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 . He believed in theoffice of bishop as an office distinct fromthat of presbyter or elder; and as he grewolder emphasized rather than minimizedthe distinction. Once elected bishop, hefelt that he had different duties, heavierresponsibility, and a specific outlookpeculiar to the office. This assertion ofepiscopal privileges wa
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 . He believed in theoffice of bishop as an office distinct fromthat of presbyter or elder; and as he grewolder emphasized rather than minimizedthe distinction. Once elected bishop, hefelt that he had different duties, heavierresponsibility, and a specific outlookpeculiar to the office. This assertion ofepiscopal privileges was felt and resentedby OKelley and his supporters, and theybrought the question to an issue. Theresult proved altogether favorable to As-bury Practically, then, Asbury im-pressed his idea of the episcopate uponthe Methodist Episcopal Church; and inso far as it differed from Wesleys ideal—of which he has left us no very clear con-ception—or from a Presbyterian super-intendency, such as OKelley conceived,in so far was it the essential conceptionof the episcopate held by the AmericanMethodist Episcopal Church. And yet it is evident from the invita-tion extended to Otterbein that he cher-ished no narrow ecclesiastical views of The Illustrated History of Methodism 261. LOVELY LANE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, BALTIMORE. episcopal authority For himself he pre-ferred the episcopal form of church or-ganization as better adapted to carry onthe work of evangelization in Presbyterians and Cougregational-ists he was willing to work as a brotherevangelist; but they were rigid Calvin-ists while he was an Arminian, andtheir polity seemed wanting in that mo-bility and centralization necessary tomeet the situation. This mobility andcentralization were secured by the crea-tion of the episcopate; no longer a stateoffice, with territorial jurisdiction, anddefinitely outlined sees, but the free su-perintendency of an organism preparedto expand and contract, to advance or re-treat, as
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