. The history of Methodism. Gown and Band 313 Georges Church for the sacrament. Cokes Journal alludesto this change : We expected that this society would havemade the greatest opposition to our plan, but, on the con-trary, they have been most forward to promote it. Theyhave already put up a reading desk and railed in a communiontable. A lew months later the same record speaks of thetrustees to the church—a new name, verily, for Emburysmodest preachinghouse! As to the official appearance of a bishop, subsequent tothe Christmas Conference, we have this testimony of Quin,then a young man, but aft
. The history of Methodism. Gown and Band 313 Georges Church for the sacrament. Cokes Journal alludesto this change : We expected that this society would havemade the greatest opposition to our plan, but, on the con-trary, they have been most forward to promote it. Theyhave already put up a reading desk and railed in a communiontable. A lew months later the same record speaks of thetrustees to the church—a new name, verily, for Emburysmodest preachinghouse! As to the official appearance of a bishop, subsequent tothe Christmas Conference, we have this testimony of Quin,then a young man, but afterward an honored preacher, whowitnessed an ordination service at the Conference at Union-town, Pa., in 1788. He says, Mr. Asbury officiated, notin the costume of a lawn-robed prelate, but as the plain pres-byter, in gown and band. Whatcoat, who assisted, worethe same clerical habit. These vestments, however, provedtotally unfit for the hard conditions of itinerant life, and weresoon discarded, even by the bishop CHAPTER XXXIIThe First American Episcopal Church Meager Reports of the Christmas Conference.—The Sunday Serv-ice.—Articles of Religion.—Officers of the Church.—Supportof the Preachers.—The Annual Conferences. NO journal of the debates of the Christmas Conferencehas been preserved, and the recorded memories ofthose preachers who participated in its deliberationsare lamentably meager. When good Father Ware, the lastsurvivor among its members, published his recollectionsevery detail had faded from his mind except the matter ofthe selection of a name for the new organization. For him-self, he remembered that he would have been satisfied withThe Methodist Church, but when another brother—JohnDickins, he believes was the man—proposed that it be calledThe Methodist Episcopal Church the brethren unani-mously approved the suggestion. Thus the new body by itsname proclaimed itselfa Church, claimed connection withthe people called Methodists, whom the pr
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