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While we listen to the oices lllff of the fathers and receive iheir number of missions is 14. i Sraitn The addition to the number of solemn charge, w hat message shall O F. Jayne. we send forward to our successors members reported has not been as T W. Lincoln, . vy . ft.o.Einaorf . who shall celebrate the second large as in some preceding rjeriods (Umstum lix ilcoaUc, i u I ; i an fttC in 1 ! M-tiu- dit pu 1 T.-C- - . P, A . II. 4 rankle. J. I) Gihilan. nelson. F. Brock. G. M. Jeffrey. v . W.-- . iiiiiii Centennial ( At tb first conference, held lud years ago, in this city, only t; received appointmert, preachers - 1 with- - i t p tj 1 (j Jsivnh!i rj in ' . m t . -t of .4: i v. 1 lit i t .1! Itah'n l - . !n inn ' 4 ix UUull l.U t.vy vMVtir w iiHicmiiii!''. (iid 1 i.j - film td VOU ur lerntorien. iiom o tusi an Li The snece; os i ue Chinch niut Mg, j 1 ev er depend. Ujxn an earnest woiids great sti urgle. The Master and consecrated min-- ! himself watches fiom the throne, indefatigable istry; 2d. Upon a devoted and j 1 fnere be no disappointineut in results actively co operating membership; ?d. Uj'on the rich baptism of the Finally, dearly behvid brethren, we desire now again to commend has which God holy spirit premised to his true servants. W e hae lea-- . you to God ar.d the word of his . 6.0 vlOU for the efficient grace, praying that the IIolv Soirit ministers whom ho has raised up may be present and be helpful in vnvl-rFfinr ripll gTid crivan tn. Yiis rkurck' U1CU COH ft secratei to his service; and we do ns, to tne end that Ms name believe that no class of men in the may be glorified and ills kingdom world have given clearer proof of enlarged and established upon the devotion to the eaus.e of Christ than earth. We are, dear brethren, most the great body of our itinerant tnirmrera Wa rarmol kiwsvAi sincerely and affectionately your in tha ignore the fact that in almost every brethren and fellow laborers i Annual Conference there are men Gospel ot Lhn&r; Matthew Simpson, who have been admitted or. Thomas Bowman, evidence of fitness for the William L. Harris, ministry, and who have not proved i, F ostoi. of real service to the Church. We iuuiuui;u W . Isaac WAcf AowwaoJ-lTfllft ti Uev, nnYmonit Church a mere thorough examina8tephan M. Merrill, Edward Gs Andrews tion and trial of and dare for the Henry W. Warren, ministry. The few who fail affect the reputation and standard of the Gyrus D. Foss, John F. Hurst. whole body. While not sought for Philadelphia, May 5, 1384, by the people, they often riaim, w .r. iV t ww ueo ui iijj cui. vcoid m ministry, a right to the mure The converts to Christianity durand prominent appointa.ents, ing the first century of the Tiristi-afailing to secure them, complain of era are estimated at 5o0,0b0; at the tire church and of its authcrit'es. close of thethiid century, at 5,009,-000- ; and spend a Ispiri t of disaffection at the close of the fourth Our throughout the Church. at 5fV000,LMi0. fifteenth observation is that where the century, there were 100,009,000, and century t $ i. Jr ao iivi f UAA L4 U.$A.fA.VA7UA t VA.O m the eighteenth century 4S0, churches prosper, whether in our VV e comnrend these figures rural districts or in our cities, but to those Christians desopundir.g when men remain m the ministry who fear that a few infidel lect simply to retain their position and nre are about to put out the to receive support and mechanically of the gospel. light form the dudes of their . J NO.G i rHPp!i,4 i but we think that this is due in part to the fact that in pursuance of the action of the last General Con ferene greater care has been taken amy n i 1 3 vir) car. er before tn rent the church registers and to standin' returned to England make more accurate returns. The Francis 5 nezt in the Address of the Bishops, years except Asbury, who may well be styled statistics of 1883 show 11,349 travelthe apostle and father of American ing preachers, 12,028 local preachers To the Members of the NineMethodism; and yet God carried and 1,769,P35 members and proteenth !fie(jated General Con- forward his work by raising up bationers. bing an increase in four ference of the Methodist Eimcofl 6 T w on r7Vla f v Wbii x"233 A i iAUMi 2, f5 j - .I4MCS I Tit' . ' wnose laoors me oorcters oi the mis increase in members is not i, mercy and peace from God the Church were constantly extended. equal to that cf the preceding Father and from our Lord Jesus W e have built on foundations they ciicains-tanc&ike it is, under Christ. The minutes we have reared institutions laid: encouraging. M e greet you as brethem beloved i A.l A . I n' LOO i4 AUW vil WiiiCh ihci! fdith UiiU SACiiiiCC 3 . , liiV 1 ae tne cnosen 'representatives of the made possible. Gur schools of periodthere have died 8d4 travrel ministry and of the laity of the every grade, our large and com- ing pTR'iifip-r- and. 88,891 members, Church and as no workers in the modious churches, and our various Theae added to the report again kingdom and piactiees of our Lord institutions are rich fruits of sed show that the accessions to the Jesus Christ. (Jhuiek during the quadrennuim sowed. But with all Wc met uudej circumstances of they which they never had, may have been 158,787. peculiar interest. We have reached we not pertinently and profitably The materiel inrerests of the the hundredth year of our 'history ask ourselves for Church have been greatly prosmap whether, as a disGuct ecclt'eiastivrtl-uigas.iowe ?re accomplishing for the pered, j. New church edilices have tion. and we may ause od the man, of Christ ,3 rnn.--h "5 thuOC chush va W Vwt 1 rwi bJ VA ViA'. V V threshold of our second century of Think did. the heroes and many existing properties try, to recall the character and deeds early the have been greatly impioved. In encountered, opposition they o? the noble men who laid the the hardship they endured, the 1879 there were 1G.955 chuiches and foundation of the Methodist Epis-caplabor they performed, and fhere-sul- t .5,089 t a; soilages, valued together Church. which followed; and surely at $70,955 59. In 1883 the minutes The history of the century, and we may gather from this study, reported 18,741 churches and 5,815 pei office, especially of its early periods, instruction, rebuke and inspir- parsonages, valued together at $79, our churches fail. Not only is care clearly demonstrates that the work ation. The horrid nature of heathenism 238,085. We are gratified to be needed in admission to the conferwas vi God and not of man, and we The causes of their success weie able to say that throughout our ence, but there should be someway in Congoland is revealed by the Not unto us, may devoutly say, theseborders great success has attended in which inefficient ministers might ceremonies of burying a chief. The run tn Thy huf n. O Lord, net unto I. Ihe tireless zeai and hoiy tiie enorts oi ministers and mem- be more easily retired that the course of a stream is turned ana a name give glory. Yet oar rejoicing of the early Methodists. bers to liquidate church debts, Conference might be able to receive large pit dug in its bed. The is with trembling, because of our living The ministers had no worldly On th great moral questions of active and promising men who are bottom f this is covered with manifold delinquencies and of the n. to move them to actii motifs Then the Uad the day the tone of our periodicals offering themselves for tire oik. living women. responsibilities which are uj" on u, fr'mis few fe is had 1 is chief in a comforts, ha-earnest and uniform. i placed Bieth en, he cannot ohe this sitring posture, :ilso attaches to. They Special interest . . . vant land his Tlre wives. surrounded They i! up.ort. i w been have eview brief by ar bout Especially gratified , magnifying the ,, the place m whicn we meet. It 1 JjCIH an auu uurvcu. is then earth uiviiie and the ia shoved in in, with the tact that all parts of the grace of God nhioii hu.s Lees so was in this ciy that the fathers of wa littie to infineiK-eworsen buired alive, sure thesmoml memberehip Chuich oui ministry ard meaiM r iuurveloasiy manifed to v. aid our precious mcMry, Boardmao and to join them, tiin ctavu-tiohas the privilege of who wife, b exet-pxioexcpr j with an itarcelv beloved Churi m the past hundred ship, Film ore, Asbury and Rankin thus they could lead holier hare been firm and aggressive m that tire grave is tilled before killed Wlien we revet t, as we do the gospel on yars first preached lives. in lived and happier an. Then some for tv or fiftv mate I nn) They rhuir iMvofion to the cans of rern th div As rvnr cm i a4 i Kf tU American soil. Here, also unify conscious vaa with slaves Christ, are killed, and their blood friendship In their great struggle for ising beginnings and remember years earlier, the matchless elo- and in salons labor to win others perance. prohibition which has occnred m how Nod has been with our fathers poured over the grave, after which quence cf Whuefield shook the to him. some of tire TYestern- States the and with us even to this 8gys the sreearn is turned back into its city, as it did the whole Atlantic 2. The doctrines pro aimed by position of our people has been one honoring ns as he has honored course. coast, with its bold and masterly ministers the wre of devotion ihe chieiif to filler prin- none of our contemporaries, buildunyielding Here still stands the address. fundamental the doctrines the of of coitalituticnal ciples prohibition. ing us stately and strong over all Most of our readers know St. Georges Church, where thei of & rain we lost While fte have few members the land and to the very end of about the New American Ifiction-af- y M ad earlT Coherence of 1771 1774 and ms of tin firm a v .. Raviour; seed atiitnde of the church, r'ne world, making ns to Ire among -I rx rt by the . usd U Cjrj lUi Va trtawivw iman; j i iu vh.3 i VA.Mth f forriTene&s btoseikeufc hnxo rso Cnns A cl dwH fl.n wft doubt that our i;the vKa tt high VMV TTP ... la uesviibeu else iVfivlQ Vi iuo tiie will be ail in oi maintained penecr. are the love, coustniined fAc eais; the at re time position 6aiue v;k V A4WS V( 4VU re future, and that the Church will in hnmhle t.nrsrivpK. snd ack&owb j Qi a IiSS ana IalL tisyifius sprvires by the Methodist! ye&r lias probably been ten times; , frtpvuai and tO OJTVvsrc ail iVi UlS of eugint; that the power has all been r AVevOlUtl UMJAAjT great as that of any other bvuk if at, wvi Mon until of source s&ul 3. The td in eauv we ask now that to intemperance, devote God, legal power Thus the memories of a hundred published. Having arranged to pay of the evil shall be removed from ourselves more completely than the wm Met hodism of its sumitinerancy us around and partly in advertising ' for all that years throng mon ns to like strenuous and noble ministers. They waited not for the Rtatute book of all of oai State. ever to tu sen ice of his luagutm shall oe oidered by our readers We view with alarm the laxity in lira eaitL. Th retrospet i of the withm a short time, we are enabled congregations to invite them, but action. When the Methodist Episcopal they went forth and preached every- of the laws in many of the States old and the new century finds us to announce the liberal offer found Chuich was organist d in Baltimore, where, gathering congregations hi on the subject of dlvnrr- arid feyr with high hopes and courage. As on another page of this paper. The in 178t, with ike exception of Cook d welling houses, in cabins, ia shops (hat the SeiitinsHiii uf the Cliiistian the guaidians of this precious Cincinnati Er.qr says, among elu h aw ueeudeu io a oilrer riiiuge': and Asbury, Whatcom end Yasey, in barns, in fields aud in forests; people of the country is not up fn Yv e 'nave tire 1'oak ?heie was not' a minister present and thus the Worel cf tiie Lord the standard demanded by the j from the fathers, you viii, vve doubt In use m our office, and, after who had been present ten years udgfitly grew and prevailed. May Holy Scripture un this subject. not, use hecornirgdeiligence to hand thorough examination, can pro- YaniMi as rveiisr ineaireiiuo.ioi tiie ireuei-u- i j icIn ihe itinerant wo;k, and out or we riot ask und.mimshcd trad nn i4. uii e it tH- - of the beat buok J V or 7o the greates Lad ministers and of the CMpGierice to the epH(itency of tarnished to the gepepf;oTl feilov.-- . I i ii vv.a. al not been mole tia three Teirs Churrh nr hnvv th one or Not the taireetness; wd.ether the funda i gai to ;!h s, thu m -Moved. rire prereiil Addivs all ci uijr.unmarioiis to the 1 u vti.-- ti ni-- i. tire advan doreii.-v Lad are ,f th ii,euJal ern-!ja!lnturi-'-. j i!Cii,.!e the veuag eiijojed ajui i you own Pubit-hiu- r '"'Tirr.He Ft ;h rec- -i o? a (vllegiate eau'-atu- 'msrnntlj tn Ld turlaLo to tin .mrerran or n ahlo( bur 1; ri.T but UrejiiiN Am Air IMre City. i .r AVI lll iX. Ski Vi t'MWV ..r V - yy;m- i Ai- SOfi- flrtf - e fhar! ? qnad-renninn- s, I mr& s SALT LAKE CITY', UTAH. .HAVE, 188!, VOL. L im J3? ts haft-e- i J77re 42 Vft 4 thes-helps- , - r r Vy s 4 "fri -- 1 ( a - LA 4A A AA Vi 000,-OfK- al ). - li-- ... i . aui . a 3-g- s, Ire-In- g inlet8. wm ! w y I 4M.A. Ve. f 4 - 1 1 -- I (O I I wr, IJXi, yiNG rice to 'CUTE3 at the assured merciai - ! Bgr - 5 ni'-ns- j F- - ! -- I I j f.-- m s- th-m- j w 1. im-i.-- |
