The junior history of Methodism [electronic resource]: for young people, study classes in Epworth League and the general reader . awing lots. In great solem-nity the preachers knelt, while four of them led inprayer, after which Adam Clarke drew the lot, and then,standing on a table, proclaimed it: You shall notgive the sacraments this year. At the Conference of1793 tne question was settled as follows: We thereforeresolved that in those places where the members of thesociety were unanimous in their desire for the sacra-ments the preachers should grant it, and that all dis-tinctions between orda
The junior history of Methodism [electronic resource]: for young people, study classes in Epworth League and the general reader . awing lots. In great solem-nity the preachers knelt, while four of them led inprayer, after which Adam Clarke drew the lot, and then,standing on a table, proclaimed it: You shall notgive the sacraments this year. At the Conference of1793 tne question was settled as follows: We thereforeresolved that in those places where the members of thesociety were unanimous in their desire for the sacra-ments the preachers should grant it, and that all dis-tinctions between ordained and unordained preachersshould cease, and being received by the Conference,and appointed to administer the sacraments, should beconsidered sufficient ordination. Thus the Wes-ley an body in England started on its great careerfully organized. 8o JUNIOR HISTORY OF METHODISM. English Methodism has had great success and pro-duced some wonderful characters. Among its greaipreachers was Jabez Bunting, born in 1770. A learnecjudge said of him: Other preachers excelled him orsome points, but none that I have ever heard equalec. Jabez Bunting. him as a whole. Robert Newton, born in 1780, as ,preacher, ranks with Bunting; indeed, as a populaorator, he stands first in English Methodism. Throngof Methodists and others attended his ministry iiLondon, Dublin, and Edinburgh. Richard Watson be ENGLISH METHODISM SINCE WESLEYS DEATH. 81 came the leading theologian of this period of Metho-dism. He was born in 1781, and becoming a localpreacher at fifteen years of age, was received into Con-ference before he was sixteen. His great work was thewriting of that masterpiece of theology, Theological In-stitutes, completed in 1828. It has been a standardboth in Europe and America. Adam Clarke, scholar,commentator, preacher—and scarcely excelled in any—was born in Ireland in 1760; converted at seventeen,he was in Wesleys Kingswood School at twenty. Herehe found a guinea while digging in the gard
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