The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . HOUSE IN WHICH FIRST CONFERENCE AT PETERSBURG,GINIA, WAS HEED BY BISHOP ASBURY, JUNE 17, 1778. VIR-. OED HOME OF THOMAS MURRAY AND HIS SON, JOHN MURRAYThe house was built about twelve months being granted before suchexclusion. The buying or selling ofslaves, or giving them away, would beviewed as an offense, to be p
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . HOUSE IN WHICH FIRST CONFERENCE AT PETERSBURG,GINIA, WAS HEED BY BISHOP ASBURY, JUNE 17, 1778. VIR-. OED HOME OF THOMAS MURRAY AND HIS SON, JOHN MURRAYThe house was built about twelve months being granted before suchexclusion. The buying or selling ofslaves, or giving them away, would beviewed as an offense, to be punished byexpulsion. Nor were slave-holders to behenceforth admitted to the I^ords Sup-per, or into the society. These rules caused intense dissatisfac-tion among a large number of the breth-ren, and were never put in force. As weshall see, the first Annual Conferencewhich met after the founding of theMethodist Episcopal Church, held itsmeetings under the roof-tree of a slave-holder who lived in patri-archal fashion like is not to be wondered atthat this Conference shouldhave shelved the resolu-tions. At the same time anote was added by the meet-ing, expressive of their deepabhorrence at the practice ofslavery, and their resolve toseek its destruction by allwise and prudent was undoubtedly inconsonance with the attitudeof Asbury. The meeting o
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