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English Methodism in giving corporate form to an oligarchic entail of governmental power. It has been the direct or indirect cause of all the divisions in it, rendered all the more conspicuous by the singular unity of all Methodists as to doctrine, means of grace, and its great operative forces — "a revival church in its spirit and a missionary church in its organization." The several offshoots from the parent body, numerically and materially, nearly equal in their aggregation the Wesleyan body at an estimate for 1891 of 550,000. Thus, but for the disintegrating tendencies of a polity which was sincerely, but erroneously, proposed to unify, transatlantic Methodism would today be a million strong. True, its divisions are far from being an unmixed evil, if an evil at all, in view of the zeal provoked and the restraints imposed upon the parent body. Precisely in the measure of the legal imperatives of the Poll-Deed, all else having from time to time been wrested from it as concessions to a popular demand under the educative influence of the secedent bodies, it has preserved Wesleyan conferential authority and proprietary rights in chapels and vested funds, and so perpetuated a system which many admire and loyally uphold as the wisest and best. Largely, it is a matter of type and temperament in the human personality. Many prefer to be governed in that way for the privilege in their grade of governing others themselves. The protesting bodies have no right to complain of their preference. What they claim is a right to their own preference and the undisturbed privilege through their own liberal methods of demonstrating that they are most consonant with primitive and apostolical precedents, and in line with the religious and civil liberties of God's people, and so the wisest and best. A closing fact needs clear enunciation. In comparative estimates of the numerical success of English Methodism, as set over against American Methodism, it must not be overlooked that, through all the years of the last century, at least, the former have been constantly and vastly depleted by foreign emigration, thus feeding the latter, so that the American Methodist web has not only been spread to catch all who come within its radii, but to an extent not fairly acknowledged heretofore, the web itself is spun out of the bowels of the British spider. Another fact needs emphasis: the respective losses and gains by home migration. It is asserted, as a fair calculation, that the Wesleyan Conference and the Episcopal Methodisms lose by migration of their members not more than one in four as accretions to the secedent bodies, while these bodies lose by accretions to the parent denominations not less than three of the four. It is specially true of America. The Episcopal webs are spread all over the country, and the migrating Liberal Methodist falls into them by the necessity of the situation three cases out of four, because the webs of the secedent bodies are so territorially circumscribed; and for the same reason they catch in turn not more than one in four from the parent bodies. These facts may be farther enlarged when the statistics of Methodism are under particular consideration at a later period. Thus a concise view of English Methodism in all its phases has been given, first as historical information, which all Methodists may claim in common, and second as it bears upon the struggle between the oligarchic and democratic systems of government, respectively defended and maintained by their adherents. *************************************
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world over; as well as for contrast
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considered — The first missionary
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CHAPTER 19 1779-1781 — The "regul
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Was it mailed before or after he he
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the Methodist Societies, though thr
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The period from 1784 to 1792 will b
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His private Journal, which came int
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with the hope that, whenever such a
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His father's health failing in 1734
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places. Stevens says the third Conf
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were necessary for an enduring orga
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chapel seats. Breaking bread in the
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severely, but not unjustly. Preachi
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ut for the children, the boys only
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leadership of the most self-asserti
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deliverance from a "Methodist curat
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sit apart, which had been violated
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a deed of this kind, that I have go
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arguments, except as it relates to
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as, it was, no doubt, sincere. The
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ordained Henry Moore and Thomas Ran
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Church. Upon this the meeting was a
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society in Plymouth. He was a man,
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nothing else save the Arminian Maga
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no longer." He was seriously sick d
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eached 2828. The membership was 76,
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short, and the design itself was sp
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week of Wesley's death he wrote: "M
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stewards, the admission and expulsi
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wrote like a mountain torrent. Stro
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present purpose reads: "But when on
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y the calendar, must be used wherev
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presidency the Conference would not
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Commentary is an imperishable monum
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parent bodies will the mission of t
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constantly devising new plans for i
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urst out, and one Daniel Shubetham
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insulted the representatives of the
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courtesy due him, was thought too p
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like Wesley, betrayed his ignorance
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delicate woman, died and was buried
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or usages which had been most assai
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the ministry, its devotion and libe
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It is necessary to retrace steps to
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to interfere with the internal affa
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showed, in feasting at high dinners
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into evil ways. Barbara Heck kept a
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which was the vogue of a large numb
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attended the ministry of both, conv
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thing which I seek, a circulation o
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Philadelphia, George Shadford (to c
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Lednum has preserved the name of Jo
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y Methodists as a constant prayerfu
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the episcopal form of church govern
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1784, and he had regular work. He r
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of our national independence, who b
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strength of Methodism was in Maryla
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of our divisions; it was transcribe
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Mr. Wesley generally held a Confere
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under the necessity of abiding by i
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the Methodists. At twenty years of
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landly said, 'He is hard on us.' As
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on so new a plan, he afterward susp
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of it are in the closing suggestion
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employing the terms "superintendent
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to be a mere formality, likely to r
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monotony, the "Pastorals" of Virgil
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ace, Eclipse is first, and that put
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next day, Sabbath, he reached, with
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[6] is the material point. There is
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emarkable when it is considered tha
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our societies in the United States,
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minutes as printed. To that portion
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steps taken by Mr. Wesley and mysel
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see Asbury open a Methodist meeting
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obliged to acknowledge that I acted
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intimates the desire they had of my
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under present circumstances, to gra
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feet in length and 40 feet in bread
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interference was no doubt well know
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it ? Wesley, when he received the a
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will determine sufficient in a man
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crosses the mountains — "the firs
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But in one point, my dear brother,
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continued to this day in the Method
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his testimony. Some writer during t
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it. Besides, even allowing that Cok
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segregation complained of, is inten
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Council, is proving too much for ev
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of his name in 1786, the fact that
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change of environment enables them
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[9] It will be discovered that ther
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[12] not mailed there, for the bish
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are men of very considerable abilit
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Wesley's knowledge, and without his
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turning to Mr. Hutchinson, he said:
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obedience in one over another of hi
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in a resolution which Lee gives in
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founded 'We are far gone into poper
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subjection the membership. To this
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— he was receiving support from t
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Portsmouth. Regretting his sudden e
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Methodists, so in 1801 O'Kelly publ
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when actively employed, and provisi
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etween Front and Second streets, an
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in the society even stripling preac
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is desperately broken, yet he keeps
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conducted well." He did not offer h
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of the general conference, and in t
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. I leave you to make a prudent use
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his words are eulogistically true.
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until finally the illegality of it
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find its Constitution, if any there
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views. Such apologies for his after
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date — " We have ridden two hundr
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Eutaw Street church pulpit. On the
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McCormick has written in a legible
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and good man, and a bead-roll of ot
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liberal principles. To this Griffit
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and many others, and uniformly defe
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pioneers it may be said that in the
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argument against innovation. Tradit
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apparently. Moore's denial was not
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Liverpool I observed that I should,
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command, when he told the elders no
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themselves to the ministry of the s
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church with true wisdom to combine
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successful labors. The Board is reg
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scholars, 63; ordained native preac
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k. We want the right of peremptory
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