WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 809, 25 January 1877, Page 3

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

The Conference re- as ambled yesterday morningaL 11.30, Business began an hour and ahalf later, to enable the stationing committee to prepare a second draft of statious. Th<; recommendations of the committee were read as to the stations of ministers for next year; these will not be published until finaliy confirmed, as they are still subject to alteration. It was agreed, on the motion of the Rev A. R. Fitchett, that probationers who attain, at the end of their fourth year, an exceptionally high standard of maiks in their examination, shall receive a year of connexional standing as a prize ; the standard to be fixad hereafter by the Conference. The Rev J. Crump moved, and it was agreed, that a course, 1 of reading for probibationers be prepared by the Board of Examiners and printed on the minutes of Cou ference. The afternoon session was commenced »t .30. riefS Crump, Fitchett, Morley, Wallia B"jrry, Taylor, Smalley, and Lewia were appointed the Board of Examiners for the probationers for the ensuing year ; and th> Revs Bavin a>:d Isitt appointed to prepar the examination papers for the candidates The Board were directed to prepare exam* nation papers for the students in the lam Kings Theological Institution. The address of the Conference to the various We9leyan congregations in the colon\ was read, discussed, and adopted. ' A prolonged discussion ensued as to th. status of communicants, and the mode of ad mission of candidates for communion. It was moved that the question should f remitted to the district meetings forconsid. A counter motion proposed that the priu ciple of the recognition of communicants by

a full church of members should be affirmed, but that the consideration of the mode by which candidates for communion should be accepted should be remitted to the quarterly and district meetings,

The discussion of the whole subject was postponed until Monday. A discussion ensued as to the relation of baptised children to the Church, and. the best modes of securing their pastoral oversight. Revs Fitchett, Richardson, and Oliver were appointed a committee to submit resolutions