History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org

CHAPTER 19
1779-1781 — The "regular" Conference in Fluvanna County, Va., in 1779 — A crucial period
— Asbury's rump conference a month in advance in Delaware — New facts — Asbury's strategy and
how he circumvented the Virginia brethren by the weakening of Gatch — Methodism's lost
opportunity — Reunion of the preachers in 1781
CHAPTER 20
1781-1783 — Wesley did not recommission Asbury as General Superintendent until 1784 —
Muzzling of the Virginia preachers — Tergiversation of Dickins — Jarratt helps Asbury's plans —
Prominent early preachers
CHAPTER 21
1783-1784 — The moot of Asbury's general assistantship before 1784 — Asbury as
correspondent with Wesley and Shadford — Twelfth Conference of April, 1784 — Three others
appointed, but superseded by the Christmas Conference of 1784 — Heroes of those days
CHAPTER 22
1783-1784 — Events antecedent to the Christmas Conference — The English Deed of Declaration
and the Episcopal organization in America either the acme of wisdom or fundamental errors —
Which? — What did Wesley intend by Coke's ordination, so-called, thoroughly considered —
English Wesleyan opinion — Suppression or garbling of the instructions and testimonials Coke bore
with him to America — Verified tender to Coke and Asbury of union with the inchoate Protestant
Episcopal Church — New evidence
CHAPTER 23
1784 — The conscience of humanity rewrites history — Antecedents and consequents of the
Christmas Conference of 1784 — Wesley's plan rejected by Asbury, and Coke connived at it — The
Perry Hall conference — The Baltimore Conference — Who were present — What it did — A
Church organized of ministers, by ministers, and for ministers —Asbury ordained — To what?
CHAPTER 24
1784 — Coke's confession and Moore's averment that Wesley's plan was not carried out at the
Christmas Conference — Historical proofs — Preface to the historical matter of the "Discipline of
the M. E. Church" erroneous, and should be expunged as was done by the M. E. Church South in
1866 — Did the "people" approve the Episcopal plan of Coke and Asbury? — The hierarchy in
operation under Asbury