History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org
History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org
CHAPTER 36 1796-1800 — The Wilbraham Annual Conference — Assistant bishops proposed by Asbury — How overthrown — Lee in the Episcopal saddle — Asbury's failing health — Sudden appearance of Dr. Coke in Virginia — He plays coy with the British and American brethren, and Asbury begins to play fast and loose with him — Coke at the General Conference of 1800 — He must be a coordinate bishop or nothing — His final departure from America after 1804 — His letters to McCaine CHAPTER 37 1800-1807 — The General Conference of 1800 — Contest between Lee and Whatcoat for the bishopric — Election of the latter — The eldership question again — Reformers still working — The quadrennium of 1800-1804 the most eventful for revivals — Camp-meetings introduced — The General Conference of 1804 — Snethen and a delegated Conference — Two "Disciplines" issued, one for the North and one for the South — Death of Whatcoat — An abortive convention called — Defeated by Lee CHAPTER 38 1808-1812 — The General Conference of 1808 — Coke's relation and final disposition of him — A delegated General Conference agreed to — How it was brought about as never before exposed — Has the Church a Constitution? — Lee's "History of the Methodists" not favored by the officials — How finally published — Book Concern removed to New York — The first delegated General Conference of 1812 — Asbury's conduct with Lee CHAPTER 39 1812-1816 — Effect of the War of 1812 on Canada Methodists — Organization of Reformed Methodists in 1814 — True account — The General Conference of 1816 — Elective eldership again revived — Asbury's valedictory — Election of George and Roberts as bishops — Death of Asbury, March, 1816 — Full account — His funeral in Baltimore, with facts never before published — Black's estimate of him — The author's analysis of his character and work — The Episcopal system can never be made a basis of Methodist Union CHAPTER 40 1816-1820 — Episcopacy as administered by Wesley, Asbury, and McKendree — The grand pioneers of the period of 1800-1816 — Episcopacy as administered today — An iron hand still in the velvet glove — The Minutes on Coke's death — "Expulsion" as a generic term in the old Minutes — Exceptions — Application in 1827-30 — The stigma never removed from morally pure men by any act of the M. E. Church — Some sketches of notable preachers — End of volume first *************************************
METHODIST REFORM Edward J. Drinkhouse, M.D., D.D. Volume I CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTORY The subject in purview — Roots of Methodist Protestant history — Paternalism of Wesley and Asbury — The growth of the system in England and America — Synoptical outline must cover Methodist Reform as necessary to a philosophical and logical treatment of the Methodist Protestant Church — Historical method of this work in a bird's-eye view — The Poll-Deed in England and the Episcopal organization in America exclusively clerical, responsible for all the divisions of Methodism — Fundamentals on which the conclusions of this History are based. The history of the Methodist Protestant Church finds its roots in the personal and paternal government instituted by John Wesley for the Methodist Societies of Great Britain and perpetuated, under his example, by Francis Asbury for the Methodist Societies of North America. It shall be my task to uncover these roots; mark the growth of the anomalous system under the Father and Founder of Methodism; show how it flowered and brought forth its legitimate fruitage in the Deed of [1] Declaration which entailed its principles and sowed the seeds of frequent and disastrous divisions in the parent body, with a like result for American Methodism from the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In pursuance of this historical method and as germane to a history of the Methodist Protestant Church, — which will soon close the third quarter of a centennial existence as a standing Protest against ecclesiastical Paternalism, — as much of general Methodist narration in its origin and growth shall be given as will satisfy the reader without resort to other literary sources. It is a wide field. D'Aubigne, in his "History of the Reformation," has well observed that "the encroachments of power form a large portion of all history; the resistance of those whose rights are invaded forms the other part; and the ecclesiastical power could not escape that intoxication which leads those who are lifted up to seek to raise themselves still higher. It felt all the influence of this general weakness of human nature." More forcibly still he declares, in the Preface to his masterful work, that "the History of the Reformation is altogether distinct from the History of Protestantism. The latter might claim the attention of Protestants but the history of the Reformation is a book for all Christians, or, rather, for all mankind." And in accommodation of this language the writer affirms, in justification of the comprehensive character of this work, that the History of Methodist Reform which it outlines is something inseparable from and parallel with the History of the Methodist Protestant Church as its most salient expression. The latter might claim the attention of its members and adherents only; the former challenges the attention of all Methodists, or, rather, of the Christian world. It is therefore the History of Methodist Reform that is here synoptically related, as it furnishes the only philosophical and logical basis for a specific History of the Methodist Protestant Church. It alone clothes its anatomical structure with fleshly symmetry. The parallel runs farther. Methodist Reform sustains the same relation to the parental Methodisms of Wesley and Asbury that the
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CHAPTER 36<br />
1796-1800 — The Wilbraham Annual Conference — Assistant bishops proposed by Asbury —<br />
How overthrown — Lee in the Episcopal saddle — Asbury's failing health — Sudden appearance<br />
of Dr. Coke in Virginia — He plays coy with the British and American brethren, and Asbury begins<br />
to play fast and loose with him — Coke at the General Conference of 1800 — He must be a<br />
coordinate bishop or nothing — His final departure from America after 1804 — His letters to<br />
McCaine<br />
CHAPTER 37<br />
1800-1807 — The General Conference of 1800 — Contest between Lee and Whatcoat for the<br />
bishopric — Election of the latter — The eldership question again — <strong>Reform</strong>ers still working — The<br />
quadrennium of 1800-1804 the most eventful for revivals — Camp-meetings introduced — The<br />
General Conference of 1804 — Snethen and a delegated Conference — Two "Disciplines" issued,<br />
one for the North and one for the South — Death of Whatcoat — An abortive convention called —<br />
Defeated by Lee<br />
CHAPTER 38<br />
1808-1812 — The General Conference of 1808 — Coke's relation and final disposition of him<br />
— A delegated General Conference agreed to — How it was brought about as never before exposed<br />
— Has the Church a Constitution? — Lee's "<strong>History</strong> of the <strong>Methodist</strong>s" not favored by the officials<br />
— How finally published — Book Concern removed to New York — The first delegated General<br />
Conference of 1812 — Asbury's conduct with Lee<br />
CHAPTER 39<br />
1812-1816 — Effect of the War of 1812 on Canada <strong>Methodist</strong>s — <strong>Org</strong>anization of <strong>Reform</strong>ed<br />
<strong>Methodist</strong>s in 1814 — True account — The General Conference of 1816 — Elective eldership again<br />
revived — Asbury's valedictory — Election of George and Roberts as bishops — Death of Asbury,<br />
March, 1816 — Full account — His funeral in Baltimore, with facts never before published —<br />
Black's estimate of him — The author's analysis of his character and work — The Episcopal system<br />
can never be made a basis of <strong>Methodist</strong> Union<br />
CHAPTER 40<br />
1816-1820 — Episcopacy as administered by Wesley, Asbury, and McKendree — The grand<br />
pioneers of the period of 1800-1816 — Episcopacy as administered today — An iron hand still in<br />
the velvet glove — The Minutes on Coke's death — "Expulsion" as a generic term in the old Minutes<br />
— Exceptions — Application in 1827-30 — The stigma never removed from morally pure men by<br />
any act of the M. E. Church — Some sketches of notable preachers — End of volume first<br />
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