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Resolutions, also, relating to the missionary canse, were adopted, pledging the members of the conference, to preach at least onee a year, upon this subjeet, in all their appointments ; to establish and sustain, as far as praetieable, monthly missionary prayer meetings, and also to commend the Missionary Advocate, and to introduce the subjeet of missions in our Sunday schools.
Dr. Webber, who was appointed, by the last conference, a committee on the affairs of the depository, reported that he had eolleeted, $57.89.
On motion, Brother Webber was reappointed as committee to settle the business of the depository, with diseretionary power.
The Wesleyan Association, reported the sum of $125, as the amount of earnings due the Maine Conference. On motion, this sum was applied toward the payment of the debts of the depository.
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DISCUSSION CONCERNING THE BIBLICAL INSTITUTE.
A committee was appointed to award the scholarships, in Wesleyan University, due to the Maine Conference.
Admitted on trial : A. A. Willets, E. H. Small, S. F. Wetherbee, D. H. Mansfield, John Taggart, A. P. Sanborn, B. M. Mitchell, Lewis Wentworth, Z. H. Blair, R. B. Curtis, Samuel Sargent.
ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS, ETC.
Six districts; 166 circuits and stations; one hundred and fifty-seven traveling preachers ; thirty places to be supplied. H. K. W. Perkins, missionary in Oregon . Members, 24,236; decrease, this year, 480.
Amount raised for missions, $2,524.21.
Amount from all sources for conference claimants, $1,389.05.
Sunday Schools 157; teachers 1,245; scholars 7,999.
1846. The Maine Conference met, for its twenty-second session, in Hallowell, July 1, 1846, Bishop Waugh, presiding.
Among the distinguished visitors present, were Rev. Dr. Dempster, president of the Concord Biblical Institute, Dr. George Peck, editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review, Rev. George Lane, agent of the book concern, and Dr. Abel Stearns, editor of Zion's Herald.
An earnest debate occurred during the session, on the claims of the Biblical Institute. The institute had been removed to Concord, New Hampshire. Some members of Maine Conference, were not much in favor of such an institution, though the enterprise had been indorsed by the two preceding conferences.
The committee on education, were opposed to the location, at Concord, believing that the institution should be located in some place possessing greater local advantages, and recommending its establish- ment as a department of the Wesleyan University ; as such an arrangement would secure important advantages, at moderate expense.
Dr. Dempster and Dr. Stevens spoke very earnestly in favor of the institution and of its location at Concord. Dr. Webber and G. F. Cox and some others spoke in opposition.
The subsequent removal of the Biblical Institute, and making it a department of the Boston University, under the name of "School of Theology, " sufficiently vindicates the judgment of the committee on education.
The conference expressed its judgment upon the subject, by the following vote, viz. :
" Voted, That we do not intend, in anything we have said, in our action on the report of the committee on education, to be understood
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WORLD'S CONVENTION. DIVISION OF MAINE CONFERENCE.
as being hostile to a General Theological Institution in New England."
George Webber and Moses Hill, were appointed delegates, from the Maine Conference, to the World's Evangelieal Convention, to be held in London.
Mr. Webber attended the convention. J. Hobart, C. W Morse, Moses Hill and G. Webber were appointed a committee to confer with a similar committee of the Congregationalist Conference, and such 'committees of other evangelical bodies, to consult upon such matters of mutual interest as may be proper for their consideration.
" Voted, That the Presiding Elders be a committee, to report at our next conference, boundaries for the division of the Maine Conference."
Admitted on trial : William Wyman, Ephraim Bryant, William J. Wilson, Alfred C. Godfrey, Thomas B. Tupper, Uriel Rideout, Edward A. Stockman, Isaiah P. Rogers, Richard Walker, Albert H. Hall, George C. Crawford.
ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS.
Six distriets ; one hundred and fifty-nine circuits and stations ; one hundred and sixty- four traveling preachers ; fourteen places to be supplied. Members, 20,266; deerease, this .year, 3,470.
Amount received from all sources for conference claimants, $1,192.71.
Amount collected for missions, 1,886.44.
Number of Sunday schools, 152; officers and teachers, 1,447; seholars, 7,803.
1847. The Maine Conference commenced its twenty-third session in Saco, June 30, 1847, Bishop Hedding, presiding ; J. Hobart, Secretary ; C. F. Allen, Assistant Secretary.
" Voted, To request the next General Conference to divide this conference."
Rev. Mr. Mareen, a delegate from the General Conference of the Congregational churches of this State, was introduced and by invitation, addressed the conference on the subject of fraternal correspondence, recommending an interchange of delegates ; whereupon the following resolution was adopted, viz. :
" Resolved, That the fraternal and christian salutations presented to us, this morning, by Rev. Mr. Mareen, delegate from the Congrega- tional Conference of Maine, be accepted, as evidence of fellowship, between the two bodies, and that delegates be appointed, by this con- ference, to return our christian salutations."
"Voted, That the Maine Conference hold its next session at Portland,
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and that the Bangor Conference, provided such a conference be constituted, hold its session in Bangor."
The following persons were elected delegates to the next Gencral Conference, viz. :
Joseph H. Jenne, George Webber, Eaton Shaw, Heman Nickerson, William Marsh, Elliot B. Fletcher, William F. Farrington, Moses Hill.
" Voted, That the report on the depository be put into the hands of J. H. Jenne and that the books of that concern be transferred to the agents of the book room, at New York, also that Brother Jenne, be authorized to adjust the note referred to in the report with Rev. G. F. Cox."
The depository, after all efforts to collect accounts, supposed to be due, was seriously bankrupt, and its affairs were finally closed up by a surrender of the claim of the book concern, by order of the General Conference.
Rev. Joshua Taylor, the first Presiding Elder in Maine, after Jesse Lee, for many years past, a local preacher, was re-admitted to the conference. The venerable man was smitten with paralysis, while in the conference, during its session in Portland, in 1852.
Admitted on trial : Charles Nason, Nathaniel C. Clifford, Howard B. Abbott, Josiah Hooper, John C. Prince, John Jones.
ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS, ETC.
Six districts ; one hundred and sixty-three circuits and stations ; one hundred and fifty- four preachers appointed; thirteen places to be supplied. Members, 19,467; decrcase» this year, 799.
Received, for conference claimants, $1,172.24.
Collected for missions, $1,680,79.
Aggregate of preachers' claims, $51,832 ; reccivcd, $41,305.18.
Average claim, $341,00; average received, $271,71.
Number of Sunday schools, 188; officers and teachers, 1,871; scholars, 9,348.
GENERAL CONFERENCE.
1848. The tenth delegated General Conference of the Methodist: Episcopal church, assembled in Liberty street church, in the city of Pittsburg, at 9 o'clock, A. M., Bishops Hedding, Waugh, Morris, Hamlin and Janes being present. One hundred and forty-four. delegates were present from twenty-three conferences ; several o her. delegates afterward arrived.
The delegates from Maine Conference were : J. H. Jenne, George
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FRIENDLY OVERTURES FROM THE CHURCH SOUTHI.
Webber, Eaton Shaw, Hcman Nickerson, William Marsh, E. B. Fletcher, W. F. Farrington, Moses Hill.
Rev. M. Richey, J. Ryerson and Anson Green, representatives of the Wesleyan Methodist church of Canada were introduced, and invited to sit with the conference, who subsequently addresscd the conference.
Rev. Dr. Dixon, representative of Wesleyan Methodist church of Great Britain, was introduced. By general consent, the rules were suspended, and Dr. Dixon addressed the conference.
On the third day of the session a communication was received from Rev. Lovic Pierce, a delegate from the Methodist Episcopal church south, conveying the christian salutations of the church south, and expressing "the sincere desire that the two bodies of Wesleyan Methodists, north and south, should maintain, at all times, a warm, confiding and brotherly fraternal relation."
The friendly overtures of the church south, borne in the most courteous manner by Dr. Pierce, one of the most venerable and highly esteemed ministers of that church, placed the conference in a delicate and perplexing dilemma. The subject was referred to a committee, of which Dr. George Peck was chairman. The committee, after consideration, reported the following resolution, viz. :
Resolved, That while we tender to Rev. Dr. Pieree, all personal courtesies, and invite him to attend our sessions, this General Conference does not consider it proper, at present, to'enter into fraternal relations with the Methodist Episcopal church south.
Several motions to amend the report were laid upon the table, when the following amendment was adopted, viz. :
Provided, however, that nothing in this resolution shall be so construed as to operate as a bar to any propositions from Dr. Pierce, or any other representative of the Methodist Episcopal church south, toward the settlement of existing difficulties between that body and this.
The report so amended was unanimously adopted.
The commissioners of the church south having presented a claim for their proportionate share of the property of the Book Concern and other funds of the church, according to the plan of separation adopted by the General Conference of 1844, and there being grave legal difficulties in the way of paying this claim, a resolution was adopted authorizing the book agents to submit the claim of the church south "to the decision of disinterested arbiters, provided that the agents, on the advice of eminent legal counsel, shall be satisfied that they are clothed with the necessary authority to submit such claims to arbitration."
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SUIT OF THE CHURCH SOUTH, SUCCESSFUL.
The members of the General Conference were evidently anxious to meet the demands of the church south in the spirit of christian honesty and honor, but they were restricted by legal disabilities as custodians of trust funds. The case, of necessity, went to the United States court. The southern party prevailed in the suit, as might have been expected, from the southern bias of the court. The violation of the conditions of the plan of separation by the church south, would seem to an unprejudiced mind, to have wrought a forfeiturc of their claim. The organization of the church south, without waiting for the conditions mutually agreed upon, was plainly a secession. The " plan of separation " was a blunder, seen and lamented too late. It was pronounced " null and void " by the General Conference of 1848.
The action of the General Conference of 1840, declaring " that the simple holding of slaves, or mere ownership of slave property, in states and territories where the laws do not admit of emancipation, constitutes no legal barrier to the election and ordination of ministers, was rescinded.
The election was as follows, viz. :
Dr. Abel Stevens, editor of Christan Advocate; Mr. Stevens declining, Dr. George Peck was elected ; Dr. Matthew Simpson, editor of Western Christian Advocate ; Dr. B. F. Tefft, editor of Ladies' Repository ; Rev. William Hunter, editor of Pittsburg Christian Advocate ; G. Lane and L. Scott, book agents at New York ; L. Swornutedt and J. H. Power, book agents at Cincinnati ; Charles Pitman, missionary secretary.
1848. The Maine Conference met for its twenty-fourth session in Portland, July 19, Bishop Hedding, presiding ; J. Hobart and C. F. Allen, Secretaries.
The conference had been divided by the late General Conference, setting off for the East Maine Conference more than half the territory of the state with threc districts, eighty-two circuits and stations and seventy-nine traveling preachers, and providing for an equal division of funds and liabilities.
Rev. Allen H. Cobb was re-admitted as an honorary member.
Rev. Dr. Dempster, of the Biblical Institute, was introduced and addressed the conference. A resolution was adopted commending the institute, and Mr. Dempster was invited to preach during the session of the conference.
The report of the committee on education was adopted, the committee recommending the appointment of the following persons to
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constitute the Maine Wesleyan Board of Education, with request that said board apply to the legislature for an act of incorporation, viz. :
Dr. Eliphalet Clark and Harris C. Barnes, of Portland ; Charles Davenport, of Bath ; John Plaisted, of Gardiner; D. H. Goodno, of Hallowell ; William Allen, of Norridgewock ; Rev. George Webber, S. Allen and M. Hill, of Maine Conference.
A more particular account of the board is given in the chapter on education.
Admitted on trial : John Moore, John Flynn, Abraham R. Lunt, John Cobb, Gad S. Gilbert, Henry P. Torsey.
ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS, ETC.
Three distriets; seventy-nine eircuits and stations ; seventy-eight preachers employed; seven places left to be supplied.
Amount received for conferenee elaimants, $688.30.
Amount contributed for the support of missions, $963.24.
Number of Sunday schools, 81; teachers, 993; scholars, 4,884; members, 10,576.
1849. The Maine Conferenee met for its twenty-fifth session in Augusta, July 11, 1849, Bishop Morris, presiding ; J. Hobart, Secretary.
The conference was favored with a visit from Father Taylor, the famous pastor of the Boston Seamen's Bethel church.
Rev. Dr. Thurston of Winthrop, delegate of the Congregationalist Conference of Maine, was introduced, and presented the fraternal salutation of that body. The conference reeiproeated the fraternal courtesy by appointing one of their number to convey the friendly greetings of this eonferenee to the next conference of the Congrega- tionalist churches of the state.
Admitted on trial : Alpheus B. Lovewell, Franeis C. Ayer, Thomas Hillman.
H. P. Torsey, principal of Maine Wesleyan Seminary ; S. M. Vail, professor in Biblical Institute, Coneord, New Hampshire.
ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS.
Three districts ; eighty-five eireuits and stations ; cighty-seveu stationed preachers ; six places left to be supplied ; members, 9,864; on trial, 968; total, 10,832.
Number of Sunday schools, 98; officers and teachers, 1,134; seholars, 5,776.
Amount received for conference claimants, $570.18.
Amount contributed for missions, $939.05.
1850. The Maine Conference met for its twenty-sixth session at
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Kennebunkport, July 10, 1850, Bishops Hedding and Morris, being present ; D. B. Randall and S. P. Blake, Secretaries.
Intelligence having been received of the death of President Taylor of the United States, a committee was appointed to prepare some suitable action for this conference upon the occasion. Appropriate resolutions were presented and adopted, recognizing the providence of God in this sudden calamity, expressing sympathy for the afflicted family of the deceased president, and recommending a season of prayer by this conference at the close of this session.
C. W. Morse and Moses Hill were appointed delegates to the Congregationalist Conference, and C. C. Cone and W. F. Farrington delegates to the Baptist Convention.
C. F. Allen was appointed to preach the annual missionary sermon before the next conference.
H. Nickerson and S. Allen were appointed commissioners to arrange our business relations with the East Maine Conference.
Admitted on trial : Joseph Hastings, Swanton Ranks.
ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS, ETC.
Three districts ; eighty-nine circuits and stations ; eighty-five stationed preachers ; seven places left to be supplied; members, including members on trial, 10,975; increase this year, 143.
H. P. Torsey, principal of Maine Wesleyan Seminary ; J. Young, agent of American Bible Society ; J. Hobart, transferred to Providence Conference; J. Flynn, transferred to Oregon and California Conference.
Amount collected for conference claimants, $986.79.
Amount contributed for missions, $1400.00.
Number of Sunday schools, 111; officers and teachers, 1,177; scholars, 6.322.
The number of churches and parsonages are not reported in the minutes.
Aggregate of preachers' estimated claims, 2 $27,291.73.
Aggregate of preachers' received claims, 22,498.47.
Average claim, $349.96; average received, 288.44. Highest estimated claim, (Gardiner,) $555.00 ; lowest claim, $116.00. Highest amount received, $555.00; lowest, $100.00.
. An encouraging advance since 1842.
1851. The Maine Conference met for its twenty-seventh session in Winthrop, July 9, 1851, Bishop Hamline, presiding ; D. B. Randall and C. C. Cone, Secretaries.
Rev. J. P. Durbin, Corresponding Secretary of the Methodist Missionary, was present during part of the session, and preached on the Sabbath, greatly interesting a large congregation, in the Congre-
2 Seventy-eight societies reported by their pastor.
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gationalist church, which was opened for the use of the conference on the occasion.
Rev. A. Drinkwater, delegate from the Baptist convention, was introduced, and an hour assigned for him to address the conference.
S. Allen, G. Webber, A. Sanderson, C. C. Cone and J. H. Jenne, were chosen delegates to the next General Conference.
H. M. Blake was appointed a delegate to the Congregationalist Conference, and S. W. Pierce, a delegate to the Free Will Baptist yearly meeting.
"Voted, That each member of the conference be requested to furnish a brief history of his life, to be deposited in the archives of the conference.
"Voted, That the thanks of this conference be tendered to Reuben B. Dunn, Esq., for his donation of five hundred dollars, placed in the hands of the stewards for investment, the annual income to be devoted to the most necessitous conference elaimants."
Admitted on trial : L. B. Knight, F. A. Robinson, Thomas J. True, Elbridge Gerry, Amos Hodgkins.
H. P. Torsey, principal of Maine Wesleyan Seminary ; F. A. Robinson, teacher of Maine Wesleyan Seminary ; J. Young, agent of Bible Society ; Moses Hill, transferred to New York East Conference ; A. R. Lunt, transferred to East Maine Conference.
ABSTRACT OF STATISTICS.
Three districts ; ninety-one circuits and stations; eighty-three stationed preachers ; eight places left to be supplied; members, including members on probation, 11,172; increase this year, 197.
Amount received for conference claimants, $1,101.26.
Amount contributed for missions, $1,927.93.
Number of Sunday schools, 116; officers and teachers, 1,315; scholars, 6,691.
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CHAPTER XIII.
1852-1863. GENERAL CONFERENCE IN BOSTON, 1852. DEATH OF BISHOP HEDDING. EULOGY. INVITATION OF MAYOR. EXCURSION IN BOSTON HARBOR. TRIALS OF APPEALS. DEATH OF DR. OLIN. RESOLUTION. LAY DELEGATION. ELECTION OF BISHOPS. THE MAINE CONFERENCE, 1852. STATISTICS. MAINE CONFERENCE, 1853. EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION. S. ALLEN APPOINTED AGENT. THE USE OF TOBACCO PROSCRIBED. STATISTICS. MAINE CONFERENCE, 1854. RESOLUTION ON SLAVERY. STATISTICS. MAINE CONFERENCE, 1855. DELEGATES TO GENERAL CONFERENCE. STATISTICS. GENERAL CONFERENCE, 1856. DELEGATES FROM BRITISH WESLEYAN AND CANADA CONFERENCES. LAY DELEGATIONS. LENGTHY DISCUSSION ON MOTION TO CHANGE THE SECTION OF DISCIPLINE ON SLAVERY. RATIO OF REPRESEN- TATION CHANGED. MAINE CONFERENCE, 1856. REPORT ON EDUCATION. SLAVERY. STATISTICS. MAINE CONFERENCE, 1857. REPORT ON EDUCATION. SLAVERY. STATISTICS. MAINE CONFERENCE, 1858. DEATH OF BISHOP WAUGH. RESOLUTIONS ON EDUCATION. SLAVERY. STATISTICS. MAINE CONFERENCE, 1859. REPORT ON EDUCATION. MAINE CONFERENCE, 1860. ENCOURAGING REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION. RESOLUTIONS ON SLAVERY. DECEASED MEMBERS. DELEGATES TO GENERAL CONFERENCE. STATISTICS. GENERAL CONFERENCE, 1860. DELEGATES FROM METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF CANADA. IRISH WESLEYAN CONFERENCE AND WESLEYAN CHURCH OF CANADA. MEMORIALS ON SLAVERY. ACTION OF CONFERENCE. MAINE CONFERENCE, 1861. LAY DELEGATES. FIVE MEMBERS OF CONFERENCE DECEASED. ENCOURAGING REPORT ON EDUCATION. RESOLUTIONS ON SLAVERY. RESOLUTIONS ON STATE OF THE COUNTRY. STATISTICS. MAINE CONFERENCE, 1862. RESOLUTIONS ON THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY. DR. DURBIN. STATISTICS. MAINE CONFERENCE, 1863. LOYAL DECLARATION OF THE CONFERENCE. A RESOLUTION IN FAVOR OF LAY DELEGATION. STATISTICS. VISITORS.
1852. The General Conference met in Boston, May 1, 1852, Bishops Waugh, Morris and Janes, being present; Bishop Hamline being confined to his home in feeble health. One hundred and seventy-four delegates, from twenty-nine conferences, answered to their names.
Bishop Hedding, having been for some time in declining health, died at his home in Schenectady, New York, a few weeks before the meeting of conference (April 9th). The death of the venerable senior bishop was appropriately noticed by the conference with funeral services. The presiding bishops, in their address, bore the following testimony to the character and services of their deceased associate, viz. : " His end was peaceful, happy and triumphant. He sustained
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INVITATION FROM THE MAYOR. BISHOP HIAMLINE RESIGNS.
the office of General Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal church nearly twenty-eight years. IIc has left few equals in the church, and, take him all in all, no superior survives him ; with all his greatness, he had the simplicity of a child. His amiability, gentleness and kindness, endeared him to all with whom he had intercourse."
A communication was received from the superintendent of the public schools of Boston, inviting the conference to visit the public schools ; also an invitation from the mayor of the city for the conference to unite in an excursion among the islands in Boston harbor, and also to attend an address of Hon. Daniel Webster in Faneuil Hall, and to visit other institutions in the city. Thesc polite invitations were accepted with thanks. The excursion in the harbor was rendered specially enjoyable by a bountiful collation on one of the islands, provided at the expense of the city. The entertainment was enlivened by spceches. The occasion was one of much interest, and was highly appreciated, especially by the southern delegates, as an unexpected expression of Yankee hospitality.
A communication was received from Bishop Hamline, giving an account of his feeble health and resigning his office as bishop. This was the first instance in which a bishop of our church, ordained to this office, had resigned. Some members of the conference doubted the propriety of establishing such a precedent, regarding the office of bishop as an order of life-long tenure. The resignation was, however, accepted.
Much time of the conference was occupied in trying cases of appeal from the decisions of Annual Conferences. It became apparent that some different tribunal for such cases was imperatively demanded, and several resolutions were offered to that effect.
A resolution was adopted in relation to the recent death of Dr. Stephen Olin, president of the Wesleyan University and member elect of this conference, expressing the profound sorrow of the conference and their high appreciation of the remarkable ability and worth of this great and good man.
Numerous memorials on the subject of lay delegation, some in favor of, and many against this measure, were referred to a committee. In their report, the committee presented a resolution declaring it " inexpedient so to alter the economy of the church as to introduce lay delegation into the General and Annual Conferences." The resolution was adopted by one hundred and seventy-one yeas and three nays. Twenty years afterward, lay delegation in the General Conference became an accomplished fact.
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Memorials on the subject of slavery were presented and referred, but no important action was taken.
The committee on episcopacy, in their report, recommended the election of four additional bishops. Levi Scott, Matthew Simpson, Osmon C. Baker and Edward R. Ames, having received a majority of all the votes, were declared elected.
The book agents and editors of the General Conference papers and periodicals were elected.
1852. The Maine Conference met for its twenty-eighth session in Portland, 1852, Bishop Waugh, presiding ; C. F. Allen and C. C. Mason, Secretaries.
Nearly two days were occupied with the trial of a member of the conference charged with immorality. After a patient hearing of the testimony, the specification and charge were declared not sustained.
The only person admitted on trial was Stephen H. Tobey.
The committee on education, in their report, presented resolutions of encouragement and co-operation for Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Wesleyan University and the Biblical Institute.
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