The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . mp meetings were peculiarly useful. Hundreds were converted bytheir instrumentality. In the course of the eight years following theirintroduction, the net increase to the church was eighty-two thousandsix hundred and sixty-four members, and a corresponding increase ofpreachers. To give in detail the Government of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch would very far exceed our limits. While the machinery isvery simple, gradually rising fr
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . mp meetings were peculiarly useful. Hundreds were converted bytheir instrumentality. In the course of the eight years following theirintroduction, the net increase to the church was eighty-two thousandsix hundred and sixty-four members, and a corresponding increase ofpreachers. To give in detail the Government of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch would very far exceed our limits. While the machinery isvery simple, gradually rising from the private member to the bishop,and from the class meeting to the conference, it is very large, and fullyto comprehend it requires much study. Those who wish to understandit, may obtain from almost any of their preachers (i The Book of Dis-cipline a small and cheap volume, which will suggest many soundprinciples and hints of usefulness to all who carefully examine it. Itwill be here seen, that though Methodism commenced without a plan,experience has furnished it with one of no common value. An impartial historian is not allowed to omit the statement of im-. 575 Methodist Episcopal Church, 577 portant facts, however they may jar with his feelings, or whatevergrief they may occasion to their readers. It is indeed painful to see avast body of Christians like the Methodists divide into two great sec-tions, to say nothing of smaller ones. A few years since, The vexedquestion as it has been called, of slavery, was introduced into theGeneral Conference, and able and animated were the discussions whichtook place as to the subject in all its bearings, especially as viewedfrom an ecclesiastical stand-point. At length, as in the case of two ofthe apostles, The contention was so sharp between them that theyparted asunder; and the vast body of Methodists now compose twochurches, distinguished as North and South. Neither of the parties,however, seem to have declined in their love to the
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