A History of the Methodist Church, South, in the United StatesChristian Literature Company, 1894 - 144 pages |
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Page 74 - Do you believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice?
Page 30 - South, by a vote of the majority of the members of said societies, stations, and conferences, shall remain under the unmolested pastoral care of the southern church; and the ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church shall in no wise attempt to organize churches or societies within the limits of the church south; nor shall they attempt to exercise any pastoral oversight therein.
Page 105 - O that without a lingering groan I may the welcome word receive ; My body with my charge lay down, And cease at once to work and live...
Page 12 - Whereas, in the event of a separation, a contingency to which the declaration asks attention as not improbable, we esteem it the...
Page 23 - WHEREAS the discipline of our church forbids the doing anything calculated to destroy our itinerant general superintendency; and WHEREAS Bishop Andrew has become connected with slavery by marriage and otherwise, and this act having drawn after it circumstances which, in the estimation of the General Conference, will greatly embarrass the exercise of his office...
Page 9 - Resolved, by the delegates of the Annual Conferences in General Conference assembled, That they disapprove, in the most unqualified sense, the conduct of two members of the General Conference who are reported to have lectured in this city recently upon and in favor of modern abolitionism.
Page 30 - They shall not do away the privileges of our ministers or preachers, of trial by a committee, and of...
Page 11 - ... are in different States) with respect to the moral question which slavery involves. " Under the administration of the venerated Dr. Coke, this plain distinction was once overlooked, and it was attempted to urge emancipation in all the States ; but the attempt proved almost ruinous, and was soon abandoned by the Doctor himself. While, therefore, the church has encouraged emancipation in those States where the laws permit it, and allowed the freed-man to enjoy freedom, we have refrained, for conscience'...
Page 30 - Whereas, a Declaration has been presented to this General Conference, with the signatures of fifty-one delegates of the body, from thirteen annual conferences in the slave-holding States, representing that, for various reasons enumerated, the objects and purposes of the Christian ministry and Church organization can not be successfully accomplished by them under the jurisdiction of this General Conference as now constituted...
Page 97 - You will, therefore, regard this communication as final on the part of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. She can never renew the offer of fraternal relations between the two great bodies of Wesleyan Methodists in the United States. But the proposition can be renewed at any time, either now or hereafter, by the Methodist Episcopal Church. And if ever made upon the basis of the Plan of Separation, as adopted by the General Conference of 1844, the Church South will cordially entertain the proposition.