MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 199
The following obituary notices were, with two exceptions, passed upon in open conference, and fittingly express the feelings of the members concerning the merits and virtues of those devoted ministers who died in the harness.
In behalf of the New Jersey Conference, the following tribute is presented in memory of the departed worth of the Right Rev. William Paul Quinn, late Senior Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, who in the providence of God's tender mercies departed this life on the 21st day of February, 1873, in hope of a blest immortality in heaven.
The band of our ministerial phalanx has been broken by death's invisible hand. The stroke; oh, the stroke, that smote our hearts; but in humble submission to the infinite wisdom of the Lord, who doeth right, we bow, praying that the bands broken may be knitted around our church, and that the example of his life and manner may inspire us to follow his upward and onward course to the rest that remains for the faithful. Know ye not that there is a great man fallen this day or year in Israel? Therefore,
Resolved, That we, the members of this N. J. A. Conference, and its pastors, have all its churches draped in the memory of our sainted Bishop for the space of one year, or until the next annual conference;
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