A history of Methodism in the United States . s of the Northern church ; reaffirms thathe could not exercise his functions without entailing disasterupon the church in the North, explains the diversity ofsentiment as to the proper method of treating the case, andthen the action finally adopted. It emphatically declaresthat that action was neither judicial nor punitive; that itdid not achieve nor intend so much as a legal suspension;that Bishop Andrew is still a bishop, and should he,against the expressed sense of the General Conference,proceed in the discharge of his functions, his official ac
A history of Methodism in the United States . s of the Northern church ; reaffirms thathe could not exercise his functions without entailing disasterupon the church in the North, explains the diversity ofsentiment as to the proper method of treating the case, andthen the action finally adopted. It emphatically declaresthat that action was neither judicial nor punitive; that itdid not achieve nor intend so much as a legal suspension;that Bishop Andrew is still a bishop, and should he,against the expressed sense of the General Conference,proceed in the discharge of his functions, his official actswould be valid. The Reply examines the arguments andallegations of fact brought forth in the debate and theProtest, bearing on the constitutional aspect of the case,and adduces quotations from Asbury, Coke, Dickins, andEmory, also the undisputed expressions of Hedding. The conclusion is important, particularly the secondparagraph: When all the law, and the facts in the case, shall havebeen spread before an impartial community, the majority. JOHN EARLY. REPLY TO THE PROTEST. lOI have no doubt that they will fix the responsibility ofdivision, should such an unhappy event take place, * wherein justice // belongs. They will ask, Who first introducedslavery into the episcopacy ? And the answer will be, Notthe General Conference. Who opposed the attempt towithdraw it from the episcopacy ? Not the General Con-ference. Who resisted the measure of peace that was pro-posed—the mildest that the case allowed ? Not the first sounded the knell of division, and declared thatit would be impossible longer to remain under the juris-diction of the Methodist Episcopal Church? Not themajority. The proposition for a peaceful separation (if any musttake place) with which the Protest closes, though strangelyat variance with much that precedes, has already been metby the General Conference. And the readiness withwhich that body (by a vote which would doubtless havebeen unanimous but fo
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