. The history of Methodism. CHAPTER IX The First Conference in America Methodist Conferences.—Quarterly Meetings.—The Conferenceof 1773. — Personnel. — The Absentees.— Spirit.—Work.— TheFirst Methodist Book Agent in America.—Regulating thePublications. THE Conference has been a characteristic feature ofMethodism since the last week of June, 1744, whenthe Wesleys and their fellow clerical and lay preachers—ten in all—met in that old London gunshop, called theFoundry Chapel, to discuss their campaign for spreadingscriptural holiness over the land. Then and there beganthat powerful connectional f
. The history of Methodism. CHAPTER IX The First Conference in America Methodist Conferences.—Quarterly Meetings.—The Conferenceof 1773. — Personnel. — The Absentees.— Spirit.—Work.— TheFirst Methodist Book Agent in America.—Regulating thePublications. THE Conference has been a characteristic feature ofMethodism since the last week of June, 1744, whenthe Wesleys and their fellow clerical and lay preachers—ten in all—met in that old London gunshop, called theFoundry Chapel, to discuss their campaign for spreadingscriptural holiness over the land. Then and there beganthat powerful connectional feeling which pervades all mem-bers of the Wesleyan fold and which has carried many enter-prises to success. From these annual meetings of the preach-ers has issued that feeling of fellowship and manly sympathywhich has welded the Methodist clergy everywhere into anindissoluble brotherhood. For the first half dozen years after the lay evangelists beganto raise their voices in behalf of spiritual religion
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