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 . BISHOP W. M. WIGHTMAN. lapse of a third of a century, to be in linewith the wisest opinion of the instance, the General Conference of1866 introduced equal lay representa-tion. After thirty-three years of consid-eration and discussion, the General Con-ference of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch adopted the same measu
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 . BISHOP W. M. WIGHTMAN. lapse of a third of a century, to be in linewith the wisest opinion of the instance, the General Conference of1866 introduced equal lay representa-tion. After thirty-three years of consid-eration and discussion, the General Con-ference of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch adopted the same measure. TheGeneral Conference of 1866 extended thetime limit from two to four the Methodist EpiscopalChurch extended the time limit fromthree to five years, and it now, in 1900, BISHOP H. H. KAYANAUGH. has taken it away altogether. TheGeneral Conference of 1866 authorizedthe use of Wesleys Prayer-Book in theSunday service. An edition of the samewas ordered for the use of the churches,and was brought out in 1867 by the Pub-lishing House in Nashville. That partof the Prayer-Book provided for theSunday service, however, did not comeinto general use, as no congregation wasrequired to adopt it, unless by parts of the Prayer-Book which pro-vided for
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