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 . ssed condition, and its employessalaries were badly in arrear. A reduc-tion of the staff resulted, and it was re-solved to have nothing but an Englishfree day-school. At the close of 1795the place was totally destroyed by fire,believed to be the work of incendiaries;for several years before an attempt to setit on fire had b
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 . ssed condition, and its employessalaries were badly in arrear. A reduc-tion of the staff resulted, and it was re-solved to have nothing but an Englishfree day-school. At the close of 1795the place was totally destroyed by fire,believed to be the work of incendiaries;for several years before an attempt to setit on fire had been discovered in timeand frustrated. No attempt was made to rebuild thecollege on its old site; but, as there hap-pened to be for sale at that time in Balti-more a large hall erected for balls andassemblies, this building, with the groundon which it stood, was bought for thesum of £5,300. On a portion of theground a church was built; and itseemed as if everything was arrangedbetter than before. But the demon of fireagain appeared on the scene, and reducedthe whole pile to ashes. This seconddisaster served to convince Doctor Cokethat these expensive educational ventureswere unwise, and nothing further of thekind was attempted. c T, > C S~-•j. -r >S CHAPTER XV THE EPISCOPATE ON ITS TRIAL. YT7HE business of the 1784 Conference1 at Baltimore, popularly known asthe Christmas Conference, was so im-portant that we must recur to it beforepassing on to later events. To Wesleythe Conference was immediately indebtedfor the drafting of its Articles of Relig-ion, which he had carefully preparedand entrusted to the care of Doctor Articles, twenty-five in number,are an abridgment and modification ofthe Thirty-nine Articles of the Churchof England. Though adopted by theConference, they were not incorporatedin the Discipline until six years later. It is interesting to compare the twosets of Articles and note the nature of theomissions and emendations. Most ofthe lat
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