Excerpt from Minutes of the Sixty-Ninth Session of the New England Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Held at East Boston, Mass., March 25, 1868 Beside attending, to this matter this forenoon, as far as the: time allowed, those young ministers designing to join the body were called before the altar, and addressed at length by the bishop, giving them to understand distinctly what concessions of private prerogative they would be Obliged to make, and what privileges they might be entitled to expect, by identifying themselves with this particular corps of the grand army of Jesus Christ. His address was replete with sound suggestions, enforced with a fervid style of expression, which characterizes all his public efforts. The candidates were individually catechised on the fundamental points of doctrine recognized by the Method ist-episcopal Church, and also as to their experimental status; and the ex amination concluded by the regular categorical challenge, insisted on year by year, Do you use tobacco in any form? All but one answered, N o, and with an emphasis, generally, to the gratification of the members. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.