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METHODIST CHURcH.-The Convention recent ly in session al Louisville, Kentucky adjourned on the l9h instant, after adopting the very able report of the committee organization, presented 10 the Con, entiou the l4lh. The report and resolutions winch adopted without dissen are too long for our columns, o.herwise we should gladly publish them. We annex the resolutions, from winch t will be seen that the line of separation has been drawn and the Church divided North and South.

 After lncd exposition of the grounds upon which the Coyentlun acted, in view of lheIr egiti- mate right and authority to dissolve the relations existing between the conferences of the southern and northern States, and alludmg to the failure of every effort tat the asl conierence) of compromise and reconciliation, "the probability of any adjustment, they remark, "ifnot extinct is essening every day, the report closes as follows:

 "Ihere'ore, in view of all lhe principles and in. terests involved, appealing the Almigh, searcher oi hearts, for the sincerity oi our motives, and hum bly invoking the Divine blessing upon our action,

 Be il resolved, ey the delegates of the several An nual Conferences oi the Methodist Episcopal Church in the sascholding States, m General Convention assemhied hat il is fight. expedient and neccssa- " To erect the Annual Conferences represented in tlns Convention, lntoa distinct ecclesasiic Com necton, separate from the jurisdiction of the Gene raj Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church as al present constituted; and accordinslv we inc Delegates of said Annual Conferences, acting under the provisional plan oi separation adopted by the General Conference of lSI4, do soeinn, dtclais he jurisdiction hitherto exercised over said Annual Con iereHces, by the General Conference of the Metho- dist Episcopal Chnch snfneiy dtSSoired; and that said Aunual Conferences shalt be, and they hereby are constituted separate ecclesiastical Coaneriion, under the provisional plan oi separation aforesaid and based upon the discipline of the Methodist Epis. eopal Church, comp, ehendng the doctrines and en. te moral, ecclesiastiral and economical rules and regulations of said discipline, except only, in so far as verbal alterations may be nect ssaIN 10 distinct organization, and to le known by the style and title of the Methodist EptScopal Church, Sotdh. Resolved, That Bishops Soule and Andrew be and they ale hereby respectfully and cordially re- qucsled by this CeuteAon to uniie with, and be- come regular and constitutional Bishops of the Me 1 lhodist Episcopal 'hur,h, South, upon he hass oi

 ,e ilan of separation adopted by lhe late General l Conference.

 Resolved, That thus Con,enIion request the Rish ops presiding al the ensuing sessions of lhe bbGel Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, 10 incorporate into ihe aforesaid Conference, any societies or stations adjoining lAc line of dV sion, provided such societies or stations, by maio ry oi lhe members according To the provisions Q the pan ot separatiUn aih esaid, request such raugement.

 Resolved That answer the 2nd of 3rd Section

 

 1 ed and amended To read as follows; The Genera Conference shall meet the first day of May, in the l year of our Lord, 1916, in the town of Petersburg 1 Va, and thencrtorw in the month of A pril o May. once in four years successively, and in surl place and on such day shall be fixed on by h, preceding General Conerence," ," etc.

 Resolved. That the first answer in the same chap ter, be altered hv striking oui the word ''twtaty one, and inserting in it's place the word 'owtttn, so 10 entille each Annual Conference tu one De | egae for every fourteen members.

 | Resolved, That committee of three be appuinc, whose duty il shall he To prepare and report the Genera Conference of lSi6, revised copy of the present Discipline, with such changes as n,e n1crs safi lo conform to the organization of the Metho dist Episcopal hurch, South

 Resolved, That while We cannot abandon or cum promise the principle of acion upon which we pro ceed to a separate organization in the South, never tn less, cherishiHg a sincere desire manlail Christian unIon and frulernal intercourse, win the i Church North. shall always be ready. kind, ant respectfully to entertain, and duly and carefully con | sideriany proposition plan, having for ils ul,ec | he unInn oi the two great bodies, m the nnIh an, south, whether such proposed union be jursdtctiona l cOHnsctionai.