The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . n the samecommittee; and the four persons thus appointed, select a fifth ; whichcommittee of five persons constitute the court for the trial of a member;and if pronounced guilty by this court, he may appeal to the quarterlyConference. Though not opposed to education, we believe that this body haveno institutions of learning under their patronage, higher than semina-ries ; they have, however, a thriving book literature, and an eff
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . n the samecommittee; and the four persons thus appointed, select a fifth ; whichcommittee of five persons constitute the court for the trial of a member;and if pronounced guilty by this court, he may appeal to the quarterlyConference. Though not opposed to education, we believe that this body haveno institutions of learning under their patronage, higher than semina-ries ; they have, however, a thriving book literature, and an efficientestablishment for its circulation, which is situated at Baltimore, wherethe central organ of the church— The Methodist Protestant—is pub-lished. They have among them several ministers of fine genius andlearning ; and are not backward in sustaining, to the extent of theirability, the missionary and other benevolent institutions of the age. The latest statistics of the Methodist Protestant Church representthat it enjoys the labors of 807 travelling preachers, and 913 localpreachers in 841 churches, and has 65,726 members. THE WESLEYAN METHODIST E R Y clearly have the discussions on thesubject of Slavery during the last twentyyears had considerable influence on severalof the principal religious denominations inthis country. Our readers already knowthe Methodist body has had its full shareof labor and agitation on the subject lead-ing to the great rupture between thechurches of the North and the has even this been all, for the branchof the Wesleyan family of which we arenow writing arose out of the great con-flict. It is probable that the African sections of the Methodist Church,though neither numerous or influential, did somewhat towards raisingthe spirit of discussion which has long been active. Certain it is, thatabout 1832, many Northern Methodists, in common with other classesof persons, began more fully to examine slavery in its relations to theCh
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