Excerpt from Minutes of the One Hundred and Eleventh Session of the South Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South: Held in Abbeville, S. C., December 9-14, 1896 Opening devotions, including the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, were conducted by the Bishop. The Secretary of the last session called the roll, .and one hundred and forty clerical and thirteen lay members responded as present. E. 0. Watson was elected Secretary, with W. L. Wait, Assistant. 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.