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CHAPTER XII = PART 69 GENERAL CONFERENCES, 1808 -- 1816 Necessity of a Delegated Form of the Conference -- Session of 1808 -- Committee of Fourteen" on Representative Reorganization -- "Presiding Elder Question" -- Delegation Adopted -- The "Restrictive Rules" -- Bishop Coke's Relation to the Church -- His attempt to Unite it with the Protestant Episcopal Church -- Decisive Evidence that no General Conference was held between 1784 and 1792; Note -- Coke's Explanation -- His Treatment by the Conference -- McKendree elected Bishop -- Other Proceedings -- The Occasion in the Baltimore Churches -- McKendree's Remarkable Sermon -- Session of 1812, first Delegated General Conference -- Leading Members -- McKendree's "Address"-- Proceedings -- Slavery -- Local Elders -- Temperance -- Elective Presiding Eldership -- Session of 1816 -- Canadian Territorial Question -- George and Roberts elected Bishops -- "Course of Study" -- Other Proceedings -- Slavery CHAPTER XIII = PART 70 AUXILIARY PLANS AND INSTITUTIONS LITERARY, EDUCATIONAL, MISSIONARY, ETC. Practical Adjuncts of the Methodist system -- Its Use of the Press -- Wesley the Founder of the System of "Cheap Publications" -- Great Variety of his Literary Works -- Publishing Enterprise of American Methodism -- Robert Williams begins it -- Early Legislation respecting it -- Origin of the Book Concern -- Beauchamp's "Christian Monitor" -- "Zion's Herald" -- Progress of the Book Concern -- Its present Condition and Usefulness -- The Sunday-School -- Wesleyan Methodism First Incorporates it in the Church -- Asbury Establishes the First in America -- Early Legislation of the Church respecting it -- Sunday-school Union -- Results -- Education -- Early Attempts for It -- Asbury's Devotion to it -- Rescue Missions -- The Position of Methodism in their history -- Coke -- Sketch of the Progress of American Methodism in Domestic and Foreign Missions -- German Methodism CHAPTER XIV = PART 71 ACTUAL AND PROSPECTIVE RESULTS: 1820 Statistical Results of the Period -- Comparative Statistics -- Subsequent Results -- Aggregate Statistics of the different Methodist bodies of the United States -- Relative Importance of Methodism in Modern Protestantism -- The Problem of its Success
CHAPTER XV = PART 72 REVIEW OF THE PERIOD, 1804 --1820: DEATHS OF WHATCOAT, COKE, ASBURY, AND LEE Deaths of Preachers -- Whatcoat, Character and Death -- His Grave -- Coke's Death, and Burial in the Indian Ocean -- Asbury's Estimate of him -- his great Services and Character -- Asbury -- His Character -- Last Scenes of his Life -- Funeral Ceremonies at the General Conference of 1816 -- Jesse Lee's Death -- His Character -- His Defeat as Candidate for the Episcopate -- His Historical Rank -- Conclusion
Page 1 and 2: WESLEYAN HERITAGE Library HISTORY O
Page 3 and 4: HISTORY of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL
Page 5 and 6: BOOK VI CHAPTER I = PART 58 METHODI
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Page 11 and 12: disappearance of Coke, Asbury, What
Page 13 and 14: convened, a second time, in Wilbrah
Page 15 and 16: yet I did not go out that year; but
Page 17 and 18: He returned again to New Jersey in
Page 19 and 20: Asbury pressed on westward with his
Page 21 and 22: congregation, and meanwhile advanci
Page 23 and 24: direction of the presiding elder, G
Page 25 and 26: traveled in Massachusetts, Rhode Is
Page 27 and 28: knowledge. His judgment was always
Page 29 and 30: He did great services and endured g
Page 31 and 32: of the itinerants. There was no one
Page 33 and 34: found adequate to the singular exig
Page 35 and 36: as a sail in a leaking canoe, and p
Page 37 and 38: [16] of his decease, sent home for
Page 39 and 40: passing through small villages; but
Page 41 and 42: HISTORY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
Page 43 and 44: God. The Scotchman could endure it
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Page 47 and 48: y his own hands, and his furniture
Page 49 and 50: there were three circuits, with thr
Page 51 and 52: performed incredible labors and tra
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Page 55 and 56: "in the wilds of Virginia, where he
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this melancholy record. I never rea
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at Cabbin Creek, Ky., twenty thousa
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in that vast wilderness, and had no
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poles. This was their bedstead. Som
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Benjamin Lakin, Samuel Doughty John
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Gibson. "Here," say his brethren, "
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of the Little Miami River. On Thurs
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Circuit) for this year began at Moo
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Sale, J. Oglesby; Guyandotte, Asa S
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worst for stealing, fighting, and l
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twentieth they reached the scene of
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the toil and sufferings, of another
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ENDNOTES 1 See Extracts by Bishop M
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37 Rev. Dr. Trimble's Address at Oh
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my father's neighborhood. The Confe
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attempted also to make local preach
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tireless apostle completed by the n
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to prepare forms of petition to the
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HISTORY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
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a change which it has always since
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Methodism was now entrenched in eve
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ENDNOTES 1 Bangs, (II, p. 171,) fol
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Methodists in other places, and wis
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are reported from Flint Circuit. Th
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Russell, fallen as he was from the
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ENDNOTES 1 Bangs, ii, 194. Dunwody'
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intensely bright by the grateful jo
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eached the furthest end of the piaz
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his humble shed and the chancel whe
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class-meetings, and to no small ext
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1 Minutes, 1858. ENDNOTES 2 Rev. Dr
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grandchildren were gay and playful;
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in a swamp on the Waccamaw Lake, a
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ENDNOTE 1 A few months ago, accompa
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Asbury, in the summer of 180, wrote
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means by which this necessary objec
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I should have to preach, but determ
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themselves, it was resolved that th
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ENDNOTES 1 Bangs, though his narrat
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directions, preaching as far as Buf
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and in the States, from the Ulster
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Conference sent over three missiona
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1814 Michael Coate, of New Jersey,
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1 Peck's "Early Methodism," p. 158.
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limits, when it will devolve upon t
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That very significant and convenien
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Channing, the elder Beecher, Wainwr
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in the eyes of the people, and grea
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own souls, because ye were dear unt
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Early in the spring of 1808 he retu
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seventeen preachers upon trial. The
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this meeting. Monday, 22d, I turned
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strengthened the whole denomination
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savage men, and venomous serpents."
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indescribable. At one time I saw at
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extraordinary learning, of tireless
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oom; but, finding there no means of
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By the end of our present period th
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some sixty or seventy souls. They a
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stacked away at the end of the cour
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olled over the whole Conference." H
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ashamed of yourselves?' which only
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living; I have outlived every membe
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iographer of the itinerant. Born in
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gentleman. While the circles of fas
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His itinerant ministry in the West
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took a prominent part in the great
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to the people, and to go back to Na
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country. These were about to return
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of preachers had increased thirty-f
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1 Rev. F. C. Holliday, in Sprague,
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Astonishing, superhuman almost, as
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of "through the interior of Louisia
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their children. In ten years, I thi
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hates the nefarious practice. In th
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These extraordinary facts excited n
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15 I must remind the reader that I
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[3] and threatened to return home.
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he prepared for South Carolina, wit
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the expediency of increasing the nu
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1 General Conference Journal,, vol.
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itinerants he said, "See that every
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In our day (1866) the Methodist Boo
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edifice was soon after provided in
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in both hemispheres, and which prop
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even romantic record, but our limit
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He organized the Liberia Mission. H
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and the moral prospects of the worl
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ut we may well hesitate to admit th
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They preached and suffered in Engla
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ENDNOTES 1 An error in the Minutes
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and great labors; his charity, his
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directing the advancing Church with
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history, and presents, in full vita
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