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 very closelyaffiliated with the English chairman of the Irish Conference isa representative of the English WesleyanConference, and ten of the Irish min-isters are members of the legal year 1878 was signalized by theadoption of a new order of things inConference, by which the old ministerialeleme
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 very closelyaffiliated with the English chairman of the Irish Conference isa representative of the English WesleyanConference, and ten of the Irish min-isters are members of the legal year 1878 was signalized by theadoption of a new order of things inConference, by which the old ministerialelement in the membership was qualifiedby an equal number of lay difficult and delicate process, whichhad been under immediate considerationfor several years, was happily effectedwithout any heart-burnings or seces-sions. The advance was made in a con-servative fashion, with due regard to theinterests of all concerned. It necessi-tated the division of the Conference intothe Pastoral and the Representative. Alleconomical and financial business wasassigned to the mixed representative OS j29 C; k — BISHOI C. II FOWXKK. Fraternal delfRite from the Methodist Episcopal Churchto the British Wesleyan Conferences of iSyS. 602 The Illustrated History of BTSHOP E. R. HRNDRIX, Fraternal delegate from the Methodist Episcopal Church,South, to the British Wesleyan Conferences of 1900. session, while matters pertaining to thestrictly pastoral province were reservedfor the pastoral session. No voting byorders, such as holds elsewhere, waspermitted. It was only in cases—hardto define with precise accuracy, andpurposely left within broad lines—wherethe essential peace and purity of theChurch is concerned, that the pastoralsession was expected to act alone. This grand development was not al-lowed to pass without appropriate cele-bration. During the two years, from1878 to 1880, the generosity of the peo-ple was tested, with a result that provedmost inspiriting. A grand t
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