Brother Fallows enjoyed a successful Pastorate at Spring Street, but before the expiration of his second year, he was appointed by the Executive of the State to the position of Superintendent of Public Instruction.  He remained in this position until his second term expired, Jan. 1, 1874, when having been elected President of the Illinois Wesleyan University, he was transferred to the Illinois Conference.

Brother Fallows was a man whom his brethren delighted to honor.  Though still a young man comparatively, he had served his Conference as Secretary nine years, and had been sent once as a Delegate to the General Conference.  He is a man of superior culture, pleasant voice, and entertaining address.  His genial spirit is a perpetual sunshine, and his conversational interviews, the fragrance of summer.  In his addresses and sermons, the beautiful predominates.  He was born an orator, and he has never been able to shake off the enchantment.  It is not his fault that he is generally popular.

At this session the Conference adopted another report of the state of the country.  It was full of patriotism, pledging an unwavering support to the Government.  The chairman of the committee was Rev. R.B.  Curtis.

Brother Curtis entered the Maine Conference in 1845, and in that Conference and the East Maine he filled the following appointments:  Bingham, Corinth, Onoro, Frankfort, Searsport, Brick Chapel, Bangor, Bangor District, and again Brick Chapel.  He was transferred to the Wisconsin Conference in 1862, and was appointed to Janesville.  His next appointment was Delavan, where he remained three years.  While here his health failed, and at the ensuing Conference he was compelled to take a superannuated relation.  He passed from the earthly to the heavenly home, in Appleton, May 21st, 1872.

Brother Curtis was a man of rare endowments and sublime piety.  In his mental development, there was an almost absolute equipoise between the imagination and the logical powers.  In his logical dissections of error and defence of truth, a keener blade has seldom, if ever, leaped from its scabbard.  Under his masterly imagery his audiences were sometimes chained to their seats, as if held by the toils of an enchantment.  With such extraordinary elements of popular address, it is not surprising that he held a high rank in the pulpit.  Nor was he deficient in his other qualifications as a Minister of Christ.  When Brother Curtis fell from the walls of Zion, it might have been truly said, “A Prince in Israel has this day exchanged the earthly for the Heavenly Crown.”

During this year Rev. D.H.  Muller was Pastor of Asbury Church.  Brother Muller entered the Conference in 1861, coming from the Biblical School at Evanston.  His first appointment was Menasha, and his second Oshkosh.  And from the last named he came to Asbury.  He remained two years, was successful and highly esteemed; but at the close of his term he took a transfer to the Genesee Conference.  He has held leading appointments in that Conference up to the present, and has also graduated to the dignity of a Presiding Elder.