Home Missionary, The (May 1890-April 1891) . GEORGIA. HOW DID IT ORIGINATE? By Rev. S. C. McDaniel, Atlanta, Ga. On the 8th day of May. 1852, nine laymen and three local preachers,all of whom had up to that time belonged to the M. E. Church, South,formed a new church organization at the house of Mickleberry Merritt, inMonroe County, Georgia, and called the organization The Congrega-tional Methodist Church. These men were eminent for intelligence and usefulness, as well aspiety. They had become dissatisfied with the government of the M. , South ; had looked carefully into its foundation
Home Missionary, The (May 1890-April 1891) . GEORGIA. HOW DID IT ORIGINATE? By Rev. S. C. McDaniel, Atlanta, Ga. On the 8th day of May. 1852, nine laymen and three local preachers,all of whom had up to that time belonged to the M. E. Church, South,formed a new church organization at the house of Mickleberry Merritt, inMonroe County, Georgia, and called the organization The Congrega-tional Methodist Church. These men were eminent for intelligence and usefulness, as well aspiety. They had become dissatisfied with the government of the M. , South ; had looked carefully into its foundation principles, as wellas its working machinery, and found their own conscientious convictionsso absolutely at variance with these foundation principles, and their ideasof proper church polity in such direct conflict with the workings of themachinery of the M. E. Church. South, that they could no longer in goodconscience maintain their relations with that church, and hence formed thenew organization as just stated. 1890. THE HOME MISSIONARY 13. 14 THE HOME MISSIONARY. May, The reasons which they set out as impelling them to this course werefew and pointed: 1. They denied the principle that the clergy govern the church bydivine right. 2. They claimed that every member had a right to participate in itsgovernment, and that each church had the right to control its own privatematters and choose its own officers, including a pastor. 3. They opposed itinerancy as practiced by the M. E. Church, South,as being anti-republican, unsatisfactory, and unnecessarily expensive. 4. They opposed the invidious distinction among regular ministersmade by that church between itinerant and local preachers as un-scriptural and hurtful. I give in their own language their principles : 1. A Christian church is a society of believers, and is of divine in-stitution. 2. Christ is the only Head of the Church, and the Word of God is theonly rule of faith and practice. 3. All power necessary in the formation of r
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