Journals of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Volume 1Carlton & Philips, 1855 - Methodists |
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according to adjournment AFTERNOON amended annual conferences appeal Baltimore Beverly Waugh Bishop George Bishop Hedding Bishop M'Kendree Bishop Roberts Bishop Soule Book Committee Book Concern book-agents book-steward brethren British Conference brother called Capers Carried cern Charles Holliday Chartered Fund circuit Committee on Petitions Committee on Revisal Conference adjourned Conference assembled Conference met according Conference shall include connexion consideration copacy delegates district eight o'clock elected Elijah Hedding ence Episcopacy Ezekiel Cooper ference following resolution form of Discipline hereby inserted Itinerancy James John Emory Joshua Soule Journal of yesterday laid leave of absence local preachers Lost memorial Methodist Episcopal Church mittee motion Moved and seconded Nathan Bangs New-York Conference ordered to lie petition Philadelphia Conference Pittsburg Conference presented and read presiding elders question was taken referred requested Resolved rule Samuel secretary slavery society South Carolina superintendents Thomas tion took the chair travelling preachers vote William words
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Page 306 - No member shall speak more than twice to the same question, without leave of the House ; nor more than once, until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken.
Page 192 - Resolved, by the Delegates of the Annual Conferences in General Conference assembled, That they disapprove, in the most unqualified sense, the conduct of two members of the General Conference, who are reported to have lectured in this city recently upon, and in favor of, modern abolitionism.
Page 28 - If any member of our society retail or give spirituous liquors, and any thing disorderly be transacted under his roof on this account, the preacher who has the oversight of the circuit shall proceed against him as in the case of other immoralities, and the person accused shall be cleared, censured, suspended, or excluded, according to his conduct, as on other charges of immorality.
Page 210 - ... said Church as shall from time to time be duly authorized by the General Conference of the ministers and preachers of the said Methodist Episcopal Church, or by the Annual Conferences authorized by the said General Conference, to preach and expound God's holy word therein...
Page 447 - Resolved, — by the delegates of the Annual Conferences in General Conference assembled, that they are decidedly opposed to modern abolitionism, and wholly disclaim any right, wish, or intention, to interfere in the civil, and political relation between master and slave, as it exists in the slave-holding states of this Union.
Page 89 - ... 1. The general conference shall not revoke, alter, or change our articles of religion, nor establish any new standards or rules of doctrine contrary to our present existing and established standards of doctrine. 2. They shall not allow of more than one representative for every five members of the annual conference, nor allow of a less number than one for every seven.
Page 170 - We declare that we are as much as ever convinced of the great evil of slavery: therefore no slaveholder shall be eligible to any official station in our Church hereafter, where the laws of the state in which he lives will admit of emancipation, and permit the liberated slave to enjoy freedom.
Page 89 - The General Conference shall have full powers to make rules and regulations for our Church, under the following limitations and restrictions, viz. 1. The General Conference shall not revoke, alter, or change our articles of religion, nor establish any new standards or rules of doctrine contrary to our present existing and established standards of doctrine.
Page 89 - They shall not change or alter any part or rule of our government, so as to do away episcopacy, or destroy the plan of our itinerant general superintendency.
Page 23 - Meetings, and to those who have the oversight of Districts and Circuits, to be exceedingly cautious what persons they admit to official stations in our church; and in the case of future admission to official stations, to require such security of those who hold slaves, for the emancipation of them, immediately, or gradually, as the laws of the States respectively, and the circumstances of the case will admit...