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German settlement has also been formed in 

 Gibson County, which promises to be the nu- 

 cleus of a much larger colony. Immigration, 

 like every other enterprise involving the in- 

 vestment of labor and capital in Tennessee, 

 has been materially retarded by the unsettled 

 condition of the finances of the State, and the 

 popular agitation to which it has given rise. 



The Southern Sunday-School Association 

 met at Tullahoma on September 17th, with a 

 view mainly to the selection of a fixed place 

 for the annual gathering of Sunday-school and 

 Christian workers, in order to promote the 

 education of the people in literature, arts, sci- 

 ence, temperance, and all things conducive to 

 their elevation religiously, morally, socially, 

 and intellectually, after the manner, as far as 

 practicable, of the meetings at Chautauqua. 

 The selection of a location was left to a com- 

 mittee, who, after visiting several places, se- 

 lected Monteagle, Tenn., in the vicinity of the 

 University of the South, at Sewanee. 



The Quadrennial General Conference of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, South, met in 

 Nashville, in May, and continued in session 

 from May 3d to the 25th. 



The following report of the Committee on 

 Education, in reference to the educational 

 wants of the negro population in the South 

 and Southwest, was discussed and adopted: 



Your committee have had under consideration that 

 part of the bishop's address which relates to the claims 

 of the negro population in the South and Southwest so 

 far as their educational wants are concerned, and beg 

 leave to submit the following report : 



1. We note with pleasure the statement coming 

 from so competent a source, that this people, upon 

 whom our Church has in times past bestowed such 

 labor, but who more recently in their changed rela- 

 tions have, for the most part, been turned away from 

 us, are again becoming accessible to our ministry, and 

 we heartily concur in the recommendation that the 

 opportunity thus afforded to preach to their congrega- 

 tions be diligently improved. 



2. To the claims of the Colored Methodist Episcopal 

 Church in America, which sustains a peculiar and 

 providential relation to the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, South, the address invites especial attention, 

 chiefly lor the purpose of determining what may be 

 done by us to assist them in obtaining facilities for 

 providing themselves with suitable pastors and teach- 

 ers of their own race. They have no institution under 

 their management for the education of those who are 

 to occupy their pulpits and preside in their schools. 

 Their preachers and teachers, if educated at all, must, 

 for the most part, be educated by those who are not 

 in sympathy with their organization. If they are to 

 make any progress, or even to maintain their exist- 

 ence, they must provide for the education of ^ those 

 who are to take charge of their schools and religious 

 congregations. Of themselves, they are not to do 

 this ; they have neither the money to establish schools 

 nor the men competent to conduct them, and they 

 look to us for aid. 



As what we have done for them in setting them up 

 for themselves creates the necessity of doing more for 

 them, so this fact justifies the expectation on their 

 part that we have not already done or are not now 

 doing enough. Our people in the South have cheer- 

 fully borne their share in providing by general and 

 special legislation for the educational wants of the col- 

 ored race. We have endeavored to encourage in every 

 way the promotion of common-school education among 



them. But in the secular schoolsj their preachers and 

 missionaries can not get the training essential to their 

 work. The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 which looks especially to us tor encouragement and 

 aid, is in pressing need at this point ; therefore 



Resolved, That our bishops be authorized and re 

 quested to appoint, in consultation with the bishops 

 of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, in Amer- 

 ica, a preacher or layman of our church, properly 

 qualified for the work, who shall be a commissioner 

 of education in aid of the Colored Methodist Episcopal 

 Church in America, whose duty it shall be to solicit 

 subscriptions, contributions, donations, and bequests, 

 from whatever source he may find available, for the 

 purpose of creating an educational fund for the bene- 

 fit of said Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in 

 America. 



Resolved, That our bishops be also authorized and 

 requested to appoint three members of our Church, 

 who, together with the Commissioner of Education 

 and three members of the Colored Methodist Episco- 

 pal Church, to be appointed by their bishops, shall 

 constitute a Board of Trustees, for the custody and 

 control of their educational fund when it shall have 

 been raised. 



Resolved, That the Commissioner of Education, 

 herein provided for, be appointed a committee of one 

 to see that the said Board of Trustees be completed 

 in legal form by securing proper acts of incorporation. 



Afl of which is respectfully submitted : 



W. P. HARRISON, Chairman. 



A proposition was made to change the name 

 of the " Methodist Episcopal Church, South," 

 to the " Methodist Episcopal Church in Amer- 

 ica," which gave rise to a long debate. On 

 motion of the venerable Dr. J. B. McFerren, 

 the matter was disposed of by directing that it 

 be " referred by the bishops to the several an- 

 nual conferences during the ensuing four years, 

 and that they report the result of the note to 

 the General Conference of 1886 for ratification." 



The College of Bishops having been reduced 

 by death and by the infirmities of some of the 

 older incumbents, the Conference decided to 

 elect five new bishops. Accordingly, Eev. 

 Drs. A. W. Wilson, of the Baltimore Con- 

 ference; John C. Granberry, of Vanderbilt 

 University ; Kobert Kennon Hargrove, of the 

 Alabama Conference; Linus Parker, of the 

 Louisiana Conference; and Atticus G. Hay- 

 good, of the North Georgia Conference, were 

 elected. Dr. Hay good declined to accept the 

 office. The Conference determined not to 

 elect any one in Dr. Haygood's place. The 

 other four bishops-elect were ordained with 

 impressive ceremonies at McKendree Church, 

 on May 18th. The College of Bishops, as it 

 now stands, consists of Rev. George F. 

 Pierce, D.D., Eev. Hubbard II. Kavanaugh, 

 D.D., Rev. Holland N. McTyeire, D.D., Rev. 

 John 0. Keener, D. D., Rev. A. W. Wilson, 

 D. D., Rev. J. C. Granberry, D. D., Rev. R. K. 

 Hargrove, D. D., and Rev. Linus Parker, D. D. 

 Bishop Robert Paine, who was present at the 

 Conference, though in very feeble health, died 

 at his residence at Aberdeen, Miss., late in 

 the autumn. During the session of the Confer- 

 ence the distinguished preacher, theologian, 

 and author, Rev. Dr. Thomas O. Summers, 

 of Yanderbilt University, died, after a short 

 illness, at his home in Nashville. 



