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 . inScotland, and twenty-eight in Ireland. As early as 1744, the increasing re-sponsibilities thrown upon him inducedWesley to call a Conference, wdiich wasattended by six clergymen and fourassistants. The first Conference was asomewhat informal gathering, and yet itsdiscussions, called by the unpretendingname of conversation
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 . inScotland, and twenty-eight in Ireland. As early as 1744, the increasing re-sponsibilities thrown upon him inducedWesley to call a Conference, wdiich wasattended by six clergymen and fourassistants. The first Conference was asomewhat informal gathering, and yet itsdiscussions, called by the unpretendingname of conversations, entered intothe most important questions of churchdoctrine and discipline. The min-utes are thrown into the form of ques-tions and auswrers; a quaint but suffi-ciently lucid method. John Wesley con-tinued to preside at these gatherings, heldin turn in London, Bristol, and Leeds,for the long period of forty-six years. Inthe year 1784 a step was taken to meetthe ecclesiastical needs of the UnitedStates of America, which definitely con-verted the Conference into the centralcouncil of a Christian church. For thefirst forty years of its existence it mustbe regarded as simply the council of aChurch of England home missionarysociety Leaving for a time the central figure. The Illustrated History of Methodism 127 of the movement, let us consider hisassociates in the working of evangeliza-tion. His brother Charles must not beregarded as a mere satellite; rather wasJohn regarded as his satellite by White-field in 1741. To a student of theircareers, the wonderful parallelism intheir spiritual development is a matterwhich demands careful attention. Thesame influences seem to have acted innearly the same way upon the twobrothers. An almost complete sympa-thy remained between the twoduring the first three lustrumsof the revival movement. Inthe pages of John Wesleysjournal which treat of this pe-riod, the phrase 1113* brother Sll-lland I constantly recursCharles showed himself a bold ^IrSil
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