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 . RT. REV. WILLIAM WHITE, D. D.,Second Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 284 The Illustrated History of OI,D MACHAR CATHEDRAL, ABERDEEN. up a rival organization in America, dis-tinct from the English society., andmaking higher worldly pretensions. Heascribed the assumption of the titlesbishop and college
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 . RT. REV. WILLIAM WHITE, D. D.,Second Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 284 The Illustrated History of OI,D MACHAR CATHEDRAL, ABERDEEN. up a rival organization in America, dis-tinct from the English society., andmaking higher worldly pretensions. Heascribed the assumption of the titlesbishop and college to an ambitiousand presumptuous spirit, such as he wasso swift to discourage in Pawson andothers. In countries drifting away fromeach other, as England and the UnitedStates then were, such misunderstand-ings were pretty certain to arise. The policy followed at this time alien-ated the worthy but somewhat timid andformal Thomas Vasey. He left theMethodists and joined the ProtestantEpiscopal Church, obtaining reordina-tion from Bishop White. Returning toEngland, he became a curate in theEstablished Church. Then he resumedhis connection with Wesley and his oldcolleagues, and was employed at CityRoad and in the Eeeds his frail health he sur-vived to a good old age. The General Conference held in NewYork in the year 1789 began its sessions on the twenty-eighth o
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