Excerpt from Official Record, Minutes of the Iowa Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Annual Sessions 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853 First Session. - Conference met according to appointment at Iowa City this 14th day of August, A. D. 1844, at o'clock A. M., in the Methodist Episcopal church. Religious Services. - Bishop Morris being present, opened the Conference by reading the 5th chapter of lst Peter; singing and prayer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.