MINUTES OF THE fit j - Annual Conferences OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH, FOR THE YEAR 1874 . y .. Nashville, Tenn.: SOUTHERN METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. 1875 •BY 239 1 #M 1 ^ •g'74- <29^ | BISHOPS OF THE Dftdhodiat (Sspiatopl ^hurth, ^outh. ROBERT PAINE, D.D., Aberdeen, Miss. GEORGE FOSTER PIERCE, D.D, Sparta, Ga. HUBBARD HINDE KAVANAUGH, D.D., Louisville, Ky. WILLIAM MAY WIGHTMAN, D.D., Charleston,- S. C. ENOCH MATHER MARYIN, D.D., St. Louis, Mo. DAVID SETH DOGGETT, D.D., Richmond, Va. HOLLAND NIMMONS McTYEIRE, D.D, Nashville, Tenn. JOHN CHRISTIAN KEENER, D.D, New Orleans, La. cjAOHY UWVtRSU Y V 'HEOlOGy i tRR AB MINUTES I. —BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. Held at Staunton, Va., March 4-12, 1874. Bishop Doggett, President; John S. Martin, Secretary. Question 1. "Who are admitted on trial? Henry C. Pitzer, La Fayette Fox, Oliver C. Answer. Robert M. Williams, John Robert Beall, Gotleib Meyer, James T. Williams. 5. Alfred Gearhart, Charles E. Sim- Andrew, C. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected mons, John Frederick Bagges, John D. G. deacons? Hanna, John Wesley Shreve, Oscar F. Burgess, William E. Tetzell, Hamilton W. Leslie. 2. Thomas Nevitt, J. Ashury Regester, Rufus G. Samuel Rushton, colored. 1. M. Wheeler, Daniel L. Bush, Michael P. Scan- Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained lan. 13. deacons? trial? Ques. 2. Who remain on William E. Tetzell, Hamilton W. Leslie. 2. Lewis L. Lloyd, Gotleib Meyer, John G. Samuel Rushton, colored. 1. Knight, James M. Reese, James T. Williams, Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are William F. Caruthers, Alfred H. Way, Vin- elected elders? cent W. Wheeler, William M. Hiner, Wash- John S. Hutchinson, Jefferson W. Duffy, ington Varner, J. Wesley Steele. 11. Richard S. Shreve, Beverly W. Bond, Francis Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? A. Strother, James W. Compton, Burton S. None. Highly. 7. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- tion ? dained elders? J. Timothy Smith, John C. Sedwick, Henry James W. Compton, Francis A. Strother, C. Pitzer, La Fayette Fox, Oliver C. Beall, Burton S. Highly, Beverly W. Bond, John S. William L. Lynch, Sydnor G. Ferguson, James Hutchinson, Jefferson W. Duffy, Richard S. W. Compton, Francis A. Strother, John Han- Shreve. 7. non. 10. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 6. Who are readmitted? elders? None. Robert S. D. Hieronimus. 1. Ques. 15. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from What local preachers are ordained other Conferences? elders? Robert S. Oscar Smithson. 1. D. Hieronimus. 1. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Oscar Smithson, Thomas A. Griffiths, Wil- George W. Lightner, J. Rembert Smith, liarp R. McNeer. 3. William E. Miller, James F. Follin, Ashury C. Ques." 17. Who are supernumerary? McNeer. 5. , _ Samuel Kepler, Francis M. Mills. John Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected W deacons? Boteler, J. Newman Hank, Francis H. Richey, Joseph N. Spangler, William J. Perry, George Henry C. Pitzer, La Fayette Fox, Oliver C. Beall, R. Jefferson, Ephraim L. Kregelo, Edward F. Gotleib Meyer, James T. Williams. 5. Heterick, Maybury G. Balthis, William R. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Stringer, Ashury R. Martin, John P. Hyde, dained deacons? James C. Hummer, Jehu Hank. 16. l3) nio \ — Baltimore Conference . , 1874 Ques. 18. "Who are superannuated? joys of the.better life. Brother Cross was a man Norval Wilson, Thomas B. Sargent, Henry of more than ordinary intellectual strength. Hoffman, P. S. E. Sixeas, Elias Welty, Wil- His reading, though not extensive, was well liam H. Wheelwright, John W. Tongue, Wil- digested. In the branches of human learning liam H. D. Harper, Jason P. Etchison, Thomas his favorite study was mental philosophy. He Briley. 10. reasoned much, and dealt more in principles Ques. 19. What preachers have died during than in the details of their application. He the past year? was a strong and useful preacher, and left be- William G. Cross, John Wesley Bull, Lewis hind him the savor of his ministry wherever Henley. 3. he had gone preaching the gospel of God. His piety was uniform, characterized by a rich, William G. Cross was horn, in Morgan co., deep experience, a holy walk, and a most win- Va., Jan. 17, 1822, and died, near Leesburg, ning cheerfulness of aspect. He possessed a Loudon co., Va., Aug. 1873. He was in- child-like simplicity was in his 4, ; warm attach- ducted into the blessed mysteries of the new ments, ardent and faithful in his friendships. birth when he was about twenty-two years of His absence from our Annual Conference-gath- age. Eor several months he had been deeply ering makes a void indeed; but he has gone concerned on the subject of his soul’s salvation, where the weary rest from their labors, and and in the quietude of his own chamber, while where he has already heard from the lips of poring over the precious word of life, was that Master whom he served so long, and with happily converted to God. Not long after such unfaltering fidelity, the words of divine this happy change, he felt called to preach the approval, “"Well done, good and faithful serv- gospel, and was duly licensed as a local preacher. ant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!” In 1846 he was admitted on trial into the Bal- timore Conference, and in 1848 was received John Wesley Bull was born, in Baltimore into full connection and ordained deacon. In co., Md., Sept. 6, 1819, and died, in Alexandria. this Conference he adhered to the Methodist Va., Dec. 25, 1873. In early life he became Episcopal Church, South, and was appointed the subject of religious impressions, and at to King William Circuit. In 1849 he was about eighteen years of age was converted to stationed at Elizabeth City, and in 1850 at God at the Union Meeting-house, Baltimore Charlottesville. In 1851 he was appointed to co., near his father’s homestead. In March, Culpepper Circuit; in 1852, to Harrisonburg 1843, he was admitted on trial by the Balti- and Keezletown; in 1853, to Leesburg; in more Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church. 1854, to Fredericksburg; in 1855, to Manches- He was appointed at that Conference to the ter; in 1856, to Brunswick Circuit; and in Great Falls Circuit, as the colleague of Rev. 1857, to Warren ton. In 1858-9-60 he served Richard Brown. In 1844 he was appointed to as Presiding Elder of Washington District. Covington Circuit; in 1845, to Newcastle Cir- In 1861-2 he was appointed to Bedford Cir- cuit. At the Conference, when he received cuit; in 1863-4, to Nottoway Circuit; and in the latter appointment, he was ordained deacon 1865-6, to Prince Edward Circuit. At the by Bishop Waugh. In 1846 he v as assigned Virginia Conference, held at Petersburg, Nov., to Berwick Circuit; and in 1847 was ordained 1867, he was transferred to the Baltimore Con- elder, and appointed to Patapsco Circuit. In ference, and was successively appointed by 1848 he was assigned to East Harford Circuit; that body to Berkeley, Shepherdstown, and in 1849, to Harford Circuit; and in 1850, to Lexington. His health had been for some Canton and Asbury, Baltimore. During this time gradually declining, and, while at Lexing- year he was married to Miss Valinda Brown, ton, he became so prostrated that at the ensu- of Alexandria, Va. In 1851-2 he was ap- ing Annual Conference, held in Baltimore, pointed to Foundry and Asbury, Washington 1873, which he was unable to attend, he was City; in 1853, to Havre de Grace. In 1854 placed on the superannuated list. From this he was granted a supernumerary relation, in time to the close of his life he was a great suf- which he continued till 1866. In the last- ferer, but under all his sufferings was both mentioned year, with a number of his brethren submissive and cheerful. A few days before of the Baltimore Conference, he united his his death his countenance was lit up with an fortunes with the Methodist Episcopal Church, uncommon brightness, as if already reflecting South. In that and the succeeding year be was the glory of the upper world. His wife, ob- appointed to Laurel Circuit; in. 1868, to Great serving it, remarked, “You look so bright Falls Circuit; and in 1869, as Conference Mis- just as you used to look.” He replied,"with sionary to Virginia. At this time his health great earnestness, “I feel as I used to feel. failed, and he was granted a supernumerary How I long to preach again!” On the day relation, which he sustained until death ter- that terminated his mortal life, while he and minated all his earthly relations and cares. his wife were walking together to visit a rela- Brother Bull was a devoted Christian, and a tive near by, he suddenly fell at her side and faithful, earnest minister of the gospel of expired. Stunning and unexpected, however, Christ. In April, 1873, he attended the funeral as was the stroke, she was sustained under it of a friend, where he contracted a severe cold, by the sweet assurance that his sudden demise which finally resulted in his death. Although was only an immediate transit from the suf- indisposed for several months before bis death, ferings and trials of earth to the unspeakable he was confined to his bed only ten days before : : 1 . 5 Baltimore Conference , 1874 he passed away. To his brethren who visited Baltimore District ( continued). freely him during his last illness he spoke of White Cord I.oc'1 approaching death, and expressed his entire Mem's.