ks will we not take on next? [Laughter and applause].

Brother McAllister and others took part in the discussion, and
finally, amid cries of "Motion," "Question," points of order, and
the utmost confusion, the question was put, and the meeting
refused to invite Miss Oliver to preach by a vote of 46 to 38.
The result was received with ejaculations of "Amen" and "Thank
God" and "God bless Brother Buckley." The Chair announced that
Brother Kittrell will preach next Monday on "Entire
Satisfaction," and the meeting adjourned.

Miss Oliver appealed to the General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in session in Cincinnati, May, 1880, for full
installment and ordination. In this appeal she said:

I am so thoroughly convinced that the Lord has laid commands upon
me in this direction, that it becomes with me a question of my
own soul's salvation. I have passed through tortures to which the
flames of martyrdom would be nothing, for they would end in a
day; and through all this time, and to-day, I could turn off to
positions of comparative ease and profit. I ask you, fathers and
brethren, tell me what you would do in my place? Tell me what you
would wish the Church to do toward you, were you in my place?
Please apply the golden rule, and vote in Conference accordingly.

As answer to this appeal, and in reply to all women seeking the
ministry of that Church, the Conference passed the following
resolution:

_Resolved_, That women have already all the rights and privileges
in the Methodist Church that are good for them, and that it is
not expedient to make any change in the books of discipline that
would open the doors for their ordination to the ministry.[216]

An Episcopal Church Convention meeting in Boston in the summer of
1877, busied itself in preparing canons upon marriage and divorce,
thus aiming to reach the finger of the Protestant Church down to a
control of this most private family relation. The Diocesan Convention
of South Carolina, in the spring of 1878, denied women the right to
vote upon Church matters, although some churches in the diocese
counted but five male members.

Not alone in her request for ordination has woman met with opposition,
but in her effort for any separate church work. The formation of
woman's foreign missionary societies was bitterly opposed by the
different evangelical denomi