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 . ng Pittsburgh, sent word tothe Methodist Episcopal Conference thatno offer of fraternal relations would ever 35 be renewed by their Church until theother side was willing to recognize thePlan of Pacification as the only mutualbasis. This proved to be actually the until the year 1872 were relationsrenewed, and it wa
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 . ng Pittsburgh, sent word tothe Methodist Episcopal Conference thatno offer of fraternal relations would ever 35 be renewed by their Church until theother side was willing to recognize thePlan of Pacification as the only mutualbasis. This proved to be actually the until the year 1872 were relationsrenewed, and it was the Northern Con-ference that made the overture. TheGeneral Conference of that year, afterpreliminary negotiations, finally ap-pointed three members to bear theirfriendly greetings to the General Confer-ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church,South, which was to convene in May,1874; and the delegation was cordiallywelcomed. Unhappily, the matter of the commis-sioners rejection, and the refusal to passthe Sixth Restrictive Rule by a sufficientmajority, led to legal proceedings. Suitwas entered in the United States circuitcourts of New York and Ohio in theyear 1849 for the recovery of that di-vision of the property which properly be-longed to the Southern Church. The. RICHARD IVY SEWEXL, An aged and faithful layman in the Methodist Church in Georgia and Alabama. 546 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF METHODISM. case was argued on their side in NewYork by D. Lord and Reverdy Johnson,and, on behalf of the defendants, by Ru-fus Choate, G. Wood, and E. L- judgment was rendered, at theclose of 1851, it proved favorable to theclaimants on every material point. Theresult was different in Ohio, where thecase went adversely to them. This de-cision, given in July, 1852, was appealedagainst, and two years later, in April,1854, the Supreme Court of the UnitedStates unanimously reversed it. The second General Conference metin the great and growing city of theWest which rises on the furt
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