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 . ishop Andrew survived to carry on thework. In the year 1861, at the begin-ning of the war, the plantation missioncould count a membership of seventythousand, besides twelve thousand pro-bationers, and nearly sixteen thousandchildren who received catechetical in-struction. The Conference dealt with the subjectof slavery, but
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 . ishop Andrew survived to carry on thework. In the year 1861, at the begin-ning of the war, the plantation missioncould count a membership of seventythousand, besides twelve thousand pro-bationers, and nearly sixteen thousandchildren who received catechetical in-struction. The Conference dealt with the subjectof slavery, but so far from making anychange in the section of the original Dis-cipline relating to the matter, it added aparagraph to the effect that the passagewas understood in the sense of the dec-larations made by the General Confer-ences of 1836 and 1840. The matter oftheir responsibility as Christians to thenegro population received full duty was enjoined upon all, accord-ing to their ability, of giving the gospelto the negro population. Three commissioners—H. B. Bascom,A. L. P. Green, and S. A. I^atta—wereappointed commissioners to act in con-cert with commissioners from the Meth-odist Episcopal Church, in settling upthe business of the Book Concern; and,. FOUNDER OF .MISSIONS TO THE SLAVES. BISHOP L. L. 544 The Illustrated History of Methodism.
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