A history of Methodism in the United States . shed with accommodationsat the back of the stand for the holding of prayer-meeting,while the whites would proceed with their prayer-meetingin front. Planters, with the consent of the Quarterly Con-ference, who did not think the general scheme sufficientfor the instruction of their people, were authorized to em-ploy a local preacher to serve them at their plantations,provided the same were done at hours which did not inter-fere with the regular public worship. Transylvania University, at Lexington, Ky., was prac-tically adopted by the denomination.
A history of Methodism in the United States . shed with accommodationsat the back of the stand for the holding of prayer-meeting,while the whites would proceed with their prayer-meetingin front. Planters, with the consent of the Quarterly Con-ference, who did not think the general scheme sufficientfor the instruction of their people, were authorized to em-ploy a local preacher to serve them at their plantations,provided the same were done at hours which did not inter-fere with the regular public worship. Transylvania University, at Lexington, Ky., was prac-tically adopted by the denomination. The Nashville, theSouthern, and the Richmond Christian Advocates weremade official. John B. McFerrin was elected editor of theNashville, William M. Wightman of the Southern, andLeroy M. Lee of the Richmond Christian Advocate ;assistant editors were also elected. H. B. Bascom, by arising and unanimous vote, was made editor of the Quar-terly Review, and Lovick Pierce was delegated to visit1 Journal of the General Conference of 1846, pp. 7/ui^^^ Th^^ A^a (iyt/^«i^*y^a^^ / SECOND GENERAL CONFERENCE. 337 the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Churchin Pittsburg. A pastoral address was issued, in which the subject ofslavery occupied a large place, the position being takenthat, instead of the least departure from the law of thechurch respecting slavery, the Southern conferences had strictly adhered to it throughout the whole struggle,and that, while they did not claim to be better, moredevoted, more worthy of imitation as Christians than[their] brethren of the North, in everything essential,everything peculiar to Methodism [they] believed the im-partial evidence of history would be that [they] had beennot only equal, but, in fact, even uniquely loyal and trueto the duties and hopes of our end and calling as Ameri-can Wesley an Methodists.^ The second General Conference was held in St. Louis,Mo., in April, 1850, and after the organization BishopAndrew read the ep
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