WHEREAS, We have assembled with this General conference in good faith to promote its
interests, and legislate in harmony with the constitution of the church; and,
WHEREAS, We believe that this body in its action in forming a commission for the
revision of our confession of faith, and the constitution of the church has transcended
its constitutional authority and instructed an illegal plan (not the one provided in the
constitution) for change, and legislated a rule not in harmony with the constitution but
equivocal and capable of varied construction in order, as we think, to make it ineffectual
and worthless. Therefore we determine to stand by the constitution and never to submit to
any change therein, unless it is effected in harmony with its provisions; and we hereby
earnestly and solemnly protest against all such action.
Floyd, Wright, Kabrich, Clay, Luttrell,
Dillon, Lilly, Barnaby, Chandler, Alwood, Powell, Bowles, Grimm, Long, Mowers, Geeslin,
Sherk, Fry, Mosher, Breeden, Watson, Spooner, Newgent, Beauchamp, Miller Wm., Noel,
Crowder, Shuck David, Shuck Daniel, Plowman, Riley, Hager, Caldwell, Lemasters—34.