No Methodist Bishops: An Appeal to the Ministers and Laymen of the Wesleyan Methodist Church to Reject the Proposals of the Conference Committee to ... Upon the Connexion (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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What, then, is the project which has evoked this unwonted consensus of hostile opinion? It is to withdraw from Circuit work thirteen of the ablest ministers of our Church, to endow them for six years with the functions of a quasi-episcopate, to give to them a commanding voice in the distribution of the ecclesiastical patronage of the Methodist Church, and to place under the control of each of such separated chair men sixty circuits and 120 ministers.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is a critique of a proposal to introduce an episcopal system to the Wesleyan Methodist Church, a proposal which was unexpectedly put forward to the Methodist public by a committee of Conference. The author, a prominent Wesleyan layman, shows that this proposal has not been requested by the Methodist Church, who do not need or want an episcopate, and is also against the genius of Methodism and the spirit of the age. The author further shows that the money which this strange experiment will cost may be far more usefully applied, that the new ecclesiastical order will come into conflict with Circuit and District authorities, and that a Wesleyan Prelacy will prove an insuperable barrier in the path of Methodist Reunion. The author concludes that the glory of Methodism is the inspired personality of the agents whom God has used in every walk of life for the spread of scriptural holiness through the land, and that in this democratic age we must not see a church, which boasts that she is the church of the common people, assume the intolerable burdens of episcopacy. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9780260003003_0
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