. Holston Methodism [electronic resource]: from its origin to the present time . ville, preached his first sermon in a unionchurch in Jerrersonville about this time. He continuedto preach at intervals till the close of a controversy be-tween him and President Collins, of Emory and Hen-ry College. Having been beaten from every position,he left Wytheville. and the Tazewell Catholics wereleft without a priest. After this Bishop Whelan cameto this section of the State and took occasion to visithis flock in Tazewell. The Methodists opened theirpulpit for him; and in acknowledgment of their kind-nes
. Holston Methodism [electronic resource]: from its origin to the present time . ville, preached his first sermon in a unionchurch in Jerrersonville about this time. He continuedto preach at intervals till the close of a controversy be-tween him and President Collins, of Emory and Hen-ry College. Having been beaten from every position,he left Wytheville. and the Tazewell Catholics wereleft without a priest. After this Bishop Whelan cameto this section of the State and took occasion to visithis flock in Tazewell. The Methodists opened theirpulpit for him; and in acknowledgment of their kind-ness one of his first sentences was an insult both to *At tins point T have amended Mr. Whites historical state-ment somewhat. CONFERENCES OF 187I AND 1872. 83 t the Methodists, whose courtesy he was enjoying, andto the house of God itself. He remarked that he feltembarrassed because he was preaching in an_unconse-crated house. President Collins, who had firmly op-posed the spread of Romanism in Southwestern Vir-ginia, heard of this remark and replied to the Bishopin a few CHAPTER of 1873, 1874, and 1875. The Conference met in its fiftieth session in Marion,Va., October 15, 1873, Bishop John C. Keener Presi-dent, R. N. Price Secretary, and J. R. Payne, R. , and F. W. Earnest, Esq., Assistants. J. M. McTeer at his own request was relieved of thetrusteeship of the Waugh Fund, and E. E. Wiley wasappointed in his place. Dr. Wiley reported that thisfund had been paid into his hands as ConferenceTreasurer, and he was authorized to invest it. During the session Bishop Keener, at the request ofthe Conference, gave an account of our lately foundedmission in Mexico. The people were well supplied with preaching at thisConference. Five Churches were served on Saturday,day and night; and on Sunday there was the Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, Colored Meth-odist, Colored Baptist, Mt. Carmel, and GreenwoodChurches. A communication from Dr. William E.
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