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 . ecent death of thatprince in Israel, Francis Asbury, natu-rally cast a gloom over the address which had been prepared bythe deceased bishop was read by thesecretary. Bishop McKendree was atthis time in feeble health, and his epis-copal address was presented by ThomasLogan Douglass. A few days later, whenhe sp
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 . ecent death of thatprince in Israel, Francis Asbury, natu-rally cast a gloom over the address which had been prepared bythe deceased bishop was read by thesecretary. Bishop McKendree was atthis time in feeble health, and his epis-copal address was presented by ThomasLogan Douglass. A few days later, whenhe spoke for twenty minutes at the As-bury funeral service, his voice was sofaint that few of the audience were ableto follow the drift of his remarks. A motion which had been defeatedfour years before was passed at this Con-ference. It related to the trade in spirit-uous liquors, and was to the effect thatno preacher should distill or retail themwithout forfeiting his license. Two newConferences were added, the Missouriand the Mississippi, both of them regionswhich Asbury had never reached. TheConference refused to be drawn into anydrastic legislation respecting slavery,which seemed to the members an evil 450 The illustrated History of Methodism ill 111 J,: ii[,fji§ift. REV. JAMES ,A pioneer preacher of great influence in the West an beyond remedy; but it passed an enact-ment excluding henceforth from officialstation in the Church any slave-holder,where the laws of the state in which helived admitted of emancipation, and al-lowed the liberated slave to enjoy free-dom. Immediate steps were taken to fill thevacancy in the episcopal bench. Twonew appointments were made, that ofEnoch George and of Robert RichfordRoberts. Enoch George, who was toserve as bishop for thirteen years, andwhose remains were to find a resting-place in the same cemetery that containsAsburys, was at this time close uponfifty years of age. Born in Dinwiddiecounty, Virginia, where that stout evan- gelical,
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