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 intervening fouryears was declared unconstitutional. The following year, 1825, seems tohave passed without any meeting of thecollege of bishops; but in April, 1S2(>,four of them came together in theQuaker City, where Bishops Georgeand Hedding were presiding at the An-nual Conference. They met in the roomof Bishop McKe
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 intervening fouryears was declared unconstitutional. The following year, 1825, seems tohave passed without any meeting of thecollege of bishops; but in April, 1S2(>,four of them came together in theQuaker City, where Bishops Georgeand Hedding were presiding at the An-nual Conference. They met in the roomof Bishop McKendree, who had arrivedfrom the South, with Soule, to attendthe meeting; Bishop Roberts was matter they had to settle was theelection of a representative to the BritishConference—an appointment which theyhad been authorized to make by a reso-lution of the General Conference. Theindividual fixed upon by Roberts andSoule was William Capers, whomMcKendree now nominated. Georgeand Hedding, however, objected toCapers, because he was a slave-owner,and desired either to postpone theelection, or to have Wilbur Fisk orEzekiel Cooper sent in his place. At this time Capers was a great powerin the South. Born in South Carolina 462 The Illustrated History of i. Richard Morris Edward Waters. 4. William Paul Quinn. 5. Willis Nazery. 6. D. Alexander Payne. BISHOPS OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 7. Alexander W. Wayman. 14. Richard H. Cain. 8. Jabez Pitt Campbell. 9. James A. Shorter. 10. Thomas M. D. Ward. 11. John M. Brown. 12. Henry McNeal Turner. 13. William F. Dickerson. 15. Richard R. Disney. 16. Wesley J. Gaines. 17. Benjamin W. Arnett. 18. Benjamin T. Tanner. 19. Abraham Grant. The Illustrated History of Methodism 463 BISHOPS OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 2„ NAMK Born OF BlKTII J Z^ J. Whekk Ki-ia:ii i Died 1 Richard Allen 1760 Philadelphia, Pa. 1818 Philadelphia, Pa 1831 o Morris Brown 1770 Charleston, S. C. 1828
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