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 . ern-ment. On the other side logical chains ofargument, which proved convincing tomany, were woven by keen disputants,who proceeded to imagine the evolutionand supremacy of a Methodist hierarchyas tyrannous as that of Rome. Prac-tically the question narrowed itself downto the legality or propriety of the ex-pulsion of certai
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 . ern-ment. On the other side logical chains ofargument, which proved convincing tomany, were woven by keen disputants,who proceeded to imagine the evolutionand supremacy of a Methodist hierarchyas tyrannous as that of Rome. Prac-tically the question narrowed itself downto the legality or propriety of the ex-pulsion of certain members on the groundof insubordination. The itinerant min-istry, who retained the sole power ofmaking and executing rules, consideredthat it was necessary, for the sake ofdiscipline, to expel from the Churchcertain subordinates, who, while morallyand doctrinally sound, indulged in toofree criticism of the order and govern-ment of the Church. The reform partythen began to organize itself into UnionSocieties, at Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pitts-burgh, and other places, and in theyear 1824 the Baltimore Union Societyfounded a monthly paper called MutualRights, for the free promulgation of itsviews. This paper succeeded to another,the Repository, which had for four years. BISHOPS OF THE EVANGELICAL John Seybkkt; born in Penns}lvania, 1791; con-verted, 1S10; became an itinerant minister of the Evan-gelical Association, 1S20; first elected bishop in 1839;and was unanimously elected as his own successor untilhis death at Bellevue, Ohio, in 1859. 2. Rev. JosephLong; born, Strasburg, Pennsylvania, 1800; joined thetraveling connection of the Evangelical Association,1822; elected bishop, 1S43, and every four years there-after until his death in 1869. been the organ of the party. The fol-lowing extract from the preface to thefirst volume of Mutual Rights showsfairly well the aims and spirit of themovement. For the recovery, it states,of the mutual rights of the ministersand m
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