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     WHEREAS, The chief design of the Sunday-school is the conversion and culture of the human soul and the development of Christian character ; and

     WHEREAS, This design is so grandly realized in large accessions from the Sunday-school to the membership of the church; therefore

     Resolved, 1, That we recognize the Sunday-school as an important auxiliary of the church.

     2, That we urge the organization of a Methodist Sunday-school in every place where an organization is possible according to our discipline.

     3, That we submit the following form for the organization of a Conference Sunday-school Society:

     (1.) This organization shall be called "The Nebraska Annual Conference Sunday-school Society," and shall be auxiliary to the Sunday-school Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

     (2.) The officers shall be a President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary, and shall be elected annually at the Conference Anniversary.

     (3.) The Constitution and By-Laws may be changed, or amended, at any regular meeting of the Society by a majority vote.

     (4.) The duties of the officers shall be such as usually attach to such offices.

     (5.) The Treasurer and Secretary shall report, annually, the number of Sunday-schools in the Conference and the amount of all collections.

     (6.) There shall he an anniversary of the Society at each annual Conference, in which reports shall be read, addresses given, and efforts made to increase the general interest in Sunday-school work.

     (7.) The donation or collection of $1.00 for the Society shall constitute membership. Respectfully submitted,

     We hereby re-affirm our sense of the importance of tract distribution.

     Tracts in the hand of the city missionary or Christian worker anywhere, will carry gospel truth where words would be despised or forgotten.

     The missionary, among a people whose language he does not fully understand, is able to preach through these silent messengers.

     Small and insignificant the leaflet, yet as a stray seed it takes root, and like the handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains, the fruit thereof shakes like Lebanon. The 600,000,000 pages, printed and circulated during the last twenty-seven years, are producing a harvest of eternal good ; therefore

     Resolved, That as a Conference we ought to do our best to furnish the sinews of strength by the collections, and use to its utmost limits !this instrumentality in our several fields of labor. Signed in behalf of committee,

     Your Committee desires to report that with the consent and advice of the Parent Board, this Society has undertaken the support and supervision of the work among the women in all the missions of the M. E. Church. The Home work is represented by 2,578 auxiliary societies, 65,662 members, who have contributed during the year $107,932.47, being an increase of nearly $32,000.00. They employ in the Foreign field forty-five Americnn (sic) missionary girls and more than two hundred native bible readers and preachers. They have six dispensaries and hospitals, fifteen boarding schools with eight hundred pupils, one hundred and twenty-five day schools with three thousand pupils, and three orphanages with four hundred orphans. One thousand zenanas are regularly and systematically visited. They have also one Home for friendless women. The paper published by the Society, "The Heathen Womens' Friend," has a subscription of 18,000, and for the past year has been considerably more than self-supporting. Therefore, in consideration of the importance and success of the work in the past and the necessity of an increased cart on the part of the women of our church in suppert (sic) of this noble institution, be it

     Resolved, That as Pastors we will give it our unqualified endorsement, and encourage our people to contribute of their means to its support; that we will urge the circulation of the " Heathen Womans' Friend" on our charges, and that we recognize in Mrs. Mary J. Shelley an earnest and efficient laborer in this department of the Lord's vineyard ; that we will welcome her to our churches and will give her our cordial support.

     Recognizing the great importance of worthy religious literature as a means of enlightenment, as a mighty factor in the propagation of troth, as a tried and trustworthy assistant to the ministry in all their varied departments of Christian enterprise: rejoicing at the awakening and increasing interest of the ministry and membership of our Church upon this subject: hailing with delight the superior excellency and increasing efficiency of our own church periodicals and Sabbath-school literature, and realizing the responsibility resting upon ourselves in these premises, as Preachers and Pastors, we do therefore

     Resolve, 1st, That we will endeavor to discharge faithfully the obligation we owe to God, to the Church, to the world, and to ourselves in the matter of sustaining the efficiency and increasing the circulation of our own church literature; endeavoring to have every Methodist home supplied with at least one of our church papers, and being careful that every one of our Sabbath-schools is supplied with our own Sabbath-school literature.

    2d, That in seeking to reach these very desirable results we should give our preference and patronage to our official paper, the C. C. Advocate.

     Your Committee, to audit the Presiding Elders' accounts, beg leave to report that they have carefully attended to their duty and find them correct.

     Your Committee, on Episcopal Fund, would report:

      WHEREAS, A large deficiency appears in this fund which should have been paid the past year; and

      WHEREAS, The amount apportioned for the year to come is a laage (sic) increase upon last year's apportionment therefore

      Resolved, That we will as forcefully as possible urge upon our respective charges the necessity of meeting our apportionment for this fund quarterly, as provided by discipline.

E. J. HANCOCK,       
Committee.   

      Report of the Secretary of Nebraska Conference on the publication of Conference minutes last year.

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     YORK, Neb., September 17, 1881.

S. H. HENDERSON,       
Secretary.     

      WHEREAS, Intemperance is the great evil and in the front rank of the times, a cancerous, hydra-headed and deadly fungus upon the body politic cropping out disastrously in every state and township in the nation, spreading disease and shame, distress and death, extending its scarlet roots, periling every interest and enterprise and the safety of every church and family in the land; and

       WHEREAS, The expedients and policies hitherto used to modify and extirpate the growing evil have proved insufficient; therefore be it

       Resolved, In the judgment of this Conference,

       1st, That, whereas, it shows a moral weakness that we, as ministers, cannot countenance, to tacitly encourage any moral evil by the enactment of laws to license or modify the same; therefore, the only expedient that can prove adequately effective in the states and nation is prohibition by civil enactment of the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors as a beverage and the importation of the same

       Resolved, 2d, That it is the duty of us, as ministers of the Gospel, to wisely and vigorously advocate and vindicate the policy of prohibition as above declared.

       Resolved, 3d, That we rejoice to recognize the Woman's Christian Temperance

       Union as a mighty providential auxiliary in the great work of temperance reform, and we devoutly bid them God speed, in this work of humanity and love, by co-operating by both word and deed.

       Resolved, 4th, That, whereas, the use of tobacco, as a habit, is akin to intoxiacting (sic) liquors, as a beverage, in its deleterious results, an evil less demonstrative and ruthless, but not less a general expensive, injurious, and disgusting nuisance

therefore, we recommend the discontinuance of its use by all our people as a waste of money, a destruction of health, a social offense, and altegether (sic) an unchristian habit.

Average claims, Receipts, and Percentage paid to the Pastors in the Several Districts and in the Conference, not including the Presiding Elders:

Adams, R. G.	Osceola		Lemon, T. B.
Andrus, D.	Waverly		Lewis, C. A.	Edgar
Barger, W. J.	Ulysses		Manley, S. H.	Normal, Ill
Beans, W. K.	Nebraska City		Marsh, Jeptha
Bird, E. J.	Mead		Mather, P. S.	Lincoln
Blackburn, W. S.	York		Miller, J. G.	Lincoln
Blackwell, A. G.	Superior		Miller, W. G.	Utica
Brannon, D. C.			Orr, J. S.	Alexandria
Britt, L. F.			Pearson, R.	Fairbury
Brockway, C. L	Hastings		Peck, W.	York
Brigham, A.	Humboldt		Presson, H.	Union
Burch, H.	Pawnee City		Presson, J. H.	Tecumseh
Chapin, J. A.	Peru		Reilly, Charles	Juniata
Cooley, R.	Mt. Pleasant		Roberts, S. D.	David City
Crippen, G. B.			Rodabaugh, D. F.	York
Crosthwaite, A. C.	Fairmont		Roe, J. P.
Davis, H. T.	Beatrice		Sheldon, O. P.
Dixon, J. A.	Grant		Smith, C. L.	Aurora
Dobbs, J. W.	Blue Springs		Smith, L. W.
Donisthorpe, F. B.	Friendville		Smith, Geo. A.	York
Esterbrook, F. M.	Brownville		Taylor, J. W.	Rulo
Ewell, H. A.	Sutton		Thomson, E.	York
Folden, A. L.	Syracuse		Tibbits, W. H.	Utica
Fort, J. L			Turman, Z. B.	Table Rock
Gage, W. D.	Beatrice		VanFleet, P.	Wilber
Gallagher, J.	Falls City		Wehn, G. H.	Weeping Water
Hancock, E. J.	Crab Orchard		White, A. G.	Lincoln
Henderson, S. H.	Hastings		Williams, A. C.	Lincoln
Hobson, G. A.	Glenville		Wilkinson, E.	Harvard
Johnson, P. C.	North Platte		Willis, E. J.	Seward
Johnson, R. C.	Falls City		Wilson, S. P.	Plattsmouth
Jones, W. R.	Lincoln		Wood, Samuel
Lathrop, C. G.			Worley, T. H.	Valparaiso
ON TRIAL.
SECOND YEAR.
Worley, J. H.	Palmyra		Fetz, David	Minden
Walker, J. G.	Elmwood		Miner, Geo. S.
Esplin, Wm.			Tyler, H. T.	Shelby
FIRST YEAR.
Selby, G. W.	Rising City		Warner, H. W.	Steele City
Carter, W. H.			Hollopeter, Chas. M.	Geneva
Harmon, H. C.			Jones, Geo. M.	Exeter
Barr, Lewis	Blue Hill		Harford, T. L.	West Blue
Wells, Edwin L.	St. Joseph		Wilson, Wesley
Hawley, Geo. W.	Red Cloud		Vincent, Jas. L.
Swan, Jno. W.	Sheridan		Hale, C. A.
Randall, E. J.	Table Rock

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