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order that they might make an extended visit, or give themselves to the care of some enterprise in which they were concerned. This Conference passed unanimously a resolution stating that, in their judgment, it was "inconsistent with the interests 路of the itinerant connection to return any preacher on .the Minutes, 'Without an appointment at his own request.' " The great work of Sabbath Schools was then demanding the interest of the Churches, and the Conference resolved "to use their best endeavors to raise Sabbath Schools in every neighborhood under their several charges." Thomas M.Rice was appointed to "travel throughout the Conference for the purpose of raising Sabbath Schools and to collect money f.or Sunday School librarie路s." Greenup Kelly had died on July 4th. At the preceding Conference he had been appointed to Hopkinsville, but his health soon failed, and he went to the home of his parents in Indiima, where his very promising career was ended. Mostly at their own request, the Conference discontinued Harrison Goslin, James Savage and Joel Grover, the last of whom had traveled but four months of the year. Abraham Baker, Samuel Veach, George W. Robbins, William Phillips, John G. Denton, David Tunncll, and J. C. Crow were granted locations. John Redman, Samuel Hellums, and Milton Jamieson were placed on the superannuate list. John Sinclair and William H. Askins were transferred to the Illinois Conference,both of them excellent men. Abraham Long, whom we have already noticed, was re-admitted, and twelve new men admitted on trial, viz., John Harrison, John Beatty, James King, Pleasant Alverson, WilHam S. Evans, Robert F. Turner, Hartwell J. Perry, Daniel