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The METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURcH.-It
is generally known that division has taken
place in the Methodist Church that portion
of the denomination within the bounds of the
slave holding States having separated by their
act at the Louisville Convention, and formed
themselves into a distinct organization as the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Up to
this time the profits of the " Book Concern, !"
established in New York, have been divided
equally among all the Conferences. The
New York Commercial states that the Book
Committee" who superintend the whole de-
partment of the (" Concern" met in that city
at the close Of last week, and, as they are in
formed, came TO the decision to withhold any
farther payment to the South, until the opin-
ion Of the General Conference can be obtain.
ed, which is to be held on the 1st of May,
l848. The Book Agents are instructed to re-
serve that portion Of the profits until the Gen
eral Conference can make its decision.


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