The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . ds of the elected mem-bers did not vote for it, and the motion was lost. It was toonear the close of the Conference to take an appeal. TheConference immediately adjourned. At the General Conference of 1844 it was announced that the proposition to restoreWesleys rule, againvoted upon by the An-nual Conferences, hadbeen lost by 16 American Temper-ance Union was indorsed;preachers, members andfriends recommended togive their approval andactive support to temper-ance reformations; totalabstinence approved anddrunkenness denouncedin strong
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . ds of the elected mem-bers did not vote for it, and the motion was lost. It was toonear the close of the Conference to take an appeal. TheConference immediately adjourned. At the General Conference of 1844 it was announced that the proposition to restoreWesleys rule, againvoted upon by the An-nual Conferences, hadbeen lost by 16 American Temper-ance Union was indorsed;preachers, members andfriends recommended togive their approval andactive support to temper-ance reformations; totalabstinence approved anddrunkenness denouncedin strong was an advance,but that the MethodistEpiscopal Church wasnot yet ready to be abso-lutely divorced from thedrink habit is shown by the fact that a resolution declaringthat no member should use as a beverage, or manufactureor traffic in intoxicating liquors on pain of expulsion, afterremonstrance, was laid on the table. By a vote of 99 to 32 the question of the restoration ofWesleys rule was again sent down to the Conferences. In. PHOTOGRAPH BY Q088. HENRY SLICER. Restoration of Wesleys Rule 1245 order either to confirm the decision made by Bishop Andrewor merely to test the sense of the Conference regarding it, aresolution was offered that it requires two thirds of all themembers of the General Conference to alter or recommend achange in the restrictive rules. This was lost, and thebishops decision was thus reversed. The Annual Conferences of 1848 restored Wesley s rule tothe Discipline. Thus, after sixty years of vacillation on thesubject, years in which much sorrow had ensued in theChurch on account of its hesitating course toward the evil ofintemperance and the traffic in strong drink, the Churchreturned to its original position.
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