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 Christopher Rush on the Jersey side. Abraham Thompson was considered a superannuated Preacher. About this time, William Miller, of the Asbury Church in the city of New- York, at length shewed himself openly, by going to Philadelphia; joining the Allenites there; was ordained an Elder by them, and received an appointment to the charge of a society at Washington, in connexion with the Allenites; and, to complete the transaction, the said Asbury Church shortly afterwards put themselves under the government of that connexion, and thus changed their church government twice in the course of twelve months. In consequence of the dissatisfied state of mind of a number of the official brethren, and their sending an address to the General Conference of the white brethren, our yearly Conference, which was to take place on the 20th of May, was postponed until the 15th of July, in order to understand what the said General Conference would resolve upon for the benefit of their coloured brethren; and when our brethren found that nothing was done that would be of any advantage to our people, they held their Fourth Yearly Conference, on the 15th of July, 1824, according to postponement. James Smith was appointed to the charge of Zion Church, in New-York; Leven Smith, to Newark; William Carman was continued on Long Island; James Anderson, to Middletown; and Christopher Rush was appointed a Missionary. The society at New-Haven, being dissatisfied, because the Elder