TENTH DAY. in like manner from year to year: "it shall read, "They shall be May 12. elected annually at the fourth Quarterly Conference of the circuit or station, upon the nomination of the Preacher in Charge, or any member of the Quarterly Conference. The Stewards so appointed shall hold office for one Conference year, but may be reappointed in like manner from year to year. In case of failure to elect at the proper time a subsequent Quarterly Conference may elect." EAST GENESEE CONFERENCE. D. W. C. Huntington offered the following resolution, and it was referred to the Committee on Revisals, namely: Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be instructed to inquire into the propriety of inserting in the Discipline, Part II, chap. ii, sec. 17, ques. 2, after answer 5 on page 100, which now reads, "and to inform them that without such certificate they will not be received into the Church in other places," the following addition: "And all persons holding such certificates of membership shall be considered members of the Churches from which such certificates were received, until they become members elsewhere, or until their certificates become invalid." D. W. C. Huntington also offered the following resolution, and it was adopted, namely : Resolved, That so much of Bishop Janes's address as refers to Local Preachers in the British Wesleyan Connection be referred to the consideration of the Committee on Revisals. On motion of K. P. Jervis, the following preamble and resolution were referred to the Committee on Revisals, namely: Whereas, The Articles of Religion in our Book of Discipline are only an abridgment of those of the Anglican Church, and do not distinctly set forth those views of Gospel truth which we, as a Church, have always held and taught, therefore Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be instructed to inquire whether a concise statement of doctrines, as received and taught by the Methodist Episcopal Church, should not be introduced into the Book of Discipline. On the further motion of K. P. Jervis, the following resolution was also referred to the same Committee, namely: Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals is instructed to inquire Hymn Book. and report whether our standard collection of hymns might not be greatly improved by a thorough revisal. Delegates from ferences mitted. ad On motion of K. P. Jervis, the following resolution. was adopted, namely: Resolved, That Rev. William Butler, D. D., is hereby invited to deliver his lecture on the Sepoy Rebellion in India, in this church, evening, and that the Committee on Public Worship are requested to make all needful arrangements. next On motion of T. B. Hudson, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Revisals, namely: Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be requested to inquire into the expediency of so changing the twelfth answer to question 1, sec. 17, page 97 of the Discipline, so as to read, "To make a written report at each Quarterly Conference and love-feast of the names of those who have been received into the Church, or excluded therefrom during the quarter; also, the names of those who have been received or removed by certificate, and those who have died or have withdrawn from the Church; also, the amount of pastoral labor bestowed." At this stage of the proceedings, on motion of R. C. Crawford, the order of the day for ten o'clock this morning was taken up, and Bishop Thomson gave an account of his visit to India and China. At the close of his address the following resolution was adopted, namely: Resolved, That this General Conference request Bishop Thomson to publish his eloquent report, just delivered, in the Daily Advocate. [For Report, see Appendix A, III.] The Committee on Credentials appointed this morning came into Conference, and George Peck, Chairman, presented the following report, namely: The Committee having examined the credentials of delegates, and Mission Con- so much of the journals of the Conferences as was deemed necessary, respectfully report that the credentials of John W. Talley of Alabama Conference, James Davis of Delaware Conference, John W. Yarborough of Georgia Conference, Thomas H. Pearne and William C. Daily of Holston Conference, John P. Newman of Mississippi Conference, T. Willard Lewis of South Carolina Conference, David Rutledge of Tennessee Conference, Joseph Welch of Texas Conference, John S. Mitchell of Virginia and North Carolina Conference, and Benjamin Brown, of Washington Conference, are entirely satisfactory, and such as entitle them to seats in this body. A motion having been made to adopt the report, W. R. Brown moved that the vote be now taken without further debate, and the motion was sustained, one hundred and twenty-one voting in favor of it, and fifty-eight against it. On motion of S. V. Blake, it was ordered that the vote be taken by ayes and noes; the roll was called, and the report was adopted by the following vote, namely: Ayes.-Akers, Allen, Armstrong of Black River, Armstrong of Cincinnati, Arnold, Baker, Bangs, Bannister, Barnhart, Barrows, Baume, Beale, Benson, Bingham, Blades, Blanchard, Bland, Bowen, Bowman, Brooks, Brown of Providence, Brown of Troy, Bruce of Black River, Brunson, Brush, Burdick, Butler, Carlton, Carrow, Cartwright, Caruthers, Chaffee, Clarke of Erie, Clark of New England, Clark of New Hampshire, Clarke of Wyoming, Cobb, Cocker, Cogshall, Colby, Cooper, Corrington, Corse, Crane, Crary, Crawford, Crever, Cumming, Curry, Daugherty, Davis, Day, De La Matyr, Dempsey, Dillon, Dobbins, Donelson, Dash, Dudgeon, Durbin, Dyer, Eaton of Southern Illinois, Eaton of Vermont, Eddy, Elliott, Endsley, Erwin, Ferguson, Fiegenbaum, Fisher, French, Fullerton, Giddings, Gillam, Godman, Goode, Goss, Graham, Graves, Greer, Hall, Haney, Harris, Harrison, Hartshorn, Hascall, Haven of Detroit, Haven of New England, Heisler, Helmershausen, Hester, Hibbard, Hill, Hines, Hitchcock, Hobart, Holliday, Holmes of Iowa, Holmes of Upper Iowa, Hopkins, Hudson of East Genesee, Hudson of Pittsburgh, Hulburd, Hunt, Hunter, Huntington, Hurlburt, Ives, Jasper, Jervis, Jocelyn, Kendall, Kidder, Kiger, King, Krehbiel, Kuhl, Kynett, Lamont, Larew, Leaton, Lindsay, Locke, Lowe, Lowry, Luce, Lyda, M'Intyre, Mahin, Maltby, Martin (A.), Mather, Mead, Medsker, Meginnis, Merrill, Miller of Pittsburgh, Miller of Wisconsin, Mitchell of Des Moines, Mitchell of East Baltimore, Mitchell of Kansas, Moore, Morrell, Morrison, Mulfinger, Munger, Nast, Nelson, Nesbit, Olin, Osbon, Owens, Paddock, Peate, Peck of Troy, Peck of Wyoming, Pershing, Pike, Pilsbury of New York East, Pillsbury of Wisconsin, Porter of Newark, Porter of Ohio, Power, Queal, Rawlins, Ray, Reddy, Reid of East Genesee, Reed of May 12. TENTH DAY. TENTH DAY. May 12. Northwest Indiana, Reed of Upper Iowa, Rhodes, Ritchie, Robinson, Ross, Roth weiler, Rutledge, Schuler, Sherman, Shreck, Shumate, Smith of Northwest Indiana, Spahr, Spottswood, Steele, Stokes, Swahlen, Talbot, Taylor, Thayer, Torsey, Trimble, Vancleve, Vernon, Wakeley, Walden, Waring, Wells, Wheeler, Wiley, Williams, Wise, Wood, Woodruff, Wright, Young-205. Noes.-Blake, Brown of New York, Bruce of Kentucky, Castle, Cunningham, Edwards, Ferris, Foster, France, Gray, Kennedy, Lanahan, M'Combs, Murphy, Pattison, Pease, Porter of New England, Slicer, Smith of Philadelphia-19. Absent or not voting.-Fallows, Fuller, M'Clintock, Martin (G.), Phelps, Vansant, Wentworth-7. The report was adopted, two hundred and five voting for it, and nineteen against it. Pending the foregoing call, on motion of L. Hitchcock, the time of the session was extended. On motion, Conference adjourned. The Doxology was sung, after which the Benediction was pronounced by A. M. Osbon. May 13. ELEVENTH DAY Rev. W. M. introduce. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 13. Conference met this morning, Bishop Kingsley in the chair. The religious services were conducted by Thomas H. Pearne, of the Holston Conference. The Journal of yesterday's session was read and approved. The Rev. William Morley Punshon, A.M., the delCommittee to egate of the British Wesleyan Conference, having arrived in this city, on motion Bishop Janes, and two members of this body to be selected by him, were appointed a committee to introduce him to the General Conference, and the introduction and reception was made the order of the day for ten o'clock to-morrow morning. Committee to introduce Dr. Ryerson. On further motion, Bishop Simpson, and two members of this body to be selected by him, were ap May 13. ELEVENTH DAY Mission Conferences 88signed to Com pointed a committee to introduce the Rev. Dr. Ryerson and his co-delegate; and the introduction and reception were made the order of the day immediately after the reception of Mr. Punshon. The delegates admitted to membership in this body Delegates from yesterday were assigned to standing committees, as follows: Benjamin Brown, James Davis, T. W. Lewis, mittees. J. S. Mitchell, J. P. Newman, David Rutledge, J. W. Talley, Joseph Welch, and John W. Yarborough. Each one being the sole representative of an Annual Conference, was appointed on all the standing committees. T. H. Pearne, of the Holston Conference, was appointed on the Committees on Itinerancy, on the Book Concern, on Lay Representation, on the State of the Church, and on Church Extension; and W. C. Daily, of the same Conference, was appointed to the Committees on Episcopacy, on Boundaries, on Education, on Revisals, on Sunday-Schools and Tracts, on Freedmen, and on the Court of Appeals. S. Meredith, a delegate from the Troy Conference, S. Meredith. whose credentials were presented the first day of the session, was present this morning, and admitted to the seat hitherto occupied by C. F. Burdick, a reserve delegate of that Conference, and, on motion, he was assigned to the Committees in his place. His name changes vote. his D. Curry asked and obtained permission to change Dr. Curry his vote on the adoption of the report of the Committee on Credentials, presented yesterday. was then called, and he answered no, thus reducing the vote of yesterday to two hundred and four in the affirmative, and increasing it to twenty in the negative. The Secretary called the names of members who Absentees' vote. were absent yesterday morning when absentees from the vote of the preceding day were called, and they voted on the adoption of the third resolution of the series as follows: Fallows aye, Gillam aye, Kidder aye, Vansant aye, Wentworth of Genesee no, adding four votes in favor of the resolution and one against it, giving the final vote thus: for adoption two hundred and sixteen, against adoption fifteen. The Secretary then called the names of the members absent yesterday from the vote on the adoption of the |