 | Stephen Olin - 1853 - 560 pages
...and whereas Bishop Andrew has become connected with slavery by marriage and otherwise, and this act having drawn after it circumstances which, in the estimation of the General Conference, will greatly emharrass the exercise of his office as an itinerant general superintendent, if not in some places... | |
 | Stephan Olin - 1854 - 500 pages
...and whereas Bishop Andrew has become connected with slavery by marriage and otherwise, and this act having drawn after it circumstances which, in the...it; therefore, "Resolved, That it is the sense of the General Conference that he desist from the exercise of this office so long as this impediment remains."... | |
 | George White - Reference - 1855 - 872 pages
...superintendency ; and whereas Bishop And has become connected with slavery, by marriage and otherwise ; and this having drawn after it circumstances which, in the...For this resolution 110 members voted ; against it, 68. A few days after, the Rev. AB Longstreet, in behalf of the delegations from the Southern and Southwestern... | |
 | Charles Elliott - Slavery and the church - 1855 - 640 pages
...and whereas Bishop Andrew has become connected with slavery, by marriage and otherwise, and this act having drawn after it circumstances which, in the...greatly embarrass the exercise of his office as an • Journal, p. 8Î. DebaU«, p. Ш. t Débat«, p. 189. t Id, p. ИО. itinerant general superintendent,... | |
 | David S. Monroe - 1855 - 400 pages
...General Conference will greatly No Reports. Consideration of Griffith's resolution resumed. tute. May 23. embarrass the exercise of his office as an itinerant...not in some places entirely prevent it ; therefore, " Reserved, That it is the sense of this General Conference that he desist from the exercise of this... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Methodists - 1855 - 632 pages
...and whereas Bishop Andrew has become connected with slavery by marriage and otherwise, and this act having drawn after it circumstances which in the estimation of the General Conference will greatly No Reports. May 23. Report*. Revisal, No. 5. Book Concern, No. ». Sonth-Westem Chrintian AdToc»te.... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Methodists - 1856 - 718 pages
...with a separate ecclesiastical connexion under the title of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; therefore, "Resolved, That it is the sense of this General Conference, that they have no jurisdiction over the Rev. Bishop Soule, and can exercise no ecclesiastical authority... | |
 | Hiram Mattison - Slavery - 1858 - 150 pages
...and whereas Bishop Andrew has become connected with slavery by marriage and otherwise, and this act having drawn after it circumstances which, in the...office as an itinerant general superintendent, if not iu some places entirely prevent it ; therefore, "Resolved, That it is the sense of this General Conference,... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1861 - 642 pages
...and whereas Bishop Andrew has become connected with slavery by marriage and otherwise, and this act having drawn after it circumstances which, in the...Superintendent, if not in some places entirely prevent it ; Resolved, That it is the sense of this General Conference that he desist from the exercise of this... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1870 - 644 pages
...taken was the passage of the Finley substitute with a briefer and milder preamble, stating it to be "the sense of this General Conference that he desist...of his office so long as this impediment remains." The Southern delegates had, during the painful discussion, taken no steps toward an amicable adjustment... | |
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... greatly embarrass the exercise of his office as an itinerant general superintendent, if not in some places entirely prevent it ; therefore, Resolved, That it is the sense of this general conference, that he desist from the exercise of this office,... 
