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 . ROBERT KRNNON HARGROVE, D. May Commissioner. 21. After graduating at the Wesleyanniversity, he served as teacher, pastor,id chaplain in the army until 1S66,hen he was elected editor of Zionserald, in Boston, a position which heas holding when elected a bishop. Heas an able, brilliant, and versatile man,id an aggressi
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 . ROBERT KRNNON HARGROVE, D. May Commissioner. 21. After graduating at the Wesleyanniversity, he served as teacher, pastor,id chaplain in the army until 1S66,hen he was elected editor of Zionserald, in Boston, a position which heas holding when elected a bishop. Heas an able, brilliant, and versatile man,id an aggressive leader, who, duringe eight years of his episcopacy, made a marked impression on the deathbed was a triumphant one. Jesse T Peck, the twenty-ninth bishopof the Methodist Episcopal Church, wasa native of New York, and was sixty-oneyears old when elected to the office. Hewas distinguished as a pastor in his na-tive state and in California, and rankedhigh as an educator, author, and editor. 638 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF TRUSTER ,Born in Delaware, 1811; Governor of Missouri, 1851; UnitedStates Senator, 1857-62; appointed Cape May Commis-sioner, 1875; died, April, 1876. Hon. Robert was appointed in his place. He was the main factor in organizingthe university at Syracuse, New York,the city where, in 1883, he died. Another important act taken by theGeneral Conference of 1872 was a move-ment toward closer fraternal relationswith the Methodist Episcopal Church,South. It will be remembered that Pierce appeared at the GeneralConference of 1848, held in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, and proposed fraternal re-lations between the two branches ofEpiscopal Methodism. This Conference,while declaring itself ready to grant himany personal courtesies, declined to enterinto the proposed fraternal Pierce declined to be received in-dividually, and declared that the Meth-odist Episcopal Church, South, can neverrenew the offer of fraternal
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