History of the Free Methodist Church of North America, Volume II

HISTORY OF THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH were reelected as General Conference Evangelists, and A. D. Zahniser, of the Pittsburgh Conference, was newly elected to that office. The Conference left it to the Bishops, at some later date, to elect a General Conference Evangelist for the South. In the following autumn they elected Edward M. Sandys, of the New York Conference, to the position. At the end of one year Mr. Sandys, for what were considered good and sufficient reasons, resigned the position, and B. W. Huckabee, of Campbell, Texas, was elected thereto in his stead.

The Conference appointed the Bishops and the Editor of the Free Methodist a Committee, of whom Bishop ,V. T. Rogue should be chairman, to draft a Church Constitution, which should embrace all the fundamental laws of the Free Methodist Church, and submit the same to the next session of the General Conference.

During the quadrennium ex-Bishop Coleman, two ministerial members of the last General Conference-the Rev. C. L. Lambertson, of the North Michigan Conference, and the Rev. C. B. Ebey, of the Southern California Conference, and Editor of the Free jJf ethodist from June, 1903, to June, 1907-aud also the Rev. S. K. J. Chesbrough. a member of the Genesee Conference since the very early days of Free Methodism, and who for the last nearly nineteen years of his effective service filled the office of denominational Publishing Agent, had been called to their reward on high. On recommendation of the Committee on Memoirs, a memorial service was ordered to be held for these brethren, J. O'Regan, Chairman of the Committee, to preside. Such a service was held on Thursday afternoon, June 29, at which memorial sketches of the deceased were read, and interesting addresses were made by various members of the Conference who had intimately known the departed ones.

A new chapter was ordered placed in the Discipline, entitled, "Charities and Benevolences," to take the place of the chapter entitled, "Charitable Institutions." An[220]