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 . f the eligi-bility of women, so far as the GeneralConference was concerned. When, how-ever, the question was afterward sub-mitted to the Annual Conferences, itfailed to receive the requisite three-fourths majority, and was lost. At this Conference Charles C. McCabeand Earl Cranston were elected bishops,and Joseph C. Hartzel
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 . f the eligi-bility of women, so far as the GeneralConference was concerned. When, how-ever, the question was afterward sub-mitted to the Annual Conferences, itfailed to receive the requisite three-fourths majority, and was lost. At this Conference Charles C. McCabeand Earl Cranston were elected bishops,and Joseph C. Hartzell was elected mis-sionary bishop of Africa. Bishop Mc-Cabe was born in Athens, Ohio, in 18o(>,was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan Uni-versity, and entered the Obio AnnualConference. He served for a time aschaplain in the United States army,where his personality became widelyknown, and he was afterward one of theagents of the Church Extension SocietyLater he became a missionary secretary,an office from which he was elected tothe episcopacy. Earl Cranston is a native of the samecity in Ohio, having been born therefour years later than his serving important pastoral chargesin Ohio, Illinois, and in Colorado, he 648 The Illustrated History of WILLIAM B. BRICKELIy,An eminent Methodist oi Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. became, in 1884, one of the agents ofthe Western Book Concern, and wasserving in this capacity when made abishop. Joseph Hartzell was born at Moline,Illinois, in 1842. He was educated atthe Illinois Wesleyan University, andat the Garrett Biblical Institute. En-tering the Central Illinois Conference,he was transferred later to the Loui-siana Conference, became editor of theSouthwestern Christian Advocate, andwas secretary of the Freedmens AidSociety when made a bishop. The powers of a missionary bishopand the word co-ordinate, used inrelation to missionary bishops and gen-eral superintendents, were defined. Amissionary bishop, it was declared, is
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