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 . ;.; *, â â .â-- WESTERN WILDS. twelve days were taken up with thetransaction of various matters; and onthe thirteenth the Conference proceededto elect an additional bishop. The firstballot gave Joshua Soule forty-sevenvotes out of a total of eighty-eight, andhe was declared duly elected. But, be-fore he could be solem
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 . ;.; *, â â .â-- WESTERN WILDS. twelve days were taken up with thetransaction of various matters; and onthe thirteenth the Conference proceededto elect an additional bishop. The firstballot gave Joshua Soule forty-sevenvotes out of a total of eighty-eight, andhe was declared duly elected. But, be-fore he could be solemnly set apart forthe office, a measure was passed by theConference which greatly limited theepiscopal powers. As a conciliatorymeasure it had the approval of Bishop As soon as the measure was passed,the bishop-elect, Joshua Soule, left theassembly and prepared a letter of resig-nation. He had, he said, been chosenwhen the constitution and governmentof the Methodist Church was unimpaired;but the measure just passed had sanc-tioned so serious a transfer of executivepower from the episcopacy to the severalAnnual Conferences, that he could not,consistently with his convictions of pro-priety and obligation, enter the work of 456 The Illustrated History of MeihodisM,. WELLINGTON H. COLLINS AND OTHER NOTED MEN IN THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. i. E. G. Wood, D. D., of the Southeast Indiana Conference; born 1806. 2. James Floy, D. D.; born in NewYork City, 1806; joined New York Conference in 1835. 3. J. V. Watson, D. D.; born in London, 1814; removed whenquite young with his parents to Indiana; joined Missouri Conference, 1852; established Michigan and NorthwesternChristian Advocates; died, 1856. 4. Wellington H. Collins, of the Detroit Conference; born in New York state,1816; died in Detroit, 1858. 5, John L. Smith, D. D., of Northwest Conference. 6. Hon. Joseph A. Wright, UnitedStates Minister at Berlin; born in Pennsylvania, 1810; moved to Indiana and became its governor. 7. Lut
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