History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org

CHAPTER 25
1785 — Asbury travels and feels the pulse of the Societies and the community as to the Episcopal
organization — Methodists in canonicals — Coke return to England June 2, 1785, to give an account
to Wesley of his doings — How he was hoodwinked — His after grief and rebuke of the offenders
— Garrettson forestalled as a "superintendent" in Canada, of Wesley's appointment, by Asbury —
New evidence — Coke again in America
CHAPTER 26
1785-1787 — Tripartite contention of Wesley, Coke, and Asbury for the supremacy — Cokesbury
College — General Conference of 1787 called by Wesley through Coke — How Asbury resented
it — Coke's punishment — Whatcoat rejected as a superintendent of Wesley's naming — The
proceedings of the Conference of 1784 as "questionable and unwarrantable" established
CHAPTER 27
1787-1789 — The story Coke had to tell Wesley on his return to England May 27, 1787, about
the treatment of Asbury and the American Conference — The Shadford letter and the facts about it
— Coke returns to America, 1789 — Asbury's reprint of the Minutes — Changes, who made them
and why — Asbury's new "succession," himself an apostle
CHAPTER 28
1789 — Asbury's attempt to be ubiquitous as well as omnipotent — Meets Coke near Charleston,
S. C. — Receives Wesley's "bitter pill" — Identified as the scorching letter he sent Asbury —
Asbury and Coke traveling together — Motives for changing the early Minutes — Division of 1844
foretold by both McCaine and Snethen — Wesley's tearful regrets over the ordinations of 1784
proven
CHAPTER 29
1789-1790 — Of eleven Conferences held this year only that of Baltimore was authoritative —
Objection to this method led Asbury to contrive the "Council" plan — The fullest account of it ever
printed — O'Kelly's connection with it and Asbury's "negative" — End of the Council — The term
"presiding elder" first introduced
CHAPTER 30
1789-1791 —Asbury's address to President Washington in New York in 1789, and its connection
with the McCaine-Emory contention over it, and the omission of Coke's name from the British
Minutes in 1786 — The true date of the address and a full exposition of the whole matter — The
Hammett secession in Charleston, S. C. — Antecedents of the O'Kelly secession of 1792 — Final
overthrow of the "Council" through Coke and O'Kelly — Coke's secret letter to Bishop White —