of the Confer- Berkeley ence? Charlestown. Frederick Baltimore District. Jefferson

I White Colored Sheperdstown Mem's. Mem’i. Strasburg Woodstock Central.... Edenburg St. Paul’s. Mount Jackson Emmanuel. Frederick Avenue. Reisterstown 2 Rockingham District. Arlington Freedom 1 Staunton Linganore, Harrisonburg Frederick City Bridgewater Rockville 1 Parnassus and Mount Sidney Gaithersburg and Boyd’s 1 Monterey and Highland Montgomery 2 McDowell Beltsville Augusta Bladensburg. 1 Staunton Circuit Emory Bell’s Valley... Wesley Grove. W aynesboro ... Laurel Port Republic. Patuxent New Hope Uppw Marlboro Rockingnam... East Rockingham 15 Milnes. ;

182 Baltimore Conference, 1891.

Rockingham District ( Continued). Ques. 22. How many infants have been White Colored Loc’l baptized during the year? 1,571. Mem's. Mem s. Pr’a. Ques. 23. How many adults have been the 243 3 baptized during year? 1,088. 149 2 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- Luray 212 1 schools? 537. New Market 163 2 Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- 5,240 4 14 school teachers ? 5,343. 26. is Roanoke District. Ques. What the number of Sunday- school scholars? 36,629. Salem 870 Roanoke 855 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for Roanoke Circuit.. 460 the superannuated preachers, and the wid- La Fayette 274 ows and orphans of preachers? $8,949. Christiansburg ... 184 Blacksburg 194 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Newport 334 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- New Castle 141 plied $8,949. Applied to claimants. Catawba 324 ? Fincastle 128 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Amsterdam 278 Missions? Foreign Missions, $10,596; Do- Botetourt 169 mestic Missions, Total, $15,828. Clifton Forge 253 $5,232. James River 257 Ques. 30. What has been contributed for Lexington 195 Church Extension ? $2,500.77. Buena Yista 235 31. is what Fairfield 252 Ques. What the number, and Collierstown 147 is the estimated value, of church-edifices? Number, value, 448 ; $905,775. 5,050< l) 14 Ques. 32. What is the number, and what Leimburg District.5. is the estimated value, of parsonages ? Num- Lewisburg 199 ber, 121; value, $207,425. Frankford. 425 1 1 Ques. 33. What are the educational statis- Blue Sulphur 260 tics? Randolph-Macon College: Teachers, Centerville 325 1 1 Hinton 136 17; students, 154; endowment, $117,000; Talcott 301 value of property, $100,000. Randolph-Ma- Union 376 1 con Teachers, students, Alderson 186 Academy: 11; 138 Ronceverte and White Sulphur... 178 1 value of property, $100,000. Wesleyan Fe- Alvon 160 2 male Institute: Teachers, 20; students, 135; Covington 236 value of property, $60,000. Valley Female Levelton 336 1 Huntersville - 102 1 College, W inchester, Va. Allegheny Collegi- Healing Spring 117 1 ate Institute, Alderson, W. Va. Greenbank 336 1 Ques. 34. Where shall the next session of Bath Mission 235 1 the Conference be held? Harrisonburg, Va. 3,908 2 11 | Ques. 35. Where are the preachers sta- Moorefield District. tioned this year?

Moorefield 337 1 Petersburg 170 1 BALTIMORE DISTRICT. Franklin 280 Crab Bottom... 285 S. Rodgers, P. E. Keyser 257 1 : S. N. North Branch- 95 Baltimore Central, W. Haddaway ; J. Piedmont 145 Hank, Sup. Frostburg 133 1 St. Paul’s, J. W. Shoaff. Flintstone...... 235 2 South Branch., 327 Wilkins Avenue, J. H. Light Springfield 604 3 Emmanuel, J. H. Boyd. Hardy..... 327 2 to be supplied (by J. Gainesboro Frederick Avenue, Morgan 262 E. Wilson). Warden sville.. 246 2 Arlington, H. H. Kennedy. 273 Capon Bridge. Reisterstown, G. D. White. Listonburg 186 1 Freedom, H. M. Strickler and W. L. Smith. 1 1 4,547 13 Linganore, W. H. Woolf and J. C. Hawk. Recapitulation. Frederick City, C. L. Kennard. Rockville, L. L. Loyd and J. W. Beall. Baltimore District- . 4,826 15 “ Boyd’s, E. H. East Baltimore . 3,780 13 Gaithersburg and Henry. “ 12 Washington . 6^05 16 Montgomery, W. E. Wolf, one to be supplied “ Winchester . 5,881 9 “ (by U. S. Hammond). Rockingham .. 5,24C i 14 “ Edington. Roanoke .. 5,051 ; 14 Bettsville, C. C. “ 2 Lewisburg . 3,908 11 Bladensburg, J. A. Anderson. “ Moorefield. . 4,547 ] 13 Emory, W. M. Waters. Grove. W. P. C. Coe. Total this year.. . 40,04? 2S 105 Wesley Total last year- .. 40.02S 31 110 Laurel, L. W. Haslup. Patuxent, Thomas Cooper. increase.., 13 Deere ase- »l Upper Marlboro, N. N. Hall. 183 Baltimore Conference, 1891.

Missionary to Japan, W. M. Waters. Woodstock, B. F. Ball. Stout). Episcopal Methodist, W. K. Boyle, Editor ; A. Edenburg, to be supplied (by H. Lei Davisson, Assistant Editor. Front Royal and Riverston, C. M. Brown. Warren, J. H. Wolff. EAST BALTIMORE DISTRICT. Linden, W. H. Marsh. Page, L. Fox. W. H. D. Harper, P. E. Cedarville, S. R. Snapp ; A. P. Boude, Sup.

: Berryville, J. L. Baltimore Trinity, F. R. Hill. Shipley ; J. J. Engle, Sup. Calvary, to be supplied (by E. H. Raw- Brucetown, L. R. Jones. lins). Darksville, to be supplied. North Baltimore, J. R. Andrew. Martinsburg, A. M. Cackley. Taylors, J. L. Kibler. Berkeley, J. H. Waugh. West Harford Mission, S. B. Dolly. Charlestown, H. P. Hamell. East Harford, W. A. McDonald. Jefferson, A. A. P. Neel. Kent, A. Weller. Shepherdstown, J. R. Van Horne and J. S. Queen Anne’s, J. C. Thrasher and J. H. Engle. Wells. Valley Female College, J. P. Hyde, Presi- Church Hill Mission, C. E. Simmons. dent. Hillsboro, C. S. Stanton. Randolph-Macon College, J. A. Kern, Pro- Easton, C. D. Harris. fessor. Trappe, W. L. Dolly. Royal Oak, J. W. Mitchell. ROCKINGHAM DISTRICT. Severn, F. T. Griffith. J. S. Gardner, P. E. West River, G. H. Zimmerman and J. H. Willhite. Staunton, J. T. Williams. Calvert, L. G. Martin. Harrisonburg, S. K. Cox. Prince George’s, W. H. Sanders. Bridgewater, A. 0. Armstrong and W. H. H. Charles Mission, C. A. Joyce. Joyce. St. Mary’s, A. B. Sites. Parnassus and Mount Sidney, R. M. Wheeler. Augusta, J. W. Wolfe. WASHINGTON DISTRICT. Staunton Circuit and Mission, J. H. Temple. Bell’s Valley Mission, W. 0. Ross. R. R. S. Hough, P. E. Waynesboro, S. V. Hildebrand. Washington: Mount Vernon, J. T. Wight- Bassic City, J. C. Jones. man and J. K. White. Port Republic, W. W. Watts. Grace, H. C. Febrey. New Hope, T. Briley. Alexandria, T. E. Carson. Rockingham, A. C. McNeer. Falls Church, J. E. Armstrong. East Rockingham, J. C. Dice and 0. W. Fairfax, J. H. Davidson. Lusby. Dranesville, C. B. Sutton, one to be supplied Milnes Mission, J. M. Follansbee. (by C. J. Sarver). Furnace, H. D. Bishop. Leesburg, R. W. Bond. Marksville, H. M. Roane. Hamilton, W. G. Eggleston. Luray, T. W. Brown. Hillsboro, J. H. Dulany. New Market Mission, J. S. Porter.

Middleburg, W. G. Hammond. . Mount Jackson, J. K. Gilbert. Loudoun, D. Bush and R. L. Fultz. Fairfield, P. S. E. Sixeas. Piedmont, T. G. Nevitt and J. L. Grant; L. • Wesleyan Female Institute, W. A. Harris, D. Crenshaw, Sup. President. Warrenton, J. W. Grubb. Fauquier Mission, W. E. Miller.. ROANOKE DISTRICT. Morrisville, J. Tackett. O. P. H. Whisner, P. E. Sudley, F. H. Shipley. Manassas, J. H. Kuhlmann. Salem, J. S. Hutchison.

Gccoquan, C. K. Millican. Roanoke : Greene Memorial, C. Denny, one Stafford, to be supplied. to be supplied (by T. M. Jones). Fredericksburg, I. W. Canter. Trinity, G. W. Duffey. Missionary to Japan, J. C. C. Newton. Roanoke Circuit, L. H. Graybill. Randolph-Macon College, W. J. Young, Pro- Vinton, C. H. Buchanan. fessor. La Fayette Mission, J. W. Canter. Christiansburg, W. K. Marshall. WINCHESTER DISTRICT. Blacksburg, R. H. Wilson. Newport, A. Q. Flaherty. R. Smithson, P. E. New Castle Mission, G. T. D. Collin*. Winchester Station, J. N. McCormick. Catawba, W. W. Hedrick. Frederick Circuit, F. Furr. Fincastle, W. B. Dorsey. Stephen’s City, F. A. Strother. Amsterdam, J. L. Henderson. Middletown, 0. C. Beall. Clifton Forge, V. W. Wheeler and C. A. Btrasburg, J. S. Hopkins. Scanland. 184 Baltimore Conference, 1891.

Botetourt, H. L. Meyerley. Gillett’s and Hot Springs, to be supplied (by- James River, S. M. Bowman. J. W. McNeil). Lexington, F. J. Prettyman. Wesley Chapel and Glasgow, 0. F. Burgess MOOREFIELD DISTRICT.

and F. L. Day. * T. G. Tyler, P. K Buena Vista, J. D. Martin. Collierstown, T. J. Miller; E. S. Kregelo, Sup. Moorefield, J. P. Stump. Petersburg, W. F. Locke. LEWISBURG DISTRICT. Franklin, S. Townsend. Crab Bottom, C. W. Mark. S. G. Ferguson , P. E. Keyser, H. S. Coe. Lewisburg, J. 0. Knott. Elk Garden, F. C. Rollman. Frankford, L. Butt. Piedmont, C. H. Wood. Blue Sulphur, M. Long, one to M. be sup- Frostburg, H. A. Brown. plied (by R. McNeer). W. Flintstone, Linwood Hammond. Centerville Peterstown, H. A. Gaver and Romney, D. L. Reid. and C. M. Sarver. Springfield, S. D. Bennington and C. W. Hinton, C. L. Damaron. Stump. Talcott Mission, J. J. Crickenberger. Hardy, W. A. Sites. Union, T. J. Lambert and T. Gover. W. Gainsboro Mission, L. R. Markwood. Alderson, J. F. Baggs. Morgan Mission, A. C. Hamill. Ronceverte and White Sulphur, C. M. Wardensville, Q. A. Wheat. Bragg. Capon Bridge, G. 0. Homan. Alvon Mission, J. T. Maxwell. Listonburg, S. A. Parker. Covington, D. F. Eutsler. Monterey and Highland, R. S. Cunningham. Levelton, C. Sydenstricker. McDowell, J. M. Hawley. Huntersville, 1. G. Michael. Healing Springs, to be supplied. L. M. Lyle transferred to the North Geor- Greenbank, W. H. Ballangee, one to be sup- gia Conference, and stationed at Athens Cbs plied (by J. Taylor). cuit. Millboro and Shiloh, J. M. Evey. W. N. Wagner transferred to the Holston Allegheny Institute, M. Evans, President. Conference, and stationed at Radford.

i TABLE NO. 1. —M INISTERIAL RELATIONS.

Tbavsun« Preach

Alabama 6 Arkansas 9 Baltimore Brazil Mission

Central Mexico Mis .....

China Mission .....

Columbia .... Denver East Columbia East Texas Florida German Mission Hol6ton Illinois Indian Mission Japan Mission Kentucky Little Rock 8

Los Angeles • Louisiana Louisville

Memphis ..

Mexican Border Mis ... Mississippi Missouri Montana New Mexico Mission.... North Alabama North Carolina North Georgia

North Mississippi .. North Texas

Northwest Mex. Mis ... Northwest Texas - Pacific South Carolina South Georgia Southwest Missouri St. Louis Tennessee

Texas :. Virginia West Texas Western

Western N. Carolina ... Western Virginia

White River I 4

Bishops ' .

TABLE NO. 2—MEMBERS AND BAPTISMS.

and

Members. % Members. CONFERBNGB. Preachers % a Members. 2 m1 Colored t. Indian Total 0 ! l a O

1,638 Alabama ™ ~ 162 207 41,801 14 . 42,184 1,643 Arkansas 102 238 23,217 4 23,561 117 6601 1,576 Baltimore 207 105 40,045 22 40,379 3 ,571 1,088 Brazil Mission 20 10 528 558 71 58 78 Central Mexico Mission.™ 36 40 2,599 2,675 662 283 442 China Mission 29 11 388 428 31 151 45 Columbia™ 21 14 1,305 1,340 183 31 146 Denver 20 11 1,348 1,379 30 67 72 East Columbia 21 27 1,254 1,302 230 48 214 East Texas 76 126 22,990 23,192 1,545 838 1,474 Florida 142 159 20,497 15 20,813 480 960 914 German Mission 20 15 1,016 1,051 5 129 1 • Holston 200 266 44,064 36 44,566 633 1,024 2,013 790 Illinois 57 73 7,842 7,972 714 251 Indian Mission 84 141 8,114 3,308 11,647 1,978 6621 1,265 Japan Mission 30 69 381 480 Kentucky 126 122 27,005 27.253 622 280] 958 Little Rock 118 176 28,644 5 28,943 1,202 81l! 1,879 Los Angeles 35 30 2,012 2 2,079 75 81 113 Louisiana 112 82 20,476 22 20,697 123 1,045 823 Louisville 161 215 40,662 20 41,058 1,437 732 1,964 Memphis.™ 162 239 50,012 3 50,416 1,591 ••••••••• 1,105 2,782 Mexican Border Mission 28 27 1,498 1,553 165 140 Mississippi™ 153 185 37,989 38,327 359 1,378 1,194 Missouri 171 148 37,509 19 37,847 1,036 681 2,263 Montana 14 532 552 83 45 57 New Mexico Mission n! 6 405 1 429 47 29 North Alabama 179 378 55,420 5 55,982 1,719 1,308 2,981 North Carolina 161 143 55,622 27 55,953 2£86 1,024 2,793 North Georgia 254 415 86,059 86,728 2,481 1,846 3,922 North Mississippi 146 159 41,729 s 42,036 884 687 2,287 North Texas 176| 277 45,215 45,668 3,004 1,531 3,473 Northwest Mexican Mission 16 10 62C 646 107 122 Northwest Texas 227 420 50,785 51,438 7,18: 2,170 3,733 Pacific 77 45 6,06( 1. 6,197 53( 168 280 I South Carolina 212 164 69,26( 69,631 2,33* 2,281 1,778 South Georgia 174 220 55,441 3 55,84] 4,12 1 1,919) 3,192 Southwest Missouri™ 159 173 29,29] 29,631 14 7 3821 1,470 St. Louis 107 132 22,535 3 0 22,80S 2^5 5 966 1,827

Tennessee 213; 312] 59,97 ) 60,50- 27 1 1,187 2,972

Texas 94 99| 16,521 4 16,721 1,38 1 852 1,361

Virginia 234 158 75,64 5 63 76,1011 . 1,346 1,312 3,104

West Texas 100 118 13,348 1 13,56 7 1,227 674j 773

Western 24 34 3,38 S .. . 3,44 5 163 121 242

Western North Carolina 170] 169 59,01 3 35 59,38 7 2,73 1 1,716 1,840

Western Virginia 85 173 20,243 30 20,531 806 404 1,065

White River 89 57 20,903 1 21,050 930 541 1,777

Bishops 10 .... J 1 0

Total this year.. 5,231 6,404 1,251,223 396 3,308 1,266,562] 35,283 64,955

Total last year .. 5,050 6,366 1,203,106 534 3,506 1,218,561 34,979 56,276

i Increase 181 38 48,118 48,001 304 8,679

Decrease 138 198|

(186) TABLE NO. 3.—SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND CHURCH PROPERTY.

Alabama . Arkansas Baltimore Brazil Mission Central Mexico Mission China Mission Columbia Denver East Columbia East Texas Florida German Mission Holston Illinois Indian Mission Japan Mission 34 Kentucky Little Rock Los Angeles Louisiana Louisville Memphis Mexican Border Mission Mississippi Missouri Montana New Mexico Mission

North Alabama 581 North Carolina 583 North Georgia

North Mississippi 425 North Texas Northwest Mexican Northwest Texas Pacific South Carolina South Georgia Southwest Missouri St. Louis „ Tennessee Texas ! Virginia West Texas

Western I 4

Western North Carolina 61 Western Virginia | White River

Total this year 13,206

Total last year 12,733

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TABLE NO. 4.—BENEVOLENT CONTRIBUTIONS.

a a c> a Ml llj a Conference. V 5 M €> K J3 s 9u e a O s

$ 18^74 11 . ; TABLE No. 5.—EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS.

-Since the insertion of the Thirty-third Qnestion, in 1886, the Book Editor has endeavored to compile n -ble from the answers furnished by the Minutes. These answer’s have been so confused and fragmcn- rry as to render it impossible hitherto. We have used the material furnished us, with the hope that hose concerned may see the errors and defects of this table, and correct them.—Book Editor.

Conference Reporting. Name of Institution.

Alabama, North Alabama Southern University 50,000$ Alabama Alabama Conference Female College. Arkansas Quitman Male and Female College... j Arkansas, Little Rock Hendrix College , vrkansas, Little Rock Galloway Female College Vrkansas Four district high schools 1 ialtimore, Virginia Randolph-Macon Academy 'ialtimore Wesleyan Female Institute / Jaltimore Valley Female College <\ Baltimore Alleghany Collegiate Institute Irazil Mission Four schools Central Mexico Mission Twenty-six schools I Jhina Mission Anglo-Chinese College v hina Mission Boys’ boarding school I /hina Mission Two girls’ boarding schools- . ;hina Mission Forty-four day schools * Columbia... One school Denver Pueblo Institute iast Columbia Corvallis College iast Columbia Western High School I East Texas Alexander institute Florida Florida Conference College j Hoiston Seven schools Indian Mission Harrell International Institute Willie Halsell .R Indian Mission Institute Indian Mission Oklahoma District High School T Indian Mission Pierce Institute Eleven schools , Japan Mission Little Rock Arkadelphia Methodist College 1 Little Rock Little Rock Conf. Training School Little Rock Stuttgart Collegiate Institute Louisiana, Mississipp Centenary College v Louisiana Mansfield Female College , Louisville One institution 3 Memphis McTyeire Institute I Memphis Jackson District High School Memphis Brownsville and Dyersburg “ 1 Memphis W esleyan Female College A Memphis Marvin College i Memphis McFerrin College * Memphis Memphis Conf. Female Institute Mexican Border Mission English College Mexican Border Mission Villa de Fnentis School

‘ j Mexican Border Mission Border Institute TOO j « Mexican Border Mission |Laredo Seminary 40.000 Mississippi iMillsaps College (male) 60.000 Mississippi Port Gibson Female College 10,000 Mississippi East Mississippi Female College 25.000 Mississippi Edward McGee College for Girls 10.000 Mississippi Whitworth Female College 76.000 Missouri, St. Louis, Southwest Mo.... Central College 80.000 Missouri, St. Louis, Southwest Mo.... Central Female College 50.000 Missouri Howard Pavne Female College 40.000 Missouri Centenary High School ...... 3,000 Missouri Macon District High School 13.000 Missouri St. Charles College 15.000 New Mexico Mission Las Vegas Female Seminary 20.000 North Alabama Athens Female College 30.000 ' North Carolina.. .> Trinity College 90.000 North Carolina Wesleyan Female College , 25.000

, North Carolina Littleton Female College - 12.000 I North Georgia, South Georgia Emory College 125,000

, North Georgia La Grange Female College 75.000 North Georgia Dalton Female College - 4.000 North Georgia - Reinhardt Normal College 5.000 North Georgia Piedmont Institute 10.0QO North Georgia Georgia Female College 8.000 North Georgia Young L. G. Harris College 11.000 — North Mississippi Grenada Collegiate Institute 30.000 North Texas Southwestern University 113,000 North Texas ; Central College 18.000 North Texas North Texas Female College 15.000 Northwest Mexican.. MacDonell Institute 10.000 Northwest Mexican Palmore College 12,000 Northwest Mexican El Paso Seminary 500 Northwest Mexican Nogales Seminary 1,200 Pacific One college . . . . .

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s L. Conference Reporting. Name of Institution. Endowment. Teacliesr. *5 2 Pupils. > o< o

Two colleges, one Conference school $ 128,272 Wesleyan Female College IS 30C $ 50,000 250^000 Southwest, Missouri Scarritt Collegiate Institute 12 207 30^000 Morris ville College 10,000 St. Louis Bellevue Collegiate Institute 6 127 18,000 Tennessee Vanderbilt University CO 700 900,000 1,000,000 Webb School .*. 5 250 3,000 Tennessee Nashville College for Young Ladies. 2r> 413 125,000 Tennessee Tennessee Female College..7 8 • 112 3,000 35,000 Tennessee Clarksville Female Academy 6 153 16^000 6 103 6^800 Martin College 8 112 30,000 35,000 Tennessee W all and Mooney’s School 3 156 8^200 Virginia, Baltimore Randolph-Macon College 18 126 125,000 105,000 Virginia Danville College for Young Ladies.. 12 142 4l>,000 Bowling Green Female Seminary.... 10 50 Suffolk Tern ale College ” 9 120 25,000 Southern Female College Chesapeake Academy 79 5,000 Western North Carolina No names 27 424 50,000 21LOOO Rarbonrsville College 6 140 20,' 00

Total: 38 Conferences. 179 schools and colleges. 897 16,620 $1,538,000 $ 4,485,042 WOMAN’S MISSIONARY SOCIETY Of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Receipts from Annual Conference Societies 1 890-91 $ 2,956 21 Northwest Texas Conference 1,426 16 Arkansas Conference 308 36 Pacific Conference 600 05 Baltimore Conference 2,679 11 South Carolina Conference 4,164 19 Denver Conference 71 15 South Georgia Conference 5,500 82 East Texas Conference 1,180 30 Southwest Missouri Conference.. 2,812 35 Florida Conference 2,150 00 St. Louis Conference 1,656 90 Holston Conference 3,298 99 Tennessee Conference 3,940 46 Indian Mission Conference. 203 42 Texas Conference 1,098 28 Kentucky Conference 2,899 84 Virginia Conference 4,146 61 Little Rock Conference 698 57 Western Conference 173 85 Los Angeles Conference 222 28 Western Virginia Conference 983 81 Louisville Conference 2,415 19 Western N. Carolina Conference. 4,197 08 Louisiana Conference 1,087 38 West Texas Conference 580 93 Memphis Conference 3,137 69 White River Conference 573 43 Mississippi Conference 1,510 10 Miscellaneous 8,176 87 Missouri Conference 2,370 76 Memorial Fund 100 78

North Alabama Conference’. . 1,778 73 North Carolina Conference 3,289 52 Total this year. 83,865 72 North Georgia Conference 6,934 92 Total last year. 75,846 44 North Mississippi Conference. 3,419 84 1,120 70 Increase 8 8,019 28 Receipts Since Organization. ..$ 4,014 27

. . 13,775 97

. . 19,362 10

. . 25,609 44 .. 29,647 31 .. 38,873 52 .. 52,652 12 .. 51,588 76 .. 50,092 63 .. 69,729 65

. . 68,165 34

. . 75,476 54

. . *85,969 44

Total ..$584,957$584,957 09 •Memorial Fund included,

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1 - . . DEATH ROLL FOR THE CONFERENCE YEAR - 1891 92 .

Name. Conference. Memoir Page. Abbey, Richard .Mississippi 138

Alexander, B. F 1 .Louisiana 88

Armistead, Robert A , .Virginia . 120 Babcock, William Ray ...... St. Louis 62 Baker, Elias M .White River 154 Baxter, James Hamilton ...... North Georgia 79 Boyns, Richard .Pacific 28 Brown, George W .North Mississippi 67 H Clark, E. M .North Texas 53 Clement, J. W .Memphis 59 Compton, James Whitefield. .Virginia 121 Cook, David C .Alabama 150 Cox, J. Fred .Northwest Texas 104

Culbreth, Daniel. . . .' .North Carolina 73 Dalby, James H .Virginia 119 Deavors, Andrew Jackson .North Georgia 78 Duncan, Daniel .North Alabama. 130 Edwards, John Ellis .Virginia 121 Edwards, Josephus .Indian Mission. 158

Featherstun, Francis Marion . .Mississippi 138

Frazier, Ebenezer G . Southwest Missouri 32 Gann, James M .Mississippi 139 Gannon, William Calvin .Western North Carolina 114 Gilbert, Allen A .South Carolina 143 Graves, Harrison A .West Texas 45

Graves, R. E . Memphis 58 Griffith, W. L .West Texas 46 Hays, John D .Mississippi 137 Henderson, James Alexander .Kentucky 13 Hendrick, E. T .North Georgia 81 Hill, Henry D .Alabama 151 Jones, Basil G. .North Carolina 145

King, Henry F . .Holston 24 Kirby, R. M .East Texas 169 Lasley, Matthew N .Louisville 93

Lea, Benjamin Franklin , .North Alabama 131 *

Ledbetter, James R . .St. Louis 63

Lupo, James L . .North Georgia 78

McCann, J. W , .Alabama.. 149

McCoy, Wittiam Clark , .North Alabama 131

McDonald, Rush . . Southwest Missouri . . . 32

McGee, William . .Virginia 123

Moody, Jesse T . .North Mississippi 68

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192 Death Roll for the Conference Year 1891-92.

Xawe. Conference. Memoir Page. Moores, William .Los Angeles 17 Murray, John Wesley .South Carolina 144 Oliver, Robert G .South Carolina 143 Oslin, William W North Georgia 78 Owen, Charles Harris .North Mississippi 67 Pipes, John .Louisiana 87 Porter, Weyman H .North Georgia 81 Powell, J. C .Indian Mission. 158 Quillian, J. B. C .North Georgia 80 Ramsey, Thomas Yancy... .North Mississippi...... 66 Renfro, David F .St. Louis 62 Richardson, Z. W .Little Rock 110 Robertson, Elias .Mexican Border Mission. 172 Rowe, John Gallatin .Virginia 124 Rowland, W. T .Tennessee 39

Saunders, John Martin. . . .Virginia 125 Simmons, William Asbury .North Georgia 77 Smith, Eli .North Georgia 81 Stone, Hugh M .Tennessee 40 Taylor, Iry .Pacific 28 Thornberry, Walter T .West Texas 45

Tucker, Charles Wesley. . .Missouri 49 Vaughan, William .Northwest Texas 103 Wamsley, T. E .Illinois 97 Washburn, James F .Western North Carolina 114 Watson, Benjamin .Little Rock 109 White, Miller H .North Georgia. 80 Whittenburg, J. B .North Texas 54

WiUiacae, JojUft ...... Memphis 58

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Alabama 149-154 Hurt W P Shores J W Hatfield W H Brown G W Isaacs W G Skipper J L Hayes J L Conger H M Abernethy T Y James J H Smiley R Head J W loc Corbett W N Adair R S Jeffcoat D B H foe Sollie J M Hickman I B trf Dutton J W Adams T L Johnson J C Solomon J W sup’d Hill F A dis Gates J F Albright T D Johnston H T Spain J B K Hill G W Harner W B Andrew J O sup'd Jones G W Standley D C sup'd Hivelv I B trf Harrison J W Andrews A L Jones N F dis Street W S Hooker J C Holland J J Andrews A S Jones T H Stripling J A Hopkins P B Johnson C C Andrews M S Keener J O Tate J B Humphreys J P McDonald J B Arnold W F Kersh J D Taylor W D Johnsev W B Mitchell W A Atkinson C P Killough J W Turner E M Johnston F H S O’Brien J H Baird H Lamar A J Urauhart H Key S S Seawell L L Bancroft J Lamar C R Wade W S Lindsey Z W Whaley W P Bancroft Wardlaw F sup'd Loving J sup'd W Latham L P H Baltimore 176-184 Barker J siip'd Lawrence J O Wild W H Marston A Barnes D W Lewis R H Williams G K Martin J E Anderson A J Bates C Lindsley D L Williams J S Martin T A trf Andrew J R Betts I F Loveless E L Williams R C Massey E L Armstrong A O Beverly N W Mangum T F WilliamsonC R sup Massey J L Armstrong J E Bilbro I F Martin C M sup Winslett G N Mathes A sup’d Baggs J F sup’d Blair I F Mason J M W right D J Matthews B C Bail B F Blue O R Matliison G W Maxwell J R Ballangee W H Boyd S G Mathison J L Supplies: McAnally J M Balthis M G sup'd Beall J Bnggs A J McCann J E tr t Bellah S Z McClintock C E W Brown A B McCann J W dec Green J A Mclver J A Beall O C Calhoun L C McCann W A Register H B Mclvor W A Bennington S D Chappelle L H S McCartyW A sup'd Merrill P Bishop H D Chilton C L McGhee O C Arkansas 99-101 Methenv W H Bond R W Connerly W P H McGlaun J R Anderson J A Miller A C Boon A sup'd Cooper T H dis McNeill II H Anderson S Monk B Boteler J W sup Cornell C A Menefee J W Armstrong H A Moon R D tr f Boude A P sup Cousins A J Mitchell A H sup'd Aston B W Moseley C B Bowman S M Cowan E E Moore A H Babcock S H Myers J H Boyd J H Cox S H sup’d Moore B L Bagwell JTtrf Peebles J A trf Boyle W K Cox W M Moore H D Baldwin WM(r/ Ray A C Bragg C M Crook D C dec Moore J A Biggs W K Reed D Briley T Cunnning J B Morris W H sup Boyls G W Reynolds T J tr t Brown C M Daily J F Morris W H sup'd Bristow W S Roberts J H tr f Brown H A Dannelly J M Motley W M Brown J C tr f Ross D C Brown T W DeBardeleben J F Nelson J B Burke P P Russell JMir/ Buchanan C H Dennis R F Nogle J O Burns W H W Sherman W Burgess O F Bush Dennis W K Norton W K sup'd Burrow I L Shinn H R D Dickinson W P Owens W D Cantrell J M Shipp J C Butt L Dowdell L F sup Patton J M Clower J S tr f Simmons J S Cacklev A M Dowling A Peavy J R Corley W H Smith J H Canter I W Easley A A Peavy J S sup'd Cox J sup’d Stevenson JBIrf Canter J W Ellis G F sup Perry C S Crews B T Stone W J Carson T E Ellisor W T Perry O S Cullum A J Sturdy J H CoeHS Feagin B E Peterson F M Culpepper C H Sutton J E Coe W P C Fincher T P Peterson J A Cummins J H Summers P B Collins G T D Fisher G F sup'd Pilley C B Dameron G W Tabor E A Cooper T Fontaine G Pilley S A sup Davis G W O Taff F A sup’d Cox S K Foster R A Powell J K Desliazo J W Tarlton J J trf Crenshaw L H sup Frazer J S Powell L W Dunnaway J E Taylor W M Crickenberger J J Gavin C W Powers W I Dyer W H Traylor R M Cunningham R S Tucker O Damaron C L k Gayle B D Price E G Dykes S F H Gillis H M Price W J Evans G W sup'd Vanzandt K S Davidson J H Gillis N Reeves D D Futrell N Villines J N Davisson A Glenn B C Rencher W T Gardner W R sup'd Wade J H sup'd Day F L Glenn J M Rice W A Gilmore W H H Walden J A Dennv C Glenn J W Roberts J P Gilmore Y A Walsh J H Dice X C Grace J L Roberts S W Goddard S F Wasson J D trf Dolly S B Graham M M sup'd Roper G M Godbey S M tr t Watts J H Dolly W L Greene J M Rush C A Graham T A sup’d Weaver J C Dorsey W B Guthrie P M Rush J W Greathouse B H tr f Weems D J Duffey G W Hamilton J P Sanders S T Griffin G B Williams A H Dulany J H Hamner J W Saunders J P Griffin J W Williams B Eddington C C < Hartzog D J Scott J M sup’d Groover D H Williams J M Eggleston W G Haygood A S J Seale J A Hackler J S Winsett J B Engle J J sup Hamilton J Engle J S Hill H D dec Sellers A L M C Supplies: Holt M H Sellers G M Hamilton W P Eskridge A A dec Selman Harlan Benson R D Eutsler D F Hood A B L Y V | Evans tr t Hundley A C Shofner J M Harris I Bristow S S | M 13 (193) 194 Diredory,

Evey J M Mitchell J W De Carvalho F R Brown O E Supply: Ewan J VV dec Neel A A P De Carvalho J R Burke W B Burnett G W Febrey H C Nevett T G De Miranda L Dong Moh-san Nello Ferguson S 6 Newton J C C De A J Dzung Tsz-kiung East Columbia 6-7 Flaherty A Q Parker S A Dickie M Dzung Ying-kyin Follansbee J M Porter J S Dickson R C Dzung Zing-san Adkins F C Fox L Prettvman F J Gartner H Gi-ay H L Barnhart H Fulz R L Reid 1) L Kennedy J L Hearn T A Bell P M Furr F Richey F H dec Lander J M Hendry J L Burger H T Gardner J S Roane H M McFarland C B Hill M B Compton J W Crego R B Gaver H A Rodgers S Tarboux J W Leitch L tr t Gilbert J K Rollman F C Tavares J E Li Tsz-i Eagle C C Govev W T Ross R sup’d E A Ling Tsz-yien Gibbs G H Hodges WHtrt Grandin J M sup’d Ross W O Ser HC Loenr G R Grant J L Sanders W H Wolling J W Lucas B D Hornbuckle W S Gravbill L H Sarver C M Marshall C K Howard M V Griffith FT Scanland C A Supplies: Ng Dbng-shien Isbel R G tr t Grubb J W Shipley F H Da Fonseca A V Parker A P Kirk C E Larkin M Haddaway S W Shipley J L j Fontauro O A Reid C F Hall N N S hoaff J W Sung Yon-peh Michael E G St. Clair Hamell H P Simmons C E Central Mexico 91-92 Sz Tsz-kia F F Tsa Shelton JHtrt Ham ill AC Sites A B Aguilar F F Vong-tsang Hammond L Sites W A Yau Me-Kung Shreve J W trf Agnilar N Skee A Y Hammond W imp'd Sixeas P S E Alaicon J B Hammond W G Smith P B sup’d Supplies: Swift R B Becerra T Terry HBlri Hank J N sup Smith R sup’d Dzung Sau-tsung . Blanco A Yoatum D W Harper W HD Smith W L Cuevas M H Tsen Tsz-vun Harris C D Smithson R Garcia Supplies: Harris Snapp A B dis Columbia -10-11 W A L F die Garcia R Anderson Haslup L W Snapp S R Atkins D A Godninez P Bryant Fancher W M Hawk J C Stanton C S Gonzalez F J W Hawley J M Stevenson G sup’d Craig J W Hortonberry M D Grimes S W trf Cross W arren E P Head N imp'd Strickler H M Martinez C U C Derrick Hedges W aup'd Strother F A Mejia C loc Hedrick Stump A C Fenton L sup’d East Torn 16M* W W C W Mendez F dis A Henderson J L Stump J P Meyro C C Fenton W J Adams J Henderson Sutton Futrell J L tr t Allen S N P M dec C B Mon salvo D Henry E H Sydenstricker C O Hanleiter G S Ardis W H sup’d Moya A tr t Heterick E F sup Tackett J O Haynes T P Bonner W N sup’d Norwood I Howard sup Booth H sup’d Hildebrand S Y Temple J H Paz D W H M Hill F R tr t Thomas D sup’d Leitch L trf Booth T T Paz S G McFarland Bowmen Hoffman H sup’d Thrasher J C Pina J D C H W Tongue Molloy L Box J C Homan G O J W sup’d Portugal A W Hopkins J S Townsend S Moses P A Boyd E S trf Prieto L G Oglesby Boynton T Hough RRS Troy S S dec Reyes B R C W G Phipps loc Brasher T Hutchison J S Tyler G T Reyes F E E E Y an Horne Reagan RAir< Bridges J W Hyde J P J R Reves S M Jones J C Wade W A sup Shangle H S sup Browning F J Rivera TSiri Shreve JWtrt Burk L A Jones L R Wagner W N tr f Rivera Y S Jones T M loc W aters W M Smith W B Burke J D Watts Rubin P P Swafford B Calhoun J C Joyce C A W W Salazar E C H Joyce W H H Waugh J H Thomas T Campbell J Sandoval D F Wallace J F Crawford Kennard C L Weller A Sandoval J W H Wells M Cullen D P Kennedy C L JH Scoggins J D Kern J Wheat Supplies: Cullen J W A Q A Sotomavor C M dis Kibler J L Wheeler R M Blackwell W L Dawson J L Sutherland AH tr t Kinzer H VV sup’d Wheeler V W Parker J M Dean W H Tello R dis Donegan sup’d Knott J O Whisner P H Watkins D F Turner J M M Kregelo E L sup White G D Ellis C H •Weems J M tr f Denver 11-12 Finley R S Kuhlman J H White J K Winton G B Lambert J Wightman J T Blackwood AS trf Fontaine O C T Zavaleta M Landstreet J sup’d Willhite J H Bray J M Fowler L M Light J H Williams J T Supplies: Bryce P C Frick A J LinthicumCGaup’d Wilson R H Carrington E E Godbey V A Wolfe Adam E W Carroll F B Gregory C H tr Locke W F J W Aguayo V f Long M M Wolff J H Chenoweth E B Griffin *J W Loyd L L Wood C H Alvarez A Cooper C M Hall J B sup Woolf Alvarez F Crowe J M Helpenstell J Lusby O W W H Culhuaca Lyle L M trf Wright R E L dis M De R Pas W tr J Hines G B Mark C W Young W J Dalli G Ellington W T loc Hughes G R Markwood L R Zimmerman G H Espinosa C Groves H S dis Johnson J W Ferniza E S Henry N B Keith T trf Marsh W H Gomez E W Marshall W K Supplies: Houston A L tr t Kirby R M dec Gomez M Howard W H Langley G W Martin A R sup Hammond U S Hernandez Martin J D Jones T M A Jennings W B trf Large E R Morales J T M Major J M LeClere G A trf Martin L G McNeer R W Navas Maxwell J T McNeil J W D McClure J R sup’d LeFevre W H McCormick J N Rawlins E H Obregon M H Moore J Little A McDonald A Sarver C J Ortiz A Moore M H Lively J W W Ortiz D McNeer A C Stout H L Needham G / Long M D trf Taylor J Palomino E Quillian A H sup Luker J B Mehrling M C dec Reves F Mercer F A W i'lson J E Roper F M Lura W D Meyerlv H L Sadaneta A Searcy B P trf Mathis J S Mission 19-20 Salazar D Michael I G Brazil Sensabaugh O F McAnally W W Miller J loc Bruce J L Smith L P trf McCarter J M 161-162 ’ Miller T J Da Costa Reis J China Mission.... Stanton P L McCullum J M Miller \V E De Andrade J C Allen Y J Thompson C C loc McKnight J C H Millican C K De Aranjo A J Anderson D L Wheeler W B trf Mills J M Mills F M sup’d De Camargo M Bonnell W B Wood JB Minafee R sup'd .

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Parks A D sup Graham J G sup'd Tomkies P E Clendenen M L Miles G W sup Pate W L Gray W J Tresca W B Cook J A Miller C K sup Pledger W P Griffith T Turner G D Cooper W H sup’d Mitchell W A Pressley C Hamer N R Vann J H Crumley F D Mitchell W D Riley G W Hanson J W Vernon I A Cunningham J R Moreland G W Sampey W A Hendry J A Warlick DDlrl sup Moore E W Scruggs A G sup'd Hice H Waters J T Cunnyngham Moore J W ~ Scudday H G Hilburn J P Whedon A S W G E Mort E W Smith C B Hiscock A O Whidden E K Dame J D Muncy IN a Smith C P Holloway R A tr t Whidden W J J Darr J A Naff J E Smith C H Holmes E J White J A Davis J A sup Neal H C Smith E Honiker R L White TM Davis J B Neel J S W Smith I M Householder A E Wier R O trf Dawn W H sup Neighbors W S Smith J A Howland J A Wiggins R L trf Delashmit L Cf Newberry W W Smith J T Hubert T S Williams R M sup’d Nuckolls B F sup' Smith L P Inneman C W Wilson E Dickey J P Orr J C Smith T P Johnson A sup'd Woodbery S sup'd Doane W P Owen R A Son field L Johnson sup'd Parrott J W R Supplies: Draper G B H Sproule W trf Jones J L Duvall J A Payne J R sup Thompson R W sup Jones JN Butler S C Dyer W M Patton W L Timmons DFC Jordan W C Hartman F M Eskridge T J Paxton J M Towns D W Kennedy G J sup daman Mission— .30-31 Farley F H Perkins J A L Vinson TB Lang T G Farris W C Phillips J S Warren J Lawler S Bader J Phillips S sup N W Frenzel Fogleman W J W atts W W Ledbetter B E trf E Frazier A J Pope T J sup’d Webb Gerdes G Postell L A Ley E F Hensch Frazier J B J C trf Weeks V J Ley J B P H Frazier Prater J L Jordan H J T W oolam J C Ley J C Kern French G D Pressley G W Wyche J L Mann A J French J L Price D V M Knolle W A M Marshall J F Konken Giddens R A sup'd Price R N Supplies: Mason B F E Gillard B F Price W H Bridges E McCook S Kramer E Pyott T A Kurz C Glenn T F W W Burgamy J C McMannin W S Grace F M Richardson F Neel D C McRae J H D Lieser W Graham M C Richardson W L Pledger T Meadows Merkel J Greene sup Robertson EBsup’tf N S G Mueller G W K Richie J R Miller S G Hall S Robertson J sup H Prinzing J sup'd H W Shook O A Mitchell G W Handy T R Robeson W sup'd Wilson Rabe JAG Rodifer J S Moore L W Schaper Hart R E E C Wagnon Moore T J A sup'd Hash J F Romans J A A W Scheurich M tr A Runyan J C sup Moya C A f Schrimpf Haynes L K Florida 173-175 Neal J E sup'd D Hearn D S Sharp B T Abbott J P Nixon T J Vordenbaumen F Henley J J Shelton W R dm Alexander W F Norton W C Willmann J Hermon G D Shuler J A H Ames C B Norton W F Supply: Hickey R M sup’d Shuler T C Anderson J Outland M H Prinzing J Hicks J W' Simpson G W Anderson J B Parker W H Hicks W W Simpson J B Armistead T S Partridge H E Eolston 23-27 Hickson J D Smith J sup'd Barnett A A Patterson I S Addington E L Hixon J R Smith J \v Barnett J S Pasco F Akers J D Hobbs J N Smith R E Barnett R H Peeler A sup'd Akers W D Horton B C Smith S J dis Barrington E W Penney J E Alexander F Hoss E E Smyth T F sup’d Beers J Penney A D Alley J Houk S E Snyder W R Best A W J Perez M J Atkins J Huffaker J N S Spence W Bird C S sup Phillips H F Atkins K C sup'd Stewart G sup’d Bishop T Phillips S E Bailey W E Hunter A B Stover J T Black S B Phillips T J Parker S N Hunter J R loc Strader T D

Blackburn C P Pierce A B . ates W H Jackson GW tr t Stradley C L Blake ELT sup'd Pike J M Bays J C Jackson R F Stradley J R sup Bolton J Pixton F Belt J W sup'd Jackson F Y Straley'J O Boothe W G sup'd Poage W M Bellamy J R James C M Stuart A D Bradford J W Porter J W Belderback J A Jarvis R E L Stuart G R loc Bradford T (J Rape B T Bishop B W S Jones W L Sullins D Bridges F R Rast J L Blake E Jordan J A Summers G W Brown A O Reynolds T B Bogle E H Kahle E F Surface F D Brown W A Richardson W S Bogle G W dis Keith JH trf Sutton P S sup Castel J A Riggs J H dis Boring J Kelley C W Swaim M P sup Chandler E G dec Robarts W H F Bowman J W sup , Kelley R A sup Sweeker J E Claridy C S Robinson A A sup’d trf Kelley W H sup Thomas W A Cole D A Rogers J D sup’d Brown D C Ipc Kennedy J H Threadgill F F Collier J S Ryder I Brown C R Kennedy J S Tow A H Collins W C Sale J C Browning J W Kincaid A Umberger R S Conoly W A Scott S Bruce J E King H F dec Wagg T E trf Daiger A M Scott W sup’d Brunner J H Kinzer P P Walker E W Davis J B Sellers G W Burrow J A Kinzer T H Walker J R DePass J P Shands J F Byrd S K Kite R W Walker R M dis Dowell W J trf Shipp F E Carden W C . Lefew C B Wampler J F Dnrrance J P Shoemaker W F Carlock L L H Little L H W aterhouse R G Eads F M C Sistrunk T H Carnes J B Lowry J E Waugh H P sup’d Evans R M Someillan H B Carnes J W Lyons J A Wayner WNtrl Evans T J Steinmeyer W H Carr D H M’ahoney J Weatherly S S * Forrest G W loc Stock R sup Carrico M P Maiden G A W ilev E E Frazee H B Strickland T M Carroll C T Maiden J M Witcher W Fnl wood C A Sweatt J M Cartwright L M Maness J C Wolf J K sup Gasque S S trf Taylor FA trt Cash J I Martin I P Wolf J M Gates E F sup Taylor G sup Cassidy E H McAllister J D Woodward A E Gates E J Taylor J R Catron S S McCracken D sup'd Gatewood G W Temple C C Chambers J R McDowell R T Woodward B N Giddens J A sup Thrower B K Clemons H C McPherson S T Woolsey J Giles EH Tillman C M dis C-lendenen D McTeer J M sup'd York D Y C | R : W f

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Supplies Austin W B Whitehead J D tr f Deering J R Vaughn W F Elevens W P Averyt A N Williams J S sup'd Deering R sup'd Vaught JOA Cook J C Baldwin J tr t, tr Worley A J Deering S S sup'd Waldrop W Haynes W P Baldwin W M tr t Yarborough G S Dickey J J sup Walker H P Belcher A M Ditzler H Walker J S Hillman J W Supplies: W H Long S D Berryhill D L Dodd T J Wallace L G Martin VV B Brewer T F Armby C Doran W J Ware D P McNeil O Brown H J Armstrong J T Duvall A F Wei burn D sup'd Nunn R E Bryce J Y Asburv M Ecklar W T Welburn W D Smith E L Burks C W Baltiee G Fitch J W West J L Spitzer J D Butler M L Bitting N Fizer J T J Wightman R H Thompson H C Byrd L S loc Bogle A R Froh G Williams J H Cameron E D Brown C M Gardner J W Williams J W Illinois 96-98 Clark M A Calbert S Gifford E P loc Wilson J M Blaylock W D Cobb L W Cowan R A Godbey E H Winter W H Brewer C P tr t Cook A S Davenport J W Godbey T J Wright H C Brewer R J Coppedge C M Davis W M Green W W Wright J E Brown J D R Cowart J W 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