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 . es as a powerful debater andadviser. In 1817 he first entered the arena ofreligious controversy as an opponent ofBishop White, who had published a pam-phlet entitled Objections against theposition of a personal assurance of thepardon of sin by a direct communicationof the holy Spirit. Emory wrote firstA Reply, and again A F
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 . es as a powerful debater andadviser. In 1817 he first entered the arena ofreligious controversy as an opponent ofBishop White, who had published a pam-phlet entitled Objections against theposition of a personal assurance of thepardon of sin by a direct communicationof the holy Spirit. Emory wrote firstA Reply, and again A Further Re-ply, both of which were noticed by thebishop. At this time he belonged to the 458 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF METHODISM. party which favored an elective presidingeldership, and had much to do with theresolutions which drew down the disap-proval of McKendree and Soule. Thedifficulties with Canadian Methodists,which came up for treatment at the 1820Conference, led to the appointment ofEmory as a representative to the BritishConference. He carried with him a fra-ternal letter, and so discharged the dutiesdevolving upon him as to win generalapproval. Hitherto the educational ventures ofthe Church had been far from the question of education was a. OLD UNION CHURCH, BULLOCK COUNTYOrganized 1790. pressing one at this time is acknowledgedby historians. The splendid publicschool system, which is now the boastof the United States, dates no furtherback than the year 1825. Before thattime matters were in a deplorable condi-tion, except in the older and more settledstates. In the year 1822 the Ohio andKentucky Conferences were successfulin obtaining control of an academy thathad been in operation for some years atAugusta, Kentucky. The Rev. John —son of the veteran Robert WFinley, who, after a long career of use-fulness in the Presbyterian and Method- ist churches and noble experiences infrontier work, died in 1840 at the age ofninety—was appointed its p
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