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 . ction which led to a secessionsome thirty years later. In respect todoctrine, the old standards were adheredto. Such was the secession of 1830,which deprived the Methodist EpiscopalChurch of many ministers and laymen ofhigh standing and distinguished very year in which the reform party The Illustrated History
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 . ction which led to a secessionsome thirty years later. In respect todoctrine, the old standards were adheredto. Such was the secession of 1830,which deprived the Methodist EpiscopalChurch of many ministers and laymen ofhigh standing and distinguished very year in which the reform party The Illustrated History of Methodism 471 in the Methodist Episcopal Church ofthe United States determined to separatefrom the main body, owing to their de-feat in the General Conference, a seces-sion of a similar kind took place in En-gland. In this case, also, the secedersadopted the name of Methodist Prot-estants. There was, accordingly, muchsuperficial resemblance between the two than traveling evangelists, they werenow distinctly dissenting ministers, andregarded as ministers by their own laityand the outside world. Even the titleReverejid was freely assumed after theyear 1820. The laity now began to desire a placein the church councils. As membersof the financial councils they already. LEADERS IN THE ENGLISH PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH,i. John Pickwell. 4. Joseph Peck. ;. James Young. 2. John Miltier. 5. John Ford. S. James Ii. Knapp. 3. Henry Spicer. 6. George Clark. movements; and yet the actual causeswhich operated were by no means sim-ilar. The element of revolt against ex-clusive ministerial authority, it is true,was present in England as in the UnitedStates. The thirty years which elapsedbetween 1707 and 1827 had witnessed agradual change in the status of Meth-odist preachers. Originally little more wielded considerable power; but theywere hardly satisfied with this small con-cession. A jealousy of the supremacyof the Conference began to manifest itselfin various quarters, and first came to
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