“In conclusion, allow us to add, that in presenting this memorial to your reverend body we are moved thereto by no other spirit than that of ardent desire to promote the interests of our common Redeemer by ‘spreading scriptural holiness over these lands.’
“E. E. Wiley,
“W. G. E. Cunnyngham,
“Wm. Robeson,
“B. Arbogast,
“C. Long,
“J. M. McTeer,
“George Stewart,
“Members of the Holston Conference of the M. E. Church, South.
“April, 1868.”