Morning Star

We have received a communication from the Independent Methodists who reside partly in New-York and partly in New-Jersey, which contains several resolves passed at their yearly meeting, held in Shrewsburg, Monmouth county, N. J. May 31st and June 1st, 1828, also their minutes, all of which were intended for publication. It is indeed an interesting document; and we hail that body of brethren as fellow laborers with us in the same great and plenteous harvest. But we cherish a hope that they will approve of referring their resolutions to the General Conference which will be in session before many months, rather than immediately publishing them in the Star. In those resolves are proposed measures worthy of deliberate consideration. We have therefore filed them with a former communication from Eld. William Pitts, and pledge ourselves, if our health and life be continued, to lay the whole before the said Conference.

In this Y. M. Eld. William Pitts served as Moderator and John C. Newman as Clerk.

These brethren have resolved into a Yearly Meeting in union with the Free-Will Baptist Community in the United States. They denominate their meeting the Monmouth Yearly Meeting, and desire it to be published as such annually in the minutes of the Connexion. They also have resolved to take the Scriptures as a rule of their faith and practice. They have likewise chosen elders Jesse Oakley, John S. Newman, and William Pitts, as delegates to correspond, and whenever it may be convenient, to attend meetings with the Free-Will Baptist community, or delegates of that Society, for the purpose of recommending such measures as shall be calculated for the general good of the whole, and the glory of our blessed Lord. They earnestly desire to be represented and remembered in all our yearly meetings, and for that purpose, as they live a great distance from them all, they have desired that the following elders of different parts, with whom they have had more or less correspondence, would introduce and represent them to the different yearly meetings, viz: John Buzzell, Asa Dodge, Jr. David Harriman, Ebenezer Chase, Samuel Montague, Edward E. Dodge, David Marks, Jr. William C. Robinson, and Samuel Burbank.

Our brethren in New Jersey anxiously wish, that preachers of our Connexion would visit and preach with them. They have furnished us with a schedule of the times and places of holding their quarterly meetings for the year ensuing,

which we should be glad to publish, but it was written so unintelligibly, (it was apparently written in haste,) that we cannot accurately determine the names of the places. We will however comply with their request if they will furnish us with an account in a fair hand. It is very important that all names of counties, towns, and persons, should be written with a plain hand, and that all proper words be fully expressed, and that the end be as plain as the beginning. The names of many towns in Ohio, New-York and New-Jersey are given us that we have never seen in print. In all such cases we give the orthography as given to us. Great care in this respect should, therefore, be used.

N. B. The reason why we have thought it best to refer the resolves of the Monmouth Y. M. to the Conference, is because a plan very similar was proposed in the preceding Conference, and referred to the next for further consideration. We think it would tend to promote the glory of God, and confirm the union of the brethren, if Eld. Pitts, and some of his associates, should attend the Conference. Is not this possible? Will it not be convenient?

It will be perceived by the minutes of the N. H. Yearly Meeting, which follow, that it has appointed five messengers to attend the General Conference. Two of these are of the New-Durham, two of the Sandwich, and one of the Weare Q. M. This is a very judicious calculation. The other yearly meetings, which will be held previous to the setting of the Conference, will undoubtedly appoint their respective messengers. We hope our brethren in choosing their messengers to compose this important and responsible body, will not be confined exclusively to the ministry. There are, we believe, many brethren in a private capacity, so termed, and deacons, whose judgment and counsel, in things concerning the church, and the means best calculated to promote christianity, is as valuable as that of those who labor in word and doctrine.