History Of Methodist Reform, Volume I - Media Sabda Org

CHAPTER 36
1796-1800 — The Wilbraham Annual Conference — Assistant bishops proposed by Asbury —
How overthrown — Lee in the Episcopal saddle — Asbury's failing health — Sudden appearance
of Dr. Coke in Virginia — He plays coy with the British and American brethren, and Asbury begins
to play fast and loose with him — Coke at the General Conference of 1800 — He must be a
coordinate bishop or nothing — His final departure from America after 1804 — His letters to
McCaine
CHAPTER 37
1800-1807 — The General Conference of 1800 — Contest between Lee and Whatcoat for the
bishopric — Election of the latter — The eldership question again — Reformers still working — The
quadrennium of 1800-1804 the most eventful for revivals — Camp-meetings introduced — The
General Conference of 1804 — Snethen and a delegated Conference — Two "Disciplines" issued,
one for the North and one for the South — Death of Whatcoat — An abortive convention called —
Defeated by Lee
CHAPTER 38
1808-1812 — The General Conference of 1808 — Coke's relation and final disposition of him
— A delegated General Conference agreed to — How it was brought about as never before exposed
— Has the Church a Constitution? — Lee's "History of the Methodists" not favored by the officials
— How finally published — Book Concern removed to New York — The first delegated General
Conference of 1812 — Asbury's conduct with Lee
CHAPTER 39
1812-1816 — Effect of the War of 1812 on Canada Methodists — Organization of Reformed
Methodists in 1814 — True account — The General Conference of 1816 — Elective eldership again
revived — Asbury's valedictory — Election of George and Roberts as bishops — Death of Asbury,
March, 1816 — Full account — His funeral in Baltimore, with facts never before published —
Black's estimate of him — The author's analysis of his character and work — The Episcopal system
can never be made a basis of Methodist Union
CHAPTER 40
1816-1820 — Episcopacy as administered by Wesley, Asbury, and McKendree — The grand
pioneers of the period of 1800-1816 — Episcopacy as administered today — An iron hand still in
the velvet glove — The Minutes on Coke's death — "Expulsion" as a generic term in the old Minutes
— Exceptions — Application in 1827-30 — The stigma never removed from morally pure men by
any act of the M. E. Church — Some sketches of notable preachers — End of volume first
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