The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . PHOTOGRAPH BY Q088. HENRY SLICER. Restoration of Wesleys Rule 1245 order either to confirm the decision made by Bishop Andrewor merely to test the sense of the Conference regarding it, aresolution was offered that it requires two thirds of all themembers of the General Conference to alter or recommend achange in the restrictive rules. This was lost, and thebishops decision was thus reversed. The Annual Conferences of 1848 restored Wesley s rule tothe Discipline. Thus, after sixty years of vacillation on thesubject, years in which much sorrow had
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . PHOTOGRAPH BY Q088. HENRY SLICER. Restoration of Wesleys Rule 1245 order either to confirm the decision made by Bishop Andrewor merely to test the sense of the Conference regarding it, aresolution was offered that it requires two thirds of all themembers of the General Conference to alter or recommend achange in the restrictive rules. This was lost, and thebishops decision was thus reversed. The Annual Conferences of 1848 restored Wesley s rule tothe Discipline. Thus, after sixty years of vacillation on thesubject, years in which much sorrow had ensued in theChurch on account of its hesitating course toward the evil ofintemperance and the traffic in strong drink, the Churchreturned to its original CHAPTER CXXIV Methodism and Prohibition The Colonial Congress Advises Prohibition.—Its Warning NotHeeded.—States Enact Prohibitory Laws, 1850-1860.—MaineLaw in 1851.—The Church Declares for Prohibition in 1852.—Growth of Intelligence. — Gilbert Havens Hope. — StrongEpiscopal Addresses.—The Church for the Extermination ofthe Saloon.—Permanent Committee.—W. C. T. U.—FrancesE. Willard.—Anti-Saloon League.—Non-Partisan W C. T. U. WHEN the Methodist Episcopal Church became firmlyconvinced that it was inconsistent with Christiancharacter to manufacture, sell, or drink intoxicat-ing- liquors as a beverage, and the will of the Church becameobedient to its conscience, it planted itself solidly upon thebroad and safe foundation principle, Touch not, taste not,handle not the unclean thing. The next step was the legitimate outcome of a recognitionof the sin and ravages of intemperance. Four years afterWesleys rule appertaining to the personal life of the mem-bers of the
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