History of Methodist Reform, Synoptical of General Methodism, 1703-1898; 1820-1898

Edward Jacob Drinkhouse

ISBN 10: 1236200004 / ISBN 13: 9781236200006

Published by RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History of Methodist Reform, Synoptical of General Methodism, 1703-1898; 1820-1898
• Publisher: RareBooksClub.com
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1236200004
• ISBN 13: 9781236200006
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 1.12 pounds

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...to which Charles W. Ridgely had been added. Among English Wesleyans the canonical fever became recrudescent, and the Rev. Dr. Bunting appeared in full toggery of the Church of England, but, as in Asbury's case, the hard common sense of the people and the conservative preachers shamed it into an "innocuous desuetude." During the summer of 1841, in Maryland, under the Conference Presidency of Rev. Augustus Webster, there were sixteen camp-meetings, and the tide of prosperity turned in all the churches. Webster reviewed the Constitution and Discipline of the new Church, and eulogized it for the careful balance of all its parts. In New England, by a call through Zion's Watchman, the laymen of the old Church were invited to meet in Convention to consider the matter of lay-representation, about August, 1841, and for a time the excitement ran high and gave Dr. Bond full play for his dialectical skill. Nothing practical came of it, however, except as an educating agency. Orange Scott took part in it; and there was a great ferment, ending in the secession of a large number, who formed the Wesleyan Methodist Church, already referred to in these pages. Rev. Mr. Ridgway, of the New Connexion Methodists, on a visit to this country, preached in St. John's church, Baltimore, and gave an account of his Church and their desire to fraternize with a kindred body, September 18, 1841. Rev. William Kesley of the Maryland Conference and an original Reformer, died September 23, 1841. He was a self-sacrificing itinerant and devoted his all to the new Church. September 21, 1841, the first Mississippi Conference was organized.1 The Youths' Mirror and Sabbath School Gazette might have been successful in so doing. And it was without question this Methodist influence in the No...