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 . s statementswere irreconcilable with a very accu- rately worded theology; buthe seems to have erred, notin lowering the authority ofthe Son, but rather in ignor-ing the authority of theFather. The form of ordina-tion made use of in the newconnection read as follows:In the name of our EordJesus Christ, by the authorityof the


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 . s statementswere irreconcilable with a very accu- rately worded theology; buthe seems to have erred, notin lowering the authority ofthe Son, but rather in ignor-ing the authority of theFather. The form of ordina-tion made use of in the newconnection read as follows:In the name of our EordJesus Christ, by the authorityof the Holy Scriptures, withthe approbation of the Church,and with the laying on of thehands of the presbytery, weset apart this our brother tothe Holy Order and Office ofElder in the Church of God;in the name of the Father,and of the Son, and of theHoly Ghost, charge of Unitarian heresy pre-ferred against the OKellyites before thecentury closed gained momentum fromthe fraternal advances of a UnitarianChristian Church, founded in NewEngland some years later. This newbody had, in the year 1808, establisheda religious organ to expound its paper, the Herald of Christian Lib-erty, said to be the first religious publi-cation of the kind in the United States,. OI,D REHOBOTH METHODIST CHURCH, NEAR 0NION, MONROE COUNTY, WEST church was built in 1786 and was dedicated byBishop Asbury. Freeborn Garrettson, Francis As-bury and other noted preachers have occupiedits pulpit. The Illustrated History of Methodism. 361 vas the exponent of a theol->gy that denied the divinity>f Christ, and ridiculed theloetrine of the atonement,bearing of a Christian Churchn the South, one of their mis-ionary preachers, namedSummer, visited the Confer-ence held at Pine Stake, NorthCarolina, as a delegate. Prob-ibly he had been led to believehat O Kelly and his followersvere Unitarians. When henade his mission known,y Kelly asked him plainly ifle was a worshiper of JesusChrist. He


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