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the payment of fifty cents; and the contribution of ten dollars shall 

 constitute membership for life. 



Art. 9. This Constitution shall not be altered but by a vote of 

 two-thirds, in an annual meeting, present and voting on the occasion. 



Art. 10. The anniversary of the society shall be held on the 

 first Friday evening during the session of the Conference. 



Eeport of the Board of Managers. 



The Board of Managers of the Sunday-school Society of the 

 South Carolina Conference beg leave to submit their second annual 

 report. 



It is a source of intense gratification to the members of this board, 

 as it must be to every philanthropic and Christian heart, that a gen- 

 eral and decided interest has been awakened, not only within the 

 limits of our immediate Conference district, but of the entire South- 

 ern Methodist Church, upon the importance and necessity of early 

 religious instruction among the young. This, we think, is mainly 

 attributable, under the Divine blessing, to the increased interest 

 manifested by those who are earnestly and prayerfully laboring in 

 the Master's, vineyard. It is not now left entirely to the minister, 

 the faithful man of God, who ought not to be expected to do all of 

 this momentous work, in addition to the heavy responsibility which, 

 as a preacher of the word, is required of him. Pious and faithful 

 men and women have in this work come up " to the help of the 

 Lord against the mighty." The interest manifested has been awak- 

 ened and largely increased by the benign influence exerted in the 

 two annual conventions which met for the specific purpose of aiding 

 in the cause of Sunday-schools within the borders of the South Car- 

 olina Conference. The first of these, held in the city of Columbia 

 in May, 1859, was the inauguration of a neAV and splendid era in our 

 Sunday-school history. Its proceedings have been made matters of 

 permanent record, and still serve to refresh and gladden the heart 

 as " memory brings the light of other days." The second convo- 

 cation, held in the town of Spartanburg, in May of the present year, 

 was not the less successful in its influence and effect upon all who 

 enjoyed the pleasure of being present on that highly interesting and 

 delightful occasion. If possible, it was even an improvement on 

 the first ; and, certainly, the most practical and irrefutable argument 

 for their repetition. It is to be sincerely regretted that the pro- 

 ceedings of that convention have not been preserved in a more per- 

 manent and useful form. Let us hope that circumstances may trans- 



