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 . and that mark of the Methodistsystem, the itineracy, was made the union in 1857 the total member-ship of the organization was forty-onethousand, a number which had risen in1887 to eighty-four thousand. This trying period of the Reformagitation was not allowed to pass bywithout the adoption of certain well-consid
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 . and that mark of the Methodistsystem, the itineracy, was made the union in 1857 the total member-ship of the organization was forty-onethousand, a number which had risen in1887 to eighty-four thousand. This trying period of the Reformagitation was not allowed to pass bywithout the adoption of certain well-considered modifications. It was re-solved, in 1851, to define more clearlythe proper constitution of a QuarterlyMeeting; to provide a Special CircuitMeeting in which an accused member orlocal officer might be tried; to limit thedisciplinary power of trustees who mighthappen to be serving on more than onechapel; to reaffirm the right of appealfrom local church-meetings to theConference; and to make it easier forcircuits to memorialize Conference onconnexional subjects. No such memo-rials, however, were to infringe thefundamental doctrines or discipline ofMethodism, or to interfere with the localaffairs of a neighboring circuit. Theseregulations having been duly sent down. SIR E. J. POVNTER. K. B., President of the Royal Academy, Loudon. 596 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF METHODISM.
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