A history of Methodism in the United States . sconcerning petitions, memorials, and oral addresses whichhad been presented to it, reported that it is inexpedientso to alter the economy of the church as to introduce laydelegation into the General and Annual was adopted by a vote of one hundred and seventy-one to three. The conference decided to elect four bishops, who werechosen on the first ballot: Levi Scott, Matthew Simpson,Osmon C. Baker, and Edward R. Ames; Scott having onehundred and thirteen, Simpson one hundred and ten,Baker ninety, and Ames eighty-nine votes. Scott was
A history of Methodism in the United States . sconcerning petitions, memorials, and oral addresses whichhad been presented to it, reported that it is inexpedientso to alter the economy of the church as to introduce laydelegation into the General and Annual was adopted by a vote of one hundred and seventy-one to three. The conference decided to elect four bishops, who werechosen on the first ballot: Levi Scott, Matthew Simpson,Osmon C. Baker, and Edward R. Ames; Scott having onehundred and thirteen, Simpson one hundred and ten,Baker ninety, and Ames eighty-nine votes. Scott was a native of Delaware, and was fifty years ofage when elected; he entered the Philadelphia Conferencein 1826, and occupied important positions in Delaware,Philadelphia, and New Jersey. He was well educated, ener-getic, sagacious, and full of unction as a preacher, and forthe preceding four years had been assistant book-agent inNew York. Simpson was born in Cadiz, O., was educated at Alle-gheny College, and after the usual stages was ordained. <^^ZjLA^^/JCyC^/) // FOUR DISTINCT TYPES OF MEN. jce elder by Bishop Roberts at Steubenville, O., and servedin the pastorate from 1833 to 1837. From the latter yearto 1839 he was vice-president and professor of naturalscience in Allegheny College ; and from 1839 to 1848 presi-dent of Indiana Asbury University. During the precedingfour years he had been editor of the Western ChristianAdvocate and was a member of the Indiana was forty-one years of age when elected. The birthplace of Baker was in New Hampshire, andwhen elected he was forty years old ; he studied under Fiskat Wilbraham, where he was converted in 1828; enteredWesleyan University, which he left on account of illnessjust before the course was finished, but completed it later,taking the second degree with his class. For ten years hetaught in Newbury Seminary, the last five as was pastor and presiding elder from 1844; laterbecame a professor in the Bib
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