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49 HISTORY OF THE VA CONFERENCE, E.U.B. CHURCH—D.F. GLOVIER
a few pierced to the heart.” Bishop Otterbein was at this time seventy-six.
Until 1810 there was but one Annual Conference for the entire
Church. The first new conference was the Miami, set off in 1810. In
1829 the Eastern, or original, Conference was divided into the Hagerstown
and Harrisburg Conferences, the former (Hagerstown), including the
Virginia Territory, and the latter becoming the Pennsylvania Conference.
At the Annual Conference held at Keedysville, Maryland, in March of
1887, eight out of nine quarterly conferences of the Maryland District having
voted for the establishing of a Maryland Conference, the Maryland
Conference was formed. Twenty one members went to the Maryland
Conference, forty-six went to the Virginia Conference.
In connection with this information concerning the Virginia Conference,
I find that at the Annual Conference of 1900, held in Harrison-burg,
Virginia, the following action was taken.
Copy from Conference Proceedings:
The following resolution relative to the age of the Conference was
adopted:
Numbering of Conference
Whereas, our sessions number regularly without interruption from the
Conference at Peter Kemp’s, in Frederick County, Maryland, September
25, 1800, and whereas, in all the changes that have occurred in the
century past our legal existence has remained intact, including the division
of the Eastern Conference, authorized by the General Conference of 1829,
when at the Conference session in 1830 the northern part of the territory
was set off as a new Conference, the southern or Virginia part retaining the
old Conference Journal; and whereas, the present numbering of the sessions
was begun, without due examination of the historical facts involved, by the
writer of this memorial who was then Secretary of the Conference; now,
therefore,
Resolved, that the Secretary of the Conference be instructed to number
this Centennial session in accordance with the well known facts, the 101st
Annual Session.
—A. P. Funkhouser
So, the Virginia Conference, by a decision arrived at in 1900, is the
Mother Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
Virginia Conference History dates back to the days of the preaching of
Otterbein, Boehm, Geeting, Newcomer and others of our heroes of faith
who organized and established our denomination. It goes farther
a few pierced to the heart.” Bishop Otterbein was at this time seventy-six.
Until 1810 there was but one Annual Conference for the entire
Church. The first new conference was the Miami, set off in 1810. In
1829 the Eastern, or original, Conference was divided into the Hagerstown
and Harrisburg Conferences, the former (Hagerstown), including the
Virginia Territory, and the latter becoming the Pennsylvania Conference.
At the Annual Conference held at Keedysville, Maryland, in March of
1887, eight out of nine quarterly conferences of the Maryland District having
voted for the establishing of a Maryland Conference, the Maryland
Conference was formed. Twenty one members went to the Maryland
Conference, forty-six went to the Virginia Conference.
In connection with this information concerning the Virginia Conference,
I find that at the Annual Conference of 1900, held in Harrison-burg,
Virginia, the following action was taken.
Copy from Conference Proceedings:
The following resolution relative to the age of the Conference was
adopted:
Numbering of Conference
Whereas, our sessions number regularly without interruption from the
Conference at Peter Kemp’s, in Frederick County, Maryland, September
25, 1800, and whereas, in all the changes that have occurred in the
century past our legal existence has remained intact, including the division
of the Eastern Conference, authorized by the General Conference of 1829,
when at the Conference session in 1830 the northern part of the territory
was set off as a new Conference, the southern or Virginia part retaining the
old Conference Journal; and whereas, the present numbering of the sessions
was begun, without due examination of the historical facts involved, by the
writer of this memorial who was then Secretary of the Conference; now,
therefore,
Resolved, that the Secretary of the Conference be instructed to number
this Centennial session in accordance with the well known facts, the 101st
Annual Session.
—A. P. Funkhouser
So, the Virginia Conference, by a decision arrived at in 1900, is the
Mother Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
Virginia Conference History dates back to the days of the preaching of
Otterbein, Boehm, Geeting, Newcomer and others of our heroes of faith
who organized and established our denomination. It goes farther
