Minutes of the session of the Southern Illinois

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^^MINUTES^^^
OF THE
Forty=Second Session
OF THE
SOUTHERN
CONFERENCE
ILLINOIS
OF THE
THE tlSRARy OF THE
Methodist Episcopal
IItti9&tS2D
UNiVERSirr ^F
HELD AT
FLORA, ILLINOIS,
SEPTEMBER
J. B.
26 TOrOCTOBER
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— "the
so appropriate as the unfer-
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— "the
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use, give from full strength down to very weak, according to desire of
patient. It is economy to buy the pure, and, if you wish, do your own
—
diluting.
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MINUTES
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t'f
FORTY-SECOND SESSION
OF THE
Soutfern
Illinois
k'imm
OF THE
Methodist Episcopal Church,
HEL,D AT
KLORA, ILLINOIS,
SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER
J.
B.
HOUSE. Publisher,
Enfield,
Pkkrin
&
Smith Print,
20S-212
I,
Vine Street,
St.
III.
Louis.
1893,
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RULES OF ORDER.
1.
Every member of the Conference is expected to be in his place
and answer to his name at roll-call on the first and each subsequent
day, and remain during the transaction of business, unless called away
and excused and he shall have his statistics ready for presentation
on the first morning.
2.
An)- member who desires to speak on any subject shall arise
in his place and address the Chair, and speak only with the permission
of the Chair, and not longer than ten minutes, unless by consent of
the Conference, and not the second time until all who wish have
;
spoken.
It shall not be in order to interrupt any member while speak3.
ing, unless for the purpose of explanation, or on claim of misrepresentation, or to raise a point of order, and only then by leave of the
Chair.
Motions shall take precedence in the following order, viz.: to
4.
to postpone indefinitely
to postpone to a given
lay on the table
time to re-commit to amend to substitute for, and to take the previous question and motions to lay on the table, to postpone, and the
previous question, shall not be debatable.
;
;
;
;
;
;
When a point of order is raised, he who makes it shall, if5.
desired, reduce it to writing and all motions, resolutions, and reports
of committees, shall be written and presented in duplicate, unless the
Secretary agrees to waive this rule.
;
ORDER OF EXAMINATION.
A. The committee to examine each class shall consist of four
members, who shall be reappointed annually to examine the same
Class until the Course of Study be completed.
B. The day preceding the opening of each session of Conference
shall be fixed for the examination of Undergraduates and the Candidates for admission, and the first Friday of each session for Local
Preachers
for Orders.
At least six hours shall be devoted to examining each Class,
and the examination shall be conducted in writing, each candidate
receiving the same questions, the grade to be in exact proportion to the
number of questions answered, and the papers containing the' questions shall be distributed in the room where the Class is assembled
C.
for examination.
The answers
marked on a scale of figures from o to 10
examination and the Examiners shall, in
their reports, specify the grade in each study as well as the average
and any candidate failing to reach the grade of six in any study, or to
read any book specified in the course, shall be continued for re-examination in that deficienc}', and it shall be at the option of the Examiners to refuse to examine any one who fails to be present at the
appointed time.
E. Written sermons required in the course shall be sent to the
chairman of the committees at least ten days before the day of exam
D.
shall be
— 6 indicating a passable
—
;
ination.
F The chairman of each Committee of Examination shall furnish
the Secretary with a written report to be entered in the Record of
Examinations.
STANDING RESOLUTIONS.
When ail}- member of this Conference intends to object to the
I.
passage of the Character of any other member, he shall hand the name
of such member to the President, who shall pass the name by, and
direct the case to be investigated.
When any one of our members is called from earth, it shall
II.
be the dut}- of the nearest Pastor, or the Presiding Elder of the district
to notify all the preachers in the district of such death and of the
time set for the funeral service.
III.
At each session of this Conference a publisher shall be elected
to publish the Minutes of the next session, who shall be authorized to
make arrangements and to enter into a contract for the publication in
advance of the session.
I\".
At the anniversary ot each of our Conference Societies, the
committee appointed by the Conference to consider the interests of said
^\6 ociet}- shall present their report for consideration.
V. The Presiding Elder of the District and the preacher in charge
of the station where the Conference is to be held, together with the
Presidents of the several Conference Societies, are instructed to arrange
the programme of religious exercises, and, if practicable, secure their
publication in the Central Christian Advocate.
J
VI. The Board of Stewards shall consist of sis members, each of
i'X
^two being appointed at each session of
^ ^hom shall serve three vears
the Conference. The Board shall organize by the appointment of a
President, Secretary and Treasurer, whose names shall be pulilished,
\t*
]
—
i
acd who shall serve one year.
VII. When the names for candidates for admission on trial or for
orders, are called, they shall, if present, be called forward and introduced to the Conference.
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VIII. Each candidate for admission, on trial, or re-admission into
the Conference, also for election to Deacon's or Elder's orders, shall
" Will you wholly abstain from the
be asked by the Bishop presiding:
use of tobacco?" And candidates for the recognition of orders, shall,
unless excused by vote of the Conference, be examined in the same
manner as candidates for ordination, and the Committee on Conference
Relations shall inquire into the character and fitness for the Traveling
Connection of each candidate for admission on trial or re-admission
into the Conference.
IX. There shall be a meeting of the Statistical Secretaries with
the Conference Treasurer, at 8 o'clock on Saturday morning, for the
purpose of comparing the monies reported in the .Statistical tables.
X. When a minister in the active work dies, the district in which
he dies shall provide a monument for him, at a cost of not less than
fifty dollars; and when a superannuated member dies, the Presiding
Elder in whose district he falls shall make an apporrtonment to the
other districts.
XI. Each Presiding Elder, at the close of his term, shall prepare
a report of his district, not to exceed one thousand words for publication in the Minutes.
XII. The Stewards are authorized to take annually from the pro
rata due the claimants from the Book Concern, a sum according to
their discretion, not to exceed ten per cent, of their indebtedness to
the Book Concern, until it shall be paid in full.
XIII. To protect that class of men who have given their lives to
the work of the ministn,- within our bounds no man shall be admitted
on trial who is more than thirtv-five vears of age.
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OFFICERS OF THE CONFERENCE.
PRESIDENT
H.
:
mSHOr CHARLIvS
FOWLER,
Minneapolis, Minn,
Postoffice,
PRE.SIDING elders:
J.
A.
J. B.
SCARRITT.
O. H.
RAVENSCROFT,
J.
VAN
w.
F.
clf:ve.
J.
CLARK.
W. FLINT.
VAN TREESE.
M.
SECRETARY
W. VAN CLEVE,
Postoffice,
Mt. Vernon,
III.
ASSISTANT SECRETARIES
J. C.
KINISON,
U. G.
JOHNSTON.
F. L.
WEST
STATISTICAL SECRETARY
J. G. DEE,
Postoffice, Canni, III.
ASSISTANT STATISTICAL SECRETARIES
C. D.
H. O. HISER.
:
J.
J.
Y.
D.
REID.
HENNESSEY.
D.
ORR.
TREASURER
J.
G.
SHUxMARD
HARMON.
:
WM. LEATHERMAN,
Postoffice, Pinckneyville, III.
ASSISTANTS
W. CARSON.
M.
B.
BAKER.
:
W. H. POOLE.
L. G.
GRANTHAM.
PUBLISHER OF MINUTES
J.
B.
HOUSE,
Postoffice, Enfield, III.
:
A. H. PITKIN.
W. H. PORTER.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
—J.
Public Worship.
\V.
Locke, C. Nash, A. L. Greenlaw.
Tracts.— \\\ A. Cross, A. W. Van Houten, W. R. Bradley.
Greenlee Calvert, D. J. Little.
Sunday
Schools.
— Z.
M.
Keisling,
Farmer,
J.
J.
H. Jones,
J. A.
Hawk,
L.
J.
Leatherinan,
—
Education. T. H. Herdman, L. E. Cole, U. G. Johnston, C. Nash,
D. Gillham, M. N. Powers.
Temperance.
J.
A.
—
^J.
H. Ford, L.
Walker, C. W. Sabine, M.
vS.
—John Leeper,
—
W.
—
N. Burke, L. Cramp,
^J. E. Nickerson, C.
D. Crenshaw, T- W. Jackson.
Periodicals.
Church Extension.— y^. Crow,
Wm.
C. Orr, J. R. Reef, J.
J,
E. Ravenscroft,
J,
W. McNeill,
W. Van
Cleve,
Tilroe, S. E. Turner.
Bible Cause.
New
Baker,
Robinson.
C. B. Besse, J. A.
Western Book Accounts. J. G. Harmon, A. Harris,
C. D. Shumard, D. Orr, vSilas Green.
J.
R.
J.
Hampton, R. D. Woodley.
Pastoral Address.
J.
W.
L. Cole, C. L. York.
— N.
Stauffer, B. S. Smith, \V. L. Burkitt, A.
Vandaveer,
E. Burke, D. T, Harris.
— Samuel Walker.
Education Society. — Asa vSnell, Wm.
York Book Accounts.
Freedtnen's
W. G.
Aid and
Hale,
S.
T Huffman, H. H. Young,
.
J.
J.
Carson.
H. Bennett.
—
Sabbath Observance. ^J. L. Wallar, W. H. Poole, B. A. Hoar,
Wylder, Adam Yingst, L. J. Grantham.
Woman's Foreign Missionary
J.
Society.
— C.
Harmon,
J. C.
L.
D. Lingenfelter, E. Barnes,
A. Taylor, G. A. vSeed, C. T. Douthitt, J. L.
Class Meetings.—^. R. Pierce, G.
J.
W. Scawthon,
Cunningham.
J. P.
Rutherford,
J. F.
Kinison, L. C. Wilkin.
Memoirs. —J. D. Gillham, L. Cramp,
Wm.
Leatherman, F.
L.
Thom-
son, J. G. Dee, L. A. Harper.
Conference Relations.
— C.
W. Bonner,
hirst, C. B. Besse, F. L.
R. E. Pierce, E. Joy. A.
Dew-
Thomson.
Woman's Home Misionary Society. —J. F. Harmon, J.L.Cunningham,
J. H. McGriff, M. L. Cole, John Pearce, J. W, Mcintosh.
Post Offices— H.
J. Little.
Dotnestic Missions.
McMorrow.
Epworth League.
—
^J.
J.
—
A. Robinson. J. T. Murkin, H. Manifold,
Y. Ried,
F".
L.
J.
West,
vShepherd, C. B. Besse.
Wm.
H. Ford.
J.
H. Jones,
J.
C.
Kinison. G.
W.
OFFICERS OF CONFERENCE SOCIETIES.
Missionary Society.
—
President F. L. Thomson.
Vice-President J. B. Thompson.
Secretary
—
—J. P. Yuiigling.
— L. Cramp.
Treasurer
Board of Church Extension.
—
—
—
President J. F. Watson.
Secretary A. F. Taylor.
Vice-President J. W. Van Cleve.
Treasurer ^R. L. Stratton.
Additional Members Silas Green, F. L. West, J. B. Ravenscroft,
R. W. Ljon and the Presiding Elders.
—
—
Ministerial Education.
—T.
President
Secretary
A. Eaton.
Vice-President ^J. B. Thompson.
—
Custodian
Freednian" s
—T.
Aid and Southern Education
Harmon.
F.
Society.
— L. E. Cole.
Treasurer— S. P. Groves.
—
Secretary
—
Thompson, W. Powis,
B.
L. West.
—J.
H. Herdman.
President E. Barnes.
Vice-President S. Green.
Managers —J.
— F.
Treasurer
C. D. Lingenfelter.
Sunday-School Union.
—
President J. D. Hennessey.
Vice-President A. J. Dewhirst.
—
Managers—
'S.
D. Little,
Secretary— Q. D. Shumard.
Treasurer N. Stauffer.
R. Reef, H. H. Keith.
—
J.
Tract Society.
President
—J.
L. Wilder.
Secretary
Vice-President—I. T. Huffman.
JManagers A. Yingst, D.
—
J.
— W. T. Morris.
—
Treasurer W. G. Hale.
Little, S. Green.
Cott/erence Historical Society.
President
—
J,
A. Robinson.
Vice-Presidents
Cor. Sec'y —T. H. Herdman.
—The Presiding Elders.
Conference Domestic Missionary Society.
—
A. Robinson.
President
Vice-Presidents
J.
— L.
Rec. Sec'y
— L.
W.
A. Harper, J. D. Gillham, J. Earp, C.
Cor. Sec'y T. H. Herdman.
felter, R. D. Woodley.
—L. S.
—
Thrall.
LingenTreasurer
I).
Walker.
Managers— G. W. Brown, R. L. vStratton, U. L. vStaley, S.
J. W. Locke, G. A. Seed, W. Tilroe, C. Nash, W. Wallis,
L. Dwight,
C. B. Besse.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES.
Board of Stewards.
President,
S. P.
Secretary,
W.
Treasurer,
J.
W.
L.
-
Leeper.
Thompson.
J. B.
Visitors to
Groves.
Thrall.
Wallis.
B. R. Pierce.
McKendree
Colleze.
I'\ Iv. West, N. Crow, R. D. Woodley,
G. A. Seed, J. W. Van Cleve, J. W. Locke, J. G. Dee.
Attentates C. W. Bonner, J. B. House, J. F. Harmon, M. N. Powers, F.
L. Thomson, J. B. Thompson, Z.J. W. Farmer, W. Leathermau,
J. D. Hennessey, J. C. Orr.
J. B.
Ravenscroft, B. R.'Pierce,
—
Visitors to Garrett Biblical Institute.
W. Carson.
M. N. Powers.
DePauw
Visitors to
J.
Visitors to
J.
W. Van
School of Theology.
G. Harmon.
Hayivard
Collegiate Institute.
W. Carson.
D. C. Ridgway.
Cleve.
Triers of Appeals.
M. N. Powers.
J
C.
W. Bonner.
B. Ravenscroft.
J.
W.
John Leeper.
McNeill.
C. B. Besse.
J.
H.
P'ord.
To Preach A^inual Missionary Sermon.
J.
W. Van
Alternate
Cleve.
— G.
\V.
Shepherd.
Coviviittees on Exaviination.
For Admission on Trial— F. M. Van
Treese, B. A. Hoar,
J.
W.Jackson,
N. Crow.
First )'ear—Q.
W. Sabine, M. B. Baker, C. 1). Shumard,J. W. McNeill.
Second Year— 'P. L. West, J. D. Crenshaw, J. H. Ford, S. .\. Mcintosh.
Third Vear—B. R. Pierce, J. C. Kiuison, G. W. Shepherd, R. I).
Woodle}'.
Fourth Year
— V. L. Thomson,
G. A.vSeed,
W.
A. Cross, J. D. Hennessey.
Local Preachers for Deacons' Orders.
J.
W. Mcintosh.
L. E. Cole.
J.
C. Orr.
W. G. Hale.
J. B.
Local Preachers for Elders^ Orders.
Thompson.
X. Stauffer.
E. Barues.
J.
District
\V.
N. English, F. L. Thomson, S.
J.
Shepherd, W. C. Buchanan, C.
Ml. Cannel District—}. Y. Reid, H. H. Crozier,
Wilson.
—J.
Ml. lemon District
\V. Lyon.
Hampton.
Boards of Church Location.
Alton District— \\. A. Cross,
Grubbs.
Lebanon District— G.
Jon. Seaman.
A.
J.
\V.
M
Bonner,
W. McNeill,
J.
H.
D. Crenshaw, E.J. Ingersoll, John Leeper, R.
Olney District—J .W Jackson. David Watts,
.
Vandalia District— V. L. West,
S. L.
J.
T.
Dwight, C.
Murken, S. T. Liudsa}
B. Besse,
G.
W.
Browi:
Board of Church Extension.
President—]. F. ^Watson.
Vice President ^J. W. Van Cleve
—
— A. F. Taj'lor.
Treasurer— R. L. vStratton.
Additional Members — Silas Green,
Secretarv
Lyon and the Presiding
F. L.
Elders.
West,
J. B.
Ravenscroft, R.
W.
SPECIAL SERVICES.
Tuesday Evening. — Centeunial Sermon by E. Joy.
Wednesday Afternoon. S.\\\\\y<ixs-Ary Epworth League vSociety. Addresses by G. W. Shepherd, J. W. Jackson, J. W. Van Cleve,
J. H.Jones, R. I). Woodley.
— Church
Address by
Extension Anniversary.
Wednesday Evening.
Dr. M. S. Hard.
—
Thursday Afternoon. Anniversary of Woman's Foreign Missionary
Address by Dr. C. P. Hard.
vSociety.
Thursday Evening.— Xnu'w^rssiry of Missionary Society.
by Drs. Bowen, C. P. Hard, Jesse Bowman Young.
Addresses
—
Friday Afternoon. ^Memorial Service. Anniversary of Temperance
Addresses by C. B. Besse, J. L. Wallar
vSociety.
—
Eriday Evening. Anniversary of the Educational Society. Addresses
by M. L. Barr, President of McKendree College, C B. Besse, L-
W.
Thrall.
Saturday Afternoon.— 'Missionary Sermon by R. D. Woodley.
—
Saturday Evening. Anniversary of Freedmen's Aid
Educational Society. Address by Dr. Hartzell.
Sunday Morning.— hove
Led by
Feast.
S.
Walker.
Bishop C. H. Fowler.
Sunday A/ternoon .—Ordination
Sunday Evening. — Sermon by
of
J.
Deacons and Elders.
Young, D. D.
ami vSouthern
Sermon
b}
SUMMARY OF
DISCIPLINARY QUESTIONS.
— W//0 have been received by
/.
Transfer a7id from v.'/iat Conference?
M. Adams, from Kentucky Conference, D. C. Ridgway, from
J.
Austin Conference.
—
2.
ffV/o fiave
been Re-admitted
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None.
J.
— W/io /lave been
Received on Credentials, and from
Ivittleton Hullett,
4.
— ]Vho have been
J. W. Cummins,
W. Wynant, Geo.
Theodore Cates, Gye Park.
Hullett,
Churches}'
Received on Trial '
M. James,
F.
zviiat
from M. E. Church South.
C.
L.
W.
N.
Wilkerson,
Porter, J. P. Levitt,
J.
L.
M. Adams,
In Studies of Third Tear.
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None.
J.
— Who have been
(a)
/;/
Continued on Trial-'
Studies of the First I'ear.
S. S.
Smith, G.
W.
Randle, C.
S.
McCullom, N. D. Sweeney.
In Studies of Second Tear.
(^)
A. Large, O. E. Laird, Ressho Robertson, C. J. Pressley, J. E.
McKelvey, O. F. Culver, T. O. Holly, \V. H. Neil, W.
Walton, D. R. Miller, N. Atkin, A. J. Littell, Charles T.
J.
C
Douthitt, Lafayette C. Wilkin.
(c)
1)1
Studies of Third Tear.
None.
In Studies of Fourth I'ear.
{d)
None.
6.
—
If
7/f
have
beeti
Discontinued
^
None.
7.
— Who have been
(a)
Elected
Admitted info Full Membership ^
and Ordained Deacons
Hiram H. Young, Jason
Cummins, John K. Hunter, Geo. E.
Samuel C. Pierce, Alfred
Douglas Shouse, David W. Baker, H. O. Hiser.
McCammon, William
H. Pitkin,
[b)
this year.
B.
D. Mcintosh,
Elected and Ordained Deacons previouslv.
Lewis
J.
Grantham, Elmer E. Waggoner, Charles T. Douthitt,
Lafavette C. Wilkin.
W/iat Meinbeys arc ui the Studies of the Third Tear?
8,
Admitted inlo Full Membership
(<j)
tliis
I'ear,
J. Grantham, Hiram H. Young, Elmer K. Waggoner, Jason
B. Cummins, John K. Hunter, Geo. E. McCammou, William D.
Mcintosh, Samuel Pierce, Alfred H. Pitkin, Douglas Shouse,
David W. Baker, Henry O. Hiser.
Lewis
Admitted
(/')
into Ful/
Sherman
g.
P.
Membership previously.
Young, Charles Gorden,
— What Members are in
J.
W. Maddux.
Studies of Fourth Year ?
Willard Kiesliug, M. L. Cole, Albert Vandaveer, Charles V,.
Bovard, Samuel E. Turner, John A. Taylor, John W. Tennyson,
William H. Poole, Lawrence Smith, Charles E. Baker, James
E. Burk, William J. Hopper.
lo
— What
Members have Completed
Elected
(o)
Wm.
and Ordained Elders
the Conference Course of Study ?
this year.
Carson, David L. Harris, Josiah C. Kiuison, Ulysses G. John-
ston,
Zelah
P'armer.
J.
Elected and Ordained Elders previously.
{b)
•
Charles E. Sale.
— What other mcwbers have been Elected and Ordained Deacons-'
//.
As Local Preacher.
(a)
Joel Brown, G.
W. Webber.
Under Missionary Rule.
(b)
None.
j
— What others have been Elected and Ordained Elders?
12.
As Local Deacons.
(a)
None.
Under Missionary Rule.
(b)
Samuel C.
Pierce.
ij.
— Was the Character of each I'reacher Examined?
14
— Who have been
Yes, in open Conference.
J.
W.
Transferred,
Britton,
River
to Missouri
Conference,
and
and
to -what
Conference?
Conference, Isaiah Villars, to Rock
P'ergusou,
to the Holston
C.
E.
Conference.
IS.—
Who have Died?
Lafayette Casej-,
lb.
Edmund
Root, William T. Brannum.
— Who have been Located at their o'vn Request.''
J.
W.
Phillips,
Pearce.
T. J.
Davis,
J.
D. Reeder, C. N. Burke, John
J
7
— Wlio
been Located ^
liax'e
None.
J
'-<.
—
vS,
J.
ig.
have
IV//0
-vitlidra-vii
.'
.Sproul.
— Who have heen permitted to -.vithdrav.'
under Changes or Coinptahifsr'
None.
2('.
— Who have been Expelled
'
None.
2j
— What other personal Notation should be made?
(a) Willis Patchen, an Elder of Presliyteriau Church.
(b) J.
22.
W.
Phillips, restored
by action of Judicial Conference.
— IVho are the Supernumerary Preachers f
N. B. Cooksey, vS. Walker, A. L. Greenlaw, A. D. Cullom, J. P.
Youngling, G. M. Whitsell, J. W. Field, J. W. Maddux, H.
Sears, J. D. Gillham.
2^.
— Who are the Superantiuated Preachers:'
W. Laughlin, G. W. Waggoner, F. O. Blair, C. Mapes, D.
Oglesby, M. House, A. Bliss, J. P. Dew, D. FUam, (r. W. Cullom,
R. Randle, M. L. King, J. P. Rutherford, J. W. Nail, A. Ransom,
Boyer, L. A. Harper, T. A,
J. Weeden, J. W. Franklin, J. J
Eaton, J. A. Thrapp, V. D. Lingenfelter, H. H. Keith, R. Allyn,
W. F. Davis, Wm. McMorrow, H. Manifold, Wm. Van Cleve,
R.
Joseph Earp.
2^.
— IVho are the
Triers of Appeals?
'
M. N. Powers, C. W. Bonner, J. W. McNeil, John Leeper,
Ravenscroft, C. B. Besse, J. H. Ford.
2j.
— What
is
the Statistical
Report for
this
J. B.
year?
.See vStatistics.
^(j^
— What
Aggregate of
the
is
the Benevolent Collections as reported by
the Conference Treasurer ?
I19.536.
2j,
— What are the
Claims on the Conference Funds?
Is. 000.
28.— What has
14,297.
2g_
vSee
Report.
— Where are the Preachers Stationed?
See
-(,
been Rfceived on these Claims, andhoivhas
list
of appoinments.
— Where shall the
ftext
McLeansboro, His.
Conference be held
?
if
been applied ?
OF APPOINTMENTS.
LIST
The
figures indicate the
number
of years in charge.
Alton District.
2
6 J. A. SCARRITT,
F. L. Thomson
Alton
1
Bethalto, supplied by
G. L Dunuavan
W. A. Cross
Brighton
2
Bunker
2
Dounellson
Edwardsville
I
4
1
2
Hill...
G.
W.
Elsah
Fieldon
Gillespie
Godfrey
Grant Groves
Jersey ville
Beaucoup
Belleville
Carlyle
2
Collinsville
I
East
I
Freeburg
I
Greenville
1
Hagerstown
2
Huey
I
Lebanon
I
I
St.
C.
District.
Mulberrj- Grove
Nashville
.J.
Okawville, supplied by
H. L. Davenport
I
1
I
M. Adams
W. Bonner
Gve Park
4
Pocahontas
I
Ramsey
W. Locke
Baker
W. Mcintosh
Z. J.
|
Wisetown
;
W. Farmer
D. T. Harris
G. A. Seed
C. D. Shumard
N. D. .Sweeney
R. C. Houghton
W. H. Neil
Shiloh
Trenton
Troy
Venice
Waterloo
;
W 'Walton
J.
Cramp
P. E., Belleville, 111.
J.
C.
L.
E. E. Waggoner
J. A. Robinson
Upper Alton
W. Shepherd
.J.
M
.Staunton
D. Hennessey
.J. C. Orr
Louis. ..R D. Woodley
3
J.
vShipman
H. H. Young
G.
Crow
A. Taylor
Litchfield
N. Powers
"
Circuit supplied..
by
Willis Patchen
New Douglas
J- T. Huffman
Piasa
J. L. Wylder
E. Ravenscroft.
J. E. Burk
to be supplied
J. A. Hampton
to be supplied
H. Clark,
...N.
Kane
Lebanon
1
Grafton, supplied by
W. vScawthon
C. L. York
3 O.
I
E., Alton-, 111.
A. Yingst
C. E.
j
|
Herdman, Financial Agent W. W. Edwards, Professor
McKendree College, members of Lebanon Quarterly Conference.
T. H.
;
Mt.
I
Carm el
G. Dek. P
T. O. Holley
J.
I
Belknap
Carmi
1
Carriers Mills. ...to be supplied
Crossville, supplied by
2
J. P- Yungling
Dahlgren, supplied by
I
2
1
2
I
I
I
1
J.
Mcintosh
Equality, supplied by
N. Bascom
Golconda
J. B. Cummins
Epworth
I
Grayville
1
Harrisburg
1
W. McNeil
N. B. Hodson
Eddyville, supplied by
W. D. Margrave
Eldorado
J. Y, Reid
Elizabethtown...W. R. Bradley
Enfield
J. B. House
S. A.
R.
E
Pierce
D. Orr
District.
Carmi, 111.
Maunie, supplied by
G. W. Lauderdale
E.,
5
2
I
I
r
McLeansboro
"
.J. L. Wallar
Ct...W. J. Hopper
Metropolis
J.
H.Jones
"
Circuit
J. H. Davis
Mill vShoals, supplied by...
A. S.Jenkins
1
Mt. Carmel
.J. F". Harmon
Burnsides
Theo. Cates
Norris City, S. S. .Smith....
2
Omaha
I
I
New
and W. C Wyuant
2
1
2
I
C. L. Douthitt
Shawneetown
Vienna
••
Wayne
Circuit
City
J.
G. Tucker
H. Ford
.J. R, Reef
H. Bennett
,J.
J.
Mt. Vernon District.
3 J.
W. FwNT,
Auna
Ashley
Benton
L.J.
P. E.., Carbondale,
3
Mound
Grantham
2
Mt. Vernon
N. Stauffer
Cairo
M. VanTreese
F.
Groves
Carterville...Ressho Robertson
Chester and Palestine
Carbondale
S. P.
L.
"
Circuit. ..C. J. Pressley
Elco, supplied by D. W. Ashby
J.
J.
I
Albion
"
C. S.
Hawk
I
Thebes
Vergennes
Villa Ridge
W. McEllagood
W. D. Mcintosh
Smith
D. Crenshaw
Wm.
Rock
Jeffersonville
Lancaster
I
I
Oiney District.
Wm. WaluS, p. E., Olney,
Wm. Carson
Mt. Erie
W. Edmondson
Flora
Hutsonville
...A.
Tilroe
Ridgway
T. Murken
Wilkin
W. Van Houten
L. C.
"
Alma
Altamont
Avena
111.
H. O. Hiser
U. G. Johnston
Circuit, E. M. Barringer
"
Centralia
" Mission supplied by
Wni. Bickers
Cisne, supplied by
Ira G. Morrill
Effingham
B. E. Pierce
Farina
B. A. Hoar
Irvington
S. E. Turner
D. R. Miller
luka
J.
C. Nash
W. Jackson
Circuit supplied by
Isaiah Boatman
.J.
G.
Harmon
Circuit.. .W. L. Burkitt
West Liberty..
L. W. Porter
Willow Hill.. ...J. W. Tennyson
vSociety,
Vandalia District.
W. Thrai.1., p. E., Salem,
A. Harris
C. E. Bovard
L. E. Cole
F. L. West
W. H. Poole
A. J. Dewhirst
Sumner
H. McGriff, Agent American Bible
Quarterly Conference.
L.
Fred James
Noble
Oblong
Olney
Robinson
J.
I
J. Ji.
Newton
D. C.
J.
McKelvey
McCollom
Tamaroa
C. D. Lingenfelter
J. B. Ravenscroft
Fairfield
Flat
I
W. A. Leatherman
Richview
M. L. Cole
vSparta and Coulterville
J. L. Cunuinj^ham
Spring Gaiden
O. E. Laird
Steelville
supplied by W. Weber
Belmont
Greenlee Calvert
Bone Gap
C. W. Sabine
Bridgeport
W. Powers
Claremont, supplied by
Clay City
vSnell
I
Ct.
J.
Asa
I
h.
Marion
Pinckneyville
K. Hunter
J. L.
Makanda
Joy
W. VanCleve
Circuit, vSilas Green
A. J. Littell
Murphysboro
Opdyke
I
John Leeper
E.
J.
"
r
Kinison
J.
City
2
I
DuQuoin
C.
3
3
Walker
vS.
Corinth
Frankfort
Jonesboro
111.
Smith
B. S.
and member Olney
111.
A. H. Pitkin
Louisville
Mason
Moccasin
Montrose
Odin
Patoka
M.
D.
.....J.
Baker
J. Little
James Leavitt
Leatherman
A.
E. Barnes
D. Shouse
Sailor Springs
St.
B.
Elmo
\\\ T.
Morris
Shobonier, supplied by
P.
vSalem
J.
W. Lockhard
B. Thompson
Vandalia
C. B. Besse
Walnut Hill. .Littleton Hullett
A. Vandaveer
Watson
D. W. Raker
Kinmundy
Xenia
J. li. Nickerson
C. A. Beckett, N. W. Atkins, G. E. McCamnion, J. A. Large,
Johnsonville
Geo. N. Wilkerson
Charles Virden, S. P. Young, W. G. Hale, O. F. Culver
to attend one of our schools.
appointment
left
without
JOUl^fli^L
OF DAILY pROGEEDIflll^.
FIRST DAY— Morning Session.
Flora,
Cy^HU
Southern
Annual Conference convened
Illinois
\\^
its
^^^
Church, in Flora,
Ills., Sept. 27, 1893.
for
Fortj^-second Session in the Methodist Episcopal
at 8:30 A. m.,
Ills.,
September
27,
1893.
After a half-hour praise service, conducted by J. Leeper,
A. Robinson, assisted by the Presiding Elders, administered the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
In the absence of Bishop Fowler, J. A. Robinson was
elected Temporary Chairman, and called the Conference to
J.
order.
J.
W. Van
Cleve, Secretary of the Conference at
session, called the roll,
names
to their
:
Baker, C. E.
Barnes, E.
Barringer, E. M.
Baker, M. B.
W.
W. R.
Bonner, C.
Bradley,
Burk, C. N.
Burkitt,
W.
its last
and the following members answered
Hoar, B A.
House, J. B.
Hufifman,
Powers, M. N.
Powis, W.
T.
J.
House, M.
Harris, D. T.
Hopper,
\V. J.
Jackson,
J.
W.
Ransom, A.
Ravenscroft,
Reid, J. Y.
J. B.
Robinson,
J.
A.
Sabine, C.
W.
Crenshaw, J. D.
Cullom, A. D.
Joy, E.
Jones, J. H.
Johnston, U. G.
Keith, H. H.
Keisling, W.
Scarritt, J. A.
vScawthon, G. W.
vSeed, G. A.
vShepherd, G. \V.
Shumard, C. D.
Cramp, L.
Cole, M. ly.
Kinison, J. C.
Locke, J. W.
vSmith, B. S.
vSmith, L.
Leatherman, J. A.
Leatherman, W.
vSnell,
Burk,
L.
E.
Clark, O. H.
Cross,
J.
W.
A.
Cunningham,
Cullom, G.
J. L.
W.
Cole, L. E.
Carson, W.
Davis, W. F.
Dee, J. G.
Dewhirst, A.
Earp, J.
Leeper, J.
Lingenfelter,
Little, D.J.
Maddux,
McGriff,
J.
Tennyson,
W.
H.
J.
Mcintosh,
Mcintosh,
CD.
A.
Stauffer, N.
Sale, C. E
Taylor, J. A.
A.
vS.
J.
W.
Thompson, J. B.
Thomson, F L.
Thrall, L. W.
W.
McMorrow, J. W.
McNeill, J. W.
Tilroe, \V.
Ford, J. H.
Gillham, J. D.
Manifold, H.
Greenlaw, A. L.
Morris,
Van Treese, F. M.
Van Houten, A. W.
Waggoner, G. W.
Farmer, Z.
Flint, J.
J.
W.
Murken,
J.
J.
W.
T.
T.
Turner, S. E.
Vandaveer, A.
JOURNAL OF
iS
Groves, S. P.
Green, S.
Harris, A.
DAIIvY PROCEEDINGS.
Nickerson.
Nash, C.
J.
Harmon, J. F.
Harmon, J. G.
Nail, J. W.
Orr, I).
Orr, J. C.
Harper, L. A.
Pearce,
Hawk,
Pierce, B. R.
Pierce, R. V,
Poole, W. H.
J. L.
Hennessey, J. I).
Herdmau,'T. H.
Walker, L.
Walker, S.
E.
S.
Wallar, J. LWallis, W.
West, F. L.
Woodley, R.
Yingst, A.
J.
Young,
I).
S. P.
PROBATIONKRS.
Hiser, H. O.
Grantham, L. J.
Waggoner, E. E.
Douthit, C. F.
Cummins, J. B.
Hunter, John K.
McCammon, G. E.
Mcintosh, W. D.
Pierce,
Pitkin, A. H.
Neill,"W. H.
Baker, I). W.
Shouse, D.
Large, J. A.
Laird, O. E.
Robinson, R.
Smith, S. S.
Walton, W. C.
Miller, D. R.
McKelvev,
J.
McCullom,
C. S.
Randle, G. W.
Sweeney, N. D.
E.
Culver, d. E.
Holley, T. O.
vS.
The Rules
governing
of Order and the Standing Resolutions
Conference were adopted for the government
last
of this.
J.
W. Van Cleve was
his assistants F.
J.
J.
Y.
L,.
West,
elected Secretary,
J. C. Kinison
who
G. Dee was elected Statistical Secretary,
H.
Reid,
nesey, D. Orr,
J.
O.
Hiser,
C.
Harmon
G.
D.
selected as
and U. G. John.ston.
Shumard,
who
J.
selected
D.
Hen-
as assistants.
Wm.
lyeatherman was elected Treasurer, and nominated
as assistants W. Carson, W. H. Poole and A. H. Pitkin.
The report of the Committee on Standing Committees
was presented and adopted.
The bar of Conference was by vote fixed at the rear of
the fourth window.
At
call of Statistical Secretary, reports
Upon
request of
excused from
and
Wm.
work to serve
by M. B. Baker.
statistical
his place filled
Weatherman,
J.
were collected.
G.
Harmon was
as Assistant Treasurer,
S. Hard, representing the Church Extenwas introduced, and addressed the Conference.
At 11:00 A. M. Bishop C. H. Fowler arrived, and took
Rev. Dr. M.
sion Society,
the chair.
SOUTHERN
Q'^EsTioN
Was
IIvIvINOlS M.
the Character
E).
CONFERENCE.
of each preacher
19
exammedf
The Thirteenth Question was
called.
After passage of
A. Scarritt,
Presiding Elder of Alton
After passage of their characters,
District, reported his work.
the following elders reported their Missionary and Conference
Claimants Collections: F. L,. Thomson, J. A. Robinson, G.
W. Scawthon, J. Earp, M. N. Powers, J. T. Huffman and
W. A. Cross.
his character,
J.
After passage of his character, O. H. Clark, Presid-
ing Elder of lyebanon District, reported his
passage of their
characters,
district.
After
the following elders reported
and Conference Claimant Collections
R.
J. W. Mcintosh,
W. Van Houten,
E. W.
C. W. Bonner, C. D. Shumard, J. C. Orr, Adam Yingst, T.
H. Herdman, W. W. Edwards and E. C. Ferguson.
their Missionary
D. Woodley,
:
D. Hennessey, F. E- West,
Thrall, E. Cramp, G. A. Seed, A.
J.
Upon motion
of his
Presiding Elder,
W.
B.
Bruner was
granted a superannuated relation.
The Conference
instructed J. D. Gillham to turn over
Elder of Lebanon District, O. H. Clark,
certain monumental funds in his hands amounting to fifty
dollars, to be used in purchase of a tombstone for C. M.
to the Presiding
Holliday,
when proper
conditions shall have been complied
with.
J.
P.
Odgers, of Rock River Conference, representing
the interests of Wesle)' Hospital, addressed the Conference.
A
and
J.
committee consisting of M. N. Powers, J. E. Wallar
Eocke, was appointed to confer with Bro. Odgers
W.
relative to the interests of
J.
for the
A
Wesley Hospital.
E. Nickerson was appointed to solicit subscriptions
Methodist Revie7v.
draft of $25.00
on the Chartered Fund and one
of
$1,402 on the Book Concern, were ordered.
The sum
of
$1,179 was asked for the Episcopal Fund,
and the matter referred
to the Presiding Elders for apportion-
ment.
Dr. Curts, of the
Book Concern, was introduced, and
presented our publishing interests.
JOURNAL OF DAILY PROCEEDINGS.
20
A
of W. E. Ravenscroft, John
Harmon, J. W. Jackson and
Thompson,
F
J.
J.
R. D. Woodlej', was appointed to confer with our book
agents and give aid in collections.
Friday morning at 9:30 was the hour fixed upon for the
committee consisting
Leeper,
B.
reception of probationers in full connection.
The
committees was read and announcements
remarks b}' the Bishop and the singing of
the doxology, the Conference adjourned with the benediction.
of
list
made, and
after
SECOND DAY— Morning
Session.
September
28, 1893.
After devotional exercises, led by C. W. Bonner, the
Conference w-as called to order at 9 o'clock by Bishop Fowler.
The character of C. X. Burk, an Elder of Alton District,
was passed, after which he reported his collections,
^^
The Thirteenth Question was resumed.
xili""^
J. B.
Ravenscroft, Presiding Elder of Mt. Carmel District,
after
passage of his character, reported his District.
After passage of their characters, the following Elders
personally or through their Presiding Elder reported their
collections:
J.
G. Dee,
J.
W.
McNeill,
Cole, J. Y. Reid, J. H. Ford, D. Orr,
fer, J.
L. Wallar,
and
J.
R. Reef.
J.
W.
J.
T.
Harmon, R.
Also character
but no report was made.
Flint, Presiding
of J.
Elder
of
W.
J.
E.
R. Bradley, E- E.
H. Jones, N.
vStauf-
Pierce, C. E. RoN'se
H. Bennett was passed,
Mt. Vernon District, after
The
passage of his character, reported his District.
following
Elders of this District reported their collections after their
characters
Wm.
Jo}',
J.
L.
had been passed:
J.
A. Leatherman,
S. P.
Wallis, L- S. Walker, John Leeper, J. E.
J. W. \'an Cleve, Silas Green. A. vSnell, B.
Cunningham and
J,
D. Crenshaw.
J.
W.
reported transferred to the Missouri Conference.
Groves,
Hawk,
S.
E.
Smith,
Brittoin
was
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
Upon
Wm.
request of
appointed
L,.
CONFERENCE.
M. E.
Leatherman, the
Grantham and W. H. Porter
J.
21
Conference
as Assistant
Treasurers.
Olne}' District
Presiding Elder,
was next
after the
passage of
W. Van
The
Cleve.
and
in the absence of the
account of sickness,
his character, his report was read b}^ J.
Wm. Van
called,
Cleve, on
following Elders, after passage of their characters,
reported: A.
J.
Dewhirst,
Wm.
Powis, S. A. Mcintosh,
J.
T.
J. W. Eocke, Wm. Tilroe, J. H.
Eingenfelter, C. W. Sabine, E. W. Barringer,
Murken, G. W. Shepherd,
McGriff, C. D.
C.
W.
Nash,
J.
W. Jackson
J.
G. Harmon, Greenlee Calvert and
E. Burkitt.
Vandalia District was called, and after passage of his
M. Van Treese, Presiding Elder, reported his
character, F.
After his report E. Barnes, in behalf of the preach-
District.
Vandalia District, presented him with a gold-headed
cane, and the Bishop in behalf of the same bod}' of preachers
presented him with a gold watch.
The following Elders of this Di-strict, after passage of
their characters, reported: A. Harris, C. E. Bovard, D. J.
Eittle, J. D. Gillham, C. B. Besse, Wm. Eeatherman, A.
Vandaveer, M. B. Baker, B. A. Hoar, W. T. Morris, J. E.
Nickerson, J. B. Thompson, B. R. Pierce, W. G. Hale, H.
Manifold and E. Barnes.
H.
J. D. Gillham was granted a supernumerar}- relation.
^Manifold was granted a superannuated relation and his
ers of
case referred to the Board of Stewards.
QUE|TioN
xhe
Class of the Fourth
sentation by
Elder, were
Harris,
called.
The
after
Wm. Carson. D. T.
G. Johnston and Z. J. W. Farmer.
from Fourth Year after passage of
Elders' orders:
elected to
J. C. Kinison,
C. E. Sale
Year was
passage of their characters, repreexamination committee and their Presiding
following,
U.
was passed
character.
Bovard was not present.
S. E. Turner, W.
M. E. Cole and A. Vandaveer were not before
the committee.
Their characters were passed and they continued in the same class.
C.
Ji.
Keisling,
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22
QUESTION
(a) In studies of
The
Fourth Year.
class of
The following, after
the Third Year was called.
Elder and examining
Presiding
by
reporting and representation
Fourth Year: J. A.
the
of
class
to
committee, were advanced
Smith, C. E.
Lawrence
Poole,
H.
Taylor, J. W. Tenn3^son, W.
instructed
was
(who
Burk
and
E.
Baker, Wm. J. Hopper
J.
work).
to bring up delinquent
The character of S. P. Young was passed, -and he continued in class of Third year and left without appointment.
Chas. E. Virden, after passage of character, was continued in
Third Year. J. W. Maddux, after passage of his character,
was continued in class of Third year, and granted a supernumerary relation.
QUESTION
(i-j)
First
III
studies of
Year was
Second Year.
called.
The
The
class of the
following were repre-
sented by Presiding Elder and examining committee, continued on trial, and passed to class of Second year: J. A.
Earge (conditional in Exegesis), O. E. Eaird, Ressho Robertson, C. J. Pressley (conditional in Exegesis, General History
and Sermon), J. E. McKelvey (conditional in Exegesis), O.
appointment to attend McKendree
Neil, W. C. Walton and D.
The following were represented by Presiding
R. Miller.
Elder, their characters passed, and they not being before the
committee, were continued in class of First Year: S. S. Smith,
G. W. Randle, C. S. M,cCullom, N. D. Sweeney.
F. Culver (left without
College), T. O. Holly,
QUESTION
XXIII.
W. H.
Preachers f
PV/ioare Superannuated
^
The
follow-
ing superannuated preachers, after passage of their
characters, were continued in that relation: R. W. Eaughlin,
F. Davis, G. W. Waggoner, F. O. Blair, C. Mapes, D.
Oglesby, M. House, A. Bliss, J. P. Dew, D. Elam, G. W.
Cullom, R. Randle, M. L- King, J. P. Rutherford, J. W.
Nail, A. Ransom, J. Weeden, J. W. Franklin, J. J. Boyer,
W.
A. Thrapp, V. D. EingenfelKeith and Robert Allyn. H.
Sears was granted a supernumerary relation, and his case
was referred to the committee on Conference Relations for
L. A.
ter,
Harper, T. A. Eaton,
W. McMorrow, H. H.
adjustment.
J.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
M.
K.
CONFERENCE.
23
The Bishop addressed the Conference relative to superannuated preachers.
Rev. Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, Field Agent of the Missionary
Society, was introduced, and addressed the Conference.
Mr. Solomon Thatcher, of Chicago, was introduced, and
spoke in reference to the Bishop Simpson monument, to be
erected in Chicago.
A
J.
W.
committee consisting"
McNeill,
was appointed
h.
J.
F.
of
Cunningham,
to confer
Thomson,
L,.
C.
W.
h-
Cramp,
Sabine, B. A. Hoar,
with Bro. Thatcher in regard to a
Time
plan for raising funds for erection of said monument.
was extended and E. G. Smith, representing the American
Bible Society, addressed the Conference.
After announcements, Conference adjourned with benediction by the Bishop.
THIRD DAY
-Friday Morning.
September
29, 1893.
After devotional exercises led by L. S. Walker, the Conwas called to order at 9 o'clock by Bishop Fowler.
ference
The minutes
of
yesterday's session were read, and after
corrections, approved.
J.
W.
Phillips
was reported
as being restored b}^ action
Conference to his Conference in an effective relagranted a location at his own request.
relation of R. E. Pierce was changed from supernum-
of Judicial
He was
tion.
The
erary to effective.
The commissioners
of the
Songer Endowment Fund were
instructed to place the net assets of this fund into the hands
of the
Conference Board
of
Stewards to be held in trust as a
permanent fund.
rr//^? c7Jc
^^Ixxii'^^
the
Super niimcraiy Preachers
?
The
following supernumerary preachers, after passage of
their characters,
Whitsell,
W.
J.
Field, T. J.
Greenlaw,
were continued
in the
same
relation: G.
D. Reeder, N. B. Cooksey, vSamuel Walker,
J. P.
Davis, A. D. Culloni,
Yungling and
J.
J.
B.
W. Maddux.
House, A.
M.
J.
L.
JOURNAL OF DAILY PROCEEDINGS.
24
Sproul was announced withdrawn.
At 9:30 the order of the day was taken up. The class for
admission was called forward and addressed by the Bishop.
J. S.
2'^'E^Tiox
What mevibers are in studies of Third Year?
After reporting their collections and representation
by examination committee and Presiding Elder, the following
were admitted into full connection and elected to Deacons'
orders: H. H. Young, J. B. Cummins, Geo. E. McCammon,
J. K. Hunter, W. D. Mcintosh, A. H. Pitkin, D. Shouse,
D. W. Baker, H. O. Hiser.
E. E. Waggoner, and L. C.
Wilkin being already Deacons, were, after representation
and passage of character, passed in their .studies and admitted
into full connection.
The same action was taken in the case
of L. J. Grantham, who is already an Elder.
(b) The character of Samuel Pierce was passed,
and after representation, was admitted into full connection and elected to Deacons' orders and to Elders' orders
under the Missionary- Rule.
^^^xf^°^
The
character of A. H. Pitkin was passed, he continued in
the class of Second Year and
left
without appointment to
attend school.
ter
A. J. Littell was not before the committee. His characwas passed and he continued in the same class.
J. B. Young, editor of the Central Christian Adwas introduced, and addressed the Conference.
Dr.
vocate,
Dr. J. M. Freeman, representing the Sunday-school
Union and Tract Society, was introduced, and spoke in the
interests of these causes.
announcements. Conference adjourned
then to reassemble for Memorial services.
After
p. M.,
until
2
SOUTHRRN
CONFERENCE.
ILLINOIvS M. E.
25
AFTERNOON SESSION.
at 2 p. m. to enter upon a Memoand called to order by J. D. Gillham. J. A.
Robinson conducted devotional exercises.
Conference reassembled
rial
Service,
QUK.ST10N
A.1 V
Who
J.
have died f
A
memoir
of
W.
T.
Brannum
.
was read by
S.
Carr,
Wm.
Weatherman;
Root, by L. Cramp; of
of L. Casey, by J. D.
of E.
by F. L. Thomson;
Gillham; of Sister CuUom, by L,. A. Harper; of Sister vSmith,
by J. G. Dee; and of Sister Richardson, by J. D. Gillham.
Remarks were made by ly. S, Walker, J. A. Robinson,
R. W. I^aughlin, J. \V. Locke, J. D. Gillham, F. H. Herdman, F. L,. Thom.son, E. Joy, C. D. Lingenfelter, E. Cramp,
C. W. Bonner, B. R. Pierce, W. F. Davis, S. E. Turner, J.
W. Nail, D. J. Eittle, J. L- Cunningham, B. A. Hoar, M. L.
King, E. Barnes and J. B. Thompson.
Conference adjourned with benediction.
FOURTH DAY-Morning
Session.
September
30, 1893.
After devotional exercises, led by S. P. Groves, the
Bishop called the Conference to order at 9 o'clock.
The Minutes were read, corrected and adopted.
QUESTION
(a)
Was
called.
Joel Brown, a Local Preacher, was elected to Local
Deacon's Orders.
The Board of Stewards presented their report, which was
re-committed.
A
public collection was ordered placed into the hands of
the Conference Stewards for disposal.
Geo.
QUE^sTiOxM
W. Webber was
(--J-)
report of
'j^jjg
elected to Deacon's Orders.
following,
after
representation and
Examining Committee and
satisfactorily
answering disciplinarj^ questions, were admitted on
F. M. James, (condition on essa}' and sermon),
trial
J.
:
W.
JOURNAL OF DAILY PROCEEDINGS.
26
Cunimings,
L.
W.
(left
Porter,
J.
without
W.
appointir.eiit
Levitt, L-
to attend
school),
W. Wynaiit and
Hullett, C.
Geo. N. Wilkerson.
M- Adams from the Kentucky Conference was announced and admitted to class of first year.
The
transfer of
The
report
J.
the
of
Stewards
was re-submitted and
adopted.
The
orders of L. Hullett as an Elder of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, were recognized.
It
was unanimousl}' decided
to hold the next session of
the Conference at McEeansboro.
The
Committee on Boundary between Illinois and vSouthern Illinois Conferences was adopted and apreport of the
proved.
(See report.)
The reports of the Committees on Sunday Schools,
Woman's Foreign Missionar}- Society, Tracts and Epworth
League, and on Wesley Hospital, were presented and adopted.
(See report.)
J.
D. Reeder was granted a location at his
The Bishop was
work
requested to appoint
J.
own
request.
H. McGriff to the
of the Bible Societ}' in Illinois.
A plan of Conference Examinations, proposed by P\ L.
West, was referred to a committee consisting of F. E- West, J.
W. Van Cleve and T. H. Herdman, with in.structions to report
before Conference adjourns.
C. N.
Burk was granted
On motion of J. A.
annuated relation.
a location at his
Scarritt, J.
own
request.
Earp was granted
a super-
The relation of C E. Sale was changed from effective to
supernumerary.
T. J. Davis was granted a location at his own request.
The Committees on Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society, on Temperance, on Sabbath Observance, on
Church Extension and on Education, were presented and
adopted.
On adoption of the report on Education, Bishop Fowler
addressed the Conference upon the subject of a collegiate education.
He most
heartily endorsed
McKendree
College.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
QUE^sTioN
M.
E.
CONFERENCE.
Theodore Gates was admitted on
27
trial.
Mr, Solomon Thatcher addressed the Conference
concerning Bishop Simpson's .statue.
The
orders of Willis Patchen, an elder in the Presbj^-
were recognized.
terian Church,
On motion
at
of O.
H. Clark, Conference ordered a session
3:30 to-day for completion of business.
Dr. Hartzell, representing the Freedmen's Aid and
Southern Education Societ3^ was introduced, and addressed
the Conference.
Time was extended.
A
circular, presented b}' the
Bishop from the Missionary
Geary Law, was endorsed.
Society, asking the repeal of the
The apportionment
to this
Conference for Freedmen's
Aid and Southern Education Society was requested by Dr.
Hartzell, to be included in report of Freedmen's Aid and
Southern Education Committee's report. The request was
•
granted.
The action by which the report of Stewards was adopted
was re-considered, and the report re-committed.
Conference adjourned with benediction
FOURTH DAY— Afternoon
bj''
the Bishop.
Session.
Saturday, September
At 3:30 the Conference was
Gillham, who,
b}'
The Board
called to order by J.
of
Stewards presented
its
report,
"
"
which was
:
—
From Book Concern
"
Chartered Fund
"
D,
request of the Bishop, occupied the chair.
adopted, and the funds distributed, as follows
Receipts
30, 1893.
Mt. Carmel District Advocate
Special Collection in Tent
5i.402 00
25 oo
4 00
12 50
Collections
2,853 5°
Total
14)297 00
JOURNAL OF DAILY PROCEEDINGS.
28
We recommend
the following disbursements:
Mrs. J. B. Re5'nolds, taken by J. W. Van Cleve
Rev. G. W. Waggoner, taken by N. Crow
Rev. M. House, taken by L. W. Thrall
Mrs. E. L. English, taken by J. W. Jackson
Mrs. G. W. Robbins, taken b}' J. W. Van Cleve
Rev. Richard Randle, taken by J. A. Robinson
Rev. J. W. Nail, taken by self
Mrs. J. Thatcher, taken by L. Cramp
Rev. M. L. King, taken by self
Mrs. J. Glaze, taken bvj. Leeper
Mrs. C J. T. Tolle, taken by W. T. Morris
Rev. G. W. Cullom, taken by self
Rev. J. P. Rutherford, taken by C. E. Baker
Rev. R. W. Laughlin, taken by self
Mrs. C.J. Houts, taken by J. F. Harmon
Mrs. L. S. Clifford, taken by J. H. Ford
Mrs. O. V.Jones, taken by L. Cramp
Mrs. G. W. Farmer, taken by G. A. Seed
Mrs. A. L. Downey, taken by A. Snell
Mrs. Norman Allyn
Mrs. R.J. Nail, taken by S. P. Groves
$
175 00
150 00
175 00
200 oo
100 00
125 00
195 00
75 00
'.
125 00
100 00
175 00
150 00
,
90 00
50 00
90 00
75 00
50 00
75 00
150 00
loo 00
150 00
100 00
25 00
100 00
100 00
75 00
50 00
75 00
100 00
100 00
52 00
195 00
100 00
200 oo
100 00
75 00
Mrs
P. P. Hamilton, taken by J. Leeper
Rev. D. Elam, taken by C. E. Baker
Mrs. E. Root, taken by self
Rev. A. Ransom, taken by self
Mrs. D. Caughlin, taken by F. L. West
Miss Ollie Shepherd, taken by J. W. McNeill
Mrs. A. Campbell, taken by J. W. Van Cleve
Rev. L. A. Harper, taken by self
Rev. J. VV. Franklin, taken by J. Leeper
Rev. J. J. Boyer, taken bj- E. Barnes
Rev. W. I'\ Davis, taken by self
Rev. Wm. McMorrow, taken by self
Rev. J. A. Thrapp, taken by self
Rev. V. D. Lingenfelter, taken by self
Rev. T. A. Eaton, taken by L. Cramp
(And Conference Love Feast Collection.)
H. H. Keith, taken b^^ self
L. Casey, taken bj' self
\V. T. Brannum, taken by self
H. Manifold, taken by self
C. Babbitt, taken by J. D. Gillham
Rev.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Rev.
Mrs.
25 00
75 00
50 00
100 00
25 00
Total
It is
^41297 00
the judgment of the Board that the
sum
of I5, 000 be raised
next year.
8.
P.
members
Groves and
W
Wallis are nominated for re-election as
of the Board, to serve three years.
Respectfully submitted,
L-
W. Thrai.l,
Secretary.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
Wm.
CONFERENCE.
29
Wallis presented the following resolution, which
was adopted
:
Whereas, The
Conference
is
number
of
venerable
Resolved,
list
of
Conference Claimants
a long one for a Conference of our size
Whereas, There
a
M. E.
That
in
;
this
and,
are at the present in our effective ranks
men who must soon
to protect that class
retire
of
;
therefore,
men who have
given their lives to the work of the ministry within our
bounds, we hereb}' resolve that no man should be admitted
on trial who is more than thirty-five years of age.
Wm. Wallis,
B. R. Pierce,
John Leeper,
S. P.
L.
J. B.
This resolution was made one
The
Statistical Secretar}-
of the
made
his
Groves.
W. Thrall,
Thompson.
standing rules.
report,
which was
adopted.
The report of special committee on Plan
Examinations was made, and rejected.
Question
on
trial to
The
II.
of
Conference
was resumed, and Gye Park was admitted
Class of First Year.
report of
Committee on Conference
District Journals
was adopted.
The
transfer of E.
C.
Ferguson
to the
Holston Confer-
ence was announced.
John Pierce was granted a location at his own request.
W. G. Hale and Chas. Virden were left without appointment to attend school.
The
relation of J.
numerary
The
B.
House was changed from super-
to effective.
report of Committee on Bible Society- was presented,
and adopted.
:
JOURNAL OF DAILY PROCEEDINGS.
30
On
motion
of J. B.
House,
J.
W. Van
Cleve was elected
publisher of the Minutes of next session.
The Secretarj' of the Presiding Elders presented nominations and appointments, which were confirmed.
On
request of C.
Nash,
W. Van
Cleve was granted a
superannuated relation.
Reports of Committee on Class Meetings, of Custodian
of Conference Educational bund and of Financial Agent of
McKendree College, were made, and adopted.
A suitable book for recording Conference examinations
was ordered, and F. M. Van Treese appointed Conference
Registrar.
W.
E.
Thrall presented
thanks, which were adopted
the
following resolutions of
:
That the thanks of this Conference are tendered
Eocke and the church and people of Flora for the
Resolved,
to Rev. Dr.
hospitable entertainment
given
Secretaries for their patient
Treasurers,
and
to
this
To
Conference.
and painstaking work,
our beloved
Bishop
for
his
the
to the
excellent
administration, and for his earnest and inspiring words.
of
It was decided that upon approval of Minutes, ordination
Deacons and Elders, and reading the appointments, that
the Conference stand adjourned.
A collection to defray Conference expenses was taken,
amounting to $27.85.
The doxology was sung and the benediction pronounced.
CERTIFICATES OF ORDINATIONS.
This
certifies that I
have this day ordained to the order of Deacon
Hiram H.Young,
John K. Hunter,
Jason B. Cummins,
George E. McCammon,
William D. Mcintosh,
Samuel
Alfred H. Pitkin,
David W. Baker,
Douglas Shouse,
Pierce,
Henry O. Hiser.
George W. Webber.
assisted by several Elders, I have also ordained to the order
Joel Brown,
And
that,
of Elder
David T. Harris,
William Carson,
Josiah C. Kinison,
Ulysses G. Johnston,
Samuel
Farmer,
Zelah
J.
Done
at Flora,
•
:
111.,
Oct.
i,
Pierce.
1893.
C.
H Fowler.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
M. E.
CONFERENCE.
31
MEMOIRS.
Rev. L. Casey.
Rev.
ly.
Casey was
l)orn in Jefferson county, 111.,
near Mt. Vernon,
March 24, 1825, and was converted in 1851. He married Miss Eleanor
M. Harrold March 24, 1847. Rro. Casey was twice married, his first
wife having shared with him the toils and cares of the itinerant life
twenty-two years, d3'ing ,September nth, 1876. He married
Mrs. Louisa Musgrave, Dec. 25, 1885. Bro. Casey died at his home
March 19, 1893. He was admitted to the Southern Illinois Conference
on trial in the fall of 1854, ordained deacon at Lebanon by Bishop
Scott in 1857, and elder at Richview by Bishop Ames in 1859. He
closed his thirty-eighth year in the ministry last fall, and was granted
a superannuated relation at his own request. He .served twenty-eight
charges in the thirty-eight years of his ministry. He was abundant
in labors.
He always did good work wherever he went. Many souls
have been converted through his instrumentality. He always' went to
his charges cheerfully and uncomplainingly, and had a host of warm
and admiring friends in the fields of labor he has served.
for about
Rkv. Jerome
vS.
Carr.
Carr was born at Marlboro, O., in 1849, and died at
Jerome
Litchfield, 111., March 4, 1892.
He was licensed to preach at Reading,
Michigan, 1872. He worked as a supply both in the North Indiana
and Cincinnati Conferences. He was ordained deacon in 1885. After
supplying Wanda and Litchfield circuits in the vSouthern Illinois
Conference he was received on trial, dying the next year. His last
"For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."
text was
vS.
:
Mrs. Lois M. Smith.
Lois M. Foster was born in Carmi, 111., Jan. 19, 1868. vShe was
converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1884,
was maried to Rev. S. S. Smith Sept. 6, 1882, and died at the M. E.
parsonage at Belknap, 111., May 10, 1893. She was a faithful and
Sunday-school teacher, and a loyal and helpful Epworth
vShe was a true womanly Christian, and had all the
qualifications to grace the home and encourage the heart of an itinerant Methodist preacher, and in her brief experience as minister's wife
showed her ability to win and hold the affection and support of the
people among whom her lot was cast.
efficient
League worker.
MEMOIRS.
32
Mrs. Jane
C.
Rich.\rdson.
C. Jubb, wife of the late J. I. Richardsou, of the Southern
Illinois Conference, was born in Beckiugham, England, May 13, 1823,
Jaue
and died in Centralia, 111., Dec. 16, 1892. At the age of sixteen years
she was converted and joined the church. vShe was twice married, first
to Rev. John Hopkins, in England, when she was twenty-three years
of age.
For a time he was in ihe active work of the ministry. He
died in Central City, Southern Illinois Conference. Her second marriage was to Rev. J. I. Richardson, of the Southern Illinois Conference,
April 3, 1856. She was a true and faithful wife, and cheerfully shared
with him the privations, suffering and toils of the itinerant life for
nearly twenty years, he dying in 1872.
Mrs. M.
J.
CuLiyOM.
Miriam Julia Mann was born Dec. 18, 1824. She uniteil with the
Church and was converted in earlj' childhood. She married Rev. G.
W. Cullom Feb. 24, 1846. There were born to them seven children,
four of whom are living two of them are traveling ministers in the
Methodist Episcopal Church. She died of apoplexy, in Avena, IlL,
June 29, 1893. The life of Mrs. Cullom was exemplary. She shared
the privations, trials and sacrifices of the itineranc}' along with her
husband for many years.
;
Rev. W. T. Brannum.
Rev. William Thomas Brannum, a member of the Southern Illinois
Conference, was born in Fayetteville, St. Clair County, 111., and died
He married
in Kinmundy, 111., Dec. 5, 1892, in his fifty-fifth year.
Miss Margaret Ward July 29, 1858. She died Aug. 4, 1863. He was
married the second time to Miss Sarah J. Scott, his now bereaved companion, on Jan.
17, 1864.
the Methodist Episcopal Church when about
but was not converted until abovit the age of nineteen.
The influence thrown around him in his youth was pure and good.
His father was a leading member of the Church, filling the office of
He was licensed as a local preacher
class leader and stewart for years
in 1868, ordained local deacon at Mt. Vernon, Oct. 6tli, 1872, by Bishop
Bro.
twelve
Brannum joined
j-ears old,
local elder at Salem, Sept. 14, 1879, by Bishop
Andrews. As a local preacher he was very efficient in holding revival
His ability and
meetings and doing other unpaid Church work.
faithfulness were recognized by his Presiding Elder, and he served the
Church very effectually as a supply. He served Okawville from 1880
In 1885 he was admitted on
to 1883, and Beaucoup from 1883 to 1886.
He was appointed to Irvington charge in the fall of 1886, and
trial.
remained two years, and in 1888 was appointed to Kinmundy. He
was admitted into full connection in the Southern Illinois Couference
Bowman, and ordained
in the vear 1888.
SOUTHERN
ILIvINOIS M. E.
CONFERENCE.
33
Rev. E. Root.
Edmund Root was
born in Virginia April 23, 1832, From thence
his parents moved, when he was six years old, to Edwards county,
111., where he resided until he entered the 'pastoral work in 1869.
When the struggle for national unity began his voice and vote was for
the Union. He enlisted in the I52d Illinois Infantry, from which he
was, at the close of the war, honorably discharged. Bro. Root was
converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, on the
Albion Circuit, Sept. 3, 1849. From the God of his youth he never
strayed, but remained steadfast until the end. When he and Mary Ann
Rhoads were united in wedlock Oct. 31, 1850, a happy life relation
began that forty-three years have attested in joy and sorrow. Bro.
Root was licensed to exhort in 1851, and to preach in 1866; ordained
Deacon by Bishop Scott in 1871, and Elder in 1881 by Bishop Hurst.
He was appointed as supply to the Grayville charge in 1869. The
three years following he was engaged in merchandising in Olney,
Illinois.
He entered the itinerant ranks in the Southern Illinois
Conference on probation in 1873, and into full connection in 1875. In
1889 he took the superannuated relation. During all these years from
1873 to 1889 he and his companion patiently and faithfully performed
the work of the itineracy, receiving as compensation salaries that
required strict economy. He served a class of charges that were not
desirable either in labor or support, and yet without murmur. His
last days were spent in fitting up the little home where he expected to
close his life in a little ease so richly deserved. A heavenly mansion
was prepared for his reception, and the summons came at five o'clock
August 17, 1893.
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REPORTS.
PASTORAL ADDRESS.
Dearly Beloved Brothers and Sisters:— The Heavenly
Father,
providence, once more permits us to address to
you words of encouragement, of comfort and of exhortation and we
desire that you unite with us in devout thanksgiving and adoration
A large ingathering of
for the abundance of God's infinite mercies.
souls and a manifest quickening of all the Christian graces among
our members call for praise and renewed consecration. It is particularly pertinent that we set our hearts to ask for a large increase of
personal piety in the soul of every one who professes to believe in
the indwelling of the Divine Savior. Earnest faith, ever witnessed
by the Holy Ghost, should be the longing of each child of God.
Every moment we need the application of the pardoning blood of
Jesus and each day should bring to your lives the full realization of
the blessed assurance that your sacrifice has been graciously accepted.
But this personal piety is to be made the basis for family consecration. Yourselves and your families should be dedicated to God,
and you as high priests at the holy altar should keep the living fire
sprinkled with the incense of prayer, continually burning upon that
altar.
Every child ought to be given to God, and you, neither father,
mother, nor child itself, should rest till Jehovah has fulfilled His
promise, that you and your seed after you shall be taken into His
blessed covenant of grace. Morning and evening devotions, devout
thanks at every meal should be as certain in your household as the
daily coming of the light. We are aware that some of you may say
that you are not endowed with gift of words to express your thoughts
by vocal praise and prayer in an appropriate manner. Then use the
Lord's prayer. It was recommended by the Savior himself and it will
never grow old and stale. Be not afraid to repeat it in the spirit of
devotion. And do not forget that the simplest words are the best after
To pray any
all when you attempt to speak to the Father in Heaven.
where, but particularly in your own family, it wants only sincere
Neglect not this
thoughtfulness and a penitent and grateful soul.
great privilege of family devotion. Teach your children to take a part
in your family devotions. There, of all places in the world, be gentle,
be loving, be truthful, kind, generous, and noble, like Christ himself,
who pleased not himself but in all things sought the welfare and the
in His
merciful
;
—
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happiness of others. Teach both by precept aud example every child
whom God has bestowed on you as His most precious gift, and see to
it that he has been instructed and practiced in all the gentle virtues,
not only of truthful and honest speech and fair dealing but also the
We beseech you to make
sweetest, tenderest, most loving behavior
yourselves and your children intelligent, devout, generous, helpful,
earnest, liberal and noble in all the duties and graces of Christian life.
;
Also let it be your ambition to become yourselves and to form for
your offspring the model of an unremitting discharge of all the public
attendance on the ordinances
acts of religious worship and service
of the Lord's day and house, and conscientious scrupulousness in
making fair contributions to sustain all the enterprises of the church
and her benevolences. Let all "your estimations" for these duties be
according to "the shekel of the sanctuary." But we further exhort that
you seek with an honest regard to the interests of the righteous requirements of the gospel, to peform the civil duties laid upon you, as
on all the inhabitants of this highly favored republic. Among other
duties imposed on you and which seem specially imperative at the
present time, none are more pressing than that of protecting our public schools from two dangers that menace them from different sides
a total disregard of the law of God, and the designs of a foreign
ecclesiastical despotism. It certainly is obligatory on all lovers of the
country to preserve its life against the common infidelity and anarchy
of the times, and from that supercilious priestcraft which, by its teachings of a false standard of morality, emphasized and practiced by
celibate brotherhoods and sisterhoods, inculcates a degrading idea of
woman's virtue, and which seeks to dominate the thought and practice
of the age by a system of medieval bigotry.
Let us maintain full
liberty of inquiry and action, but let us also be careful to avoid a loose
and irresponsible, reckless tendency to such a freedom as may easily
degenerate into license. Above all things let us honor the Sabbath
day as one of the greatest blessings which our religious freedom has
secured to us and never let us allow any plea of secular gain or selfish
convenience to diminish its sacredness and impair the obligation to
observe it as a most blessed opportunity for rest, refreshment and
;
;
worship.
We earnestly urge you, dear brethren and sisters, to remember the
various benevolent enterprises of the Church by which we are enabled
to connect ourselves with all the progressive movements of the age,
and thus to prove that we are citizens of the whole world and servants
of the Lord Jesus Christ. By giving a trifle to the general funds
of the Church we aid in doing the will of the Father, and we are
working as He Himself and his vSon have been working, for the wellbeing of the race of mankind. The small sum of one dollar a year
from every member of the Church for a single decade would convert
the world to the gospel of our Savior.
Do not forget that nearly
every one can, with scarcely a studied sacrifice, give this pittance and
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REPORTS.
who already are giving more would swell our contributions to
more than double the customary amount. Shall we not then make a
little retrenchment of luxury, and possibly something of convenience,
in order to honor the Master and give to His cause a new impulse in
the direction in which events seem to be moving to convert the heathen
to the dominion of our blessed Lord?
The Bountiful Giver of mercies has kindly furnished you advantages. He has preserved you from the vices of the times, and these
vices, you know, are the most costly of all the demands which the
world exacts of its votaries. Your religion itself inculcates economy,
and this provides you a financial basis for returning back to God some
substantial tokens of your devout gratitude to Him and an assurance
of your good will and a pledge of your faithfulness in the future.
Let your thankfulness for having been preserved from sin be shown by
those
your willingness to return a portion of your accumulations into His
and let this portion be conscientiously ascertained and
cheerfully bestowed, with gratefulness even, and with abundant
prayer that it may be accepted and blessed to the givers and to the
causes for which it was intended.
In conclusion, suffer us, your pastors set to watch over the flock of
the Redeemer, to exhort you that you strive with all prayer and sup-
treasury,
make yourselves such earnest, conscientious, charitable,
enterprising Christians as the word of God has provided for, and as
He calls into His vineyard to sow for Him and in due time to reap
those wonderful harvests which His grace is ripening in so many and
plication to
such various fields everywhere. Make it your motto and your hourly
business to assist in every good work and to enable the Church to conquer the forces of nature and the hearts of men for God and the right.
And we pray that the wisdom and love of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ may guide you and inspire you to do all of His most blessed will.
R. AlIvYN,
C.
Nash,
Wm.
Tii^roe.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
M. E.
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«
EDUCATION.
McKENDREE COLLEGE.
Your committee would
respectfully report that
we have
received,
considered and incorporated with our work the report of the Executive Committee of McKendree College, which is as follows
:
Report of the Executive Committee of McKendree College.
Dear Brethren:— Under the blessing of God McKendree College
work of one
and auspiciously entered upon that of another. The
enrollment of last year was unusually large, and, despite the financial
stringency affecting all avenues of trade and all classes of society,
the enrollment of the year just opening bids fair to equal, or surpass,
has, since your last session, successfully completed the
collegiate year,
that of last year.
Financially the Institution has prospered. The income of the
current expenses. The indebtedness has been reduced $1,000, and the interest and insurance
have been paid. By action of the Joint Board, at its last session, it is
provided that in no case shall the expenditures of the Institute exceed
the income. Thus is the college placed upon a sound financial basis,
which will encourage advancement and render it permanent.
We call attention to the increased facilities for effective work along
college has been sufficient to defray all
every line, resulting from
structors.
2.
i.
:
The development
The enlargement
of the
Law
of the corps of in-
vSchool so as to include a
Louis and a Correspondence Department. 3.
and nonresident work. 4. The union of the Reading Room and Library, open
daily, and in charge of a competent librarian.
5. The transformation
of the Study Hall into a Science Hall with space and apparatus for
scientific experimentation
all of which materially contribute to ef-
Night School
The
at
East
St.
special attention given to Theological Post Graduates
;
ficiency
and success
of the Institution.
The past of McKendree College is secure. Her present is prosperous and buoyant with hope. There is but one question in regard to her
future
"What shall be the measure of her success ?" Does our Conference need a college in which to educate its ministers instead of
sending them to other Conferences never to return, in which to develop
the latent powers and Christian character of our young men and prepare them for lives of lofty purposes and noble achievements, in which
to train our young women to adorn with grace the brightest positions
in society, and to mold with culture and refinement the homes of
our church ? To secure these ends our people will even still more
loyally' rail}' to the support of McKendree College and in their sons
and daiighters read, in coming years, the grand history' of this
beneficent Institute.
:
M, L. Barr, President.
E. L.
Waggoner,
Lebanon,
111.,
Secretary.
Sept. 25, 1893.
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38
We recommend in order to the reduction of the indebtedness incurred several years ago in carrying on the work of the Institution, an
apportionment of 51,500 to the charges to be made at once by the Presiding Elders. That this amount may be realized we ask early and
earnest effort on the part of pastors, either in connection with the
own
$4,000, once
and increase of
endowment will be greatly brightened. We respectfully ask the Bishop
to appoint T. H. Herdman as Financial Agent of McKendree College.
We ask his election as Custodian of Conference Ministerial Educational Fund.
work
of the agent, or at their
instance.
removed, the outlook to the enlargement of
We recommend
B.R. Pierce,
N. Crow,
G. A. Seed,
J. G. Dee,
F. L. West,
R. D. Woodley,
W. Locke,
J.
As Alternates
C.
J.
W. Van
J. B.
D. Hennessey,
W.
Orr,
F. L.
We
A. Leatherman,
Thomson.
HAYWARD COLLEGIATE
have heard with pleasure
Hayward
House,
M. N. Powers,
J. T. Harmon,
Thompson,
J. C.
Cleve.
:
W. Bonner,
J. B.
debt,
as Conference visitors:
J. B. Ravenscroft,
J.
The
facilities
INSTITUTE.
of the
successful
Collegiate Institute during the past year.
work done by
We
heartily
endorse the school as a Methodist institution worth}' of the patronage
it
enjoys.
We recommend
as visitors to
Hayward the
pastors
of Flora,
Albion and Mt. Vernon charges.
GARRETT BIBLICAL INSTITUTE.
We regard Garrett Biblical Institute as a School of Theology well
deserving our attention and patronage. We commend to this, or other
Theological Schools under the direction of our Church, our young
ministers who wish to supplement the instruction in theology received
at
McKendree, by a
full course.
We recommend
Rev. M. N. Powers, D.D., and Rev.
of Theology, Rev. J. G. Harmon.
as visitors to Garrett
W. Carson, and
to
De Pauw School
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We trust that our ministers and members will give due encouragement to the education of the youth, using the public schools, the
Sunday School, the Epworth League and all other appliances that will
help the Christianization and Americanization of the generation that
will soon have the control of the political and religious interests of
our Great Republic.
T. H.
Herdman, Chairman.
EPWORTH LEAGUE.
Recognizing the Epworth League as one of the most efficient
agencies of the Church, we commend the yearly observance of an
Epworth Anniversary on Wednesday evening
of the Cenference
strongly urge the use of the pledge in all our chapters.
heartily approve the holding of an annual convention of Epworth
Session.
We
We
League workers, such as was held
earnestly
recommend the attendance
at Mt.
Vernon
F. L.
John H. Jones,
last August, and
upon the same.
West, Chairman.
of all Leaguers
Secretary.
WESLEY HOSPITAL.
The committee appointed to confer with Rev. Joseph Odgers,
Superintendent of Wesley Hospital, would respectfully recommend
the following Conference action
Resolved, That the Southern Illinois Conference has heard with
1.
interest the statement suggested by the Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees of Wesley Hospital, Chicago, and that its plan of
finances looking to the endowment of beds by Annual Conferences,
is approved and commended to the favorable consideration of our
people and churches.
Conference
undertakes the
2.
Resolved, That this Annual
endowment of a bed for one year, to be known as the Southern
Illinois Conference Bed, and that collections and subscriptions be
solicited from our churches amounting to $300.00 for that purpose
and that we invite Rev. Joseph Odgers, or other representative of
the hospital, to visit the charges in our bounds, to aid in raising said
amounts.
Resolved, That we will proceed to the election of one minister
3.
and one la3'man to represent this body in the Advisory Council of
:
;
Wesley Hospital, which minister and layman shall serve as trustees
for the Conference, if the charter is so changed as to admit such
representation, before the next meeting of this Annual Conference.
Respectfully submitted,
M. N. Powers,
J. L.
J.
Wai^lar,
W. Locke.
:
REPORTS.
40
CONFERENCE BOUNDARIES.
The joint Commission on boundary between the Illinois and
Southern Illinois Conference, met in Beecher City, Illinois, November
15th, 1892, and organized by electing Rev. J. T. Orr, President, and
A motion was passed recommending the
B. A. Hoar, Secretary.
As shown in Discipline, Ed. 1892,
following change in boundary, viz
paragraph 517, (94.) See Discipline.
:
boundary After the word HillsConference, thence east through
Fayette and Effingham counties &c., to read thence east to the north
and along the line of Fayette and Effingham counties, leaving
Holliday in Southern Illinois Conference, thence east to the north
line of Jasper and Crawford counties to the Wabash River, so that the
whole boundary will read thus
Southern
boro, leaving
Illinois
|it
Conference
in the
:
Illinois
:
517 (94)- Southern Illinois Conference shall include that part
of the State south of the following line, namely: Beginning at the
Illinois River, thence up said river to the northwest corner of Jersej^
If
County, including Kane and Woodbury, thence to Honey Point,
thence to Hillsboro, leaving it in Illinois Conference, thence east
to the^ north and along the line of Fayette and Effingham counties,
leaving Holliday in Southern Illinois Conference, thence east to the
north line of Jasper and Crawford counties to the Wabash River.
Orr, President,
Hooper,
T.
J.
W.
A.
W.
S.
Iv.
Plowman,
F. GiivivMORE,
Martin,
Hoar, Secretary,
J. B.
B. A.
C. B. Besse,
Leatherman,
J. A.
B. R.
J.
C. H.
Fowler,
E.
President.
Pierce,
Nickerson,
Commission.
TEMPERANCE.
The Committee on Temperance makes the following report
We believe the saloon to be the greatest public enemy with which
we have
It annually blights the homes, crushes the
to contend.
hearts and destroys the lives and souls of multiplied thousands. It is
opposed to progress of every kind, and brings idleness, ignorance,
discord, poverty and cruelties into homes and communities, where
industry, peace, prosperity and happiness might otherwise prevail.
We
note with sorrow the betraj^al of the cause of prohibition by
its
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pretended friends in Iowa, and we recognize with no small degree of
solicitude, the evident purpose of the politicians of the country to
We rejoice in the spirit and
completely overthrow prohibition.
It is gratifying to know that when
fidelity of our brethren in Iowa.
the choice between principle and party can no longer be avoided, the
Methodists of Iowa stand for principle. Against this monster, let us
use our influence, our energy and our ballot. The time has come for
We may not wait for prohibition to become
active, aggressive work.
an issue, we must make it an issue. We renounce for ourselves all
partisanship and declare our purpose to see that every vote we cast
shall be directly for the principles of prohibition and for men pledged
to its support.
J.
H. Ford, Chairman.
CHURCH EXTENSION.
Realizing the importance of the evangelization of our own
country in order to evangelize the world, and that in this great work
we must have churches in all our communities, and as these cannot
be built in many of the poorer communities without outside help, and
as the Board of Church Extension is intended to help in this work.
Resolved, That we, as pastors, lay these facts faithfully before our
people, and urge them to meet the entire apportionment, explaining
to them that we are entitled to three-fifths of all we raise in our
Conference to be used within our own territory.
N. Crow, Chairman.
SABBATH OBSERVANCE.
The Christian Sabbath is almost incessantly desecrated. The
God-given command, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,"
is still in effect, and for its violation the Protestant churches are in a
measure responsible.
We endorse the action of Congress in providing for closed gates
at the
Columbian Exposition.
We
deplore the fact that this decision was reversed, the gates
opened, and a vigorous effort made to fill the buildings and grounds
on Sunday. We most heartily thank God for the moral and religious
sense of this nation that refused to attend this place of resort on the
Lord's day. Also that the so-called laboring classes recognize the
necessity of a day of rest, and propose to profit by it. The evident
sense of this nation on this subject is Christian, Socialism and
Liberalism to the contrary, notwithstanding.
We recommend preaching upon this special subject in all our
pulpits.
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42
Resolved, That as a Church and Conference we will do what God
would have us do to preserve peace and quiet and deep religious
regard for the American Christian Sabbath.
J. L. Wyi,DER, Chairman.
CLASS MEETINGS.
ism.
The Class Meeting is one of the providential institutions of MethodThrough its power our fathers conquered. They overcame
through the blood
of the
The Discipline
"Lamb and
the appointment of leaders to be:
2d.
To keep up
experience.
the word of their testimony."
defines the design of the organization of classes and
ist.
For sub-pastoral oversight.
and for relating Christian
a meeting for social worship
3rd.
To
carry out a financial plan for raising
money
for
and benevolent purposes.
There never was a time when these essentials were so well provided for or so successfully maintained by the Church as at the present
time. The Sunday School, Prayer meetings, social meetings, Epworth
League and our financial disciplinary plan are as providential as the
class; and as they are largely superceding it in most places we earnestly pray that a double portion of the Spirit may rest upon these later
institutions.
Let the class meetings be maintained when it is possible,
but let the Church never neglect to stand for the essential elements of
the class whatever form the organization may take.
B. R. Pierce, Chairman.
religious
DISTRICT
CONFERENCE JOURNALS
We, your Committee on District Conference Journals, submit the
following report: We find no records of adjourned sessions of the
District Conferences of Mt. Carmel and Olney Districts, although
important business was transacted at these adjourned sessions. The
journal of Olney District is not indexed. We especially commend the
neat appearance of the journal of Lebanon and Mt. Vernon Districts.
L. E. Cole,
J.
W. Tennyson,
Committee.
^___
SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
Resolved,
ist.
management
That we hereby express our confidence in the
Sunday-School Union, and urge all the charges
of our
to contribute liberally to its support.
2nd. That no Sunday-school literature is better calculated to instill
piety and religious intelligence into the minds of our people than
our own publications. We therefore recommend their use in all
our schools.
ZeIvAh
J.
Farmer, Chairman.
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TRACTS.
Whereas, Eighteen charges in 1892 report no collection for the
Tract Society, and, that the total amount contributed is less than one
cent per member, and that the society extends liberal aid to the cause
of Missions, donating |6ooo to $7000 per year, thus giving one-third of
therefore,
its income in aid of our Mission presses
;
Resolved, That we recommend that a systematic, persistent effort
on the part of the pastor, be made to raise our apportionment,
viz: $475.
W.
A. Cross.
^
.
CONFERENCE RECORD,
.
1893.
MEMBERS OF CONFERENCE.
Admitted iuto
full
Connection.
p. O.
>
AUyn, R
Bliss,
Conference.
N. England 1863 Conn.
Superan..
Effective
1893 S.Illinois...
Illinois
Effective.
Mulb'ry G've. 1892 S.Illinois...
Xenia
1873 Kentucky.. 1884 Kentucky.. Effective.
Effective.
Newton
1888 S. Illinois...
Effective,
Mason
1890 S. Illinois...
Effective.
Vandalia
1890
Mass
Trinidad, Col. 1866 S. Illinois..
Superan..
Vermont... Superan..
Effingham
1856 S. Illinois..
Carbondale... 184-2
W
Baker, D.
Baker, C. E
Barnes, E
Barringer, E.M.
Baker, M. B
B
Besse, C.
Blair, F.
o a
ADDRESS.
A
Xenia
Bruner, W. B... Smithboro.. .. 18.57
1867
Bonner, C. W... Greenville
Jeffersonville. 1870
Boyer, J. J
S. Illinois..
S. Illinois..
Indiana
Indiana
Superan..
S. Illinois..
Penn
Superan..
1887 S. Illinois..
Beckett, C. A.... Evaneton
Bradley, W. R.. Elizabetht'n 1884 S Illinois..
Bennett, J. H... Wayne City... 1884 S. Illinois..
Burkitt W.
L...
Sumner
Bovard, C. E ... Altamont
Elrsah
Burk, J. E
Cummins, J. B.. Golconda
Belmont
Calvert, G
1890
1891
S.Illmois..
1891
S. Illinois.,
S. Illinois,.
1893 S Illinois..
1888 S. Illinois..
Belleville
1861 S. Illinois..
Clark,
H
1877 S Illinois..
Cooksey. N. B... Olney
1876 Kentucky. 1884
Crenshaw, J. D. Marion
CuUom, A. D.... Mulb'ry G've.
1887
Shipman
1881 S. Illinois..
Cramp, L
Richview
1890 S, Illinois..
Cole, M.L
Jerseyville .... 1881 S. Illinois..
Crow, N
Bunker Hill... 1874 Ch. South. 1885
Cross, W. A
Cunningham, J.L. Sparta
1879 S. Illinois..
Cullom,G. W.... Avena
1855 S Illinois..
Cole, L. E
A. vena
1883 S. Illinois..
W
Carson,
Douthitt,
Davis, W.
Dee,
Albion
1891
C. T..
Omaha
F
Sullivan
1893
1860
J.G
Carmi
Downs, F.
Dew, J.P
W.... Globe, Ariz....
Kansas City..
A
Oblong
1881
1880
W
W
Indiana
Effective.
Effective.
Tenn
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
New York.. Effective.
England.... Effective.
Illinois
Iowa
Supernu..
Kentucky.. Effective.
Illinois
Supernu..
Tenn...
Effecti ve
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Illinois
Superan..
Mass
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois.
S. Illinois..
S. Illinois..
Ireland
S. Illinois..
Kentucky. Superan..
S. Illit.nis..
S. Illinois..
1889 S. Illinois..
Woburn
Elam,D
1867 S. Illinois..
Lebanon
Earp, J
1856 S. Illinois..
Lebanon
Eaton, T. A
1852 Illinois
Edwards, W. W Lebanon1885 S. Illinois..
Farmer, Z. J.... Pocahontas.. 1890 S. Illinois..
Richvtew
Field, J.
1872 S. Illinois..
Flint, J.
Carbondale... 1877 S Illinois..
Ford, J H
Vienna
1879 Kentucky. 1886
Franklin, J. W. Pinckneyville
1882
Grantham, L.J Ashley
1893 S. Illinois.
Gillham, J. D.... Centralia
1858 S. Illinois.
S. Illinois.
Greenlaw, A. L.. Flora
1889
Carbondale... 1862 S. Illinois,
Groves, S. P
Mt. Vernon... 1862 Kansas...
Green, S
Mt. Erie
1893 8. Illinois.
Hiser, H.
Dewhirst,
Effective.
Illinois
....
Effective.
Effective.
Superan..
Effective.
Illinois
N.Carolina Superan..
England.... Superan..
Kentucky Superan..
Effective.
Eflective.
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois
....
Supernu..
Effective.
Kentucky. Effective.
Illinois
Superan.,
Illinois
Supernu..
Supernu..
Ohio.
Ohio.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
.
MEMBERS OF CONFERENCE— a7«^z««<?ar.
Admitted
in full
Conuection.
p. O.
ADDRESS.
Conference.
Hunter, J. K... Frankfort.
Evanston
Hale, W. G
Harris, A
1893
1885
1887
1876
Alma
HamptoB, J. A, Gillespie
Harmon, J. F.. Mt. Carmel...
1890
Harmon, J. G.. aumner
1860
Harper, L. A... Mt. Erie
Jonesboro'h.
Hawk, J. L
Henneesv,
J.
D. Carlyle
Herdman, T. H. Lebanon
A
Hoar, B.
Farina
1885
1867
1885
S. Illinois.
S. Illinois.
Illinois..
S. Illinois.
S. Illinois.
Illinois.
8. Illinois.
S. Illinois,
Hopper, W. J... McLeansb'ro 1891
Jackson, J. W.. Robinson
Mound
Joy, E
Junes, J.
Illinois.
S. Illinois.
1889 Ohio
Illinois.
S. Illinois...
S. Illinois...
S. Illinois...
Houghton, Ross C Venice
Enfield
B
1885 S.
J. T.. N. Douglas... 1886 S.
Greenville
1859 8.
1891 S.
Harris, D. T..... Ramsey
House, J.
Huffman,
House, M
Indiana
Penn.
..
1892 Ohio
England.
Illinois...
Illinois...
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
8uperan..
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective'
Illinois...
Illinois.
Superan..
Illinois...
Illinois.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective.
Effective
Effective.
Effective
S. Illinois...
Illinois...
S. Illinois...
Illinois...
1844 Illinois
Metropolis... 1884 S. Illinois
England.
H
18918. Illinois... 1883 Ohio
Johnston, D. G. Newton
Superan..
1857 Dp. Iowa... 1885 Indiana..
Keitlj, H. H
Effective.
Calhoun
1890 S. Illinois...
Riesling,
Superan..
Johnsonville 1843 Kentucky..
King, M. L
Effect! ve.
1891 S. Illinois...
Kinison, J. C ... Corinth
Kentucky... Superan..
Laughlin, J C. Tunnell Hill. 1857 S. Illinois...
Lebanon
Kentucky... Effective.
1845 Ohio
Locke, J. W
Effective.
Indiana
1885 S. Illinois...
Leatherman J A Odin
Effective.
Illinois
Leatherman, W Pinckn'yville 1889 S. Illinois...
Effective.
UuQuoin
Ohio
185B 8. Illinois...
Leeper, J
Kentucky... Effective.
1856 8. Illinois...'
Lingenfelter C D Clay City
Kentucky .. Superan..
18578. Illinois...!
LingenfelterV D Benton
Moccassin.... 1884 8. Illinois...;
Tennessee... Effective.
Little, D. J
Effective
1893 8. Illinois...;
McCammoii G E Evanston
Effective.
Mcintosh, W. D Vergennes.... 1893 S. Illinois
Supernu..
Maddux, J. W... Jonesboro.... 1890 8. Illinois...
Effective.
Penn
1869 Holston
McGriff, J. H.... Olney
Effective
Indiana.
1888 S. Illinois...'
Mcintosh, S. A.. Epworth
Effective.
Nashville
Indiana.
1885 S. Illinois...
Mcintosh, J.
Superan..
McMorrow, J W Mulber'y Gv. :i884 S. Illinois...!
Eff"ective.
Tennessee.. 1890
McNeill, J. W.... Carmi
Superan..
Watson
Penn
Manifold, H
1857 8. Illinois...;
Effective.
Illinois
Murken, J. T.... Hutsonville.. 18H9 8. Illinois...!
Tennessee. Effective.
1883 S. Illinois...;
Morris, W. T.... St. Elmo
Superan..
11888
Mapes, C
Effective.
Ohio
Nickerson, J. E. Kinmundy ... 1887 S. Illinois...
Olney
Tennessee.. Effective.
1867 S. Illinois...
Nash, C
8t. Elmo
N.Carolina Superan..
1855 S. Illinois...!
Nail, J.
Superan..
Richview
1856 S. Illinois...
Oglesby, D
Effective.
Golconda
Illinois. ...
Orr, D
1885 8. Illinois...
Harrisburg..
1887 Kentucky. Effective.
Orr, J. C
Effingham.... 1857 S. Illinois... ....
Kentucky. Eff"ective.
Pierce, B, R
Effective.
Larder, Wy.. 1893 8. Illinois
Illinois
Pierce, S. E
Effective.
jGrayville
Illinois
1884 8. Illinois.......
Pierce, R.E
Effective.
1893 S Illinois... ....
Pitkins, A. H.... Louisville
City..
W
I
I
W
1
W
MEMBERS OF CONFERENCE —Co«i'/«?^e</.
PROBATIONERS OF CONFERENCE
NAME
P08T0FF1CE.
Murphysboro..
J
Littell, A.
Lebanon
Large, J. A
Laird,
O E
Spring Garden.
Roberston, Reeeho.
Carterville
Preesley, C J
McKelvey, J. E
DuQuoin
Culver, O.E
Holly. T.O
Lebanon
Neil,
W.
Belknap
Waterloo
H
S. S
Walton, W. C
Smith,
Miller, D.
Steelville
R
Norria City
Huey
luka
McCullom, C. S
Tamaroa
Randle, G.
Sweeney, N.
Troy
W
Adams,
Gates,
J.
M
T
Cummins,
J.
HuUett, L
James, F.
M
Levitt, J.
Porter, L.
P
Bloomington...
D
Freeburg
W
W
Wilkerson, G. N
Wynaut. C. W
New
Burnsides.
Lebanon
Walnut Hill
Ridge
Montrose
Villa
West Liberty...
JohnsonviUe ...
Norris City
YEAR.
1888
1892
1892
1892
1892
1892
1892
1892
1892
1892
1892
1892
1892
1892
1891
1893
1893
1893
1893
1893
1893
1893
1893
1893
MINISTERS' WIDOWS.
CONFERENCE.
Southern lU nois
Southern II nois
Southern II nois
Southern 11 nois
Southern 11 nois
Southern II nois
Southern II nois
Southern II nois
Southern II nois
Southern II nois
Southern 11 nois
Southern II nois
Southern II nois
Southern II nois
St. Louis.
Southern
Southern
Southern
Southern
Southern
Southern
Southern
Southern
Southern
II
II
II
II
II
11
II
II
11
nois
nois
nois
nois
nois
nois
nois
nois
nois
.. .
.
. ...
...
...
. ... ...
..
..
, ,
.
MEMBERS OF CONFERENCE DECEASED.
ENTERED TRAVEL-
NATIVITY.
Kentucky
Haley. James W...
AUyn.Henrj'.......
Kendall, John D...
Massey, James M..
Tennessee
Tennessee
James
Maxey, Wm. H......
Chandler, Thos.W.
Shepherd, John ....
McCord, Charles A.
Calnan.John
Ayers, R.
Walls, F.
.
.
.
.
lf-09 Illinois.
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Kentucky....
Ireland
.
G
Ohio
T
Shepherd, Moses...
Ohio
Glaze, John
Allyn, Norman
Babbitt, Carlisle
Connecticut..
Vermont
.
N. Carolina
Nail, Richard J
Huggins, W. C
Holt,
John
.
William
Spencer Travis O.
England.
M....
Thatcher, John.. ...
Hamilton, Presley P
Frazer, John
Morrison, Jonas S...
Corrington, Wm. H.
Richardson, Jas. I..
Lambert, Cavey.....
Clifford, Zelotes S.
Virginia
Connecticut.
Cliff e,
Mitchell,
Wm.
•
•
Copeland. James
Walker, Wm. S. C...
Powell, Joseph S.
Taylor, William R.
Greenlaw, Lowell M
Armstrong, I. S
Risley, AsahelL.
Randle, Thomas ..
Van Cleve, John.
Hawley, Nelson
Dickson, Wm. C.....
..
Tav, Charles F.
Van Winkle, D.B..
Williamson, D
Campbell, A
Deneen, W. L
Walker, Simeon.
Harrington, S. J--Robbins, G.
.
.
.
W
J. B.
Corrington,
.
CM...
HoUiday,
.
Houts, C. J
Johnson, James
H
Delicate,
Nesbit, A.
..__
F
"
Johnson, J.
Farmer, G.
Reynolds, J. B
W
.
Woolard.J.B
Gibson, Josiah
J.
W
Tolle, C.
Lowe,
J.
Downey,
A.
Kentucky
Brannum, W. T
Jersey.
Kentucky.
Pennsylvania
1801 Illinois
1807|Illinois. ..
iS. Illinois.,
1802 S. Illinois.
S. Illinois.
Indiana
Virginia..
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Georgia.. ..
.
Kentucky
Kentucky....
Kentucky....
Kentucky...
.
.
.
.
.
Kentucky
New
.
—
Jersey.
Vermont
N. Carolina..
Virginia..
Virginia
Illinois
Illinois
Illinois.
Illinois
Virginia
.
.
J8il S. Illinois.
Illinois
1802 Illinois
1845 S. Illinois.
1800 Kentucky.,
1801 Illinois
1807 Kentucky.,
1812 Illinois....,
1809 Illinois,.
1808 Illinois..
1842 S. Illinois.
1842 S Illinois.
1842 Indiana ..
180.3 Illinois
1-38 S. Illinois.
1824 Illinois.. ..
1824 S. Illinois.
1H18 Illinois.
1813 Indiana
1804 Illinois..
1817 Pittsburgh
1x16 Illinois
1825 Illinois....,
1824 Illinois
1815 Illinois
Illinois..
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Kentucky.
Indiana
.
Indiana....
1851
1858
1831
l>ol
1836
1827
1836
1853
1860
185*5
Where.
Alton, 111
Nashville, 111
Fairview, III
Marion County,
Mascoutah, 111
Xenia,
Alton,
1810
1816
1857
1825
1832
Illinois
S. Illinois.
S. Illinois.
S. Illinois.
S. Illinois.
111
111
111
Williamson Co.,
Tamaroa, 111
111..
,
Alton, 111.
Equality, 111
1848
1851 DuQuoin, 111
1862 Albion, 111
Bunker Hill, 111....
1831 Olney, 111
H39 Lawrenceville,
111..
1857 Equality, 111
1853
Hebron,
1843
1859
1854
1835
185
1831
Olnev,
18 i9
111
111
DuQuoin,
111
Richview, 111.. ....
Mt. Erie, 111
Litchfield, 111
Lebanon,
Shipman,
111
111
1863 Belleville, 111
1837 Marion County, 111..
1851 Grayville, 111..
1843
Haven. 111.
1867 Lebanon, 111
1865 McLeansboro, 111...
Clay City, 111
1860 Spring Garden, 111,,
1872 Flora, 111
1869 Noble, 111
1627 Lebanon, 111
New
Upper Alton,
New
K.entucky.
I,
Gilham, J
Johnson, T. N.
Casey, L
Root, E
Ohio
Kentucky.
J.T
W
5!
Alabama..
New York.
Kentucky
..
18
.
1836 S. Illinois..
iHfO S. Illinois.
l>-24 S. Illinois..
J 804 Indiana ..
Illinois....
Ohio
Coughlan, David
Illinois
S. Illinois.
S. Illinois.
S. Illinois.
Illinois. ...
Illinois
1811 S. Illinois.
1810
1808 Kentucky.
1-*18 Illinois
1825 S. Illinois..
S. Illinois..
Illinois
S. Illinois..
1816 Illinois
1k06 Missouri
1824 S. Illinois..
1803 New York..
18.^6 S. Illinois.
1826 S. Illinois.
1808 Illinois
1809 Illinois. ...
Illinois.
1830 S. Illinois
Illinois
Jones, O.
English, L. C
Lathrup, Erastus..
Kentucky.
183fi S.
N. Carolina..
V
Caldwell,
.
Indiana
Indiana
Tennessee
B^
Hill,J.H
.
Missouri
Tennessee
England
England
Lopas.T. C
Whitaker, W.
Kentucky
Tennessee
England
N.Hampshire
.
Illinois
S. Illinois.
.
.
.
1801
1823
179y
1789
1813
1833
1837
.
Illinois
Ireland
New York.
When
.
.
Vest,
.
Conference.
Illinois
1813 S. Illinois..
1^24 S. Illinois
•
.
Connecticut..
DECEASED.
ING CONNECTION.
When
Where.
111....
1828 New York
1842 Middletown, Ohio.
1867 Olney, 111
1851 Steelville, 111
1860 DuQuoin, 111
1846 Watson, 111
1853 Freeburg, 111
1828 Lebanon, 111
18.S0
Carbondale,
111
1873 Elsah, 111
Richview,
111
1840 St. Louis,
Mo
1821
1825
1838
1848
1839
1872
1870
O'Fallon, 111
Metropolis, 111
Patoka, 111
Greenville, 111
Wanda,
,
....
111
,
Belleville, 111
Olney, 111
1825 Mt. Vernon,
1841
111
1866 Anna, 111
1856 Salem, 111
1H66 Lebanon, 111
1851 Robinson, 111
1846 Moravia, Iowa
1836 Mulberry Grove, 111
1843 Creston, 111
1847 Lebanon, 111....
1849 Kane, 111
,
1871
O'Fallon, 111....
1847 Patoka. Ill
1852 Preston, Kas
1854 Marlow, 111
1834 Sacramento,
185
Vergennes,
,
111.
111.
1888 Kinmundy, 111
1856 Centralia, 111...
1878 Lebanon, 111 ...
.
SESSIONS OF
THE CONFERENCE.
SECRETARY.
1
Oct.
27
,
E. K. Ames.... J.
11^51' Belleville
STATISTICIAN.
Leaton
J. Lea ton
2 Oct. 26 1853 Mt. Caimel. L. Scott
J. LeatOH
3 Sept. 27 ,1854 Mt. Yernon. E R.Ames
E. S. Janes.... J. Leaton
4:Sept.26 1855 Alton
M.Simpson.... J. Leaton
50ct. 1 1856 Salem
L. Scott
|M, Shepard
6 Sept. 23 ,1857 Lebanon
T A. Morris.. M, Shepard
7 Oct. 6 1858 Olney
E. R Ames..,
Shepard
J. Leeper
8 Sept. 29 ,1859 Richview
Shepard
J. Leeper...
9 Oct. 17 ,1860 Bunker Hill M Simpson..
Leeper
E. t». Janes..,
J. D. Gillham.
10 Oct. 3 ,1861 Salem
W. Caldwell... J. W. Nail
E. R. Ames....
11, Oct.
1 ,1862 Alton
W. Caldwell... J. W. Nail
12Sept.23 ,1863 Mt. Carmel 0. C. Baker....
W. Caldwell... J
E. S. Janes....
Nail
13 Sept. 23 ,1864 Belleville
W.Caldwell... J. W. Nail
L. Sfott
14 Sept.27 ,1865 Olney
Allyn
J. W. Lane
15 Sept. 19 ,1866 Ceutralia.... E. Thomson..
W.Caldwell.. J. W. Lane
16 Sept. 2.5 ,1867 Litchfield... E. R Ames....
W.Caldwell... J. W. Lane
E S. Janes....
17 Sept. 10 1868 DuQuoin
AUvn
J. W.Lane
18 Sept.15 ,1869 Vandalia.... E. Thomson..
M. Simpson...
Allyn
19 Sept. 14 ,1870 Lebanon
J. W. Lane
L. Scott
Allyn
J.W.Lane
20 Sept.27 ,1871 Cairo
Allyn
J. P. DeA21 Oct. 2 ,1872 Mt. Vernon. T. Bowman...
Allvn
T.H Herdman
22 Oct. 1 ,1873 Jerseyville 1. VV. Wiley....
R. Allyn
23 Sept. 23 ,1874 Mt. Carmel. L. Scott
J Harris
24 Sept. 8 ,1875 Centralia.. .. R S. Foster... T, H. Herd man. J. Harris
M. Simpson...
H. Herdman. J. Harris
25Sept.l3 ,1876 Olney
H Herdman. W. Wallis
26 Sept.27 ,1877 Mt. Vernon J. T. Peck
S. M. Merrill..
H. Herdman. W. Wallis
27 Sept. 25 1878 Alton
28Sept.lO ,1879 Salem
E. U.Andrews
H. Herdman. W. Wallis
H. Herdman. W. Wallis
29 Sept. 1 ,1880 Fairfield
C. D. Foss
H. Herdman. E. A. Hoyt
30 Aug. 31 ,1881' Greenville... J. F. Hurst....
M. VanTreese E. A. Hoyt
31 Sept.20 ,1882 Mt. Vernon. M. Simpson...
T. Bowman...
M. VanTreese E. A. Hoyt
32 Sept.l9 1 883 Belleville
R. S. Foster...
M. VanTreese E. A. Hoyt
33Sept.24 1884 Fairfield
34 Sept. 24 ,1885 Edw'dsville. \V. X.Ninde...lF. M. VanTreese E. A. Hoyt
35 Sept. 23 ,1886 Vandalia .... J. M. Walden.iO. H. Clark...
E. A. Hoyt
C. D. Foss
36 Sept 13 ,1887 Olnev
O H. Clark... J. W. VanCleve
Louis
J. P. Newman O. H. Clark...
37 Sept. 26 ,1888 E. St.
J.W. VanCleve
J.W. VanCleve
380ct. 9 ,1889 Carbondale. S. M. Merrill.. 0. H. Clark...
Carmel.
T. Bowman... 0. H. Clark...
J.W. VanCleve
39 Oct. 1 ,1890 Mt
1891
Vernon.
W.
Mt.
H.
Warren 0, H. Clark...
40Sept.23
J.W. VanCleve
Belleville
R.
Foster...
W.
41Sept.28 ,1892
S.
VanCleve. J. G. Dee
J.
26
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H.
Fowler..
W.
C.
VanCleve. J. G.Dee
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
MINUTES
OF THE
Southern
Illinois
Rules of Order and Examination
Standing Resolutions
Conference.
4
5
DIRECTORY—
Officers of the Conference
Standing Committees
Officers of Conference Societies
Conference Committees
6
7
8
9-10
Special Services
Summary of Disciplinary Questions
List of
Appointments
11
12-14
15-16
JOURNAL—
First Day's Proceedings
17
Second Day's Proceedings
Third Day's Proceedings
Fourth Day's Proceedings
Memorial Session
20
Certificates of Ordination
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23
25
25
30
REPORTS—
Memoirs
31-33
Pastoral Address
34
—
Miscellaneous
37-43
CONFERENCE RECORD—
Members
of Conference
44-46
Probationers
47
48
Members Deceased
Minister's Widows
Sessions of Conference
47
,
49
STATISTICS—
Tables,
I, II,
III,
Recapitulation
by Districts
50-61
62-63
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tilled with rosin and clay as make-weights.
no boiling of clothes is needed, is because
there is no adulteration in it — it being absolutely pure, can do its own work.
leaves clothes washed with it whiter and
sweeter than any other soap, is because it
contains no adulteration to vellow them.
it
washes flannels without shrinking, bringing them out soft, white and fleecy, is because it is free from rosin, which hardens,
yellows and mats together all woolen
fibres, making them harsh aud coarse.
it
three bars of it will make a gallon of elegant white soft-soap if simply shaved up
and thoroughly dissolved by boiling in a
gallon of water, is that it contains pure
and costly ingredients found in no other
soap.
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delicate fabric, is that all these ingredients
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D. L.
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President.
may Concern:
Having known Prof. D. L. Musselman, the President of the Gem City Business
College, for the past ten years, I take pleasure in bearing testimony to his Christian
character and Catholic spirit. Prof. Musselman holds a very honorable place in the
esteem of our people as a man, a teacher and a public- spirited citizen. His school,
the Gem City Business College, has the reputation of being one of the best, if not the
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The building is large, new, and of latest modern design. The faculty is a clas«
of Christian gentlemen and ladies, who are scholarly and each is a specialist in his or
her department. In patronizing the Gem City Business College no one makes a
mistake, either from its moral tone or its scientific efficiency.
Faithfully,
THOS.
QuiNCY, ILLINOIS, July
24, 1893.
J.
WHEAT,
Pastor Trinity M. E. Church.