History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org

ENDNOTES
1 See Appendix C. The reader will not fail to peruse it before leaving this page.
2 Snethen says: "Mr. Lee for several years had the prospect of the episcopacy full in view. The
chagrin which he betrayed showed that it had been a governing motive with him, and as much the
objective of his desire as of prospect. This disappointment rendered his feelings irritable, and as age
had already begun to deface the signs by which the sympathies of nature are maintained, he lost in
a considerable degree his hold on the affections and confidence of his best friends." For this and
other strictures upon Lee he was called to account, but he showed himself fully able to meet the
Criticism. Few men were more intimate with Lee than Snethen, and they were fast friends from 1800
to the death of Lee in 1816. The prizes of ambition in a hierarchic system are such that every man
of conscious abilities would be more than human if he felt indifferent to them. The redeeming feature
of Lee was that he made no concealment of his aspirations.
3 "Apology for Leaving the Episcopal Methodists," p. 4.
4 Lee's "History," p.78.