History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org

ENDNOTES
1 Stevens' "History of Methodism," Vol. I. p.128.
2 This was written in 1894, or about four years ago, and already the inevitable has come to pass.
Arbitrary and absolute power vested in the "General" as he aged rendered him more exacting and
impatient of contradiction. Under this military system, his son, Ballington, and accomplished wife,
were put in charge of the American forces, and after nine years of successful labor, without warning,
peremptory orders were sent him by the father from India to return to England and turn over his
command with the property to his successor. He complied under protest, withdrew from the Army,
and organized the American Volunteers out of sympathizing comrades and others. The merits of the
case between father and son the world will never understand, though each has set forth his case in
the public press. The son announces the breach as final, so the Salvation Army has its first secession,
the fruit of arbitrary power; it is not the last. The history of such power in Wesley and Asbury will
repeat itself in General Booth.
3 Tyerman's "Life," Vol. II. p.556.
4 Rev. Luke Tyerman, here and elsewhere quoted from his "Life of Wesley," was a Wesleyan
preacher and a warm partisan of the British Conference, but he was a candid historian. See Vol. II.
p.556, American edition.
5 "Life of Wesley," American edition, 1831, p.183.
6 "Life of Wesley," Vol. II. pp. 557- 559.
7 Tyerman's "Life," Vol. II pp. 579, 580.
8 Ibid. p.580.
9 Tyerman's "Life," Vol. II. pp. 606, 607.
10 Tyerman's "Life," Vol. III. pp. 49, 50, is found the full text of this plan.
11 "Life of Wesley," Vol. II. pp. 212, 227.
12 Tyerman's "Life," Vol. II. p.109.
13 "Journal," Vol. II. p.355, American edition, 1831.
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