History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org

ENDNOTES
1 The reader is apprised that this "little sketch" matter is thoroughly considered in a foot-note
towards the close of the tenth chapter of the second volume.
2 See Methodist Protestant Vol. II. p. 268.
3 McCaine's "Defense of the Truth," pp. 97-99.
4 "Letters on M. E. Church," 1850, pp. 77, 78.
5 O'Kelly gives the letter in full, in his "Apology." My copy was printed at Pittsburgh, Pa., but the
imprint has no date, though it must have been not later than 1800. He claims that it is a literal copy,
and in it the letter is broken into twenty paragraphs, each one numbered, so that the suppressed
portion forms a distinct one, and is numbered fourteen. Lee's "History" was not published until 1810,
and he must have known of O'Kelly's "Apology." This makes it the more strange that he should have
followed the mutilated copy in the minutes of 1785, and not the true letter. Perhaps at that time he
felt that he should give not what Wesley gave, but what the "superintendents" chose to give of it.
6 Several years after these statements were written the writer discovered that the full text of this
letter was also printed very shortly after the adjournment of the Christmas Conference in the
Baltimore Gazette by an anonymous writer who is severely arraigned for it by other correspondents
as violative of a confidence among these early officials. This new phase is fully treated near the close
of the tenth chapter of the second volume of this history, to which the reader is referred in course.
7 "Defense of the Truth," p. 85.
8 "Defense of the Truth," p. 91.
9 Asbury's "Journal," Vol. I. pp. 486, 487.
10 Bangs' "Life of Garrettson," edition 1830, p. 230.
11 Whitehead's "Life of John Wesley," p. 264.
12 "Journal," Vol. II. pp. 323, 324.
13 Dr. Coke was a man of sober second thoughts, and did not hesitate to expunge and change records
if expedient. It is known that his severe denunciations of Asbury and the American Conference for
erasing Wesley's name from their minutes which garnished his memorial sermon in Baltimore after
Wesley's death, were all expunged when the sermon was printed in London. Now it is also found that
his Journal made in Philadelphia after 1785, on its reprint in London in 1793, two years after
Wesley's death, omits all reference to the most eventful transaction of his life, to wit: the