The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . ention was called to the fact that there wasnot only wide divergence of views, but also consider-able unrest in the Church on vital questions of piety andpolity The leading object of this camp meeting was declared tobe the work of entire holiness in the Church. Ministers andlaymen who were considered un-Methodistic in their viewson this doctrine were openly criticised, and a demand wasmade for a return to Old Methodism, from which theChurch, it was alleged, had so nearly departed. In order, as was alleged, to bring the Church back to itspristine
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . ention was called to the fact that there wasnot only wide divergence of views, but also consider-able unrest in the Church on vital questions of piety andpolity The leading object of this camp meeting was declared tobe the work of entire holiness in the Church. Ministers andlaymen who were considered un-Methodistic in their viewson this doctrine were openly criticised, and a demand wasmade for a return to Old Methodism, from which theChurch, it was alleged, had so nearly departed. In order, as was alleged, to bring the Church back to itspristine purity and spiritual power certain brethren bandedthemselves together in a reform movement, which tookthe name of Nazaritism. It originated with a few minis-ters of the Genesee Conference—J. H. Wallace, B. T Rob-erts, J McCreery, Jr., and others. 1008 Nazaritism 1009 Nazaritism assumed that the great body of the Conferenceand a large portion of the membership of the Church haddeparted from the spirit of essential Methodism; that the ?tti». BENJAMIN TITUS of Chesbrough Seminary and editor of The Earnest Christian, Discipline had become a dead letter; that on the subject ofscriptural holiness many had become heretical; and that theChurch had become generally worldly and charges, made public in sermon and pamphlet, were 1010 American Methodism considered by a large part of the clergy and laity as in someparticulars extreme and slanderous. The breach thus madewas widened by the publication in 1856 by the chief scribe ofthe Nazarite Union of the Genesee Conference of a Historic Circular, in which it was claimed that the unionwas not an improper organization, but was in reality aPreachers-Come-back-to-the-Discipline Society. The oppo-sition of the Nazarites to such secret societies as the order ofthe Odd Fellows and Masonry was emphasized in this was determined to impress the Nazarite type on all theworship of the people and the gover
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