Fox,  clerk,  and  Bren.  Seymour,  Morgan,  Mansfield  and
Sober  as  Business  Committee.  On  recommendation  of
this  cpmmittee  and  after  extended  discussion,  a  systematic
and  comprehensive

"plan  of  arrangements"

was  adopted  covering  or  providing  for  the  organization  of
churches,  quarterly  conferences,  an  annual  conference,  and
a  general  conference — if,  or  when  it  should  seem  best  to
organize  the  latter.     The  plan  seems  indeed  to- have  been


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constructive  and  business  like  and  gave  promise  of  pros-
perity if  cordially  sustained  and  effectively  worked.  The
conference  then  organized  under  the  name,  Northern
Indiana  and  Southern  Michigan  Conference.  They  re-
solved, "That  while  we  choose  to  co-operatef  according  to
the  'Plan  of  Arrangements'  adopted  by  this  conference,  we
will  at  the  same  time  fraternize  with  all  churches  who  take
the  Bible  as  their  rule  of  faith  and  practice."

They  also,  in  keeping  with  the  latter  section  of  their
"Plan,"  directed  their  corresponding  secretary  to  write  to
the  ministering  brethren  throughout  the  Western  States.
