History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org

1 "Life of Wesley," Vol. II. pp. 258,286.
ENDNOTES
2 Crowther's 'Portraiture of Wesleyan Methodism," New York, 1813, p.71
3 From a copy of this rare volume now before the author.
4 "History M. E. Church," Vol. I. pp. 279, 280.
5 Ibid. Vol. II. p.498.
6 Rev. Dr. John Atkinson, author of "Centennial History," writes to me March 22, 1894, "The only
copy of the volume of minutes I know printed in 1795, is in the Episcopal Seminary, New York
City." The writer has a well-preserved copy from which his citations are made, casually picked up
in a second-hand book-store in Washington, D. C., by a friend some years ago. There is a copy in
the Baltimore Methodist Historical Library, and Dr. Collins Denny informed me that several copies
are preserved at Vanderbilt University Library, Nashville, Tenn.
7 "Reminiscences," p. 90.
8 It is remarkable evidence of the wonderful forecast of both McCaine and Snethen that each
predicted as a direct result of the Episcopacy of Asbury this disastrous division of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, as well as other contentions and schisms. McCaine says in his "History and
Mystery," p.62, speaking of the Episcopacy: "But as we believe it has been, and ever will be,
productive of evil, we think it ought to be abolished. That it has been an apple of discord,
engendering strife and contention, we think is quite clear. And that it will ultimately be the means
of severing the connection is, in our judgment, beyond a doubt." Snethen, in the "Mutual Rights,"
Vol. I., 1825, p. 261, says on the same subject: "Their property and power were feared, and as was
the fear, so was the flattery. Some of our bishops, we perceive, will be much flattered to the south
and west of the Susquehanna, and much and deservedly loved, too. But it does not now seem
probable that they will receive such eulogy from the north and east. If this shall prove to be the fact,
will not the limits of their praise be the limits within which their power will be feared? We beg that
these remarks may be attended to, and carefully kept in mind. These are the data on which we have
predicated the separation of the north and east from the south and west."
9 "Life of Wesley," Vol. III. p. 437.
10 "History and Mystery," p. 85.
11 "Life of Wesley," Vol. III. p. 441.
12 "Journal," Vol. II. p. 726.
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